Have you guys seen these book reviews?
I am particularly fond of BooksAndShit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atnAagJAMf0
>>7701975
Ceit is that you? If so please fuck off promoting your qt gf.
why is her hair all wet in her latest review? Was it made post-coitus or something?
>>7701975
I am particularly fond of based John Dolan.
http://exiledonline.com/a-million-pieces-of-shit/
He is living the true literary lifestyle, currently on the run in Turin. Make sure John Dolan doesn't starve to death by donating to his patreon and subscribing to his The War Nerd Podcast.
If you support John Dolan please reply with "Thanks based John Dolan".
comfy books thread
all of austen
The Forest Path to the Spring - Malcolm Lowry
Hey guys, I'm trying to read Wolfgang Koeppen's A Sad Affair for free, but I'm having trouble finding the text. Does anyone have some sort of link or Pdf files? It would be very appreciated.
Can't help you
Have you tried the library?
>>7701982
I specifically need it tonight, and the library didn't have it.
Is naturalism completely dead or are there still such writers nowadays?
Oh snap it's le I WAS ACCUSED merchant goy?
Was it Asperger's?
>>7701755
probably, along with most other brilliant people throughout history.
maybe a little bit
>>7701755
That interview's a goldmine. I wonder if he banged that German chick who was interviewing him.
>Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?
What did he mean by this?
have ye shipped in that ship
shipmates [fellow fags], have ye shipped [jizzed] in that ship [[my] ass]
t. melville scholar and professional shipper
>>7701656
to have shipped is to have agreed to sail aboard a vessel and be paid in exchange for work over the duration of the voyage
but given the character making the statement, it probably means less like "have ye consigned yer body to labor" and more like "have ye consigned yer soul to damnation"
Pic NOT related.
whats with all the vonnegut hate?
>>7701619
/lit/ desperately wanting to appear patrician.
He's a great author.
So it's well established that most of this guy's work—The Trial in particular—is blatant commentary on the structure and nature of the church, right? Would anyone here actually argue that that wasn't the message he was trying to get across with The Trial and The Castle? It's basically unmissable.
according to him, the trial at least was based off of a hotel "trial" between him, his mistress, and his fiance
>>7701481
>the church
He was a jew so no.
i-isnt it about lack of accountability in government?
PLOT HELP
I've been stuck for the past few days on how to progress my plot
basically, my main character is the owner of a bookstore
he needs to realize that certain words/sentences/paragraphs in some of his books have been changed or have been completely removed
how the hell do I get him to realize this and begin his descent into madness as he combs through his books again and again?
looking for some suggestions/thoughts/inspiration pls
I guess if anyone else is having trouble moving their story forward they can post here too
buckle-up-borges-roos
ego-scrubber looks-up
Let him start a well-known book but redo or erase the first sentence. Then let him keep on reading while he ponders what's wrong with this copy until he gets it, but then he gets another copy of the same book from a different publisher and find out it's missing too. Maybe make poeple tell him there's no such sentence (the one he thinks it should actually be) and that its "that made-up sentence" or the second sentence of the book.
I jus tread this. Is it good?
>>7701319
No, it is not good. You shoul dnot have tread.
I just read it. Did I just read it?
I thought you were supposed to ask that before treading not after.
just finished reading this, stunning.
opinions?
Thoughts?
What did /lit/ think of this?
>>7701200
loved the welsh/cockney bard/slang being opposed and compared and it's actually a harrowing portray of war plus so much tea
Anyone read the short story viewfinder by raymond carver?
Thoughts on it's meaning, found some chump articles but I don't think they nailed it.
its*
>The book that most thoroughly shook and staggered me, owing to the intensity of its passion and its psychological accuracy in the handling of a couple of human beings who live throughout their lives at white heat, was Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which I read with bated breath; which I have read many times since; and which, at every fresh reading, I have admired more and more.
>Here was a book which to my mind outclassed everything, French, English, or German, that I had so far read. I could not believe that anyone who had really understood it could have handed it to me in the cool and detached way Wright[1] had done when he first told me to read it. Nor to this day, in spite of all the reading I have meanwhile done, have I found any reason to depart from the opinion of this work which I held when I was nineteen.
>In my opinion, Wuthering Heights is not merely, as Clement Shorter maintained, “a monument of the most striking genius that nineteenth-century womanhood has given us”; it is not merely, as Sir William Robertson Nicol declared, the work of “the greatest woman genius of the nineteenth century,” it is the greatest work of fiction by any man or woman Europe has produced to date—and I am writing in the year 1961. Let it be remembered, moreover, that, if even those of its champions who praise it most highly cannot refrain from implying some disparagement of the authoress’s choice of characters and of the situations in which she displays them in action, it is because in England there is no adequate yardstick, no set of scales, by which such characters and situations may be measured and their quality assessed.
Ludovici seemed to like it, but what does /lit/ think of Wuthering Heights?
I don't read books by, or including, women.
I would only ever read a book by a woman if it helped me find her so that I could beat her for writing a book.
>>7700984
It's my favourite book, anyway.
Hey \lit\ I wanna ask which of these personalities you like the most if any as a novel's main characters. If you want, just tell me what kind of main character you like in the books you read.
These are not full on character descriptions, just small snipets explaining the overall feel of some characters I've thought up.
Fantasy martial arts setting
>Socially inpet (for an understandable reason, not just "lol shy nice guy gamer")
>Will of iron
>Fast learner
>Diligent
>Formerly blind and disabled
>No sense of purpose past his current goal
Fantasy setting
>Cheerful but down to earth
>Respectful/seen by many as a role model or guide
>Devoted to his underlings
>Self providing (has lived completely alone since childhood)
>Strict morals
>Overall blunt
Modern fantasy setting
>Quiet and reserved
>Keeps calm at nearly all times
>\lit\
>Unforgiving
>Doesn't care much for making friends, only the "work" he does
Fictional modern setting (boxing)
>Quiet but extremely assertive
>Master strategist
>Relatively short temper
>Father figure to his much younger sister
>Feels heavily obligated to return any help he recieves
>Doesn't understand the majority of women (As in he thinks their way of thinking is confusing as fuck/unreasonable)
If you actually read all of that, thank you. I know almost all of you are going to shit on me, but I'd expect that from 4chan.They're all white males btw :^]
All of those can work where they are, as long as they're adequately developed.
>>7700941
write a story and write characters, don't write tropes. make them people, you've got stereotypes
What does /lit/ think of Deepak Chopra?
I know it's easy to hate him based on his lectures, but is there actually some wisdom behind his words? I'm reading one of his books right now and I find myself agreeing with almost all of his ideas.
He sounds like something you'd order in a massage parlour.
>>7700925
hes a crook
>>7700925
That's interesting and all, but can he poo in loo?
