Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4922. page

>>7317608
Because you do not waste your time, nor your readers, by using unnecessary words to get your point across.

If you need writing advice, you don't know how to write a good sentence yet. The longer your bad sentences are, the worse your writing will end up.

So idiots can understand

>>7317444
when did this board happen..

>>7317438
>>>/sci/

>>7317438
Start with the Greeks family

The Catcher in the Rye is probably the ultimate example of this genre.

>>7317428
I agree. This book is what inspired me initially and I'm looking for more similar.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Wizard/Knight by Gene Wolfe (It's fantasy, but patrician coming-of-age)

why was it banned? what are your books about? who are you?

>>7317406
I don't know what they're about, but the only thing that talks about it being banned is a blogpost from a blog called "Rand Paul Revolution", so it's probably some really biased shit that the author wrote the wikipedia article for.

>>7317399
Have you ever met a graphic designer, or wondered why some products look better than others?

I have one and I like it

This isn't Facebook. Don't post pictures of yourself. Ew.

I don't use one, I'm paranoid I'd lose it and thus my entire bookshelf. Don't have a problem with them though, they seem to make it easier for weird new ideas to get published.

1000 words man

you can do that in an hour or less

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>>7317222

>write up whatever shit comes to your head
>don't worry about it being cohesive or sensible and disgress freely
>do it in less than half an hour and hand it in
>get only slightly below average, but still passing, grade
>go back to not putting any significant effort into school work

12 words shitpost due tonight on /lit/..

How can I stop procrastinating?

Fahrenheit 451 funnily enough.
Also Brave New World.

Basically starter-kit level books deal with this a lot.

>>7317227
Well I mean more as a personal issue, not in the context of social satire.

>>7317215
>focussed

why people do this

it's focused

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>>7317205
Shamelessly from CC

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>>7317234

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Probable reason why.

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>>7317161
2/4
Non-Fiction
Travel logs, Essays, and some Philosophy.

>>7317161
What's the one on the far left?

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>>7317161
3/4
Horror, old Spanish books, books I dont plan to read any time soon, and some poetry collections.

someone needs to care enough about that shitty book first

why? This looks pretty good

>>7317120
>>7317121
is /lit/ taking crazy pills? Look at this shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KnbqSf9eWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kHDmfEnPU

Thanks for posting

This interview is actually making me interested in reading the book.

>>7317132
It's a great interview, and a great book. His writing is a lot livelier than his persona. Give it a shot.

>>7317087
Seeing something approach

ambiguous evil, uncanny normality, fake idyll, mindfuck twists, like a crime novel without actual crime, organic foreshadowing

if something paranormal is introduced too early it can easily destroy the first two elements because it creates a visible us/them barrier and there is no more paranoia.

Usually the author knows what makes a good horror story really well. Idk, though, I have never been unhinged by a horror story.

We're all human at the end of the day I'm so sick of sjws acting like minorities are from another planet

>>7317057
I disagree with you on that. I think that examining literature from a "we are all the same" perspective is limiting.

>>7317057
This. I don't see why white readers should have any difficulty connecting wirh invisible man. Sure the specific experiences of the protagonist are pretty far removed from the experiences of a white person in the 21st century, but underlying the narrative are universal truths regarding alienation and the nature of identity.

>>7316931
Read :3

How am I supposed to know?

>>7316931
Read widely and analyse what you're reading and write and then read and analayse and write some more.

I've only read A Farewell to Arms. It was good, but I don't know if I think that because I like that kind of depressive, real life, love stories. I do feel that Hemingway tried to make Henry a bit too badass to be real, and his relationship with Miss Barkley was too perfect and idealistic. Not my favorite, but it was good. I'd like to read Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the bell Tolls.

my official rankings of the ones I read

The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
Islands in the Stream
A Movable Feast
To Have and Have Not
Green Hills of Africa

I havent read, Death in the Afternoon or The Garden of Eden or Across the River and Into the Trees

I think he was a better short story writer than novelist.