Does this have any literary merit or is it just a historical reference?
It's great desu.
>>7699265
Don't read that translation desu.
Fascinating for me, but I study Japanese and have interest in Old Japanese.
I'm looking for sci fi with either vague or obvious christian allegories.
Book of the New Sun is THE book on that
>>7699154
Thank you anon, here's a ukranian girl
>>7699151
the brothers karamazov
Genre: either comedy or mystery/suspense/thriller.
I'm a beginner too, btw. Though it'd be helpful if you know the basics of screenwriting (logline, specs), how it is different from novels/plays, and the formatting.
Sure. I'll do all the work and you'll put your name on it.
reddit please leave
>>7699122
Why would you want to do collaborative writing (of all things) with a rando on the internet??
Does reading slow mean you're stupid, or that you're just taking the time to get everything out of the words?
Depends
>>7699079
>falling for the reading speed meme
You may be a little stupid anyway, though, OP.
I read slowly because I'm dreamy and when I read I get all sorts of ideas for my novel. This is why I like reading so much, because you don't have to pay absolute attention, you can drift away if you want and then come back to the same thing.
Slow reader reporting in, often become distracted with other thoughts while I am reading or after half an hour find myself slowing down.
/lit/ how can I become quicker with reading without loosing the comprehension I get by taking my time?
>>7699076
Bump for self interest
Stop being an autistic faggot who sits in front of the computer or his smartphone all day.
I want to write something, but everything I think of writing makes me cringe.
Any advice on how to actually like your ideas as a writer?
>>7699039
Have them... be good? I don't know, are all of your ideas really as bad as cringeworthy? Surely they can't be. I think you're just being overly critical of yourself. Have someone who won't plagiarize you read something you think isn't half bad
>>7699039
keep writing but
more importantly keep reading
good ideas must come from somewhere
but please don't parrot or regurgitate ideas
Do you read plays?
Do you like Phil Collins?
>>7699023
No.
I liked three sisters by chejoff
tbqhwyml
Mishima seems more famous for his death than for his works. Are any of his books worth reading in translation?
Sorry, I don't read manlets.
>>7699017
You're missing out.
>>7699017
Aren't all male authors either manlets or freakishly tall? Camus is one of the only attractive male authors I can think of (other than Yukio Tsundere obvs), but I'm pretty sure he was a manlet as well
What works of art successfully capture the essence of the internet?
cyber-space- exists, is it possible for literature and film to have events take place in cyberspace as seamlessly as events taking place in the physical world? I couldn't imagine a novel, with the internet as the backdrop, as being good. It is difficult to express emotions through cyberspace, that is why there is heavy reliance on reaction images on web-forums and emojis elsewhere, novels will encounter the same problem.
4chan
>>7698927
finnegans wake
"Serial Experiments Lain" - a philosophical avant-garde anime that deals with the nature of the Internet and how its ability to connect humanity globally could potentially create a collective consciousness and take physical form.
I began reading Harper Lee's, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', two weeks ago. And I was curious.
What are /Lit/ opinions/critiques of the book?
>>7698920
The parts of Scout growing up were very well written, the rest not so much.
>>7698925
How so?
>>7698920
Snoozefest. Not even one of the better high-school core.
Help me, /lit/
I have a younger cousin who shows some potential in reading taste. However, she's recently fallen into the YA Fiction trap
>pic related
And claims it's good.
I want to save my cousin from mediocrity.
>>7698867
the left hand of darkness
I would give her some more classic romances to read, maybe she'd like those; something like The Torrents of Spring by Turgenev.
NABAKOV IS THE BEST AUTHOR, PERIOD
IF YOU HAVENT READ ADA AND UNDERSTOOD IT YOU ARE BANNED FROM /LIT/ FOR A MONTH
ENJOY FAGS
"Ada, our ardors and arbors"
Sometimes I think the average post quality has declined sharply, other times I presume I'm simply idealizing the fun times I had here before leaving for a year.
>>7698858
>NABAKOV IS THE BEST AUTHOR, PERIOD
>>7698869
please explain
Should I check my conceit if I'm reading A Treatise On The Human Nature and the first parts just gives me the feel that I'm reading a cutesy description about the nature of thoughts and impressions, descriptions that have neither aesthetic nor practical value, and adding nothing to philosophy? Please tell me it was at least groundbreaking 250 years ago.
The only mildly impressive thing is that occasionally he describes very well how neural networks function while obviously having no knowledge of them(shit was discovered like 200 years later).
Should I drudge on with the book? At the end of part 2 currently.
Why don't you read the aesthetic and practical parts rather than the epistemological parts?
Modern philosophy at this time is still struggling with the Cartesian problem of how we know. That's the bulk of all the major works until Heidegger.
>The only mildly impressive thing is that occasionally he describes very well how neural networks function while obviously having no knowledge of them
I'm not sure this is your bag, family
>>7698852
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_neural_network#Philosophical_issues
I'm talking about how the neurons in our brain work(as far as we know right now) to create connections between different concepts and the sensations of that. I'm not an expert of this shit but I've read some books about the science of perception that touched on the stuff and it was funny how similar his descriptions were.
Just read on you idiot; he makes his argument for phenomenalism later on. And neural networks were not "discovered"--it's a mere mathematical model that describes whatever Hume had described using plain English.
>while obviously having no knowledge of them(shit was discovered like 200 years later).
You mean like those folks that had no knowledge of them until they had knowledge of them? Logic of steel.
>http://explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/
>>7698833
>explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/
and you leftist shills will deny cultural marxism is a thing haha
>>7698840
search for the quran
>>7698833
Don't see too much of a problem; most of them are acceptable.
Hey /lit/,
I'm new here and wondering what the best outlets are for purchasing physical books online. Preferably as cheap as possible. Can be a seller of new or used books.
Lemme know!
>>7698773
abebooks
>>7698773
amazon prime
charity shops
