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Is the difficulty of this book exaggerated?
>>8142902
aint bad, it's such a good book that any difficulty is worth it though, to me anyway. some people don't like it, there are long stretches of dryness. Maybe the difficulty is more from how most people typically expect a lot of action, and that's not in this book. It's dry. (worth it for the sperm squishing though, i assure you.)
its not difficult but some people find the whale anatomy chapters tedious. others love them
>>8142908
A lot of this sort of thing were categorized as "boy's adventure" books.
I don't think the book is difficult, I just think sometimes Melville needs to quit jacking off to his prose and just tell the damn story. One unfounded criticism is people bitching about the digressions about the whaling business, but fuck you, you're getting some education out of your literature.
How much money can someone realistically make with writing?
Not talking about some meme lottery books like 50 shades of Grey, but rather if I get to publish an average popular non fiction book.
Can I make a living out of it?
>>8142865
>How much money can someone realistically make with writing?
how ever much NEETbux pays these days
Jesus fucking christ no. It's like saying you want to be "a director." You can go make your own shit if you want, but it'll just be a hobby. You can sorta branch out into related stuff, like commercial editing, but that isn't really the same. The only people who actually become "a director" or "a writer" are insanely lucky or have some weird perfect storm of credentials that allows them to sell shit like GOOGLY-EYES: THE RIVETING TALE OF HOW NIGGERS WITH DYSLEXIA SAVED THE PRINTING PRESS, BY STEPHEN JAY PINKER. Literally like 98%...
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>>8142865
>if I get to publish an average popular non fiction book.
about what lmao
is it a Gonzo journalism piece on Shakespeare authorship question?
Is it any good? Seems like an interesting plot, but do I need to start with earlier pynchon? I also read that Gaddis' work had some influence on this, should I read recognitions first?
>>8142847
this is actually the perfect place to start with pynchon.... basically a diluted does of his antics
>>8142847
>pynchon
>good
>>8142862
>diluted does
I got the meme book gravity's rainbow and was looking on the internet for info about it and it turns out pynchon was mentioned on the simpsons a few times. This impressed me, at first, because I like the simpsons but then I learned that all the references were made after the show turned to trash. Should I still read it, knowing that the hack, later period, simpsons writers like it? More importantly, I got the penguin's classic version, do the errors really make a difference?
>>8142844
The last two season's of the simpsons are a return to form
>>8142844
Which penguin classics edition? The one with the black and white meme cover? The errors were supposedly fixed in later printings.
>>8142848
I've heard this opinion a few times but...it can't possibly be true.
Been interested in the Spanish Civil War thanks to Hearts of Iron 4. What are some good books about the war? Non-fiction or fiction is fine.
I've found Homage to Catalonia and For Whom the Bell Tolls so far.
- The forging of a rebel by Arturo Barea
- The Magic Labyrinth series by Max Aub
- Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
- Requiem for a Spanish Peasant by Ramon J. Sender
- Madrid 1940 by Francisco Umbral
- The Hive by Camilo José Cela
>>8142831
>I'm interested in history because of video games!
Stop
Having read George RR Martin's collection of short stories he wrote prior to A Song of Ice and Fire, I've come to like them about as much if not more than the fantasy series. I'd recommend The Fortress, The Hero, The Second Kind of Loneliness, With Morning Comes Mistfall, A Song for Lya, This Tower of Ashes, And Seven Times Never Kill Man, Bitterblooms, The Way of Cross and Dragon, The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr, The Ice Dragon, Remembering Melody, SANDKINGS, Nightflyers, The Monkey Treatment, most of his Tuf shorts, The Skin Trade, The Hedge Knight, and Portraits...
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>>8142717
Okay, George.
>>8142717
Just finish your book so the kids can stop complaining on social media, you fat fuck.
>>8142717
Fuck off
What if I told you guys that I know who Evan Dara is?
In my opinion, the best, least-known American author today.
>>8142403
Who is Evan Dara?
The dude's books are unbelievable
>>8142403
I've read both them books and have started Fleeeeeee
You will wake up one morning to realize you have the prose of your favorite author.But only in the style of their worst book.
What do you do?
>implying sinclair lewis ever changed his prose style
time to win a nobel prize and write increasingly mediocre satires for the rest of my life
Borges worst book?
Don't know what it is but pretty sure is still insanely good.
Will get the nobel for him.
>>8142344
actually nvm i'm flannery o'connor
and her worst book actually has my favorite passage from her so i'm in top form
Books that make you want to kick the owner's face while ripping its pages.
really, it sucks.
Anything by Palahniukexcept Haunted. I have a fondness for the premise. Pretty brilliant imo
>>8142201
Yeah but the father one is even worse.
>um... dad... please don't hit me... I mean you don't but uh... you know what I mean...
>100 pages later
>so yeah... you feel me... dad?
What does /lit/ think of pic related?
>>8142163
I wouldn't read this.
>>8142163
who the fuck is this old ass man
>>8142163
What's it about?
Dear /lit/
Will forcing myself to read eventually make me smarter? I can only read 2 and 1 half paragraphs before I get bored as hell. I feel myself getting dumber and dumber as the months go by. I can barely form 2 full sentences during an attempted conversation. It's either a one word reply or half a sentence before the person gets sick of my shit and leaves.
pls halp
Nah, you're just a woman.
Find something that you like so reading won't necessarily be a chore
>>8142114
>Will forcing myself to read eve
Stopped there. Leave.
What's a book that will bring some warmth to the jaded and cynical eyes, of a young man who is just tired of the world and doesn't really want to do anything? I mean like a story. Idk what kind of story, but something for me personally. I've grown so tired of everything, I don't really feel like doing anything. I don't feel like going out and making friends, I don't feel like creating anything artistic, I don't feel like trying to pursue a job, oh hell I don't feel like trying to pursue a job. I'm just tired and fed up with the world,...
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It shows the tragic suffering of the human condition and society's indifference to that suffering, and ends by revealing that, in spite of all the badness in the world, there is yet value in our lives.
>>8141901
metamorphosis by franz kafka
the bell jar by sylvia plath
the jungle by upton sinclair
hard times by charles dickens
>>8141901
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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I got some old paperbacks and I'm moving and I don't have room to take them with me.
What do you think I should do with them? I don't really want to just throw them away.
They're mostly just sci-fi/fantasy and a couple science (layman) books.
>>8141881
Donate them if they're in okay condition.
Take them to the closest library so others would have a chance to enjoy them too.
>>8141888
thats why i want to do, but my local library doesn't accept donations. Any good ideas where to donate them to?
i was thinking if all else fails just to throw them up on freecycle, or craigslist free.
though id prefer to get them into the hands of someone who would enjoy them.
What's your favorite emotion /lit/?
Mines paranoia
melancholy. it is by far the most /lit/ feel.
>>8141867
Anxiety.
rapture
What comes to your mind when you see this image?
>>8141855
people who crease books in bookshops deserve to die
There's already a thread on McCarthy. Great author, by the way.
>>8141855
Faded blue jeans, it's disgusting
