Hi /lit/,
I've been having trouble on Undernet's #bookz channel after using it for only a day. For some reason my requests aren't being processed or even recognized by the bots. Just wondering if there are any experienced users here who have had this trouble and found a solution.
Also, here's a bit of wisdom from last night's Chinese takeout:
"Age can never hope to win you while your heart is young."
plz halp
Bumping for S.O.S.
>>7686950
Piety bump.
Also, try asking on /g/.
>>7686937
>I just want free books damnit!!
>>>/library/
Would I enjoy this book being a fan of mostly fantasy/science fiction? Not much a history buff, even though I am fascinated by assassination's and shit like that. No spoilerinos please.
>would I like this Stephen King book
It seems the answer is yes.
why don't you read the fucking book and find out
>>7686873
It's Stephen King. He admits himself he's the fast-food of literature. You already know what his books are like even if you haven't read them.
Are there any works of the Spanish Golden Age besides Don Quixote worth reading?
>>7686862
Yes.
>>7686862
why yes, Lazarillo De Tormes, El Buscon (maybe), If you speak spanish, then Guzman De Alfarache (i'd be jealous) Cervantes also wrote a collection of short stories known as Novelas Ejemplares. Not spanish, but you may check out Gargantua and Pantagruel, Gil Blas, and maybe, maybe the Decameron.
Also, you might check out Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy, and Tobias Smollett, who translated Don Quixote, and derived quite a lot of inspiration from it in his own works.
What does /lit/ think of this book?
I thought it was very boring for the 1/3 of it but felt comfy enough reading it since the text is easy enough for a reading after a busy day and good before sleep. Then maybe after the middle, shit starts happening, constant punk'd happenings, some quality trolling. Now I'm like 80% and can't wait to read more.
Why is it described as post-modern though?
Also interested. Read the opening chapter near-blind drunk once & wondered about picking it up properly.
Thought the constant switching up of situations was interesting but sometimes it was hard to follow and work out the symbolism. What point was Fowles trying to drive home with the constant changing of reality?
>Why is it described as post-modern though?
because post-modernism=whatever
I quite liked this book back when I first read it, though. The pacing isn't the best, and like you said the first third of the book is boring, yet comfy and readable. Nicholas Urfe is such a well written character you'll drudge through it pleasantly. Combined with Fowles' really enjoyable and flowing prose you'd have to be a turbopleb not to enjoy it. Really, wasn't this the first book he wrote? Not bad at all if so.
>youll never meet an old rich weirdo on a greek island and a pair of qt3.14s and be lured into a psychological game that confuses and bewilders you completely.
Dump your charts here
Looking for a Greek starter kit. Could somebody post pls?
What does /lit/ consume to fuel their Balzacian reading/writing marathons?
Beer and scotch and cigarettes
beer, scotch, absinthe, coffee.
Frosting and Dr. Pepper.
>tfw taking a writing fiction workshop at my uni
>my first one ever
>professor tells us we have to read our pieces in front of the whole class and get feedback from other students
>tfw presentation day begins
>literally too scared to read my piece aloud
>tfw just opt out of doing it
Feels bad, bros
>>7678921
why be scared? I'd assume people are only there to help, not laugh at you.
>>7678921
>take writing workshop
>read story out loud
>prof there stops me in the middle of the first sentence because I used the word "diurnal"
>he prances around the room saying, "Look at me! I'm Anon, the most gifted writer ever! I use pretty words like diurnal!"
>tfw the whole class laughs at me and calls me pretentious
>>7678942
What an asshole. My professor didn't ignore pretentiousness, but he expressed that in extremely thorough feedback notes where he put his own taste on the line, not in bullying.
It's true that using Latinate words too much can seem pretentious tho.
Will Japanese literature ever get better than this book?
>>7671531
Its a novel you cockmongler.
Hi /lit/,
Posted this on /his/ too, but I always get the impression that there are far more polyglots here, and that I might get some better advice.
I'm a master's student, painfully making the transition from modern language monolingualism, to being able to read modern scholarship in German and French. Now the French I find marginally easier (because I did some in school, and have good Latin) but with the German I am an absolute beginner, and it is painful.
Now, I've been taking German reading classes, and it isn't going fantastically. Now, for an assignment, I have a couple of articles in German and a couple in French to read. It would be useful to be able to read more, but I simply don't have the time.
It has taken me several days, heavily assisted by google translate, a dictionary and a grammar to translate one 13 page German article, and there remain many crucial sentences that I am not 100% sure of (although much of the paper, I'm happy enough that my translation gets the sense right).
Are there any services that would look over my translation, or that would translate the articles for me? The exercise has been good for my German, but I am under very tight time pressure and need to get these foreign language articles translated and digested, and the bloody work actually written.
Does anybody have any tips, or know of any services where I could get my translations looked over/commission translations? Free would be preferable, but this is technical work and the articles are all 15-30 pages.
Thanks /lit/.
Can't help with the assignment but here'sa free bump
also
>go to gen.lib.rus.ec
>search sandberg german for reading
>search sandberg french for reading
>do one chapter of each a day
Beats the hell out of learning how the teacher wants you to learn when 99% of the time it won't click with you
Translation: where can I find people to do my homework
>I don't have time to study but I have time to post on 4chan
get lost
>>7686803
I can't just suddenly 'know' a language. I am doing what I'm supposed to do, but it is taking an inordinate amount of time. At the end of the day, I am a human being.
I figured that the way I have been tackling the problem was the best way to leverage the small amount of French and even smaller amount of German I possess - better I thought than simply ignoring the body of work in those languages until some theoretical point in the future when I can 'read' French and German.
What would you do? Ignore it because you can't read those languages, or give it a shot?
Like I said, I want somebody to look over my own translations because I can't be sure of them - and have them professionally translated (which I realise will cost) if time runs out.
>>7686798
Thank you very much, I will have a look - the class book is Coles and Dodd's Reading German, and it is very poorly structured (both in terms of progression and presentation).
I will check Sandberg out, thank you.
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Where can I get stuff like this for a decent price as a NEET?
Uni library.
OH WAIT.
Fuck off, parasite.
>>7686733
They actually have this one in my uni library and you also borrow it as a NEET, but I still would like to own a copy on my own so I can look up things if I have to.
ITT: Make a list of books that should be read by everyone and mark those you have read completely (x) or partly (*) yourself.
>>7686104
>recommending books
>haven't even finished them
How would I know that everyone shoudl read a book if I haven't already read it anyway?
Are there similar things to Marcel Reich-Ranicki's canon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Kanon) but for languages other than German?
what are the patrician journals / magazines / newspapers that /lit/icians subscribe to / read on a daily basis?
NYRB.
>>7686057
NYRB
Wilson Quarterly
>>7686057
Fuck Nikita resembling vladimir komarov remains after that burn.
>Where races are mixed, there is the source of great cultures.
-The Will to Power
>Christianity robbed us of the harvest of the culture of the ancient world, it later went on to rob us of the harvest of the culture of Islam. The wonderful Moorish cultural world of Spain, more closely related to us at bottom, speaking more directly to our senses and taste, than Greece and Rome, was trampled down (—I do not say by what kind of feet—): why? because it was noble, because it owed its origin to manly instincts, because it said Yes to life even in the rare and exquisite treasures of Moorish life!… Later on, the Crusaders fought against something they would have done better to lie down in the dust before—a culture compared with which even our nineteenth century may well think itself very impoverished and very ‘late.’—They wanted booty, to be sure: the Orient was rich…. But let us not be prejudiced! The Crusades—higher piracy, that is all! German knighthood, Viking Knighthood at bottom, was there in its element: the Church knew only too well what German knighthood can be had for…. The German knights, always the ‘Switzers’ of the Church, always in the service of all the bad instincts of the Church—but well paid…. That it is precisely with the aid of German swords, German blood and courage, that the Church has carried on its deadly war against everything noble on earth! A host of painful questions arises at this point. The German aristocracy is virtually missing in the history of higher culture: one can guess the reason…. Christianity, alcohol—the two great means of corruption.
-The Antichrist
Was he right?
>The man of an age of dissolution which mixes the races with one another, who has the inheritance of a diversified descent in his body––that is to say, contrary, and often not contrary, instincts and standards of value, which struggle with one another and are seldom at peace––such a man of late culture and broken lights, will, on an average, be a weak man
what did he mean by this?
>>7684799
It means he thought race was a social construct that should be abolished.
>>7684810
>It means he thought race was a social construct
But it isn't, anon
What did he mean by this?
seems pretty clear to me.
i guess i should start writing.
>>7684587
Imbibe alcohol before creating, do not imbibe alcohol before revising.
>>7684587
write when you're drunk
edit said writing when you're not drunk
comprende amigo?
Currently writing something which I think will end up as a novelle about a bureaucrat in a technocratic republic who suffers a heart attack and joins a lunatic terrorist cult.
Getting it out of my laptop isn't on my plan, but if the final result plesases me I'll maybe do. What would you think?
>>7683287
>Getting it out of my laptop isn't on my plan
Why even bother then? It's one thing to not have unrealistic expectations but that just sounds like you have no motivation to put it out at all.
>>7683751
Not to put it out, but I'm motivated about writing it. I enjoy writing and this story will help me improve as a writer imo. I only fear the plot seems too cliche
Be confident belive in yourself
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