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ITT: the marvels and wonders of self-published literature.
>>8159312
He's published more than you have friendo.
I'd say he's more qualified to talk about literature than 95% of this board at least.
>>8159312
I don't like to see non-whites published either.
>>8159345
>black
>more qualified to talk about literature than whites
You're on the wrong board, sweetheart.
Would you help me get into poetry please? I've been fascinated with poetry after reading a little bit of The Book of Disquiet. I like stuff that has that really dense poetic language, the metaphorical language. I remember writing my own poetry before, when I was very disturbed and going through depression, it was visual metaphors were coming out of my sub conscious mind and I didn't know what I was going to write, but I just wrote and I was amazed at what came out about 2 or 3 times in my life. I like that sort of poetry, which is very abstract. I'm also a big pessimist, love dark philosophical stuff, horror, but I also love beauty, extreme beauty. Idk if prose poetry would necessarily always be better, but I have yet to find any of that rhyme and meter poetry that really sounded good to me.
Read the motherfucking sticky
>>8151147
Yeah, there's a poetry chart, but it tells me nothing about what I might like. I am also a big book buyer, I often buy a book or two that's recommended to me every time I make a thread on this forum.
>>8151151
>regularly making rec begging threads
looks like it's time to commit suicide
I saw this on a list of right wing books. I was literally about to but it before hand but now I'm not sure I even want it. Is it still worth getting? I hate the right wing.
the only good poems which he wrote it's those about jelicle cats and pollicle dogs
>>8164185
Yes it is totally worth getting, just skip the shorter poems and read prufrock and the waste land along with a couple of the others. The ones about Sweeney are pretty anti-semitic, so skip them too, if you really are that afraid of the right wing.
Although, surely if you hate the right wing wouldn't you want to read the right-wing poems to 'know your enemy.' You can't really hate a whole political ideology but not read the literature. If you hated religion you wouldn't not read The Bible or The Koran would you?
I say buy it and read all the poems.
>>8164185
Is that the chart which has Blake there lmao? That one's trash.
Eliot is not really concerned with politics in his poetry. He's never didactic. His aesthetic is conservative, but in an abstract civilisational way.
I can't say what you'd like or not, but considering Eliot is probably the most-read English poet of the 20th century, millions of people who aren't right-wing are able to perfectly enjoy his poetry.
> #bookz on irc
> no bots reply to you
> hundreds of people filing past looking for the Hunger Games novels
> give up
> avaxhome 404s
> find Mobilism
> half the links bring up virus alerts with Avast
> the other half deliver broken .zip archives
i thought nobody gave a shit about book piracy.
>>8164173
I get most of my books from gen.lib.rus. ec
Have you considered using an adblocker?
Many of the oneclick hosters on mobilism are still shit with an adblocker, except maybe zippyshare which doesn't hide the download button in a million other download buttons.
I miss megaupload.
(kat.cr sometimes works well for me too - gen.lib.whatever recently has several broken mirrors for each book, only [1] works but is slow)
>>8164214
i use ublock origin, but i'm not worried about the buttons not working; i'm worried about the fuckers sneaking malware through just because i clicked on a shitty link.
>>8164204
>I get most of my books from gen.lib.rus. ec
> searches for bruce sterling
> twenty thousand results from guys named bruce or sterling
> searches for "bruce sterling"
> two dozen results, most in italian
> searches for "bruce sterling" english
> search engine shits itself
i guess you get what you pay for, except last time i tried to buy ebooks online i got "we don't sell ebooks outside the US" from six different places, including amazon
Hey, /lit/.
I need your help. I'm translating something and I'm a bit lost with a phrase:
"Do my own thing
Came as far as saw me"
It's a line from a song, but I don't understand what "Came as far as saw me" means.
Any help?
Thanks a million, boys.
>>8164021
it's nonsense
are you sure you translated right?
>>8164037
The original line is in English and it's that one, "Came as far as saw me". I'm trying to translate it into my language.
I've found some links that might shed some light:
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/have-you-come-far.2633419/
https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110511050630AAAABw8
But I'm still lost.
>>8164039
Can you post the song? Context might help.
I'm about to start writing a short story. Any tips?
FEEL THE FLOW
>>8163940
This.
Write first, impose judgements afterwards. Even if what you write is garbage, it'll be your garbage and you can polish it. You can't polish non-existent text.
>>8163936
make everything overly complicated
then throw it all out when you realize it isn't perfect
My onee-sama made me read Lolita. Could there be a meaning behind it?
She wants you to stop obsessing over her.
>>8163947
That or kidnap her and shoot porn.
>>8163934
>onee-sama
I'm not going to taint my computer by googling that. What does it mean?
Looking for good fiction/nonfiction written during, or I suppose about, the interwar period (WWI/II). Largely for cultural research, but also for fun. Any recommendations? I'd be willing to branch into during-either-war as well.
Brave New World was published in 32 and is breddy gud. read it understanding the context of the era and it'll make ya think
>Joyce
>Faulkner
>Woolf
You literally can't go wrong in the interwar period/
In the US:
The Great Gatsby (20s)
The Grapes of Wrath (30s)
>meet black kid in /lit/ class
>his opinions are literally memes from /lit/ and all he talks about are /lit/ meme-books
>unashamedly instructs me on how to read like he's literally reading off of one of /lit/'s reading order infographics
I know you're here, faggot.
STOP
Ooga booga where all the dang memes at?
>>8163878
Example of /lit/ meme books?
>>8163881
pynchon
joyce
DFW
etc
Alright you jackholes, is this short story for my business pitch better than yesterday?
>Imagine you are drawn to the buzz of that new cafe on Main Street. A steady rhythm of light jazz and discussion gives the place a kind of heartbeat that brings the experiences to be had over fresh bagels and lattes to life.
>Inside are all the usual players. You have the artist. A college student, frantically smudging away with his charcoal pencil. Only stopping periodically to peer over the crisp white edge of the paper and look at the people outside or to have a sip of his coffee.
>Seated at one of the tables behind him is his soul mate, although they have yet to meet. She is an attorney, fresh out of law school, discussing convertible debentures with her client over foamy cappuccinos and delicate Napoleons.
>A local musician sits by the window penning the simple yet painfully beautiful melody that's been playing in his head. He plays here some weekends but right now he is just trying to escape his day job during his lunch break. He finds he writes better after a chai latte.
>In front of the counter stands one of the many generous people who helped make all of this possible. They witness the goings on and smile to themselves knowing that they made a difference. That person is you.
>Some might stop for breakfast on their way to the office. Some come in looking to purchase gifts. Some come for the food but stay for the atmosphere. But no matter when they come or why, there will always be a story that you helped to tell.
>>8163693
That's not a short story. It's not even flash fiction. It still just sounds like a business pitch, which is what it is?
It's corny but you got the point across.
>>8163693
And it's name is Hegel's Bagels
>>8163693
What are you even doing here? You're writing ad copy. No one here cares about that sort of thing. Go to /biz/ or something.
Is Hawthorne the first canonical American author? I want to start reading early American literature (I've been ploughing through the transcendentalists), and figured that the Gothic romantics (Melville, Hawthorne, Poe) were the next step.
>emerson's essays and poems
>hawthorne's short stories and novels
>Melville's Moby Dick and Piazza Tales
>Poe's longer works
There's your starting point senpai
Also Washington Irving.
how do I know if do I write very good?
you win the praise of harold bloom
Let people who are honest and read a lot read your stuff and give you an opinion! It's really good to get involved with a creative writing group or class where you share stuff. Writing is very subjective though, and people will give you all sorts of different advice. Like anything, you just gotta practice!
>>8163659
Based on that sentence, you don't.
>And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me
>So I creeched louder, still creeching:
>"Am I just to be like a ClockWork Orange?"
Anthony...
>>8163553
Good book.
Yes I have read it
No it's not difficult to read
>>8163559
u r brand new
>"Truly, I was a Moby-Dick after all"
I frisbeed that book out the window so fucking hard
What books can help me deal with my crippling death anxiety?
Hegesias' Death by Starvation.will help you.
>>8163549
the holy bible
>>8163549
Pit and the Pendulum
I met him today. By chance. Knew it was him on sight. Needless to say, spaghetti was spilt. And it wasn't his.
Me: Excuse me, sir.
Him: What?
Me: Y-you wouldn't... happen to be... l-legendary... /reclusive author/... (his expression darkens) JD Salinger, would you? I thought you died!
(he stares at me for a second and then starts guffawing; doubles over)
Him: Oh my god, man. What the hell.
Me: Mr JD, it's really you! I loved your book, Infinite Jest!
(at this point he is laughing so loud people have turned to look)
(we are shopping)
(jokes are exchanged, and we shake hands before parting ways)
(the other shoppers applaud)
And the rest is history.
(I left him with a business card that had this board's URL on it. You're welcome.)
>>8163494
no you didn't
I saw Thomas Pynchon at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
