Any good books about healthy, wholesome adventures in fucking nature? Biographies of explorers, Egil's saga, stuff like that? I am honestly very very sick of people fighting their demons or being cynical and depressed. I just want to see people solve non-political problems presented by the external world.
Stuff like Growth of the Soil or All the Pretty Horses or hell The Story of San Michele. I know they are not about Adventures in Great Outdoors, but at least they are not edgemaster navelgazing everything is awful tier.
The hatchet
>>7566464
Why in the fucking fuck would you want to fuck nature? You're a sick little shit. It's amazing you have time to read with all the nature out there to fuck.
Hey /lit/, any advice??
I bought this used from Half Price last night and just discovered this.
The underlining in random places was bad enough but this is fucked.
>I have gorilla glue if that would work.
>please and thank you /lit/
>>7566438
Contain your fucking autism, you dweeb
>>7566458
Because fuck OP for wanting to actually read a book he bought without pages falling out all over the place.
Who the fuck underlines the lord of the rings? why would you underline one sentence of dialogue? what the fuck?
>mfw reading 5 novels at once
how'd you know?
Hey /lit/, can we discuss this book? In my opinion it's utter shit mainly because of how stupid and insufferable the protagonists are.
>>7566385
It's early CIA-MFA workshop stuff, so yeah it's not great.
ITT: Masters of language.
Not just a master, but a God.
At his best, he's nearly unparalleled.
>>7566377
i think it's fucked up that no other writer even compares to him, and he died 70 years ago
/lit/, what do I do when Undernet and IRCHighway fail to deliver? I've been trying to find pic related on Google and all I get are scams and viruses. I bought it already, but I live in another continent and it will take around a month to arrive. I want to start the Iliad now, how do I do it?
>>7566260
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-iliad-of-homer-translated-by-alexander-pope-1
http://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer-ebook/dp/B00847VIBQ/ref=sr_1_2_twi_kin_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452413798&sr=8-2&keywords=iliad
>>7566260
You start the Iliad now and you reread it in a month along with your cliff notes type of book you just bought yourself.
What are Lord Byron's ties to religion and science?
>>7566232
Should a religion be made out of sex, and the act of fucking an art and science, Byron would be a prophet.
Other than that, not really much desu.
What is the drakengard of literature?
>>7566165
#banime
>>7566165
isn't that the game where some of the female leads fucks every male constantly since she can't get knocked up? i fapped to the concept desu
>>7566165
not literature
Working my way through this but not really digging it. Is this just a bad first pick for this author? Is any of his other work worth reading?
bemp
>>7566107
I much prefer Atomized... Whatever's not bad either.
/lit/ cringe thread?
Can we have a discussion on this book?
I know its probably meme by now but i just finished it and i feel some type of way and have to let it out/discuss with somebody. I absolutely love it but i just feel angry that [spoilers] Lo loved clare [/spoilers]. Is it wrong to sympathize for H.H, apparently he was the one doing wrong?
Also what is your opinion on Vladamir as an author, i plan on reading pale fire and ada soon.
>>7566052
>Is it wrong to sympathize for H.H, apparently he was the one doing wrong?
Was he doing wrong? Think about that. Another thing:Did Humbert love Lolita?
>Also what is your opinion on Vladamir as an author
A favorite between the ages of 19 and 24, and thereafter. Not exactly first rate, but very nice nonetheless.
>i plan on reading pale fire and ada soon.
Good.
>>7566052
Literally, Reddit.
>>7566052
Use the archive you fucking maggot this thread has literally been made 100000000000 times
>tfw not enough time in life to read all the books I want
>be NEET master race
>read for 14 hours every day for the last 5 years
>still not even close to reading goals
>>7565991
>spend 3 hours a day at my local library reading
>literally there more than anybody else
>all the librarians think im like a pedophile or something
You could be reading the greatest works of literature right now, but instead you're reading my worthless shitpost.
>NY times best seller
>JY Times bestseller
>a tour de force
>Critically acclaimed author James Patterson is back with
How do people determine what "good" prose is? Is it all based on feel? Is it all subjective or are there objective ways to judge the aesthetic merit of literary works? Though I've enjoyed reading literature for quite a while, I still find it difficult to consciously discern the subtleties between decent prose and great prose besides a vague visceral feeling. Thanks in advance for any input.
"Literature" is beside the point here. The question that you're really asking reduces to: is aesthetic work as such objective or subjective?
An old book I read on prose divided written prose into three different categories.
>Incompetent prose
Where everyone starts. Unrefined and structured in a way that is difficult to read. Poor choice with words and the pacing is all over the place. Most fan-fiction, junk period pieces, /lit/ posts and children's writing falls under this catagory
>Competent prose
The next stage. This is prose which aims to communicate ideas effectively and efficiently. Finding the best words to communicate your ideas and concepts. Knowing how long to make your sentences, knowing how long to make your paragraphs. Knowing to avoid using vague and abstract words to label things. Most academic works are written in competent prose. Most of your top selling pop lit, fantasy and science fiction is written in this manner (although a few break into the next category).
>personal prose
The final stage and the stage that takes the most amount of work to achieve. Where the conventional rules for efficiency are understood, but can be bent, broken and twisted for emotional effect. The author develops his own personal style that isn't purely efficient, doing many of the things that incompetent authors do, except doing them in his own desired way for artistic effect. Something like a run on sentence being used for anxiety, or the vagueness of word choice being used to highlight a characters confusion.
Your 'good' prose would be personal prose. Where the work is better off by breaking beyond simple, clean cut competent wording, using techniques, errors and word choices that incompetent writers, but making them work in a way that works emotionally instead of coming off awkward and weird.
>>7565967
Maybe, but I'm still curious about prose specifically. Obviously, there's a subjective component to it, but is that all there is? Are there any modes of more technical/objective analysis out there?
Anyone read any Tom Robbins?
Girl reccomended me pic related and I wanna know if it's worth reading
Shawshank Redemption was better.
>archer
>debutante
>vampire
>detective
>spy
>empath (????)
>dragon
>sniper
>dancer
>werewolf
>pyromancer
>profiler
>spy
FUCK OFF NORMIES REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>7565772
>calls others normies
>has never heard the word 'empath' before
