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Things Authors Need to Stop Doing 2016-02-24 22:45:51 Post No.7738960
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Things Authors Need to Stop Doing
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2016-02-24 22:45:51
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>story is told from the perspective of a child
>the kid has limited vocabulary and uses childish nicknames for things they don't know
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>>7738960
Numero uno: dont care if they do that
Number 2: 100% agree
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Are you talking about Room, anon?
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Is this the best sci fi novel of this decade??
I'm going with yes.
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That's not The Dark Forest/Death's End senpai.
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No, and some of the themes don't really make sense without a broad view alongside Iain Banks and LeGuin.
Ann Leckie is a forced meme.
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>>7738959
Liu Cixin says lol.
inb4 not this decade, published 8 years ago in China doesnt count.
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This man is the greatest man to translate homer and virgil.
>inb4 "fagles watered down for plebs version is the best"
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I found Fitzgerald to be the easier version
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Pope is the best for Homer though.
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>>7738965
Nice meme
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I don't know if it's the translation of this book that's shit or if it's the book itself, but holy shit some parts of this are very painful to read. She jumps from one thing to another, adds things that aren't relevent to the main story mid-sentence, it's hard to keep track of what's really important. I know she mixed many stories from different authors together and that might be why everything is so noncoherent, but damn this is pretty bad.
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it's a fun reference book, not a direct translation of stories. the jumping about is to give a sense of the interconnectedness of the world
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>>7738929
Yeah I know. Thankfully I'm familiar with some of the stories so it's more of a reminder for me, but I don't know if I'd recommend this book to someone that wanted to get started with Mythology.
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I don't like how much of a greekaboo she is.
I remember in the first chapter or so she was talking about how the greeks were the first people to have human gods and everyone before them just worshiped rocks and stuff.
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/lit/
I have a problem and I need your help. I want to go to law school. The only problem with that is, I can't fucking right. Not creatively though, I can write fiction with no problem, but when it comes to research papers, I'm fucked. I can't seem to get my ideas together and put them down on paper so they resemble coherent logical thinking. I feel like sometimes I'm overthinking what I'm trying to say. Does anyone else have this problem? How screwed am I? Most importantly, what can I do to improve my writing abilities?
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>>7738828
> I can't fucking right.
Yeah.
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Take a class in it. They will teach you how to write papers
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>>7738834
shit
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Thoughts on the Chuck? 2016-02-24 21:55:48 Post No.7738789
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>Meet cutie English major
>Her favorite author is Chuck Palahniuk
NOPE He's done about two or three really good novels, everything else is "meh" and "Limp Bizkit" on paper.
Oh picture totally unrelated.
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>Chuck Palanhiuk
>2 or 3 really good novels
pick one
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>He's done about two or three really good novels
And so did Joyce. Your point?
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Don't be like me and verbally assault anyone who shows the barest interest in topics you like, just to demonstrate your superiority in said topics. Especially when pussy is on the line.
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Which non-fiction books are a most-read to get a good general knowledge?
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Can you repeat the question
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Commence with the Hellenes.
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>>7738735
david tume
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>/lit/ tells me a book is shit
>It's actually pretty fucking good
Every single time.
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>>7738662
>reading a book /lit/ tells you not to
why even ask, pleb?
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what else did you expect from a polynesian farming image board
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Most books people talk about a lot are likely to be pretty well-regarded, if not here than elsewhere, so there's a fair chance of you enjoying them.
I guess the exception is the kind of book that people only talk about because it's shit, but those are pretty rare really.
My proposed reading list:
>Atlas Shrugged
>The Art of War
>The Republic
>The Prince
>Beyond Good and Evil
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History
>How to Win Friends and Influence People
>Influence: Psychology and Persuasion
Other books that would fit in this series?
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>>7738595
Meme Kampf
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Hey, that's a pretty pretentious list of books you've got there. What's the goal, to feel superior to everyone else in the world?
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you should read some proper Nietzsche before you read also sprache
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I dont usually dream.
Yesterday I did.
The dream was so bright and sad and touching that I had to write something down.
Do you know what is really cruel and funny?
Meeting a person that is really nice and you feel attracted to but not just lust or shared interests and comradery.
Im talking about liking each centimeter of their existence.
'Worshiping the ground they walk on'
Now this person would be ideal for you but here comes the funny part:
this person gets introduced into your life at a really bad moment.
Bad as in you have no experience in love.
And you fuck it up.
You fuck it up so bad you cringe at your behavior years later.
And then you stop seeing each other.
So years pass and maybe you go through several other girls.
But it doesnt compare to the 'magic' you felt with the first girl.
In fact you forget about ever experiencing the 'magic'.
You become numb to the word itself.
But then one night you have this dream.
And in it you see Her.
Now - im capitalizing it because this is the ideal representation of her.
Shes in the dream and she's standing there like a pillar.
She has the same dorky haircut
and the hair color you wish shed change but now cant remember why.
Shes about the same as you remember her, she hasnt aged at all.
And shes looking at you with her child-like eyes but there is something different about them.
They look more mature like she's lived a lifetime without you.
And she has eyeliner on and she never used to wear cosmetics.
And she looks like she can barely remember who you were.
So in this dream she's standing still and youre 'floating' around her.
And it feels like the wind is gonna blow you away from her.
And what do you do? Well you try to get her phone number.
Even though in real life you still remember it perfectly.
Its the only phone number which you ever remembered.
So you ask her for her phone number but you have trouble speaking
and you have trouble hearing
and you only manage to write a part of it down
and it turns out youre right - the wind does blow you away
and you struggle to get back and somehow you do
and you ask again
the whole thing repeats itself
and then you wake up
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>>7738593
what
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>>7738593
maybe you should go back to not dreaming.
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I don't wanna read all that shit but Red Desert is great
What are some books that are particularly informative while being very easy reading (i.e. relaxation)
Something like a book that tries to explain physics and how the world works in a very simple way. Or a history of the world made easy.
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A Brief History of Time isn't very easy but still does a good job of introducing cosmology to an absolute layman.
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>>7738572
Anything by Bill Bryson
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>>7738572
The Evolution of Physics, A. Einstein
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Would anyone on /lit/ be interested in exchange postcards/letters? Has there ever been a /lit/ meet up?
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The only people autistic enough to go to a meetup are the very bottom drivel of the board.
You can see this every time any board goes and has a meetup.
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Sounds like my kind of crowd. When can this happen? Let's do this.
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What does /lit/ think the likelihood is that someone like Edith Grossman might retranslate Guzman De Alfarache?
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has anyone even heard of this book?
anyone read it in the original?
i'd love to hear your opinion on it
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>/lit/ won't comment on obscure or untranslated novels, yet demands everyone become multilingual and not read mainstream literature
fuck sake, you're all plebs, aren't you?
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>>7738516
First of all Edith Grossman pretty much exclusively does contemporary Spanish literature. Don Quixote is the outlier in her work.
If you really are that desperate for someone to shitpost a response here it goes:
Mateo Alemán? No discernible talent. He can't think, he can't write. etc.
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Best French surrealist books? I liked Les Chants de Maldoror and Story of the Eye, looking for something similar. Are Irene's Cunt and Nadja in the same vein?
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The Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred Jarry.
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Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars.
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I heard Nadja is good.
Why do you guys hate "genre fiction" so much? Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, etc. Even stuff like mystery.
I don't understand the vitriol and I think you guys are just being needlessly contrarian to what's considered popular. I understand that there can be poorly done genre fiction, but any literary (or artistic) medium can be poorly done. That doesn't mean the whole subset is bad.
It's like, what? People enjoying expansive, well-crafted worlds of fright, futurism, and/or fantasy, and getting enamored with and engrossed in the lore? Wow, how dare they, no they should be chugging hardcore philosophy like men possessed or rereading Infinite Jest for the third time.
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We've been over this many times already.
Lit fic makes you think about literature and from literature about people.
gen fic makes you think about the substance of the genre, from there the subjects of the exposition of that genre then from there to the human experience. The experience is not as pure.
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>>7738456
All of us started out reading that shit. You get over it, it isn't contrarian, it's called being an adult with actual imagination and human feeling and not at the whim of a puppet master pulling strings of lowest common denominator human emotions. After awhile you BREAK FREE of the strings, you say I believe I've read this one 100 times, I believe this is mere distraction! Watch television and film for immersive distraction, they are far far better at it.
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>>7738486
i'm surprised you can type so precisely with that fedora brim tipped do low over your eyes
>>7738481 is a better reason, it's not that genre fiction is bad, really - it can be a good story and very well-written - but you just need to ask whether you're reading for a good story or reading for the consumption of ideas.
Lit fic can have a good story but the idea and intent of the author is at the forefront. Gen fic is vice versa (sci-fi stories, for example, almost as a rule contain some question of morality beneath their topmost layer of spectacle)
in short, feel free to read and enjoy Steven King but it's hard to imagine it can give you the same food for thought as straightforward literature. and /lit/ is, primarily, comprised of people who are clawing at the gates for only the most substantial food for thought.