An evil witch has cursed you, you suddenly become fluent in three languages but may never read translations, which languages do you choose?
english, spanish, japanese
>>7549128
French, German, Russian.
Latin, German, Enlish
Fess up, anons. Have you ever intentionally plagiarized something? This is an anonymous space, you can be honest.
>>7548226
Once I performed Pink Floyd's Hey You and claimed it was an original composition.
I regularly take popular/real author's styles and try to write something new in them. I think that's not uncommon.
I am in a constant state of paranoia that if I post any of my ideas online for any reason, no matter how vague or truncated, someone else will steal them and write it themselves.
Hey /lit/, so seeing as your board is totally inundated with newcomers currently, should we have a QTDDTOT (questions that don't deserve their own thread) thread to try and tidy things up?
Anyways, I'll start with a few I have.
>what Dostoyevsky do I need to read before Karamazov?
>what are some good resources for checking on the quality of various editions/translations of a book, so I don't buy a shit one?
>what are some good online resources for learning better grammar, prose and for learning to analyse a book for themes, characters and prose?
Thanks.
>>7541458
> What Dostoyevsky do I need to read before Karamazov?
I read his shorter works - Notes From Underground, The Double, The Meek One - and then read his other main novels - The Idiot, Devils and Crime & Punishment - before tackling The Brothers Karamazov. There's no real order to do it in, but if you've not read Dostoyevsky before, his shorter works will be the least taxing. Hope that helps, anon.
>>7541469
Thanks. I've been lurking here for a couple of weeks and Notes from Underground seems popular. I might get that and/or Crime and Punishment. How do I assure I don't get a crap translation? Spelling mistakes and stuff also drive me mad, they always kill my immersion.
Do I treat The Divine Comedy as one book with three main parts or three books?
I have faith in your intelligence, /lit/.
This belongs to /lit/ for it is about The Bible, which is a book.
LET'S DANCE.
>God creates animals
>God creates a man and a woman
>God creates a special tree
>God orders the man and the woman to avoid eating from that tree
>a snake, which is a good creature created by God, makes the good woman created by God eat from the forbidden tree
>the woman makes the good man created by God eat too
Three good creatures created by God, who is completely good, perform evil actions.
Where does evil come from?
CHOOSE:
>God creates evil and puts it in the snake, in the woman and in the man; therefore, God is Satan.
>God is so weak that Satan (evil supernatural being that was not created by God) introduces evil in his garden without him noticing it (therefore, God is not omnipotent, God is not infallible, God is not omniscient, and God is not God).
>inb4 absurd shit
>inb4 trolls (won't reply to them)
>>7554959
>Three good creatures created by God, who is completely good, perform evil actions.
>Where does evil come from?
Free will
>>7554959
God is Abraxas. There is no pure Good or pure Evil.
>>7554981
>inb4 absurd shit
think again
Why did A Camus receive nobel prize? What did he accomplish as a writer?
Official explanation
"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"
To me he seems just like whiny child who disregards honor, emotion, respect and empathy (you know, all the normal human feelings) and then wonders why life sucks
I've read Stranger, Plague and Fall.
>>7553815
you don't get the zeitgeist
and you haven't read his most important work
>>7553815
>disregards honor, emotion, respect and empathy
>>7553815
>What did he accomplish as a writer?
He wrote a bunch of pretty good books.
The Nobel prize isn't really a 'best writer' award, and you shouldn't treat it as such. The Nobel committee is frequently accused of blundering when awarding the literature Nobel(not giving it to Borges and Tolstoy, for instance).
>But in the end, it was all just a portrait of the artist as a young man
Joyce you hack
LOOKS LIKE CHILI'S BACK ON THE BANE SHEEV
>>7550320
And but so, in the end when all was said and done [392], this is water.
>and but for ONAN and the tennis players, incandenza would've reveled in his infinite jest
FUCK YOU DAVID
What books do you see yourself reading a decade from now when you are done all the primary canon?
>>7549115
who is this pure whore
20th Century Philosophy.
I realize it may seem like I'm exaggerating for comic effect or something like that, but is anybody else in a position in life where looking at images like the one posted by OP has such an emotional impact that it's rather difficult to prevent yourself from allowing tears to fall from your eyes? Gosh adult life is so heartbreaking, its brevity is tragic and the scarcity of beauty can leave me so helplessly despondent. Despite all my analysing and logical reasoning and genuine efforts to attribute meaning to an objectively meaningless and purposeless university, I am forced to conclude, either by some form of reasoning I'vet yet to fully comprehend or some biological mechanism which forces me to think this way, that love, el oh vee eeh LOVE is the only redeeming virtue in existence. To live a life without affection, to exist as little more than a ghost, to have your heart beat so quickly for something you will never attain is just so depressing. There is a reason most song, books, movies and so on are all dedicated primarily to the near-ineffable emotion, or feeling or phenomena that is the love of an adult human being.
From your gut, just spill out your top 5 novels. Try not to think about it too much, lest you doubt yourself/worry about people calling you pleb, etc. Mine are, in no particular order
Mason & Dixon (Pynchon)
Les Miserables (Hugo)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami) -- inb4 pleb
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
Gravity's Rainbow
Blood Meridian
Angela's Ashes
Last and First Men
Roadside Picnic
The Sound and the Fury
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
>>7547048
The Hobbit
The Magician's Nephew
Dune
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
A Game of Thrones
Fuck Rothfuss edition
Recommendations:
Fantasy
>http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110612005642
Sci-Fi
>http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100710233344
>http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
>What you are you currently reading?
>Favorite New Wave novel?
>Favorite old fantasy author?
I'M HERE BECAUSE I LOVE ALIENS AND I WANT AN ALIEN GF
>>7522080
A girl hugged me today and we'll go see some classical concerts and balet.
Alien gf won't be necessary.
>>7522067
Do you know what break line is OP?
wtf is a pleb.
you
ITT: Redditor covertly attempts to glean our sacred knowledge
That's such a pleb question
Poast your desks litizens
>>7551697
desks are for faggots
>>7551697
Nice furniture, who chose it, your shareholders? Generic/10
>shelf collapses and severe blunt trauma to your sleeping head renders you a bed-ridden vegetable for the rest of your life
Opinions on this book(Stranger in a Strange Land).
I like it.
>>7549755
That Heineken dude was waay ahead of his time. SiaSL is the OG Neckbeard's bible.
*tips grok*
What are the best career paths that an English/Philosophy major can take? I would like to maybe be a fiction writer some day, but I don't want to be a poor fuck while I'm writing the damn book either.
By best, I mean careers with a decent salary/careers that don't take up all my time and ener so that I still have the ability to write
paralegal
teacher
>>7545783
Teach English in Asia, meet people, develop business contacts.
YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS
BAD BOOK COVERS THREAD
Im at my university library right now and its empty because most plebs arent in classes and they only come here to do class work
There is a MAJOR qt a the circulation desk
Somebody rec me a good book to check out to impress and strike up a conversation with the QT working at the desk.
Be quick pls
Les Chants de Maldoror
is that a girl or a boy? cute either way
>>7544337
>OP: Hey,,,, can i check ou thitis,, book its called.. "GUn GRITS AND STEEL BY" JERROD DIAMOND ha ha
>QT: ok sure. here you go. bye!
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