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ITT: post songs that encapsulate the themes, tone, or just general feel of a certain book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajjQ8qp3D0c
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I don't know if this makes sense to anyone else
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Has anyone on /lit/ read this book? What'd ya think?
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Great book. Scary as hell.
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DARKNESS
IMPRISONING ME
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>>7788857
>hurr durr muh merica
worst piece of shit that i have read.
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Has anyone on /lit/ read Cartesian Sonata by Gass? What'd you think? I was thinking about picking it up before diving into the Tunnel, good idea?
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I just bought this, gonna read it in a few weeks.
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I've only read a bit of the Tunnel so far, but I would recommend Omensetter's Luck way more than Cartesian Sonata. OL is pretty short, too.
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>>7788842
I recommend reading Gass chronologically, as it gives you a clearer picture of him.
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transitioning to fiction 2016-03-08 17:05:23 Post No.7788780
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Hey /lit/,
Does anyone have advice on applying writing abilities to fiction/storytelling?
As a child I loved fiction. but as a teenager I pretty much exclusively read non-fiction - articles, essays, and informative books. I read constantly, but mostly ignored fiction for those years. Then, in college, I started reading fiction again. Early in college I wrote a short story that was pretty good, and was highlighted by an instructor, but then I churned out a bunch of atrocious, awful short stories. I'd applied minimal effort to them, so when I learned from others how awful they were, it was essentially just bringing me back down to earth, that I didn't have the Midas touch.
Still, I've always been able to write essays and opinion pieces pretty effortlessly, and I assume it's at least in part because that's what I consumed so much of as a teenager. Now I'm reading fiction a ton to catch up with that.
So the question is, how to I transition my abilities in non-fiction to fiction/storytelling? I can write an opinion piece effortlessly, but maybe because I'm so self-conscious about my fiction now, sometimes it's hard to even get going with fiction.
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/bump/ for hope...
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first of all learn to use paragraphs
second, just write a lot of fiction and don't expect it to be good
simultaneously read a lot of good fiction, study what makes them good, and hope it trickles into your own writing
that's pretty much it
I suppose you could try creative nonfiction first but all this really doesn't matter
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Just published my first fiction book/Work Promotion 2016-03-08 16:53:59 Post No.7788754
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Just published my first fiction book/Work Promotion
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So, I've just recently self published my own fiction novel, mostly to see if I could, and also for the challenge. Are there any other authors (Self published or otherwise?) who would like new audiences for their work? Post details here. I'll definitely read new work if i get a chance.
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What's it about op?
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>>7788755
Was writing a story about writer's block that at the moment is one hold due to.... you guessed it.
Worked on this in the mean time.
It's about a teenager who has the ability to feel the pain and negative emotions of others. She is victim to this ability one night and subsequently arrested for the murder of a young woman. Over the course of the book she attempts to discover the killer, only to be thrown into a mystery that leads to further violence.
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>>7788766
Doesn't sound very realistic. Post an excerpt please.
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Should I read this /lit/?
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I don't give a shit.
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>>7788742
I didn't ask you.
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>>7788770
Good job, you convinced me.
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What translations/editions of Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus should I get? I would prefer a single volume of all the plays of a playwright.
I currently have a subscription to Loeb Classical Library but their translations, as academic and accurate, are usually bland.
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Anyone?
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>>7788721
No translation is that much better than the other. For Euripides, I used a Dover edition called ten plays. I think my Aeschylus was just a penguins classic. Hope this helps.
If you're REALLY needing a definite answer, just find out which editions a university near you uses.
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>>7788721
I don't know about Euripides, sorry anon,
For Sopocles and Aeschylus ... the Robert Fagles translation of The Oresteia is excellent if very pretty, but the Christopher Collard one is also good, just more 'scholarly' if that makes sense.
For Sophocles, Edith Hall or the one in the Everyman Library. Can't remember who did it off the top of my head.
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I can't believe how bad The Little Life is. 2016-03-08 16:30:04 Post No.7788702
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I can't believe how bad The Little Life is.
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> boring prose
> boring plot
> boring characters, despite being character-driven
Wtf @ this unbook. It's about 700 pages long, and I'm about 450 pages in, should I keep going? I'm losing steam now. Does it get better or something? Why do people on this board say it's good, because it's emotional? Why did the sign at my local Waterstones say it was "incredible", other than to sell the book?
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Why would a shop need to say anything other than to sell you something?
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Yeah, but...they could've just said it was "good. It also had its own table. And a bag with the names of the characters on.
This book is as overrated, maybe, as City on Fire.
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>>7788710
Have you read City on Fire? It's like 1200 pages long. Also A Little Life seems interesting but I probably won't read it.
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Just finished marathon reading this book trilogy book
Did I like it?
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>>7788626
No, you didn't.
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>>7788626
It really doesn't do anything new or interesting with the form, opting instead for tired rote repetition. If anything, it represents the tardy death throes of a meme fated for obscurity and, sadly, with a real possibility of replacement with something worse. Still: saged and hidden.
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Het is tijd voor een Nederdraad op /lit/
Wat hebben jullie vandag gelezen?
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>>7788611
Smerige kuthollander, ga ergens anders zeveren.
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>>7788618
Maar ik ben vlaamse.
Hoe is het dat jij nederlands kan?
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>finally leave /int/ after 6 years
>come to /lit/
>more fucking country generals
Waarum?
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is l'etranger the worst book that has found its way into worldwide recognition? i just read it and its just a pathetic screed the main idea of which would have a warm reception on reddit
this smug edgy piece of shit just writes a book where he's the main character slowly and methodically jerking himself off
>oh death haha I dont give a fuck domestic violence who gives a shit feels < reals im so cool stay mad sheeple
this isn't philosophy, its just sad bathroom musings
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>l'etranger
>im so cool stay mad sheeple
There's something tragically wrong with your brain.
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>>7788569
>I'm so APATHETIC don't JUDGE me sheeple
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Nihilism feels great, embrace it.
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So was his wife in on the Witches' plan or was she just really fucking ruthless and greedy and rolled with it?
I always felt like the way she just jumps on the bandwagon felt suspicious.
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>>7788459
She saw her chance and took it. If she'd known anything more than she let on, she wouldn't have gone loopy later.
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She called on the spirits. I think initially she was just ambitious, but by letting the demons "unsex her", she allowed the witches and spirits to control her.
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She knows. Women weren't allowed to participate in any spirtual matters. So she says 'unsex me here, spirits', to this effect. And she derails away from her sex. Gotta' remembe', It isn't necessarily away from old puppettheatres or fairytales in those linear suspenses.
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Holy shit. This book is fucking awesome. I just read it for my six year old nephew and it's fucking GOAT.
>dat beatle paddle battle rhyme
>dat surprise ending with where Mr. Knox rekt Fox
>dat alliteration
Children's book thread I guess?
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GOAT coming through
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>>7788440
Its like you guys dont want your kids to be patrician.
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Hi /lit/, I apologise in advance for shitting up your board as I have never posted here. However I am desperate for help. I have an English essay for college and as someone who hasn't studied English for five years I am really struggling. Would anyone be willing to offer some tips, as it could be the difference between passing and failing the module
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Start sentences with "Obviously" a lot since it makes you sound smart and your professor wouldn't dare question you.
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Don't use any punctuation, make it a stream-of-consciousness essay. If you tell your professor the essay has an unreliable narrator you can just be blatantly wrong about everything too.
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Which living authors under 40 are likely to have biographies written about them when they die?
Are literary biographies irrelevant in the age of social media?
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It depends on who is the author of said biography. The success of a book will result of a book's cover in front of the reader's eyes, seen from a distance. People would buy everything.
Authors? Maybe Eleanor Catton?