Why do people find this book difficult?
Is it just due to the characters?

>>7742369
it's that, the scientific terminology that (although not that complicated) can wear on people without a background in that field, and the vast amount of episodes that (seem to) have nothing to do with the previous one.

>>7742368
It's not exactly a masterpiece but it's still pretty good. It's not that difficult to read if you keep focused and don't just let it set in as you would a novel written in plain style. And check out the wiki...
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>>7742368
>>7742369
First section is the hardest and then it gets easier to read even though everything gets crazier.

Or just read a plot summary.

also, sage

Try the homework board >>>/hm/

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>>7742322
got trolled into going there and then unironically ended up browsing for a few minutes

not really
there's likely to be many undistinguished works published today that will bear some significance 100 years from now. Much of our culture is immersed in easy entertainment-- low tier film, comedy whatnot. Advances in technology may be the culprit. [We] now have twitter sized attention spans and scroll through the same facebook content aimlessly.

>>7742254
Its just taking some time to figure out its next phase. It's pretty encouraging that so many people on lit seem to want to bring it back to life.

>>7742254
maybe you can save it anon, are you the next james joyce :^)

>>7742238
She's wearing clothing just like a man's because she's a strong independent woman.

But there are no bright colours or realistic weapons because this is serious fantasy not historical boring stuff that's for school only :^).

Do we really need more of these types of novels? With the fucking terrible made up names, and the bastardized Tolkien mythology and the generic its just Europoor in the Xth medieval century setting which screams lazy uninspired unimaginative writing with no soul...
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>>7742417
>and the generic its just Europoor in the Xth medieval century setting
Most of the book takes place in not!arabia

>>7742986
once more

speech writer
biographer
political think tank
reporter, journalist
walmart greeter

starbucks

>>7742295
>walmart greeter

>>7742301
>starbucks

Why is this so real?

All that is required to read Ulysses

>>7742184
In all seriousness, I think you'll find better responses on r/books than you will here.

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Read everything from the Beat Generation. Star with On the Road.

>you're so taught

>>7742211
yeah fuck "taut". Spelling is bullshit

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>>7742161
Literary madness a la Torquato Tasso.

> The disease Tasso began to suffer from is now believed to be bipolarity. Legends describe him wandering the streets of Rome half mad, convinced that he was being persecuted. After his lengthy imprisonment in Ferrara's Santa Anna lunatic asylum, he was able to resume his writing, although he never fully recovered.

Interestingly, there's a tango club called "Torquato Tasso" in, you guessed it, Buenos Aires, Argentina

I don't know why lot 49 gets shit here on /lit/ it's a pretty gud book

>>7742220
Yeah but it's mediocre by High P standards

Suicide.

It resonated a lot with me when I was a teenager. Just something about that moment of realization when the whole world seems absurd and impossible. The film is pretty good too just for the attractive cast.

>>7742152
I'll have to see if I can get a hold of the film.

>>7742126
i tried to read his other book, the man without masculinity, and i must say, despite the potential for patricianity, that thinly veiled philosophical essay was boring enough to consider all germans pisstaking virgins.

>>7742081
it certainly looks like shit

uninspired drivel that's been published in more than a 1,000 ways already.

>>7742081
It's a lot of fun! It's not original but that's because it has more emphasis on the remix of the idea than the idea itself which usually makes for better story telling anyways.

If you don't have a stick up your ass you'll probably enjoy it. The prose is shit tho but that's kind of the standard for the genre anyways

Both faggots. Have to go with Russel.

late wittgenstein

/thread

Frege. He may have been a massive racist but at least he wasn't intellectually dishonest, affecting the course of western philosophy up to the present day.

Also, Frege actually revolutionised logic. The Principia was an unfortunate failure.

>>7742014

If you really have to struggle, you're just not a writer. Keep it a fun hobby to do when you feel like it, but you can never make it you're actual living if you're this uninterested in it.

>>7742019
so the only way to get better is to strive towards making a living off writing? seems like a selfish way to view the craft

>>7742051
That's not what he said. He said writing should be fun not a chore. It's not your homework it's your passion. You can hone someone, and help them think about structure and developing a style by finding a voice that is their own, but you can't make someone write more. Think about it for longer than 30 seconds, and realise if someone is forcing you to write you aren't a writer you're a slave.

If you're forcing yourself to write, you're a slave to yourself, and your ideas...
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be largely similar to others and act like a normal person
because if you can 'express' yourself with an uncommonly patterned scarf there wasnt much to express to begin with

Why do you want to stand out? The implication is that you want to seem better than others in order to "win" some exclusive opportunity, in doing so subugating people you've never even met. Why are you so selfish? You should feel terrible.

>>7742018
You can actually express something of yourself without completely expressing your entire being at once, anon.

Just don't wear something you like printed on a tshirt anon. Dress more like that thing.

>>7741814
tone it down bro. you seem angry. everything is gonna be okay.

>>7741826
>he visits /lit/
>he thinks that it's a place for "dignified" discussions

>>7741850
its naught thaht. you don't have any bighteing humoure in youre angerpoesty.