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What are some good books about down-on-their-luck, hustling characters that have turned to petty crimes and self-destructive vices in an urban society, similar to Chase from Neuromancer?

The setting doesn't matter.

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What are some things that you hate to see in books?
What are the worst cliches in your opinion?

What about things you love to see?

I am specifically interested in structure. Most people know to try and not over use words, but there are plenty of other things that could take a good book and make it painful read.
Lots of things people don't even know they're doing.

Beyond structure:
Just a general do's and don'ts

People may not want to change up their writing to compensate for someone else's personal preference, but it won't hurt to be aware of them, especially if there's a pattern.

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Anyone wanna recommend a book to a "pleb"

I haven't read a book in like a month.

Huxley, Vonnegut, Dostojevski and Murakami are some writers whose work I enjoy


I'd be looking for something interesting yet not too challenging

Any suggestions?

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>One night when Beauclerk and Langton had supped at a tavern in London, and sat till about three in the morning, it came into their heads to go and Knock up Johnson, and see if they could prevail on him to join them in a ramble. They rapped violently at the door of his chambers in the Temple, till at last he appeared in his shirt, with his little black wig on the top of his head, instead of a nightcap, and a poker in his hand, imagining, probably, that some ruffians were coming to attack him. When he discovered who they were, and was told their errand, he smiled, and with great good humour agreed to their proposal: ' What, is it you, you dogs! I'll have a frisk with you.' He was soon drest, and they sallied forth together into Covent-Garden, where the greengrocers and fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers, just come in from the country. Johnson made some attempts to help them; but the honest gardeners stared so at his figure and manner, and odd interference, that he soon saw his services were not relished. They then repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns, and made a bowl of that liquor called Bishop, which Johnson had always liked; while in joyous contempt of sleep, from which he had been roused, he repeated the festive lines,

>'Short, O short then be thy reign,
>And give us to the world again!'

>They did not stay long, but walked down to the Thames, took a boat, and rowed to Billingsgate. Beauclerk and Johnson were so well pleased with their amusement, that they resolved to persevere in dissipation for the rest of the day: but Langton deserted them, being engaged to breakfast with some young Ladies. Johnson scolded him for 'leaving his social friends, to go and sit with a set of wretched un-idea'd girls.' Garrick being told of this ramble, said to him smartly, 'I heard of your frolick t'other night. You'll be in the Chronicle.' Upon which Johnson afterwards observed, 'He durst not do such a thing. His wife would not let him!'

tfw you will never go for a ramble with Johnson in the middle of the night

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I now reading Robinson Crusoe and its fairly interesting to see how he try to combine some sort of moral outset along with historical deception on the events

you can see it when he reach the point of stabilized life on the island the author push forward some moral outset which seems to be linked to the place of god in relation to Robinson s well as his relation to earth in form of historical description of chain of events followed after the moral compression in form of a journal which almost read as chronic.

a way of Robinson to locate his place in life after its seems the materialistic cause almost consumed him.

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I've been finding it harder and harder to concentrate on words, sentences, paragraphs. Let alone chapters. Chapters often have page after page of paragraphs. It just seems such an awful lot of words to concentrate on, on their own, without something else happening. And once you've finished one chapter, you have to get through another one. And usually a whole bunch more, before you can say finished, and get to the next. The next book. The next thing. The next possibility. Next next next.

Still, I am an optimist. Most nights last year, I got into bed with a bookand started. Reading. Read. Ing. One word after the next. A sentence. Two sentences. Maybe three.

And then... I needed just a little something else. Something to tide me over. Something to scratch that little itch at the back of my mind - just a quick look at my email; to write, and erase, a response to a funny tweet; to find, and follow, a link to a really good article, or, better, a thread about recommended books on /lit/ (which I might even read most of. The list of recommendations, not the actual books). Email again, just to be sure.

I'd read another sentence. That's four sentences.

It takes a long time to read a book at four sentences per day. And it's exhausting. I was usually asleep halfway through sentence number five.

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You have been commissioned to write a new translation of the Odyssey.

How would you translate "πολύτροπος"?

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Who are some good Rightist, traditionalist, authoritarian, and or fascist poets?

I've heard Ezra Pound had a fashy streak.

This is not a thread for legitimizing or critiquing the politics of these movements, simply a discussion of the poetry in their spirit.

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Thoughts on pic related? Im half-way through, so far I think it's great. What did you guys think?

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Brazilian /lit/erature thread, meus negos.

>What's your favorite brazilian author?
>What do you think about our contemporary publications?
>Is Mario de Andrade a hack?

And, of course, brazilian /li/ discussion.

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So is this book just the disconnected whinings of a failed author for a few hundred pages?

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What does /lit/ think of HG Wells? I just read the Time Machine and thought it was pretty solid.

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What books do you recommend for forging a strong will or breaking through societies constructs in order to live a free life?

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Has anything good come out of the balkans? I know of Emil Cioran, but nobody else really.

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1. Should I read Infinite Jest
2. Why