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What's your take on audio books, as far as their value and place in your reading life, Do they inhibit your mind from creating character voices, by forcing you to hear what is usually an older man's gravely time ridden vocal cords speak the dialogue. Do you think they're good for certain books perhaps the classic epics or other stories based in spoken the spoken tradition. Also looking for your take on their intellectual value as compared to their written counterparts.
I think they're good for pulpy scifi and mystery novels I listen to during transit or out on a walk at night or lying on my bed with some alcohol or drugs, but I wouldn't ever use one for a book I really took seriously unless I'd read it before.
>>7601289
I always listen to then while working out, driving, cutting grass, etc. I usually can only listen to an hour or so at a time unless it's something really compelling. I like listening to fiction way more than nonfiction. Also depends on the reader, the guy who read "Bonfire of the Vanities" was amazing and significantly increased my enjoyment of the book.
>>7601289
Good for non fiction
What is an essential reading list for a future law student?
I am finishing my third year of American university and I want to be able to prepare myself for the legal profession.
I've read pic related already. It's often recommend to those who want to be lawyers. What else should I check out, /lit/?
Probably some law books
>>7600808
I'm in the same boat as you OP. I'm a second year at American university. A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. Great book. Really shows you what it takes to bring a court to trial. Most importantly, it explains in detail the effects extensive legislation can have on the mind and body. And also: if you're serious about the legal profession, ditch all your fiction. Read non-fiction. Economics, things like that that will strengthen your reasoning abilities. Fiction is fun and all, but it will not help you become...
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What are the best novels about exploration/explorers? Fiction only
I only got Terror, Dr Doolittle and Moby Dick so far. Colonialism more than welcome, modern twist on formula even more so.
Most of Jules Verne
Killua best boy
>>7600659
overrated
vastly so
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Never read DFW, Pynchon, Joyce, Henry Miller, Kerouac, Burroughs, or anything else along those lines.
I have however read a tonne of classical literature. I adore Hemingway and other "normie" writers. Something about unfamiliar prose puts me off deeply. I guess it's the same way The Beatles don't appeal to me.
Where should I start if I want to very sheepishly dip my toe into the /lit/ style of writing?
Pic related, dropped after 2 pages
The Dubliners - Joyce
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' - Conrad
The Book of the New Sun - Wolfe
>>7599844
blood meridian
last exit to brooklyn
to the lighthouse
>>7599849
>The Dubliners
triggered
What are the greatest works inspired by Nietzsche?
>>7599316
The Holocaust.
Crime and Punishment
>>7599316
Eino Leino's work.
Has anyone read 120 days of Sodom? Is it worth the read beyond the visceral affectations?
>>7594541
i jerked off to it
>>7594541
Too many people read this one as an introductory.
I hear you should start with one of his others
What was the one called.. Philosophy in the Bedroom, I think.
>>7594551
Yeah that's one of his. I'll look into it, although, I don't quite understand the necessity. Could you elaborate on your point?
Reading this, is he really this generation's Orwell? I'm half way through and inclined to believe so.
>>7592991
Far too obsessed with identity politics to be considered on the same level as Orwell
>Russel Brand
Kek
Russell Brand is "our generation's John Ruskin"
-Stephen Hawking
>>7592991
It's amazing that Brand has that surname. Time to adopt Russel Brand as the signifier for lazy champagne-socialism and faux-spirituality which is really nothing but a mask to indulge in even more hedonism. Russell Brand philosophy for affluent, bored millennials.
Is there a philosopher that explains existence itself as will to nothingness, sort of like a realistic counterpart to Nietzsche?
Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Heidegger
Nonbeing is the ground of being. All the vagaries and problems of being are finally reconciled in the Nonbeing that conditions it
>>7589637
Zen Buddhism is probably the most radically nihilistic thing ever
I'll start:
I would like to read a prose translation of the iliad and the odyssey along with the fagles translations I have.
I found an old prose translation in my parents basement by E.V. Rieu, and after reading the first few pages I found it to be quite good as a supplement to the fagles edition.
nigga the fagles translation basically is a prose translation, god knows it wasn't trying to be poetic
>>7586831
If like to read Pope as well
What is this shit. Why would anyone want the Iliad in prose? This was an oral tradition. You think Homer belted it out like the audio version of some John Grisham shit?
Ah yeah Kindle this is what I want to read.
>He still hasn't read ALPHA BILLIONAIRE
Holy pleb
I finally finished a short story that I'm somewhat happy with. Where do I even begin to look for somewhere to submit it?
Any advice on submitting short stories to magazines or publishers?
I would also like an answer to this
>>7602144
>not leaving in it a secret place to be published after you die
Seriously, unless your story is deliberately pandered to a certain trendy audience, you won't get it published.
>>7602144
kill yourself, frog faggot
>Cormac McCarthy will die in your lifetime
>Gene Wolfe will die in your lifetime
>Thomas Pynchon will die in your lifetime
>Thomas Littell will die in your lifetime
What books can I read that will help me come to terms with my own mortality?
>>7601971
Schopenhauer's On Women
Hitler's Mein Kampf
Spengler's Decline of the West
Evola
The Culture of Critique Series
You'll want off this ride as soon as possible when you realize how degenerate this world is and have taken the redpill
Literally who?
Kek. /mu/ was right. All you guys do is circlejerk some old white dudes and pretend to be patrician. Bunch of fucking sheep.
>>7601976
Pretty unsurprisingly, the music board's area of expertise is music. The problem lies with you, not with the authors.
Raphèl maí amèche zabí almi
what does it mean /lit/?
what was Nimrod so desperatly screaming at Dante and Virgil as leave the central pit of hell?
It's gibberish, anon. Meaningless words with some sort of hebraic-ish accent. Remember that Nimrod is the king of babel, and like Virgil says in XXXI, 76 he doesnt speak a language known to man
Thoughts on Robert Anton Wilson and his works?
better than Leary Or Mckenna
Illuminatus was a rocky road of highs and lows
Even with all its reputation it wasn't at all what I expected. It's more South Park than Pynchon.
thanks god it's not pynchon.
great quote from illuminatus:
"It's only true if it makes you laugh, but you only truly understand it when it makes you weep"
I need some opinions. I'm writing on a project (hopefully a book) with an omniscient narrator, but I'm thinking of having narrator actually communicate with the characters. I know it's really odd and a bit too experimental, but I have a reason behind this. The book itself is about (well, it's more specific than this, but I'm not going to give away specifics in case my concepts are stolen [I'm sure none of the writers on /lit/ would honestly blame me]) grief and lack of closure (or the delay of closure), and I'm thinking I want an omniscient...
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Shameful self-bump.
Dude what are you even talking about, dont ramble. I'm not even sure what you're asking. A 3rd person narrator that talks to the other characters? Isnt that just 1st person?
>>7601787
you're being kind of a faggot
you want us to help you but because you think your idea might be "stolen" (seriously OP, i'm sure whatever you have going has been done before and much better if it relies on some gimmick that can't be revealed to us) you give no context as to why that choice would make any sense and so we really can't be fucked to think about it
