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Can we agree that this is the only YA series worth reading?
Shit was like Infinite Jest for kids.
>>7485657
The Infinite Jest for kids is Infinite Jest.
>>7485663
Oh SHIT nigga
>>7485663
ayyyy >>7485657 Yeah of all the literature I read throughout my youth this was the series that encouraged me to expand my horizons. Count Olaf quoting Philip Larkin just beforejust before his deathserved as the gateway. I can't say with total certainty that the most literate among us would love it as much.
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So I want to give my friend's kids books for Christmas, /lit/. Last year I gave them pic related. I sort of look back to my childhood and the books I liked reading when I was their ages (7 and 9, now). But I thought I'd ask around for recommendations.
Personally, I was into the classic cannon. The Time Machine, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, Treasure Island, shit like that. People kept giving me crummy "age appropriate" pulp fiction, though, and I always hated it.
The Martian since you already started their metamorphosis into Redditors with Hitchhiker's
>>7485647
What? How do you figure? People have been reading Douglas Adams for, what, sixty years?
I mean, it's not Twilight.
Have you considered Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur trilogy? I figure if you think they're old enough for whores, alcohol, and existentialism, then they're probably old enough for bastard sons, sieges, and patricide.
Might be able to grab them on ThriftBooks for ten bucks plus shipping.
What is it you like about the style of a writer you love to read?
I like how McCarthy uses detailed description of character's seemingly mundane actions to set up the scene and tone. Then what sparse dialogue he has carries more weight even than Hemingway's iceberg. My favourite piece of his writing is the blacksmith scene in Child of God, it exemplifies it perfectly. You can see a great writer emerge in a handful of pages.
>>7485574
>mfw I will never be that goat
Why go on?
>>7485639
It's a prop, you dingus. Might as well want to be that jacket then.
>>7485671
>mfw I will never be that manure tank
>reading in public
>person asks me what am I reading
>Plague by Camus
>oh
>making a face like the not bad meme and pretending to recognise the book or the author
>I can see they havno no fucking clue whatsoever
Why do you care dude. Try carrying a conversation without being a sperg.
>reading in public
>guy asks me what im reading
>show him my copy of totalitarianism in the tundra
>he smirks cooly and a light whisper of a morning sunset growls across his lips
>cool he says and walks off
What a fuckin pleb i bet hes never even heard of it,
>>7485424
I don't fell the need to carry a conversation if they don't ask anything about the book, I'm not going to describe the book out of sudden
What's the difference between "?!" and "!?"?
>>7485376
!? is sequential ordered, domain of law
?! is asynchronous entropic, domain of chaos
It's punctuation, not grammar, dumbass.
>>7485376
?! is a dubious move, !? is an interesting move.
Why is writing poetry so difficult?
>>7485363
It isn't
>>7485530
But tit is...
>>7485363
Eddie Gordo?
I'm attempting to write some vaporwave-themed fiction.
What are some good character names?
>>7485349
some what?
>>7485349
David F. Wallace.
First names from the Hebrew Bible
Last names from pre-2000 operating systems
How the common vernacular of today might have ruined story telling of the past
>oedipus reaches the sphinx and hears it's riddle
Says Oedipus, "Oh man..."
If the common vernacular of today was used in stories from the past it wouldn't sound strange because it would be normal.
>>7485030
>it's riddle
>be me
>be at boarding school
>full of normies
>there's only one girl i've ever met who wasn't a total whore
>my chad roommate just fucked her in the backseat of somebody else's car
>i've had enough
>sleep tight, ya morons
>don't go to pencey preparatory tomorrow
Existence... well, what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can
The past is now part of my future
The present is well out of hand
>>7484913
It's turned the wrong way.
>>7484920
You're looking the wrong angle.
>>7484936
So we're kibitzing an imaginary chess game now?
I want to learn a new language by reading/translating a book from its native tongue to English. I don't have a set language in mind, but I want to choose one of the following:
Spanish
French
German
Has anyone done this? Any suggestions on a book? Language? Any tips at all?
>>7484765
How the fuck are you going to translate a book if you don't know the language?
>>7484769
Are you serious? I'm going to pick up a "x language" grammar book and dictionary. I also have google.
>>7484765
>Has anyone done this? Any suggestions on a book? Language? Any tips at all?
Yes
The Harry Potter series is available in text and audio form in pretty much any language you can think of, plus you can tell yourself "10 year old native children can handle this, I can too" while you read it for a psychological boost
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lwt/
http://ankisrs.net/
Fight Club Thread
:DDDDD first rule nerd
>>7484716
you mean second rule?
>>7484716
oh fug
Is Chomsky's lack of aesthetic/continental appeal beyond critiquing political economy the reason why he has not inspired much change in the United States?
>>7484622
I'm pretty sure It's because he's a hack talking outside of his area of expertise.
>>7484792
And once again one answer end the thread.
It's because the United States has so many structural and cultural problems.
Also, has a continental ever inspired much change in his country?
I'm halfway through this.
Guys, what the fuck am I reading?
>>7484598
Try translation
the GOAT
>>7484598
some interesting try at making an epic
not perfect, but it's a good read
Post some funny books that are not A confederacy of dunces
>>7484435
jesus christ this place is hopeless
i'm gonna post something to get the thread started
Why isn't fantasy considered quality literature?
>>7484090
If you want escapism just watch TV like the rest of the sheep.
>>7484090
because most of it is not quality? there are exceptions to the rule, but most of it is simply not good writing. this is true of a lot of genre fiction, but true of fantasy perhaps most of all (maybe only above romance or some shit). in addition to being poorly written, they also use the same tropes over and over and over again, and are surface deep.
if you read shit other than fantasy, you would know why fantasy isn't considered quality literature.
now gtfo because this discussion literally takes...
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>>7484104
Can I have some examples of the exceptions?
