I would like you to recommend books about creepy white guys.
Lovecraft is pretty much the epitome of creepy white guys
>>7332168
Are his works about creepy white guys as well though, or is it more 'exposition on the mind of a creepy white guy'?
It's written from the POV of a James Dahmer type serial killer.
Does anyone know of good books about the principles of translation to English in general or specifically for Arabic?
I'm interested in translating literature and poetry to English so if there are books or essays that have a focus on that I'd be interested.
Thanks
>>7332094
bump
>>7332094
I don't know. do you speak Arabic?
Just learn the Arabic words for God, great, and rape. You should be all set, then.
This is the opening line of my nearly complete novel and I'm not sure what is the best way to word it:
>At twenty one/When I was twenty one
>I was on the verge of/I felt like/I was close to/
>killing my dad/murdering my dad
>and I mean that quite literally/and I don't mean that lightly/and that's no exaggeration.
I'm sure you can come up with other variants, but what do you prefer and WHY? Can you share your stories of meticulously deconstructing a sentence and any rules which would help me with this? I know for example there were around 40 different final sentences for A Farewell to Arms. As this is the first line it needs to introduce conflict and be shocking but realistic and I am not a fan of overly complicated prose.
>>7332064
What an edgy opening sentence.
>>7332064
>When I was twenty-one
>I felt like
>Killing my dad
>all these choices are garbage.
2/10, would show first paragraph to my friends to laugh at if I stumbled on it in a bookstore. I probably wouldn't take a picture to send it to friends who weren't there though, and would forget about it quickly because it isn't that level of edgy.
At twenty one I almost killed my dad.
I need to write a poem about an emotion or something. No rhyming helllpp
and then i sat
in my chair
and waited
for my dog
to like my balls
i love my dog
together we will be strong
the summer came
and so did i
angrily
inside a guy
then OP said i could not rhyme
so i came
a second time
inside
his ass
fuck that makes me hungry now
like i want mayo and tomato seeds
drooling down either side of my chin
as i tear chicken coating in my teeth
and feel the sauce streams reunite
Why didn't you decide to study Literature or Philosophy?
>>7331943
I fell for the STEM meme unfortunately.
Anyways designing ships won't be that bad I reckon.
because the secrets of being are found elsewhere my friend
OP here. I'm really passionate about literature, but I'm going to start Computer Science next year. How fucked am I?
¿Qué tal un hilo en español?
¿Cuál es el último libro que han leido? ¿Están escribiendo o tienen pensado escribir algo?
>>7331895
warum immer ñ mein freund? gibt es kein anderes Motiv um ein Gespräch über Themen, die mit der spanischsprachigen Welt verwandt sind, einzuleiten?
\ ñ.ñ /
Hay hispachan.
>prose
very good my friend
>poetry
>>7331814
What's the purpose of the thread?
All it's done is make me sad to not live in a time where amphetamines were OTC and jazz was alive.
R8 my purchase
Also, are these good renditions of Nietzsche?
remove price tags my friend
>>7331783
I will. Just managed to find these bargain prices at my local bookstore.
stupid attentionwhore/10
I like "insane for revenge" type stories like pic related.
Rec some.
Another good example.
Last one from me.
You mean "SUCH A LUST FOR REVENGE?" sotries.MGS5:^)
I think I've only seen this book posted in corn threads, which is how I think I found out about it, but has anyone read this? I finished it a few days ago.
My initial impression was that the novel would be a refreshing contrast to the older works I usually read, with all its modern references (including 4chan, desu) and simple prose. I did find it quite refreshing indeed, but also at times found it to be just a bit boring, or at least found myself wondering what the point was of reading a book chronicling some guys drug-filled life as he traveled around the United States and Taiwan.
Taipei reminded me a great deal of On the Road by Kerouac and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Thompson. In all three books I had the similar reaction of being somewhat entertained but wondering what the purpose of such a book was. When I reached the end of Taipei, I found that unlike Fear and Loathing, there was no overt message about modern society or the drug culture or the way we live.
Taipei for me was powerful kind of in the same way the end of Infinite Jest was. At the end of IJ I had a sort of 'holy shit' feeling, and I felt similar, but not quite as strong after finishing Taipei. I thought the way Tao Lin chronicled Paul's spiritual and mental "bottom" of his drug addiction was beautiful and allowed the reader to really feel the lack of feeling and malaise that comes with addiction.
Anyways, has anyone else read Taipei, or any of Tao Lin's other work? What did you think?
Yeah I read it somewhat recently because of this board. I liked it immensely, Tao Lin can definitely write. Sometimes it was a little close for comfort, like I was reading my own thoughts.
I don't think addiction is really the main theme of the novel though. Certainly its a major part of the novel, but I think Paul's relationships are the main attraction. As someone who just came out of a LTR, he was dead on in capturing how a relationship expands and then becomes stifling, and how it all happens under the microscope of social media. He did a really good job showing how people are aware of their own growing relationship, how they believe there is a set path for it to go along, and then how in the end their vision of how it should of gone doesn't scratch up to reality. This feeling is very depressing, and again its magnified by people seeing it on social media, and you seeing other people being successful in their relationships on social media.
>>7331604
I read it. I hated at the beginning because shit like
>like an amoeba trying to write CSS
but it turned out to be ok near the end. Not a great nor good book by any means, but an ok reading I'd say.
My kindle says I'm 82% done with Taipei, so i guess I'll finish it tomorrow.
I found it to be much better and lucid than anything HST had to offer. Some moments are genuinely sublime. It really captures the modern, socially anxious perspective on the whole party/internet culture.
Sure some moments were less interesting, but i would never say that there was a part in the book, that made me feel earnestly bored with it.
Even when Tao Lin takes his time, he still manages to do it in a sort of dynamic way. I don't really know how to say it... Let's just say that I never felt like he's spinning he's wheels. Things are always moving forward and I always found those small moments of truly masterful descriptions. I would quote some of them but I'm lazy.
The only part that left a bed taste in my mouth is that pointlessFirst McDonald in Taiwan videotaping scene, i was just waiting for it to come to an end. Yeah i got it that they are high and kids are wierd and funny.
But other than that it all fits quite well together.
Some characters abruptly come and go, but i think that's the part of the statement about our society and the major point of the book.
Same goes for depiction of the drug use, that is handled perfectly. Pacing always follows characters current mental state, Paul's memory problems and pageant of his mental images, the way Tao handles those concepts was great... I really enjoyed letting my mind be carried by his descriptive stream of those images.
Overall i think this definitely is one of my all time favorites and deserves to be reread someday. It is, in a way, a product of our times, so comparison to Fear and Loathing is not out of place. However I believe it is much more conscious, mature piece of literature. I have a lot of problems with Hunter S. Thomson, but i only read one of his books so maybe ill change my mind.
Im tired af, but i hope that is good enough.
I'm really happy /lit/ made me come across this book. Fuck all the memeing chucklefucks that try to undermine this piece. I take a steaming shit on you all and Tao Lin is the fucking boss.
Help me find this book, /lit/.
A boy falls in love with a girl.
Unable to confess, he is gifted by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.
But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.
Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.
Is this copypasta? I remember reading this post recently. Wasn't it in a thread where someone was explaining the plot of their planned story?
>>7331489
It sounds like shit.
>>7331489
FINDS A WAY
Thoughts on this book?
Absolute quality.
>>7331468
3/4 of the way through, I thought I didn't care about prose before reading this book, but now I can't get over how beautifully written the whole thing is. The story is very slow and I wouldn't care to read about wales if it weren't written so well
shit for drones.
if it was reddit's favourite book it wouldn't even get a look in
What is the best edition of Moby Dick?
>>7331446
the one i put in yr mom
>>7331449
>>/any board but this one/
>four century old book's new edition has introduction by modern writer
>>7331385
>Beowulf with introduction by John Green
>>7331385
>book has introduction by Harold Bloom
>no relation to the book; just Bloom talking about Shakespeare and referring to himself as an 'old gnostic'
>>7331396
the introduction to that Hart Crane collected poems is like that
he talks more about walt whitman in it and his own experience reading Crane as a 12 year old than he does about Crane or his poetry kek
what are the essential works of borusakku-sama?
>honor the ballsack
come on guys this isn't a joke thread I really wanna know
