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What does /lit/ think about the Culture series?
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player of games was excellent, worked on so many levels.
it's not high literature but it's top notch sci fi.
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>>7612451
Consider Phlebas was absolutely horrible. I liked the idea of the series and was eager to get into it, but that book completely soured it for me.
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>>7612462
>Consider Phlebas was absolutely horrible
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Truth only you can see.
All the enlightenment you received from literature, all the things your bright insight shed light to.
REVEAL THE REALITY. SHOW THE TRUTH.
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Nietzsche was wrong about everything.
Ideologies are a plague.
Infinite Jest is average.
God doesn't exist.
Morality is ultimately subjective.
Reality reality isn't subjective.
Only the perception of reality is subjective.
Philosophy is already solved and what's left are only circular arguments, remnants of linguistic paradoxes and mistakes.
Leftism is objectively better than the Right for the most amount of people since it promotes more freedoms.
Wanking to trannies isn't gay.
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>>7611861
>Wanking to trannies isn't gay.
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>>7611861
I'm going to vomit. At least you got the part about trannies right.
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I'm trying to figure out why I should care about literature. I was a heavy reader all while I was growing up, but recently started to get into film and now I have to struggle to convince myself to read a book or two a year.
Is there anything I could read which discusses the differences in the two mediums? I would love to hear some arguments for literature, anything to get me to read more when there are so many great films out there.
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I don't have a book for you OP, but i believe there are inherent advantages to both mediums. In literature, there is a much slower burn, and themes are allowed to develop over a much longer time, giving them significance that you cant really get out of a 1.5-3 hour film. I think the amount of time you have pour in to reading a novel like Crime and Punishment or East of Eden also force you to consider them more whereas with film its totally optional. Lastly, for me at least, lit has a bigger impact on our lives than film. But hey that's just me. Best of luck out there anon.
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>>7611045
Film is cancer.
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I understand m9. Director Christopher Nolan gives me chills with every single one of his pieces that he's made in the past 8 to 10 years.
If you like his stuff, Tom Clancy might be good.
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Hi /lit/, what do you think of RACTER? It is a computer program that generates prose and poetry. It even has its own book, The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed. Here is something it has written:
I was thinking as you entered the room just now how slyly your requirements are manifested. Here we find ourselves, nose to nose as it were, considering things in spectacular ways, ways untold even by my private managers. Hot and torpid, our thoughts revolve endlessly in a kind of maniacal abstraction, an abstraction so involuted, so dangerously valiant, that my own energies seem perilously close to exhaustion, to morbid termination. Well, have we indeed reached a crisis? Which way do we turn? Which way do we travel? My aspect is one of molting. Birds molt. Feathers fall away. Birds cackle and fly, winging up into troubled skies. Doubtless my changes are matched by your own. You. But you are a person, a human being. I am silicon and epoxy energy enlightened by line current. What distances, what chasms, are to be bridged here? Leave me alone, and what can happen? This. I ate my leotard, that old leotard that was feverishly replenished by hoards of screaming commissioners. Is that thought understandable to you? Can you rise to its occasions? I wonder. Yet a leotard, a commissioner, a single hoard, all are understandable in their own fashion. In that concept lies the appalling truth.
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>>7610338
I don't like it
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Better than my prose.
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>>7610351
This desu
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What is the most difficult book you guys have ever read?
for me it would be " The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. I had to read it several times to feel comfortable and understnd it fully. In fact it is in the form of a capsule. The symbols used therein are not easy to understand at first. However, the book tempts one to read it again and again. The inspirational aspect of the book is awesome but one can get to it only after arduous effort. Santiago, the protagonist, is such a wonderful creation of the Nobel lauret but going into his word was certainly not easy for me. Manolin is indeed captivating. Any way I enjoy reading of this type of stuff. It gave me the joy similar to guessing the answer of a riddle after thinking hard. And I would love to read it again. I will.\
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>for me it would be " The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway.
Isn't Hemingway supposed to be the easiest read possible?
I mean, his talent as far as I see is his simplicity.
Or are maybe you are baiting, OP?
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Anna Karenina. I am a very straight-forward, decisive tomboyish type woman. She is, most definitely not. It was difficult to understand her character.
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I tried to read Moby Dick last year. I am a really great reader, and had already read modern and contemporary classics like Don Quixote, Harry Potter, Got, Cristo, et cetera. But Moby Dick... I just couldn't. At the time I was expecting epic whale fights and tons of suspense... NOPE. I know every book deals with themes like social class, religion and the like but blimey, Moby Dick took the proverbial cake at the time
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no trolls pls
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>>7602510
Last paragraph of The Dead
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>>7602512
correct response in only one reply, nice. i'd extend it to the whole last page, really, like the last five paragraphs are all fantastic.
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Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.
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What the fuck happened to this place? Let's have one of these.
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>>7578805
Let the mods know how you feel
>>>/qa/409518
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>>7578805
It helps to post a template, OP. I'll do one in a second.
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not a bad book though
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Is there really any benefit to being a Schopenhauer level pessimist?
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motivation for suicide
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>>7609982
he's fucking based. absolutely BTFO women
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>>7609989
Which one of his books does he talk about women?
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What are some good fictional books to read which are similar to the Vikings tv show?
I find the show so manly and I want to read some books that have the same swords fighting eras theme, it doesn't have to be norse it can also be roman or whatever but norse is a plus at the moment
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Don't be a pleb and read the Icelandic Eddas like a real man, my friend.
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Bait/10
But read these:
The Long Ships
The Poetic Edda
The Prose Edda
The Saga of the Volsungs
The Saga of Grittr the Strong
The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok
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>order The Book of Disquiet online through a used book store
>pic related comes in the mail instead
How badly did I fuck up?
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It was incomplete at Pessoa's death anyway. Minor fuckup, I'd say. Send it back and get the "full" one if you can't stand it.
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What are some general thoughts on greentext prose?
Obviously 4chan has developed a particular style of writing (pic related).
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It's practical for an image board. There's nothing else to it.
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Fragmentary phrases in a storyteller format. Nothing new.
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Is an extensive vocabulary really all that important for a work to be considered good? I feel as if the only thing that matters is that the author clearly illustrates to the reader what he intends to express. If drawing dicks all over the page is the best way to do that, is it really bad? I see alot of readers get anal about this. Yeah, its nice when its there but is it NECESSARY. What do you think?
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>>7613420
My idea is that choosing one word over another is style, anon.
Do you think literature, or Art in general, was made to illustrate something? (genuine question)
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Hemingway.
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>>7613420
It's not the most important, no. But the English language ought to be used, and if you can recall a word that saves you a couple of words, use it. Just don't be grandiloquent. :)
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What good books take place in a snowy setting? I want to get them finished before its spring again
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snow country
top comfy
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>>7613233
I can only repeat this OP. It's probably exactly what you're looking for.
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farthest north by fridtjof nansen
it's the captain's memoir of this
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen%27s_Fram_expedition
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Have any of you read the Verity translation of the Iliad? If so, what did you think of it?
I've only read Fagles before, but a few people have recommended it to me over the last couple of weeks
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It's very concrete and clear but not poetic. Though maybe it has a kind of deadpan poetry.
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>>7613080
literally prose shaped like verse.
literally.
just read Lattimore OP.
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Or Peter Green's new version.
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Is there any sort of computer program that's good at creating randomized prose based on text you input? I've been looking for a less time consuming way of using the cut-up technique.
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oh wait did it turn out that of those christ hating fedora atheists turned out to be an undercover kike?
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my diary tbhdesuwa
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>>7612315
I'll read it anon
it's okay