fuck all these threads desu
what are novels/short fiction with characters who are philosophy grad students or philosophy professors? have Foucault's Pendulum so far
>>7594535
>fuck all these threads
I love the thread-close button feature for this.
Maybe QTDDTOT could advertise the chatroom
Authors similar to Tom Clancy? Themes I enjoy: unadulterated patriotism, fear of "others", oper8or as fuck.
>inb4 get out pleb
What's your favourite colour?
Is the penguin edition of White Noise any good?
What does /lit/ think about Bernard Cornwell?
What are must reads relating to contemporary art theory?
>>7594630
not sure about books but I'd recommend following e-flux
>>7594618
>the roads to freedom trilogy
thank you
>>7594535
I forgot about the name of a book. I need help to remember it.
There was a missile, and a guy who can stop time. He can stop the missile from crashing and killing him by keeping time freezed, but doing so everyone else is freezed so he is alone on earth until his death.
>>7594625
sure why not
How can I get into reading faster, but retaining all of what I read?
>>7594650
So there's no errors?
Durer or da vinci?
>>7594599
Gold
>>7594599
Purple
What is the best Spanish edition of the brothers Karamazov?
>>7594638
Thanks, I'll check it out
>>7594599
Blue
Does anyone know the name of the really depressing memoirs of some random post office worker.
>If you know what im on about thank you
can you recommend me some book about death's acceptance, more specifically about detaching my human soul from my body so I don't have to feel sad when I'm killing myself
please
What's the Vaporwave of literature?
>>7594749
Tao Lin
I can't find my copy of blood meridian anywhere. I looked under my bed and in my living room but nothing.
Where is it /lit/?
>>7594749
a ransom note compiled of fashion magazine clippings
>>7594760
In the bathroom, below the sink, between the sink and that cupboard
That's where I lost my copy of "Enemy Mine"
>>7594760
In your mom.
>>7594760
you gave it to a friend. oh rite you aint got no friends L O L
>>7594651
Watch subbed anime
>>7594764
>Bukowski's Post Office
No thats not it sorry. thanks though
Why do I sometimes get annoyed when I see happy people
>>7594799
Because you wish you were that happy.
I'm writing a story about stage magicians competing. How do I create an excuse for the two competitors to act and react to each other so it feels more like a battle than a 1-round contest?
>>7594799
sexual frustration
you feel the need to put your dick in a vajay
>>7594804
Watch a rap battle
>>7594811
that kind of assumes there are multiple rounds to the battle, and to be honest, if I did that I would run out of tricks pretty fast.
It might be that this idea isn't conductive to the kind of thing I want to write
Seriously way to many useless threads on lit now
>>7594535
I'll bite.
What is the difference, in /lit/ terms, between William Gass and William Gaddis? Both of their works are mentioned here on occasion, but one is supposed to be in the new meme trilogy, or something? I can't keep them straight.
>>7594547
Pic related tb quite h.
Welsh, Irish, or Portuguese?
>>7594667
Davinci
>>7594599
BLUE
>>7594535
Thank you for making this thread OP
>>7594892
kek
>>7594646
shit nigga this sounds so much like something like Borges, it's just a quick guess. I don't actually remember shit, but I think the story goes along the way of a man about to get shot and before getting shot he asks God or some shit like that for mercy and God gives him a full life by making the seconds in which the bullet leaves the gun until it hits him into an eternity or a long ass time. might be wrong or crazy so don't trust me desu.
>>7594934
You're thinking of The Secret Miracle.
What's some good hypnosis porn?
No sissy/gay shit please
How can I get better at writing dialogue?
Everybody told me though when i had a mustache i let it be too wide. do you have a grooming guide for them?
who kicked Slothrop in the boat
>>7594889
delete this
Is butters a transexual or is "she?" a real female
>>7595469
It was a dude pretending, using screen caps from a video
>>7594566
Gibson's Blue Ant series
Best translation of Brothers Karamazov?
>>7595574
Avsey
How should I start a short story? How to add more metaphors?
I don't understand fair use, but I want to write a novella about Jeff Mangum traveling backwards in time, through his dreams, to rescue Anne Frank. How likely is it that, given the remote eventuality in which I manage to complete such a manuscript, I should be sued after any publication for defamation or copyright infringement?
>>7594566
Read House to House. It's a true account of an infantry squad leader's experiences during the siege of Fallujah. It's fucking excellent and very exciting.
>>7594627
like you see, nobody cares
what books have you fapped to?
>>7594688Colección: Clásica Maior
>Número colección: LVIII
>Traducción: Fernando Otero y Marta Sánchez-
>Nieves. Marta Rebón (Libro III)
>Encuadernación: tapa dura
>ISBN: 97884-84289210
>Páginas: 1008
this one is really good
>>7594893
there is no reason to learn any of them
Are there any good Bowie biographies out there? All of the ones on Amazon and Goodreads seem to have only okay reviews.
What are some books similar to Huxley's Point Counter Point?
>>7594599
Yellow. No, blue.
>>7594658
Not that guy, but you're usually pretty safe with Penguin, anon. It's only their edition of Gravity's Rainbow and some editions with unfavourable translations you should ignore, but for the most part they're reliable and affordable. Go for it.
>>7595726
Possibly not, the man lived a very private life. The only worthwhile memoir would be one he would've written himself if he actually ever wrote one, but of course he never did. Sorry, anon.
You're probably safe with most of the biographies but they'll only detail his professional career and probably wouldn't be much better than coffee table books.
Honestly, the best biography of him would be his actual discography.
Has the cosmological argument ever really been disproved? From what I can understand of Hume's objections, it hasn't.
I just bought the last days of Socrates. I haven't read any Plato before, this will essentially be my intro into philosophy? Do I need to read anything else before this? After I read this can I read the Republic?
>>7594561
What the fucking shit butterdicks
>>7594561
>Those fucking eyes
>>7596375
Get a book about the presocratics.
>>7594651
Same as anything and everything else, practice
I'm writing a short gay erotica piece that correlates with a much larger story. Problem is, I can't write erotica since it's mostly metaphors and I have never had any homosexual encounters to push me farther along.
Also I hope I am not coming off as too big of a pervert, seriously trying to look at this from an authors perspective.
>>7594535
I recently began an amateur study of philosophy. I started with the greeks (mostly Plato and Aristotle). Where do I go from there?
>>7596692
How long did stood by them?
>>7596755
did you*
>>7596692
Descartes
>>7596661
you can't write erotica because it wouldn't fit into the context of the larger book ? or you can't write it because you've never had a homosexual encounter?
either way, read homosexual erotica or erotica from a straight female perspective. also, just pretend you're gay - think about sex and just replace the vagina with a penis and a woman's body with a man's body. watch gay porn. stop having hangups.
>>7595709
Shogun by James Clavell
>>7594535
When will butterfly kill herself?
>>7596797
It's more like an complex excerpt to occupy people that is connected but not apart of a larger project I've been working on and off on. The main character is bisexual and he figured out his friend is not only gay but has a sudden affinity for him that eventually leads to a one night stand.
And I will. It's not necessarily the fact that I don't know what to write either, however I tend to miss typing the finer details that made my earlier works not erotic enough and overall mediocre.
>>7594535
Who is the best post-Orwell English writer?
Does anyone else get annoyed by the overly long dialogue of characters like Dmitri and Fyodor in TBK? I know it's part of their character but full pages of inane drivel wears me out.
Are Khaled Hosseinis books actually decent? All 3 of them seem to be ridiculously well rated on GR but I don't know. Not really interested in Afghanistan
How do I read? Furthermore, how do I read better?
>>7597086
Scan your eyes across text. Comprehend it's meaning. Do this often and it'll get easier.
>>7595709
snow falls on cedars
bonus points for when we did readings in class and the girl major with tiddies read "that" part
>>7597097
its*
>>7597191
Reddit**
>>7597223
Please let's refrain to carry everything toward memes.
What is the best translation of Jorge Luis Borge's work?
>>7594599
grey
When I try and use #bookz it can never connect.
I'm looking for Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples Volume I if anyone can help me
>>7597411
Cant use irc? Loser!
Can anyone share any more charts similiar to this?
can someone dump me a bunch of "/lit/ top 100" style infographs, you know what i mean...just lists of canon books.
a friend of mine wants to start an "academic reading club" and i figured why the hell not i'm not above a bit of circlejerking
he's in charge of the /phil/ reading list and i do fiction
>>7597469
>>7597430
Think you could get it for me and upload it to megaupload mr tech genius
>>7595455
porque?
>>7597469
>>7597469
Literally read the sticky
>>7597474
>>7594735
book of disquiet?
Forewarning: I'm a 'pleb'
I'm trying to read 'The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays' but literally 90% of it is going right over my head. I mean I could sit and figure it out sentence by sentence but it would take me 500 hours to finish the damn thing.
recommendations based on naked lunch? having trouble getting out of my edgelord bubble
>>7597552
>it would take me 500 hours to finish the damn thing.
seems the way to go for this one really
>>7594599
Evergreen
>>7597568
i liked the syntax, political humor and surrealism :)
How do i kill a demon?
Why did Harvard Classics give an entire volume to The Wealth of Nations but only publish the first part of Leviathan?
What's the best book on the presocratics?
Also, should I take notes when I read fiction? I'm reading the Iliad right now, and haven't taken any notes because I haven't really felt the need to.
>>7597604
forgive him
does anyone have the excerpt from that sexual piece where the husband shits on his wife's chest and she remarks that "it's so stinky"
>>7596790
nope man
recently i've made inroads towards accepting personal failure
like not even in the distant past, but truly doing something and accepting if it is shit
i guess i would encourage you to do the same. read it, let it wash over you. let yourself understand the failure, don't ignore it. but also feel the distance between you and it (which is your discomfort) and know that this distance is yours also.
Which one do I read first? The Illiad or the Oddyssey?
And is there any prerequisite reading I should have done to understand them? I already have a good understanding of Greek mythology, and basic knowledge of Greek culture and history.
>>7598327
Illiad first, then Odyssey. Also, heads up because they are quoted in the Dialogues of Plato; so you may want to read those afterwards.
Does anyone have a PDF of Child of God?
Is the meme trilogy itself... a meme?
>>7594535
Does /lit/ ever write or read greentext stories? I was considering writing an elaborate adventure story. If not, where is original fiction welcome on 4chan?
how long does it usually take for the downloads to start downloading upon request on #bookz?
>>7596802
Mah nigga
>>7598467
Instantly
>>7598493
Well, shit
Can we have a weekly off topic thread?
>>7598327
Dude read the odyssee first, the illiad is heavy and indigest mostly.
I'm pretty sure homer was paid to put some people name/descendants, you will see 1/3 part of the book like this: is name was ... commander of the army of... who was born in the year... married to... inventor of... (imagine 3 page like this) and son of... who was the precedent heroes of... married to
.. (3 page again) who was the son of... (yeah here we go again) i'm exagerating but mostly its a really big part of the book every character or side character get is own fucking biography and genealogy three, for mostly no purpose.
Can someone explain post modernism?
>>7598540
Postmodernism is what happens after modernism is no longer modern.
>>7598540
post-modernism is simply the state of affairs in our advanced capitalist society.
literally "after modernity"
modernity being the period of inquiry stretching from Descartes to Wittgenstein
>>7594535
In what order should I read the greek tragedies?
Is The Three Musketeers worth reading? Or the rest of the series for that matter? Are they any good?
>>7594535
Does anyone have the /lit/ essential Christian Mysticism chart? Had some good recommendations on there.
For those who have read 'John Billy' from DFW's Girl with Curious Hair, what the fuck is going on at the end. Why does an otherwise grounded/'realistic' story suddenly have the characters floating and buzzards pushing up against the window and all the other crazy shit. It feels like forced surrealism. Pls respond, I've just finished it and I'm upset.
>>7598899
Not exaclty 'Mysticism' but related.
What are some good books on evolutionary psychology?
Any books that deal with sexual frustration and ressentiment against women?
1. Whats a good method to improve my logic and reasoning? Im getting into philosophy, but i want to make sure Im not missing anything.
How do I start with pic related? I've read Job and liked it, but don't want to read it cover to cover in fear of getting bored by the more anecdotical/historical parts. Some anon a few years ago posted reviews of a few books (parts of the Bible) in a thread I happened to be in, but I forgot which ones.
So which parts are the best/worth reading?
>>7599504
Just read it all.
Need suggestions for books that deal with a character who finds it increasingly hard to tolerate being among people. It is exasperating, mentally exhausting, anxiety inducing, panic causing and nerve-wracking amid all the conscious awkwardness.
The protagonist increasingly dwells on loathing himself for his pathetic and despicably mediocre nature and his failure to be normal and have a well adjusted social life. People (specially women) don't acknowledge his existence apart from momentarily pausing to judge or remark on his creepy, confidence-lacking. pathetic nature.
The protagonist constantly wishes he die in a horrific accident because that way he won't feel the guilt of killing himself while a part of his family is still alive to mourn. He fantasizes of dying or being killed in several ways several times every day because that will help him end the wretched joke of his despicable existence which can be expressed as a sequence of failures at being a desirable human being. The protagonist feels crushing sadness periodically which goes unnoticed by anyone and everyone around him including his family. He feels at an utter loss of how to deal with these periodic surges of devastating sadness and melancholy that further feed his desire to die a brutal death because maybe the brutality of the death will absolve him of his wretchedness, failures and shortcomings.
The protagonist constantly attempts to be indifferent and nonchalant about the lives of those around him but periodically succumbs to intense bouts of jealousy and ressentiment during which he internally imagines horrible things happening to all those successful, beautiful and socially well adjusted peers. Then he eventually calms down and after reflection realizes that those horrible things should occur to him instead of the beautiful people around him.
The protagonist simply does not kill himself out of the fear of botching it up and the anguish that it might cause to one or two close relatives. The protagonist isn't impoverished or doesn't face any financial hardship but still is trapped in a spiral of loneliness, guilt, pessimism, anguish, sadness, loathing and disgust at the self. The protagonist detests being seen or witnessed/seen/heard by any human apart from his immediate family and constantly attempts to avoids people despite being drawn to their happy lives. At this point he just wants to conveniently end the ugliness and finds respite in a bit of literature that keeps him company and draws his mind away from the torment and anguish. However, he realizes that it isn't enough and eventually the growing misery will become too much for him to handle at which point he will quit.
>>7594535
I wanted to start reading, but I don't know where to find books. Is there some sort of online library where you can read books?
>>7594646
Sounds like a Twilight Zone episode.
>>7599413
My struggle Knausgård
Anything by August Strindberg
>>7598540
it's a catchall for the vague culture of suspicion/anxiety/critique that succeeded modernism postwar
everything became very pessimistic, self-referential, self-conscious, aware of its own self-consciousness, aware of its own lack of meaning, etc.
>>7599551
Bookzz.org
Gutenburg
Mit.classics
Sacred-texts
>>7597253
norman di giovanni is often considered the best and if you google him you can see that he worked closely with borges and such. all his stuff is available in older editions (i think) but borges' young succubus wife booted him out of the publishing rights when she inherited the estate. at least some of his stuff is very easy to find online and you can compare it with the modern translator to see if you care all that much about him. personally i didn't see enough of a difference to bother about it.
>>7596692
read all of plato and the major works of aristotle then
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/
in order
then 19th/20th cent are easy enough, just use wikipedia
then backtrack for "minor" ones that you missed
>>7594651
stimulants
it's really all about focus
>>7599504
You're supposed to go in order.
>>7599679
I honestly like D.A.Y's translations better (I can't remember his name, only the initials) than Di Giovanni's...
>>7598540
Every fucking thread this same fucking question
Anyone know the name of a 90's YA book about a young boy whose lost his parents and is raised in the wild west by Natives. I think he carries a hatchet although it has no bearing to the YA novels "Hatchet"
>>7598540
Thebookchemist does a good job.
>>7598540
ironic
Are Everyman's Library Classics decent editions of classic works generally? There's a sale on them at my local bookstore, but I don't want to drop precious £ on shite tbqhw/ufamily.
What are some actual shortcuts to being a better writer?
>>7599969
They use old translations
How do I read faster? I read at the pace of a 12 year old but I really enjoy reading.
>>7600206
If you enjoy reading why would you want to read faster?
>>7600212
I dont have the time to read as much as I do and im like retarded slow. Im not looking to speed read, just improve my rate of reading. I know about not visualizing the words internally and using a line as a guide but it doesnt seem to help.
>>7599969
They're great books. High quality material and pretty to look at. In regards to translations, the majority of translated works I've got from Everyman are Russian authors. They use Maude for Tolstoy, which is arguably the best translation, and P&V for Gogol, which is actually one of the few instances I've encountered where P&V works.
I'm not entirely sure what translator they used for Borges, but it definitely works very well.
So yeah, Everyman's is a very solid choice. If they're on sale, I'd definitely say go for it.
>>7600219
Read more
>>7600219
>I know about not visualizing the words internally
I'm not entirely sure we're on the same page here, but why would you want to avoid that?
Savour it man. People who speed-read are like people who speed-fuck, it makes no sense.
If you really want to read more, cut back on the chans. It's a terrible waste of life and precious time. The time you spent shitposting just now could have been spent reading.
is Anne Frank´s diary a good read ?
>>7600224
Posting from phone at work, meant to say vocalizing. But yeah you're probably right, just need to make the time.
what SPANISH translations (+ critical work, if possible) of Plato, Sophocles, and the rest of the greek gang should I look for? basically want to get everything in this list but I can only find Hamilton's locally, and Amazon is not an option
>>7594561
My question was 'where is butterfly?'
Then again, I thought butterfly never used a trip
>>7598624
Outstanding stories for the young. I'd say if you're posting here you're probably past the window where they will affect you, but they're good stories, and you should probably experience them.
>>7594535
I need a few examples of reluctantly obedient figures in literature, ie who know what they're doing is awful but continue anyways without questioning whoever gave them the orders.
Is there any site that shows the word counts of books?
>>7599504
start at the beginning and read. It will take you a year at a moderate pace. Just swallow it. When you're done reading it, continue reading it occasionally. Revisit books. There is no tl;dr. Every book of the bible has been extensively referenced in literature and thought and you should be actively familiar with it. It's the most important book in our language.
Is DFW living proof that it's impossible to be completely, genuinely satisfied in a heterosexual relationship?
Is the book Villains by Necessity any good?
>>7600559
I did a quick ebook word count to physical copy pages comparison, x250 seems pretty accurate.
>>7594651
>but retaining all of what I read
read what interests you
>>7595078
write dialogues
talk to people
write dialogues
listen to other people talk
write dialogues
read books
write dialogues
watch movies
write dialogues
edit dialogues
write dialogues
>>7595709
50 shades
>>7600714
>Orgasm! Another one!
>>7594535
I want to read the old Greek plays. Let's say I want to start with Aeschylus. What are the best translations of his work?
>>7594566
Now on the topic of Clancy. Which of his books do I start with for first time readers of his work?
>>7595078
read a lot of plays
>>7597779
Sounds like a classic!
>>7594804
Oh shit dude, look up some videos of Carnatic music with mridangam and tablas battling
I'm on vacation in India right now and saw a live performance last nightt, shit is mind blowing
>>7597411
#ebooks is better
>>7601648
I have the Lattimore and Grene Chicago Press translations. They are nice.
Someone PLEAse explain metaphysics to me. Imagine you are explaining it to a toddler.
I literally can't pluck a simple explanation from any definition i read. Maybe (probably) I am stupid. ANyway. Please help
>>7594599
i don't have one because i'm not 8 years old
>>7600613
>Foucault
huh?
How to find the balance between purple and stale prose?
Rec me lit that is (directly or indirectly) concerned with the passage of seasons. It's a motif I really enjoy.
>>7601919
use metaphors but just don't take the piss mate.
>>7601892
bump
is having an ereader worth it and if so which one?
How useful is Goodreads if I do my best to avoid all the pleb stuff on the site?
what's the best translation of Nietzche?
>>7602741
Useful in terms of recs and learning something new about the books I read.
>>7602741
>Kindle Paperwhite.
how is book availability on this and how easy is it to pirate books?
>>7595612
The worst you could get sued for is using someone's likiness. If you're not steal song lyrics or whatever then you should be fine. I say go for it.
>>7602755
>how is book availability on this and how easy is it to pirate books?
You can find pretty much everything easily. Sometimes you have to convert stuff which takes less than 5 seconds per book.
>>7602793
from pdf to epub?
>>7602821
That's a bit more difficult but most books come in better formats like epub, mobi, azwf. While calibre can convert pdf, it's recommended to first use k2pdfopt, then put the file into calibre for better results.
>>7602843
okay, thank you for the information.
Am I a pleb if I hate Pynchon's tangential writing style that inflates the book and makes the story unnecessarily hard to follow?
What are some things to do that can objectively increase the quality of your writing?
>>7602916
Be really knowledgeable about a subject, write about it.
>>7602916
Learn English grammar inside and out.
The first thing I see when I read anything is how many dumbass mistakes they make. It sort of instantly says "this nigga ain't never gonna be famous" when they don't know basic fucking English.
>>7602755
Got a paperwhite for Christmas and I'm really loving it, and I'm one of those 'I just love the feel of a real book yknow?' type cunts. If you're a moralfag then the book selection is decent, you'll probably have trouble finding some of the more obscure stuff though. Otherwise all you have to do is get your ebooks by whatever method you like online, download calibre and convert your collection to Mobi, as that's what kindle reads best. Calibre is pretty much iTunes but for ebooks and your kindle
Recommend me my next book /lit/
I'm interested in dystopian sci-fi, politics, (basic) philosophy.
Recently read; brave new world, crime and punishment, anna karenina, 1984.
Currently hesitating between Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep because I absolutely loved blade runner, and anything by Asimov.
No idea of what asimov to go for though.
Also, heard good things about Dune, but im not sure I'd choose it over aforementioned books.
what do, /lit/ ?
>>7603396
You are not really interested in philosophy are you
The>>7603396
Have you read We? It's a Russian dystopian novel
Anyone know of literary fiction that deals with infertility?
>>7594794
Actually this
>>7594667
Leonardo.
>>7603432
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
>>7599504
Start with Genesis.
Keep going from there.
>>7600609
It is possible, you need to eliminate the pathological need for love. Chicks strive for the love of the dude itself which is pointless because you can never truly possess emotion of someone. The only thing worth doing is to appreciate her beauty and seek enlightenment in your own body
>>7600249
pls respond
Best translation for Andrei Bely's Petersburg?
Just saw this thread after making my own thread for this question: do any /lit/izens use Smashwords for self-publishing or even buying reading material?
Which translation for the Epic of Gilgamesh is best?
I would go check the archive but that's sadly not possible anymore
WHY is the Stranger so revered?
Why is the Iliad good?
Why does this board hate all British literature from the 19th century?
Why are Chandler, Carver, Roth, Mailer, Miller, Lawrence, Wharton, Forester, Bellow, Heller, and Capote ignored by this board?
how do I thicken the plot in my novel
at the moment I'm writing a really shitty romance novel at the moment. And I'm finding it tough to add differing levels of plot, because for the duration of the book, the two lovers are seperated and are restricted to communicating through letters.
To be honest, I'm not that far into the book and am already considering scrapping it.
>>7594535
How the fuck do I find a "voice" to write with?
Great writers like Delilo and McCarthy and Faulkner always have such distinct, interesting voices, even if they write in the third person but I can't seem to find one no matter which perspective I'm writing from. It either sounds forced if I TRY to have a voice and if I don't try and just let myself write without thinking too much it's either boring prose or just generic high school sounding shit. This is my biggest barrier because I always like the plots I come up with but I always end up raping them when I try to actually hammer them out because my prose is so shitty and never gets any better
>>7604819
I don't know shit about writing novels but if I was tasked with thickening the plot in a romance in which the couple is separated I would introduce temptations that drive them apart, so that the physical distance is mirrored by an emotional distance until the ending at which they unite both physically (unite reaaally close with each other) and emotionally.
Temptations could take the form of other characters and/or mundane things like "As a favor to Jane I never ate ice cream but now that I'm far away in Shanghai I can eat all the ice cream I want!"
Ice cream could also be alcoholism that the lonely man struggles with in a far away land where he is removed from friends, family and loved ones and surrounded by Chinese people or whatever
I also think it would be important to introduce subplots that don't have anything to do with the romance, at least not on their surface.
E.g. what are the backstabbing chinks doing and how is the character troubled by the triads and all the opium addicts running about? That could all feed into the romance when he meets another woman during that shenanigans but I don't think it has to
Also you could spend time going into why they are separated in the first place, you wouldn't have to reveal that at the beginning but sort of unveil what happening as you go along and maybe have the characters referring to some stuff in their letters that the reader doesn't yet know about
>but why do they stay together?
Because they are in love and true love conquers everything :^)
-the end
All in all I would look how other romances thicken their plot so you can steal from those and to try to come up with some ideas that you can implement in different ways, at least try to turn your novel into something that you don't think is garbage, it feels good to finish something even if you have to revise it a lot
You'll make it
>>7604862
thanks a lot lad, I really love the idea of temptation, and I think I found the perfect way to bring it into the overall plot.
It's amazing how sometimes hearing something obvious from another person makes it seem all the more genius.
have a good day
Why do some people strongly recommend the NRSV over the NABRE when the translations are very similar?
>>7604936
typically it is a distinction in organisation.
iirc NABRE is the only bible cleared for use in the United States, whereas NRSV I believe is more likely to be used by other denominations (if they're not using KJV).
However, if you're not living in the US, I would have absolutely no idea at all for why someone would promote one heavily over the other.
Does anyone else feel like a /lit/ general could be a good idea? Sort of similar to a 'questions that don't deserve their own thread' thread - it'd just be a place for us to chat, ask some basic questions about what we're currently reading, etc.
>>7605117
you mean like our own board or something?
Postmodern books that mix low and high culture?
>>7605157
Thank you.
>>7605157
V. sucks.
>>7605170
It's basically just a 500-page intro to Gravity's Rainbow but fuck you, it's worth reading.
>>7605172
pynchon is worthless, really. no discernible talent. a facsimile of a reasonable author. current age claptrap. will not be missed.
is it possible to display more than 11 faborites on your Goodreads page?
Have you ever masturbated to a book ?
>>7605216
Savage Detectives
>>7605216
oh yes, many
>>7605216
I've jizzed a couple of books by accident :(
>>7604821
I think it's something that comes through practice and stealing things that you like authors doing from the works that you read.I'm in the same boat as you.
>>7603129
Are there any good books on this?
>>7605216
An Anthology of Erotic Prose by Derek Parker (highly recommended)
The Amorous Exploits of a Young Rake-Hell by Guillaume Apollinaire (not so highly recommended)
The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
