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>DFW starting to read infinite jest for the past 3 months and dropping it five pages later every time
>>7675020
you realize that IJ sucks, right? the reason you don't want to fucking read it and get distracted every god damn time is because it's a sub-par novel for sub-par ijits.
>>7675031
Hello there lit. I am an independent film maker and am looking for a novel or short story to adapt for my next project. Any suggestions? I am looking for some lesser known works that could be shot with a relatively low budget so no space alien robot operas s'il vous plait.
What are some of your favorite hidden gems that may be begging to be made into a motion picture? Thanks!
Faust by Goethe
The Lord of the Rings
Lolita
>>7675016
Go back to tv faggot
>>7675016
buddy we have /swg/ and /fmg/ threads
fuck off if you're too lazy to do your own work or have any effort
I'm not familiar with it.
I have not read Mark Z. Danielewski's "The Familiar".
>>7675009
I speak for everyone here when I say 'Danielewski is a gimmick proliferating hack.'
I doubt he'll complete 27 volumes.
hey /lit/
i used to love reading as a child but going through the gauntlet of america's public schooling system turned me on to more useless habits during my free time. i'm 24 now and a recovering NEET, (i've been employed for nearly a year), but my cognitive abilities have been dulled quite a bit. i've purchased about a dozen books in past month or so that i start but can't seem to finish.
do you guys just naturally enjoy reading or do you push yourself through what could be a grating experience knowing that it benefits you in the long run?
I enjoy it naturally, but occasionally, I feel like putting a book down. I've learned to push through. Just read fiction that interests you to pique your interest, delve into heavy books once you've fully recovered from K12 education.
>>7674947
Depends on the book, most books I read, I read because I want to. But I also read anything a friends suggest to me and when a friend recommended a read some fantasy series I did. Even though I had no real interest in the series or genre, I just picked up the books and read them.
What books did you start reading and not finish?
My English is pretty good, but I find myself skipping words every now and then. I'm trying to get into the habit of looking them up every time rather than just making sense of things via context. I was thinking about writing them down on index cards or something. Not sure how effective that really is
Do you guys do anything like that? Advice?
>>7674843
I am in the same situation OP
bumping for interest
>>7674843
study them, do occasional vocabulary tests on yourself, and you'll find yourself able to add them to your repertoire. Make a list of words you want to learn, and break them into manageable sections, and have study weeks, then have monthly tests, and if you haven't gotten a grip on a few words in the test, then add them to the next week's study list. Just like school.
Kindle has an option to check the dictionary for every word you're unfamiliar with, and then it makes a list of cards for you to study
What are the criticisms of Capital by Piketty?
Shoddy remake that doesnt' capture the spirit of the original.
/lit/ - Literature
>If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/.
Too difficult for Americans to understand.
What do you like about kafka?
I got his complete works and I just don't get what makes him so important. I liked hunger artist and the metamorphosis but I don't get why he's considered one of the best. Most of his works seem boring or incomplete to me.
Can you guys help me? I really want to like him
>>7674793
I like the fact that I can subvert the meaning of his works to apply to my personal young-adult angst.
Read The Trial.
I know all the hate Achebe gets on here for his opinion on 'Heart of Darkness', but I was curious as to what /lit/ thought of 'Things Fall Apart'.
>Yams on Yams on Yams on Yams on Yams.
>>7674748
>reading nig nogs
>>7674748
I'm not so sure that's why /lit/ dislikes him. It's my impression that /lit/ isn't particularly fond of Heart of Darkness either. In general, there's an aversion against the kind of books one reads in high school, be that Conrad, Fitzgerald, Salinger or Steinbeck.
I thought Things Fall Apart was pretty mediocre. The father/son theme was painfully trite. Okonkwo's actions where often ridiculous, and at points, the characterization was hamfisted to the extreme.
The ending...
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'/lit/'(which isn't a hivemind anway) doesn't hate TFA, or even the African Trilogy as a whole. The worst it gets is people saying it's massively overrated(not untrue), and the more /pol/-minded amongst its critics here attribute this to it being overly praised in academia because of its perceived Africanness.
I liked TFA, but it's probably the weakest of the African Trilogy, for me in part because of its excessive focus on trying to frame the story in the Igbo world. Most characters at times are archetypes(especially the oh-so-tragically flawed...
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Does anyone keep a list of books they have read? I just threw one together and it was interesting to remember some of the book I had forgotten and how high up some books were when I ranked them.
Using Calibre custom bookshelves for that now, but a date + title on a .txt file did the job fine before.
>>7674737
I use both Goodreads and LibraryThing for that.
I only started in 2010 and didn't bother to record most stuff I read before then, since I remember so little from any of it anyway.
>>7674737
No. If i cant remember having read it, its like i never read it anyway. May as well read it again
Hey /lit/, is his scifi any good?
It's ninety percent shit.
>book doesn't have a Latin translation
This joke would've worked if you'd written it in latin
To page ten with thee, try again in 3 months
>translation
>>7674559
Harry Potter has a Latin translation.
![reading_room[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MBMDRQn.jpg "reading_room[1].jpg")
Why do dedicated reading rooms make me so efficient?
My room itself is very comfortable, armchair, nice lighting, great furnishing, study table, the works.
Still, even though the reading room in my college is terrible (third-world here) in terms of ambiance, I still manage to read in a much more focused manner there.
Anyone else get this?
What is it about a change of scenery that refreshes us so?
Pic unrelated.
I've heard that there's some sort of psychology behind it, that your brain compartmentalizes your environment and somehow recognizes that this is your reading place. Dunno, look it up, but reading rooms work great for me too.
>>7674424
I'm not sure of how this works with reading, but can confirm its true - for example, don't work in your bedroom, because your brain will either tell you that it's a place of rest, or you'll cross your wires and your brain will associate it with work, meaning you won't sleep (which is what happened to me).
OP, maybe your brain associates your uni's reading place with just that, reading, and your home with rest.
>>7674467
Thats interesting and id like to believe it.
So much so that I wont even ask for a citation like those idiots who try to find out if smart drugs are making them focus because of a placebo.
Thanks friendo
Not a joke
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/feb/08/funny-books-children-lollies-michael-rosen?CMP=share_btn_tw
>that name
>for children
Pic unrelated
>>7674392
That is pretty amusing. Perhaps they intended it to be pronounced "Eh-Oh-El-lees!"
Shut the fuck up.
>>7674392
Heh.
Post depressing books itt
>>7674210
Hardy's Tess, cos its just her being relentlessy tormented by life. Sheesh.
Game of thrones - cos its advertised as fantasy but it aint, k-rist that depressed me.
Moby dick - cos its meant to be a classic but its very very dull.
House of the dead - cos its description of the human condition is correct.
The Trial - cos, well, cos the ending.
Poetry of Jeffer - cos of his abstractions.
I could go on.
>>7674258
>Cos
>>7674258
>Moby dick - cos its meant to be a classic but its very very dull.
Literally end your life.
I've picked this up yesterday. Do people here read Ryu Murakami?
> that scene where the negro rapes reiko, her head in one hand, feet in the other, propelling her on his dick until she cries and whimpers and leaks urine and blood
i dont even know i feel violated
>>7674208
Does it surprise you the way "negros" behave? It's fucking sickening.
>>7674214
have you read it? i'm just trying to figure out what to make of that scene.
>>7674208
>the negro rapes reiko, her head in one hand, feet in the other, propelling her on his dick until she cries and whimpers and leaks urine and blood
Bet the liberal media won't report on this
