Do text adventures have any merit?
If so, which
Also a question to think about, does being interactive by nature detract from the overall piece.
Thanks
Yes.
Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars is a good example.
No, it doesn't.
>>7573955
Go back to reddit. Your kind doesn't belong here
>does being interactive detract from the overall piece
>OP hasn't read Umberto Eco
>doesn't understand that now more literature is open/interactive than ever before
What good readers for android come with a translator?
I have a Nook HD+ that comes with integrated english dictionary for its reader, but I want to read a book in German, and due to my close-to-zero knowledge of the language, I'd rather use a reader with integrated translation than having to open a different app to translate the word I need.
rooted kindle
I have an issue of remembering what I read after a while. I'll just forget the next day.
What's your solution? I tried the method of loci, but that only seem to be effective randomly.
write it down, it is no shame
>>7572533
get better sleep, improve your diet and look up any medications you are taking to see if any of them list memory issues as potential side-effects
>>7572536
Is there a better way?
E.G. what if I want to quote a reference to some one, but I don't have my phone or notes.
>>7572528
sage
>Reviewing bad books, W. H. Auden once remarked, is bad for the character. Like all gifted moralists, Auden idealized despite himself, and he should have survived into the present age, wherein the new commissars tell us that reading good books is bad for the character, which I think is probably true. Reading the very best writers-let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy-is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.
What did he mean by this?
That the pursuit of art for the sake of art is an empty thing.
He says this often in his writings. He appreciates the power of the written word but that doesn't meant it's mostly useless.
>>7572471
>Reading the very best writers-let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy-is not going to make us better citizens
Tolstoy has made me a better person though
don't know what type of measure of 'usefulness' he's using here
>>7572471
>according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything.
Lol Wilde admitted he made up shit as long as it sounded cool
Anyone else like this faggot?
He's great to read right before bed.
I don't really know but I like the fact that the English town where he lives awarded him with some kind of excellence in citizenship award for picking up trash on his daily walks. No one there had any idea who he was.
Your favourite quotes on writing?
no so much a quote but a cliche. "writers write."
hannah arendt on meaning: "It is true that storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it, that it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are, and that we may even trust it to contain eventually by implication that last word which we expect from the Day of Judgment”.
suit the action to the word, the word to the action. idk shakespeare probably
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Franz Kafka
He'll be fine.R-right?
Ellison has an absurd memepotential but /lit/ is to pleb for him
>>7572689
More like he's too pleb for us, bitch.
>>7572704
Haha
What are some books that can help me get hyped for WWIII?
>>7572189
i hear "the road" by cormac McCarthy is a fairly uplifting take on it.
Alas, Babylon if you want to go old school duck and cover mode...
>>7572189
Spencer, Parable of the Sower
Revelation of St. John
suggest a good blog for /lit/ to read
I'll start ... www.lancemanion.com
Your turn.
>>7572167
>advertising is against the rules
Enjoy your ban
>>7572167
The central idea behind this shitty comic has been rehashed so many times. We fucking get it; shaving makes people look younger - stop redrawing comics that point it out.
>>7572167
I'm not giving your shit blog page views. Reported to FBI.
Am I a plebe if, after three-and-a-half books, I don't fully appreciate Nabakov's prose style and prefer stuff like Hemmmingway?
Currently reading Ada. I don't dislike, but I'm not in love. The only Nabakov I've read that I've also loved has been The Eye (and that one wasn't originally written in English).
after several years to mull over it, I prefer Hemingway's style of prose over Nabakov's?
What are the other two you read? And, if applicable, in Russian or in English?
>>7572147
Lolita and Pale Fire, both in English. I liked Lolita but wouldn't put it in my favorites. Pale File was dense and I was reading it amidst the chaos of visiting family at home and I feel I need to read it again.
It's called having a preference.
Rid yourself of this non-existent pleb and patrician dichotomy and just enjoy reading literature. Maybe your appreciation of Nabakov will come in time, maybe it won't. It doesn't matter, Hemingway is still good. Even if he wasn't, it doesn't matter.
Where would you say is the best place to start with Lispector? Been interested in her a lot lately.
I found her to be really tough to read, even with portuguese being my native language. Obvious choices are "A hora da estrela", "A Paixão segundo G.H.".
>>7572120
it's a woman??
into the trash!!!!
>>7572311
She's really great, anon.
>Find textbook on Lulu.com at a discount
>"Hmm, maybe I should buy it..."
>Find coupon for extra 30% today only
>Today is almost over
>OH SHI- OH SHI- BUY BUY
>Choose cheapest shipping option in haste
>euphoric.jpg
>next day read the fine print
>"By choosing basic shipping you have no tracker and if your item is lost in the mail you will not be refunded"
>shipping estimated at 4-8 business day
>9th business day now
How fucked am I?
I used to buy books on Amazon in bulk, sometimes just enought to get free shipping, until I got tired of the erratic ship and delivery dates. Now I just pay for the shipping regardless of whether or not I need it as soon as possible. Besides, I mostly buy used books now so I have to pay for the shipping anyway.
Is it any good?
the first two are great
after that it declines a bit imo, but still worth to read
>>7571941
Well then, I'll give it a read.
>>7571939
Yep its good. The first one is interesting because each character is supposed to represent a sub genre of science fiction. Great example of a cool concept executed very well.
>91
>still writing music
Im sure hell be fine
Don't you dare, he's barely even a mene yet
>>7571934
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>>7571934
Pls no
