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Are plays meant to be viewed or read?
>>8254333
tf u think
>>8254333
viewed unless they're one of the greats (Shakespeare, Ibsen, Williams, etc.)
reading is viewing
Any authors similar to Fowles?
>>8254297
The Magus tho0o0ugh!
>>8254297
Herman Koch?
Auguste Poulet-Malassis?
I can find one Maria Goos ycleped, who however only wrote a screenplay...
If you are willing to go a bit more predatory than that there's always John Hawkes.
>>8254297
OMG.
Finally a thread about a decent writer. Magus is G.O.A.T.
What are /lit/'s thoughts on the WSJ?
>>8254282
>What are /lit/'s thoughts on the ((( WSJ )))?
not to be trusted
The Economist and NYT checking in.
>Not reading Krugman's blog.
The WSJ is pretty good though, you can't go wrong with it.
thoughts on this guy?
i've liked "my struggle" so far -- easy, fun, addictive. is proust actually like this at all?
stylistically no but kind of re theme.
>>8254225
somewhat, but much, much better
Not really. Proust is more interesting, less trite. Karl Ove writes like an 18 year old. He's the definition of a pseud.
I really like dark stories, where secrets of society keeps the world populace from the " truth " that magic and monsters are real.
There are many books that in somewhat fit the description... but I often find these books are lacking in at least one of the following departments: believable or likable characters, an interesting main plot, a dark atmosphere.
Monster Hunter inc. Really hit the spot...
It somewhat reminds me of man in black... The reader gets introduced into the " real " world, through the eyes of a newbie...
It's a little B-movieish...
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>>8254194
>XD
>Making fun of Twilight, a book that was never meant to be taken so seriously and made specifically for YA and girls
Sounds like you should read Harry Potter, since that's basically what you described. Although I don't recommend you reading it (because hopefully you've passed that stage in your life) but id also recc Dantes Inferno, it has many good features you've mentioned and great imagery
>>8254194
Also The Lion, The Witch and, The Wardrobe
>>8254216
Dantes Inferno - really done - how ever not really a - present time story but could be with some small changes...
So I'm halfway through this, but I have an unabridged version of this. My copy is atleast over 60 years old, and some of the language is really hard to follow sometimes
Question: Should I buy a edited modern version of this book
Question: What do you do to tab nd search unfamiliar languages/slang
1. No
2. If you're like me, and it's disconcerting to use a phone or computer to search up everything you don't know as you read it, write on a piece of paper unfamiliar words or terms. Then, when you're reading session is over, and you're on /lit/ waiting for replies, you can tab over and know what they mean rapid fire.
if you can't handle swift's language, you're in trouble. it's not fuckin chaucer
>>8255002
assuming OP is a native English speaker, agreed.
What are you reading right now and what will you read next?
Currently reading: The Iliad
Next: Blood Meridian
>>8254102
now: flannery o'connor the complete stories
next: portrait of the artist as a young man
>>8254102
Crime & Punishment. I'm probably going to start reading Dubliners as well.
Next I think I'm going to read Mrs. Dalloway.
Dead Souls. I'll probably start reading Heart of a Dog next.
Is Dan Schnieder worth a shit?
>pic-related
>>8254059
Well he is Dan 'dick like a tin can' Schneider after all
>>8254059
>>8254066
Yeah, I read the article where he was "ramrodded up the ass by some kind of hair-curler thing"
but i mean, you never know
Hi /lit/
Long story short, I can't write for shit. I have a mass amount of ideas in my head and I imagine full on stories in worlds and stories and everything needed for a good book but I absolutely can not write. I just draw a blank even if I have the idea in my head. I want to write, or draw, or do something to convey these thoughts on to paper but I have no skills whatsoever. Please helps
>>8254034
Paint
"get good"
>>8254034
Practice.
Try copying authors that you read, if they aren't extremely stylized.
I thought this book was awful. I never had to read it in high school (which is when I'm assuming most people read it) and finally got around to doing so. The 'message' of this book is a hollow platitude ("hurrr power corrupts, socialism is bad") and the way it is delivered is so heavy handed that I was actually cringing. Also, the prose was completely bland and unmemorable (he's no Faulkner).
Is 1984 better? I was pretty much going to read both for the sake of reading Orwell because of how massively popular he is, but I don't know if...
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>>8254023
Its been a while. Did the humans know that the animals were sentient and talking?
If so, 1 this makes it a whole other story with way more pressing plots and themes. 2. pretty racist calling the west humans and the east animals.
1984 is the only dystopian novel worth reading.
>>8254023
1984 is pretty good just for the fact that so many of the techniques seen in this fictional alternate British society mirrors the modern west so uncannily.
Help me, boys, I can't stop reading Westerns.
>>8253999
Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Genre Addiction Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Book Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha
Do not worry anon, they are the true manly subgenre, and surprisingly pertinent to our time of appeals to scientism and moral progress
Hey /lit/,
What did you think about this book back in the day when you read it, and what do you think about it today?
Do you consider it overestimated or is it worthy of all praise and hype it had since it went off?
Also general discussion
I'm actually reading it right now. I'm about half way through. Holden just told the elevator pimp to bring up a hooker.
This guy sums it up pretty well I think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5jiTs1sr0s
It's a great book. It's wasted on highschoolers because all they get out of it is either "You shouldn't be like Holden" or "Holden is soo relatable".
Redditors call Holden whiny but don't seem to care that it's an amazing character study of a broken person and don't seem to acknowledge how sad the character story is. He is dealing with the death of a brother for crying out loud.
Which Kafka stories would you recommend to a newbie?
The Hunger Artist
A Letter to the Emperor
Metamorphosis
In the Penal Colony
Whatever you do, don't read 'The Cares of a Family Man'
>>8253858
metamorphosis, then trial
>tfw search for "Enoch Powell" on Amazon
>Mein Kampf and some white supremacist shit comes up
Fuck /Pol/
Well lads, what is the recommended Enoch Powell? There must be more to the man ( he was one of the youngest professors and became a brigadier in the army and got a first in classics at Oxford ) than skinhead tier nonsense. Any books you can recommend?
>>8253820
No one? Seriously?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell#Writings
ten seconds in google
Trust a leftist to be completely helpless.
>>8253866
Aye but which ones of his writings? Reflections of a statesman is £40 on Amazon...
>Leftist
Fuck off
Just because one isn't rascist ( neither was Enoch IMO ) doesn't mean one is a leftist.
Why does /lit/ hate Kant so much?
because the phenomenology is a better transcendental deduction than the transcendental deduction and kant is an autism slave to his newtonian weltanschauung
>>8253810
Because Kierkegaard is bae.
>>8253819
But Kierkegaard, like other existentialists, has committed philosophical suicide
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