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I need more books like this, it peaked my interest and is generally quite fascinating.
>>7643845
>peaked
RAUS
Mein Gott so reddit's completely in charge now
Can someone post the hilarious edits? I loved those.
Why do you guys hate him?
Because he's a moron clinging to a morality that, if he were honest with himself, is indefensible to him.
>>7643223
>indefensible to him
How so?
>>7643229
Hume, Nietzsche. Is-Ought Problem. Christians can escape the trap by saying "God says so." Atheists can't. For atheists morality can't exist, at least not the way Harris wants it to. Nietzsche hammers this point.
>Also, there’s the whole thing of treating teenagers as intellectually capable and genuinely funny people, which IJ did not invent but did master. Plus, YA novels on average are more likely to use footnotes than novels for adults.83 It’s actually pretty stunning how massively so many YA writers (I mean, me especially, but also other people) have ripped off ETA and Pemulis and Hal, how deeply DFW has shaped our understanding of what it means to be smart and talented and scared and 17.
>>Also, there’s the whole thing...
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>I write novels for teenagers now—such books are colloquially called “Young Adult books” or just YA—and whenever I’ve had about two beers and find myself with other YA authors, I always start in on this soliloquy about how the contemporary young adult novel was not invented by J. D. Salinger or Judy Blume or Robert Cormier but by David Foster Wallace, whose ETA scenes more closely resemble what most YA writers are after. Like, for one thing, the best contemporary young adult fiction moves effortlessly between high and low culture in that way...
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>John green
Aka I can't write a serious book to save my life so I'll be edgy on the internet instead, btw I write YA shit ironically guys I swear
So what do you think, should I delve into this big momma or what?
yes
>>7642409
Do you recommend taking it in real slow and trying to comprehensively understand it all or brushing through it at a normal pace and letting my subconscious figure it all out
Last question goes to anybody actually not just the dude I replied to
What is Shakespeare's best play, /lit/? Justify your answer.
hamlet, because i'm not retarded
>>7641982
Hamlet
/thread
>>7641982
my personal favorite is a midsummer night's dream. i just love the magical atmosphere that is created. whenever i read it, i get very vivid images of a magical, enchanted forests, fairy sprites, and the like. it almost seems to put me under a spell. what's amazing is that there's no real physical description of the environment and i still find it more enchanting than almost any other fantasy I've read.
What do you think about Lord Byron?
>>7641929
gay as fuck, prob good for that reason too
>>7641929
I like him a lot. I prefer Wordsworth or Coleridge sometimes, but Byron knew how to convey feelings and sensations through rhythm and sounds.
I liked Manfred, but I prefer Don Juan, it's such a good poem. Some of his less known poems are also amazing. I recommend "The Bride of Abydos". Dem opening lines, m8.
Know ye the land where cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime,
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow,...
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I like him so much for his creation of Lucipher and biblical dramas.
Anyone find themselves unconsciously avoiding fiction with contemporary settings?
Why?
>>7640467
>muh escapism
go back to /b/
I've been on a 19th century kick for a while.
I avoid meta fiction like the plague.
And post internet stuff.
I understand what you mean, but not really.
I chalk it down to lacking the literary devices to tell drama in our own age (not that they don't exist), you gotta think that most stories are based around a great conflict or development, the ramifications of which aren't easy to discern when you're in the the middle of it.
Had to force myself through the weak writing and meandering storyline of this pristine example of hype trumping substance. Anyone else think Tao Lin is a shit writer?
>>7640119
why did you have to?
why didnt you just read something you'd enjoy more?
>>7640121
I always finish what I start. I thought it might get better towards the end but it didn't.
>>7640125
i don't really understand not just quitting an utterly unenjoyable novel. is it pride?
Chart Thread!
bump. want the 11 philosophy ones really desu. wouldn't hurt for me to stalk up on others. Maybe one for Catholic lit ?
>>7638830
gonna drop some
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>>7638846
2
Could someone recommend some weird books? Be it bizarre prose, strange themes, and so on.
Basically the literary equivalent of pic related
>>7638697
Behead All Satans
Tao Lin On A Tricycle
Yurope
That one self-published trayvon book I forgot the title of
Basically any bad self-published book on amazon.
>>7638697
manuscript found in saragossa
>>7638697
Just read Borges
Last one is once again dead and bloated so let's sweep it in the bin and begin anew!
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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is Taste. Others have the same love in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is Art.
Alright I've been posting little bits of this over the past couple of days (I've really appreciated the feedback), here's the first draft of the opening to some hypothetical novel I may or may not be writing. I feel like it loses some steam after the description of the Bay but I can't say for sure.
Be as harsh as you want
>>7637667
I think we were all expecting exactly what came out of it. Pretty good description. But you have no idea what to do when it comes to conceiving a story.
A man stands on the corner of a street and he is taller than everyone else.Then he starts walking through the scenery you described.
It's a walking simulator.
I can't tell if this is supposed to be a very elaborate troll or if these guys are actually retarded.
>>7637489
Don't make a thread then.
It's ok not to understand things. Maybe after reading some more philosophy, anon.
>>7637489
I understand it's hard to think
what's the best translation for him? heard that Pevear isn't any good
>>7643831
>translation
I also want to know the answer to this, so bump
>>7643831
it's well established that garnett was one of the best translators of Chekhov.
Hey, /lit/. I want to know if you can help me identify a term for what it is I dislike in literature, and whatever problem is making me dislike it, so that I can better explain my situation to others and find books that suit me. I supposedly read and process information as well as the average adult, at least, according to tests I've taken. However, when text is used to describe an image, I cannot use it to form one in my mind. For example, as much as I enjoyed The Lord of the Flies, there were entire segments that made no sense to me, including the final act of the book....
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>>7643697
Sorry, /lit/ is a board of pseudo-philosophers, not pseudo-psychologists. Talk to a psychiatrist.
>>7643704
Yeah we're just here for the Dfw memes
>>7643697
You have bad taste that you try to justify to yourself by pretending there's something broken in your brain. To maintain this self-scam, you then need to keep your bad taste consistent, so you deliberately refuse to enjoy other things, maintaining the bad taste cycle and cutting yourself off from countless pieces of amazing literature.
That or there's actually something broken in your brain and you're a literal retard with effeminate faggot levels of inability to visualize concrete details. Actual...
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So I used to be big into writing, writing short stories and poetry and other shit, got me through English class (rarely handed my shit in), but lately I can't seem to write anything. I can't get into the world I'm trying to write. It's like I keep trying to get into their head, write their personality. Nor the environment, I have no clue what the fuck is up with me lately. Anyone dealt with this? I wanna know how to get back into it.
write if you have something to say. don't write if you don't have anything to say.
well, if you don't have anything at all to say, write articles for buzzfeed.
>>7643707
i have something to say but It just wont happen :0
