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Anyone know where I can download a free audiobook of Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher?
>>8268847
How rude. Lol.
Can you be anymore of sinner, jeez
Is it any good? If so what version/translation should I read? Also where could I find a pdf of said version/translation?
Libgen.
It's quite interesting, one of the best sf novels.
>>8268782
yes/no idea/google
How do I into DFW
Read IJ
>>8268735
I'm more or less settled that if I hadn't read IJ I would have liked DFW a lot more.
>>8268739
I kinda agree with this, actually. I don't dislike IJ, but even The Broom of The System is a more engaging read.
Does anybody know if the works "manipulated" by Fried's sister are available?
the will to power is a song by shopenhauer you pleb
>>8268651
Schopenhauer*
fucking bourgeois
>>8268636
lmao fried
What do you think of it?
Read it based on recommendation from Alan Moore and was also pleased to see Terry Gilliam having a blurb on the cover. They know their audience.
I found it a bit difficult and quite baffling. It seemed to me like the equivelant of how, you know, Tolkien is usually said to base his fantasy on epic poetry and North European folklore. In the same vein, this is fantasy inspired by Sir John Mandeville and colonial history. I liked it a lot, but I spent most of it being confused with the metaphysics of it, which I hope will be covered more in the proposed sequels. My favorite of the narrative lines is the one with the isolated cyclops who loses his sex robot baby-sitters and decide to hit the town and slap his spiral-cock on some blind chick. That's the kind of weirdness you're in for.
tl;dr: it was weird, but I kinda want to read it again to figure it out, so it's worth traversing.
>>8269031
Cool, the review for it are so polarizing but i'm leaning towards trying it out later this year
(i just want really experimental fantasy)
>>8269031
It's a pretty standard rip on Paradise Lost.
>>8268619
The best chapters were the ones about the dude who revolutionised camera technology and took lots of spooky pics of the Winchester house. I thought the ending was disappointing though, there was a huge amount of build-up, then all of the main characters walk off stage with only a few of their arcs really complete.
Looking for best crusader lit: anything like first-hand accounts, epic poems, even respectable fiction written a hundred years or so after they ended. Specifically looking for 1st Crusade, but any will do.
Crusades Through Arab Eyes. I was suspicious of it at first but it's a really fascinating account with some especially badass shit about Dicky Lionheart becoming a cannibal etc.
>>8268701
Forgot to mention some classics, chief among them Song of Roland and Orlando Furioso
>>8268589
Chronicles of the First Crusade
Get the penguin classics one introduced by Christopher Tyreman, not sure if there's another version but that's the one I have
how can i improve my prose?
>>8268587
If you actively need to 'improve' your prose, you'll never make it.
>>8268587
Smoke crack.
read books that aren't mind poison
What are the ESSENTIAL works of Plato and Aristotle?
>>8268575
All of them, you fucking pleb.
All of them.
The Bible
>tfw i will never be a writer
>>8268565
So be an editor or publisher
>>8268568
how
>>8268565
Just be a critic.
Pays better anyway.
"A kiss before departure, to remember all memories and the love in which you stood for."
Would someone be so kind to explain their thoughts of this sentence?
Lumbering and overcooked. Would not read surrounding text.
>>8268531
Could you help fix it?
>>8268485
What is it trying to express? IWhatever it is is vague as hell, it feels empty.
I'm a ameture writer starting out. I have adhd and attention span issues. As a result short stories are easier for me to write than novels. I'm into stuff like creative non-fiction and fiction stories that are based on stuff that could actually happen in real life. I've never read stuff like Harry Potter because it feels insulting to my intelligence as it couldn't happen in real life. I hate it when tv shows "jump the shark" and do crazy stunts that wouldnt happen in real life. Realism is the most important part of the story with the message and the emotion to me. Is there a market for fictional short stories that aren't based on supernatural stuff or anything that couldn't happen in real life?
>>8268475
>Is there a market for fictional short stories that aren't based on supernatural stuff or anything that couldn't happen in real life?
I'm unsure, but I'm in the same boat as you. Though my short stories don't include plot, characters, or actions of any kind typically. They're just a collection of eloquent observations about any given environment with mood and tone as the primary basis for creativity.
>>8268499
>posting your work online
>not keeping it locked away for people to find after your death
Does /lit/ have any suggestions for books about war or tactics?
>that isn't fucking ancient
>>8268435
Groundbreaking tactic: kill the fuckers who are trying to kill you.
clausewitz
>>8268957
unfunny faggots should go back from whence they came.
Amazon Fire vs Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
>going to be reading only
>Pros and Cons of both?
Delete this thread before you get banned by the mods for 48 hours and post your question in here >>8263617
>>8268391
Why should he delete it? Calm down sperg. He's asking a valid question.
paperwhite 100%. pros over fire: e-ink, not a kindle fire, backlight
kindle fire pros over paperwhite:
>Doré Paradise Lost
>not the superior Martin
The highlight of my - and any Swedes - childhood. Fairytales combined with the illustrations of John Bauer.
The old dark European fairytales really are so superior compared to this American Disney shit.
>finish great classic, hungry for another
>decide to check out "western canon" wikipedia page
>see this
wth?
ignore it and it will go away
>>8268282
>Women composers
>Feminism and the artistic canon
>Feminism and the literary canon
hmm
What are you upset about?
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