Hi, guys, I'm really new here and I have a question:
I have recently translated a book for a publishing house from English (Darkest part of the forest, not really my cup of tea, but I sort of enjoyed the murder scenes), and now they want to give me the start of a seven-part series. The problem is, they didn't tell me the fucking name. I don't know why, I was on the phone with the boss a second ago.
I would like to try and ask you guys if, by the clues I have, you could find the saga so that I can read it in advance and know what the fuck I'm getting into:
>It's a heptalogy
>the second part of the saga has already been filmed
>It's science fiction
>I don't know anything else
Please, help me, I'm really scared, I only did one literary translation so far, and I'm afraid that with school I won't be able to work fast enough (I'm studying translation at school and it's approximately 4 pages every week). I either need a schedule or I need to decline. But first I want to know what I'm getting. Help?
>pic unrelated, fifty shades of Franku
Sounds like John Marsden's Tomorrow Series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_series
>>7365040
Why don't you call your boss back and ask?
>>7365056
Holy shit bruv, that might just be it. If it is so, I'll be damned, I want to translate that!
>...Nevertheless, [Ellie] is often scared and uncertain of her actions
Fuck. Another bitch whining about being in love and then destroying a fucking big-ass enemy. Is it any good?
I'm a senor in high school and I want my next book report to be on pic. But I think my teacher will think it's "not appropriate for school". Anyone here have similar stories or have any suggestions. BTW I turned 18 a month ago.
>>7364958
hi senĚor
>>7364958
talk about how Anthony Burgess completely misses the point about human free-will as brute metaphysical fact
>>7364958
Talk about how he was pissed the novel made it so huge since he actually wrote it from the imagined perspective of the rapist who actually fucked his wife
I have to write a satirical short story on some sort of issue for an assessment and it's due tomorrow, what should I do it on?
>>7364954
le SJW maymay
>>7364954
Viral marketing
>>7364957
Interesting, I don't know what the plot could be though?
Just finished this, remembered that it was available in English because of the Paris attacks.
What did you think?
Also, I've read almost everything this guy has written, and like it, what should I read next?
that man is skin stretched over a walking blob of tar. have you ever seen anyone look so cancerous before in your life?
Gonna read it soon since I liked The Elementary Particles a lot, and I like JK Huysmans who apparently the protag of Soumission is obsessed with or something, so should be rad for me.
>>7364932
>Judging a person by its cover
Read it?
It's pretty good, but the sequels get a little weird.
>>7364678
is this like halo
>>7364684
Same kinda idea, but a much larger scale. Both are Dyson rings. Niven cowrote another series about a Dyson hemisphere called bowl of heaven.
Prerequisites?
>>7364639
None. Jump right in.
Autism
russell, frege, early wittgenstein, etc.
What are some of your favorite novels that use a stream-of-consciousness prose?
>>7364638
The Sound and the Fury is my favorite soc Faulkner
Ulysses
The Waves and To the Lighthouse
Zeno's Conscience has some soc moments
Tropic of Capricorn
>>7364665
I came here to say The Sound and the Fury myself.
The Sun Also Rises would probably be a runner up for me, as would Child of God and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
>>7364665
>The Sound and the Fury is my favorite soc Faulkner
Good to know I'm not the only one :)
>You will never write as wasted as Borges
i mean, just look at his eyes! the man was fucked!
>>you will never write as wasted as Borges
What the fuck is stopping you?
>>7364574
I'm wasted with every post on this site
>>7364574
>when the methylated spirits renew your outlook on life
What's your program of choice for your literary ambitions? Word has become too ugly.
>Does anyone write solely by hand any more?
I draw blood from my own veins to replenish my fountain pen, to remind myself that art is pain.
>>7364494
Merely 9/10
Currently writing in OpenOffice.
Turned off most of the autocorrect/autoformatting bullshit, but occasionally it still turns three hyphens into a page break or something dumb.
what is /lit/'s opinion on Dune?
I read it about two years ago.
Enjoyed it. Listened to the Halo soundtracks while I read to reinforce the sci-fi feeling.
As much as I enjoyed it, though, I didn't really feel an urge to read any of the sequels.
The movie wasn't awful, but with all the cuts and such, I can understand why Lynch had his name pulled.
>>7364413
Something like 40 minutes of the film was cut right?
>>7364425
More than two hours actually
I want to study Napoleon. There's nothing on the wiki. Where do I start? Preferably something close to objective
fuck it, if we're gonna be off-topic the new BSMR album just leaked, thought ya'll shud kno
>>7364367
>BSMR
BMSR
fuck
1984 vs. Brand New World. What had a better or more effective dystopia? Which do you think our world would end up in?
we are not having this thread again
please die
>BNW
>dystopia
>>7364198
>being a pleasure drone
I have to bullshit 12 pages of an essay by tomorrow. its about a horrible topic that I do not ever wish to write about, ever. I do not ever wish to write or be a writer ever, but its too late to refund this piece of shit class so I might as well try to pass.
any tips or advice? plagiarising is not really my goal, and its hardly a topic that could be plagiarised anyway
if you can find some Adderall or Ritalin then your pretty set.
>>7364105
1. Look up a few articles on your topic and copy/paste huge relevant chunks of them into a word document.
2. Edit down the mass block of text until it's the right length for your essay and is a few barely coherent paragraphs written by an idiot.
3. Go through the text line-by-line and replace everything with rewordings and synonyms. Make sure not a single sentence of the essay matches the source text.
4. Add introductions and conclusions to each paragraph.
5. Give your essay a lame and generalized thesis and conclusion like "X is an issue with many contributing and correlating factors."
6. Run your pseudoplagiarized work through Viper Plagiarism Checker (Google) and make edits until you're at 0% plagiarism.
7. Sprinkle a few random citations of related articles you didn't plagiarize.
This is a lot less intimidating and MUCH less work than staring at a blank page and writing an essay from scratcg. Also, you might develop an interest halfway through and actually do the assignment.
Hey, /lit/. This is a weird request but I thought you could help me out here; I need a username, and I, for the life of me, cannot think of one. Could you help me, /lit/izens?
David Woster Fallace
hot_bitch_666
xXxSharingan_Sephiroth420xXx
Getting through Naked Lunch and what was, at first, cumbersome to read became extremely enjoyable. His prose and irreverent subject matter makes for an interesting read.
Soundtrack for the thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOACcFkmwt8
>>7364005
Also, want to add that I can clearly see his influence on Pynchon (at least Gravity's Rainbow) with the barrage of irrelevant acronyms, random names, and seamless transitions.
>>7364013
That's great to hear. Tell me, what you think about the Jeeeeews...?
>>7364015
All they wanna do is doodle christian girls..
