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Books that can turn a man Catholic. Please share them. I desire to move into a monastery within a year or two. The monastic live is a thing of beauty, the one noble lifestyle left in the West. I'm entirely sincere when I claim that it is the only sane way to live in a Kali Yuga. So yes, Catholics, hit me up with the best you've got - it has become a matter of spiritual life and death.
Les Misérables
Then read Notre Dame de Paris to lose said catholicism all over again
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Lolita
Has anyone on /Lit/ read The Magic Mountain? Also is Buddenbrooks worth a read?
No, no one on /lit/ has read one of the most famous and influential books of German literature. Not a single one.
Not sure why you open you rthread with a question like that.
Yes Buddenbrooks is worth a read, as is Doctor Faustus and Joseph and His Brothers.
Yeah, I read it. Pretty comfy, until Naphtha gets in there and shits everything up with his Jesuit bullshit.
I'm interested in reading Buddenbrooks myself, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
>>7796495
>No, no one on /lit/ has read one of the most famous and influential books of German literature. Not a single one.
Is this sarcasm? /lit/ is full of plebs, so I bet there are many important works of literature they haven't read a page of.
Sup gents. Finished White Noise recently, plowing through pic related and my copy of Mao II is in the mail. After that, where do I go? Straight to Underworld?
>>7796476
The Angel Esmeralda for some short stories.
>>7796554
I've been on a short story kick lately and was wondering if his were good. Thanks!
>>7796476
End Zone might be of interest for background on Eschaton.
Hey guys I really want to start reading more books. I feel like spending an hour or 2 a day reading will really benefit me. I know this is a broad question and difficult to answer, but what are some of your favorite books? I just started 1984 and eyeing catch 22 when I'm done.
>>7796370
This is a pretty good starting point.
>>7796370
If you end up liking catch 22 you can go down this road as well.
>>7796383
this, but skip the bottom row, and read Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, and The Sound and the Fury instead
Is she worth reading?
Are her huge novels interesting?
I've never seen a thread about Donna Tartt so let us have one.
I'd put my dong-a in her tartt
>>7796310
please I want a cultural discussion about her writings and no ad hominem stuff
If you read for plot I guess it's good as it keeps you reading but she's nothing special really.
Good Pen Names Thread.
Useable Pseudonyms only.
Wolf Blitzer
Barakka Cherugga
Clint BEASTwood
Seriously, what *is* 'post-modernism', and why does this place love it so much?
Sum it up, because it mostly just seems like people getting mad over Žižek/Foucault/etc.
>>7796192
A majority of post modern works came before Foucault and Zizek were publishing. Postmodernism is largely a response to modernism
>>7796198
And what is modernism?
Why should I be happy about post-modernism?
All the stuff I see about it is entirely divorced from normal political theory/terminology; conservative/liberal/etc.
What's it all about?
>>7796205
A highly selective tradition that defines itself by what it breaks from.
To break away from it or imagine something different is to endorse it or recognize it and land yourself right in the post
Why can contemporary be contrasted with modernism for its nowness?????
James Joyce now and forever mothefucuke
Trying to write for a short story contest by university association. price is 2000$
theme is
>Wild
What do you guys think of it ?
>>7796125
wild as the adjective, not the wild like nature or something although it's related
>>7796125
Write about how a lvl 20 nub got led into the wildy for a drop party, but then got attacked by a group of lvl 80s wearing rune armor.
wish my uni had one of those, it would help me to write more
Hey /lit/.
I've been writing roughly 1000 words a day since i was 15. In total, I've written the first drafts of three novels and four novellas, as well as countless short stories and bits of poetry. I've filled 13 notebooks with first drafts written in my awful handwriting.
I've recently finished the fifth draft of what i hope to be my first novel. I've given it to my English teacher who has been kind enough to read and edit it. I've also given it to a former teacher (now a published author, making a living from his book sales) who...
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When you die or they stop writing, duh
>>7796019
>When does your writing stop improving?
>My question really is when do you know you're ready to try and get published.
These are two different questions.
Your writing will only stop improving when you stop working on improving it, whether that's out of laziness or senility.
You know you're reading to try and get published when you look at a piece of published work and be certain that you're as good as if not better than...
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Stop thinking in a larger or career context, just throw at the wall and see what sticks
What are some other books like this?
I mean sense of no time or an exact location. Feel like there is no difference between first and last pages.
Feeling like it is a whole organism consisting of same and identical parts.
Lolita and V. are similar, in that the reader must forgo their sense of 'what's happening' to appreciate the prose
>>7795930
this recommendation is awful
look it's obvious you don't read a lot you don't need to shoehorn in the few books you have read into everything
>>7795934
this
Some good architecture books?
also interested in suggestions for this
Can architecture be properly written about without the assistance of images?
There's a shortage of architecture majors in /lit
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What percentage of all novels that are written get published?
What percentage of published novels actually get the writer anything more than $6000 per year?
>>7795723
>a small percentage
>a very small percentage
But mind you, most novels are shit or written by crazies. The trick is to write something that isn't shit.
>>7795723
Traditionally published? Very few. But that's because they go off marketing data and hot trends. A lot of users on this board seem younger. If you really want to write and make a living off it, watch/listen to podcasts on writing. Self publishing is a viable option now. There are legit services too that will advertise and review your work. Also podcasts are always looking for new authors to talk to. You could spread your numbers that way.
The day of the old writer who doesn't communicate with the world...
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>>7795723
An impossible statistic to know - people write novels and do nothing with them.
Better would be to look at the proportion of slush piles that is binned by agents/ publishers. That would be the vast majority.
Hey /lit/, it's my first time here and I've never read a book in my life. I'm feeling like I'm missing out in life for not reading one. What books should you recommend to me so that I can slowly get into literature?
>>7795706
Boku no Rainbow.
it really depends what youre looking for, but maybe something like brave new world
Finnegan's Wake
I'm a russian pleb whose father was always taken to drinking alcohol hitting my mom along the way. So i was pretty much like a lowbrow from my very childhood. 3 years ago i somehow managed to realize that i'd like to be studying English. So by using the internet i'd tackled doing so right away, and of course without resorting to any teacher for i'm probably the poorest man even compared to my peers here in russia. Begging your pardon for my bad grammar in advance cause believe it or not I haven't even tried to learn the grammar yet, all that i learn...
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Harder than english for sure. Many french words in english, fewer the other way around but since you're probably not going to rely on etymology much that doesn't make a difference from your perspective - your knowledge of english will make learning french a bit easier.
Sentence structure is generally speaking looser in english. French is more flexible than it's given credit for, but you'll see little of that in practice.
There's little to no logic behind the genders. Learn through habit or (like many late learners) get them wrong without missing...
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your grammar is pretty fine i'd say
since english is my first language i don't know how it's difficulty compares to french but french isn't too hard to learn especially if you're living in france
in either case good luck with whatever you do
>>7795614
French is much easier than English, much more regular both with respect to morphology and grammar.
What is the angriest you have ever been in regards to something /lit/ related?
For me, it was when my nieces were telling me about their reading in school. My oldest niece (12) was reading To Kill a Mockingbird.
I told her we were not allowed to read that book because of the use of racial slurs throughout it.
>Oh, they take those out now.
I asked to see her book and saw where the text had been blacked out wherever there were words that would be considered offensive.
I never thought I could be so mad. I don't...
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Probably when I learned Lena Dunham had a NYT best seller.
ITT: triggered hurtbutt
>>7795530
>the left at work
Try again, faggot. Neoliberal identity politics are a direct result of centrist conservacuckery.
