What's the best version? What publisher? Which ones have helpful annotations?
Pls help.
Find one, read it. You do not need annotations, or guides, or to have read the Odyssey. If totally lost simply look up a section/chapter summary and continue. Enjoy it.
>>7478311
This, OP.
I might advise you read Dubliners / Portrait first, but I firmly believe you could read Ulysses without having read anything else and still enjoy it.
>>7478424
I dunno, man. I am usually pretty dismissive of people trying to foist companion texts or prerequisite readings on people for a book, but reading Portrait seems pretty important to understanding Stephen's state in the novel.
Hey /lit/. I'm 31.
On one hand, I still haven't finished my debut. On the other hand, I don't have a couple piles of shit to my name.
How old is too old, /lit/?
Looking for inspiring stories of people who debuted late, and disheartening stories to make me wallow in misery and quit the arts altogether.
How well-read are you is the real question?
We don't need any more writers who don't read saturating the market with their semi-illiterate garble desu.
>>7478253
You're not too old to produce something meaningful, but you are too old to still be on this godforsaken site. Leave. Save yourself.
Allan Rickman didn't into acting until he was like 41.
What are your experiences with trying to get published? Magazines, novels, etc.
As for me, I've only been published a few times.
>>7479134
tell us more
>>7479140
I've only been writing since 2012, and I'd submit something to a magazine once or twice a year.
I feel fortunate, because I usually don't have to wait that long for acceptances. I just wonder if some magazines even read my submissions.
>Yo Anon why don't you monetize new sincerity like me?
>Don't ever play yoself.
makes snapchat that repeats the same meme catchphrases.
>LYE-ON!
>Another One
>Bless up
>we da bess
>They don't want you to x
>>7478077
he really is pretty business savvy isnt he
GCAH-LIT
>>7478077
Fuck off, if DJ Khaled is new sincerity then... wait holy shit fuck
successor to postmodernism confirmed
is this any good? should I read it now that I've seen the movie?
>>7478047
I liked that sex scene with Kristen Dunst.
>>7478052
well yeah, it's Kirsten Dunst.
>>7478052
>>7478167
What do you want to with Kirsten Dunst?
Shoulda been called A Farewell to Leg
>The Old Man and the Sea
shoulda been called
>The Young Man and the City
ba dum tss
>>7478056
I don't get it but then again I haven't read it either
Just finished a French 101 class. I have to take another French class for my degree but I won't be able to take it until the fall semester. Recommending fairly easy French books to read so I don't forget all that I've learned before then.
>>7477825
>have to take another French class for my degree
What degree?
>>7477825
French 101? I'd guess that's probably getting you to A2 or B1 level. Read stupid shit like Camus. If you want to build a vocab quickly, read Flaubert.
>>7477840
Bachelors in Digital Media Production.
>inb4 why are you wasting your time on such a pleb degree?
It's what I like, mang. I'm not competent enough for a STEM degree.
>>7477727
Only really started listening to them two weeks ago. I only know Dan Carlin atm, listened to Wrath of the Khans completely, halfway through WWI podcast now. I'd like some other topics or other people, though. Maybe even just storytellers.
I'm aware of them but have never felt the need to listen to them. If I want to switch off my brain I'll listen to music, if I want to learn I'll listen to recorded lectures. Why would I want to listen to some random knobjockey prattle on about whatever they feel like talking about based solely on their dull interests?
>>7477761
uhh, what? Podcasts are basically lectures.
Write a story or a poem based on this painting.
Monks watch as a strange enemy naval fleet descends upon their tiny sea-side state. This is the breathless moment before cannons start to fire. The black onedeath, bows his head in silence, and waits. The red onewar, prepares to cast off his cassock and take up the sword, as he is young and reckless,but eternal.
do your own homework
crossdressing with my butch friend
he has to turn away whiIe pee
I piss mind bending geometry
Has anyone read any of the books on this list? If so, what are your thoughts on it/them? I'm trying to find out which ones are worth reading.
sacred wood, the paris review interviews, and simon leys are all def. worth reading
the abc of reading was pure fucking nonsense start to finish
avoid edmund wilson, he was a shitty contrarian critic and hardcore marxist (shat all over LOTR and Ulysses, most of the books he commends are all lost to history)
the eco collection is disappointing. I was excited given how much of a pedant he was but his actual essays are mediocre.
Gass' nonfiction is kinda meh besides one hilarious account of a Wittgenstein lecture he once attended, all of his fiction is breathtaking though.
avoid Borges' non-fiction too, broke my heart to learn he was an edgy schopenhauerian at core
>>7477650
Noted. Thanks, anon.
read how fiction works about a month back. first of this kind of thing i ever read except for a few things in high school. really liked it. lots of good advice for readers and writers. want to keep reading similar shit. thank you for turning me on to this list.
Best Mein Kampf translation? I want a translation that has not been altered far from its original state.
>not reading Mein Kampf auf Deutsch
>Kristallnacht + 77
>>7484835
won't be available for another 2 weeks
>>7484821
Keep /pol/ on /pol/. This isn't /lit/ related. This is you spreading fascism. SAGED! The mods will take care of your off topic thread soon.
I'm terrible at writing dialogue. Looking for books with great dialogue to learn from.
Go outside and eavesdrop on some real conversations you nonce.
>>7477293
But everyone outside has an IQ in double digits and nothing interesting to talk about.
Go read some plays
Is this book any good? Got it as a gift last Christmas, but I'm not gonna read 1000+ pages, unless I know its at least decent and I heard its kind of unfinished...
Is this thread any good? It got posted just now but I'm not going to read it, unless I know the OP isn't a moron.
>>7477100
Its great. Without a doubt the best book published in the 21st century so far. English version is only something like 900 pages. Pretty easy read also, I sped through it. It took me longer to read Crime and Punishment which is only around 400-500 pages depending on the translation.
there was a cool thread on it earlier this week and i really liked what this anon had to say
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S7468196#p7469822
Students of /lit/, what do you study?
Simple poll for general overview: https://www.strawpoll.me/6299132
>all these fellow STEMfags
Wow, didn't realize that we were so many
I studied
F I N A N C E
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>>7477087
>pick one
Both desu
Which language has produced the best literature ?(other than English)
>>7482942
Romance languages
god tier languages:
french
german
english
russian
greek
>(other than English)
