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Thoughts?
>>7673073
Margaret Atwood is a disgusting old lady.
I WILL ADMIT that I couldn't stop reading Oryx and Crake, but it was because I wanted to see what happened in the end, and it turns out that was bullshit. As a satire of the future, it had some genuinely good points, it had some good themes, and its disgusting content is stuff that should be explored more in literature to provoke discussion, such as the reality of everyday consumption of child pornography.
BUT
The following two books in the "trilogy"...
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Yeah, the other two in that trilogy are shite.
>>7673073
Variation on the Word Sleep
By Margaret Atwood
I would like to watch you sleeping.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
with you, to enter
your sleep as its smooth dark wave
slides over my head
and walk with you through that lucent
wavering forest of bluegreen leaves
with its watery sun and three moons
towards the cave where you must descend,
towards your worst fear
I would like to give you the silver
branch, the small white flower, the one
word...
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I read a lot but forget so much. If you've got tips for improving comprehension/remembrance, I would love to hear them. For what it's worth, I also have ADHD.
Write in your books
I have a friend who has ADHD. Her doctor prescribed an amphetamine for her. It worked well because it gave her focus and she was able to work and remember substantially better than she was able to before (half an hour of anything and she was bored) she started the medication. Now she can do a full day's work and it is easy for her. Before it was quite hard.
If you want to remember something you have to be able to concentrate on it long enough for it to sink in. If your attention wanders all the time, comprehension/remembrance will suffer. Talk about the medicinal use...
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You remember something easier when you actually understand it. Read slowly, word by word if you need to, dont try to analyze it and just flow it out. .
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Do you roleplay the books you read?
I read mostly non fiction but as example:
Two years ago I read feudal society (really good book) and loved so much that I tried to recreate the medieval times. We don't have reenacting fairs where I live so I stayed as much as possible inside home, changed the bulbs to get as close as possible to candle illumination, started working in my garden, baking bread and praying/ reading the bible.
Now that I finished the richest man in babylon I plan baking honey cakes, saving all my money, eating like a slave and following...
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>>7672941
You sound like you have autism OP, but also like you are pretty cool.
Myself i had try to live like in a cyberpunk future, inhaling the smoke directly from cars and decorating my room with a lot of black cables and fans.
>>7672941
i have part ii of this book at home, planning on reading it some time
Love LARPing to be honest family.
Hey /lit/ what are the greatest novels of the 20th century?
Mine but it's not out yet
They are all in that image
>>7672714
but anon you're too late, it's the 21st century
What are your preparations before reading or writing, /lit/?
>Mental Exercises
>Lighting Mood
>Music/Background
>Meditation or Reflection
>etc
My ability to focus recently has been weak. The gf convinced me to try Ritalin, but I'm afraid of the long term effects.
Are there experienced writers or dedicated book worms willing to help a stranger?
>snort coke
>strangle a hooker
>put on my thinkin' jeans
before reading
>put in earplugs if i have them on me
>read
before writing
>assemble writing table with pens/pencils/paper lined and unlined/computer/computer charger
>put on some jazz
>collect inspirational reading material, various collections of poetry, my favorite novels, the holy bible, the day's newspaper, my literary notebooks
>meditate for 15 minutes
>masturbate to white noise
>shower
>eat a hearty meal
>have an alcoholic drink and smoke a joint
>brush my teeth
>smoke a cigarette outside
>meditate for 30 minutes
>masturbate again
>write for 15 minutes
>>7672652
try the pomodoro method. i have adhd (or something like it) and it helps immensely when it comes to reading or writing when I don't feel the flow.
Can someone recommend a literary magazine that publishes a fair amount of new (interesting) material - short stories, poetry, whatever. I'm not interested in submitting anything, just interested in reading new short-form stuff regularly.
pic slightly related I guess
The only lit mag I subscribe to is NYRB but they aren't really focused on publishing fiction/poetry as much as I gather you are looking for. I'd look into academic publications like Ploughshares.
Tin House is a big one. I'm not too familiar with it, but a lot of my friends are obsessed with it. It's highly respected in the literary community.
Poetry Chicago and McSweeny are decent i think.
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What are some Aesthetic pleasing books?
>>7672608
fuck off, you weeb piece of shit
>>7672611
you are still on 4chan buddy.
>>7672631
I can choose not to enjoy it though
Why give any money to the publishing industry when it's a bunch of ivy league roasties with vanity jobs and investment banker husbands and a feminist agenda?
Do you guys seriously think these people are the judges of what is and isn't worthwhile art? Why are you all so artistically bankrupt?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/us-study-finds-publishing-is-overwhelmingly-white-and-female
I'm Black so they'll publish me on principle.
>>7672597
You bring up an interesting point but I don't have an answer for you.
>>7672597
>Do you guys seriously think these people are the judges of what is and isn't worthwhile art?
Literally no one thinks that. Publishing is about profits over everything else.
Hey /lit/, first time thread creator here, the thing is, i need recomendations for some short novels/stories to adapt into a play for school, i just started browsing here and reading in the beginning of the year and i've read 1984 and The Stranger so far but 1984 seems kinda dificult to make into a play and The Stranger has some topics and emotions that would be difficult to act and make people understand, please help a /lit/noob out
I am Mexican btw (if that helps)
The Story of O
Luna de Pluton by Dross is the number one book in Mexico right now
>>7672565
Do you live in Texas?
John Dryden's Two Act Play 'The Conquest of Granada' would probably make a big splash there.
I don't understand how so many people are capable of writing whole books. How can you get yourself to sit there every day for months and write? How do you manage to keep hammering at the same idea for so long without deciding to change things or deciding the whole thing is retarded and a waste of time?
In your opinion, what is a better use of time ?
>>7672421
They just write instead of succumbing to anxiety about writing, anon
>>7672425
It's not about what I think is worth my time. I just get bored or distracted or writer's block or I want to try out a new concept that isn't compatible with my story
Favorite quotes thread
Marco Aurelio is great. Also
>The Master said "Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals? Is not a joy to have like-minded friends come from afar? If it not gentlemanly to not take offence when others fail to appreciate your abilities?"
-Confucius
>witty wit wit wit witticisms
quoth me
*tips appreciated, my fellow sirs*
>>7672399
thats retarded
>guy is best friends with a retard
>retard kills a bitch
>oh shit, better kill my best friend
What was the point of this book?
>>7672368
To out you a soulless monstrosity.
>>7672368
Are you missing the point on purpose or are you just a moron?
>>7672368
it was a mercy kill master b8er
Garden Abstract
The apple on its bough is her desire,--
Shining suspension, mimic of the sun.
The bough has caught her breath up, and her voice,
Dumbly articulate in the slant and rise
Of branch on branch above her, blurs her eyes.
She is prisoner of the tree and its green fingers.
And so she comes to dream herself the tree,
The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins,
Holding her to the sky and its quick blue,
Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight.
She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope
Beyond the grass and shadows at...
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not impressed
Not even the best of his earlier works. He is great though
Because he's exit level to get.
Is the nobel prize in literature relevant at all?
No.
>>7672265
Yes
It's a prestigious award but it is awarded to people that make shit/ok lit for political reasons
Example: Churchill
Coetzee
Selma Lagerloff
Off the top of my mind
what reading would you recommend to someone with a low IQ that just wants to enjoy themselves
/lit/
>>7672255
The Odyssey
Game of thrones
