I know 90% of /lit/ dislikes the guy's works but are there any other decent modern authors who write works in a similar "Alice in Wonderland" fashion blending realism with surrealism that are good at all?
>>7696568
I enjoyed Kafka on the Shore
>>7696568
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Salman Rushdie
>>7696568
>I know 90% of /lit/ dislikes the guy's works but
he fell for the "/lit/ has opinions worth listening to" meme and the "other people's taste should dictate yours" meme too! Good work guys, we've been good tempting wilderness spirits so far, let's not give up now!
>yfw he's the best booktuber on YouTube
>mfw
>yfw john green doesnt even know what dactyllic hexameter is, but all he wants to talk about is muh misogyny
>>7696547
There's a much better guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWrQhBHpqUc
Am I the only person who pictures characters in a book as cute 2d lolis?
>>7696519
Throw some "for instances" out,
What books and characters do you picture as 2d lolis?
Like, in Cervantes when Don Quioxite and Sancho Panza go to the inn, and it devolves into slapstick. All of the participants were lolis. I had to take a break to beat off.
I sometimes imagine my characters with Japanese voice actors
I'm looking for some recommendations for books on mathematics.
My mathematical abilities have always been sub-par and I managed to get through my education using nothing but memorization and regurgitation wherever math was involved.
I really slipped through the cracks when I was in school, so I'm looking to improve my abilities and knowledge on the subject.
I'm mostly interested in learning the logic and thought processes for solving problems, along with some of the general philosophy behind it, ideally the book would have practice questions that get progressively more difficult as well.
General scientific/mathematical literature thread I guess.
Ask >>>/sci/
>>7696486
/sci/ might be better to ask for practical stuff. I asked a similar question there once and they (to my surprise) told me to do "messy" self-education, with lots of repetition and overlap, e.g. just tearing through every single pre-university level math book I can find even if it's partly redundant, as opposed to any one Canonical Set of Math Texts. Hard to explain, but the sentiment they seemed to convey, and which has always stuck with me, was that the lion's share of math ability (aside from innate genius or something) is in building up your own personal heuristics and intuitive comfort, again rather than some linear and progressive set of rules to be learned.
For logic, not so sure. Maybe check the Stanford Encyclopaedia Article(s) on math for some basic outlines? I do know that understanding the history of math is often considered vital, since it's less a gigantic morass of rules and more a developmental process you can more easily compartmentalise.
t. dilettante
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
&
http://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-It-Structured-Approach/dp/0521675995
And look at the standard curriculum (order) of math subjects at university.
Oh, and some people like that Khan academy website for entry stuff. It's probably effective.
t. physics PhD
>intro to creative writing class.
Professor wants us to write like murukami. Is this what you literary folks do ? Copy other writers style until it becomes your own ?
>intro to mathematics class
Professor wants us to give proof of Turing's work. Is this what you mathematicians do? Copy other mathematicians work until you understand it?
In my class we just wrote what we want and every student takes a copy home to critique, it was pretty fun. Although I kinda wished we talked about dramatic structure in a formal fashion, I had to learn all that stuff outside of class.
>>7696476
No he makes us read it a lot. Like a lot
ITT:
God-Tier fantasy only.
Pic related....it gets nowhere near the attention it should.
I would have thought ants more practical-minded than to read fantasy
Is there any worth in reading literature i dont understand, and i will forget?
Is there any worth living a life i don't understand will eventually end?
>>7696364
I would say that there is no worth reading literature you dont enjoy. If you read a book and dont understand it, but think it is enjoyable you will find some worth in it. If you form no connection with a book due to loathing it, you will carry nothing away from it.
Example off of the top of my head: Rimbaud's Season in Hell. I make no claims of understanding, but what a fucking enjoyable poem.
>>7696364
No, the worth is in putting in the effort to understand it.
You would be like a toothless man sucking on the hairy outer rind of a coconut: unequipped to extract the goodness within.
Audiobooks are the patrician choice desu.
>>7696353
classic
>>7696353
I sometimes listen to them when I work.
Nothing feels better than holding a nice, heavy book in your hands though
Beckett pleb, just read Waiting for Godot, loved everything about it. what next?
Murphy is good but not nearly so minimalist. the trilogy gets increasingly minimalist
>>7696343
Tell us, anon, what did you love about it?
Is Molloy a good Beckett starter?
>Victorian novel
>there's a nothing happens scene
>Victorian novel
>conflict over someone's will
>DFW novel
>there's a something happens scene
>>7696296
>Victorian novel
>there's a scene that says how awful socialism is
Why does she hate the white race anons?
>>7696290
nice b8 m8
>>7696290
loves the bbc
In vogue right now.
How do I into literature? What are some books?
Corpus Hermeticum
>>7696283
anything you like, for starters :^)
What's your favourite Steinbeck? I really loved Winter of our Discontent.
>>7696279
Winter of our Discontent is my favorite too. I never even see it mentioned in Steinbeck threads.
Cannery Row
>>7696297
I noticed this online too, it's severely underrated.
How do you write your Brothers Karamazov, /lit/?
My strategy is:
>small cast
So the different traits in the characters are unique. Except for those with family ties, of course. It also helps with synonyms for them in the future.
>exploit the five senses, not only appearance
Give them at least 2 physical traits which are distinct. "Beard + Bad smell", "Short + Long blonde hair", "Thin + Excellent voice", "Fat + soft skin", etc.
I like being playful and exaggerated when they are introduced. "His hair blowing to the wind has the likes of a whirlwind of sunflowers."
>give them distinct names
Every character has a meaning. In Brothers Karamazov each of the bros means a recurrent thought in russian society. Ways to exploit this is giving a traditional name to the more religious orthodox brother and a westernized name to the nihilistic one (specially if you are a russian nationalist behind your shitposting). Another example is that in literature, often the nobles have more names than the commoners and often have both their first and surnames (or nobility title and surname) mentioned together.
A small cast will make every name a treasure in itself.
So, any tips?
>>7696256
>Shaniqua Baboon
Big fat niggress, is unemployed and lives out of welfare.
>Tyrone "Tupac" Johnson
Small nig that steals by day and tries to be rap-famous by night.
>Michael Samuel
Well natured black that tries to be successful by legal means but is shit on by everyone.
>>7696307
This took a shady turn.
>>7696307
>The Bruthas Karamazov
Recommend me some deep ecology, lads.
Kerouac wrote about nature sometimes.
>>7696250
Which works do you recommend?
He does look like Waits to be honest.
>>7696226
Zapffe.
