>try to write something
>it always ends up being genre fiction
61 Posts / 14 Images
View this topic
>>
File: depressed silhouette.jpg (28KB, 361x259px) Image search:
[Google]
28KB, 361x259px
>>7799264
>try to write genre fiction
>get sidetracked by /lit/ memes and dead philosophers and veer into inchoate obscurantist pretension
>>
>>7799286
It's better than genre fic.
>>
Im the same ope. No matter what I write, even a sentence, if it's fiction it turns into genre trash. watch.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan, vampire prince, hovered up from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of human eyeballs on which ornate cutlery lay crossed.
See that shit? It keeps happening, even when I just try to copy passages from memory. It's like I'm cursed. Someone tell me I'm not alone.
File: IMG-20160307-WA0001.jpg (155KB, 899x1599px) Image search:
[Google]
155KB, 899x1599px
Anyone knows which book this is? Only have this pic and can't seem to find it anywhere
Thanks!
6 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>>7799130
Reminds me of Romeo and Juliet
>>
>>7799130
http://www.amazon.de/Die-Sache-mit-Callie-Kayden/dp/3453417704
>Image search >>
>1st result
>>
>die sache mit callie und kayden: callie und kayden 1
is what Google tells me when I search your image (you're a retard btw). You can do the rest of the research yourself. Afterwards you should learn how to use Google properly.
File: drugsetc.jpg (25KB, 460x276px) Image search:
[Google]
25KB, 460x276px
What are some good books about drugs/antidepressants and their effects in the human mind? I'm writing a novel that deal with this in some parts and I'm worried my own experience won't be enough to fill the gaps.
Any kind of article or scientific study would be great too.
15 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
zog mind control pills
>>
>>7799046
DFW's bio by DT Max
Spoiler alert: he kills himself
>>
>>7799046
Well, you can look at the actual research papers themselves; most of which attest to two things.
1) That the whole industry is built upon the unproven Serotonin theory
2) That most anti-depressants are at best akin to placebos, whilst the worst have a whole host of side-effects. Exceptions are to be found in lithium/etc for serious shit; but most of the normal 'pills' a doctor will throw at people are the modern-day equivalent of a lobotomy.
File: radical_yo.gif (1MB, 280x200px) Image search:
[Google]
1MB, 280x200px
Will reading make you smarter or this yet another meme?
10 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
More critical about other forms of entertainment, and for a reason.
>>
Depends what you read, what you're like and the kinds of things you have now stopped doing in order to read
>>
Depends. It could just make you a snob who thinks he's smarter.
Anonymous
Parallels in Literature 2016-03-11 14:31:50 Post No.7798966
[Report] Image search: [Google]
Parallels in Literature 2016-03-11 14:31:50 Post No.7798966
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: herzogbestbookcover.jpg (108KB, 986x1542px) Image search:
[Google]
108KB, 986x1542px
I find myself observing parallels between works. I am currently digging into Saul Bellow's Herzog and can't help but relate it to White Noise by Don DeLillo. The failed marriages, the protagonist's struggle among social happenings, family, profession, and mental health. The protagonists in both pieces are described to be genius professors that study obscure subjects (i.e. Herzog studies Romantics and Jack Gladney studies Adolf Hitler). The writing styles might even be compared. I enjoy the books as individual works, however I can't help but find an interest in comparing the two.
What have you folks read that you've compared to other pieces read in the past?
13 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
I am convinced that Douglas Adams fell in love with PG Wodehouse and tried to rip off him. Mainly in the way of prose ("abstract" sentences) and dialogue, but then again maybe it's just common brit humor and wit. Never read Bellow or Delilo so i cant relate, got any others?
>>
Kawabata - The House of the Sleeping Beauties / García Márquez - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Kafka - The Process / Camus - The Plague
Gogol - The Nose / Dostoyevsky - The Double
Balzac - Colonel Chabert / Javier Marías - The Infatuations
>>
>>7799032
>kafka - the process
tipstrilby.jpg
File: 1457263869078.jpg (23KB, 540x300px) Image search:
[Google]
23KB, 540x300px
What languages are best to learn for literature? Mostly for poetry, thinking about French or Russian. I'm not really interested in learning ancient Greek or Latin right now.
8 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
French and German are the best
>>
>>7798915
Sorry, but the correct answer is greek
>>
>>7798918
Do Spanish, Greek, and Swedish suck that bad?
Anonymous
The Iliad - Correct Spelling Version 2016-03-11 13:56:58 Post No.7798878
[Report] Image search: [Google]
The Iliad - Correct Spelling Version 2016-03-11 13:56:58 Post No.7798878
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: new-oxford-iliad.jpg (2MB, 1686x2577px) Image search:
[Google]
2MB, 1686x2577px
The Iliad - Correct Spelling Version
Anonymous
2016-03-11 13:56:58
Post No. 7798878
[Report]
[View this topic]
Hey /lit/,
Is there an English (or German) translation of the Iliad without the retarded Anglo-Nigger spelling?
I am looking for a version with Zews, Akhilleus, Akhaians, not "Zeus", "Achilles", "Acheans". It's bad enough that I can't read it in Greek, don't need the names to be in Snownigger-slang.
Thank you!
14 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>7798878
I liked the rape, gay and incest in Iliad series
>>
What the fuck is a snownigger?
>>
>>7798885
t*rkroaches posting
File: sonnet header.jpg (70KB, 618x403px) Image search:
[Google]
70KB, 618x403px
I have an assignment where i have to compare a friend, family member, pet, or significant other to something
It has to be in iambic pentameter with 5 iambs and 2 syllables each
Problem is im lazy and im hoping someone who is good at this wouldnt mind writing me one
12 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>7798851
fuck off
>>
>>7798851
>It has to be in iambic pentameter with 5 iambs and 2 syllables each
lolled irl
>>
>>7798851
Thanks for defining iambic pentameter for us.
File: img-3856.jpg (19KB, 350x232px) Image search:
[Google]
19KB, 350x232px
>tfw neet money has been cut
well, life on the streets here i go.
i know it will soon become irrelevant, but what book shoild i take with me?
9 Posts / 3 Images
View this topic
>>
pour unfortunate soul.
>>
File: 1440948697312.jpg (129KB, 800x624px) Image search:
[Google]
129KB, 800x624px
>not being that home homeless guy with the entire volumes of In Search of Lost Time that have been weathered through months of reading and carrying around.
How do you write without self-consciousness?
Self-censoring is suffering.
9 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>7798836
be a woman
t. frog poster
>>
>>7798836
Ego death
>>
Use a pseudonym
I will read the first book posted in this thread from start to finish within the next month. No matter what it is. Post.
11 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
The Bible.
>>
>>7798838
Do it, faggot.
>>
>within the next month
>not instantly suggesting In Search Of Lost Time
/lit/ please
Anonymous
A Little Life is one of the worst books I have ever read. 2016-03-11 12:31:05 Post No.7798732
[Report] Image search: [Google]
A Little Life is one of the worst books I have ever read. 2016-03-11 12:31:05 Post No.7798732
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: prettygirlpic.jpg (135KB, 1280x1280px) Image search:
[Google]
135KB, 1280x1280px
A Little Life is one of the worst books I have ever read.
Anonymous
2016-03-11 12:31:05
Post No. 7798732
[Report]
[View this topic]
I mean. Fuck.
It's mostly a character-driven piece, which is fine, infact it's very good, but the characters themselves are boring as hell, and there's only 4, and it focuses mostly on 1. It's just dull and repetitive. Such lifeless characters. The plot doesn't exist much, and is bad. The prose seems alright at first, but it so grey and dull, that it bored me a lot by the end of the book. The book is meant to be an emotional rollercoaster ride, very emotional, etc. but did nothing for me, really at all. It didn't move me. Disturbingly, the whole book is set in late 20th century NYC, but really is a void. The presidents aren't mentioned, or culture, or TV or radio shows, and no specific years are mentioned. It's so abstract or vague, it's worrying and boring. The book is also 700 pages long.
This book is dreadful. And yet, I've heard and read several people say it's great.
11 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>reading women writers that don't have vagina in their first name
you brought this on your Self
>>
>>7798747
I get the feeling it's aimed at women more than men. There's very little content, it's mostly emotional bits. This is the shit that girl likes, like Norwegian Wood.
>>
>>7798732
I bet you think this is so fucking brilliant.
Honestly. What banal swill. Read more, please.
>Hemingway is my favorite writer.
9 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>Nabokov is my favorite poet
>>
>>7798711
Prove him wrong you fucking philistine.
File: akwjeakwjrakwjtaiw.jpg (100KB, 550x421px) Image search:
[Google]
100KB, 550x421px
So I'm thinking about starting a blog with book reviews. Problem: I think my reviews are shit. Do any of you guys write reviews and if so, do you have any tips for beginners?
12 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
As someone who has a blog and updates it's rarely, you will not get any views. To be popular amongst bloggers, you have to be a girl, and moan about girl things.
Your best bet? Go find those private forums like back in the early 2000s, ingrain yourself within a community, be known as 'the book guy'. You'll appreciate it more
>>
>>7798552
>As someone who has a blog and updates it's rarely, you will not get any views. To be popular amongst bloggers, you have to be a girl, and moan about girl things.
So roastie or gtfo?
>>
>>7798562
or have some level of fame, e.g. being a published author or moderately well known academic or journalist
File: bradleys-book-outlet-books-only-logo[1].png (81KB, 583x385px) Image search:
[Google]
![bradleys-book-outlet-books-only-logo[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/bgCZQTW.png "bradleys-book-outlet-books-only-logo[1]")
81KB, 583x385px
Why do you read books? Reading fiction in no different than watching TV shows because it's a waste of time
14 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>7798511
define 'waste time'
>>
To cope with the crippling loneliness. Watching TV is too passive to make me forget my condition.
>>
>>7798511
Why are you alive? being awake is no different than sleeping because it's a waste of time.