/lit/ - Literature

whats a good e-reader for pdfs that isnt a tablet or phone?

The best one around I've ever found is

Master PDF Editor.

I don't use it much for editing, but it's a brilliantly functional reader

macOS Linux Windows

Kindle is great for manga

btw, where do you get your poor man's ebooks?

I own a PocketBook Basic 3 now. It can't handle .pdf or .djvu (it's very good that it supports the latter) files with very well, because panning the view around the document seems to be impossible. It has no touchscreen, which is typical for any reader under 200$ as I hear. Typing can get awkward with the directional buttons. Other than that, I'm satisfied. The Send-to-PocketBook feature is very convenient; you have to register an e-mail address and then the reader will download any files you have sent to the device's e-mail when Wi-Fi connection is turned on.

>>14386

I'm not the anon you're replying to, but I feel that nothing feels off about it.

>>14483

Interesting

>>14488

Some do.

DENVER EBO-610L is one I can name. Denver makes lots of cheap crap electronics, however.

>>14525

Project Gutenberg

Library Genesis and IRC

Instant messaging groups

I currently have a Kindle Paperwhite and it's the best thing I've bought in a while, I love the backlight and the e-ink shit.

That being said, you should really use calibre to manage a library of dubiously sourced files (ie /pdfs/, libgen), and make sure they're either pdf, mobi, or azw3, because the kindle doesn't accept epub without jailbreaking.

>>14176

I don't remember anything newsworthy to attach it to at the time this thread was created. Even so, it was probably simple trollery. It's still being bumped today as it is oh so very burgerland topical. Right or wrong as I may be on these assumptions, I still don't see why it can't be discussed in the context of writing. Good luck though, in trying to make any sense of it, or seeing any work produced from the discussion.

>How was your high school experience?

Shit

>Were you bulllied? What were some bullying experiences you have?

Not in High School

>Have you shot a gun? How's that like?

Not yet

>How would you go about to shoot up your school?

I wouldn't, too cliché, school serial killer and arsonist is where it's at.

1. Find the most obnoxious couple in school

2. Follow them somewhere secluded

3. Incapacitate both of them

4. Tie them both down with intricate shibari taking special care to leave the girl no room to move

5. Make sure the boyfriend is awake to see what happens next

6. Carve the PlaySchool opening lyrics into the girls chest with a knife but with "open wide" replaced with "open bob" and "come inside" replaced with "cum inside"

7. Rape her till she climaxes (back and front)

8. Smear your shit in her mouth, vagina and on her boobs

9. Stuff fist shaped dildos encrusted with razors in both orifices

10. Set her body alight and roast marshmallows

11. Force feed these to the boyfriend

12. Chuck him in the ute and take somewhere he won't be looked for

13. Stuff one of the razorfists in his ass and leave him to die

14. Go to school and start a fire with intentions on maximum loss of life

15. Leave a cross, cryptic poem and burning incense at each scene for max mystery

16. Repeat 1 - 15 till caught

>What are some rules that you think are necessary to have in order to have a successful school shooting?

1. Choose good weapons

2. Wait for a moment of calm before shooting

3. Target the mentally disabled

4. Livestream the whole thing with a go pro

5. Self Immolate instead of shooting yoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>14207

CIA

My High School experience was fine, I was quiet but nobody messed with me bc I was wrestling team cap(5th in the state boi). Would recommend taking out any big athletes first as a strategy, because they're the ones that might truck you and ruin your school shooting venture. My school was in a nice area so you could just throw something in your backpack and start blasting whenever. lol.

>>12245

>>12288

>The Columbine Pilgrim.

Is there a PDF of this somewhere, anon?

post-modernist bullshit. I usually avoid that stuff.

I hated 'on the road' and it's the only kerouac work i've ever read.

Years later someone recommended that i read the uncensored and unedited version and it's much much better. basically drug and gay references were omitted as well as changing names of real people.

it can get a bit hard to read because it's stream of consciousness a lot of the time but i read the whole thing. I couldn't get past the first chapter of the unedited version.

as far as the appeal of beat lit in general, no idea. It was just the 'hip' thing at the time.

if you look into it it's basically a small group of writers that went to school or lived in the same area at the time and got to writing all at once. for better or for worse it defined the writing style of the generation.

The original post-war popular edgy hipster writer

Hyperion is better. Don't even doubt it.

Without knowing the intended audience it's impossible to guide. Hyperion is rated higher by the traditions of literary achievement, while Ender's Game is more clear and concise, remaining closer to the pew-pew forms of SciFi genera.

Do you prefer Gravity's Rainbow or Inherent Vice?

As for the series in question, I think both were stretched out beyond any reasonable justification for doing so. Ender's Game works more as a stand alone. Do you prefer The Lord of the Rings complete with all the endless tie ins and apocrypha, or a one-and-done story such as Grendel?

Could work tbh

Give it a try and post something here.

>>14391

I don't think WWZ style is a genre. But it could work if you make the characters talking an interesting part of the plot.

I've never read it, but wasn't it done in a documentary style? Or as people telling someone else stories, not at the reader but at a person in their world.

>how to write good fantasy and sci-fi?

Stop with this meme. The only thing that will give you a good fantasy or sci-fi book is an imagination. If you don't have that, don't try. If you do, just started writing now and stop reading other people's crap

>>14377

First, pick a genera. Which do you prefer?

“Are you happier eating a potato than a bowl of rice? I don’t know. It’s all the same. … Writing is writing." ~Gore Vidal

Or, may not. Anyway …

There's a school of thought advising one to keep reading. King is big on this. He is partly right insofar as seeing for yourself how it is done. Now, King most certainly can walk the walk, whatever faults you may find his writing to have. But, sit him down at the literary table and you will hear he can talk the talk as well. That is to say, he is well versed in literary theory, and much else beside needed to analyze what another writer is doing. This comes as a big surprise to people who dismiss him as just some trashy hack of horror.

The Elements of Fiction is a series you want to check out. The point of doing so is to familiarize yourself with a set of tools writers commonly use. You won't master anything by merely reading about fiction writing techniques. What you will do is sharpen your ability to analyze what "The Greats" are doing. You may even finally discover why your favorite author is so to you, and what you are really trying to emulate from him or her.

I don't have the Paris Review interview at my finger tips so I'll just paraphrase. John Gardner is on record for why he gave up teaching of creative writing. What he discovered was that his students showed a phenomenal improvement once shown the ropes, so to speak. He was shocked at how easy it was, so much so, he felt he needed to devote himself to his writing full time just to stay relevant. Of course, there are teachers, and then there are Teachers. Gardner was also a phenomenal teacher of creative writing by all accounts, one you are not likely to encounter today no matter how many classes you take. No matter.

Humble yourself and thumb through The Elements of Fiction.

post PDFs of their best works ITT?

>>14426

Are you stupid?

>>12006

Nietzsche believed in Hyperborea.

Stirner only beliefs in himself.

Now who do you think would like whom?

>>13812

Was just about to post that

try reading it asshole

None of your business.

>>14449

>>14453

gay

If you think you might not enjoy it you probably wont.

The majority of the book reads as a documentation of whaling rather than a novel - if that sounds interesting (and you like a bit of florid prose) then you'll probably get along with it. Fucker used a ton of endnotes though, which is something a lot of American authors seem to do. Maybe he started the trend

>>14362

Calibre is correct answer for all platforms.

I second calibre… sumatra reader is nice as well

Calibre is best (3x)

Readium or Moon Reader on Android.

Question that's off-topic: Do you recommend me to read The Bell Jar if I'm a depressive type with a mood disorder? I want to change the book for The Brothers Karamazov in the library because I feel The Bell Jar will drive me to suicide or some shit.

>>14455

>Do you recommend me to read The Bell Jar if I'm a depressive type with a mood disorder?

No, I recommend you eat a lot more meat, animal fats and cheese so you won't be moody cunt anymore.

Marx if alien is hostile so it gets completely wrong idea of humanity and hopefully self-destructs as the ideological cancer spreads to their colony.

Bible if alien is friendly and needs to understand humanity.

>>14418

That is an unacceptable response.

I expect more from you, anon.

everything by Christopher Moore and Neil Gaimen. Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy all volumes. The Celestine Prophecy-all volumes. The the illuminatus trilogy…… hands down. robert willison.

This is step one if they are cool ill give reading list two

great i stutter in text. woohoo whiskey let them anal probing bastards read that

rumor has it endchan /pdfs/

Libgen has it

your post is so pretentious, but good god I truly fucking hate women. My hatred for women was flared up so intesnely reading your post it distracted me from your gross pretension

>>10742

How does Orange is the New Black compare to OZ?

>>14174

How much of that is the female version of the Warlord or Capitalist that is willing to destroy everyone and everything in order to get what they want, but having attained what they desired, merely seek out more of what they cannot have?

>>12386

That could be a great troll novel idea. The entire book having never mentioned that she is a >she, with the final sex scene having a :"then he started sucking my dick". Could be funny.

Bit vague, but suspect it's this one

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2608002A/W._H._Bates

There's an interesting review of this exercise technique

https://www.bmj.com/content/1/4298/635.2/rr

which tells how Aldous Huxley had read Bates' book, used the exercises to great effect and wrote a look of his own on the topic - The Art of Seeing. You should be able to easily find both these books online for download or torrents

>>14299

Yeah, that's it. I had seen it before and discarded it because it seemed dumb. I figured I'd take another look before just doing lasik.

>>14315

Thanks.

Look up Jack Steiner on YouTube and go to his website endmyopia.com

Worked for me anon, best of luck to you.

>>14320

Definitely learn by doing it. The easiest way to fuck up your own literary development is waste all your energy trying to conform to someone elses literary theories and formulas when you don't know what you're doing. It's much easier to figure out what you're doing wrong than tell you what to do, so the best thing to do is get going.

Don't ruin your fun by starting with theory. Don't think yourself as an aspirant painter educating himself on perspective, or anatomy or colour theory, but as a child with a box crayons. It becomes much easier to learn from others after you have some understanding of turning ideas into stories from practice. And after some writing, reading almost anything becomes a useful learning experience.