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I have to read two books by any of the following authors:
· Emily Bronte
· Charlotte Bronte
· Ann Bronte
· Henry Fielding
· Henry James
· Edith Wharton
· James Joyce
· Elizabeth Gaskell
· George Eliot
· Thomas Hardy
· Nathaniel Hawthorne
· Oscar Wilde
· Emile Zola
· Lawrence Sterne
· Marcel Proust
· Fyodor Dostoyevski
· Leo Tolstoy
· Virginia Woolf
· Alexandre Dumas
· Nikolai Gogol
· Jean-Paul Sartre
· Stephen Crane
· Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any recommendations?
Dubliners
Notes from the Underground
In Search of Lost Time
Ulysses
Zola
Gogol
Time to saddle'up pardner. Why don'tcha be a goo dog and recommend me a nice western or two for the road, eh? *spits*
Yer gowna git rec-o-mendid the same four awthers that are always gittin recomendid round these parts COOOWBOOOY
>>8183203
enlighten'me mister
>>8183235
well buddy the ways i sees it *spits then lassos u* these folks round here are always spoutin the same names suchis as mr cormac mccarthy and his high falutin westerns such as blood meridian and the border trilogy and then ya got that fella by th name johnny williams who wrote a tale about servivin in them colorada mountains called butchers crossin, along with them two ya got what some folks might call a real western writer such the like of larry mcmurtry and his story lonesome dove. Last byt not least youngin you got one by an odd duck whos name i believe is oakley hall, he went and writ a story about the okay coral from what ive been told that crazy city slicker tommy pinecone is a big fan of that one.
welp thats about all i gots to say, guess its time for you to mosy on along
*pulls u in with lasso and gives u cowboy kiss*
so long pardner
General critique thread. Post what you are writing and please comment on the writings of others
I'm lying down on my synthetic, cat skin, sofa, smoking type O positive laced ketamine, and listening to an audio recording of domesticated penguins having sex.
And I'm writing my masterpiece. My first Wil and testicle. Or, “My First Wil and Testicle”. It's a cop buddy screenplay about a testicle, who after being amputated from an aspiring castrato, leaves his fellow testicle to become a cop. His partner? Former child star, Wil Wheaton.
But all of this writing is giving me jaundice, so I throw the manuscript into the air, demanding it stays there, floating, until I have need of it later. I stab myself in the upper back with my pen, and twist it in until it's about halfway in, and secure, then throw the ketamine pipe on top of my tombstone. Rest in peace, pipe.
Food. I need energy after sucking down horse tranquilizer all day, and breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And night. And day. And all of the night. Chinese baby pizza. No, you sick fucks, it's not made out of Chinese babies. What kind of monster do you think I am? It's made by Chinese babies. To help pay off debts, some farmers in China sell their excess babies into pizzeria slavery. The ethics are a little sketchy, but damn, these pizzas are incredible. Honey bee crust. Delicious.
When I was older, I couldn't find the ingredients to make even the most basic of pizzas. Pepperoni had been gone for years, hunted to extinction by radical vegan extremists. We thought it an isolated series of incidents, the pepperonis didn't disappear overnight, but one morning we woke from our beds, turned on the television, and the president told us that the very last pepperoni in the world had been destroyed. If the death of pepperoni had been a long drawn out whimpering fart, the death of cheese was a sudden and completely unanticipated diarrhea shit storm violent explosion of a fart. Fuck all that noise, I had decided to revert to my younger self. In a world of pizza.
I'm running late for work. I go to my bathroom and induce vomiting to get rid of the pizza. I need room in my stomach for work, plus I plan to transition to a life of shirtlessness soon, and don't need to build up any excess fat. Brush my teeth, dry them off with an old pair of underwear, and then rub superglue over them. This helps fight the acidity of vomit that attacks the enamel. I look in the mirror and recite my reverse Gatsby opener affirmation before the glue seals my lips to my teeth.
“In my older and less vulnerable days my mother sold me some advice that I tend to forget every day. Whenever you feel like praising any one, just forget that some of the people in this world have had every advantage that you never did.”
I put on two thirds of a shirt (Small incremental steps are best when transitioning to a shirtless lifestyle) and crawl out of my window, ready for work.
>>8183169
also, I did this also, would maybe add it to the previous writing in a book
1/2
It's our 20th High School reunion, and we are all close to 50 years old, on account of
our entire class being kidnapped our junior year by rogue marketers.
As far as kidnapping, and slavery goes, it could have been worse. There was no sex, or
overt torture involved. Between us students, sure, but the marketing men just wanted to film
us painting butter on raw turkeys. For ten years. It was an odd ten years, but what it did help
us with was with our goals.
We were all close to 30 years old by the time we got back to school and graduated.
The clock was ticking. No time for slacking. No backpacking through Europe, spending a year
playing video games through a haze of weed smoke, no fucking around with mediocre jobs
while waiting for our true calling.
This was a blessing in some ways, but also would come around to bite us in the ass.
Many of us, like Steve Glades, became wildly successful. He's the guy who started implanting
into the stumps of amputee victims. You know, horses with horns coming out of their heads,
with the rainbow hair? He went from sketching that stuff in notebooks, to becoming a master
at genetic engineering, and now all those people you see walking around with, or in the case
of foot amputees, on, real live miniature unicorns.
Others of us became rocket psychologists, corn generals, clown sweaters, and all
around captains of imagination. We did well. But so did the weird kid. Billy Eyedis. He
conquered the world. And true to his word, or the words really, it was quite the verbal
manifesto of super villain hate, he was here to make us all pay. While we were busy with our
own goals and plans, Billy became a world wrestler. He literally wrestled worlds. After
defeating some planets in other star systems, to ply his trade, build his chops, he had come
back here and wrestled Earth into submission.
"Hey guys. I'm back. And you are all going to pay."
I guess someone should ask, so I do. "Billy, not to stoke this hate or anything, and
don't take this the wrong way, but why had you wanted to make us all pay? I remember you
went on that long drawn out tirade back when we were painting turkeys with butter, but, well.
No one really paid attention to you much. No offense"
"Fool! Ignore this!", Billy says, as he pulls a burglar from his bookbag.
The burglar promptly starts robbing us, one by one. But unlike a standard robber, he
takes very specific amounts from us. He takes $47 from Gladys Turrington, having to actually
make change from his own pocket. Others are a few dollars short, and are forced at gunpoint
to sign IOUs, notarized by the burglar's accountant, who he had kept in his own bookbag.
He even had one of those credit card swipey machine things, so he could rob those of us who
shunned carrying cash.
>>8183175
2/2
Billy smiled. "All those years. You ignored me! Thought you were better than me! But I
kept a record of every wrong. And I wrote down those wrongs, and fixed a price. I knew you
would all pay one day for your transgressions. And now ", and he said a bunch of other stuff.
Not sure really, he was kind of droning on. We all politely waited for him to finish, and then
grabbed our paintbrushes and flew home.
We would paint turkeys one more time.
So I have an hour commute by train, and typically it's packed. I was wondering what were some good audio books to listen to make the most of my time? Any fun reads/listens? And good free books out there?
I have a few:
Think and Grow Rich
7 Habits of Highly effective people
Zero to On
I have them mostly because I want to open my own business, but anything else from business to philosophy to humor would be appreciated.
Bumping!
Op /lit dislikes those self improvement books. Tho my mom keeps pushing me to read them, i probably should to be a good boy.
But desu i find an hour of head phones hurts my ears with the loud noise of train (so i have to crank up volumn) just read those books in paper desu.
why don't you read for yourself?
Why do some fiction writers purposefully write books that are hard to understand?
>>8183062
In the words of GBS, why not?
>>8183062
Because casuals ruin everything.
Seriously dude?
Thoughts?
>>8183039
i don't believe there was a single thought in the book, no.
>>8183039
shit translation
>>8183056
Could I read the original with 2 years of French down my belt?
So /lit/ I've finally started experimenting with writing with voice dictation and machine conversion with Dragon version 13.
The first version of Dragon I used was 10.1 and it was massive shit but 13 literally is solid and the 99.9% out of the box translation is accurate.
I want to start a discussion of writing through Dragon rather than by typing the manuscript out. I'm one of those writer fags whose published 18 books through LuLu and as a matter of fact I just released one today. It's just getting processed through the LuLu system to all the book markets and it's called "The Psychology of Manipulation" so you know I'm not a massive fag.
My question is this: Since speech to text dictation has just been perfected would you use it to speak out a book rather than type one up?
If not, why and if yes why do you think its a good idea. I only ask because I just spoke all of this out instead of typing it like a bloody cave man and am seriously considering writing my books with speech to text from now on, maybe.
>Any version of Dragon before 13 is massive shit. They finally perfected the damn software so you fags talking shit about using a previous version need not even comment because I just took care of that little faggity bibbity for you.
That depends. I assume it helps train you to continue during pauses in thought. But going back and changing things must be a bitch. I usually jump around during a session, change one thing and it causes changes to other things, almost like coding.
>>8183018
>boasting about publishing 18 books
>posting a name of your published book when noone asked you
>"so you know I'm not a massive fag"
I think you are, though.
>>8183028
If you properly train Dragon on words you don't articulate well or words that belong in an exclusive vocabulary base then it's well worth the money.
After spending about 4 hours training Dragon it doesn't make any errors when I dictate to it anymore.
>well fucking worth it
>pic related
What was the point of this past year? Was it all for shits and giggles?
i hope not. if it was, whoever is laughing is a real sick fuck.
what did he mean by this
>>8182984
Life is a strictly for the lulz endeavour but it's often dangerously short on lulz.
In the book 'A Message to Garcia,' in the 6th paragraph, what exactly is meant by the sentence, " No man, who has endeavored
to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well-nigh appalled
at times by the imbecility of the average man?" I've read this one section about 7 or 8 times now and still don't fully understand it. Here's the full PDF for reference, the whole book is only a little over two pages.
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/hubbard1899.pdf
As far as I can understand it, the author is trying to say that most leaders prefer to place their trust with a handful of competent individuals rather than a large group of people that don't know what they're doing to accomplish a task.
The wording is very awkward, but (along with reading the last part of the sentence that you've omitted) it sounds to me that he's implying that the only thing stopping a person with large aspirations that requires the help of many is the willingness of that many to put forth the effort to actually accomplish a task. Laziness is a disease worse than a muscle illness.
>>8182939
I see, thank you for your insight Anon.
Was it autism?
>>8182461
No, idiotism.
Also, top tier book, I have no idea why so few people have read it.
I've had this book on my shelf for so long. I really should read it some day.
>>8182588
I allways imagined that he was just pretending.
I am pretty sure that's what the author was going for.
Anyone has a critical analysis of John Bull's Other island? I need it badly for tomorrow. Or if any good fellow is willing to share his bookrags account with me I would be really thankful.
maybe if you post more cute pictures
Did I make a good /lit/ order?
My reading has been almost entirely scifi and fantasy for a few years and I wanted to try some deeper works. Pynchon had been on my mind for awhile and then I started reading about Nabokov and got a few of his works.
Yes.
Never make a thread like this again.
>>8182393
>"deeper" works
>3 books by Nabokov, master of aesthetics
Peripheral vision daemon
Wade the cobwebs spun in mid-air, nonpareil
Corner of affect, tabby_ recede into furniture, put an egg under your bed
Frankly, told one night merely to bear witness to cause, their dead need stones, we'll absolve pebbles (odd chess pieces, shaved with patient hands)
Anxious sentient turning din, tumultuous vanilla
Obloquy, vest contempt with Janus, battle of the asinine.
Cavedweller
Her vagina was much
deeper than I thought it'd be
Only words she knew were
Japanese song lyrics
translated by shiftless fats
Wished my tongue could reach her bike horn.
>>8182347
haha if we can appreciate sleeping with heavier set women, dig it.
Stalagmatic stalemate
A mixup messup
In the banana store
Slime, shame, stone
The madness of a criminal
With nothing to lose, and nothing to gain
Public nuisance number one
I ripped off a man's nipple with my teeth
Gravity's Rainbow
What are you trying to say
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
>>8182408
this is one of my favorites.
What do you guys think of 'East of Eden'? Been sitting on my shelf for years and im thinking about picking it up finally. Is it worth my time?
Yes. It's Steinbeck's best novel imo. The Bible parallels are pretty heavy handed, but Edith is an interesting character. Has some very notable scenes. It's also easy to read and won't take much time despite the length.
>>8182356
hey I never read the Bible and I ever will. can u tell me what bible bits to know.
>>8182375
Not the one you're responding to, but Cain and Abel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_and_Abel
East of Eden really is a phenomenal book.
