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I just bought a book of this cuck's complete works and I just kinda jump around because some of it is really, really bad, but there are some good poems every now and then.
Also if you post a poet I will try to recommend both short and long poems I like by them, if I know them.
>>7989797
Oops, should clarify, what are your favorite works of his?
>>7989797
>some of it is really, really bad
Which ones?
>>7989797
>some of it is really, really bad
What is your favorite poem /lit/?
Either Fra Lippo Lippi or The Lady of Shallot
>>7989775
you've made me remember my gcses
thanks i guess
right now, it's A Burnt Ship by John Donne
does it still hold up well in the 21st century?
>>7989748
It doesn't hold up well in the 20th century.
It was like the YA novel of its time.
I bet Capote was ashamed to have helped her out so much, and was even more ashamed when this hot garbage won a Pulitzer.
It doesn't even hold up by the fourth page.
My favorite authors are Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace. My favorite novel is Finnegans Wake.
>1. Tell the truth.
“Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all… as long as you tell the truth… Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work… What you know makes you unique in some other way. Be brave.”
>2. Don’t use big words when small ones work.
“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up your household pet in evening clothes.”
>3. Use single-sentence paragraphs.
“The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.
The single-sentence paragraph more closely resembles talk than writing, and that’s good. Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”
>4. Write for your Ideal Reader.
“Someone–I can’t remember who, for the life of me–once wrote that all novels are really letters aimed at one person. As it happens, I believe this.
I think that every novelist has a single ideal reader; that at various points during the composition of a story, the writer is thinking, ‘I wonder what he/she will think when he/she reads this part?’ For me that first reader is my wife, Tabitha… Call that one person you write for Ideal Reader.”
>5. Read a lot.
“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books–of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john.”
>6. Write one word at a time.
“In an early interview (this was to promote Carrie, I think), a radio talk-show host asked me how I wrote. My reply–’One word at a time’– seemingly left him without a reply. I think he was trying to decide whether or not I was joking. I wasn’t. In the end, it’s always that simple.”
>7. Write every day.
“The truth is that when I’m writing, I write every day, workaholic dweeb or not. That includes Christmas, the Fourth, and my birthday (at my age you try to ignore your goddam birthday anyway)… When I’m writing, it’s all the playground, and the worst three hours I ever spent there were still pretty damned good.”
>8. Write for the joy of it.
“Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it… Maybe it paid off the mortgage on the house and got the kids through college, but those things were on the side–I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.”
I just finished Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and I am so fucking confused, can we talk about it? I kept having to go back and reread things multiple times because I feel like I'm missing something. Why was Kurtz such a big deal? He wasn't even in the actual novel that long, why was Marlow so obsessed with him? What was the deal with the random African women that put her had in the sky? What's going on with Kurtz's fiancé why was she even put in the novel? She had no significance whatsoever, why was Marlow even bothering himself with her? Why was Kurtz even involved in the company, what was his purpose? Don't get me wrong, I really like this book but I really don't understand what's going on please help.
>I really like this book but I really don't understand what's going on
>>7989720
I mean, I could appreciate the story telling and I could understand the first two chapters just fine but at chapter three I just lost it. The entire book he's talking about Kurtz and then you meet him and there is nothing defining him in anyway, Marlow doesn't even talk to him very much so why does Marlowe act like they where buddy buddy and that Kurtz was just the best thing since sliced bread?
The purpose for Marlow's journey is more or less that the Company is scared shitless of Kurtz. The reason for this is essential to understanding the entire book.
From the outset, Marlow detests the Europeans he encounters all along the way. He detests and mocks them, especially when it comes to their inefficiency. The trip with the Company is leading him to a complete rejection of Europe and civilized society.
Kurtz is what he moves towards along the river, both literally because that's the target and metaphorically because Marlow is becoming more like Kurtz. Kurtz is the completed rejection of society, to the point that he has joined the savage wilderness and now rules it.
This terrifies the Company, because Kurtz was an ivory supplier who could get shitloads of the stuff. Absurd amounts. Then he just stops giving a fuck and sends them nothing. This is not ok with them at all, so Marlow has to go figure out what the deal is. The ivory is not the point -- the point is that he achieved dominion over the natives, the savages, and no longer wants to be part of them. He sees himself as something completely separate.
When Marlow sees Kurtz he understands what Kurtz has done and how he has reached this point, and has mixed feelings. Here is the end result of the path he's going along -- rejection of society in the form of the Company will turn him into Kurtz. But he sees what Kurtz has, and does not want it. He sees it as base, primal, as below him as the Company at the opposite side of the spectrum. So he takes a fascination with Kurtz, but rejects his life as well.
Kurtz's fiancee and the native woman highlight the extent of how far he fell. He had an entire life in Europe that he has lost all interest in, and now in fact actively hates.
Marlow's conflicted feelings prevent him from revealing this to the fiancee back home. He cannot tell the truth to her, and the world he is from seems as alien as Africa did. Instead he returns to a life of traveling aboard ships, which is where we find him at the beginning of the novel. Here, he follows his own sort of middle ground and finally feels content, which is why the frame story on the Nellie repeatedly uses images enlightenment to describe him.
Hey /lit/ what do you think about Perez Reverte and his new book El Puto Venado
>>7989706
>Forzando memes de hace seis años
Debería darte vergüenza
The obviois thing about him is that he's so full of himself. So much, in fact, that it makes his interviews interesting if only in a perverse and comical way. You just wait in expectation to see what kind of crazy shit about himself he can come up with next
>>7989706
Spanish Dan Brown
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are:
>tfw no gf
>>7989680
this was a really nice pun guys, c'mon
>>7989935
>>>/rk9/
what's on the cartridge?
>>7989448
The veiled women and a conceit of 'all men reincarnate and marry their mother/wife/killer' (the exact details escape me)
I don't know why this name popped up btw
>>7989448
The scrolling words of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace in a never-ending loop.
That's a part of the book I never understood. What's so fatally compelling about a drunk guy shouting "David Foster Wallace!" from a car window?
Hey /lit/, I want you to rate my story. I've only written 1,000 words so far, and I'd appreciate it if someone could give me any criticism. Literally any. If it's good, so-so, plain shit or even give up and kill myself-worthy then feel free to give your honest opinion. Don't hold back.
>>7989444
Forgot to link.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/70147662-eden%27s-demise
>>7989444
Mate, can you chuck some of it in a pastebin or something. I'm not signing up to wattpad just to read something.
>>7989444
One does not itch. One scratches an itch.
Thoughts on audio books?
Its ok
Fine for consuming pleb shit for the sake of being able to talk to normies about books, but if it's a book that you actually at all care about, you should actually read it.
Idk
More images like this one please.
Dump what you have. I find these images so helpful when putting something in a time and place.
that picture is stupid
>>7989328
I'm pretty sure this leaves out a lot of movements
>>7989398
Why
What are some nice biographies that are easy to find epubs for/cheap for kindle (I like Nathan Miller's Theodore Roosevelt but can't find an epub for it and it isn't in the kindle store)?
I'm currently enjoying John Adams by David McCullough
>>7989287
Plutarch's lives, I'm sure you can find it for free easily
How don't I know this board is entirely a spook itself?
>>7989271
Poorly meme'd and atrociously philosophized
better luck next time
>>7989276
spooken like a true spook
SPOOKS GO HOME
How is Gene so good bros?
>Why do we love this forlorn land at the edge of everywhere?
Sitting before my little fire, I know, when the wind blows outside, moaning in the fieldstone chimney I caused to be built for ornament, shrieking in the gutters and the ironwork and the eaves and trim and trellises of the house, that this planet of America, turning round upon itself, stands only at the outside, only at the periphery, only at the edges, of an infinite galaxy, dizzily circling. And that the stars that seem to ride our winds cause them. Sometimes I think to see huge faces bending between those stars to look through my two windows, faces golden and tenuous, touched with pity and wonder; and then I rise from my chair and limp to the flimsy door, and there is nothing; and then I take up the cruiser ax (Buntings Best, 2 lb. head, Hickory Handle) that stands beside the door and go out, and the wind sings and the trees lash themselves like flagellants and the stars show themselves between bars of racing cloud, but the sky between them is empty and blank.
What story is that from?
>>7989242
His novel Peace. It's about an old man reflecting on his life in the haunted midwest. It's very good and rather spooky in some ways. As with Wolfe's other work, it has many many layers.
>>7989233
Is his prose this good in BotNS?
Is Romeo and Juliet overrated?
>>7989227
More like misunderstood
People mumble 'muh greatest love story' when it's actually a tragedy about dumb kids doing dumb shit when they think they're in love
>>7989232
It's actually a black comedy desu
>>7989234
o hi mark
