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What did he (as in the author, Stephen King) mean by this?
He meant to show that he is capable of completing a 15 year old project of his that he really should have just abandoned.
Kind of like those guys who can throw beer kegs full of concrete around. No reason to do it, isn't even very impressive to watch....but they sure did a lot of hard work to do it.
he meant what he said
>>7807342
>Kind of like those guys who can throw beer kegs full of concrete around. No reason to do it, isn't even very impressive to watch....but they sure did a lot of hard work to do it.
they dont fill kegs with concrete, they just fill it with water. i used to do strongman. its all about the competition. its like doing the most useful workout, trying to work on practical muscles (although i dont imagine myself throwing stuff over my head often). olympic lifting is a sport, strongman is a job, and bodybuilding is an art form (or it used to be). i dont lift anymore, i just drink
1000 pages of this shit
and is literally plebit: the book
great criticism, im sure it will spark an inspiring debate
This book is absolutely flawless. I don't see how some of you guys speak of a "non-ending". I mean, the quest ends. Is he really gonna tell all the post-story about what they do in Kinakuta and whatnot? I think it was pretty well wrapped up.
That being said, I envision Cryptonomicon to be, down the road, recognized as the first great novel of the 21st Century (even tho its barely in the 20th). Some people mention the cryptology/math/phylosophical parts being "boring" or cumbersome, but as a person who is an absolute layman in Mathematics (High School Graduate, although I've always been interested in these topics), Cryptonomicon makes a fun, accesible approach to these subjects. Not only it illustrates perfectly the impact of high-level math on out everyday lives and on our history, but it takes you through the tour of how do people even come up with such genious stuff. I would not know today who Turing was (I would know he was some gay math guy, but that's it) without Stephenson.
His approach to the whole Hacker Culture phenomena has excelled in making hacking as theatrical and exciting as it is, without going into utter bullshit or Jamesbondish exaggerations. I was fascinated by Phreaking Van Eck, I was fascinated when he develops the "face recording software" on the fly on the meeting on Kinakuta, I was fascinated with with the whole idea behind information warfare, and the whole plot about "we know but we cant let them know that we know" during WWII.
The fact that he can go into such complex, "cumbersome" heavy subjects (like for example Enoch Root's dissertation about Ares/Athena, which was one of my favorite parts of the book) while at no point forgeting to make you smile, or to make you expectant or to make you excited was absolutly new for me. Before Stephenson, Novels were plots, stories, mere fiction for funs. If I wanted Knowledge, I went to non-fiction. Stephenson changed this for me, being at the same time entertainer and teacher with his writing. To me, it was deeply and utterly mindblowing, new and perfect.
10/10
>>7807305
It's one of the two modern books (alongside Gaiman's American Gods) that I can really see being true classics down the line.
Dante or Milton, /lit/? Or someone else?
Who is the greatest writer of Christian epic poetry?
>>7807286
Richard Dawkins.
Hegel.
My Italian friend (who has read both in their native languages) says he thinks Dante was the better poet. Going off of the Mandelbaum translation, I'd probably agree with him, though I haven't read PR yet.
Has anyone else read this translation?
I picked it up because I liked the cover, but the translation seems pretty terrible so far.
>>7807280
lombardo is shit. OP goofed
It depends on what you're looking for in a translation. If you want something loose and very readable, it's the tops, with Rodney Merrill being on other side of the spectrum of being as faithful as possible to rhythm and literalness. Fagles probably falls in the middle.
>>7807280
> picked it up because I liked the cover
Posted this in the QTDDTOT thread and I'm not getting any responses so here goes.
What are some /lit/ approved books that will motivate me and help me become more ambitious? Pic unrelated.
>>7807220
Biographies.
>>7807230
Can you be more specific than that? Which biographies in particular would be the most helpful?
>>7807230
>Biographies
> Mein kampf
k3k xD
books for people who wont to experience what it's like to have a girlfriend and friends.
>>7807161
don't waste time reading
go out and get a gf
The start of the savage detectives by bolano
Hermione trainer. Also the only video game I've ever played that I enjoyed.
What are some good books on the feminine psyche and its sensibilities?
sex and character
sexual personae
second sex
sex
schopy has some lines that will give you all the insights you need.
>>7807113
is Simone de Beauvoir worth reading or is she the feminazi a lot of her critics painted her to be?
Happy Birthday to the greatest science fiction author, one of the greatest literary minds, of all time.
To LRH!
Not only a great philosopher and humanitarian, LRH created an expansive library of great science fiction. He is one of our world's most creative minds.
Fuk off Tom Cruise!
>>7807107
l ron hubbard
more like l ron blubber
cause hes so fat lol
/lit/ BTFO
B
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>>7807088
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/#about-the-authors
/pol/ please leave
We don't need your memes and clickbait articles, stick to your containment board.
Sage and report.
>>7807091
This doesn't have anything to do with pol.
THUS
SPOKE
GRENOUILLE
hey i get this reference
Just bought pic related. What am I in for?
Read the introduction.
Fun. It reads like an American Ulysses
>>7806909
It gets quite grim near the end.
It is alright.
What are good books on beauty being the most important thing/meaning of life?
Mishima ... temple of the golden pavillion. But you just might have to destroy it because the touch of humanity and time defiles ...
>>7806762
The Book of the Law
Lolita
Would it be at all productive to disregard all filters and considerations of audience and literary merit to crank out pages and pages of self indulgence?
Could this lead to spontaneous and inspired writing or is it solely the makings for self-insert fan fiction and fetish writing?
This would be an interesting experiment.
>>7806534
I have never written anything and I have a week off with very little to do. Should I do this and report back here with what happens?
>>7808028
Please do this. Try OP's method and then more traditional conventions of writing. Report back on each of the two products.
What does /lit/ think of 'Ozymandias' by Percy Shelley?
Here is a reading of it by Bryan Cranston for those who haven't read it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sum6A2enC6s
I had to write an essay on it in high school.
I do not remember what I wrote exactly but I tied it in to hamlet's graveyard speech about Alexander the Great now being the dust in a bunch hole.
Sick rhymes though and nice flow
>>7806464
One of my favourites.
It's a great meditation on time and figurative immortality. It also evokes an atmosphere of menace that lingers like Yeats' "Second Coming."
ITT: Guilty Pleasures
>>7806447
>Implying Alice wasn't a masterpiece
Why guilty?
