Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4628. page

>>7566260
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-iliad-of-homer-translated-by-alexander-pope-1
http://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer-ebook/dp/B00847VIBQ/ref=sr_1_2_twi_kin_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452413798&sr=8-2&keywords=iliad

>>7566260
You start the Iliad now and you reread it in a month along with your cliff notes type of book you just bought yourself.

>>7566232
Should a religion be made out of sex, and the act of fucking an art and science, Byron would be a prophet.
Other than that, not really much desu.

>>7566165
#banime

>>7566165
isn't that the game where some of the female leads fucks every male constantly since she can't get knocked up? i fapped to the concept desu

>>7566165
not literature

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bemp

>>7566107
I much prefer Atomized... Whatever's not bad either.

/lit/ cringe thread?

>>7566052
>Is it wrong to sympathize for H.H, apparently he was the one doing wrong?
Was he doing wrong? Think about that. Another thing: Did Humbert love Lolita?
>Also what is your opinion on Vladamir as an author
A favorite between the ages of 19 and 24, and thereafter. Not exactly first rate, but very nice nonetheless.
>i plan on reading pale fire and ada soon.
Good.

>>7566052
Literally, Reddit.

>>7566052
Use the archive you fucking maggot this thread has literally been made 100000000000 times

>be NEET master race
>read for 14 hours every day for the last 5 years
>still not even close to reading goals

>>7565991
>spend 3 hours a day at my local library reading
>literally there more than anybody else
>all the librarians think im like a pedophile or something

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You could be reading the greatest works of literature right now, but instead you're reading my worthless shitpost.

>JY Times bestseller

>a tour de force

>Critically acclaimed author James Patterson is back with

"Literature" is beside the point here. The question that you're really asking reduces to: is aesthetic work as such objective or subjective?

An old book I read on prose divided written prose into three different categories.

>Incompetent prose
Where everyone starts. Unrefined and structured in a way that is difficult to read. Poor choice with words and the pacing is all over the place. Most fan-fiction, junk period pieces, /lit/ posts and children's writing falls under this catagory

>Competent prose
The next stage. This is prose which aims to communicate ideas effectively and efficiently. Finding the best words to communicate your ideas and concepts. Knowing how long to make your sentences, knowing how long to make your paragraphs. Knowing to avoid using vague and abstract words to label things. Most academic works are written in competent prose. Most of your top selling pop lit, fantasy and science fiction is written in this manner (although a few break into the next category).

>personal prose
The final stage and the stage that takes the most amount of work to achieve. Where the conventional rules for efficiency are understood, but can be bent, broken and twisted for emotional effect. The author develops his own personal style that isn't purely efficient, doing many of the things that incompetent authors do, except doing them in his own desired way for artistic effect. Something like a run on sentence being used for anxiety, or the vagueness of word choice being used to highlight a characters confusion.

Your 'good' prose would be personal prose. Where the work is better off by breaking beyond simple, clean cut competent wording, using techniques, errors and word choices that incompetent writers, but making them work in a way that works emotionally instead of coming off awkward and weird.

>>7565967
Maybe, but I'm still curious about prose specifically. Obviously, there's a subjective component to it, but is that all there is? Are there any modes of more technical/objective analysis out there?

Shawshank Redemption was better.

>>7565772
>calls others normies
>has never heard the word 'empath' before

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Look into 'Bizarro fiction'
Never read any of it myself but it's a kind of 'cult' genre that should fit your bill

>>7565769
It's kinda garbage. Beyond the initial blurb, they're very simply written and short. You'd find better weird stuff for free on Gelbooru or E-Hentai.

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Check out Lord Horror by David Britton...it is actually a graphic novel, but thoroughly in the Ballardian sort of niche
>pic related it's about the holocaust being a rave and hitler being the d.j. (vaguely) not as edgey as it sounds it has literary chops

>>7565749
doesn't look like literature

who is that semen demon

Unfortunately, yeah.

>>7565643
what if somenoe posted a thread about the lottery of babylon with a pic of borges and you replied "who is that sweepstakes beefcake"

>>7565551
We ein witz

>>7565551
You can read it, OP. But understand that Clausewitz has been superseded since WW2, especially as our thoughts about warfare have changed drastically from when he wrote the book. Still, he did affect German military thought for over a century, so he's worth reading for that reason alone. Just remember that he's not as relevant as he used to be.

>>7565509
I haven't read any of his things, but as far as I can tell it's only been published in Nordic countries.