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Thoughts on this man? Overrated?
No, he's a genius. Haven't read a single word by him, but he's the finest author alive.
I bought The Tunnel when it was published. 20 years later I still live at home and haven't finished it yet.
>>7896836
He is the greatest American writer to ever live--Gaddis, McElroy, and Hawkes following not too far behind--and, regardless of what a few dummies on /lit/ think, he will be remembered for as long as literature is alive.
>Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
Was he right?
Yes
Everyone has only one chance at existence, you have a responsibility not to make things worse for others
No. I don't have friends.
>>7896823
>Sam Harris
>Was he right?
Having to ask...
Hahaha, good one, anon.
>start reading
>1 hour later
>only 700 pages read
>>7896762
I'm writer.
>start eating
>1 min later
>only 700 burgers consumed
>>7896762
>start shitting
>1 hour later
>only 7 DFWs in the toilet
I am trying to parse a somewhat lengthy sentence from Jane Eyre by Charllotte Bronte into its technical terms. I am familiar with most of the process, but I
cannot remember the term associated with what I have underlined in blue, and I am unsure on a few words being what they are (prepositions,nouns,verbs) as some
of them can pull double efforts, and it's not as easy to distinguish -- those words are denoted with a "?".
Also, I'm actually having trouble identifying the subject of the sentence; I think it gets lost by the end of the sentence,...
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>>7896645
Non-rainbow sentence:
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
>>7896645
"chidings" is a gerund. This sentence is really several clauses connected by punctuation, all of which embellish the singular sentence of "I was glad of it."
I was glad of it, (for) I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons (for) dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John and Georgina Reed.
The...
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>diagramming sentences
You have to be 18 to post on this site.
Hey, /lit/, I'm planning on buying a Kindle 7th generation "Basic" (the cheapest one).
The only thing thats currently holding me is that I've heard that kindles don't do well with pdf files and most of my reading stuff is in the pdf format.
So, do any of you guys have experience in using a Kindle for reading pdfs? How slow is the rendering and whatnot?
PS. I know that I can always convert those PDF files to a MOBI format.
>>7896573
>giving your hard earned bux to satanic Jew-run tech corp bent on enslaving humanity by the near future
>>7896583
>implying thats not my masterplan
>>7896573
Kindle is absolutely shit with PDFs. Ipad Air is probably the best for PDFs in my experience.
Even if you set your kindles margins to the smallest and crop page numbers, margins and headers and footers, the text is tiny and squished, the rendering takes seconds, and the kindle wont remember zoom options. What has worked for me is using PDFs that were saved from text documents or well OCR'd and save as RTF, then format as necessary using replace functions.
>>7896583
Shit...
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I was in the bookstore the other day and I was looking to pick up some books. I saw some Dostoevsky and Tolstoy that I intended to get, but I realized I didn't know the best translations for them, so I ended up only buying some books that were written in English.
I'm making this thread now to clarify what the best translators are for books of all kinds, not just Russians. I always see threads for individual books but I figured why not knock any questions out in one big thread.
Invest time in learning the language. Will make the reading experience much better, as the nuance often gets translated away. Meanwhile read english literature.
>>7896564
Only read books composed in your native tongue. Anything else is treason.
Richard Peaver and Larissa Volokhonsky for Dostoevsky
Any good?
>>7896496
Yes. Maupassant is the undisputed French master of the short story.
He covers a wide range of styles, from naturalism (Boule de Suif) to strange horror stories (Le Horla).
>>7896503
Sounds great, is it a good account of France during the 19th century?
>>7896509
yes. very anti-prussian though as is typical, but also about how french people suck.
Hello all, I want to get into apocalyptic books and such. Ideally without any zombies. I've been thinking of starting with either Earth Abides or The Dog Stars, would any of you have suggestions?
Pic more or less related
>>7896485
>wants to "get into" apocalyptic books
>willing to give up some non-trivial fraction of his finite life to read contrived 2spooky4u lit
c'mon anon, it's 2016. have you read the greeks?
>>7896485
Here's what on the syllabus for the class I'm teaching on the subject come autumn:
Last Man by Mary Shelley
After London by Richard Jeffries
Endgame by Beckett
Return Journey to Swansea by Dylan Thomas
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
You could also look up:
Oryx and Crake (trilogy) by Margaret Atwood
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Lucifer's Hammer by some guy
Canticle for Leibowitz by some other guy
>>7896492
>After London
Please, fellate me.
Can /lit/ recommend books in the vibe of French new wave films? a la Genou de Claire..
about love, but not overbearing. warm.
>>7896455
LOL WEED ;)
>>7896455
Boris Vian - L'écume des jours
...I hate this book by the way.
I just read Rohmer's screenplays
Hey /lit, I need some help and tips on how to stay focused and learn information for long hours each day for the next 2 weeks, I've stocked up on coffee and energy drinks. Any methods that have worked for you please post. Thanks
Pic unrelated, my morning pills.
wtf are u taking m8
>>7896346
you WILL get burned out if you do this
read good books my man
books like War and Peace or Count of Monte Cristo (or Moby Dick imo) are a joy to read all day every day
our memebooks like the Bible, Ulysses, IJ, GR, those will frustrate you if you aim for 10 hours a day
ITT We describe authors writing styles, but you are allowed to use only one word.
I'll start, Metronome.
>>7896340
"BAD"
blunt
Il était.
>If now I...say 'Stealing money is wrong', I produce a sentence which has no factual meaning -- that is, it expresses no proposition which can be either true or false. It is as if I had written 'Stealing money!!' -- where the shape and thickness of the exclamation marks show, by a suitable convention, that a special sort of moral disapproval is the feeling which is expressed. It is clear that there is nothing said here which can be true or false.
>>7896334
This person is just begging to be robbed
are you pro or against emotivism?
>'stealing money is wrong' expresses no proposition which can be either true or false.
what the fuck am i reading
What book should I read to learn to be a good kisser and love maker?
Daniel Rose - The Sex God Method
>>7896347
does it work?
tfw me and my gf are both garbage at sex
Are there any female authors who write in the style of Dostoevski? His bleakness, ugly realism, characters who are self-loathing, etc.
I'm tired of reading about porcelain dolls with love issues. I want existentialist angst and period blood grossness.
>>7896213
Plath?
>>7896213
Oh Patricia Highsmith
Flannery O'Connor maybe
Post obscure books. The first one I have never heard about (neither about the book nor about the author) will be the next one I'm going to read, provided I can find it online, without cluing myself up about it before.
Pic vaguely related, he is an example for an author I know of
Suttree, Cormac McCarthy.
Yes yes I know, not so obscure an author, but I rarely see anyone mention it here, or anywhere really. He spent twenty years working on it and it shows. Hilarious and harrowing.
>>7896202
Motorman by David Ohle
vurt - jeff noon
city of god - paulo lins
