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>read book
>a month passes
>forget everything about said book
Anybody else have this problem? I was considering taking notes but doing this for fiction you're meant to enjoy just seems wrong.
I doubt you forget everything. You would just need engagement or some form of reference to trigger remembrance. Stop perpetuating this meme.
>>8050523
not a month but yes
Yes. But fiction is meant to be enjoyed, not necessarily remembered. Re-reading books after a few years is good practice, you'll notice different things and you'll be different yourself
What's some good literature that deals with fitness and/or sports? All I'm aware of is pic related and Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon.
>>8050451
infinite jest
>>8050451
Donald Ray Pollock's story "Discipline."
>>8050451
The great prose stylist Rippetoe's classic book Starting Strength.
Is stirner the most fedora of all?
>>8050437
That's Rand you're thinking of
>>8050437
Is Paul the biggest Christfag of them all?
Fedora nature is a spook. Under each hat is an individual.
What the fuck is up with Lyle the spandex sweat guru in IJ??
Why DFW. Why.
>>8050405
wardine be cry
>>8050405
Good old Lyle, floating, looking on
He's part of every story Wallace wrote
Of love and loss and disconnected life
Suspended, energy to spark the gap
To match the coming storm, yet dissipate
He's comic relief
I read this book when I was 17 for high school summer reading. I had never enjoyed a book as much as I did while reading and nothing has come close since. I'm 23 now and I'm looking for a book as captivating and with rich and witty prose like Catch 22.
I tried Vonnegut and didn't like his books (Slaughterhouse V and Cat's Cradle) and I've already read A Confederacy of Dunces. Catch 22 made me genuinely laugh and gave me tons of feels. It would be great to find something similar to it. Thanks.
the disaster artist
>>8050397
It's been 6 years, re-read catch 22
Read Under The Volcano and now it's among my fav novels. Want to read more Lowry. Any recommendation?
More Lowry.
>>8050358
Specifically?
Do you aspire to steal the literary 'voice' of any particular writer? Who do you aspire to imitate when you speak and write?
>>8050348
Ezra Pound or Borges, easily
>>8050348
your a faggot
>>8050348
No one because I'll just bee myself.
Stealing and copying is for loser degens who will never get published
I want to know how to organize complex plots for theater. Let me give you guys some examples of what I mean by complex plots:
>A Midsummer Night Dream
>Twelfth Night
>The Comedy of Errors
>Volpone
>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
>A Little Night Music
>Some Like it Hot
>A Fished Called Wanda
I...
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Just start with a straightforward draft. Then work backwards, changing and connecting things. Convolute every subsequent draft until satisfied.
>>8050382
That's a nice idea: I was even thinking in drawing things, scenes, making lines to conect characters, etc.
>>8050311
>Is there a book that helps with this kind of ploting?
David Mamet has written about this
is war and peace by Tolstoy any good? (i'm serious) yes/no + why?
Yes. I'm about 2/3 of the way in and I have to say it's probably the best book I've read. I was intrigued from the get go and the writing throughout is so profound and feels so powerful that I've truly enjoyed it all the way through so far. I don't agree with all the philosophical or political statements Tolstoy makes, but they're interesting to read. 10/10
>>8050290
One wonders if it would have been as popular if it were printed under the original title.
I don't like it. Too scattershot, too many plotlines don't go anywhere, and far too much apostrophe-essaying about how much Tolstoy hates the Great Man theory of history. (He's not wrong, but it's a quarter of the fucking book.)
Read Anna Karenina or even The Death of Ivan Ilyich instead.
look what came in the mail :-)
>>8050285
Can I have your Underworld?
I thought for a secondt hose were Wojaks on the bottom of the Take Five cover
Still looking for a pirated mobi copy of Zero K
Not on libgen or bookz afaik
What are the "hard bits" in IJ, some of the sentences are long but are there other bits that are HARD. DFW seems to talk about it being a difficult book, the only thing I couldn't do so far has been reading all of that fucking filmography, got it yesterday...
There arent any parts really that are locally "hard", his goal wasnt to make that type of book. The hard part of it really comes after reading it and trying to make sense of all the small and intricate details that are missed on a first read through.
>>8050287
OK, I thought it would be that, I was worried there were like weird logic puzzles hidden in the text or something - was gazing non-nonplussed, on here, at his thesis the other day - of that nature. Will continue to read.
>>8050269
>I'm so smart
nobody cares
How do you feel about Haruki Murakami's upcoming novel about 4chan?
hope it's better than the one he did on reddit
>>8050312
you mean every book he's done?
>>8050323
obviously, bucko
I want to start reading books but it's really hard for me to focus and not derail my head into other thoughts.
And i am not native english speaker so audiobooks are not always there
Are there any exercises/books that will help me?
>>8050252
Yeah, reading.
>>8050252
Don't hang around electronic devices, read in public spaces, libraries
Read everyday, set realistic goals for progress
>>8051323
>Don't hang around electronic devices
This basically, just to add that personally I've only ever been able to read from paper or a tablet.
Reading on a computer or a smartphone is impossible. I know, I've tried.
Hey /lit/
Fiction hasn't been holding my attention lately, as much as it used to at least. I'm looking for some recommendations on non-fiction, specifically essays or essay collections. School is starting to ramp up so I don't have a ton of time to read. Just read Voices from Chernobyl recently and loved it. And though I haven't read any of DFW's fiction I've really enjoyed his essays.
What good essayists or essay collections should I check out?
>>8050216
Sun and Steel by Mishima
>>8050216
>Voices from Chernobyl
I want more like this too, just not war reporting
why when ever I'm at the bookstore and I look up an NYRB book or a vintage contemporary book do they all have shit ratings and reviews? why publish these books?
>>8050183
Corncob Tortillas YeCarthy deserves all the shit reviews he gets. He's a fucking hack.
About 20 years ago my father returned from a business trip to New York with pic related having had it recommended to him from someone who worked in a Barnes & Noble. I've still got it, to this day.
>>8050200
Kill yourself faggot
