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What does lit think of this book?
>>7997929
Very entertaining and hilarious. Literally a page turner. Can't wait to read it again.
>>7997929
It's very long and very misread, almost hilariously so.
Tbh I think most people really need to have top notch note taking/organisation skills and a good amount of time to not rush.
The history of its interpretation is frankly weird and a good lesson in how vast swathes of people can be idiots.
>>7997929
I have a degree in Economics and I never read it lol
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Despite my profound memory and the vast internal archive of experiences I have available to me should I wish at any time to lucidly recall any specific moments of my life, the section of my inner library dedicated to the initial months of my existence is stocked only with a few thin volumes, their content illegible in most part, the few faded stamps on their blank opening page suggesting...
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>Despite my profound memory
wew
You should have just quit when you hadn't written it and it was still just a meme.
>These sequences are remembered in no consistent order, as though my remembering them in this disjointed state reflects of my inability at the time to form the series of novel experiences with which I was greeted in the months immediately after my birth, into any coherent narrative.
Don't add a comma just because a sentence is too long. The second comma doesn't work there. The passage that is separated by commas isn't an aside, either, so the sentence doesn't work without the passage. Redo this sentence.
Stop trying...
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What are your favourite publishers for hardcover books?
Everyman's Library, Library of America, Knopf, Doubleday, academic presses
>>7997758
bit of a meaningless question but here are some publishers i have bought hardbacks from recently:
Taschen
TeNeues
Rizzoli
Assouline
Folio Society
What did Knausgaard mean by this?
>>7997750
it means "very complex"
Is this a good edition? Saw it jn a local bookshop for pretty cheap. Also are the Collins Classics range good quality in general?
generally below penguin but above wordsworth imo
>>7997639
What makes the difference? Just general quality of paper etc?
>>7997652
yeah m8. collins have a pretty good smell though imo, nicer than wordsworth.
Why was Gary such a cunt?
>jonathan franzen
>winner of the national book award
>the nyrb quote
I don't know if Gary is a cunt or not, but I surely know that I'm not reading this book once in my lifetime.
He's a reflection of his creator.
He was a self-insert.
Why does John C. Wright write in an overly verbose purple prose style?
>>7997565
Because he is an Asperger's victim with a fondness for objectivism and popery.
>>7997565
Because it works well with cool space opera.
This guy wears a goddang fedora that he tips
>Moral Obligation
https://archive.is/rJ40U
>Highlights
One of my favorite verses comes near the end of the book:
>And all that the Lorax left here in this mess
>was a small pile of rocks, with the one word … ‘UNLESS.’
>Whatever that meant, well, I just couldn’t guess.
>That was long, long ago. But each day since that day
>I’ve sat here...
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>>7997563
What makes The Lorax such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve. This is commonplace and accepted in children’s stories, but considered largely undesirable in literary fiction.
In fact snarkiness and even snobbishness can be brought to bear by some critics if they believe they’ve sniffed out a whiff of idea-mongering in fiction.
But I happen to believe in the urgency of now.
I don’t accept the proposition that ours is a...
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>>7997570
I rarely write a book where I’m not trying to approach some idea or set of ideas that I think is of interest in the cultural moment.
Some of my books touch on the loss of animal and plant life and what that means to people; my new novel, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, is partly about the use of religious belief in politics and the intersection of that use with the diminishment of diversity, cultural and linguistic as well as biological.
In approaching these ideas in a fictional vein I’ve had to wrestle, on...
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>>7997578
We shouldn’t forget that literary fiction is part of the now, part of social discourse. It’s not a medium for polemics, but it is clearly a medium for speculation. And for the examination of collective choices as well as individual.
This is nothing new; it goes back well before Dickens or Hardy or Eliot.
My feeling is that the struggle to write well is also the struggle to write honestly, even when they seem to be at loggerheads. And that candor—elusive and sometimes rudely naked—shouldn’t be...
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Has there ever been a book, or work of fiction that you just can't stop thinking about, even years after you've finished reading it?
Something that leaves this nostalgic feeling in your gut, and the more you think about it, the more you end up discovering something new that you missed before, and you just end up loving the story even more, causing you to just think about it more and more. Not only that, but the more you think about it, the more you get inspired by what the author did with his work that it inspires you, and motivates you to start your own stories...
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My own life.
>>7997464
>Has there ever been a book, or work of fiction that you just can't stop thinking about, even years after you've finished reading it?
Uh.. most of them?
>>7997464
which book did this to you, OP?
Going to my favorite used bookstore tomorrow with my usual bevy of 'one man's trash' gleaned from estate sales and second-hand stores. For some reason, it irritates me to have to get rid of these 'classics' just to score some Richard Laymon and Joe R. Landsdale.
I'm not big on fantasy, but I like Martin's ASOIAF series but Tolkien bores the shit out of me.
Can someone tell me about the Knight's Templar and if I should read pic related instead of turning them in when I could get some Paulanuik or John Conneley instead?
I...
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No, you should let someone who has taste have the opportunity to own those books because they're wasted on you.
>>7997469
Can you explain yourself?
>>7997478
If you can't understand the subtext of my post then you won't get anything from those books.
its one of my favorite books but i never hear anyone talk about it. lets discuss it. what did you think?
>>7997425
>more than 1000 pages
for what purpose?
all the infinite jest threads and this one need to have a problem with the length? its a great book about a spaceship going back to a home planet after this old guy beelze spent a very long time on earth and he is telling his grandson about all the shit he learned there.
its like the first sci fi book ever but also imbued with esoteric spiritual knowledge.
god damn, no one? fuck yall
>>7997550
If it is any consolation I'm watching this thread in order to learn more, drunk though I may be
Thoughts on Chekhov's Gun when writing stories?
Don't think about it consciously. You should just intuitively know what you're doing and what will work. You can't build a good story from reading critical analysis tropes.
Hello, /lit/, I'm in dire need of your help.
I'm choosing a topic for my bc thesis and the supervisor recommended me Evelyn Waugh's works. Now, I have never read anything from him (or heard of him at all, actually).
Is he and his work a viable topic for bct? My own idea was to compare 1984 and Brave New World because it's easy, or maybe to trace the objectivism in the works of Ayn Rand as it could be quite easy as well, but she recommended I do Waugh instead.
>>7997417
>compare 1984 and Brave New World
>this is a legitimate thesis Idea
shouldn't you be able to come up with something more in depth and original than that.
Actually this is bait. never mind
>>7997417
>never heard of Evelyn Waugh
anon, i don't know whether to envy you, because you will have the experience of reading Brideshead Revisited for the first time, or pity you, because you appear to be a massive idiot
>>7997749
I'm not a /lit/fag by default. While I do enjoy reading, it is not my main hobby and so I have not come across some of the great ones.
I think that you should envy me, it's the only scenario in such cases.
>>7997733
Great trippledubs boi.
Yes, it is not deep and is shallow, but as I said, I wanted to do something easy.
Like, very easy.
Like "a week work with sessions of playing videogames in spare time" easy.
And the more...
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what's the best version (publisher) of H.P Lovecraft stories?
The Library of America.
This
> http://www.amazon.com/Cthulhu-Stories-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0141182342
>>7997405
It aesthetics looks shit
Ovid is the greatest storyteller of all time
Discuss
>>7997298
yep, probably
>>7997298
reading book iii right now.
where the fuck did he source this from??
i realize he spoke to different people but was he channeling the narratives, the emotional sequences, from a higher source? i feel like there's an aspect of authenticity that i'm still not getting
>>7997347
Obviously it was divine inspiration for God.
