Tell me what /lit/ thinks of the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
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Hyperion itself is solid, Endymyon is a bad anime
From Dan Simmons I prefer Ilium/Olympos
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>>7381099
I've just started Endymion myself, I'm on page 100 or so and I can definitely see what you mean by this. The ending of Hyperion was so good
On he flared....
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breddy gud. although i cringe whenever they introduce time travel.
i liked how the Vatican were painted, and the reason the AIs were using humanity really should have been the basis of the Matrix films, instead of using them as power sources.
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Can we have a cyberpunk and other -punk recommendation thread? I'll start:
Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan.
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi. (biopunk, but still cool)
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Vurt. But Paolo beats it. I love the crank-battery things and it being a Sci/Thai/fi
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How about a cyberpunk novel with a strong fantasy (in terms of storytelling and length) bent?
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>>7381673
Vurt, then. Cyber punk with fantastical acid trips
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I don't get it.
how do you make a novel go on without it getting boring?
I honestly think 90% of published novels are terribly written, and most of them use 4th grade techniques such as spamming descriptive words like "When the beautiful sunset came from the nightingale I rose upon my bedsheets."
That is what most novels look like to me which is why I don't bother reading.
I am a published author and I don't know how to write a complete novel that is constantly attention grabbing and high quality. What do people do to keep you reading?
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I think you might be an idiot.
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>>7381031
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
No that doesn't fit my description.
Answer the question though please.
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>>7381028
>published author
What have you written?
>The question was then put as to whether there were on Mars or other planets in the void men or creatures like them and at this the judge who had returned to the fire and stood half naked and sweating spoke and said that there were not and that there were no men anywhere in the universe save those upon the earth.
>The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose you way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
What did he mean by this?
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a) the universe is too big to comprehend b) too big, containing too much to allow for multiples c) whatever order you can grasp to reality was put there by you to make it easier for yourself.
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>>7381020
Is he not wrong about statement b? Larger universe would allow for more opportunities to produce the conditions necessary for life.
Do statement a and statement c not contradict his own stated mission of becoming the "suzerain" of the earth and knowing all there is to know?
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>>7380990
Second one, people forming biased conceptions of universal narratives based on subjective experience etc etc.
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South American literature 2015-11-23 01:07:02 Post No.7380970
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what do they have besides the guy on the pic?
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>>7380970
Julio Cortázar
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Neruda. Actually better than most american writers
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>>7380970
Bolaño and Borges
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What is the best faerie literature? Anything specifically about them; I can't find anything using Google.
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>>7380788
Peter Pan
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The Faerie Queen.
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>>7380802
never read the book
Only seen the Disney Classic and Hook.
is it good? (besides fae topics)
What do you guys think of Scott Lynch's work? Personally, I love it
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>>7380712
Personally, I think it's crap. The writing makes me cringe, it's just terrible.
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Couldn't get through the first book. Took way too long for anything interesting to happen.
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Hello Scott Lynch!
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Who is the greatest American writer alive? 2015-11-22 23:22:30 Post No.7380610
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Who is the greatest American writer alive?
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>>7380610
Roth or Pynchon from what i've read, but what the fuck do i know i havent read most of them.
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>>7380610
Continental or US?
Le Guin or Anne Carson.
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>Pynchon
Oh. He's still alive?
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How do I contact him? I'm willing to either write a letter or an email to him.
Thanks,
John Johanson
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>>7380548
http://german.as.nyu.edu/object/SlavojZizek.html
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>>7380558
If this doesn't work try request contact details from the University of Ljubljana
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>>7380567
Thanks, sent him an email.
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If you're reading a translated work, you are merely reading another author's interpretation of a piece and you're having a very different (usually worse) reading experience than you would have if you read it in the author's original words. All those weebs who say they love Murakami (pic related), basically none of them have actually read Murakami's writing, they've read some english speaker's interpretation of his writing
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>>7380545
If you're reading a transcribed work, you are merely reading your own interpretation of a piece and you're having a very different (usually worse) reading experience than you would have if you experienced it in the author's original mind. All those nerds who say they love literature (pic related), basically none of them have actually experienced the author's true intention, they've read some squiggly lines that the author happened to make while thinking of something ineffable and intuited meaning based on their socio-political background
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>>7380545
I'm guessing this comes from your wealth of experience as a linguist who habitually reads translated works?
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I want to attempt a total disengagement from all non-literary media, any tips for how to go about this?
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Get off 4chan
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what do you mean how?
sell your tv, stop going to the movies, stop listening to music and avoid art galleries and museums.
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>>7380539
But this is the literary board of 4chan
Who wrote the best English prose?
I vote for this cheeky fucker.
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50 cent
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Tupac
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Ja Rule
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Why is Literature considered separate from the rest of the Arts?
Painters, sculptors, muralists, weavers, photographers, musicians, actors, they all seem to have some sense of "Artistic Brotherhood" that they push writers away from and that writers seem to be more than willing to stay away from.
They might accept poets, but the simply novelist is simply unwelcomed at the Arts' lunch table.
Why is that?
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>>7380502
Most people in those fields are actually pretty stupid, even the most successful ones. Andy Warhol had a sub-90 IQ, for example. They're mostly fraudsters, wasted of space incapable of anything valuable. The best writers have a knack for language, precision and emotional impact that brings their art closer to earth, which scares the hell out of charlatans. At least many bad writers recognize and want to emulate the good ones, but someone who paints smeary nudes for senile old playboys in Florida can't help but feel insecure around that kind of honesty and mental sharpness.
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>>7380685
this desu senpai
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>>7380502
I've never heard of or experienced this prejudice towards writers.
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Should i read this? Are there better introductions to Poetry?
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>Stephen Fry
"no"
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>>7380473
Yeah. Actual poetry.
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>>7380475
b-but I'm following this guide:
http://pastebin.com/cBZknniE
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There is still another thread about him but it is a different topic.
Explain how this man's work was in anyway good?
Most people understood that logic oversees everything and if they didn't they are idiots.
It seems like he just restates things that everyone knows without adding any content.
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which part of his work in specific do you think was just restating common truth
quote the paragraph
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>>7380448
I disagree with the quote in that photo. My world is much larger than my language.
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Fucking read his works and discover yourself, retard. He literally only published 300 pages of philosophy in his lifetime.