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Can't decide which book to read. Help me out lit
>>7828030
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Do it faggot.
anyone have any theories about why lit got so shit in the last year or two? did all the smart ppl go to reddit or something? or is it just because universities are in session and once it's summer the grad students will come back and save us from this boring parade of resentful neetshit
>>7828035
why?
Thoughts on this novel?
Poorly written power fantasy of a "nerd" where one's prowess is measured by how well they can quote WarGames. But you already knew that you cheeky darky.
>>7827855
It's still shit, just like the last 50 times you asked
DUDE NOSTALGIA LMAO
Hey /lit/ newfag to lit here. I spend most of my time in /out/ and /k/. I don't know your customs. Anyway, I read Issac Asimov's Foundation. I was wondering: Is the rest of the series worth reading? What are some God tier science fiction novels? (Other than Dune, everyone always answers with Dune)
You're going to get memed on by most of /lit/ for bringing up genre fiction. Figured I'd warn you.
We have a Sci Fi general, with recommendation images for both Sci Fi and fantasy. I suggest you head over there for future reference.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Greg Egan's novels. Diaspora and Quarantine are heavy on the mathematics while also being an entertaining ride. Past that, I recommend Mike Brotherton's Star Dragon, The Last and First Men, the Perry Rhodan series, and Peter Watts' entire bibliography, the majority of which are free...
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Like >>7827840 said the sf/fantasy general is probably a good place to look.
Id also recommend Peter Watts books, you can read and download" Blindsight" here http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm completely free.
Its a book I really like and has an interesting way to deal with first contact.
If you want a more space opera like book you could look into ian banks books. They are mostly self contained but you might want to start with "player of games" or "consider phlebas"
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>>7827833
the bible
new to the english language, give me tips/advice to improve reading, writing and speaking
Read more, write more, speak more.
>>7827814
Leave /lit/.
>>7827814
Don't lay there you could crush your internal organs.
I have the ASoIaF series and i am currently in middle of ACOK (i have already watched the show) and i also have Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and i also have Don Quixote novel.
So my question is which one should i read first?
>>7827786
anyone?
>>7827786
Start with the greeks
go finish off ACOK.
What are some great modern retellings of classical mythology? Things in the vein of Ulysses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canongate_Myth_Series
they are not "great," but they are there
>>7827746
Some people like this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diH8TXZKfuQ
>>7827746
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is great.
>tfw drunk existential crisis wherein I realize the inherent limits of words as a medium and begin to worry that not working in more "advanced" mediums like videogames or whatever or whatever is inherently pseudointellectual
prove to me that man idiot /lit/.
I mean... It's never too late to change your path.
Words are pretty cool, anon. Don't give up on 'em so quick.
>>7827720
Read Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
OR learn programming and video game design AND continue writing. IT might be just the thing you need to give you a new angle on your work and fall back in love with writing.
>>7827727
fuck man idk.when I was an edgy 16 year old I thought videogames were the entertainment future or ehatever. Now that I'm ab edgy 18 year oldi have far more emotionally invested in books, but even though I'm more aware of how limited other forms are by their nature I still worry lit has peaked as a form with e.g. Joyce.
/lit/ writes a poem. I start.
Fuck me, as a man i want a dick
A big dong right un my big anus
You would think I have one very long and thick
but I must admit to my own plainness
>>7827678
'please no, corn father'
Okay just starting Hamlet and I'm having trouble understanding the point of the dead king's ghost around Act 1 scene 3. Can you help me anolize it? I feel like how the ghost's describing his murder is very important but I just can't place it.
If this for an assignment you failed with "anolize". Since I'm the neighborhood lobster seller, it's spelt analyze, as in anal beads. I did not read hamplanet.
>>7827639
Very important in what sense?
I fucking hate being forced to write. Especially when you have no inspiration to and you have to force out a quality paper...fuck intro to communications
>>7827627
If you only write when you have inspiration you will never be a good writer.
this is why you have to choose your courses wisely
choose good courses, and even boring assignments will still be engaging because they're about a topic you like.
i usually procrastinate on everything, but once i get a few pages into it i'm just steamrolling thru
>>7829067
>good writer
kek. someone never read nietzsche.
Why are we plagued by ignorance?
All the answers seem to be there.
But they fall onto deaf ears.
And the sound of truth is lost in the noise of darkness.
What are the answers op?
>>7827569
That all is not what it seems to be. That we are a young prince in Egypt, long way from home.
>>7827583
That's a great movie
should i read Breakfast at Tiffany's? is it good or bad or...?
umm hello....?
Kill yourself.
>>7827520
Capote is the mid 20th century version of Stephen King. So...maybe?
OK so i have a question. I'm re-reading the chronicles of Thomas Covenant and there's one sentence, which goes as follows; "He wanted to move, but he could only stand suspended, trapped, looking down the muzzle of the hurtling car."
The car is described like a gun, what technique is this?
Hmmmmm...
Hmmmmmmmmmmm...
I believe it would be called a metaphor.
I was thinking a metaphor, but it felt too general. A metaphor is when the author says that something IS another thing, right? Well Donaldson isn't saying that the car IS a gun, he's just implying that by describing the car as if it were a gun. I don't know, i just think there has to be something more specific.
>>7827482
It's symbolism, ya mook.
"The car, like, symbolises death, man."
Well, I finally read Of Mice and Men.
ain't gonna be no more trouble
the loony toons adaptation was better.
Amazing book.
"Mono no aware:(物の哀れ?), literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō?), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life."
"...a “pathos” (aware) of “things” (mono), deriving from their transience. In the classic anthology of Japanese poetry...
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>The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty” (Keene, 7). The acceptance and celebration of impermanence goes beyond all morbidity, and enables full enjoyment of life.
ayy
>>7827418
Nah brah, don't give me this dichotomy perscriptivism.
