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not sure if this is the board to ask but I'll try. are there any good horror story podcasts? I've tried listening to that one reddit thing, but it's pretty hit or miss. if it's the wrong bored, sorry.
>>>/leddit/
>>7750441
I dunno, just use Libravox or Audible.
>>7750441
>that one reddit thing
Oh that's fucking great dude I totally know what the fuck you're going on about
Fucking retard
When you think of it, Religion is pretty much a really big LARP game.
It makes perfect sense then.
Could be said about life in general, should play it more like gta. okbye
>Authors and/or books that are never discussed on /lit/
Who here has read Germinal? What did you think of it? What other stuff would you recommend by Zola to something that has read only this one (actually I also began reading Thérèse Raquin but dropped it after a while, for now at least)? What books by other writers are similar?
Personally I really liked it, it was hard to get into at the beginning because its kind of slow-paced and all the character names and their families are confusing as shit, but by the middle it turned into...
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>>7750301
>to something
to someone
How do I into Bukowski? I wanna know /lit/
>>7750270
dont bother he's garbage
start with his poetry.
Read Post Office. It might be his best.
>what's outside the window?
hopefully a paragraph break or two tbpfhwy
"Outside" is ambiguous here: do you mean it in a 2D or 3D sense? If 2D, then the answer is {"FEBRUARY 15", "What's outside the window?", the dashed frame of the window} i.e. a 3-element set. If, however, you meant it in the 3D sense where you're supposed to 'look through' the window, as it were, then the answer is: O.
On a serious note though, a dashed rectangle is not a window: it is a dashed rectangle. Hence "what's outside the window?" is really a context-sensitive question: it may bear either of the...
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What's your favorite piece of work by Salinger?
And, if you have the time, why is favorite piece of work by Salinger your favorite?
What I've found strange about these books is that there's neither a decline or incline in Salinger's writing, the quality of it. Where typically writers become better as they age, it seems like in the earliest of these books Salinger's writing is as meaningful and technically impressive as the latest of these books; however, I haven't finished Raise high the Roof Beam, so maybe I'll prove my own idea...
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>>7750223
>be mid 30s
>forced to read Catcher in both 8th and 10th grade due to curriculum changes
>dont care for it
>people do book reports on it every year, lecture to class about it
>still dont care about it
>get to college, forced to read it in contemp lit
>still dont get the big deal
>try...
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>>7750237
Why don't you care for it?
Have you read his other work?
>>7750248
Ive actually thought about this.
The plot, prose, games with sexuality, existential crisis...whatever, Ive read similar stuff before. Shit, No Longer Human is very similar albeit a bit more sociopathic.
I think its that I absolutely hate Holden more than any protagonist Ive ever read, and being forced to read it over and over as only made me hate him more. Every sentence is whining to me.
Most books are longer than necessary.
>>7750218
That's not Jorges.
>half way through IJ
>Desperately want to read The Sound And The Fury
Why is it so fucking long?
>Book is immensely long
>You begin reading it and enjoy it immensely
>suddenly the characters and style of writing you enjoyed end and a bunch of shit you dont care about happens
>there seems to be no end of it
Savage Detectives and 2666 I'm looking at you.
I tried to pick a book the other day but I really couldn't make my mind up,
it seems I'm just unable to "judge" books.
Maybe the problem is that I'm always looking for something so specific I can't just open my mind up for a book that doesn't fit 100% my requirements.
For example I was looking for a book about travels and the wilderness, and I came across this book,
seemed kinda nice but I was afraid it would have been too "simple" so I didn't pick it.
I think if I had a social circle related to...
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>>7750119
Your pic is pertinent. Have you read Coloane? It may well fit your "travels and wilderness" appetite; his short stories are superb.
>>7750158
I'm sure I went trough every author on that shelf, but I don't recall anything from Coloane really standing out to me.
Maybe Cape horn, but I'm not sure.
Now that I think about it I should look into the Aubrey–Maturin series, I remember looking at it some time ago but they're hard to find around here.
I've been writing a book for years, bit every time I try I lose passion or something gets in the way and I end up talking huge breaks. During these breaks I always rethink parts of the book and change shit and now I can't bring myself to write because I know I'll just change it later. Anyone have this problem?
That's not a 'problem'.
>>7750103
If you keep changing shit before you're done of course you'll never finish. Finish an entire draft, then edit it.
>>7750103
Take notes on what you want to change in a separate document/notebook. Finish a first draft of the whole thing then refer to those notes when revising.
I saw it in about 2012, I think it was fairly new. Judging from the front cover, it was set in San Francisco, in the modern times. Possible short story collection. The cover was blue and orange, with a girl looking out over the city.
I know this is vague, but does anyone remember it? I was just thinking of it, and maybe I'll buy it soon. Saw it a few years ago, as I said.
>>7750051
here u go my brother
top kek. I needed that chart this morning OP. Thanks man.
How is it possible that a man who wrote a few genuinely great scifi novels makes nearly entirely crap? He has to be one of the most inconsistent writers I've ever read. Even in the books that aren't Enders Game or Speaker for the Dead that are entertaining they themselves are massively hit and miss, having some subplots that bore me to sleep while others that are genuinely interesting. It's like he doesn't even understand why people like his work.
What few "genuinely great" novels are those then?
Look; the dude has some themes, he writes on them a lot. Once or twice they happened to come together in a way that appealed to people, but he didn't do it on purpose, it was just accidental. Throw enough shit at the wall, some of it will stick.
>>7750048
I just assumed this effect was from growing up and no longer enjoying the books I liked as a child.
I'm old enough to remember when people didn't immediately fetishize and glorify their childhood movies/books, never moving on to something newer.
>>7750048
Nothing he wrote was great or even good. Ender's Game was overrated YA shite.
I couldnt find a request thread, so I guess Ill make this and see if it works.
I used to read up to 10 books a week from the ages of 8-14. and today I have vague memories of some that were really good and I think my daughter may like.
One was Worry warts, it was a really good story, with an amazing theme to it. I just found it/got reminded of it through a thread on here.
But I have some others I just cant remember the names to. I only remember a few "scenes" of them so Ill list them now.
I think it may be a Jennings or Gleitzman title, but...
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I have one.
I read this in elementary school. It was about a girl and this old mean man who lived by the river. She always wondered why the old man was so mean, but he let her collect turtles down by the river.
The old man dies, shes sad and learns that he was a really nice person anyhow.
They made a movie about it. It was black and white.
>>7750033
i dont have any leads sorry op, but that one about the fish and chip shop sounds very familiar to me.
if you have any inklings about the decades these came out that would probably help others track them down.
they would be late 80's possibly 90's, but I couldnt be 100%
Its possible that the one about the abandoned kids may be aimed at teens, the other 3 would be childrens books. around the size/length of jennings books in chapters etc.
I hope someone dose know them, I can picture reading the parts so clearly, but the names just arent there...
>>7751223
This possibly rings a bell, did the old man live in an old decrepit house with a very over grown garden, and she explores and finds the back door before...
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Did she deserve the Nobel Prize or she only won because she's an African American female writer? Beloved was decent and Song of Solomon is pretty good, but neither were great imo.
The Nobel is a joke, it doesn't matter.
>>7750022
the Nobel is awarded not so much on literary merit, but on how it tries to challenge social topics. you should know this by now. there are other awards that do the other.
>>7750022
What dictionary should I 'cop?'
If you have a brain and spellcheck on your computer you shouldn't need a dictionary. Now go back to /fa/.
the oxford english dictionary is the only acceptable answer, anything else and you might as well declare yourself an inbred illiterate invalid.
>>7749983
Where did you get this pic? Is it from a movie? Is there more?
Man it hits me in the feels. I'm not from lit,i saw it in the front page, but I came in here to see it...
I lost my younger brother to anorexia. We never took it very serioysly until it was too late. We thought it was exclusively a teenage girls' disease...
His name was Jerico.
Sorry I just needed to vent
ITT: the best representation of God.
>>7749985
top kek/10.
seriously though, is the Koran good? I've never read it besides random entries that were out of context. Does it get into the nature of God well?
Strikes both awe and fear into the hearts of those that behold Him.
