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What are some good murder mysteries?
The recommended ones on the wiki were mostly plain crime.pic related
The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld
>>7850223
Please someone recommend me a book with very smart/powerful character, or a book about someone patrician? You would do me a huge favor.
mysterious semblance of spectral trees.
does this mean something having the resemblance of ghostly trees? or the mysterious veneer or guise that ghostly trees project?
>>7850207
what? someone help me, english is second language
I rarely read fiction published, say, after 1970. I feel that this may not be a good thing-- that I might be cutting myself off from relevant and interesting streams of thought. Any advice on where to start? Any recent books you'd strongly recommend? Somehow it seems easier to get a grip on where older books fit into things...
A brief history of seven killings was good
>>7850193
Out of curiosity, how'd you select it to read in the first place?
>>7850204
I wanted to try something about a subject I didn't know much about, that and the book was getting a lot of hype from people I knew
Are there any good books on Audible? I'm traveling until 8pm and could use some entertainment. Pic related.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Spring Snow
Blood Meridian
>>7850236
Don't you mean a hard man is good to find?
Hey /lit/
I'm not sure if this belongs here, but I'm son of Russian immigrants in Europe, so my Russian is pretty good verbally, but I have problems with reading it, and I don't really want read books to get better, are there any good Russian websites which would offer interesting content to practice?
Like for example a news site, I thought about gazeta.ru but I also don't want to read any propaganda, is there anything that would fit my description.
Just read Dostoyevski and level yourself up that way.
>>7850010
Maybe /int/ can help you more
>>7850042
While I am sure it is a better work in Russian, I'd still rather read the German translation for now.
Of course I might leave some books for later, or re-read them when my abilities reached a sufficient point, which they yet don't have.
When writing rhyming poetry, do great writers think of good line ending words then shape the subtleties of meaning to accomodate that word, or start with an exact meaning and then sift out appropriate words to fit it? Or something else?
I would imagine it differs between writers. Personally, I use both of the techniques you described, although it's most of the latter. I don't rhyme using any kind of rhyme scheme. If a couple of words happen to rhyme while I write, that's fine. But my concern is with what I'm trying to convey.
>>7849995
I've read that it's healthy to go with the flow of language, that includes adjusting your original intention to accommodate the rhymes.
To a student he once said: "Oh, don't take that too seriously. That's something I dreamed up on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
>>7849901
[citation needed]
"I smoke cigars, this means I suck cocks and am gay."
--Sigmund Freud
>>7849903
what is google?
>a serial killer chooses his victims after how they react to him on a BBS online. He is out to prove that just because you are anonymous, dosen't mean that you're safe.
it was released in 1997, so it's not about 4chan or le anonimoose legion crap.
Are there any other good books about cyberspace and hacking in the late 80's early 90?
This is non-fiction but sounds exactly what you want
http://www.underground-book.net/
>>7849619
thanks I'll give it a look
Alright guys this is a small thing but I figured it'd be the place to ask. I just started to read the short story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, and there's a phrase that's tripped me up right at the start and I can't get it out of my head. Now I feel like I may be being stupid here as I haven't slept, but still, I can't find any definition or meaning for the phrase "Bright-towered". Here's the sentence:
"With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the
city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea"
What would you take this to mean?
>>7849458
Could mean light house yo
it uh has towers that are bright?? because of, perhaps, internal or external lighting??
Are there any books about Christianity (either explicit or implicit) that are set in space or in the future?
The Sparrow
The Book Of Strange New Things
are both featuring interplanetary missionaries
A canticle for Leibowitz
It's about monks in the desert after a nuclear war.
>>7849397
Read this OP. It's a very good book. However, you need to know Catholic doctrine to fully appreciate it.
What does lit think about this guy?
I enjoyed Into the Wild. Can't say much else, there wasn't a ton of substance or anything to write home about, but the story itself was interesting and his prose is cut-and-dry simple.
kike/10
Just submitted my first manuscript /lit/
I never thought I would say this to 4chan, but thanks to you guys I finally made it this far.
>>7849092
What kind of book is it? Please don't be some jetpack fucking genrefaggot. Please.
>>7849101
It's a horror short story
>>7849102
Kill yourself faggotgood job, anon
“What is practiced as art today--be it music after Wagner or painting after Manet, Cézanne, Leible and Menzel-- is impotence and falsehood. One thing is quite certain, that today every single art-school could be shut down without art being affected in the slightest. We can learn all we wish to know about the art-clamour which a megalopolis sets up in order to forget that its art is dead form the Alexandria of the year 200. There, as here in our world-cities, we find a pursuit of illusions of artistic progress, of personal peculiarity, of "the new style," of "unsuspected possibilities," theoretical babble, pretentious fashionable artists, weight-lifters with cardboard dumb-bells--the "Literary Man" in the Poet's place, the unabashed farce of Expressionism, which the art-trade has organized as a "phase of art-history," thinking and felling and forming as industrial art. Alexandria, too, had problem-dramatists and box-office artists whom it preferred to Sophocles and painters who invented new tendencies and successfully bluffed their public. The final result is that endless industrious repetition of a stock of fixed forms which we see today in Indian Chinese and Arabian-persian art. Pictures and fabrics, verses and vessels, furniture, dramas and musical compositions--all is pattern-work. We cease to be able to date anything within centuries, let alone decades, by the language of its ornamentation. So it has been in the Last Act of all Cultures.”
- Oswald Spengler
How do you even disagree with this?
What a philistine.
>>7847746
>How do you even disagree with this?
Violent delusion and talmudic doublespeak AKA critical theory
>One thing is quite certain, that today every single art-school could be shut down without art being affected in the slightest.
Ever more true today than in his day.
Holy shit, I'm getting more and more redpilled
Sorry Jizzdick, but your "we need to think, but lol don't look at me for solutions, utopia tho 'n Lacan for some reason" is quite a fraud compared to what I get from the alt right.
A team of researchers did a scan of Shakespeare's tomb, and the program will be presented soon, on this date and channel:
>Saturday, 26 March at 8pm, Channel 4
I am Brazilian and do not have acess to this channel, so I ask of the brit posters: can one of you save the program and post the link on /lit/ for the rest of us to see it?
You will find all the info you need here:
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/secret-history-shakespeares-tomb
To the ones interested, the key findings (some of them) are these:
Key findings:
There is evidence of a mysterious and significant repair to the head end of William Shakespeare's grave, leading to Kevin Colls' theory that this localised repair was needed to correct a sinking of the floor possibly caused by a previous disturbance to the grave.
Kevin Colls believes these findings give new credence to a story published in The Argosy magazine in 1879, hitherto dismissed as fiction, which claimed that Shakespeare's skull was stolen from his shallow grave by trophy hunters in 1794.
The GPR survey found that William Shakespeare, his wife Anne Hathaway and other members of the family whose ledger (grave) stones lie beside his, were not buried in a large family vault deep underground, as has long been thought, but in shallow graves beneath the church floor. William Shakespeare's and Anne Hathaway's graves are less than a metre deep.
William Shakespeare's grave was found to be significantly longer than his short stone – extending west towards the head end, making it the same size as, and in line with, the other family graves. (Anne's grave is also longer than her stone suggests.)
The GPR also found no evidence of metal in the area of the grave, such as coffin nails. This suggests Shakespeare and his family were not buried in coffins but simply wrapped in winding sheets, or shrouds, and buried in soil.
You already know the key findings, why do you need to watch the program?
>>7847718
I love Anne Hathaway's acting career. She's really moved on up!
What's lit's opinion on Herman Hesse? My dad really likes him and he introduced me to him. After reading Demian I got really interested in literature and I think Steppenwolf is a masterpice. Thoughts?
too liberal. hed probably be a Bernie supporter if he were alive. avoid him
siddhartha was pretty neat. thought it was overrated, though.
reddit: the author.
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