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How original are you, anon? Prove it by posting a book you've read but think nobody else on this board has read.my diary
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>>7773904
Locos.
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Quarantine - Juan Goytisolo
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>>7773904
Gil Blas, Moscow 2042, Saki short stories
What is literature equivalent of fap straight after waking up, and then going back to sleep?
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Reading Hegel
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Your mums diary entry after I banged her
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Spencer Madsen.
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requesting lit about being perfectly average and directionless
suffering artists can fuck off
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oblomov.
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Fuck-Up-Arthur-Nersesian/dp/0671027638
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>>7773132
what makes you think you're "perfectly average"? And what's wrong with suffering artists? Are you in STEM by any chance? In which field do you work?
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Hi! I need an advice. I'd like to read something in English and, since it isn't my native language, it should be something that I can handle, something relatively easy to read and interesting for a person in his twenties. Thank you!
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Catcher in the rye
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I'd argue anything by Hemingway, he's rather known for his succint and clear-cut writing style. I think it'd be very easy to understand, language-wise, as far as literature goes.
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read the sticky
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Untranslated japanese literature 2016-03-04 11:05:14 Post No.7772423
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Untranslated japanese literature
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Hey /lit/, what are some japanese books you wished you could read but can't because they have never been translated? I'm itching to practice my moonspeak and I'd love to read something good. Thanks!
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>>7772423
Why would anyone be itching about books that haven't been translated / they know nothing about? If it's a good book it's already translated.
Anyways, just go read some Soseki, Kawabata etc. in Japanese and if you have trouble you can doublecheck with the English versions.
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>>7772432
>If it's a good book it's already translated
I really don't think that's how the world works, you know.
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>>7772439
Sorry to burst your illusion, but it does. And by 'good' I obviously refer to popular and critically acclaimed. If you're looking for extremely obscure books then it's pointless to come here.
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What am I reading?I'm not even done chapter 2 and a can of hair spray, buzzing around, was destroying everything like you'd imagine in a bugs bunny cartoon.
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Exactly.
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>>7772231
just finish it first
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>>7772231
A novel by Thomas Pynchon. They're generally a bit zany.
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How many is too many protagonists? 2016-03-04 02:30:47 Post No.7771335
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How many is too many protagonists?
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How many main characters is too many?
the context for me being a story about a group of individuals surviving a catastrophic event and how they change/develop in the aftermath of said event. These developments would not be solo stories, but the would all be related, like they'd all be part of a group.
I'm going into this with the idea of "as many good characters as I can come up with" but I want to put a number on it, as well as see how many other stories I could work with and how many characters I could have.
Good examples would be books you've read with large casts of characters,giving a rough estimate of the number of characters. though any advice would be helpful
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pynchon
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Stick with the greek tragedies and keep it to a maximum of three characters.
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>>7771335
Depends on your ability to manage them, that's all. Books don't have size restrictions like movies, so I see no reason why you couldn't develop as many characters as you want to. But yeah, to give a meaningful role and growth for each protagonist, the story would wind up rather lengthy.
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this book is shit desu
i'm not very far in but should i see it out to the end? so far it's just bad western culture references, descriptions of weather, and descriptions of how totally mysterious everything is
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>hating the Japanese Borges
dweeb
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You're reading a book for girls, dude. You got memed into reading a fucking BOOK FOR GIRLS.
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>>7770962
Haven't read it before. My friend who hadn't read a book since elementary school picked it up and read it in a week.
Maybe you're just a pleb?
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post lit, give Crit
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>>7783011
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DBFvEY263U3K9Y5ICqtGBXkHzL3W7Kfh4O5_AxM3EmY/edit?usp=sharing
Assignment for playwriting class to do 3 page scene with focus on use of time as a setting.
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>>7783011
>Best Track
For Revered Green
>Worst Track
#1
>Most Overrated
Fireworks
>Most Underrated
Cuckoo Cuckoo
8/10 Overall. Feels was better
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>>7783020
>best track
>not Winter Wonderland
You're stuck for 1 year in the last book you've read.
How fucked are you?
>mfw 1 year in the Plato's Republic
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>the three musketeers
fuck. yes.
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Naked lunch.
Wheeeeeeee
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>>7784881
Lovecraft's Complete Fiction?
I am extremely fucked. I will keep a dog by my side at all times and run like hell at the first sign of it behaving strangely.
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This is this thread
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No this is Patrick
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/sffg/ - SciFi and Fantasy General 2016-03-07 01:45:39 Post No.7782563
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dead Edition
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL
Flowchart: https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>What are you reading right now?
>Favorite parent character?
>Favorite time period?
>Who is the most /fa/ person in SFF?
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I picked up Ian McDonald's 'River of Gods' alongside William Gibson's 'Virtual Light', they were on clearance for like $5 each. Are they actually any good? I want to start them at some point after reading my shitty Uni course books
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Thoughts on the Dresden Files?
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>>7782563
Anyone read The Night Angel trilogy by brent weeks here?
i read the first two books and working on the last one and its hard to get through. i cant stand his writing. its just cringeworthy and BAD. holy fuck i have never been so disappointing in a book series before.
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Elliot's writing style was really good, regardless of the content itself it's clear no one (or very few people) here could write something as good as this.
I found only 3 typos in the whole thing. and his grammar is pretty much flawless.
http://abclocal.go.com/three/kabc/kabc/My-Twisted-World.pdf
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Here had ability desu, but the writing itself is p banal.
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>Good writing is no typos and coherent grammar
Wew lad
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>>7783994
Photos of Elliot smiling make me feel bad.
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/sffg/ - SciFi and Fantasy General 2016-03-05 15:22:04 Post No.7776767
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Summum bonum Edition
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg (embed) (embed)
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg (embed) (embed)
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc
http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
http://imgur.com/A96mTQX
>What are you reading right now?
>Who is your favorite child character in fiction?
>What is your favorite visual description of a landscape / place?
>What is your favorite weapon that appears in SF and Fantasy?
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>What are you reading right now?
Aquinas on Ethics
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>7776767
>What are you reading right now?
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
>Who is your favorite child character in fiction?
Neuromancer, the AI interface was a child IIRC.
>What is your favorite visual description of a landscape / place?
I like Tolkien's description of Gondolin very much.
>What is your favorite weapon that appears in SF and Fantasy?
Terminus Est.
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>tfw no battle school GF
;_;
what got you into literature?
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i don't remember
and i'm ok with that
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i always read and was encourage to do so by my parents
but randomly at the library one day I picked up Catcher in the Rye and thought about how famous it was, said "sure, why not". Read it in one night, flipped my shit, never looked back
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>>7783304
him