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What do you think about people who can't read or at least can't read very well. Do you blame them for there lacking reading abilities? Are they really missing out on much?
What do you think about people who can't see or at least can't see very well. Do you blame them for there lacking sight abilities? Are they really missing out on much?
>Are they really missing out on much?
yes
even reading light fiction gives you longer line of thought, better understanding of the world, bigger vocabulary etc
>>8277070
>there
Kill yourself.
he have writers block or something? why did he slow down so much in his later life
insanity
He had depression and received electroshock therapy for it, which destroyed his memory. As his memory faded, he realized that he would never write again.
no matter how much he tried to fit it, and tried to live stereotypes(such as being macho alpha, brave honorable soldier, intellectual in paris, family man, rich eccentric etc..) society promoted, it never worked and felt fake, he just couldnt deal with it
What went so wrong?
At what point was anything going right?
I'm one of those who roll their eyes at all the posturing genre-hate around here and I still couldn't stand the first two of these when I read them. And from everything I've heard they only got worse.
>>8276977
>>8276977
Jordan wanted to rival Tokien in world building and thought that bulk meant substance. So we got entire chapters filled with characters describing wheat shipments and outlandish fashion.
The series is shit, I'm literally up to book ten now and I'm not sure I should go on knowing that I could read so much better stuff in the time it would take me to smash out the last four, but also feeling as if I've already invested so much time into the series it would be insane to stop now.
Would a better name for this book be A Clockwork Eggplant?
Couldn't it just as easily be used for the exact opposite message of what it's trying to send? I mean I personally think "Around Blacks, Never Relax" is an incorrect world view, but is it an incorrect interpretation of the text? I mean it starts out by showing how the characters background of poverty creates this worldview of fear, hatred and anger. His only form of currency is his propensity to use violence, because it is the one thing that makes him feel "equal" to other people....
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DINDU NUFFN
this book was an excuse for a nigger to write snuff fiction about white women, don't read too much into it
>>8277062
What are you talking about? The protagonist killed the girl by accident.
How do you alcohol-/lits/ moderate your consumption for optimal writing prowess? Does moderation matter to you?
I tend to drink too much and then my writing starts to go to shit and I lose focus.
>>8276819
DUDE
>>8276820
SAUCE
>>8276819
I drink a lot but I don't drink when I write. I usually lose control of my consumption, which doesn't end well. I write a lot hungover though, which is great.
he really have a pet bear?
you really care?
>>8276787
sweet thread guys
I'll start
>>8276737
haha xD
>>8276737
s-she's coming back, right?
I really want to read this book, but I'm trying to find the best translation of it. I've gathered that anything translated by Constance Garnett is archaic and sucks cock, so I'd like to avoid her. What does /lit/ think?
>>8276721
>he thinks 19th century English is "archaic"
Good luck with your adventures in literature, kek
Magarshack is based.
https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/0140440232/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468474385&sr=1-1&keywords=crime+and+punishment+magarshack
Avoid P&V translations at all costs; they're bastardizations.
>translation
Will Russia and the "Renaissance of the Medieval" save literature? I fear for its welfare.
Explain what you mean by "Renaissance of the Medieval"
>>8276695
>I fear for its welfare
Russia's or literature's?
What the fuck did I just start reading?
>>8276582
Sexual guilt + mommy issues
Its a very funny book. Roth was never as funny again.
>>8276607
He certainly wasn't as laugh-out-loud funny, but he wrote some pretty great books.
I've read The Idiot, I've read Crime and Punishment and from the first 40 pages I'm convinced The Brothers Karamazov isn't worth finishing and I should begin Moby Dick instead. Can I double check this with /lit? Thanks,
I had this problem when I was fourteen, but then I wasn't a loser and decided to finish it and it was great.
Thank God I had at least a few years of innocent reading before I discovered this place.
>>8276546
>Can I double check this with /lit? Thanks
People like you shouldn't be allowed to read.
hehe x)
I could be re-reading The Magic Mountain instead of what is obviously going to be the same predicament again
I'm starting college this fall and I'm wondering what language I should pick to fulfill my school's language requirement. I'm leaning towards either Russian or French. I'm already fluent in Spanish (and English, obviously). What language do you think has the best literature?
I like both Russian and French.
There are good literature in portuguese and spanish too. You should consider it.
>>8276541
I'm fluent in Spanish and read Spanish literature regularly. I can converse in Portuguese but usually read it translated to Spanish.
>>8276586
If you're fluent in one then there is no need to learn the other, unless you're a genius, then by all means, learn portuguese.
Portuguese is probably one of the best languages to write in and has a rather underrated literature too. Its really rich. But I believe most of the good stuff is translated already.
Try to find something translated from Machado de Assis! See if you like it, if you do, then consider it.
Between Russian and French... I'd pick french. Personal preference....
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I'll go first:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5107949/1/Tales-From-the-Wasteland-Black-As-Oil
The Divine Comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt4bd1OaHTQ
>>8276516
A quick glance at the rules https://www.4chan.org/rules#lit would not be amiss, you festering carbuncle.
I'm not alcoholic, but I just realized after a month or so without real drinking that it's only when I've downed a few that I feel like I have a worthwhile mind. That I think interesting things. That subjects and people I find interesting and worthwhile appear at their best. I don't want to make a conscious decision to become some hard drinker but besides the suicidal thinking everyone goes through the most genuine disposition I have to the stuff around me is when I'm drinking, and I'd rather live like that.
I guess it's that or become...
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What I'm asking is - am I the only one that feels like this? and don't fucking mention bukowski you hacks. Who can i read that will give feelings of genuineness.
I also want to live in a cell and pray five times a day but I'm too embarrassed of that to go for a novitiate but that probably should be another thread
...that's just the drug deluding you. Drugs make everything better in the shallowest ways.
Just try to mature emotionally and you won't need drugs to appreciate it. What they give in pleasure they take in mindfulness.
>>8276487
>I'm not an alcoholic
the first step is accepting you're an alcoholic OP
What is /lit/s opinion on Dune?
Sounds interesting. Is it pleb tier?
>>8276454
Most people recognize it for the influence it had on genrefic which is second only to LOTR but few would call it high literature. People who either never read it or didn't understand it will call it sci-fi. It's really fantasy more than anything.
I think there are some strong literary themes though, it deconstructs heroism, kind of looks at the idea of the Ubermensch (at least in terms of a being who ascends to a superhuman status) as a curse and burden rather than a blessing and liberation from man's...
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I love the book. Most considerate as close to "literary" sciene-ficition as anything from that sect of lit gets.
>>8276475
Like the anon above my quoted post mentions, the theme of heroism being a burden is significant and one of my favorite parts. I've read 1 and 2, and 2 is my favorite cause it dives into that theme in a really cool way after the events and the tone of the first book.
