How many times must one read a text in order to appreciate it like a painting or a song?
Infinity
Think about it
Twelve
Think about it
Let's have another one of these.
Sure, I'll give it another go.
>>7313594
I don't understand this
>>7314319
Spielmans father survived literally by being the biggest swindling jew ever
My recommendation for Nanowrimo?
Don't write a fucking novel. That's stupid. Do however use the deadline to force yourself to write 50,000 words. Then you will be 50,000 words closer to writing a decent novel.
So how do you do this?
50,000 /30 days = 1667 a day (I understand we're at day 2 now but fuck it).
For at least 10 days write 10 stories/scenes/summaries/dialogues of 1667 words and do not try to link them at all. Focus on the technical aspect of the writing only.
Now you have 33,000 left and 20 days. Use these to write either 3 short stories about 10,000 words each or 2 short stories of around 16,000 each.
This way you will drastically improve your writing and make use of Nanowrimo month without writing some rushed shitty novel and you will be much closer to being a decent writer. You'll also have a lot of material to critique/analyse after the month of writing is over.
>>7313555
>My recommendation for Nanowrimo?
No one asked.
>>7313573
Source: I'm George R R Martin
I'm already doing this, It's actually a lot of fun just writing everything that comes into your head.
And maybe these notes will be a novel someday, even if not right now.
How were Paul and Leto capable of seeing the future. When I read Dune a few years ago I thought their reasoning was extremely fast and accurate, and the Spice exponentially made it even more powerful, but after reading Dune Messiah and Children of Dune I not very sure.
they were literally bred to have perfect prescience. paul and leto were the result of a millennia-long breeding program
And Paul and Leto's organisms were saturated by Spice
Why do people think herapedPhoebe?
Because this is the Internet, little fishy.
Go read the fucking passage. Besides giving her a hug and bullshittinf about their parents, nothing really happens. He sees her youth and naïveté contrasted in his dying innocence but sees her really beginning to question her own environment and self.
Salinger: Surprisingly straightforward.
Because he raped his sister, phoebe.
>>7313382
Because it's in the text, you goober.
Literary Stories About Love
>tfw you're a virgin in college, first year
>take English 101 and one redhead is flawless
>never met anyone this pretty
>think Bryce Dyllas Howard wearing yoga pants and fitted button-down shirts
>two months of class go by
>you're too nervous to talk to her
>no idea what you'd say
>solution: pick one morning to do a bunch of shots before class
>tfw alcohol makes you confident
>tfw this is a great idea
>drink a bunch of Jameson's and almost pass out during a lecture on wuthering heights
>class ends
>redhead gathers her stuff, lingers by desk packing books
>she leaves
>tfw failed
>tfw you're an emotional cripple because you have zero confidence
>tfw you have zero confidence because you don't know why you're at college
>tfw you don't figure this out for the next five years and commit progressive more debased stunts in the hopes of being a ladies' man
>tfw still fucking hate the Brontes
>participate in class discussion every week, not overzealous, but i make a couple erudite comments here and there
>girls all impressed when i mention Joyce or Melville
>girl shows interest, asks to exchange numbers in case she needs help with an essay we were assigned
>feeling fly af
>finna quote Ulysses into her pussy
>don't want to fuck this up
>avoid her for the rest of my life so i dont fuck it up
>read Moby Dick a fourth time
>wallow
>first year of college
>Shit for gaydar
>Don't know which guys I can talk to.
>Don't have the confidence to talk to them anyway.
There's an awkward YA novel in there somewhere and I have to write it.
This is an /r9k/ thread. There's nothing literary about this. Kindly fuck off.
The author of Twilight rewrote it so the genders of all the cast, with the exception of Bella's father Charlie, were flipped.
Bella is now Beau (short for Beaufort) and Edward is now Edyth. I don't know about you lads but a vampire story about an introverted boy who gets a strong vampire girlfriend who wants to drink his blood sounds like a great read to me.
I've been reading the new version which I got a torrent off of pirate bay really easily. It's good so far, the writing, as you would expect, is questionable, but like Harry Potter it's addictive because of its simplicity.
Anyway, if anyone else reads it lets talk about it. What other stories do you think would benefit from being gender-swapped? Know any good stories with a shy guy/ confident girl dynamic that already exists? I'd love to give it a read.
>>7313162
Excellent troll post
>>7313172
Not a troll post mate. I get why you think it would be though.
>>7313185
Well then I really don't know what to say. I think, in general, gender is pretty important to an authors presentation of character and would distort it's message if it was changed to something ridiculous. In the cases when it's not, it'd just superficial and signs more of badwrriting.
Don't read much romance (read Twight in my tweens though) which is probably the best genre for it.
Does /lit/ listen to music while reading?If so what kind?
Amadeus or a bit of the ol' Ludwig Van desu
I personally like to watch a movie and swim while reading, haven't tried listening to music yet.
>>7313152
Classical if it's just comfy reading (research papers, works that I'm not going to analyze or think about). Earplugs if it's not (when I'm studying, analyzing, or the text is difficult).
Where do I start with Noam Chomsky?
The trash bin.
American Power and the New Mandarins
>>7313138
On Language
How does /lit/ feel about phonetic accent and dialect portrayal?
>>7312973
It's a dumb gimmick that's fun in small measures and tedious if you decide to fill large chunks of your book/story/whatever with it.
>>7312986
Think you'll find that regularised spelling that takes little notice of how people actually pronounce and talk, making everyone sound the same, is the dumb gimmick.
>>7312973
>welsh
Please stop; you're tainting my love of this board.
Just finished this, please tell me other people here have actually read it. I need to discuss what is definitely the most difficult book I've ever encountered. It's confusing and at many times as excellent as it is confusing but it is also not without its flaws.
>>7312916
I don't think most of us have read it. Isn't it out of print at the moment? You'll probably have better luck if/when that reprint I heard rumors about actually happens.
>>7312916
Share your thoughts. I'd like to hear what the book is about.
>>7312938
I got it from my girlfriends university library and I was the first person ever to take it out since they got it in 1987 it was weird
So I just read pic related, and I think it was a fantastic book.
However, it really made me realize how much I dislike realism in lit. The writing style is really good, but at the same time it's terse to the point of making you forget you are even reading a book; almost as if I'm just seeing scenes from the book in my head in sequence.
Does anyone know what I mean? I really loved the book though.
>it really made me realize how much I dislike realism in lit
so you dislike a good majority of the western canon...?
>>7312861
Depends what books you are talking about to be honest, because it's not that I hate it, it's just that I prefer other things, like more avant-garde stuff, and maybe more magical realism in a sense.
>>7312874
What do you mean by
> making you forget you are even reading a book; almost as if I'm just seeing scenes from the book in my head in sequence.
since that's essentially what a book is. Do you define/think of books as escapism or something?
Aight /lit/ Favorite Chekhov story/play ?
My Life was brilliant.
I only read Three Sisters at the age of 17 and didn't like it much then.
Story - Gooseberries. Seriously, it's fucking brilliant.
The dingle in my nuggies was the best 1
Apart from White Noise, how is the quality of Don DeLillo's work?
I just bought Great Jones Street, Point Omega, Underworld and the Angel Esmeralda short story collection on impulse because they were on sale.
it's nothing super amazing but the rest of his stuff is heaps better than white noise
i've read underworld, white noise, and mao ii
mao ii is a failure
white noise is really solid and quite funny
underworld is breathtaking at parts. probably too long but some of the best passages in postwar american literature
delillo is an amazing stylist but he has obvious faults (monotonous character construction, clumsily inherited pynchonisms, ambitions he can't quite match)
>>7312317
Alright thanks. I get the impression you aren't much of a DeLillo fan at all
What was wrong with Nagel? Why did hekill himself[?/spoiler]
He was a bat in human form.
He's alive senpai
What's Knut Hamsun's best book?
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