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Recommend me some epic fantasy/sci-fi adult or young adult book series that are enjoyable, feely, somewhat well written (not Twilight tier), interesting and somewhat original. Don't Dune and asoIaF, read that already as well as LOTR and HP. Thanks fampais
>>7587165
And just not Tad Williams, all but him
Is stoicism possible in the modern late capitalist world? Is this school of thought compatible with the hedonistic and anxious lifestyle of the 21st century in the West?
No shit you can't be a stoic anymore. Hell, not even the stoics were all that good at being stoics.
>late capitalism
What btfo'd stoicism? What's the best alternative?
>reading proust
>hard part comes up
>go through paragraph as slowly as you can
>read its sentences over and over again
>repeat for several minutes, still can't make sense of it
>skip it for now thinking to yourself, "Surely I'll understand it on a reread," or, "It's not part of the main plot. I should be fine."
>tfw the feel...
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authors make mistakesalso its a translation
>>7586961
>also its a translation
Is it easier to read for frenchies?
How accurate were your predictions?
well, i was rather surprised after it predicted 'enthusiasm', right after i've written a poem about it
I read a book when I was in middle school, though for the life of me I can't remember the title.
I only remember the whole story hazily, it was about a little boy in Russia shortly after the revolution. In particular I remember two scenes: one where the boy is talking to a distant relative, the relative hands him a pebble and says, "This rock will turn to gold, so long as you don't think of camels." And another where he passes another boy on the road with his uncle, the boy on the road isn't moving and so the main character goes to move him,...
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Will repay any help with wallpapers
Good book /lit/?
Yes.
Read his Civil War after, then Lucan's Poem.
So a setting that I really like is private school.
I know of Tom Brown obviously, and Guillous; Evil. Beyond that I've read that this genre/setting became really saturated by the mid 20th century. So any good preppy school books? East coast stuff maybe? I would really want to see something from Germany or France.mention of Potter will be punished by being beaten with a cricket bat
jakob von gunten
I had to read "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles when I was 15. I don't remember liking it a whole lot, but its backdrop is a private school, and the book is considered to be a classic.
Infinite Jest
Show of you flowery prose here. First thing that comes to mind, spit bitches. Let's hear 'em r-r-r-r's. Faggot-chan, pretentious-chan, who has the fairest prose of them all?
Sure it can be, someway, somehow, a work of agenius; it had been proved back in the day, anyway. Altough it couldn't be measured by preconfigured concepts, like the concept of conceptuating concept1, it had been proved, back in the day2, that an over-sized3 cock can do wonders to your selfsteem - altough it couldn't be measured by any of the, albeit current, means of mensuration held as current back in the day; days being the span of twenty-four hours, an arbitrary and misused concept, which have been been used for hundreds and hundreds of little conceptuations that...
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Prose is the worst meme on this board. Please stop it.
>>7586696
ITT: no discernible talent
![Turgenev[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gwQiq2H.jpg "Turgenev[1].jpg")
>Started my first Turgenev today - A Hunter's Sketches
>Second page in, laughed out loud at the part with the guy's extravagant French cooking
>Why isn't there more of this guy on /lit/?
>>7586656
Fathers and Sons is pretty much second tier /lit/-core
That being said I agree
“Je ne suis jamais plus sérieux, madame, que quand je dis des bêtises.” is one of my all time favourite quotations
What translation
Turgenev is good. He writes interesting, enjoyable stories. He just lacks a certain element of transcendence beyond his media. He writes books. He writes good ones. But are they really the sorts you think of twenty years down the line?
Since they're turning them into hip-hop musicals now, what's your favorite historical biography /lit/?
This was goodI've only read biographies of American historical figures
I wanna read Sherman and Grant's stuff next
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>writing on a laptop or PC
Yeah, good luck with all those hundreds of unfinished novels /lit/. Real writers use paper because you simply have to organise projects into folders and complete them, rather than saving every half a page you write as a new document and never opening them again.
>What is Scrivener.
Yeah, but I agree with you. I'm one that prefer paper than laptop. Every time that I see some written text in the PC/Laptop I see it like something smaller than a written text in notebook.
>>7586603
>he doesn't use both mediums to write
git gud
POWER RANKING
R8, H8
Crime and Punishment > Brothers Karamazov > The Idiot > Demons > The Gambler > The Double
Brothers Karamazov > rest
Tolstoy > Dostoevsky=Chekhov
Notes>Demons>Brothers>Idiot>Gambler>Crime
How do you have achieve a state of non-desire if you have to desire it to achieve it?
>>7586503
By losing the desire to achieve non-desire. It is only when we are truly lost that we may find ourselves, Govinda.
By not using shitty translations
>>7586503
The first comment is right. Be apathetic to non-desire and you will have achieved it already.
Thoughts on this book?
Hahahaha omg I've actually read it. It was good, I liked it as an adult, but I think the moral is horrible to be exposing children to, at least without someone to talk to them about it
Wanting to drive the bus is an obvious symbol for autism- see "Rain Man".
>>7586169
The pigeon should have been allowed to drive the bus imo
I find it interesting that in an age when we're told that reading is on the decline and that the Internet has shortened all of our attention spans, that instead of fiction readers shifting to short stories or novellas, that it actually seems like things have gone completely the other way. It seems like we're living in a time when novelists are taking on huge, epic, multi-book projects.
>Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
>My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
>The Neapolitan...
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As someone who enjoys single books in the ~250 page region this trend towards trilogies of huge books digusts me.
That is interesting, I have no explanation for it. Given the general cultural context I'd expect novellas or short books of aphorisms to be all the rage, but literature seems to have gone the other way.
>>7586156
While general readership is definitely in decline the internet has given a market to niche interests (which reading has, to a certain degree, become). So while the attention span of the average person has definitely decreased there has also sprung up a new market of reading enthusiasts who are precisely the market for epic, sprawling, literary series
