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Just read this book and I liked it. I had a feeling of melancholy as I read through it.
Anyone else read this book? What are your thoughts.
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>>7589128
It's OK. Mid-tier Ishiguro. Read "Remains of the Day" if you want something good.
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>>7589128
I feel like the Japanese capture that feeling very well. I'd never heard of this particular author before, so I'll have to take a look.
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>>7589133
This.
Reposting to umpteenth time:
The Unconsoled > Remains of the Day = Buried Giant > Never Let Me Go > Good Nocturnes > When We Were Orphans > Bad Nocturnes
will add Pale View of Hills and Artist of the Floating world when I finally get around to reading them soontm.
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>"There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house"
How can one woman be so based?
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I don't know how.
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Can you recommend me some really good, edgy and taboo breaking erotic literature, which goes over topics like child rape etc. and not just some teen crap like 50 shades of grey?
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Fuck off you degenerate faggot
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Just read the Bible instead.
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>concerning yourself with YA fiction
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Nah, mildly amusing. All his other books are the same though, more the harry potter of lit. But that's all rbooks tier, so I guess you're right...
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>>7588987
please kill yourself for being such a faggot
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/lit/,
Write your life
Any fool can think of words that rhyme
Many others do
Why don't you?
Do you want to?
Write your life
Just use the pen on your desk
And name
All the things you love
All the things you loathe
Others wrote your life
Now is your time to shine
And have the pleasure of
Meaning what you write
And writing what you mean
Oh, make no mistake, my friend
All of this will end
So write it now
All the things you love
All the things you loathe
Don't leave it all unsaid
Somewhere in the wasteland of your head
And make no mistake, my friend, your
pointless life will end
But before you go
Can you look at the truth?
You have a lovely flowing prose
And all of those
Who wrote on key
They stole the notion
From you and me
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>You have a lovely flowing prose
Should have been "a lovely writing style"
Also it gets repeated twice.
Sage.
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>>7588982
>Also it gets repeated twice
Except it doesn't.
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Instead of reading War & Peace I read Crime & Punishment because it was like 600 pages shorter, did I do good?
pic kind of related but not really
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>>7588940
C&P gives less achievement points though.
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>>7588940
what did you think of it
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>>7588952
It was really intense during Raskolnikov's planning, I got way into the thinking like him which doesn't happen to often when I read but it was also like 1 am when I started it. I don't really know how to feel, I didn't understand the dream sequence where the horse get beaten, but if you read that part it's kind of like an expression of the whole story. Plus the bad guy ends up living happily in the end, all around 10/10 will not put through a paper shredder.
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How much one have to read to be able to write something good? I know that reading is important for a writer, but i feel that it's possible to write something really good by reading moderately if you have something to say and learned to express yourself not only by reading, but talking to people and writing technical stuff - like would be the case for a lawyer or engineer.
For me this thought of "You need to read an incredible amount to be able to produce something decent" is paralyzing and eventhough i can see some logic in it, my intuition says its wrong and missing a lot of important factors.
What do you think /lit/?
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>How much one have to read to be able to write something good?
Somewhat more than you've read, evidently.
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>>7588926
bump for interest
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no it's right and the only people who claim otherwise are just trying to justify/make excuses for their own lack of reading
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This fucking book man.
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You dumb nigger, you were supposed to read this one
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What about it? Is it anything as fucked up as the womyns choice section on xhamster?
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>mfw I want to write a book or even a short story yet never do and just keep reading
>keep taking notes about stuff I'll never write
I want to do it but for some reason I don't. Does anyone else know this feeling?
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Yep it's called procrastination.
The way to beat it is discipline, having achievable short-term goals, removing distractions, and prioritising your life based on what you want to achieve and not being a weak-minded fuck.
Questions?
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>>7588862
Should I kill myself?
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Just write man, even if it's autistic fanfiction. Don't be afraid to get your ideas dirty.
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>"Here's a list of books any writer should have read as a part of his education," he said, handing me the following list:
Stephen Crane-
The Blue Hotel
The Open Boat.
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Dubliners - James Jyce
The Red and the Black By Stendhal
(Of Human Bondage - Somerset Muagham)
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Buddenbrooks - THomas Mann
Hail and Farewell - George Moore
Brothers Karamazoff - Doestoevsky
Oxford Book of English Verse -
The Enormous Room - E. E. Cummings
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Far Away and Long Ago - W. H. Hudson
The American - Henry James
>HE should have read War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Tolstoi, Midshipman Easy, Frank Mildmay and Peter Simple by Captain Marryat, Madame Bovary and L'Education Sentimentale by Flaubert, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Joyce's Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses, Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews by Fielding, Le Rouge Et Le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal, The Brothers Karamazov and any two other Dostoevskis, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Open Boat and the Blue Hotel by Stephen Crain, Hail and Farewell by George Moore, Yeat's Autobiographies, all the good De Maupassant, all the good Kipling, all of Turgenev, Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson, Henry James's short stories, especially Madame de Mauves and The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady [...]
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>>7588798
I don't understand the purpose of this post.
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Question for /lit/: How does >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI07egoefc tie into the quality of literature? Pic unrelated.
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I swear this video has been posted here before.
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I appreciate attempts to explain what has now become a meme opinion. Too many spout 'le modern art is about le poo, le degeneracy xd' without further explanation.
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Excellent novels you'd like to recommend to other people
I remember reading this last year and I still think about it.
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>>7588637
I was exposed to Hans Fallada mid 2015, started with Alone In Berlin and then The Drinker. All translated from German and all so beautiful and fucking depressing, just how I like my lit.
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>>7588637
I liked this book a lot. If you're into female authors writing about the theater, I picked up Eleanor Catton's "The Rehearsal" off of a rec from this board and enjoyed the hell out of it. Lot of the same themes of life as theater and life mimicking art (and vice versa).
I also read Kent Haruf's "Our Souls at Night" off of this board - one of the few books I've ever read in a single setting. Beautiful book about two widowed old people that start spending nights together in the same bed, reflecting about their lives in a small town. Not Station Eleven... but I liked it a lot.
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I've rented this book at the local library, i've read like 10 pages, but i've kinda gave up, it seems to be a tipically romantic book where everything surrounds about a traditional love story. Am i wrong?, should i keep reading it or am i wasting my time?, what other japanese books are worth reading(no love stories pls?.
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>>7588615
Yukio Mishima, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kenzaburō Ōe.
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Law Codes of Hammurabi
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>>7588615
at least stick with it till the loli lesbian sex scene
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What do I do if I read a short story on a writer's website and I really like their idea, and I want to take it and expand it into a book? It's not my idea and I would feel bad about taking someone else's.
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Just do it...This is an extremely common practice.
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It's fine to use the idea as long as you don't copy the words.
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>>7588556
This is not common practice for actual published authors. Published authors are faced with tons of copyright/plagerism claims, and if they are caught have to pay out thousands. Famous authors in America literally have to throw out tons of manuscripts sent to them because if they accidentally write something similar, a lawyer will anally rape them. Very common in Hollywood/scriptwriting world too.
If you are unpublished and never going to make it, fine, do it. If you actually are a professional, don't even get near it.
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So I never hear a about either E.L. Doctorow or Saul Bellow on here. Haven't read either, but I'm thinking about it. What're /lit/'s opinions?
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>>7588482
hey, I remember that book, my uni had one of those "bring your excess books here and strangers can pick them up for free" and I got it from there. was a lot like goodfellas in novel form, haven't read much else from him though.
I've read a few of bellow's books but I really can't make any expert statements about them, I'm quite indifferent about his works. he's not a bad writer but it's just not my cup of tea.
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>>7588482
Read Bellow's novella Seize the Day and decide for yourself. If you don't like that, skip the rest without a second thought.
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>>7588507
I've got the Dean's December at home I picked up from Goodwill, but it seems dry as fuck. And by dry I mean really unimportant.