/lit/ - Literature

>>12994

Hunters in the Snow?

>>13061

I agree fam. Shame the author commited sudoku otherwise he might have made more funnies

>>13061

I agree that it's very funny, though it has a largely pointless story. That's the reason why it was so hard for the author to publish it, which is what made him catch the bus in the end.

Do you guys know of any more comical books?

Not really but it's written by The Robot King by Brian Selznick and I've read The Invention of Hugo Cabret before so judging by the cover something something robot and making assumptions, something something character study? Or something of the sort.

>>11692

>>11711

I desperately want to see the rest of Slayers, Lost Universe, Black Blood Brothers, Spice and Wolf, and Full Metal Panic. Plus maybe Twelve Kingdoms.

Tell it to me straight, are any of the English translations, whether official or (*gulp*) fanlation coherent enough to be worthwhile? It doesn't have to be perfect prose, just something good enough where I can understand what's happening and enjoy the original intent instead of struggling not to hunt down and mailbomb the weaboo translator.

I've read many normal books translated from a variety of languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese…) with slightly stiff at worst results, but the quality of anime/manga translation (for which I can lean on the visuals to clarify things sufficiently) leaves me leery for the prospects of LNs.

I've heard good things about Youjo Senki. The only problem is that because the author wrote it in high-level Japanese, the translation is coming along at a snail's pace. Been holding off on reading it so I can binge read it when enough chapters get translated.

>>11801

How transgendered is it? I know the anime is coming soon, and I've enjoyed the Mahou Shoujos Keikaku anime, but probably not enough to read the LNs.

>>11692

"Overlord" is the best thing ever, all of it (including drama CDs) is fan-translated into English with some unbelievable quality too.

In turn, I, too, 'd like to ask a question. Is there a web site like anidb and vndb for LNs? I want to scratch precisely at my fetishes and that's hard to do without a search engine over tags.

>>14598

Check novelupdates.com

>>14575

by the way, I'll probably upload them all to a dropbox or something,

>Give me an idea you're working on, and I'll write a brief piece on it.

Link is to another thread:

>>14507

Book reviews. Book reviews never change. Nor end.

>>14577

If I can find copies of the books, I'll give it a go.

>>14578

You could also try reading a few essays from whatever favorite author. Try to approach the subject in a new light from your own perspective. Another idea: attempt a short story using some literary technique you've not used before.

There's always Vidal's advise. Write … something. Mumble, mumble, assa note.

>>14580

I was thinking more of someone having an idea they're struggling on so I write a quick thing, explore some ideas and give them a basis to work on

So I do a prompt in which I write a prompt for someone else. Simple duh.

Thanks for the advice though!

>>12261

>I don't see the point of fictional characters, stories, or wars. I won't feel about them as much as real ones, if at all, nor do they teach anything, like the real ones do.

I suppose that's fair..

>>11406

what is 8chan i don't know what i'm doing

not a book but a movie idea I dreamed up one day a few months ago

OK, I thought up of this movie idea I had.

Set in the early 1980s, a man who has run out of luck in relationships with women, because of massive cheating on their part, his life is a nihilistic black void, so he hunts his exes down and kills every last one of them using whatever he can get his hands on, be it a knife, an axe, a sword or various handguns, rifles shotguns etc, sometimes torturing them for hours on end before dealing the final blow. This would be chronicaled in a third person passive mode, single or double camera at most using lo-fi camcorder tech, home video tech, scanlines, somewhat reel to reel home video footage and with the popularity of stuff like Hotline Miami, vaporwave-esque glitching, TV static but keeping it as realistic as possible, soundtracked by late 70s/80s industrial/noise/synth music.

I want to make the main character as unlikeable as possible, throw in some national socialist stuff, Islamic jihad connections, KKK rally footage.

I want to make the ultimate below z grade slasher flick. And make people throw up

>>12226

Not so keen on the killing of a supporting character purely as a mechanic to incite change, kinda devalues previously established characters as a result.

It's not uncommon for people to share their last name with their father.

>>14549

Yes, it does. It's just Armstrong being sportive.

Don't read that old poop, OP. Religion is a sedative, a conspiracy against humanity.

>>13321

t. Al Jazeera

>>13328

no, it really is. that book is probably the pinnacle of bullshitting on that subject.

he even cherrypicks stuff from his own zionist sources.

>>13288

You just reminded me that I actually bought this book and still haven't read it. I got through the first chapter for free online and I had to buy it.

bump for interest and recs

Behead All Satans

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.