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>tfw you finally write a book and you begin editing it, cutting out all that fat and shitty writing, making it better and better
feels so good
>>7847365
Nice, I like this feel too
Noob question: Is it better to edit it after you write it completely or to edit it as you go, chapter per chapter?
Editing is like going on a cut after a bulk. It's painful and you are always in a bad mood, but the beauty in all that work you did starts to emerge and it's amazing.
I'm thinking of reading some of Žižek's works. Are they any good or will they be full of shitty jokes and anecdotes about his leftist friends and his conscription time like his speeches and lectures? Anything interesting you can recommend?
why would you bother reading a leftist
>>7847354
Always start with his masterpiece "The sublime object of Ideology". It's awesome. He's awesome. Prepare to break your head about Lacan and Hegel. He's intro to the book is harder than the next 100 pages.
read the sublime object of ideology. all of his work is more or less the same as that.
honestly though, if you understand how ideology operates and understand the lacanian triptych of psychoanalysis, you don't really need to read him.
Hey /lit/ sci-fi/space opera fan here. I just finished reading The Owner trilogy by Neal Asher and I really enjoyed it. Do you know of any other books that have that same feel to them? I've read most of Neal Asher's other stuff and enjoyed it too, but the Owner is slightly different. More of a rise to power series. Any recommendations?
I haven't read your book, but the first English translation of the Legend Of The Galactic Heroes novels was released this month after about 30 years (pic related), I'm about 50% in and it's a lot about the "rise to power" of two opposing commanders in two competing galactic empires, maybe that'll fit?
>>7845658
Synopsis sounds pretty cool, I'll check that out, thanks. Any western literature?
What's the worst euphemism for penis you've read?
>>7844479
"meat" anything
meat stick, meat cleaver, just makes me want to throw up. any descriptions including the words "fat" or "pink".
>>7844487
"Fat" "Pink" "Mast"
package
In your own words, what is modernism and what is postmodernism?
one isn't for degenerate faggots. sage
>>7840346
Uh. Were you going say which one was for faggots?
Newspaper and television
What do you guys think of this bloke?
I like his attachment to the Western tradition
Great poet, terrible thinker.
>>7839232
you're wrong
>>7839232
lol.
have you read any of his essays? this guy was an intellectual giant.
Anybody know of any good historical books about Unit 731 in China during World War Two?
miya-san is based
"Read, expected, got" thread
and template for the lazy
>>7833081
Makes me want to read it senpai
What have you anons picked up recently?
Show us your finds.
did you up the saturation or something?
all the colors here look really pretty, especially the orange
>>7825376
How's that Herodotus? Does it includes maps like that of the Landmark Edition?
I have to read at least one book from my english class oral (I'm a foreigner) that I will pass on tuesday.
I'm a computer science student so the teacher would appreciate that I read something computer related even if it's sci-fi.
But I have not begin so I'd like something that is less than 200 pages, and I didn't find one.
>>7849869
Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Deception should be an easy read.
>>7849869
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Relatively short, english, award winning non-fiction with lots of technology in it written for plebs.
http://bookzz.org/dl/2329708/f0876d
Is there a right way to understand symbolism or does it all just boil down to your own interpretation? Is there a way to learn to understand the proper meaning behind the author?
i don't know how to read sorry
Obviously no objective right way.
What I do is try going into it with as little expectation as possible. See what it means to me to extent i'm willing to try.
Then check other interpretations to see if they match or add anything to how I feel. Maybe reread if I think there is much I missed.
I actually never do this but it's what I think I would do if I could be bothered to make the effort
Symbolism is mostly interpretation, but there are dictionaries of symbols around. People like Freud also schematized the use of symbols and some of the authors they influenced keep to those specific meanings.
You can interpret whatever as long as it has convincing evidence and a purpose.
What Hunter S Thompson novels have you read and your opinion?
>>7849690
>What Hunter S Thompson novels have you read
only fear and loathing
>and your opinion?
only cirumcised hamsters should be allowed to reproduce
F&L in Las Vegas is a classic, don't think anyone would dispute that. You're either into it or it's not for you.
Hell's Angels and F&L on The Campaign Trail were both fantastic I thought, albeit, decidedly not novels, and nothing like F&L in Las Vegas whatsoever. Rum Diary was terrible, it's not wonder nobody wanted to publish it back in the day. Didn't really care for The Curse of Lono, but it might be your most direct equivalent to F&L in Las Vegas.
Thoughts on the man? What's there really to say? Resentfully...
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>>7849690
I read Hell's Angels and really liked it. His style makes the book really pleasant to read, he makes a nice critical review of how journalists change facts to make them more sensationnal, and has very interesting observations/analysis about Hell's Angel. He is not the edgy stoner that the movie with Depp describes.
I know there was a thread about it recently but it died before I could read it.
Can any of you give me a brief outline of the movement, its aims, its roots, who's who and where to start reading it? I've heard the names of Badiou and Kant thrown around, but without much context.
I'm a philosophy undergrad so I'm not out of my depth but I've read Cyclonopedia and didn't really get that much out of it apart from general fun times and HPL, so I'd like to understand what the fuck they're ambling towards.
Fuck off op. Do your own research.
>>7849624
I did. I just felt like asking for directions on this topic may prove helpful to my own research.
Hey /lit/ as part of a college project I have to write a poem with melancholic humour, I'm shit at both of these and want to see what you think of it so far.
It's based on Plosives bouncing off of sibilance, by the way
The Time Travellers Parents
Quickly now
I have lost my device
I have lost my timeline
Said the Baby.
I will throw a tantrum
Should you not comply
Said the Baby.
Why on Earth
Is our Baby talking
Talking about a device
Talking about a timeline
Said the Mother.
What kind of device
What other timeline
Why...
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>>7849524
can't tell if this is deep or not
>>7849524
>doctor who
Let slip from mine hand
>>7849524
i made a better one
ripping the letters
on einsteins pages
while moving through the same spot
year before year
a highschool dance
a crowd in the crowd
shyly cruising
me
before I ate all that pizza
I walk through them
they bounce off me
like i am a the ball
as well as the obstacles
in a flipper-machine
the mini-me looks
at me
her skeletal face shows disgust
at my pizza themed unitard
i hug her, full of sweat
until she gets slippery
she screams
like...
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Any advice on getting into writing?
It's been hard for me to write about any character that isn't myself or like me, or to not write in first person view.
I don't know, I got a dream journal and when I'm describing a vivid dream I have no problems.
>>7849486
I literally just finished writing a book last week. Let me ask this: why you want to get into writing?
I have nothing to do, so if you want you can ask something, but I'm Italian so keep that in mind.
>>7849486
Those are the classic symptoms of autism anon, I am so sorry.
My advice is if you are writing, always start from the characters up.
Never use retarded shit for dialogue like: "You're a big guy." He objected, assuredly.
It makes people cringe when people use big words and pointless adverbs to describe dialogue. I am sure you read enough books to know the difference between good dialogue and bad dialogue but if you don't just do your research before you make any reader want...
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>>7849486
You read more you fucking dip
