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Am I the only one who went into Moby-Dick expecting it to be some metal as fuck man-vs-beast story but then it turned out to be more about American national identity? Still a great book either way, but I feel like the way popular culture portrays the book is mostly based on the start and the end. why is this?
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>>7835360
>some metal as fuck man-vs-beast story
Are you implying it isn't? Lmao.
Also, god-tier album right there.
>>7835360
Because most people only know about it through movies.
Also I was about to write "lol at American national identity", but that book is so damn amazing and vast, you can pull all kinds of different diamonds out of it.
was gonna start a new thread but asking here seems okay
i'm looking for something masculine and metal as fuck, recommendations? this is already on my list
I'm researching this topic and currently compiling a list of interesting items (pic related).
Can you recommend some books in this area /lit/?
>>7835314
I've actually been wondering that myself. My big problem is that that stuff seems to loosely fall into the scifi genre and scifi almost never has beautiful prose. Anyone know an ARG book with beautiful prose?
>>7835318
Try 'The Institute'. It's not a book but a motion picture documentary about an ARG but the storytelling approach impressed me nevertheless(pic related).
I just started looking around and enjoy well written prose but am more interested in twisted plot settings or interesting storytelling approaches that mix reality and fiction.
It doesn't have to be science fiction... if there are classics that deal with that topic, I'd like to know too.
>>7835366
I guess Philip K Dick may work - he's not directly about games, but more about reality vs. virtual reality, Ubik would be the prime example.
Similarly, Stanislav Lem has a lot about virtual reality (he wrote a ton of unread non-fiction about it, too). Maybe The Futurological Congress?
The only two novels I can think of that directly involve virtual games are bad - Ready Player One (absolute wish-fulfillment trash), Snowcrash (outdated, cheesy fun).
ITT: Post some writing you're proud of and get feedback.
If the events of July 5 2007 were an isolated instance, my disdain could be (at a stretch) construed as excessive. Sadly, though, Douglas’s high-school reunion was a mere link in the chain of his exclusively reprehensible existence. We’ve communicated on regular intervals for the past five years, (If it weren’t for my job I wouldn’t have spent a single second in his company) and every chance he got he’d ramble on about the book he was writing; a subtle psychological novel about a suicidal author writing a subtle psychological novel about a suicidal author. With the...
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bump?
>>7835286
*posts dick pic*
And don't just say Dune cause that's clearly the The Lord of the Rings of science fiction not the ASOIAF
Star Wars tie in books.
The Foundation Series
Gaskun's 15 volume space opera. God knows how bad it is tho.
I wish I was home,reading dubliners.
Which is dumb,because I have the book with me.But no time to read a chapter.
>>7835215
are you at a party or something?you should write a stream-of-consciousness narrative describing your experience afterwards
>>7835217
I'm in the city.maybe ypu are right.I haven't written a single word to my novell in 5 days.
>>7835215
I sort of understand, anon. When I'm on my commute or at uni, in my free time I read, and while I read I tend to wish I was reading at home with my feet up instead because I'm often distracted by other people's conversations and then I have to obsessively re-read the same passage over and over again; it probably seems like I am just reading one page for a good ten minutes when I read in public.
In his essay "Starship Stormtroopers" Michael Moorcock claims that sci-fi is overrun with authoritarianism and fascism. Is this a fair assessment of the genre?
Here's the essay in question:
http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html
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to an extent yeah the 'big three' but not all of scifi
PKD and Ursla K le guin are two major examples of left and anti-authoritarian scifi authors
No,I don't think so. Certainly for some books (like Heinlein's ouvre) but not the genre in its entirety.
I think there's this tendency in academia to be overly wary of anything that could be potentially viewed as Hilter-esque. It's like a hyper-Hitler-awareness. Fascism has been the western academic boogeyman over the last half-century; writers from within leftist frameworks seem to see it in every shadow, and stretch credibility to the breaking point to reveal the secret fascist threat that hides in plain sight.
Any time a work of fiction -...
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I've read Iron Dream! It was a hilarious joke that quickly got boring.
Afterword with the fake life history was good tho.
>>7835331
>as if it's impossible to write classical hero narratives without harboring secret desires to kill the Jews.
The big comic bookmovie boom is nothing but classical (boring) hero narratives, and no-one's shouting Hitler
I just can't seem to stop. I average about 185 wmp and cap at around 220. I love reading, but when I'm reading what seems like a chapter an hour (currently reading Christianit: The First 3000 Year) it makes it impractical for me to fit ~1000 page books I'd like to read into my schedule during classes and retain the information from leasiurr reading sessions. My question put simply is there a way to increase my reading speed through the removal of subvocalization? And how?
>>7835192
kill yourself
>>7835192
Learning to type might be a good starting point
>>7835192
>subvocalization
is that when you whisper what you read?
Why don't you just stop doing it, and see how far you get?
Hell, tape your mouth shut.
What are some good novels written from a first person perspective by a narrator who would fit in at /r9k/?
So far I have:
Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
Notes from the Underground (Dusty)
The Loser (Bernhard)
My Twisted World (Rodger)
No Longer Human (Dasai)
my diary t b h
Is The Fault in Our Stars first person?Because they're cancerous.
What's pic related pumped out in terms of literature?
>>7835109
nothing
some of the most depressing literature this side of russia
fatherdubs
People usually don't read multiple books (3+) simultaneously because its difficult to truly digest the subject matter if you do. Simultaneously as in switching back and forth, perhaps after a few chapters of either of the books. Same applies to me; I usually just read three books, and ensure that they're all different genres so that I can use separate areas of thinking (not literally but kinda idk) to process each of them effectively.
What's a good combination of patrician genres, as to cumulate to 3, that's good/or what you use?
I think my...
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>>7835088
bunp
I usually read one fiction, one historical/biographical/autobiographical, and one "study" book, such as The History of Western Philosophy.
i'm combining entry level lit theory with novels and essays.
Can anyone recommend any good books for me to read? I'm stuck here bored at work
btw already read 50 Shades
thanks
>>7834990
finnegans wake
>>7834997
Never heard of it, whats it about?
Anything by Peter sotos
what's the best translation for City of God by Augustine?
>>7834988
>translation
There's only two. That one which is from the early 20th century and pretty difficult to read because of a lot of antiquated language, and the Penguin Classics one translated by Henry Bettenson which is lucid.
>>7835005
I heard that the Bettenson one is not very faithful to Civitas Dei
Is this a meme book?
it doesn't matter
>>7834885
yes
>>7834885
Yes and no. Yes: most of us are familiar with it from the Radio Lab story, and apparently it was a minor design meme on pop stars' clothing.
No: part of what an effective meme has to do, is to spread WIDELY, and eventually become misunderstood and quoted ad nauseum by annoying teenagers. This is what both internet memes and various famous historical documents have in common. In both cases, their real historical origins and meanings are partially lost in favor of banal repetition so basic bitches can...
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Friend just got me this today. Any body actually read this?
>>7834838
Yeah, I read it.
But I'm referring to the 'read' in past tense-- I read it, when I was an edgy 8th grader.
>>7834838
Satanism is like mgtow. Pseudo-individualism for pussies who want to feel like they're going against the grain but don't want to do the work of knowing what the grain is, if there are other grains, and why one should follow or oppose certain grains.
>>7834841
I did that too; for about a year I was a Satanic Edgelord. I even got black spacers on my braces. My parents are saints for putting up with that shit.
Granted, I haven't read it since then, but I seem to remember the gist being "religion is stupid, talk shit get hit."
So i began my intellectual journey.
My yoga teacher recommended me Siddharta, loved it.
I've heard about Demian, how is it? is it easy to read and simple like Siddharta?
Read the sticky
>So i began my intellectual journey
The best thing you can do right now is stop. You have nothing to gain.
You don't believe me, of course -- and you'll persist in your pursuit of some vague, ill-formed idea of "enlightenment." You'll pour hours and hours into this quest, and each hour will make the final punchline funnier: that you were never lacking anything to begin with, that you have always been perfect, even in ignorance.
>>7834819
This.
There's nothing to be found at the 'end' of your journey.
