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So, is Faulkner just a meme? I see this guy's name and works pop up everywhere I go it seems. Should I give it a chance?
>>8135415
Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
>>8135432
Pay no attention to Nabokov-sama. Faulkner is great. Start with Light in August, it's his most accessible of his "big four." After that, do As I Lay Dying, then you might be ready for The Sound and the Fury. Save Absalom, Absalom! for last, it's his most challenging and most demanding work.
If you enjoyed those, I'd also highly recommend Sanctuary and The Reivers.
>>8135415
>is Faulkner just a meme
this board makes me want to kms
How do you feel about translations?
I have yet to find one which when compared to the original is not full of mistakes.
Made all the worse when you remember most ancient works have only reached us through a chain of translations, and the originals are lost.
>>8135211
My publisher sold one of my novels to foreign markets where it was translated. I speak a little German and I read that version and wanted to hang the bastard.
>>8135221
>things that definitely happened
>>8135221
wait someone here is published??
So I finished reading Let the Right One In. I really enjoyed it. Aside from the story, i enjoyed that it took place in a cold country, Sweden. What other books do you recommend that are similar and take place in Sweden or nearby countries.
>>8135112
There are shitloads of Swedish crime novels, I'm sure some of them take place in winter.
>>8135112
miss smilla's feeling for snow
Despite not being set in Sweden, Ethan Frome develops it's major themes through snowy, icy, cold imagery. Pretty quick read too
Does anyone else have a problem with reading ADD? Like I really want to enjoy reading however, sometimes I will be reading through a book, and get lost in some sort of thought, and I'll completley lose track of what's happening. Is this a common issue, or does it just stop the more you read? I'm kinda new to it, so I'm still used to the fast pacedness of tv, and video games.
>>8135109
It lessens as you read.
Don't challenge yourself with texts that you aren't ready for you. Work up to them. The main thing for you now is building your attention/retention levels up.
>>8135130
/thread
>>8135134
wow, now you're like a full-on completely assimilated oldfag.
if there is any threshold above which a newfag irreversibly becomes an oldfag, methinks, it's when they reply to a one-reply thread with /thread.
I'm gonna get in trouble for telling you this, so try and act surprised, but the boys are preparing you a surprise party as we speak. congratz man :)
I hear that new lines and more complete copies of tablets from the Epic of Gilgamesh get found every once in a while. I've been thinking, what's the most up-to-date version of Gilgamesh? Also good translations in general?
andrew george's
also, what do you think were those humbaba's auras? and those golems of urshanabi...
>>8135152
Thanks. I've been thinking to read this. I've been starting with the Greeks but isn't this the oldest piece of literature that we have? At least there are no prerequisites, right?
>>8135285
Wait, what I really mean to ask is this: is the story of Gilgamesh really important for the understanding of many other works of Western literature, the way the Iliad and Odyssey are?
Rate my stack, /lit/? Post yours, too.
0/12
you started a topic with a different version of this stack already, just go read them man
>>8135036
I just like fun and slightly-off-topic threads :>
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ITT: the Titans
Answering seriously, William Gaddis and Billiam Gass.
Cronus
>>8134887
Franzen was too dumb for Gaddis, LOL
Is this Sadboy: The Novel?
Fancyboy
i normally don't meme this hard but i genuinely think you should go to bed ta
How do you know you're not reading to seem smart?
I find being a pseud wrt music and film much easier because I eventually come to actually enjoy the "classics" and develop my own taste. Whether I initially did it to >feel cool> becomes irrelevant, because I know now what I like in these media.
Since reading (especially nonfiction) seems to demand greater engagement from the consumer, consumption of lit feels much more tedious. I don't even know if I like it/feel like it was worth it. Especially when I could have watched a bunch of instantly...
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The final checkoff on ur yearly reading plan and gaining the rights to seem patrician and saying u read those books to English majors is worth the reading, plus it gets better as u read something enjoyable. You can also seem smart, which watching movie isnt gonna bring.
The secret is that it doesn't really matter. What you read should be entirely your choice. You shouldn't read an author our of imagined necessity, no matter how much the autists on this board think you should.
>>8134740
Because no one really cares about me anyway, so by extension no one cares what I'm reading and how it makes me look. Also
>the consumer
If you're consuming literature rather than experiencing it, then you definitely are just a pseud.
Hey /lit/, I have started working on a dark fantasy story. I still don't know if its going to be short or long but at this pace it might be huge.
What do you guys consider to be do and don't in fantasy? More specifically what gets you interested and what immediatly turns you off?
>>8134684
>More specifically what gets you interested and what immediatly turns you off?
Turn on's:
When the writer is inspired by an unknown force to relinquish all the benefits of social life and pursue the materialization of the Symbol the muse has let him see
Turn off's:
When the writer comes on 4chan to ask other people how he should write the novel he thinks he should write, 'cause you know, he'd be great at it, he's so smart, besides...
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