/lit/ - Literature

Pretty much ever novel he has done, ever. There was more than one you know.

More specifically, might sound something like this:

"Since the end of the period of belief, leaders exalt every defect, every kind of sadism, and gain all the more through their vices: vanity, ambition, war, death in a word."

Céline's anti-semetic streak was crystal sharp, and well known now. Beyond all that he was an equal opportunity satirist. He might fly with the more flexible alt-right crew, but his omni-satirical bent makes him too much an ambiguous degenerate for proper /pol/-tier quote mining; fair warning. I beg your pardon if that is not the case here, although it is an understandable assumption given where we are.

Someone should scan-and-post his Paris Review interview. Stalingrad was The End, in case you did not know. I would have loved to sit down to dinner with him to discuss literary theory. Then move on to history, after a few dozen beers. All on my own tab, and it would have been worth every penny.

>>14121

>too much British slang

Do you mean actual slang or british word choices?

Are you saying they refer to trash cans as rubbish bins, or that the entire thing is written in scottish english?

>>14115

libgen.io, libgen.pw, b-ok.org and archive.org should have everything you're looking for, but I don't know if they have the exact translations you want.

>>14118

Are the Penguin translations any good?

>>14130

Word choices.

I read Fathers and Sons by them and every time one of Bazarov's lines came up he ended it with "Mate." I fucking cringed at the word everytime it came up especially when he used it more and more as the book went on, I never envisioned him as the type of Brit fuckboy to use terminology like that in Russia of all places I had to re read the line outloud and replace "Mate" with "Comrade." because it was a better alternative.

>>14131

I thought their translation of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War was good, although it referred to Hobbes' translation.

>>14133

That sounds terrible.

>>14154

It was

there are some platonic discourses on beauty, if I'm not mistaken

These might be helpful:

- Family and Civilization - Carle C. Zimmerman

- Manliness - Harvey C. Mansfield

- Sex and Deviance - Guillaume Faye

- Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female - Ashley McGuire

- Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine - Joseph Campbell

- Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism - F. Carolyn Graglia

- The Privileged Sex - Martin van Creveld

- The Privilege of Being a Woman - Alice von Hildebrand

- Aspects of the Masculine - Carl Jung

- Aspects of the Feminine - Carl Jung

- Sex Differences: A Land of Confusion - Zachary Elliott

- Taking Sex Differences Seriously - Dr. Steven E. Rhoads

- Women vs. Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars - Joanna Williams

- Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization - F. Roger Devlin

- Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex - Julius Evola

- The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage - Ferdinand Mount

- The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know - and Men Can’t Say - Suzanne Venker

- What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster - Jonathan V. Last

>>13540

now this is what I call edgy

btw The Kreutzer Sonata by Tolstoy????

>>14146

*which one

>>12581

i think that people who does that simply likes the idea of being a writer.

let them entertain the thought of being artists, what's it to you?

>>12581

works for me

>>11285

at the very least you could have picked this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

*tips the atheist hat

>mandatory anything

no

No. Dawkins is a faggot. Separation of church and state was the worst thing we ever did.

>>13558

One of the political philosophy books.

no chance of the metal gear novelisation's being translated

>>13608

A plus to use pol.philosophy as a point of association with other books too. I know Tom Clancy's theme often chimes with such discussion areas.

What do you mean by first? First you want to properly publish, or first one you are going to let anyone read in the internet? In either case, iIf it's going to be free, you might as well post it somewhere where you'd get useful critique. Now, that place would depend on what you have written.

>>14096

First to properly publish. I've posted shit before but it was mostly just essays and articles. This is the first time I'm posting fiction (sci-fi/politics), and I'm looking for a place where that would get a lot of traffic.

Delete yourself next time.

>>14044

don't respond to this

bump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Manual_of_Suicide maybe this will help for now

It seems rather disingenuous to use old romances as examples when talking about writing historical fiction as a genre. Still, I'm going to assume there isn't a joke I don't get.

Alternative history is considered a different genre for a reason of basic audience expectations and going completely off the rails like in Tirant lo Blanc would annoy people who wanted historical fiction instead of wacky revanchist wishfulfillment. On the other hand supernatural elements are often clear on the premise, and if they aren't, their sudden unforeshadowed inclusion will usually annoy the audience. Still, light supernatural elements (especially if they are subjective enough to fall into the unreliability of the narrator) can be used as a device to make the characters' historical superstitions seems important instead of just plain dumb waste of time.

>>14027

>if you take away the ostensibly novel twist the VN revolves around, you're left with basically nothing.

The twist ends up being the premise for the real meat of the story, though. If you take away the premise for any given story, you're usually left with nothing.

It's like saying that Gakkou Gurashi is terrible because if you take away the twist you're left with poorly-written moeshit.

>>14028

>The twist ends up being the premise for the real meat of the story, though

I know what you're trying to say, but consider that in a good piece of media (like the 6th sense) the twist substantiates the story in a way that I don't see in DDLC. There isn't really a story to care about before the twist happens if you get what I'm saying, which means that DDLC ends up feeling empty.

>>14029

I'd completely agree if it had ended at Sayori's suicide, and while I'll admit that the story in the "second playthrough" onward wasn't entirely original, I still felt like it was enjoyable enough to make the buildup worth it.

I get it if you feel like you wasted your time, since the buildup did go on for a while, but I still feel like that was necessary to get the feel of what it was "supposed" to be before Monika started screwing with shit. I guess they could have made the buildup shorter, but it wouldn't have really made sense for Monika to lose her patience earlier than she did.

>>13928

Eh, I'd recommend an Ice-Pick Lodge game, or, hell, one of those humble old games like Irisu Syndrome way over Doki-Doki Literature Club.

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=R3Ovrhrf9BQ - Jack Otto - Forbidden Knowledge

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=j800SVeiS5I - In Shadow - A Modern Oddesey

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=PRdcZSuCpNo - 7 Days of DeepMind A.I.

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=cRuKmxQSPSw - Dutch Banker Ronald Bernard - Interview

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=sD33byzG2jc - Behold a Pale Horse - AudioBook

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=VL_7nAIa0Cg - Bloodlines of Illuminate - AudioBook

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=fj-10lIrboM - Tool - Right In Two

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=icAjo9VXKZU - Protocol Of The Elders Of Zion

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=e0C_qG5U7pE - Black Ops, Cody Snodgres, Operator Comes Forward And Tells All

https://www.hooktube.com/user/MrTeslonian - Mr Teslonian - Alternative Energy & Technology

https://www.hooktube.com/user/crashcoPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>Maker Media

Dunno what a 3D printing / Popular Mechanics magazine advertisement has to do with literary interests. I guess we can let things sit for a bit and see what people have to say?

Their past magazine issues are available in the usual sharing locations. There is that.

https://youtu.be/UxEvRoAaYBM

http://ctext.org/zhuangzi

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/mcm/index.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9zocKASsM

these are good.

I ain't no ebook typesettin wiz. I'll give it a shot. Check back tomorrow.

>>13955

Books contain pointless pages and chapters all the time.

>>13954

I wasn't talking about save/load. Pretty much every visual novel allows you to scroll back through text that you've already read past. Save/load is more like a bookmark.

>It's even worse that typically the visuals are not redundant, but they are used so that the text can focus on the characters' ceaseless yapping.

I'm talking about the medium itself, not typically bad writing. I completely agree that the writing is typically bad, and I think it's a waste of a medium that has some great potential.

>>13953

I just finished it. I enjoyed it.

Part of me wants to doubt your claim about nips since the plot feels very inspired by the first HakoMari book, but that didn't really have the "meta" element, so you still may be right.

>>13957

It's not the writing, it's that the intention of the writing is related to emotions and other personal things which the reader cannot participate in, no matter what they say about empathy for fictional things.

>>14004

I don't understand what your point is. How is that different from normal novels?

Oh. Wow. Are they, like, still in business?

Maybe I'm thinking of Boarders. It's been a hellofa long time since I stepped foot into a B&N though.

Two items? First suggestions, for the good of the board:

>>13855

1. The She-Devils by Pierre Louÿs.

2. Disagreeable Tales by Léon Bloy.

My personal suggestions:

1. United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal.

2. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon.

For the lulz:

1. Storm and Echo by Frederic Prokosch. (Tongue in cheek shaggy retelling of Heart of Darkness by Conrad. It only really flies if you've already read HoD.)

2. Duluth by Gore Vidal. (Vidal strikes back at Pynchon specifically, and post-modernism in general, with this Alexander Pope inspired beatum stick.)

Fun from left field:

1. Any two non-pornographic furry SciFi novels by Paul Lucas.

Wait, Barnes and Nobles sells books?

lol I'm banned from there