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Are these the best books of the last century /lit/?
The critic's list is much more accurate: Lolita and two Joyce novels in the top three. Everything in that list, barring Tolkein, is trash of the lowest order but that goes without saying.
>>8178546
Whats wrong with 1984? I personally enjoyed it and thought ti was written well
>>8178631
It's fine as a science fiction novel but it's not in the same league as Nabokov or Joyce's work or any of the other authors who deserve to be on a list of the best fiction. The best novels are works of art, 1984 certainly isn't a work of art.
Hey /lit/, I have a question that might be dumb. How is it exactly that poetic forms are created, and what constitutes a legitimate form? I've finally decided to buckle down and study forms, and think that I understand their purpose: that certain forms are better at conveying certain effects in an organized manner. However, how is it that these poets construct these forms in the first place? For example, how is it that Arnaud Daniel created the Sestina, and how is it that poets decided that it was a legitimate form? The Sestina seems almost like an arbitrary sort of mathematical...
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>>8178474
Are you on Adderall?
>>8178489
Nah but I'm tired as fuck right now so if my post was shittily constructed I apologize
>>8178497
>Nah but...
There's your problem bruv. Ask yourself what you've written here when you're tweaking. It's the secret of great art to be sleep deprived, terribly sober, terribly depressed, tweaking, or tripping. However you get there, your answer will be found
Question for weak readers who like to read non-fiction.
Have you considered making notes at the end of each chapter of the most important information, so eventually you've compiled a list of notes you can refer back to some months after you've finished the book?
I tend to forget everything I've just read when I finish a book.
I forget to take notes most of the time, but when I do I usually use a word doc
>>8178319
But that interrupts reading. You have to get up and go to your computer chair.
If you have a notepad you can quickly jot it down without moving much.
>>8178308
I write notes as I read. If I ever leave a non-fiction book for a while and come back to it the notes usually help get back into it.
rec books to keep modern capitalist/consumerist culture from ripping out my soul and killing any individuality/creativity I have
>>8178251
Ride the Tiger
>>8178251
Trotsky- The Revolution betrayed
the theory of the leisure class by Thorstein Veblen exposes just how silly everything really is
Post your favorite novel and your favorite album and get relentlessly judged by a bunch of pretentious elitists!
>>8177975
does it feel good to possess literally no originality?
Okay. Hit me with your best shot.
>>8177975
dank
>410 pages deep
>kind of bored
>>8177864
bummer! i wanted to check this one out soon. does it just lose steam, or what?
>>8177870
Well, while the dialect Pynchon uses is very impressive, I don't really enjoy reading it. I'm also having a hard time understanding it. The basic plot I get, but I'm not entirely sure what the overarching themes are... Parts of it are extremely fun and fantastic, but the last chapter I read was boring and made me realize a lot of the chapters are pretty boring.
I also have no idea what's going on with the duck or what Dimdow's deal is.
wot until the last transit. it comes together
Essays, Criticism, History etc edition
What are your favorite non-fiction books *about* SFF?
Previous: >>8170521
Recommendations
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
I decided to go with A Wizard at Earthsea for my next sff read. Didn't read Le Guin in a while and it seems like a good, fun read.
>>8177503
>and it seems like a good, fun read.
It's neither of those things.
What the fuck was his problem?
This meme is dumb.
WWI knocked a few of his screws loose. And all that psilocybin he took didn't help either.
The fuck is his point anyway
Tantric sex and feudalism or something?
How do they translate "old sport" in your language?
>French
>"cher vieux"
>literally "dear old man"
>>8176575
What a useless, inefficient language.
>>8176578
>no direct equivalent of a colloquial expression in X foreign language
>must be because that language is shit ahahahah XDDDD
Literally retarded comment.
"Vieux" also means "mate", though.
Sublime books that never get mentioned here. I'll start:
Middlemarch. Expansive, thought-provoking, moving, and terrifying in the depth of its suggestion that two people never really know each other.
>>8176173
The frogfaggots will ruin this thread, but I wholeheartedly agree. Masterpiece
Bleak House.
Like the rest of Dickens' oeuvre, severely overlooked by you fucks. Don't worry that it's long. It's in its length that there's pay-off.
The Confidence Man.
Intention, scope, achievement, anything, this book holds measure for measure with Ulysses for greatest work in the English language.
ITT come up with terrible opening lines for a novel. I'll start.
Hemlock looked at the dead bodies pitifully, the horses of his mind galloping towards a suspect.
It was dark in the city and raining, and a child's forgotten balloon floated by.
An immense ass bobbed up and down inches from Bobby's face, but his mind was elsewhere; every waking second, his thoughts gravitated with utmost certainty towards cock.
Henrietta vaulted out of the agency bird like a seasoned pro, not, of course, that she wasn't, and her encrypted sat phone chirped with an intel update: "Mom, don't forget about my parent teacher conference tonight!"
>"My position in regard to Dostoevski is a curious and difficult one. In all my courses I approach literature from the only point of view that literature interests me —namely the point of view of enduring art and individual genius. From this point of view Dostoevski is not a great writer, but a rather mediocre one—with flashes of excellent humor, but, alas, with wastelands of literary platitudes in between. In Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov for some reason or other kills an old female pawnbroker and her sister. Justice in the shape of an inexorable...
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>>8172386
His taste was actually pretty awful and he had a very narrow view of what a novel should be like, dismissing everything that didn't cater specifically to him personally.
