Do you ever feel like you're just always working off intuition?
yeh all the time
>>7571888
You mean in writing? Yeah. I'm trying to write my first novel(la), and what I'm finding about my writing process is that, I'll go in with all of these thoughts, plans, ideas, and then just write about stuff that comes up through associations.
It doesn't help that I have some weird kind of autism where I hear the words more like a musical composition, so when I'm thinking of what will come next I'll consider what I want it to sound like, what the progress or resolution should be. Editing's easy: everything's on the chopping block, only a few precious words or clauses should be saved from a paragraph.
I'm stupid in a complicated way.
>>7571942
That's why I choose poetry over prose. I end up talking in terms of sound so it seems logical.
Were this a real conversation I'd probably do it in this manner
Writing in these odd lines
Because
It sounds right in my head
>tfw i've read lots of books but have had a bad memory and no english lit education after 16 (went full stemtard)
>tfw i can barely describe most books ive read
>>7571887
Mods plz delete this, it's a trump thread in disguise.
Read then.
>>7571887
Well first of all you need to read more. Second of all you need to improve your reading ability. Take an easy book and read it. After each chapter read a summary online and try to see what they are pulling out of the novel. This is roughly what you should be pulling out of the text in terms of plot.
After you finish the novel read some short cliffnotes analyses and look at what themes they are getting out the the text. Compare them to your own thoughts.
Ask yourself while reading... What is this novel about? What is the author trying to tell me by writing this story? What are some universal themes in the book? What things have touched you throughout the novel?
will i be more scrutinized and/or derided (perhaps even dismissed) if i satirize and mock leftist politics rather than skewering right-wing views in my work?
No, just don't be a fag about it
I'm pretty sure if you had to ask this question you're going to have problems with that though
you will be dismissed but your politics will have little to no part in it. like >>7571916 said.
I'm looking for some ancient and medieval history charts. I've recently read Herodotus "The Histories" and his side stories were fascinating to me. Doesn't have to be western history!
>reading TPK
>DFW literally has footnotes for his footnotes
How deep does the rabbit hole go?
Hah, junior here's having trouble with TPK's footnotes! Just wait till you get to HoL kiddie.
>>7571714
HoL?
>>7571709
Its not that hard, if you didn't give up within the first 100 pages it should be easy to finish
Does rereading books helps more to one’s intellectual growth, then first time?
depends. if you're reading fiction, then no
>>7571676
>then
I am just mad Bowie's dead.
>>7571676
More so than giving up entirely and not wanting to understand the book fully if it deals with themes you find most significant at that time in your life. You can always put it down with the intention of picking it up once you have more experience in the field it touches upon.
Not ashamed to say that some philosophy books took 10-15 re-reads before I understood it as much as I wanted to, I could tell on the first reading that I was novice though. And now after going through a lot of it I doubt I will get that feeling again or have to re-read a book that many times - don't get me wrong I would love it if that were the case because that would mean I have something new to explore and grow through it just depends on the book and reader.
I think you would be stupid to read it over again many times in a row just try and squeeze something extra out of your experience that isn't there, go and do something else along the same lines and use it for deliberate contrast for the next re-reading.
Hey /lit/, can you help explain this book? The plot is very complex and the prose is as well. I tried all the guides but the book is just too complex. Pic related.
Hermione is a mudblood (nigger).
I fucked a dog once.
Google trolling somewhere else you /b/ tier piece of shit
is this real
Yes.
Yes, I bought a copy the same day I bought hypersphere and TLOTIAT, to have a meme section in my bookcase
Hey /lit/.
What's in your opinion the best underrated or unread dickens novel or short story?
Nicholas Nickleby is one of the best English novels I'll ever read, only real niggas know what I'm sayin.
The Signalman is pretty good, does ghostly stuff way better than Christmas Carol.
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So how does one live the lit life?
Dumpster diving during insomniac nights + selling found items on eBay
Writing identical ideas while sober and while drunk and then compiling the results
Living in your office/bedroom
Never interacting with people
>>7571461
Read maybe 10 books a year while memeing about the books you've never read to seem smart.
>>7571729
butthurt pleb detected
If you like McCarthy, read Platonov's "Dzhan".
It's about a bunch of hungry people in the desert, much better than The Road imo but also kinda different.
Read it if you want to know how it feels to be hungry and 75% dead for your entire fucking life. Read it if you don't like McCarthy. 10/10 novel would read again.
>>7571475
The road was an awful book. McCarthy is a complete hack.
>>7571459
is that a real picture, how is that dude so huge
>38
>still writes books
I think he'll be fine
What's with all this JG posting all of a sudden
>>7571453
>91
>still writing the best prose since Joyce
I'm sure hell be fine
>>7571531
I'm pretty sure Shatner isn't 91 yet.
What are some good books about David Bowie?
Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Gennet
>>7571344
The Holy Bible, because that degenerate is going straight to Hell.
LOL
But seriously, is Art of War worth reading if you're not an ancient Chinese general? Does it really contain timeless wisdom that is abstract enough to be applied to any age, as popular culture seems to portray it? And if it does, is it concrete and frequent enough that it makes the entire book worthwhile and not just a collection of vague witticisms?
The Art of War is a timeless masterpiece on warfare. Similar to it's western equivalent "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz. Both examine how and why various strategies remain universally applicable regardless of era. The removal of an enemy's social/political support is a instrumental achievement for pursuing victory. These books are deeply rooted in examining human psychology.
In modern times it best not to take the book at face value, but rather as a series of life lessons to do with the different war time stratagies, or at least thats how I took it.
reading the 36 stratagems might be more immediately help tho op if you're a-wagin war
are you waging war op
cuz war is god and i am dancing dancing i will never die
Do you'll like this guy? I never see him mentioned.
>>7571224
Been meaning to read him. Good start?
>>7571224
i really really liked it but i enjoyed it, therefore it's PLEBEIAN TRASH
>>7571694
My boss recommended me American Tabloid. I thought it had decent prose but I never finished it. The last pulp-y American book I read was either Inherent Vice or the Stand, and I hated both (though I do like Pynchon's Against the Day, GR and M&D). I'd assume this is where to start.
>>7571813
OP here, if you really don't believe people get some enjoyment out of some of the more difficult works of literature, go back to Reddit.
