/lit/ - Literature

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.

I've stopped reading at the Wikipedia's synopsis of it. I'm binning it at "didn't read it, didn't like it."

When a novel starts me off by saying that global warming made everything shit I tend to bin it quick. I haven't been able to stand fiction talking about it, not after I read those Maximum Ride books.

>>14282

That's not only more trash than the movie is, it's also even more jewish.

I read the book when I was like 14 and I didn't like it much, but I didn't dislike it neither, yes, now I can look back and see how bad was it, but it's thought to be a book for 12-14 year olds to read whit out effort and easily enjoy it.

About the film, well, I liked it, yes, the script was garbage, but that wasn't the point the point was to make a lot of cool cga shit and come on it was cool.

It's in the niche of aged science fiction about the future that it isn't old enough to be historically interesting, but already is too outdated in its assumptions to have any relevance to this day. Might as well read it, as it's not long. And if you are into nounpunks, reading it could help you to stop being a faggot.

Well worth reading, as has been pointed out it's not exactly cutting edge and much of the description of the world has since fallen into genre rote and loses some of its punch. I disagree that its depiction of the future has zero relevance though. The focus with cyberpunk is typically aesthetic and while Gibson has plenty of that, most of Molly's character being a decent example, the book is more about systems of control and surveillance and how enormous and impenetrable these are when juxtaposed with individuals. I don't want to spoil anything but an essay won't convey these ideas as viscerally as the book, which indeed isn't very long.

Yeah, give it a try. Like that guy above said, it is mostly famous for aesthetics. If you like them, you'l like anything he wrote.

Even if Neuromancer makes you roll your eyes, you might like "Virtual Light" and the short stories in "Burning Chrome". I think by the time he wrote Virtual Light he was past his horny teenager phase but still had some talent left.

As for deconstruction…Gibson said that even though the book was set in the future, he based the society on the one in which he lived at the time (the Reagan years). You will notice that, in contrast to other dystopian worlds, the Sprawl is a corporate-ruled wasteland and not a government-ruled wasteland. It will resonate more with you if you grew up in the '80s.

>>14171

It is very difficult to follow the line of the plot, I think intentionally so. The disorientation felt by the reader gives an impression of the chaos of life in Gibson's 21st century.

>>14198

This, tbh. After he left Chiba I had no idea of wtf was happening.

no replies lol

I love you M

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>>14238

Might as well read some bitches

>>14237

rolll

>>14237

alright let's give it a go

>>14247

Probably a good idea to establish first what kind of sci-fi story you're writing, starting with whether you're writing hard sci-fi or soft sci-fi.

Hard sci-fi = Pure autistic art, as you remain as close and detailed to reality or what may be realistic expectations for future developments in technology as possible.

Soft sci-fi = You're not too bothered about scientific accuracy and just want to see how people respond to something hypothetical, without regard to whether such a thing is possible.

If normal literary muses have not yielded you success thus far, I'd recommend reading the manual for Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. The autists who made that vidya actually include some of their notes on how they planned their sci-fi narrative, in addition to a reading list of various science-fiction books which inspired them to make Alpha Centauri, especially when it comes to trying to explain to your audience technologies which do not exist in a plausible manner.

Also with regards to my own personal preference, the only thing that really peeves me with sci-fi is when authors feel compelled to include psychics and wizards, throwing magic against material matter whilst everything else remains consistent. I don't mean Lovecraftian sci-fi, where the reality-fuckery is consistent with the established concept that the reality-fuckery is not breaking the laws of reality, but merely the main character observing an area of time and space with different laws of reality than that which they are accustomed to.

I mean stuff like Star Wars where space wizards run around flying like superman, just because. It's just distracting to me.

This question is awfully vague. What is this sci-fi that as a term should instantly describe your apparently non-existent work accurately enough for someone to provide useful advice on the specifics? Unless you only count the most autistic manuals of near-future speculative engineering, sci-fi quickly becomes a close to meaningless designation for some nebulous flavour of (possibly futuristic) fantasy, which nevertheless inspire obsessed nerds to fling shit on what variety of implausible plot devices are sciencey enough to count.