i have tons of writing that I'm thinking about posting just because I'm tired of writing and I'm the only one looking at it.
what are some good and active lit communities out there?
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When I read some book in bed, and some time passes by (usually 45 minutes or so), reading gets really hard, and I have to re-read each sentence multiple times.
Is it normal?
I know that feeling all to well although I have ADHD which makes it kind of hard to concentrate for more than 15 minutes.
>>7626888
>>7626898
You're just tired. When you're sitting/lounging for more than 20 minutes, your bloodflow slows down and hence your brain works much more slowly and you're less willful/alert. If it's too late in the day to drink some coffee, either take a quick break to stretch your legs or call it a night.
>>7626888
I once stayed up for 72 hour.
I tried reading but my brain was finishing sentences for me in really stupid ways.
That probably sounds really weird, but I could not concentrate on the book for more that a few seconds.
It took me about an hour to read one page and even then I really did not have any idea what it was about.
The only fix was sleep.
Is this actually any good?
My friend said it was like if tabbed browsing wrote a book.
read it and find out
I liked it. If it seems like "the kind of thing you'd like" you probably will, but it has some dramatic highs and lows, jeez. I couldn't decide whether I was enjoying myself for most of the read. There are way too many tonal shifts and hooks in the plot to feel like one unified book. Some parts are good and some are bad, the problem is when it's good, it's really good, but it's brought down by everything surrounding it. You read a really good human character sketch segment followed by cringingly bad humor and absurdities that make it hard to care about anything. It is constantly changing its own rules and to no good effect, imo.
It's fucking great Hagbard Celine is one of my favorite foctional characters ever.
Is there any juicy writing or collection of writings that tells cool stories (or just simply teaches) about cool Greek gods? Also I very much prefer something that would talk a lot about things like Titans and the earlier gods (Gaia, Nyx, Thalassa, etc.) that people don't talk about. Thanks
Here you go.
Hesiods Cosmos by Jenny Strauss Clay is a really great analysis of the early genesis of the Gods from the Titans to the first Olympians. It paints the picture of the Titans conspiring with their mother to punish their abusive father. It goes into the very underrated myth of Zeus facing down Typhon. We see how Gaea becomes a force of perpetual rebellion, always opposing the dominant authority in the cosmos regardless of who it is
>>7625650
Are you even serious right now?
Has anyone read Omon Ra by Pelvin.
I have just finished it and am having a bit of trouble understanding.
The person that gave it to me wanted me to see how fucked up USSR was but I think she is missing the point.
Am I right or just overthinking it?
So far it seems like it's just a satire of the USSR pretty much, most of the humour is derived from very Russian specific nuances which if you don't have you miss out on, which is the main point of the novel, to male you laugh.
Though you're not missing on much, the same old stick; USSR was badly governed, highly inefficient and induces apathy. It's always hyperbolized.
He doesn't have much to say really. Try another author OP, at least you tried reading something other than a classic, but alas you just picked a bad one.
You really have to extremely careful when trying out contemporary authors, so many of them so highly acclaimed and so highly shit at the same time.
>>7624280
I think Omon Ra is Pelevin's weakest book.
Try Buddha's Little Finger, and if you feel like it's not for you, you should just drop Pelevin.
>>7624584
I think you might be right. Maybe I am trying to see what is not there. I just thought that Mitioks interrogation would have some higher meaning in connection to the speech on the red square. Also the last part with the twist made no sense really. I guess that after Tolstoy, Dosto and Chekov I was expecting all Russian books to follow suit.
>>7625860
I might, but I just went out and spent like 100 pounds on books so it will have to wait a little bit
ITT: we critique prose and poetry in languages other than english.
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>>7624829
hoc vere, familia.
Let's have a thread about those books we find pretentious but genuinely like anyway.
For me it's pic related, more or less anything Blake Butler writes and Deleuze too (at least his stuff with Guattari, he's cristal clear in all of his solo efforts)
>>7627979
>more or less anything Blake Butler
Spare yourself the cringe and never read his review of your pic.
>>7627991
Been there, done that. Like everything he puts out on VICE, I found it mostly harmless if a bit idiotic and endearing - basically, the essence of VICE itself.
You read Dreams of Amputation?
>>7628001
>VICE
>endearing
In the Recognitions, why did Wyatt sell his father's painting, Bosch's seven deadly sins, "for about nothing"?
No spoilers please, if it's revealed later. I just got extremely curious
Homeboy needed money.
Damn, that was even better than Blood Meridian. I want to be a cowboy now, don't you?
Back to mlp
>>7627857
Well that was his inspiration
>>7627854
imo The Crossing is even better.
I only read history books written before the Second World War because then I know the contents won't be sanitised to adhere to contemporary liberal values.
That's a good idea
That's a defensible position for a conservative to take.
I prefer my books nice and sanitary like Hogg, Dhalgren, Blood Meridian and Naked Lunch instead of that pre-World War II degenerate filth like Pride & Prejudice. Ugh, disgusting.
Ive been trying to find out an unbiased answer relating to the credibility of the Bible, either book by book or by a sum of its parts.
Its hard to find an answer that isnt reeking of bias, because they are often either dicksucking christans, or multi-fedora wearing atheists, and they deeply want the other side to look bad.
As an agnothstic theist, i personally dont favor either outcome over the other, but nevertheless id like to know much weight something carries if someone points out "the Bible says so".
Similarly, what about the Torah? the Qur'an?
>>7627819
Not sure I'm understanding the question entirely. There's inherently going to be bias in viewing the Bible, depending on whom you ask, along with what part of the Bible you're talking about. Some of the 'wisdom writings' from the Old Testament, for example, like Proverbs or Ecclesiastes, will likely sound pretty good/credible even to an atheist, whereas they're going to reject something like an account of the resurrection of Jesus. Also A Christian and a Jew will both see the Torah/Old Testament as valid, although in somewhat different ways. A Jew will reject the New Testament. And only a Muslim, and not a Christian or a Jew, will see the Qur'an as valid, nor a Muslim the Hebrew or Christian Bible (since Islam holds them to be corrupted and the Qur'an the uncorrupted version).
Just read one book on either side of the argument and they'll balance each other out.
What are the best names for character?
What are the worst?
Does it even matter?
Best: Finnegan, Stephen Daedalus, Leopold Bloom
Honorable mention: Ishmael
Worst: John
just think on juliet's line a bit
she says a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
but she doesn't say a sweet flower by any name would smell just as like a rose
Oedipa Maas
K
Dedalus
Mersault
Humbert Humbert
José Arcadio Buendía
Ada
Lolita
John Shade
Glanton
What do you guys think of Meister Eckhart? Do you like christian mystics?
>>7627504
>christian mystic
i dunno he looks pretty skeptic in that pic
>>7627641
He's just old
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>>7627411
My name is Anon
I've got something to say
I think you should fuck off
Because you're fucking lame and gay
Peace
Where should I start with Calvino? Should he be read in any particular order?
>>7626433
Sticky next time
>>7626433
>Should he be read in any particular order?
Italian here so I don't know about translation but his prose is pretty simple (even if it's great), I read The Baron In The Trees, The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount when I was 12 yo.
Don't worry about the order, you can start even from his more avantgarde stuff without any problem. But do it, it's great.
>>7626433
I just finished On a Winter's Night this weekend...It was a nice introduction to Calvino I suppose...
