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Is wheel of time worth the investment?which is shittier, wheel of time or a song of ice and fire?
>>7963210
Wheel of Time without a doubt
I enjoyed ASOIAF but if you want the most Tolkien derivative shit then go and read WOT. ASOIAF has that problem too but not as bad as WOT, first book is basically a complete plagiarism of Fellowship.
>>7963215
Did you actually finish the series though? I'm half way through and I don't think I'm going to stop. He's just losing control of the characters and the women piss me off.
>>7963224
I only read the first WOT book and didn't really feel compelled to read the second one.
I read it and it's actually good. Why does everyone hate it so much?
Because the author is a cunt
>>7963195
you tell us first what you like about it. maybe then we'll consider this thread as something more serious than lazy bait.
>>7963214
>Enjoyable prose
>Interesting characters
>Particular points of view
Ugh fuck this board. I fell for the start with the greeks meme. A few people recommended to start with james joyce after I asked how to get back into reading after 10 years.
What are you even saying?
>>7962924
I did some research and it's not just me it seems. It's notoriously hard to read. At the very least, it is if you are getting back into it after 10 years.
It's tough but it's fun and doable. It's also not Greek you fuckin dummy
Who else /blameparentsfornotprovidingforpatricianchliterature/ here?
Seriously, why weren't they in possession of a fully stocked world lit tier library?
>>7962912
you sound exactly like the pathetic child you've posted. are you dead? no. then no one is stopping you from picking up a book. Get off 4chan and actually read instead of shitposting here.
i'm a millenial who's starting to agree that we are the worst generation
I doesn't really matter.
Would you buy a book on a masturbation journal? For the price of $5.
The book will be journal entries of my masturbation session, for example:
April 01 2016
"Today I was jacking off to Japanese porn. It's a porn about a man who goes around raping a women at work. What the fuck, Japan.
I stroke my dick furious and cummed after 45 minutes. It was a great fap"
April 02 2016
Today I was at work and I fapped in the washroom. I watched HD porn on my cell phone and cummed inside the toilet bowl.
Etc etc.
Let me know what you think anons, it might be the next best seller.
Or maybe we can coloab and write fap stories and publish it on amazon.
>>7962397
I could get this on /b/ for free
>>7962406
You brought up a good point, dear anon, but most normies don't go on /b/ so they might be interested in the fap stories.
>>7962397
>those dead eyes
>tfw spending more time reading about reading on /lit/ rather than reading books
Am I the only one with such horrible discipline? How do I fix it?
Close the laptop, meditate, then read.
Meditate regularly and stay off the laptop.
get better taste in stories
Get some willpower faggot, just do it.
Inspiration thread: post pictures that inspire you.
If you see something you like, write about it. Prose, poetry, dialogue, anything.
This is not acclaimed novelist Will Self's first rodeo. He is also the author of another modern-day adaptation of classic literature, Dorian, an Imitation. Dorian, an Imitation is a take on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. That adaptation takes place in the '90s and '80s and the main character is a looks obsessed man trying to make it in the London Art scene. "I wasn't going to play fast and loose with the story like I did with Dorian" says Self "and the time gap between the 1920s and 2010s is less than a hundred years, but I tried to make it very unique without changing the plot or the themes. It was a challenge, but the solution was writing it in a different way and writing it from a bit of a different perspective."
The book is slated to be published in early 2017. If, like many of us, you absolutely cannot wait to get a taste of Self's Gatsby, you can at least read the blurb that will appear on dust jacket:
"At first, I couldn’t understand why the media was making such a big deal of the billionaire’s death. After all, the people of Planet Earth had other concerns. The ongoing energy crisis. Catastrophic climate change. Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: “dogs and cats living together . . . mass hysteria!” Normally, the news- feeds didn’t interrupt everyone’s interactive sitcoms and soap operas un- less something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. Big stuff like that. As famous as he was, Halliday’s death should have war- ranted only a brief segment on the evening news, so the unwashed masses could shake their heads in envy when the newscasters announced the obscenely large amount of money that would be doled out to the rich man’s heirs.
My name is Nick Garcia and I was the friend of this man: The Great Gatsby! This is his story..."
>Will Self
>will self
>it's a modern day version of an old work adaptation
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>>7959803
welcome to da forum
KNiGHT_oF_FAiTH
shut up manlet
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I wrote this recently. How is it? Give it a chance. Picks up halfway through.
The sentences are a bit short and sharp but the grammar is decent enough to understand. To be honest I liked the first half more, I'm not one for plea endings.
Did you paint the cover yourself or asked they guy who made it if you can use it? It's pretty cool.
Also you didn't post any links to the book expecting people to know were to get it.
I just marathoned the first two pages and realised that it just isn't for me.
What are the greatest books ever written?
Probably the Overlord light novels.
>>>/pol/71890713
The Bible
The Iliad and the Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
Don Quixote
Paradise Lost
what does zizek think of anime, /lit/?
>>7958749
PURE
I doubt he cares about it
>>7958776
You would be mistaken. Retreat of the accepted Big Other and the absence of an agent who will give structure to our chaotic sexual lives.
I can only buy one book.
What book do I buy?
Encyclopedia Britannica
a big one?
In Search of Lost Time
What does /lit/ think about this little book? Is it the ultimate /comfy/ book?
>post yfw when you realize it's a book about a retard playing with a piece of shit, pretending it's a bear.
>>7958459
you're a samefag
I never see Jane Austen discussed here, what does /lit/ think of her?
I've never read anything by her, here should I start?
Also, would you fuck her? Looks like a solid 8/10 if you ask me
Brilliant prose stylist.
I feel like I'm watching SOL anime reading her work, but I mean that in a good way, it's cute and comfy. And I don't find Austin's interjections as a narrator as annoying as I thought it would be.
Some chick thought I was gay because I've read most of her stuff
>>7957906
Iirc that picture is actually a "beautified" version of an original. It appears that she wasn't very attractive, and she was never married. That said, I find her novels clever and very well-written, but if you aren't interested in Georgian England, marriage structures, and romance (lowercase and capital r), then you might not find them very enjoyable. I say that not to discourage you, that's just my opinion of her books.
I would suggest starting with either Pride and Prejudice or Northanger Abbey. Pride and Prejudice is her most famous, and it's pretty enjoyable, her writing just has this sort of airy, easeful quality that can be very soothing. It can also be boring as hell, though, depending on your taste. Northanger Abbey is much more witty and humorous (though all her books are humorous to a degree). However, most of the humor will be lost if you aren't at least a little familiar with the conventions of the Gothic novel (if this interests you, I would recommend The Mysteries of Udolpho or The Romance of the Forest, both by Ann Radcliffe, or The Monk by Matthew Lewis (which is very sensational and erotically charged, very notorious at its time)).
