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What do you guys do once you finish a book you hated that you spent money on, do you throw it away?
>>8159649
I forget I even have it. I think I still have a copy of bloodmeme lying around somewhere. God, that was a shitty book.
>>8159649
I put them all in a box (unless it's expensive and I could sell it online) and I take it to the local book store when it's full.
Whatever he won't buy I take to a thrift store
>>8159651
same case for me with Pale King
Hello folks of /lit/.
I am thinking of writing a fantasy book. A mix of zombie apocalypse and grand fantasy setting.
The general idea is that a wizard tried to end a world war by using the life force of the planet to create an army of mage knights to stop the wars. To achieve this he broke the barrier between this world and the world where all life energy is.
In very loose terms, whenever a living being dies, it's soul goes to the realm of Life to be renergized. Then the soul reenters our world whenever an organism starts forming until it dies again...
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>>8159578
How autistic or socially inept are you?
>>8159578
>Also i was thinking of making it a trilogy, with things unresolved in the end and the proceeding with two more trilogies, the second taking place in a steampunk setting and the third in a sci-fi setting.
You're going to fit right in as a fantasy author
Where do I start with Mr. Charles "Cormac" McCarthy? Is he even worth reading?
>it's another corncobs tortilla yecarthy thread
Ye Olde Corncobby McCobthy cobbling together another corny thread I see. Go fuck yourself with a cob, cornfaggot.
what do you guys think about books like this?
>>8159186
I wouldn't read it. I don't care if other people do.
little pop-trivia versions of what a person who hasn't read Nietzsche thinks about Nietzsche. The only people who would read it are millenials who are conditioned not to expect reading to be challenging
>>8159186
I've read a few of them. They're pretty good. Of course they aren't too in depth (still 100 times better than those "wacky culture nerd" youtube videos), but it says right there it's meant to be an introduction. The bibliographies in the back points to a good list of primary and secondary texts to read for further study.
The drawings can be kind of ugly though. Fuck you Piero Scaruffi.
Why Byzantines didn't produce a single classic work of literature?
They were too preoccupied trying to enlighten us through music
https://youtu.be/hYlhKBRsICk
>>8158939
>Daily reminder that Konstantiniyye never fell, int simply gained better maintainers
Ottomans confirmed for true heirs of Rome
too busy fucking each other up the ass because they were the biggest faggots to ever exist
How do I become well versed with the words?Is there a guide or book that can teach me the basic and things I need to work on in general?
1. Don't be a retard. 2. Finish your education. 3. Read some.
>>8158942
1.How can I tell?
2.What if I finished it already and can't go to uni right now?
3.Read what?
>>8158945
1.If you have to ask...
2. Community College
3. A dictionary
Hey /lit/
So I submitted the first three chapters of a book I haven't completed to a publishing house and they said they liked it and asked me to send the rest. In the time it took for them to get back to me I've managed to write around 50% of the total book minus editing.
I'm working a full-time job and I'm struggling to write because of it. Would it be retarded, in your opinion, to quit this job and finish the book?
I'm not expecting to make much if any money from it so it's not that I think it'll solve all my problems....
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>>8158887
What's your job?
If it's a shit job you can replace, quit.
If it's a job you like at a company you like, stay or take an extended leave of absence.
>>8158895
It's basically data entry but with a job title and in the type of company which makes it sounds pretty interesting or complex.
I don't think I can take an extended leave of absence since it's a very small company (like 12 staff) and it's growing very rapidly. I don't enjoy my job at all however. I have applied for a bunch of other jobs and had two interview requests, one of which I attended last year and failed to get. But overall my life is so pathetic that I have very little to lose.
Yeah. It would be foolish in my opinion. How are you going to support yourself?
My mom is a published author and her royalties equate to less than minimum wage. She works part time at a "real" job to support her writing.
If I were you I would get a better job if at all possible, one that doesn't drain so much of your energy and gives you more time to write. Either that or figure out some kind of NEET lifestyle.
Publishing a book is amazing btw, congratulations.
What is /lit/'s opinion on The Cantos? How difficult is it, anyways? I heard it's something like the final boss of poetry, so I was thinking of reading it for some mad brain gains and also because I heard it's quite good.
>I heard it's something like the final boss of poetry,
yeah, don't bother
>>8158832
If you have to ask, they will be too difficult for you.
There are no brain gains if you read through something you don't understand.
>>8158838
thanks for the post
Does this book even have a plot?
>ploting for read
yes? it's not exactly hard to follow either
What does Eastern philosophy have that Western philosophy doesn't?
>>8158718
Feel-good hubris.
>>8158727
Excuse me?
>>8158718
>What does Eastern Philosophy have that Western Philosophy doesn't?
Drivel.
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Hi guys, need some help for my A2 comparative essay about two books I've never read. So far I wanted to pick '1984' and 'Brave New World' but I thought that this is a bit cliche, and wanted to challenge myself. Thus, I looked into 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and before picking these two I wanted to know to what extent I could compare these two novels - themes, movement, period, author etc.
I appreciate any help you could provide (hopefully spoiler-free if possible).
Also...
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If you really want to challenge yourself you should read the two and make the comparisons yourself. You might find that there are very few comparisons whatsoever and that they're difficult to find, but that's the challenge.
>>8158578
I understand where you're coming from but I simply want reassurance to make sure that I'm not wasting my time (on this task ONLY as both are on my reading list) on novels that just do not go together.
>>8158606
Finding that they don't have anything in common is a comparison itself
So I constantly see comments about Frankenstein specifically with people calling the monster Frankenstein, and someone says "Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein isn't the monster, Wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the real monster."
I always read this and get confused. What exactly makes Victor a monster? He just seems like a scientist who made some really bad choices and runs away from his mistakes. That doesn't sound like a monster. That sounds like a human. I mean if he Victor is a monster, aren't most people monsters?
They don't...
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>>8158556
>reading women
You don't belong here.
Also, it's liberal trash
>>8158556
>made some really bad choices
more than that, he transgresses nature, hence the reference in the book to the albatross, like in rime of the ancient mariner
and he aborts the lady monster right in front of the 1st monster, pretty sick m8
ultimately he has a duty to the creature he creates, which he does not fulfil
>>8158556
He lets some poor maid get hanged just because explaing about the monster would be awkward
why does it seem as if most authors were assholes / unlikeable in person?
You could probably chalk it up to the typically reclusive, introverted tendencies of creative people.
>>8158079
Only pseuds that want to justify being unlikeable assholes claim that those traits go hand in hand together
>>8158081
They do though, it's just that being an unlikeable asshole doesn't make you creative on its own.
A lot of writers when they create characters they like to choose a face of a real person (most likely a celebrity) to be a lookalike of their character.
Do any of you do this? And if you do please link a site with some spare (lesser known) faces.
>>8157977
Yes. For years I have planned and designed the medieval fantasy world of my magnum opus, and I have sort of a personal wiki in Google Drive, with each character having his/her own document with all the relevant information and a picture. Some are famous people, like Paul Bettany and Christian Bale for two kings, but some I've found simply by writing something like 'bald middle-aged man' in Google images.
It's fine if you do this after the book is written, but settling on a definite appearance for a character before it's written is no bueno. Unless you're just in this for the world building. Names and faces are of secondary importance to things like 1) actually getting your shit written and 2) narrative, plot, or whatever devices you'll be using.
Don't get distracted, OP
Terry Pratchett said he imagined Captain Vimes looking like Niam Leeson.
What does /lit/ think of these editions?
pleb magnets
>>8157751
any particular reason why?
>>8157759
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECcVYk7BXhE
