Alright guys need some help because I have shit tier memory on everything I've read, looking for a book and I only remember the syphnosis lightly. Had to do with like 2 or 3 kids who did some stupid shit and it brought on the return of some evil king(shadow king or ghoul King) and that's pretty much it, I'm sure it was a trilogy, like I only read the first one. Anyone got any idea what I'm talking about
Time for a new book. Which one should I read first?
read them simultaneously so you don't have to shoot yourself when you're bored of moby-dick. not kidding
Moby Dick.
Burn the other one.
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is a waste of time.
Like babbys first deep thought or something
>read nothing but mangas for two years straight
>finally decide to get back into literature
>start with Gravity's Rainbow
>"Wow, /lit/ was right, this doesn't make any sense"
>realize in the final pages of the book that I read the whole thing right to left, like my mangas
>"oopsy daisy"
Even if you read it left to right it still doesn't make sense.
>>7625381
I'd think it would make more sense if you read it like that
> oopsy daisy
You sound like a girl, fuck off from my fuckboi LIVE interaction discussion panel REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>yfw this is an interpretation
>Writer's block
u wot m8? i'll knock *your* block off in a minute
>black writers
op comedy gold hahaha
Shorter books recommendations pls
Hi /lit/,
As of late I've had a lot of free time in the Army of all places. I'm getting back into reading again... recently bough a kindle. I've been enjoying going through some shorter books.
So far for this year I've read
The Stranger
Lolita
The Old Man and the Sea
The Forever War
Illluminatus (first one)
Notes From Underground
and currently reading Siddartha.
Do you have any suggestions for some books on the shorter side> Like I said, I'm just trying to grease the gears and get back into reading.
Thanks!
>>7625249
There's literally (!) a chart on novellas in the sticky, you feminist cuck
Is it possible for a writer to truly not influence their writings by their own traits (like how black authors will almost always write about race)
Any good examples of authors not doing this?
Any examples of shit authors that do do this?
pic really kinda not related
>>7625089
By the sounds of it, pic might be very related, OP.
White people don't do it because white people are the Same. The Other (non-whites) does it because of ressentiment. In the long run, no one will remember any of the ressentiment shit, and it will come to nothing, and white dudes will keep churning out classics and further developing themselves. It sucks.
I'm black btw.
>>7625089
best works come out of interest in writing them
what interests a writer coupled with his ability is what makes the man
just finished reading pic related
is there more to it than dude wine lmao?
You'll get out of it what you're capable of taking from it.
>>7625067
>You'll get out of it what you're capable of taking from it.
fuck
that's depressing
if you read the original: yeah, a little
if you read fitzgerald: lol yeah the whole plot
Has anyone on here read Songs of Solomon by Toni Morrison? Where does it rank amongst her works
this same fucking faggot has been posting song of solomon threads for two weeks straight
fuck off and stop shilling this garbage
on the off chance you're a genuine poster - the book is shit don't read it. worst book i've ever read
>>7624690
It's written by a black woman.
That means it's utter trash
It's pretty good. I think Beloved is supposed to be better.
So, the ending went way over my head, guess I am too dumb.
Can anyone here explain to me what happened to:
1. Slothrop
2. The Counterforce
3. the 00001 and the 00000 (where did they land?)
i've literally explained this to you before, op ... you used pretty much the same wording
>>7624264
Slothrop lost his identity and so his character literally disolved.
The Counterforce went the same way, just sort of went crazy or whatever.
00000 is the missle pirate sees at the beginning. 00001 is the explosion at the end which lands on the cinema, I think, I dunno. I'm not sure about these things.
When Sartre is describing the lonely old proctor on the bench he states they feared him not because of how he appeared but because they thought he might be "shaping thoughts of crab or lobster in his head."
Is this some sort of french saying? I get the gist of it in the context of the text and i love the sound of it but what does it actually mean?
Didn't Sartre hallucinate crabs and lobsters following him around during a breakdown?
>>7623583
>Is this some sort of french saying?
No.
It's more a mescaline-induced obsession that's personal to Sartre:
>L'auteur de «l'Etre et le néant» avait commencé à expérimenter avec la mescaline dès 1935, intrigué, comme tant d'autres intellectuels et artistes, tels Aldous Huxley ou Henri Michaux, par les altérations, voire l'expansion de la conscience, que pouvait induire cette drogue. Mais, raconte Sartre à Grenassi:
>« Après avoir pris de la mescaline, j'ai commencé à voir tout le temps des crabes autour de moi. Ils me suivaient dans la rue, en classe. Je me réveillai le matin et leur disais : ''Bonjour les petits, avez-vous bien dormi ?'' Puis : "Okay les gars, nous partons en classe maintenant"... et ils restaient là, autour de mon bureau, tout à fait calmes, jusqu'à ce que la cloche sonne.»
>>7623595
So you are saying he means to imply they thought the proctor was mad, or hallucinating in some way.
I've always felt it to meant that he was without any form of human contact to keep his thoughts in line so had become dangerous in his thoughts.
Best translation?
The Devils (Maudes Translation)
Magarshack
>>7623345
>Maudes
>Dostoyevsky
am i an idiot for really wanting to see a film/tv how made of house of leaves (a quality one of course)
those stairwells ....
will be impossible to make
>>7620901
Some money and an innovative and creative director (and a screenwriter) can work wonders
>>7620949
give me some money and i'll direct you to fuck off then
After Homer, Virgil, Dante and Shakespeare
who would you say are the most influential to the western canon?
St. Paul
probably Paul the apostle
Chaucer
OC poetry thread?
Here are two that I've written.
"The beast in me is held by frayed and fumbled hands
Stopped from destruction, the despoilment of the land
By fragile bonds and withered restraints.
The beast in me, makes me feel faint
Roars and rages, rends my soul
Leaving the land of my mind, scorched black like coal,
It rears its head, beginning again,
The cycle of hurt and torture
It lifts its hirsute arms,
Plunging them into the fabric of my being
It snarls, and growls
Rending me,
Leaving my consciousness foul
The beast in me.
People don’t know
It has control
It moves my limbs,
Low rumbles
Of anger, and violence
Shake the ground,
The beast begins to pound.
Striding ahead, it looks at every foe
Rips them, destroys them.
It cannot be controlled
The beast in me."
Here's the second one.
"A year of my life
I gave in pursuit of you
Your approval was what I sought
Your love, is why I fought
For you
But your intentions were laid bare
Took away
My idealistic idea of us
Your shimmering hair
Mesmerised me
Entrapped me, left me vulnerable
To your wiles
My intellect
My love and dedication
I freely offered these
But your flirtatiousness was a fabrication
You spun your web of lies
To trap me and drain me of my will
The sight of you sent a chill
Running down my back
But your intentions laid bare
Left all clear to me
I was mistaken
To place you in that high seat of idolatry
But now my mind is clear
Free from the venom of the snake
That is you
Your intentions laid bare."
Feeling like Gertrude Stein
I press my feet
front of toe first like a full tire
Striving for Roman arches
mirror's movement creates a blob
imitating a starfish
internal exoskeleton becomes more exposed
I look pretty good
today
I wanted to start writing some poetry, or even some song lyrics but I'm unsure how to get started. Does anyone have any tips?
I thought reading poetry might help so I picked up a metaphysical poetry anthology and a Yeats anthology. How should I read these btw? Just read through each poem one at a time or analyse as I go or what?
>>7619443
>stopped from destruction, the despoilment of the land
If i'm scanning that sentence correctly, you're being redundant with destruction and despoilment, and they are quite ugly words
>fabric of my being
cliche
>leaving
you used this word twice, and in the same sense of: "cause (a thing) to be (a certain way)" which is, in my opinion, a juvenile use of the word and which could be avoided with simpler clause construction. I'm not certain about my prescription, but I know the use of the word in this way, and twice, sounds awkward.
>in pursuit of you
cliche
>fought for you
cliche
>idealistic idea
very silly and awkward to hear aloud
>flirtatiousness
there must be a better word--adding two suffixes to "flirt" overwhelms the original word
>web of lies
huge cliche
