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What are you reading now?
Don't lie /lit/, nobody knows and nobody cares about you, so be onest.
I've just downloaded pic related without being aware of its length and now I'm not sure if I really want to waste THAT much time on a perhaps not even notably good 1000 pages horror novel.
So, is it really good enough to justify the amount of time reading it would take me? If no, please recommend an alternative modern horror novel, but one that is much shorter.
>>7825068
it's actually about 300 pages, certain stylistic choices mean that the text is 'spaced out' significantly.
>>7825076
Oh, then I'll read it, thank you. Did you like the book?
>>7825068
It was all right. I was pretty disappointed.
1. The book you've reread more times than any other.
2. A book you enjoyed, but don't intend to reread
3. A book you intend to reread soon.
4. A book that changed dramatically upon rereading.
1. Moby-Dick, 5 times
2. The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Possibly Gulliver's Travels (worth a reread?)
3. Ulysses. Starting round 3 shortly.
4. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
One cannot read a book: one can only reread it.
1. The Tunnel, 3 times
2. Agape Agape
3.The Lime Twig
4. Ulysses
>>7823793
1. The Call of Cthulhu
2. Any non-fiction type philosophy book (the kind were the author just tells you what they think rather than show it with a story)
3. Notes from Underground
4. The Call of Cthulhu because I read some interpretations and thought about these and so saw it as not just a story about a monster
>>7823793
1.The Illuminatus! Trilogy
2. Fuck you OP
3.The Illuminatus! Trilogy
4.The Illuminatus! Trilogy
What is the most /lit/ translation of The Bible?
King James read with Strong's Concordance
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
dead sea scrolls
ITT Post a visually interesting picture/painting/sculpture/whatever.
If you see an image that strikes you, write about it.
Prose, poetry, anything.
>>7808638
bumping with a few to start
>>7808649
>>7808638
What book(s) will teach me about how to get a gf?
why do you desire?
Just read Max Stirner
Models by Mark Manson
Any Asian authors that /lit/ recommends?
Specifically Eastern Philosophy or WWII
>>7822359
I recommend Masashi Kishimoto. He is a master of storytelling and everything he writes holds a tremendous amount of merit behind it.
>>7822359
I think there's a whole section in the wiki on this desu
Also I'd just like to take a moment and praise /lit/ for having the best wiki on this site
Kakamatato Miamano
I'm writing a paper for the Iliad and the topic is about the justification and glorification of war portrayed in the book. Could anyone here give me some good talking points or where I might find some in the Iliad?
Topics I have so far
>The idea of Kleos justifying the act of war for Achiles
>How the spoils of war and greed can cause internal justification of war
>The acts/will of the gods seen as justification for the actions of the Greeks/Trojans in the war
I'm not asking for anyone to write this paper for me I just want some guidance on themes I should explore more
Bump?
>>7816764
"Talk Shit Get Hit" - A Greek Tragedy
"The Gang Steals Someones Wife"
Fill in the blank: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and __________.
>>7824348
Green, since we're naming writers in descending order of quality
a lukewarm bath.
I love Freddy, but he's not the second in this line of thinking.
Hi, new to /lit/, been lurking for a while but never really got into reading so why not start now? Has anyone not read the Greeks yet? Just picked these up and I'm eager to get started and want to see if any other anons want to get a "start with the Greeks" group to read 5-10 chapters a week then we can come back here and discuss what we've read. Just a thought. I want to follow the list (will post) that /lit/ has so starting with the trojan war would be best imo, there are pdfs out there of it..what do you guys say?
>>7824335
i hate to be the one to break it to you anon but no one here actually reads.
>>7824344
I thought all the non-reading shitters left for /his/I did, anyways.
>>7824376
Some of the reading c/lit/s actually flocked to /his/ for the humanities threads.
Do any of you fellow Anons keep a journal for writing down your deepest most angsty and soul driven thoughts? I bougth myself a tiny little journal in a bookstore last week and I've been wanting to write in it, but I think I'm trying to bring my inner /lit/ to it because...
I just can't figure out how to start it.
I'm not writing it for an audience obviously but like, I am not sure why, but I feel like I want to have a good opening for it. I don't want to just start off like
>boo hoo today i did this
Anyone...
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Write for yourself. If you write under the pretense of a "story" you are implicitly writing for somebody else.
>>7820965
I've tried doing this several times before but I always end up cringing at what I wrote 1-2 months later and give up. Not because there as anything particularly wrong with what I wrote, I'm not sure why I don't like it.
I just write whatever pops into my head. Normally I go over some things that stood out that day, like reading a good book or meeting someone neat. A lot of it tends to be about my relationships with certain people, and things that didn't happen that day but are bouncing around in my brain. When I started I tried to impress my imaginary audience with faux philosophy and big words, but I lost that eventually and now it's a really comfy experience. Don't try to recoed your whole day like a story. Release whatever's on your mind.
As for hiding, I generally...
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> Writer, who is *not* a native Spanish speaker, uses the word "quixotic" in a sentence
I agree OP, it's quite the quixotic situation.
>>7822530
>>7822530
It appears you've already done it.
>Talking about a book
>accidentally call a female character 'he'.
>Confusion until I clarify my mistake.
>She calls it a crucial difference...
and I thought, is it? 99% of the time, does a character's gender matter at all? Ursula Le Guin was right, right?
nothing about literature matters. it's a joke medium
It affects the role a character will play in society, how they'll be received by others, and some elements of how they think and feel etc. But gender is not the defining characteristic in someone's personality. Think of it as a framing device, and a pretty loose one at that.
>>7824681
>>She calls it a crucial difference...
Most of the time the ones who are really militant about identity politics mire themselves down in banalities as if they are the main arena. You know the kind when you talk to them. They hyper-politicize everything to a nauseating degree.
Classic heroism edition
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL
Flowchart: https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>What are you reading?
>Who is your favorite hero in SFF?
>Which SFF girl would you want to be your...
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>>7815288
I've read the first few Gor novels by John Norman and thoroughly enjoyed both of them.
I like reading high brow literature as much as the rest of you autists on this board but there's something so genuinely comfy and refreshing to just escape back to Gor every once in a while and sink into the lore and action-packed absurdity of it all.
A true masterpiece of a series and one I'd recommend any of you guys get into.
Start with Tarnsman of Gor though.
>>7815312
How self contained are they? The used bookstore has several, but not in sequence. I've been thinking about picking some up when they go on sale.
>>7815288
>What are you reading?
Re-reading The Stars my Destination.
>Who is your favorite hero in SFF?
Andrew Harlan from The End of Eternity.That or Conan...
>Which SFF girl would you want to be your "damsel?"
I guess it's Danica Maupoissant from The Cleric Quintett (Forgotten Realms).
Recently decided to start reading a lot more fiction rather than just watching movies so I bought a stack of books from the local used book store. The nice old man running the store loves science fiction and recommended Dune, but the others I picked out myself. I've seen the Starship Troopers movie and I heard the book was much more in depth and political (I enjoy politics). Dying Inside is about a guy who is born with the ability to read minds and it drives him crazy. Sea of Swords is from the Forgotten Realms series and I got it because I wanted to try a fantasy novel....
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>>7824211
Read Dune and nothing else there.
>>7824211
start with Starship Troopers or Dune
>>7824218
Oh ok. I'll take the others outback and burn them,
