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Nabokov on the first moon landing
New York Times, 1969
>>8014005
>Vladimir "Corncobber" Nabokov
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>utilitarianism
Who translated his Metamorphoses the best?
What is your opinion of him /lit/?
What am i in for?
Dunno about translations, but Ovid is universally considered one of the 3 great poets of antiquity alongside Homer and Virgil (and many prefer him to the latter). He's more witty, ironic, more psychological.
Metamorphoses is easily the single most influential book in western art. Until ~ the 17th century and the rediscovery of Greek the western tradition got *all* of its classical mythology from Ovid.
Can't help you with translation but you're in for sex stories which are beautifully told.
Who the fuck fits an S&M pun into a calendar in poem form? Ovid, that's who. Metamorphoses is way more openly bawdy than that one though so you shouldn't lose too much in translation compared to some of his other shit.
Learn Latin if you want to know just how slick his shit is, but I think he should hold up if you just pick Oxford classics or some shit. They might gloss some of the perverted shit in older translations but they have to left half of it in for there to be a book too. Sorry, not much more help than that.
minime, delet this
>he buys hardcovers
>>8013774
I love hardcovers. I want to be able to reread certain books after a few decades too. What's wrong with that, anon? Are you in a love affair with your yellowing pages, loose binding and creased spines?
>favorite books: oyasumi punpun, fight club, slaughterhouse five
>>8013774
If I'd buy paperbacks, I might as well just rent books from the library. I buy books because I treasure them, in addition to just reading them. Fuck me for attaching value to something, eh?
Books on story structure?
That story is structured like me eating your pussy
Crisis = me saying dumb unsexy shit
that story is structured like me making a shitpost
climax = someone sends me a "here's your (you)" pity post
A talk, a kiss, a hit, a break, a murder.
That was easy
Hey /lit/, this is my reading/writing set up. Try to beat this.
I read on my balcony with a comfy skyline view
>>8013443
>>8013447
I read in a big bed with my wife
>>8013450
I don't like doing that because I get distracted
>Stopping everything to write a bit of inspiration for your story on the back of a receipt.
>finally getting past the obligatory slog of densely cited background information, to the part where you can just inhale coffee and extemporize in your metier
>Have a shitty week. Finally write that sad part you've been stuck on. Feel great afterwards.
Cathartic.
So, now that the dust has settled which one is better?
>>8013235
If I have to choose between the two I'd go for BNW, but if you won't a better novel about authoritarianism read Demons by Dostoevsky
I think the world as a whole is approaching an Orwellian dystopia while the USA is more Huxlean.
>>8013248
>Demons
>authoritarianism
Care to elaborate?
why is this book so hard to get? fucking 120 dollars on amazon, not even available on my national bookwebsite?
any way to get my hands on a hard cover of this?
>>8012734
sure just give a seller money and you'll get your very own hard cover copy of women and men.
B8 m8
>>8012734
>why is this book so hard to get?
Why do you think? Guess.
>any way to get my hands on a hard cover of this?
Yes.
Has anyone read this and if so, thoughts? And does anybody have a pdf of it?
sounds as some anti-alcohol book
>>8012658
No, it supposedly deals with the transmutation from classical "concrete" evil to a more subtle and post-modern form, liquid evil as Bauman calls it
What do you do during the day, /lit/?
wake up
browse 4chan
go to bed
wake up
browse 4chan
go to bed
wake up
browse 4chan
go to bed
rate my backlog, /lit/.
stunted worldview/10
>>8011944
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendevouz With Rama,
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World,
Phillip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle,
Phillip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,
William Gibson - Neuromancer,
Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun,
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash,
Robert A. Heinlein - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
>>8011946
what
>>8011944
2/10, wouldn't cum in
What was your favorite story by him?
>>8011538
Is this guy really that good?
>>8011538
none
>>8011542
How good?
I'm designing a classic work much like the primary works.
By this I mean Vern, Wells, etc.
I have the perfect outline and since I'm no juggernaut, a co-author would be great.
Its not just another novel penned in the modern fool hardy style.
No sir, I use large portions of clarity, quick progression, expansive content, details as needed (no excess).
Keeping the reader by mirroring the classic styles even going into some Fitzgerald examinations.
Its a real amalgamation about someone no one has tackled yet.
Indiana Jones meets Dan Brown drinking with Issac Asimov while reading Robert Anton Wilson.
My aim with this thread is to get in contact with a cool open minded writer who will sign a NDA and work with me on the completion of this amazing classical work.
Skype and telecommute while working on the same manuscript. A true grit co-op mission with big money at the finish line.
Currently I've been working with WriteItNow for character, events, locations, ideas, outline, etc contents.
Obviously writing it in Atlantis word processor in *.doc format just because it has type writer sound schemes when you type.
I'm not trolling and I wont give away too much about my story line as its OC in a modern classical way that all of you would appreciate.
Before anyone asks I've thrown together around 18 books in my day under 3 pen names so this isn't my first back cover page race.
I've been working on finding an illustrator who will drop 10 b/w etchings along with a cover concept and do it for royalties.
Looking for team players essentially is what I'm doing here and I know how brilliant some of you fuckos are...
I just hope the right (You) makes it ITT...
>I've always worked pretty much alone this is a big step for me and I'm serious as a heart attack.
>And No, I'm not still writing "The Pattern" about the tile lover of /v/ anymore.
>get at meh: 34 32 61 6c 70 65 6e 67 65 69 73 74 73 40 67 6d 61 69 6c 2e 63 6f 6d
>>8010765
>Issac Asimov
were those 18 books any good? receive any critical attention? do you write under a pen name because you're a big fat pussy?
>>8010765
I guess
post a throwaway email and I'll send you my contact info
For those of you who have actually read it, is it really THAT bad?
>>8008806
yes of course it fucking is
shitty style, shitty content
>>8008806
care to post more than just a cover?
>>8008806
i dunno what your caps is meant to signify
it's more coherent than the OT/NT but of course, one guy wrote it
it's not as pretty, but maybe in arabic it's awesome
if you're talking politically, yes, it's quite bad. not because the things in it are any worse than the OT, but rather because it combines 8/10 of the shit in the OT with coherence, so it's actually believable that one could adhere to it. the OT has a lot of things that are irrelevant without the temple or even somewhat contradictory, so that kind of saves it as you're looking for metaphor.
Hey guys check my new bookshelf tour!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7HkqrqvC4
Screenshot 43
What is this garbage?
>>8008695
i have hardly ever heard of any of these books apart from game of thrones
are these the sort of books that vacuous american teenagers usually read?
