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Where to start with James Joyce and then where to go?
>>8225798
this is not a question
fuck you
Dubs
Portrait
Ulysses
Finnegans
no easier answer in the entirety of literature
Dubliners
Chamber Music
Exiles
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Pomes Peyach
Finnegans Wake
That'll take ya a year or 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAAqiO_Z9Vs
along with Inherent Vice, might this be the rebirth of literary kino?
>>8225771
That book was trash, and I don't expect the movie to be any different.
>>8225796
The book is excellent, actually, but a lot of Roth's books have film adaptations.
Lol of course they show the explosion right at the start of the trailer because that's what gets audiences interested
Any books that explain how buddhism and stoicism are similar/related?
yes
Why Buddhism and Stoicism are Both Bullshit For Pseuds Who Want To Look Deep Without Intellectually Engaging with Anything
>>8225751
>continentalists
Why is this considered a great book? And why it took years until it gained popularity?
it's cleanly written, self-aware but not obnoxiously so, and the theme of life being a constant stream of disappointment resonates with this generation, also, marketing.
>>8225738
>cleanly written
Explain this meme. When is it a merit, and when is it a flaw?
>>8225772
It's a flaw when it doesn't compliment the novel.
Is it generally worth while to take writing classes?
>>8225584
No.
>>8225584
Yes.
"worthwhile" is one word you dirty whore
>planet is doomed
>selected humans are welcomed on board of the ship of a benefactor, which will travel to a new planet
>benefactor is a mix between dr strangelol and fantômas, who has a crew of wacky characters
>candidates to recreate human race are not so perfect themselves
>hilarity and absurdism ensues
see it as some loveboat movie written by ionesco
part 1
>P picks me up for roadtrip
>she's on peyote
>i can't drive
>jesustakethewheel.jpg
>make it to the city
>throw illegal party on rooftop
>P seems like shes about to jump
>everyone is too busy trying to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew to notice
>tackle her
>ruin party by saving her life
>go home
>my gf thinks i banged P
>too tired to argue
part 2
>be me five years later
>receive mail
>read note
>P's dead
>tells me to find some kid and make sure he's alright
>ok whatever
>go to st. petersburg, it's a shithole
>not there
>go to belgrade, it's a shithole
>not there either
>go to willemstaad
>get into fight
>wake up with hangover
>not sure whether i actually blinded someone or not
>find kid
>he's a smug asshole drinking beer on a porch
>throw him through the porch railing and steal his beer
>go home
>>8225571
>be me
>not enjoing science and education that much
>going to convent school because paps is all about that monk life
>meet cool dude who is a fucking genius
>tells me that my place is not ment to be here
>run away from school to enjoy life
>take a nap
>wake up on the lap of a bitch
>fuck that bitch
>travel around the country and fuck several bitches
>meet a knight, who provides me shelter and food, if I help him to write a book
>have the urge to fuck his daughters
>older daughter is totally in to me but does not want to fuck
>lay in bed with older daughter
>suddenly younger qt3.14 daughter enters room
>ohshit.jpg
>try to engage threesome
>young daughter totally wants the D
>older daughter is a bitch and tells dad
>tfw sent out in the wilderness again
How the hell did Harry Potter become so successful?
>>8225568
Because it was for ten year olds. Stop making this thread.
Victorian nostalgia themed fantasy that allowed children to easily imagine themselves stepping into the world. The books really arent terrible as far as childrens books go and theres nothing wrong with having fond memories of them. The Young Adult defebse force assholes claiming its equivelant to high literature are cancer tho.
Easy story that came at the right, allowed people to growth up with it and as time passed, tackled deeper and darker subjects. Also likable characters, and did not focus exclusively on a love story, but rather how to endure and overcome the hardships of our life.
can good prose be translated without losing it's value? why or why not?
could be, but reading lit writen in same language you are using is more valuable to you
I claim translations can be superior to the original work.
>>8225560
It is about removing the self or 'cleaning the glass' between the author and the 'objective' (it's more complicated than objective/subjective imo) reality they are describing
have you ever cried in front of someone /lit/?
write about it and post here
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>>8225466
this is encouraging people to write something, and it's not the first thread to do so newfriend
>>8225461
other than when very young?
What are some good books about grand archaeological-esque adventures like pic related? Dan Brown's stuff come to mind but I've been lead to believe that his work isn't particularly good in a practical literary sense.You can shit on me all you want. My skin is thick.
King Solomon's Mines
>>8225425
Why would you dismiss Dan Brown's works, when they're more intelligent than the writing in your pic related.
bumping cos I wanna know too
>no one on this board read taipei in the original taiwanese
>plebs think they can discuss tao lin by reading him in translation
lmao @ ur lives. pathetic.
>Taiwanese
>A language
wow, very such funny post OP. made me top kek. thanks for this
quality post anon, these retards wouldn't understand
Would you anons be down with pen-paling? We can limit one or two people to each person and I'm assuming everyone here is willing to write. Maybe exchange throwaway e-mails? Talk about books or something? It can work out.
>>8225260
The ubermensch me would be but instead I am a piece of shit. Write back soon
Your friend,
Jk rolling otflmao
I've tried it before but i just got a weirdie. I'd be willing to give it another go tho
I like all kinds of lit tho i have a Modernist tilt, am heavy into music (jazz and world music lately), education, etc
I'd be interested.
Not sure but I might be a "weirdie" like
>>8225297
said. I'm not lolsorandumb, but I think I might be on the robot spectrum (but I had a gf, I'm not a full wizard. Maybe a sorcerer).
Your friend,
Richard W. Proudmore-Wellingthorn
Is this poetry or prose?
>>8225205
Fragments of notes not designed to be assembled as a novel.
There are semblances of poetry and prose, but ultimately just notes
>>8225211
so it is fiction? like a fragmented attempt for a novel?
>>8225205
Could hardly care, I just love opening it at arbitrary pages and start reading
/lit/ criticism thread.
there wasn't one up, and i feel like there should be a constant general for this board.
recently i noticed i'd slacked in my writing habits, so i forced myself to start writing at least one thing a day, be it a stone in the pond short story, a small poem, anything. to try and branch out, i've started forcing myself to write in different niches and styles and here's something i would appreciate honest criticism of.
not reflective of my genuine work, rather a stylized piece of how i imagine this pseudonym would write.
why are you autists posting jaypegs of text now instead of using pastebin? how am i supposed to greentext the shittier passages?
>>8225123
i genuinely don't know, i only recently started frequenting the board and the last criticism thread i saw had adopted this styleand i wanted to fit in
Thrillers that are actually very good. I'd say Red Dragon, Silence of The Lambs and Hannibal.
Any other good recommendations?
>>8225116
Or any crime recommendations? Books which you'd assume were shit but then somehow aren't?
I'm reading "Depraved
the shocking true story of America's first serial killer"
So far it's not too boring. It's started to get good and it's just the beginning.
This "pharmacist" had relocated to Chicago, built a 3 story sprawling building that became known as "the castle." It was essentially designed as a fun house of confusing hallways, traps, and a cellar with things like a stretching rack, surgical implements and he had built a kiln that was perfectly sized for human bodies.
I just loved this detail because it would never occur to me to build a place, in a public place no less, that is designed as a human trap and torture playhouse. Some of the rooms were asbestos lined sound proofed, others were completely lined with sheet metal. He had a valve in his room to control the flow of natural gas into rooms. There were hidden shoots that went directly to the basement cellar. Ostensibly most of the rooms were simply furnished rooms for rent.
It made me think of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari that emphasized odd angles and hypnosis as methods of control. Fun!
>>8225184
Sounds like The Devil in White City?
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