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Do you know any similar books to "Millennium"?
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franck thilliez's stuff
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how is this book? I have to read it for uni
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Apparently its sentences are deadly.Get it?
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>>7587448
its for my detective fiction class, but it doesn't seem real detective-y
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Lamarre's a fag
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Was he autistic? (God rest his soul)
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Perhaps the other people were autistic for not being able to tell that dfws uncomfortable.
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He was just bullshitting for upvotes from proto-reddit losers. The man had a ten inch cock and if he wanted you out of his apartment he would whip it out.
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>>7587439
lmAO
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I can never retain what I read by myself unless I have an audiobook or someone reading to me, but having just an audiobook isn't enough as the words would just go straight through one ear and out the other.
I need an ebook (or physical book) along with an audiobook to really enjoy the reading.
What the fuck is wrong with me? Am I retarded?
Thank God for LoyalBooks.
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>>7587413
Make notes. Adjust your lifestyle, you could be killing your attention span by the means of internet, TV, vidya, <insert any other dopamine related activity that's not sport or sex>.
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ADD
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>>7587413
Write about the books you read. I like to look at essay prompts and run through a couple books for each book. Writing should your mind form more connections to and between the works you read.
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Hello /lit/, I'm trying to become a better screenwriter and I want to adapt several books in order to improve my writing skills.
Can you please recommend me some of your favorite books that haven't been adapted into movies?
>gif unrelated
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I always thought The Deep would make a good film. It wasn't the best novel, but I feel like a lot of it would work great on screen.
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Elric of Melniboné
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Libra by Don DeLillo
Prove to me that Hogg isn't an absolute literary masterpiece
Protip: You can't
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>>7587312
DUDE BUTT-RAPE LMAO
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>>7587312
I'm only 250 pages into Dhalgren and Jesus Christ i just can't.. I don't read any sci-fi and was using it for a book to read when i couldn't sleep but holy fuck does it read like some RPG i played as a kid.
Can someone encourage me to keep going, or is it easier to reinforce my mindset on all this apparently lit savvy sci-fi as total trash?
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>>7588216
>all this apparently lit savvy sci-fi as total trash?
Just read good examples of it. Sci-fi's almost inherelty speculative aims are largely incompatible with traditional literary quality, but when it eschews speculation, it's just another aesthetic choice. Book of the New Sun is surely one of the best literary woks in recent memory.
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What books do you recommend for someone who wants to go to law school? I've started reading more non-fiction than fiction.
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Bump for interest.
I also rather read non-fiction. Try John Grisham haha.
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To Kill A Mocking bird
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How To Win Friends And Influence People
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The french and footnotes are killing me!
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>footnotes
hardly any
>the French
>he doesn't speck French
It's pretty much same as English.
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>He didn't get the Briggs translation
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it's only really noticable in the first 100 pages or so, after that it's mostly smooth sailing. what later was annoying though was leo's writing about the science of history and war, because he kept repeating himself all the time, and give excessive amount of analogies for simple concepts
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How much of a pleb I am by enjoying manga so much more than literature? I get completely draw by works like akira, berserk, vagabond in a way that I never got with literature, although I confess that literature was far more valuable as a form of therapy and education. I really find that literature lacks the visual power that makes movies and manga so appealing and powerful.
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well, there is nothing wrong with reading mangas. though people dislike them due to the high content of fillers... like these fucking sitcoms or the stupid vampire trilogy with the apple in hands cover, where whole chapters just lack connection to the main theme etc
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>No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
What did he mean by this?
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It means if you weren't being paid or thinking of being paid you probably wouldn't write it.
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>>7587253
Well, that's not true. Proof: Kafka
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Recommend me some epic fantasy/sci-fi adult or young adult book series that are enjoyable, feely, somewhat well written (not Twilight tier), interesting and somewhat original. Don't Dune and asoIaF, read that already as well as LOTR and HP. Thanks fampais
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>>7587165
And just not Tad Williams, all but him
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Is stoicism possible in the modern late capitalist world? Is this school of thought compatible with the hedonistic and anxious lifestyle of the 21st century in the West?
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No shit you can't be a stoic anymore. Hell, not even the stoics were all that good at being stoics.
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>late capitalism
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What btfo'd stoicism? What's the best alternative?
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>reading proust
>hard part comes up
>go through paragraph as slowly as you can
>read its sentences over and over again
>repeat for several minutes, still can't make sense of it
>skip it for now thinking to yourself, "Surely I'll understand it on a reread," or, "It's not part of the main plot. I should be fine."
>tfw the feel of not understanding it is gnawing away at you from the inside, like not getting it leaves you forbidden from a profound wisdom
>tfw don't even know if you'll get it on a reread or if you will reread it or even finish it
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authors make mistakesalso its a translation
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>>7586961
>also its a translation
Is it easier to read for frenchies?
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How accurate were your predictions?
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well, i was rather surprised after it predicted 'enthusiasm', right after i've written a poem about it
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I read a book when I was in middle school, though for the life of me I can't remember the title.
I only remember the whole story hazily, it was about a little boy in Russia shortly after the revolution. In particular I remember two scenes: one where the boy is talking to a distant relative, the relative hands him a pebble and says, "This rock will turn to gold, so long as you don't think of camels." And another where he passes another boy on the road with his uncle, the boy on the road isn't moving and so the main character goes to move him, at which point his uncle instructs him to just let the boy be, and he walks away as he freezes to death. In another moment he is talking about soup and how the KGB took his relatives away.
Could /lit/ help me rediscover the title of the book? I've been looking for years
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Will repay any help with wallpapers