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ITT: post your most memorable karl ove moments
Where he said his wife was as hot as a stove. Yaya dude, I get she was warm, I get she was pregnant. If you learn anything from Hemmmingway, it should be not to use a simile like that. Obvious and overused. If you need to say your wife was warm and tell us how pregnant she is for the fiftieth time, be either interesting or clean.
>>8248193
Repeatedly premature ejaculation in My Struggle 4 was hilarious.
sauce to pic related?
Can someone please recommend a book about French history that focuses on the Middle Ages? In particular, something that talks a lot about the crusades/crusaders/paladins and that sort of thing.
"I Templari" - Barbara Frale
>>8248197
Is there an English version? I can't seem to find it on Google.
>>8248208
Nvm, found it.
Hey losers, I've been going through a prolonged "Existential Crisis™" about the future of literature in this world of cutting edge entertainment. I've researched the topic a little bit but all I've found is Will Self being a whiny little bitch and some poet laureate suggesting that novels shouldn't bother describing what it's like to hike in Nepal because the internet can do it for them. They're both bad arguments and the second specifically seems kind of disturbing, as the crux of the Crisis is the ease with which other mediums can...
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>>8248145
>media
concrete physical detail was what I meant to say.
>>8248145
>Anyone wanna link me to an argument that can allay some of this angst?
No, but I'll offer some of my thoughts on the matter.
The world has always and will always need storytellers. Is the world changing? Yes, it always is. Is it scary? Yes. Are our modern world's changes particularly scary? Probably, yes. Is it a bad thing? No. It's just different. You only get yourself in trouble when you refuse to adapt and refuse to need to adapt.
Personally,...
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>>8248224
For example -- you can get good at writing sonnets. Remember, you should just first write a dozen lines on one opinion, then in the last line or two contrast it with the absolute polar opposite opinion. Everything else will fall in line.
So how does the cinematic universe of Greek plays work? I had never read any before outside of school, and I just started reading Ajax and I feel like I've been thrown into the middle of an on-going series. Like Odysseus is in it, he's a big guy, Homer wrote a book about him. They mention Achilles, I know he has a story too.
Is it like comics, how there are iconic characters and then different writers will add to their lore? Are there also shit playwrights that might have the mythical characters but have shit stories that no one cares about? Are there like weird...
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Just read a book on Greek mythology
Basically most Greeks would be taught the different stories from birth, so they'd be familiar with the characters and stories if they were to watch a play.
It's (sort of) like how there's different retellings and interpretations of Snow White
>>8248075
>cinematic universe
When will this meme die?
But seriously, only some of the works Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides have survived, so you're not going to be able to find B-Tier shit/weird obscure fan fiction from other contemporary classical writers, even if they most certainly existed at some point.
There's usually a reason shit doesn't make it. Just like 99.9% of the shit produced in these "cinematic universes" of today will not make...
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Just read something like Schwab's collection of Greek myths and you'll be able to orient yourself in these works easily.
>Is it like comics, how there are iconic characters and then different writers will add to their lore? Are there also shit playwrights that might have the mythical characters but have shit stories that no one cares about? Are there like weird obscure fan fiction plays about B-tier characters?
Yes, no and no. There probably were shitty writers but we don't know about them, since only the best plays survived....
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Post your favorite short story collections.
>>8248036
Still working through it because of how many there are but enjoying it greatly
Dear Life, Alice Munro
booooooooooooooooring
I fell asleep just by reading Joyce's name.
Ya Dubs really pales in comparison to all his other work.
People like to jerk it to the Dead, which is good.
There are some conversations about whether that guy is jerking off or just taking a piss.
ring a ring a rosie
as the lght declines
i remember dublin city
in the rare old times
>I get what the author was trying to do, but it just doesn't work
>I get that here the philosopher does two things, but it just doesn't work
>>8247922
>Metal Gear Solid
>It just felt really formulaic
Was this quite shitty or is it just me who doesn't get it? What's all the fuss about?
The Manchuria parts were excellent.
Stuff like that woman licking his face and all the real estate bullshit was bullshit though
>>8247896
spot on review
it's his best book
he's a really shitty author
so yeah.
I just read the first 4 chapters of this. Why is Golding's writing so hard to follow? Am i dumb?
Should I continue with it?
>>8247870
Is English your first language, also how is The Inheritors? I've always been really curious about it since I liked Lord of the Flies a lot.
>>8247919
It is, but since he's writing from the viewpoint of a Neanderthal it makes the language he's using rather odd and pair that with his unnecessary and garbled descriptions of the terrain its down right confusing at times.
And i'm the same, really enjoyed LOTF so decided to give this a read. I'm enjoying it so far its just the odd paragraphs which I can't make sense of annoy me. Also i think i'm supposed to understand the positioning of the area they are in but I just cant picture it.
Has no one read this book or something?
Anyone got any good books which go on the topic of writing(essays,narratives,etc)
>>8247751
The dictionary.
Oxford Guide to writing
More for essays and shit like that. Good for fiction too since it gets deep into the technicalities of prose.
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
Does anyone have this edition of V. (Vintage Classics)? I want to buy this novel and the only options I have are this and the Perennial Classics which I will post the cover after this. But as far as I've researched, the Perennial edition is the 'unauthorized' uncorrected version, and the British ones are the more definitive versions of the novel. So, I'm leaning for the Vintage edition, but I really HATE that art cover, and also I wanted to get some input regarding the paper quality, font, book durability, etc
>>8247706
this is the Perennial Classics edition that apparently has the uncorrected version of the novel
>>8247706
The perennial one is better in terms of everything but the text not being the revised edition, those "where's Waldo" cover vintage editions have notoriously shoddy print quality.
But no one's actually done a comparison of the uncorrected text to the "authorized" version, so it's hard to say if the final version is significantly different from the one that got published in 'Murrica or not.
>>8247722
I've read a few diferences in an article and it seems like it's just minor details, but I'd still prefer very much having the corrected version. It just feels like the right thing to do. Damn, now I'm stuck
Okay, I do not go on this board, or 4chan, regularly. I am a high school student who has recently turned 18 and got kicked out of my old high school, leaving me with two misdemeanors that I have to take care of ( 1 year probation, community service.) I was dealing/doing drugs daily while attending school and while calming down and sort of clearing my mind or sobering up, I have just realized that I have no idea what the fuck I am doing. When I do read I usually stick with Murakami and Kurt Vonnegut, they just really grab my attention and distract me like another drug. Are there...
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>>8247688
Start with the greeks.
>>8247688
My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
>>8247688
stay off the internet, go camping and hiking
Hey /lit/
I'll be on a plane for 12 hours, in two days time and I'd like to read a book (any book that is freely attainable on the Internet as an ePub file; preferably Gutenberg because it doesn't fuck with my iPod the same way some other sites do) for the entirety of the plane trip. I lost my eReader
charger here, my ereader is dead and I figured there's no point trying to buy a new charger considering I'll be arriving back home so soon anyway where I have a spare charger. I want to read some Russian non-Dostoevskian (because i strongly prefer...
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Just read some gogol short stories
>>8247675
This famalam. Throw in some Chekov and a couple of New Testament books and you're good.
>>8247672
Arthur Conan Doyle's nonfiction, like The Boer War and The Crime of the Congo are really good on PG.
Get posting faggots
read the wiki
>>8247667
wow what a great idea for a thread
and i really appreciate all the work you did in telling us your own thoughts before asking everyone to expend energy on your behalf
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
What does /lit/ think of Arthur C.Clarke?
Personally he's my favorite genre fiction writer and has pretty decent prose, my favorite works of his are 2001 a space odyssey, Childhood's End and Rendezvous with Rama.
>>8247646
the nine billion names of god is probably the best sci fi short story ever
>>8247652
wow that was a great read, thanks anon
>>8247646
I've read City And The Stars, and Rendezvous With Rama. The former was much more enjoyable with all of the exotic scenery, unusual robots, the intriguing aspects of a past being revealed, including its religions.
While Rama turned out to be an anticlimactic bore-fest; too dry, too uneventful, not profound, just a series of problems being solved prosaically. So my ultimate feelings about Clarke are of ambivalence. If I approach anything else from him it will be his short stories.
