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>Fantasy
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>What are you reading right now?
>Favorite parent character?
>Favorite time period?
>Who...
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I picked up Ian McDonald's 'River of Gods' alongside William Gibson's 'Virtual Light', they were on clearance for like $5 each. Are they actually any good? I want to start them at some point after reading my shitty Uni course books
Thoughts on the Dresden Files?
>>7782563
Anyone read The Night Angel trilogy by brent weeks here?
i read the first two books and working on the last one and its hard to get through. i cant stand his writing. its just cringeworthy and BAD. holy fuck i have never been so disappointing in a book series before.
Elliot's writing style was really good, regardless of the content itself it's clear no one (or very few people) here could write something as good as this.
I found only 3 typos in the whole thing. and his grammar is pretty much flawless.
http://abclocal.go.com/three/kabc/kabc/My-Twisted-World.pdf
Here had ability desu, but the writing itself is p banal.
>Good writing is no typos and coherent grammar
Wew lad
>>7783994
Photos of Elliot smiling make me feel bad.
Summum bonum Edition
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>Fantasy
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>Sci-Fi
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>What are you reading right now?
>Who...
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>>7776767
>What are you reading right now?
Aquinas on Ethics
>7776767
>What are you reading right now?
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
>Who is your favorite child character in fiction?
Neuromancer, the AI interface was a child IIRC.
>What is your favorite visual description of a landscape / place?
I like Tolkien's description of Gondolin very much.
>What is your favorite weapon that appears in SF and Fantasy?
Terminus Est.
>tfw no battle school GF
;_;
what got you into literature?
i don't remember
and i'm ok with that
i always read and was encourage to do so by my parents
but randomly at the library one day I picked up Catcher in the Rye and thought about how famous it was, said "sure, why not". Read it in one night, flipped my shit, never looked back
>>7783304
him
What's /lit/s opinion on Bukowski? Objectively speaking hes far from one of the best, but personally hes one of my heroes. The guy really know how to write a genuine, juicty piece of work. Great confessional writer too - never holds back on displaying his complete character, noatter how vulnerable it would make him.
>genuine
lol
he's trash
Whose your favorite then
No idea who that is, but he's the ugliest motherfucker I done ever seen
Jesus Christ says in Matthew 24:35:
"35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."
And furthermore He says in the following veres:
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36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came,...
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I read it for the literary value. Not for this.
>>7780000
gay
>>7780003
Well, it does not only has a literary value.
But a value on a personal and moral and finally eternal level. It is more real than any other book you'll encounter.
Plus, Christ is not just a nice, invented figure. He is real and he is the Almighty God.
He ain't joking around when he talks about eternal punishment in Hell, etc.
Do people really think he let himself nail to the cross, being blameless, because he had nothing better to do?
>it's a DFW and Pynchon prank their wacky Irish neighbor James by switching his schizophrenia meds with sugar pills episode
What's your favorite episode of David Foster Wallace's World?
>>7731842
The eschaton two-parter
I hate the training arc on Namek. It's all filler
I like the one where he's making up stories about audience pussy to impress his writer buddy, so his pal bets him he can't pull tail at the next book reading they go to.
Obviously Dave isn't very good with women, and the whole idea of 'audience pussy' is ridiculous, so he hires some escorts to pretend to be book groupies.
Let's have a sharethread, shall we?
It doesn't matter if you use a link that's already online or if you upload it yourself, nor does it matter if the book is rare or not - just share/recommend something you've been enjoying with the /lit/ family. Additionally, since we're at the literature board after all, feel free to write a little bit on why do you like the book, its subjects, etc.
Some ebook sites, in case you want to share something but don't have the file at hand:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
http://bookzz.org/
http://forum.mobilism.org/viewforum.php?f=120
I'll...
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Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre - Mary Efrosini Gregory
The book examines how these five theorists recognized that searching for self in an idealized other can lead to a variety of perversions. Cicero warned against seeking friends whom we regard as being everything that we are not: he advised to first be a good person and then to seek other. Ovid showed that Narcissus, who had no close friends to reinforce his identity, was oblivious to his own assets and tried to live vicariously through other. Rousseau explained why modern man,...
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This one's a must if you like your pulp hard-boiled: only the best from the classic Black Mask magazine.
The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
Links nicked from LibGen:
Download link (epub, 10MB): http://libgen.io/foreignfiction/get.php?md5=dc5bfad53c02cb4cda6e11011c3da6c4
Download link (pdf, 33MB): http://libgen.io/foreignfiction/get.php?md5=58dd5bf59445f05e951d2f6609b18ecf
Don't know where to start?well, don't know either
Edith Hamilton - Mythology (Little, Brown and Company - 2013)
https://u.pomf.is/adypba.epub
Give me any book and I will assign an unbiased "Patrician" or "Pleb" stamp.
>>7780141
Here's your real test:
1) Game of Thrones series
2) The Witcher series
>>7780141
Plato - The Republic, in the original language, no translation bullshit
>>7780141
Mein kampf
Yeah its a pretty surreal and important book when you realize what it really is. Not important as literature in itself, but important and unique as a perspective thats worth reading, imo.
>>7779404
I tend to leave Mangum's personal life to Mangum, but I found it interesting.
>>7779404
It's an ok book to read in middle or high school. I wouldn't call it literature per-se, but as a historical perspective it's worth looking at.
>>7779404
She's alive???
Have you ever read a book about AS?
Can you give some advices?
I start:
Tony Attwood - The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome
Really the best thing to do, from personal experience, is to read everything available to you, and to be discriminating. I found a lot of good stuff in academic journals and such, but most books I've looked at by so called experts in the field have definitely been pretty disengaged from my own experiences as an autistic person, at any rate.
>>7777101
I've been told by DFW fans (who are an authority on the topic) that Aspergers is no longer considered an accurate diagnostic tool. It's more helpful to consider the afflicted to be on the Autism Spectrum.
>>7777101
OP's biography
>someone asks for a book recommendation because you're "that guy who reads"
>can only think of stuff that they probably won't be able to handle
Is there any way out of this pride?
By realizing you're nowhere near as smart as you think you are, and if you can read those books pretty much any asshole can too.
>>7779104
Pretentious much.
I always start by asking them what they like or have read and liked. If you can't think of something to lead them away from Harry Potter, you've got the problem.
>>7779115
Many possess the potential, few the will. Your're right though.
>>7779121
Exactly.
This is a page from The Road. Why does McCarthy write like this? It seems like he randomly decides to use apostrophes for his contractions. The dialogue is also rarely attributed to the speaking characters.
>>7778698
because it legitimately doesn't matter at all, you can still read it perfectly fine and his prose lends itself to a more minimalist approach to punctuation
his dialogue is generally just back and forth so why would it need to be attributed
>>7778698
A quick Google search would answer your question, OP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#Writing_style
>McCarthy is known for his sparse use of punctuation. McCarthy told Oprah Winfrey in an interview that he prefers "simple declarative sentences" and that he uses capital letters, periods, an occasional comma, a colon for setting off a list, but never semicolons. He does not use quotation marks for dialog and believes there is no reason to "blot the...
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>>7778728
>He does not use quotation marks for dialog and believes there is no reason to "blot the page up with weird little marks".
> no reason to "blot the page up with weird little marks".
so why doesn't he just release a book of blank pages?
A girl asked me at uni how many people of colour / diverse authors I read and I struggled to think of any. She told me that I should "read more books by people who aren't dead white guys" and that I'm a bigot for ignoring all the "great stuff ethnics have to say in literature"
Well, OK then. What are some noteworthy books written by people from diverse backgrounds that seem to write about things that ruffle SJW feathers? I need some good authors here.
> I need some good authors here
it's arguable if she's good, but Ayn Rand
>>7777451
>great stuff ethnics have to say in literature
I smiled.
I think a good place to start is black/African American literature. They have the longest 'minority' literary tradition, and there is some genuinely good stuff in there.
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison is one of my favorite books.
