>reads Plato once
>reads marx once
>reads Kant once
>reads Lacan once
hello /lit/
im looking for a book about a man who lives forever and has hones all of his skills perfectly
strange request i know
Read it years ago but 100 Years of Solitude may partially fulfill this
Doctor Faustus
He lives foreverin hell
>>7505522
Not at all.
>avoid adverbs
>use simple phrases
>use short words
>focus on the story, prose is just an obstacle you have to overcome
>>7505059
you're an idiot. it's the reverse. MFA retards think shitty purple prose will make their insipid bourgeois tripe, where nothing happens and people are depressed because le human condition, worth reading.
>book is a square
>reader is a square
>book is black
>book is printed on glossy paper
Alright /lit/ I wrote 15000 words. The first chapter of which I turned into a podcast prototype this morning that's, eh, kind of like an audio book? At any rate, 14 minutes of your time, tell me all the things that I fucked up, and maybe if something was okay.
I know it's garbage tier, but do you think you could help a poor guy out and give me some hints on how to make it better?
https://soundcloud.com/valkyrieundornifex/pale-blue-vol-i-a-house-of-flame-chapter-1
>>7504483
Please post the text. I'm not listening to your fagcast
>>7504502
this
What is your favorite novel of his, /lit/?
Wind-Up or Kafka
I'm not a woman who reads YA vampire fiction, so I wouldn't know.
>>7504261
>>>/tumblr/
wind up bird is his only half decent book. he's a shit author.
Find a flaw.
You like it.
Supreme mediocrity.
The way he described Julia was cringe worthy in my opinion. Almost like how a male teenager would describe their ideal girl
I'm looking for a good book by/about Joseph Stalin, but not just a boring history textbook telling me when he was born, what date he did this, etc.
Is there anything that can give me new, interesting information I might not otherwise discover?
Stephen Kotkin is currently writing the multi-volume definitive biography of Stalin if you're interested
>>7501629
Koba The Dread by Martin Amis is exactly what you're looking for. You're welcome. Enjoy.
Best biography on him I've read so far. Yes, it goes through his life but is extremely well written.
The new US cover for Infinite Jest
are they forever joking?
>>7501315
fuck you
>DFW he died 15 years ago
Christmas edition!
i wonder what's gonna happen next year
i wonder if i'll find better friends
i wonder if i'll get deported
i wish i had some opiates rn
Will be spending Christmas alone for the first time ever. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. But at least there will be plenty of time to read on my own. Just finished making myself dinner, which consisted of meat-filled ravioli and pumpkinseed oil-- It was yummy. Might even have enough time to go catch a flick or something. I also heard it's popular to go out clubbing on Christmas in this city, so I might consider doing that. Lastly, the Deutsch girl in this flat I'm staying in is so fucking hot, and I would absolutely rawdawg it with her and impregnate her with my seed.
i wanna fucking wack off but since it's a holiday all my roommates are off from work...i want to do some reading and programming, but i'm horny as shit and keep browsing porno
Because tonight is Christmas eve, here's a little something I just wrote to get you in the right mood and remember what's most important.
It's the latest chapter from "Practice what you Peach", about a peach farmer who hates peaches.
Enjoy. And have a merry Christmas.
>new paragraph and indentation for dialogue
a peach wouldnt fall to pieces from hitting a gravel driveway 2bh F A M
>people not appreciating the best /lit/-produced work since taipei
Its poetry arranged in a more efficient way
>been browsing /lit/ for 2 years
>still haven't finished the greeks
>>7499663
Have you tried Google-ing it?
>>7499669
Yes.
Why haven't any elitists revived Latin as a living language like the Jews did with their Hebrew?
>>7496853
I'll take "Things that are the Vatican City" for 200
>>7496864
I thought they just mostly used Italian these days?
Do they have small talk in Latin in the hallways?
This is a valid idea. People should start writing works in Latin (preferably medieval latin instead of roman worshipping).
How can I get comfortable with my own writing style? No matter how much I read (mostly Joyce, Ray Bradbury, Shakespeare, and J. D. Salinger right now), I can't seem to have my own register of language when I write:
I wrote pic related (I posted it in a critique thread) and most feedback said it was a unique style, but too formal and too hard to follow - I'm worried that this may arise from me subconsciously trying to imitate the books I have read in the past (obviously, too ambitious a task).
What advice is there for this?
>>7506470
"a writer is a reader driven to imitation" the stock advice here is that you just have to keep writing
but I'd also keep in mind that there are a lot of decisions to make in every sentence. write towards an aesthetic end on a small and large scale. starting out this "aesthetic end" is probably best thought of as "what would I want to read?"
so if you write "Barbara stuck her dick in Jim's ass with force" and then say wellll as a reader I'd like to see "Barbara, with force, stuck her dick in Jim's ass." but then you also think wellll overall I don't think I want to be so literal so you rewrite it "Barbara, with force, slid her johnson into Jim's hole" and then a month and 40 pages later you realize Barbara's forceful dick has great thematic relevance so you go back and tweak it according to its new importance, etc etc etc
>I'm worried that this may arise from me subconsciously trying to imitate the books I have read in the past
That's exactly the thing. And it's okay. In a creative field like literature people often forget that imitation is in the core of human learning.
A unique style comes after alot of writing. Usually after you have completed a few works, for some people it comes after being published, even. You need to get really comfortable with transforming whats on your mind into prose, then your own unique voice will slowly be revealed. You could also try and tweak elements of your style once it is established, even if it is too simillar to someone elses at the begining.
Read early Dosto and compare with Gogol. Obviously a (good) imitation).
>>7506497
kek
What should I expect going into this?
just fucking read the book you dumb cunt
Expect extensive Wikipedia citations and Yu-Gi-Oh
>>7504306
It's over 1000 pages, it's not that unreasonable to ask this stuff.
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