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I have to read two books by any of the following authors:
· Emily Bronte
· Charlotte Bronte
· Ann Bronte
· Henry Fielding
· Henry James
· Edith Wharton
· James Joyce
· Elizabeth Gaskell
· George Eliot
· Thomas Hardy
· Nathaniel Hawthorne
· Oscar Wilde
· Emile Zola
· Lawrence Sterne
· Marcel Proust
· Fyodor Dostoyevski
· Leo Tolstoy
· Virginia Woolf
· Alexandre Dumas
· Nikolai Gogol
· Jean-Paul Sartre
· Stephen Crane
· Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any recommendations?
Dubliners
Notes from the Underground
In Search of Lost Time
Ulysses
Zola
Gogol
Time to saddle'up pardner. Why don'tcha be a goo dog and recommend me a nice western or two for the road, eh? *spits*
Yer gowna git rec-o-mendid the same four awthers that are always gittin recomendid round these parts COOOWBOOOY
>>8183203
enlighten'me mister
>>8183235
well buddy the ways i sees it *spits then lassos u* these folks round here are always spoutin the same names suchis as mr cormac mccarthy and his high falutin westerns such as blood meridian and the border trilogy and then ya got that fella by th name johnny williams who wrote a tale about servivin in them colorada mountains called butchers crossin, along with them two ya got what some folks might call a real western writer such the like of larry mcmurtry and his story lonesome dove. Last byt not least youngin you...
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General critique thread. Post what you are writing and please comment on the writings of others
I'm lying down on my synthetic, cat skin, sofa, smoking type O positive laced ketamine, and listening to an audio recording of domesticated penguins having sex.
And I'm writing my masterpiece. My first Wil and testicle. Or, “My First Wil and Testicle”. It's a cop buddy screenplay about a testicle, who after being amputated from an aspiring castrato, leaves his fellow testicle to become a cop. His partner? Former child star, Wil Wheaton.
But all of this writing is giving me jaundice, so I throw the manuscript into the air, demanding it stays...
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>>8183169
also, I did this also, would maybe add it to the previous writing in a book
1/2
It's our 20th High School reunion, and we are all close to 50 years old, on account of
our entire class being kidnapped our junior year by rogue marketers.
As far as kidnapping, and slavery goes, it could have been worse. There was no sex, or
overt torture involved. Between us students, sure, but the marketing men just wanted to film
us painting butter on raw turkeys. For ten years. It was...
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>>8183175
2/2
Billy smiled. "All those years. You ignored me! Thought you were better than me! But I
kept a record of every wrong. And I wrote down those wrongs, and fixed a price. I knew you
would all pay one day for your transgressions. And now ", and he said a bunch of other stuff.
Not sure really, he was kind of droning on. We all politely waited for him to finish, and then
grabbed our paintbrushes and flew home.
We would paint turkeys one more time.
So I have an hour commute by train, and typically it's packed. I was wondering what were some good audio books to listen to make the most of my time? Any fun reads/listens? And good free books out there?
I have a few:
Think and Grow Rich
7 Habits of Highly effective people
Zero to On
I have them mostly because I want to open my own business, but anything else from business to philosophy to humor would be appreciated.
Bumping!
Op /lit dislikes those self improvement books. Tho my mom keeps pushing me to read them, i probably should to be a good boy.
But desu i find an hour of head phones hurts my ears with the loud noise of train (so i have to crank up volumn) just read those books in paper desu.
why don't you read for yourself?
Why do some fiction writers purposefully write books that are hard to understand?
>>8183062
In the words of GBS, why not?
>>8183062
Because casuals ruin everything.
Seriously dude?
Thoughts?
>>8183039
i don't believe there was a single thought in the book, no.
>>8183039
shit translation
>>8183056
Could I read the original with 2 years of French down my belt?
So /lit/ I've finally started experimenting with writing with voice dictation and machine conversion with Dragon version 13.
The first version of Dragon I used was 10.1 and it was massive shit but 13 literally is solid and the 99.9% out of the box translation is accurate.
I want to start a discussion of writing through Dragon rather than by typing the manuscript out. I'm one of those writer fags whose published 18 books through LuLu and as a matter of fact I just released one today. It's just getting processed through the LuLu system to all the book...
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That depends. I assume it helps train you to continue during pauses in thought. But going back and changing things must be a bitch. I usually jump around during a session, change one thing and it causes changes to other things, almost like coding.
>>8183018
>boasting about publishing 18 books
>posting a name of your published book when noone asked you
>"so you know I'm not a massive fag"
I think you are, though.
>>8183028
If you properly train Dragon on words you don't articulate well or words that belong in an exclusive vocabulary base then it's well worth the money.
After spending about 4 hours training Dragon it doesn't make any errors when I dictate to it anymore.
>well fucking worth it
>pic related
What was the point of this past year? Was it all for shits and giggles?
i hope not. if it was, whoever is laughing is a real sick fuck.
what did he mean by this
>>8182984
Life is a strictly for the lulz endeavour but it's often dangerously short on lulz.
In the book 'A Message to Garcia,' in the 6th paragraph, what exactly is meant by the sentence, " No man, who has endeavored
to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well-nigh appalled
at times by the imbecility of the average man?" I've read this one section about 7 or 8 times now and still don't fully understand it. Here's the full PDF for reference, the whole book is only a little over two pages.
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/hubbard1899.pdf
As far as I can understand it, the author is trying to say that most leaders prefer to place their trust with a handful of competent individuals rather than a large group of people that don't know what they're doing to accomplish a task.
The wording is very awkward, but (along with reading the last part of the sentence that you've omitted) it sounds to me that he's implying that the only thing stopping a person with large aspirations that requires the help of many is the willingness of that many to put forth the effort to actually accomplish a task. Laziness is a disease worse than a muscle illness.
>>8182939
I see, thank you for your insight Anon.
Was it autism?
>>8182461
No, idiotism.
Also, top tier book, I have no idea why so few people have read it.
I've had this book on my shelf for so long. I really should read it some day.
>>8182588
I allways imagined that he was just pretending.
I am pretty sure that's what the author was going for.
Anyone has a critical analysis of John Bull's Other island? I need it badly for tomorrow. Or if any good fellow is willing to share his bookrags account with me I would be really thankful.
maybe if you post more cute pictures
>>8182470
>>8182470
Did I make a good /lit/ order?
My reading has been almost entirely scifi and fantasy for a few years and I wanted to try some deeper works. Pynchon had been on my mind for awhile and then I started reading about Nabokov and got a few of his works.
Yes.
Never make a thread like this again.
>>8182393
>"deeper" works
>3 books by Nabokov, master of aesthetics
Peripheral vision daemon
Wade the cobwebs spun in mid-air, nonpareil
Corner of affect, tabby_ recede into furniture, put an egg under your bed
Frankly, told one night merely to bear witness to cause, their dead need stones, we'll absolve pebbles (odd chess pieces, shaved with patient hands)
Anxious sentient turning din, tumultuous vanilla
Obloquy, vest contempt with Janus, battle of the asinine.
Cavedweller
Her vagina was much
deeper than I thought it'd be
Only words she knew were
Japanese song lyrics
translated by shiftless fats
Wished my tongue could reach her bike horn.
>>8182347
haha if we can appreciate sleeping with heavier set women, dig it.
Stalagmatic stalemate
A mixup messup
In the banana store
Slime, shame, stone
The madness of a criminal
With nothing to lose, and nothing to gain
Public nuisance number one
I ripped off a man's nipple with my teeth
Gravity's Rainbow
What are you trying to say
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing...
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>>8182408
this is one of my favorites.
What do you guys think of 'East of Eden'? Been sitting on my shelf for years and im thinking about picking it up finally. Is it worth my time?
Yes. It's Steinbeck's best novel imo. The Bible parallels are pretty heavy handed, but Edith is an interesting character. Has some very notable scenes. It's also easy to read and won't take much time despite the length.
>>8182356
hey I never read the Bible and I ever will. can u tell me what bible bits to know.
>>8182375
Not the one you're responding to, but Cain and Abel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_and_Abel
East of Eden really is a phenomenal book.
