Is the series any good?
>series of books based off a movie based off a book
Jesus Christ
>>7665484
If you're refering to Do Android... then yes, but it is not a series.
>>7665495
What about the sequel, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human?
Why do people who read like to brag about much they read?
People don't do that.
>>7665414
The opposite is what usually happens.
>>7665414
Because reading is becoming a relic of the past and to me that needs to change.
Also I'm an elitist prick about it because it's niche.
>that feel when i actually read about half way through before i realized it was a /lit/ meme
It's not a /lit/ meme since, people bash it here all the time
>>7665370
I already read the first three chapters of White Noise when the suspicion of being meme'd started creeping upon me. I'm still uncertain. Terrible feeling.
>>7665370
>tfw I started reading this book before ever coming to /lit/
>realized it was shit about 1/4 the way through and put it down
>realized Ayn Rand had a shit philosophy
>eventually /lit/ is created and I discover most people who aren't plebs feel the same way
the book is a meme even without /lit/. anyone who is well read knows it's horible
Was he autistic?
>>7665192
>Making a cammoo thread
>Not posting the best cover
>>7665248
Post that best cover then boii
>>7665248
All those covers are fucking hideous.
I'm writing a book of fictional short stories under a pseudonym. I'm considering to have the fictional editor talk about the time he met the fictional author. is this stupid? What are some good cliches to put into the introduction?
>is this stupid?
only if you do it badly.
>What are some good cliches to put into the introduction?
That would be doing it badly. Take a few years out to work on your ideas first.
>>7665186
I've never had to write an introduction introducing an author, surprisingly. I'm writing it as a sort of bonus short story, but I want to figure out the shape of it.
>>7665179
You don't really need an introduction. Especially if no one knows who you/your pseudonym are.
Semiotics has suddenly piqued my interest and I want to learn about it.
Where are some good places to start?
For me Barthes' 'Semiotic Challenge' was a pretty good introduction. After it, if you are interested in discursive semiotics, read Propp / Jakobson. If you are more interested in plastic and figurative semiotics, read A. J. Greimas, he often overlaps with Barthes, but I personally like him more.
>>7664909
What /lit/ will tell you is that you should start with Saussere and Pierce and then work chronologically towards contemporary thinkers but I think that a textbook or summary is enough to get a basic understanding. Like Saussere and Pierce can be summed up quite quckly but you need time to wrap your head around it.
I did a presentation on semiotics for my design courses and once I was done with it the idea of decoding the world through signs (consciously and un-consciously) occupied my mind for months - that's when the real fun starts, I felt like rediscovering the inner mechanisms of life, the psyche and everything else you can apply the sign analogy to.
When you're done Charles S Pierce and Ferdinard De Saussere, you can march on to Max Bense, Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, R Barthes and maybe look up the ancient definition signs by Aristotle. Again, no need for the original texts, an introduction to semiotics is more than enoguh
i started with mythologies by roland barthes. it makes most reading lists of essential critical theory
What are some good introductions to aesthetics? Where do you go from there?
WHITE
POWER
fascism
do you read book forwards/afterwards and if so which ones do you enjoy? I like the ones with biographical information but I also enjoy critical reading ones
>>7664754
I enjoyed Pinecone's foreword to Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.
>>7664754
I love Gass' introduction to The Recognitions.
Dave Eggers's introduction to Infinite Jest is really good.
How does /lit/ feel about Library of America?
they look like nice books, but i don't really go for american writing much so i don't have any copies.
was eyeing one of their wallace stevens collections though. everything i heard of LoA indicates it's a good choice as far as publishers go.
Font is too fucking small and the pages are too thin
>>7664445
font is fine, but i agree that the pages are too thin. if you can get a copy for cheap, go for it.
What does lit think of Mervyn Peake? Unrelated: weird fiction/early fantasy recommendations would be much appreciated.
>>7664318
Mervyn Peake is pretty great. As for recomendations, try Ligotti.
>>7664320
Thanks for the recommendation, I've seen S.T. Joshi mention him before. Any specific collections or works to look out for by Ligotti?
>>7664318
Peake's prose is amazing. If you want great writing plus a bizarre world and plot, read Book of the New Sun.
Lenar Hoyt did nothing wrong.
true
>>7663521
Literally who?
>>7664839
>being this pleb
Fuck it, there's no archive
What's the best McCarthy after Blood Meridian, Suttree and Child of God?
Did he really go to shit recently like Pynchon and Dellilo
and talking about Delillo, is cosmopolis really that bad?
>>7662708
How could he have gone to shit if he was already shit from the start?
No Country For Old Men
How do you deal with writer's block?
>>7661707
I beat up SJWs
I have many projects going on at the same time so that if I get writer's block, I can switch projects until my inspiration returns.
>>7661707
Write more. Describe an empty scene vividly until a character appears. That's all you need
Oh sorry did you want a magic bullet? Take meth man you'll be SUCH a better writer you don't have to solve your own problems lol
1. Your country
2. Which school would you probably have to go to?
3. How do you feel about that? Could JKR do better with her worldbuilding?
Your choices are:
>Beauxbatons Academy of Magic
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Beauxbatons_Academy_of_Magic
>Castelobruxo
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Castelobruxo
>Durmstrang Institute
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Durmstrang_Institute
>Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hogwarts_School_of_Witchcraft_and_Wizardry
>Ilvermorny
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Ilvermorny
>Koldovstoretz
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Koldovstoretz
>Mahoutokoro School of Magic
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Mahoutokoro_School_of_Magic
>Uagadou School of Magic
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Uagadou_School_of_Magic
>Zoomable map
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/f/f9/Wizarding_Schools_Map_LR.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160130015230
Kill yourself
^
Obviously.
>>7665295
Rude desu
>>7665289
Not lit so fuck off.
What's her best novel, /lit/ ?
>>7664796
None, they're all fucking trash. Not worth the calories you'd waste turning the page reading that shit.
David Foster Wallace's private letter to Zadie
"To SADIE
Bloomington, IL 2 December 1999
………………………….
My love for you allows me to pray to the spirit of eternal beauty and tenderness mirrored in your eyes or fling you down under me on that softy belly of yours and fuck you up behind, like a hog riding a sow , glorying in the very stink and sweat that rises from your arse, glorying in the open shape of your upturned dress and white girlish drawers and in the confusion of your flushed cheeks and tangled hair. It allows me to burst into tears of pity and love at some slight word, to tremble with love for you at the sounding of some chord or cadence of music or to lie heads and tails with you feeling your fingers fondling and tickling my ballocks or stuck up in me behind and your hot lips sucking off my cock while my head is wedged in between your fat thighs, my hands clutching the round cushions of your bum and my tongue licking ravenously up your rank brown cunt and there is something terribly banal about that. "
White Teeth is a masterpiece. The others are meh.