What does /lit/ think of this book?
>>7663010
unfunny normie-bullshit
>>7663027
>Timur Vermes
>>>/reddit/
The Book of the New Sun is on my backlog, hopefully I'll get to it soon. What are your thoughts on it?
Doesnt this book have some goil whos cursed with huge magical breasts. Like she cant fight or escape because her tits weigh her down.
Pretty damn good, definitely one to re-read again and again for all the details and subtleties.
>>7662858
lol no, you must be thinking ofthe undines, Abia's wives, who have grown so large they cannot leave the ocean or they'd fall apart from the gravity.
Any in /lit/ have any advice for aspiring writers. Purple prose or beige prose? anything to avoid when writing a novel? Any other advice you may have? Picture related, he inspired me.
Well I would say the first thing you do is to read the Beat poets. Kerouac and Ginsberg. I'm not suggesting this because they're good, but because they're the clearest examples of prose rhythm. Once you understand how the sounds work, then you move on to the images and structure.
Purple prose occurs when a person becomes unaware that he's hitching on the natural rhythm and sway of images in his own head. Purple prose sounds nice and looks cute, but does little else. That's why the editing process is important. You have to learn how to trade that for what's important.
Then again, some people, like Nabokov, are exclusively writers of decoration. They come up with the best images although, as a whole, their books are overburdened.
The most obvious answer is to have 'every line fit into the context of the theme you're getting it'. But that's easy to say and hard to execute. The only way to pull it off is to read a lot of other people as to how they do it right.
>>7662600
Look up John Gardner's Art of Fiction for a good primery on writing literature, & then Art of Dramatic writing for strictly plot/character stuff, its written around plays but the same principles apply everywhere. (Immediate Fiction is like a quick & dirty version of AoDW but is missing the key component of establishing premise.)
Those should give you quite a bit to go over, but the important thing is to be practicing and willing to explore different avenues of reading and writing. Good luck bro
>>7662600
If you're talking about fiction writing, I'd actually say ignore any and all advice until you've already written at least 80 thousand words or so of fiction.
You're never going to learn until you actually try it and getting a feel for what your writing is like is more important when you're starting out than just taking a bunch of advice that may or may not apply to your process or what you're going for. It's not as universal as a lot of people here will claim.
There was no reason A Scanner Darkly had to be science fiction. It could have been set in contemporary times with contemporary technology.
>>7661658
To attract nerds and losers
...did you even read the book?
Sci-fi is more interesting than cultural wankery
Worth the reading Capital by Piketty?
Also general non fic recommendations
>>7661345
> If you don't know econ
It's a good intro, his explanations are pretty good and you'll have the benefit of learning from someone slightly out of the neoclassical mainstream without being too out there/ideological
> if you do know econ
The early bits might be a bit boring and I suspect you'll want to skip a lot of it, but the data he uses and the examples as well as his logic are worth delving into.
>>7661345
we're against Marxism here.
We're for capitalism and redpilled ideology. Marxism is a mental illness. Please go back to tumblr, cuck
>>7661365
nah dude we aren't /pol/. Fuck off shill faggot
ITT: Comfy books
portrait of the artist as a young man is the penultimate next to the hobbit desu senpai
Don Quixote is the single comfiest book
>hobbit
>comfy
Apropos of its pedestrian prose that sends one to sleep?
>>7661088
>that usage of apropos
You clearly are a Hobbit scholar.
/lit/ I really need to read this book for uni but I'm pretty broke and not able to spend 25€ on it. I've looked everywhere for it online but I couldn't find it. You are my last resource guys.
Also, best free ebook sources thread I guess.
Anyone have good Architecture books to suggest by the way?
>>7660402
bump for this
>>7662383
I've seen a chart. Lots of criticism for it though
let's say he doesn't die in a car crash. does he kill himself?
maybe. maybe he drinks a coffee instead.
Nah he just gets some coffee
The car crash wasn't an accident, he manufactured it to avoid self-aware suicide.
Hey /lit/ What do you think that are the must read works of Nietzsche?
You should read the greeks at least
including some of their plays and myths
start with Gay Science that shit hooks you in
Thanks Guys !
Where were you when French was kill ?
http://www.bfmtv.com/societe/adieu-accent-circonflexe-la-reforme-de-l-orthographe-va-s-appliquer-en-septembre-948738.html
WTF
I'd never even heard of this
Foutrecouilles
>>7657510
>government directly modifying a language instead of letting it change on its own
Disgusting. Centralized government was a mistake.
Same happened to Greek some forty years ago, namely the polytonic system was completely abandoned.
This will have an effect on the cultural and linguistic connotations of words, which I find pretty sad.
Maximum knowledge has always been my ideal. I am so attracted by it simply because the more you know, the more in control you are. I know this sounds edgy, but I have spent hours thinking about this. I have fantasized about knowing everything and that gives me shivers every time.
The fictional character that scratches this itch of mine the most if Light Yagami. It may be weaboo behavior, but I idolize his pre-Kira lifestyle- perfect student, resourceful, calm, confident, well spoken.
Recommend me books that will make me feel more in control, more confident in my knowledge, motivated to learn more.
>>7657347
Give up. You will never be an expert in anything.
you can't know anything
prove me wrong
It's a fictional character, it's impossible to spend so much time studying and in the same time getting social experierience to act so cool
>begins with character waking up
>>7651168
>Begins
>>7651168
>story ends with the character waking up
>>7651168
I'm actually doing this ironically so if you don't like it you are a pleb
Was it rape?
Doesn't really matter, what matters is that the Judge bested the Kid in the end
take this pleb genre trash back to r/books
>>7648332
The judge is a figment of the kid's imagination. Remember how he knows things he couldn't have seen?
The kid kills himself in the jakes.
>book is set in the future
>driverless cars in a cashless society
Both of those things are currently on the way to happening in the real world, the only thing standing in the way of self-driving cars are legal issues and we are moving further and further away from cash to digital currency
>>7663150
*tips fedora*
>>7663152
That's a very good argument
Do you use Notes/OneDrive or some such thing on your phone when inspiration hits you and you're not close to computer/piece of paper to quickly write it down or a feeling of it to remember it later?
I find it very useful. I can even like add voice messages, pics and such, but I came to believe that OneDrive is a total shit because it doesn't transfer my messages as quickly or at all even as Notes.
Pages works fine for me
>>7663040
Eh I don't use Apple computers, just the phone. So buying Pages for it wouldn't really help.
>>7663043
Pages are standard on iOS
