ITT the last book you read.
Post the last book(s) you have read. It would be nice if you add a synopsis or review as well, but it's not a requirement. Just seeing a snapshot of what other image-board anons are reading is itself awesome.
New feature for 2018! This thread is set to Cycle mode. Here's to a forever book reading thread.
Post song lyrics that brought you to tears. I'll start
The Cheese Tax! The Cheese Tax!
You gotta pay da cheese tax every time your cooking
When da cheese drawer open, this puppy come a-lookin
Da rules are da rules and da facts are da facts
But when the CHEESE DRAWER OPENS, you gotta pay the tax!
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Dancing is an evolutionary defence to the cold comes to be known after one imagines the sounds to make a sentence from rachael dadd as one smokes in the frigid air on the patio some freshly ground zkittlez of a 2.5lg bag nearing empty.
I know I'm nostalgic when I'm high because I build a future of hearing my favourite old songs while I'm high while I listen to sora revans as recommended by AI. It's only when I'm high that I recognize the song has two songs within it I presume as my highness aids my recognition of passing through the threshold of change. It contains Christmas jingling, a timely gift from AI that I'd thought I had no reason to expect
The next sounds coming were those recommended for a list; some apparent creation of some human(s). This slob air comes to me from mica levi and these some. AI had chosen not to have recommended this for me and we'll soon find out why perhaps not came these sounds from some human(s). I think I've edited myself up, is the thought come to mind: perhaps this is why. Is it honesty to show others your mistakes or is it straight madness are two different perspectives I can imagine if I so choose as some probability of quantum.
To be 92 is also some mad thing to imagine when you're in your 30s and see the speed at which things move and be told we are aliens so k k k k k k come on talk as elucidated by those earlier sounds mentioned
In this eve's tUnE-yArDs sunlight s’when I see for the first time the advantageousness of building a product that closes while still forcing some generic energy from its user. This perhaps a general truth to be found with ubiquity in our AI future still requiring quantum measurement to determine what’s real. Now turn up the volume.
How far will you run to increase the volume at the right time of falling together with Jamie and Oona cause I've moved quite quickly and with speed because when it hits near the end I naturally imagine in the matrix some underground club where I dance and thinking this matrix is still worth living in for this dance
And when I come to and hear the sounds of ii dive pt 2 I think the same of our world and so I watch you from afar. And what kind of mad voyage of statistics is the quantum projection as it's built upon which ear the sounds play into your headphones as selected by an artist recommended from AI? And I dance by quickly bending my knees and soon the sounds will come that are my siren call and when I sing the sounds of these words I lift my head up
As the reminder that nothing ever happened came from you know who the notion came along that it's not long now until the moment of twitched last words written as a description of the thought in their head to the sounds in their ears for AI to record and playback
I wonder how long it'll be til we see for ourselves others dancing to the raucous dancing sound waves from en attendant ana since I know from experience it feels good to partake
When you cuckoo on the journey up I shall love 2 you naturally raise your head a touch before you close your eyes and fly up to the finish
Prussian literature
Hey /lit/.
I have never posted here even once.
I need recommendations for good books written by Prussian authors. They can be German as it would help with me read German but need a english translation as well. Also I prefer fiction to non fiction unless the non fiction is an old time analysis of art or political theory.
IS RYAN A GIRL?
IS RYAN A GIRL?
Ryan was seated, somewhere. He had a question. He thought of his mother.
"Ma, am I a girl?"
Ryan's mother paused, I guess. But, really, she was kind of busy with other thoughts, or things. She didn't look at her son. She remained quiet.
Ryan started touching his dick. Again.
"Stop that," said Ryan's mother. "Why do you always have to do that?"
She was so fucking sick of her son. She considered she might need to drown him in the bathtub again. Extra bleach in the water, this time. She usually added some amount of bleach to the drowning-cleanse water.
"It was an itch, Ma. I swear," Ryan lied. His Autism was showing through his lacking expressiveness. His unnatural, and slow, way of being.
"Ryan, honey, I do believe you to be a girl, but what's that between your legs?"
"It's a little 'dog boy!" squeaked Ryan, excited, a bit happy, for no good fucking reason.
"What kind of buns do you want, sweetie?"
"Baby buns, Ma."
"That shit again?"
"Yeah, Ma, always."
Ryan's mother then proceeded to beat the shit out of that Autistic fuckwit, and Satan grew sick of writing this story.
In conclusion? Ryan is, in fact, a girl.
Raped the wrong buns, bitch.
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Years later, Ryan's mother was grateful he finally moved out at the age of 39 or 40. She didn't really want to spend her retirement with Ryan listening in on her through the wall. Ryan's mother had murdered all of her dogs, all four, and if Ryan were to come back, he'd certainly be the fifth.
Ryan was especially happy with his beard. And the free kid buns to put in the wrong spot. He 'dogged them a few times. Perhaps many. His son William was jerkable. William became an A-list actor who pretends to be Billie Eilish, a famous and successful musician. Billie Eilish, the real Billie Eilish, was the oft-raped buns. Aforementioned. Another of Ryan's sons, probably jerkable, became an actor who portrays the musicians Dominic Fike and Ashnikko. Those raped baby buns grew up to be… Many musicians, many names.
And, Ryan? He grew up to be… Someone who finally moved out of Billie Eilish's house, for good. Ryan wanted to be a champion, not a choker.
But, to this very fucking day, Ryan still stalks the real Billie Eilish, without cessation. Ryan is keen to rape it. Ryan also wants to murder it for its assets. Even though Uncle Billie Eilish left Ryan nothing, just like Ryan's mother. No one left Ryan a thing, for some reason.
And now, Satan really is done with this story.
AND DONE WITH RYAN.
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Ryan's soul, his true self, can be felt and observed in this short story.
I am standing on the edge of the battlefield, my body shaking and my hands trembling. My heart is beating too fast and I can't seem to breathe right. I am sweating from all over my body and I have to hold my head down to keep myself from throwing up.
The smell of blood and burnt flesh is heavy in the air. It is suffocating me, and I want to get out of here. But I can't. I have to watch and protect my people.
I look up at the sky. It is a beautiful day.
The sun is shining, birds are chirping and I can feel the wind in my hair. It is a beautiful day.
I don't understand why the people are fighting. I don't understand why we are at war.
The only thing I know is that they want the crystal dragons gone. And I have to help them.
It is important to me. I have to protect my family and friends. But I don't know how.
I'm scared. I don't want to die. I want to go home and be with my mother.
I want to sleep in my own bed. I want to eat my favorite foods. But I can't.
I have to fight. I have to protect the people. I have to defeat the crystal dragon.
I don't want to die. I can't die. I have to live. I have to protect the people.
I heard a scream, this is not the first one as we are in the battlefield, but this sounded different, like a girl screaming.. in pleasure.
Book I Keep Seeing But Can
There's this book, and its driving me insane that I cant find it. I can't even recall the name, except that it involved perhaps 8-10 dimensions.
From what I can recall, it was written by a younger man, but the book itself was incredibly complex and complicated. The cover was somewhat colorful and had at least a couple spheres/circles on it.
I've been looking for this book for years, and each time it's escaped my mental grasp. It's the only book I've ever truly wanted to read for its own sake, and I'm going to go insane if I don't find it soon.
There's this book, and its driving me insane that I cant find it. I can't even recall the name, except that it involved perhaps 8-10 dimensions.
From what I can recall, it was written by a younger man, but the book itself was incredibly complex and complicated. The cover was somewhat colorful and had at least a couple spheres/circles on it.
I've been looking for this book for years, and each time it's escaped my mental grasp. It's the only book I've ever truly wanted to read for its own sake, and I'm going to go insane if I don't find it soon.
Just switched my major to english, what am I in for?
Realized that I'm not interested in business and I'll just fail my classes if I continue that route, so I'm going english, which I enjoy. I read a lot of smaller things like articles, poetry, and press releases. However I enjoy reporting and romance novels and other things. I'm not into retarded philosophy because its for incels and numales. I know english degrees suck for job prospects but I plan on moving to asia and being a teacher anyways and living extremely frugally in public housing. Thoughts?
So i'm a total newcomer to /lit/ and i want to to start reading by beginning with Crime and punishment by Dostoevsky because it's a strong recommendation by Jordan Peterson, i'm interested in psychology and philosophy but most importantly i want to read something at night that isn't harry potter.
Now my question is, is crime and punishment a good entry lever book for beginners?
As to my reading career, i really wasn't that big of a reader throughout my childhood as i spent most of my time on vidyu , i've only read the first two Hp books when i was like 12 and a few dutch books
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My mom is Russian and she's a quite literary person who mostly read alot history books about the slavic culture and origin, she even used to write her poems a and also read me Germanic and Slavic tales before bedtime when i was a child.
Greek philosophy, where to start?
Hi. Does anybody has pics like this one, but for introduction to philosophy or a link to download these kinds of illustrations? I have also seen drawings with several possibilities depending on whether you have more or less appreciated a book/author. Thanks in advance, guys.
My books if anyone cares
https://publish.sweek.com/site/index.php?r=userwebsite/bookdetails&id=260975
Volume 2 of the essays should be out next year, although most are posted here:
Anyone here writing a story?
I thought it could be easy to just write some crap on a couple hundred pages and make easy money, but holy shit its actually much harder than it looks.
Its been 3 momths, I rewritten my first chapter like 17 times already, and I still can't write something I would be proud seeing on a bookshelf.
Any writers feel the same way?
What is schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is defined at 19th century. But there was schizophrenia before. In each nation. At that time, nation tops have relation each other. At 19th the world become global. Schizophrenia is like Nietzsche.
統合失調症は１９世紀くらいに定義された。旧名、精神分裂病。ただその前も、あったのだろう。国の中に限られて。国のトップみたいなやつは、よその国同士で繋がりはあったと思うけど。１９世紀くらいで、グローバルになったからだろう。おそらくニーチェの感じのことをやらせるような
Can't remember the name of a book / author, help?
There is a book that I read when I was 13 (26 now)… I can't remember the name of it, but I do remember the basic plot. IIRC, seemingly everybody in the world save for a single class of college students vanished. One of the characters had a twin sister who she had an empathic link with, and she felt her sister just disapear. Meanwhile, even animals vanished, and the students begin vanishing unless they have someone to love - One of the main characters vanished suddenly as well. It ends with the class essentially splitting into two groups, the degenerates who just want to fuck all day, and the main characters who fuck off in a private plane to some other location, trying to meet up with people who contacted them via radio signal.
Really bad synopsis, but its all I can remember, save for one part where one of the main characters says he hates acid jazz because you can't dance to it.
Anyone happen to know what book I'm talking about? I know it was the first part in a series, but other than that, I can't remember. I'd like to try and read it again, just to see if the parts I didn't understand when I was a kid would make sense now.
Free Jaihoo book- MDE
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also Sam is a legit pedo and gay
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Resisting the Trumpocaust
It's the 444th day of a Trump presidency. All day every day, members of the Trump Youth League in their khaki uniforms knock on doors, looking for illegal aliens. Armed with assault weapons and wearing red armbands emblazoned with a black "T" in a white circle, non-whites cower away in fear whenever they approach. After dark, roving bands of less official but even angrier white supremacists patrol the streets, enforcing the curfew for anyone who looks "un-American". People of color hide fearfully in their homes, their neighborhoods destroyed by white racist violence. Art deco-style statues of Donald Trump have been erected in every town square, with a live ticker screen beneath each one that reads off his tweets.
Everyone but Trump's rabid supporters fears "The Knock," when in the middle of the night people are taken from their homes and sent away to "#MakeAmericaGreatAgain Re-Education Camps", never to be heard from again.
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I wrote a novel!
It's free to read on Kindle Unlimited, plus I posted an early draft of about 40% of it, so hopefully that satisfies your sense of ethics.
Plus, it's got a heavy anarcho-libertarian bent to it, which is probably more appreciated here than anywhere else on the Net.
More details at https://reddit.com/user/ulatekh/comments/pluf8q/hello/ .
Schizoanalyst
Treatment resistant schizophrenic here (trauma-induced, and not what Twitter calls "trauma"), with a 143 IQ (since for we've all lost our minds here & decided to start IQ-posting in a recent thread even though IQ is literally a nonsense metric) who is currently in a precarious housing situation w/ my family that has been abusive in the past, but my best friend is getting me up to his state to live with him and rebuild my life. I've been hospitalized 20+ times, countless meds, even got electroshock 16 times. I wrote a book of poetry about my mythologized history, and I got it accepted for publication. It comes out in July. I say all this to prove, maybe just to myself, that there is hope for me.
It is my goal to become a PhD. Clinical Psychologist (which I've had since before my illness, and every doctor & clinician I've had highly encouraged me to do so), and get postdoctoral training in Lacanian psychoanalysis. I am currently undergoing Lacanian psychoanalysis for an extremely reduced fee as part of a scholarship with a postdoctoral psychoanalytic school. (But right now I have never even completed a semester of university.) The analysis is, very slowly, transforming myself and my life.
Despite my capacities, I am unable to sleep or eat really. I take meds, minimally & as needed at the lowest dose, but I am finding it very difficult to literally just SLEEP or EAT because of my overactive mind. It's like I'm naturally high on methamphetamine.
Besides establishing a safe living situation in an apartment with my best friend, WHAT BOOKS can I read—fiction, non-fiction, or poetry—to guide me in my journey toward that second chance, the Gestalt??? Mainstream behavioral indoctrinating industrial complex, and family, has terribly failed me (and I sort of failed myself) — so /lit/ you truly are my only hope.
inferring content from ending?
lets say i am writing a fiction and i planned the ending ahead (cuz i believe it s good by research) but somehow now my content is now locked to the ending so it has to be within its "logical" realm
kinda like fight club, which has ending defined in the beginning of the movie and the rest follows…
so…how do i,say, " infer" the content
from that ending, moment to moment, character by character and so on,…. so that my story can follow the end cohesively into a logical story and maybe also satisfying?
are there sort of tools, formats, that has been used to solve this since time beginning cuz .. idk literature is old?
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Castalia Library’s Build the Bindery Campaign
Any fans of Vox Day here? His Castalia Library leatherbound classics series is vertically integrating, gonna build its own bindery.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/08/building-bindery.html
Supporters of the crowdfund can order copies of the first books set to be made on the new presses, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, which will be specially branded Castalia Bindery. The Library quality books are set at $250 each.
https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-iliad-library-edition/
https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-odyssey-library-edition/
Better heeled classics aficionados and supporters of an alt-old tech reskilling can order the Libraria Castalia versions of each edition, in goatskin, for $1,000 apiece.
https://arkhavencomics.com/product/iliad-libraria-edition/
https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-odyssey-libraria-edition/
The goal is to sell 500 copies of each book by the end of August to fund the Castalia Bindery. But there is no hard limit on the books until the campaign concludes August 31, so there are a few weeks to consider and save up before diving in.
Pic includes some of Castalia Library’s previous editions. The new bindery will allow an even higher standard for future volumes.
help resolve
i guess this is all mostly about "good feeling" but im trying to write a story and naturally somehow with the ending defined like the graph, i naturally expects anything before the "end"
to be canon and refers to the end of sorts, but i could quite find any logical idea about it means i cant evn choose a single fucking scene to write that will allow the end to be an acconplishment of sorts…
how do i deal with this?
i keep writing everyday but this thing remain unresolved like i will get somewhere and retcon things which feels troublesome
help i need a model to help connect these plot points to the ending so it feels good to do
Can anyone point me towards a magnet torrent link to a penguin graded readers mega collection? I live in Vietnam and its impossible to get hold of the original books here.
I'm an English teacher and my students live to immerse themselves into the classics.
Alternatively point me towards a board for downloading books.
I've tried to find the li k ở line,but I'm being swamped by fake links
Thanks so much in advance 🙏🏼
Selling taboo erotica?
Hey /lit/
I'm an erotica author who write a lot of taboo stuff, and as I've been seeing success in the erotica market in the past few months I'd like to consider branching out. The stuff I've been putting out there is pretty fringe but within Amazon guidelines; I know that some authors who write stuff like, say, incest, will post their stories to Smashwords, which is more forgiving of extreme content. As of right now it's not really a problem because my stuff is pretty in line with the two big retailershowever, in the past I've written more than a few stories involving underage characters, and I'm sure there's a market for this content somewhere. Nobody mainstream will accept and publish such works however, and when I search for information about the issue Google shames me with a big warninglike, Googling the phrase 'underage characters in erotic fiction' comes up with a big fat whining warning about depictions of child abuse being illegal, yes, of course, obviously. But this is FICTION.
Naturally in the process of this Googling I came across United States v. Fletcher, a 2007 court case where the defendant entered a guilty plea in a ridiculous obscenity charge brought against her for maintaining a website of fictional stories, text only, no pictures. The contents of the stories sound like they were very shocking (more shocking than my stuff, small consolation to me) but obviously that's no excuse for the charges brought against her. She was an old lady at the time, too, which makes it very sad and absurd. It sounds like this prosecutor wanted to make an example and from what I can see it worked because everywhere I look in fiction communities everywhere if you even have the audacity to write about a character who's, I don't know, seventeen having a sexual experience that's depicted as erotic, you'll be banned on site and your work thrown off whatever website you put it on. Never mind that if you write the same scene at a 7th grade reading level and call it YA an agent will snap it up in a heartbeat. Never mind that de Sade's Justine was twelve at the start of the novel and so was Dolores Haze. Never mind THAT IT'S FICTION. FICTION FICTION FICTION. It makes me want to scream.
Is there ANYWHERE I can publish, sell, advertise, whatever, erotic fiction or transgressive fiction with erotic overtones that includes an even slightly underage character? I'm honestly quite shocked that it's such a big deal. I mean, holy shit! My guro consensual cannibalism erotica is making me wonderful money and I'm so happy–is that really more acceptable than a story about a seventeen-year-old girl assuming control of her sexuality? I'm just baffled. Help me out here /lit/. More and more it sounds like the only answer is to stick my neck out and sell it on my own website somehow but if there's an option that will help me acquire more readers it would obviously be preferable. One must go where the readers are, etc.
/lit/ is publishing a magazine
/&/ Postpostmodern Edition: The More Vulnerable Years, ca. 2021; or,
You, yes (You). You are smart and creative. This is your board. Contribute to & Magazine;
Fire up MS Paint '95 and make a rage comic if you have to. Steal your daughter's diary if you have to. Photocopy your ass if you have to;
There is a Gun to Your Head Edition; or,
Here's some resources for creating things:
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https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
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Weird early 20th late 19th century fiction
I'm interested in reading odd non-Tolkien fantasy, which is preferably from early 20th, late 19th century sources, what can you guys recommend?
Thus farm I have been reading a decent amount of Lovecraft, and Conan The Barbarian. I just started getting into reading for pleasure I like Lovecrafts narration and general writing style, but I do not like the slowness of the story. My favorite one so far is The Shadow over Innsmouth, since the fish frog men lore was cool, the bit of action, and the twist at the end. When it comes to Conan I like the ease of reading. It so fluid that you automatically keep reading, even if you are not really enjoying it, due to Conan being a boring character. My favorite story is The Tower of the Elephant, since it has black magic, an interesting story, and a fast pace. I just finished Testaments of Athammaus by Clark Ashton Smith, and found it to be weak, but I will give CAS a couple more tries.
Looking for a franchise
Hej anons. I am looking for a dnd type setting in a book. It's kinda hard to describe. Like people travelling to unknown worlds and unknown planets, discovering older than ancient ruins that they have no idea the origins of, ancient lores and similar stuff. If you know about the pathfinder lores you'd know. A lot of ancient mystery, old ruins, descent into unknown and lost civilisations and that kinda thing. Thank you.
Post your story and I'll explain to you why it sucks
Here's how it's going to work;
-You post your story under 3000 words. I recommend that it's an introduction to your story, or a short story. Of course, you can post endings or middle chapters if you want, but you'd be a massive idiot.
-If you use google docs I'm not reading it
-If it's over 3000 words i'm not reading it.
-If you didn't upload to google docs and its under 3000 words I'll read your story.
-If you have shitty grammar and spelling, a terrible prose, or you write your sentences like
"Madamn's chagaron soul window fevered insibiously into the untransited elevate sunset as the moservier sagrated chivalriously in such-"
I'm going to call you out on it and stop reading
-If your story makes it past the previous checkpoints I'll finally give my opinion on what you actually want to hear
(Is the setting interesting?
Are the characters interesting?
Do I want to keep turning the page to read more?
Is your pacing good or bad?
Would I pay for this?)
Come on anon, I know your inner voice is killing your self confidence as a writer and you're secretly begging for validation. You know you want it. Post it.
Nonfiction Request Thread
I am going on a quest to stop being a retard. I've always scored fairly high on IQ tests, but when it comes to actual knowledge I'm pitifully uneducated and I want that to stop. I've amassed a fairly large library so far, and I've sworn off fiction reading until I've finished it all, but I need your help. Textbooks, political science, handbooks, anything you can offer.
Please /lit/ help me help myself
Self publishing this bitch
I made a techno-coffeetable book. If you want a copy and wanna read some shit here's the link. It's about 2 nostalgic computers on a drive through a Virtual American Empire. I'm puttin this sucker on Amazon in Sept. Cool.
PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FkK0NRe59EK2Chnw-lid6UToX3jweiKD/view?usp=sharing
Pinecone 00000
Pinecone Issue 00000:
NotPynchon & He Rapes His Sister Phoebe compiled as interviews.
>What is this?
Pinecone Magazine is the /lit/ magazine that publishes when there is actual content worth anyone's time.
>How can I submit?
There are two ways to submit. AtticusPinecone@gmail or you can use the submissions form on the website.
>What's accepted?
Solid gold unpublished poetry, prose, erotica, letters, literary analysis, anything intelligent or funny. You won't be reading any shit, don't worry. If only 2 things worth reading is submitted, 2 things will be in the issue.
>Is this the first literary journal from /lit/?
There was The April Reader & there is Ideology. But this is already head & shoulders above them.
>These things always fail.
Have a look first. For what it's worth, this first issue is good & it's nice looking. That might be b/c there is no poetry/prose & b/c I have actual magazine experience. 00000 is just NotPynchon & The Catch Her analysis, and both are very interesting.
Here it is:
Hello, /lit/. I just wanted to let you know about https://kind.moe/kind/index.html . I'd appreciate it if you'd take the time to drop in and say hello. It's not really devoted to the discussion of topics pertaining to this board, but I think kindness is or should be a virtue valued by all, irrespective of our differences!
Is there a way to learn how to write? Like techniques and stuff? Similar to how artists have Loomis and other books to study drawing. Is there a book or something to study how to write without sounding boring?
All my shit is just sounds fucked when I read it back. Like pacing feels off. I'm not doing anything wrong, grammatically, but I feel like I'm stuck drawing inside the lines, when it comes to sentence structure.
Fiction recommendations?
I don't care what genre as long as it is good or likable in some way.
Examples of what I enjoyed: Harry Potter, Kite Runner, A Separate Peace, Little Prince, Catcher in the Rye, Song of Lioness/Tamora Pierce, The Outsiders, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of Flies
Examples of meh: Hunger Games, Narnia, My Sister's Keeper, Alice in Wonderland, Clique series, Uglies/Pretties/Specials
Examples of what I hated: The Magician, Alchemist, Lord of Rings, Jane Austin, Great Gatsby
Apocalyptic sci-fi.
I'm a moron who is trying to read more because my memory is garbage, and apparently reading can possibly help it. Are there any apocalyptic event books set in deep space, in the far future? I can find apocalyptic books, I can find deep space books, and I can find distant future books, but not one that combines all three.
Not Yet Titled Scifi
I've been writing a scifi story on my offtime, and I'd take any form of feedback.
Current Word Count: 32,018
Status: Draft (about 3 parts done out of 5)
I marked [R] for chapters I plan on majorly revising, and [W] for part/chapters that aren't done yet.
In case 8kun hiccups and can't serve files, I can give another link.
Advice
i m a 19 year old boy. i have read dostoevsky, Jack London, Maupassant and bunch of other good writers. I have a fairly good taste in music ( at least I think so). I am a NEET. I really want to be a singer and a writer. I,m broke, I can,t find a job, I don,t even have a penny. I can,t even tell my parents what I want because I,m afraid they won,t understand. Plus I,m super introverted, i don,t like seeing or meeting people. I don,t know what to do. Give me some advice for gods sake so, I won,t kill myself. I don,t wanna die!!!
How would I go write an alternate history novel about ethnic Europeans living under fascism, specifically under a victorious Imperial Japan in former Australia?
I've already got a vague idea of some of it, just wondering what lit could contribute.
> Europeans live at the bottom of the racial hierarchy "lower than chankoro"
> Europeans live inside ghettos, ramshackle and overcrowded. If they go outside the ghettos they are expected to be deferential to the Japanese colonisers and their second-class Korean and Japanese subjects. There are frequent lynchings of Europeans from Eucalyptus trees which the Japanese regularly ignore, alongside pogroms.
> Patrols of IJA often kidnap and whisk away European women who are never seen again or otherwise return brutalised and traumatised.
>The Japanese Empire is locked in a Cold War with the Third Reich which is about to go hot. The war will become a WWI style stalemate.
> Third Reich affiliated rebels constantly try to overthrow Japanese rule on the continent, only to be defeated and experimented on by unit 731. The only meaningful resistance is a couple of disparate communist cells which bide their time.
> The Japanese constantly bait their Chinese and Korean and other Asiatic subjects against the Europeans to keep them divided. The Chinese and Koreans don't have it much better than the Europeans, considered inferior to the Japanese.
> Karl Marx's memory and legacy is demonized as an evil white subversive who wishes to overthrow rightful Yamato supremacy over inferior Europeans. "Cultural Marxism" is a Japanese conspiracy theory about Europeans trying to corrupt "beautiful Asiatic souls" into joining with Europeans against "wise Japanese stewardship" . IJA propaganda constantly harps on about how "White Marxists" want "Yamato Genocide".
> Our protagonist, An "honorary Yamato" university student of indeterminate race who lives near the ghetto becomes fascinated with the white commies.
8/lit/ lives again
What you've been reading while 8chan was down?
I managed to finish some books from warhammer's time of legend series, all of the Nagash and vampire related ones. Had a lot of fun with that. Stuck on elves though, because they are kind of vomit inducing at times, but I'll eventually manage whole thing.
Is Literature Dead?
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/27/is-literature-dead/
>I knew I wanted to be a writer, had begun to read with an eye toward how a book or story was built, and if this was what it took, this overriding sense of consciousness, then I would never be smart enough.
>Now, I recognize this as one of the fallacies of teaching literature in the classroom, the need to seek a reckoning with everything, to imagine a framework, a rubric, in which each little piece makes sense. Literature—at least the literature to which I respond—doesn’t work that way; it is conscious, yes, but with room for serendipity, a delicate balance between craft and art.
>That kind of writing, though, is difficult to teach, leaving us with scansion, annotation, all that sound and fury, a buzz of explication that obscures the elusive heartbeat of a book.
Gore Vidal would now butt in to congratulate English professors for a job well done. Anyway, I won't reproduce the whole essay here. Go have a look for yourself.
Is Literature close to an end?
We live comfy thanks to technology, which grows more and more, covers wider and wider patches of our life with each year that passes by; and obviously, people's way of seeing life changes with this cybernetic development.
Considering that in no time we will be entering into the robotic era already, what's your opinion about Literature's future? Do you see a bright future ahead for it? Are books going to die? Will Literature cease to exist at some point?
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Words that annoy you
Irruption. Like I get it, by definition it's a gradient of eruption, but every time I read it I can't help but think "eruption" and why didn't they use "eruption" here and then I think about volcanoes and lose track of what I was reading in the first place.
your turn
What do you think about this opening paragraph?
The night sky loomed oppressively over the city, blanketing it in darkness. Each star an eye watching all beneath it. There was no moon tonight, it was too scared to show its face to the cold and merciless night. Few lights not destroyed shoned damply letting small parts of the city be colored a mute yellow. Electricity was too costly for it to be shined any brighter. The air was not but dust and iron filling the lungs of the weak and sickly. The man wore a grey nylon poncho with a heavy air filter. His face covered by his hood. He took soft even steps walking through the city. His presence was left for brief fleeting moments throughout each street he crossed. He moved from building to building and street to street. Each street flowing to the next endlessly and each dark grey building no different from the last. After 16 blocks of walking he felt close to his prey. Only given a brief description and a name this was enough for the man to find his target. He was getting warmer and warmer with each step, creeping closer to the inevitable. Gunshots sing in the distance, the first movement of the night’s orchestra. Stopping briefly at a crossroads the man sees a pack of children half-naked carrying shanks, chains, and pipes. The man was staring at what would likely be the last generation of humans on this planet. They stared back meeting his cold sharp gaze with an equally cold sharp gaze. Orphan's all of them grew up on the streets. They knew not how to read or write, they couldn’t do math in their head or on paper, and they couldn’t tell you the history or future of the world. The language of violence is all the streets taught them and the language of violence is a zero sum game. You either take what you want and kill your enemies or you get taken from and die. The boys started to take steps closer to the man. He flashed his piece on his waist a hunk of cold iron and hot lead. The six shooter, a rare luxury that few possessed, caught the boys eyes and they scurried off into the alleys to look for weaker bodies. The man continued on slowly and methodically to his mark.
Alt-r lit
You're welcome.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qqq0p3yek1vsjod/The_Dark_Column.pdf/file
Yesterday I cut a peach in half and it looked kinda like a vagina.
I licked it out from the inside until it was nothing but skin,
at the end she moaned and said
"This wasn't worth it"
I came in her corpse, and as peach juice burned the head of my errection, I had the same thought.
My eyes closed. and so did my heart.
They were both useless in this new world.
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This is chapter 1 in my work in progress novel about fucking fruit, staring into walls like they were horizons, and being constantly lost and errect because your hormones are all fucked up. What do you think ?
Richmal Crompton's William
Many of the stories in this series can make me laugh out loud. There are 39 books, and so far I've found 20 of them online. However, many of these are modern editions which have terrible covers, and I think they may have messed about with the text.
So I'd like to find more, or possibly work with others to make a complete set of the originals.
Here is a link to the first book which is Project Gutenberg:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. IMO one of the best books ever written and certainly the best living American author. If you can, listen to the audiobook narrated by Richard Poe. It is a life changing experience, especially when you are attempting to be an author yourself. You will never write the same again after listening to it. If you don't understand what VOICE is in writing, listening to Richard Poe recite the book will teach you.
Mediterranean nonfiction literature.
Mediterranean nonfiction literature.
>topic
Post about it, recommend things.
Can be from any era BEFORE the fall of Rome in September 4, 476 AD
Can be about anything but preferably no christcuckery or pagan retardation, lets keep it simple - wars about pure greed are always good.
free shit / piracy
>where do you find free shit to read? post why you find each resource useful. in response section
archive.org documents music and some censored content
telegram censored content and music
library genesis literature and documents
piratebay general
nyaa.si anime stuff I guess
I'm writing a short novel. Let me show ya a little passage so you guys can get interested.
John's face was always gloomy. When someone asked him a question, he would answer monosyllabically or pretend to be deaf. He'd never look into one's eyes, and his sweaty, limp hand felt like a sponge when he had to extend it to greet a new co-worker. His life was divided between his home and the office. He spent the weekends sitting on the old couch in front of the television, reading the late newspapers and drinking beer.
No one liked John except Martha, who thought he was a true gentleman. Finally, one day, he ended up inviting her to dinner. Marta blushed when she received the invitation, her heart pounding as she couldn't help but let out a shy smile from her lips. She swallowed and agreed day and time.
…
Two hours before the meeting, Marta took a long bath with scented salts and applied a hydrating mask on her face. She brushed her hair for a long time, but in the end decided to make a relaxed bun. She painted her eyes, stretched her lashes and intensified her lips with red lipstick, dressing in a tight skirt and a slightly transparent silk blouse that she had saved for a special occasion.
Inside the cab, on the way to the restaurant, Marta tried to straighten a strand of hair that kept peeling off her bun, running her fingers across the skirt whilst looking intermittently at her makeup mirror as to touch up the lipstick.
Suddenly, a block to the restaurant, a thought crossed her mind. What if John had only invited her to talk about work issues? As she got out of the cab, Marta used a shop window as a makeshift mirror only to ponder whether her skirt was too tight, or her shirt too transparent.
Literature Ranking Thread
Do any of you have a way of ranking literature?
That is, do consider certain genres and styles of writing better than others?
Pic related is what I'd consider my ranking system, although it's very rough and still a work in progress. Feel free to edit it in ways you think are better and share your own personal rankings when you approach literature of any kind.
Speculative Political Fiction
is there anything, left/right/authoritarian/libertarian/dystopian/utopian out there I can read? I read 1984 as a kid and wasn't a big fan, and we all know Brave New World, but what else is out there.
also, no Tom Clancy shit, I want something dark at least, a series would be nice
1st Reading Club thread
Book clubs never work!
Why this is going to work
I'm seen book clubs started on different boards and they always fail, which is why I created a reading club instead. No one wants to read a whole book of questionable interest every week, and no one can blame anons for not wanting to. My solution for this is to focus on short stories and novellas, so that plenty of anons have the time and will to finish.
You need more material to talk about than that
Thats a valid point and will be taken into consideration. If it proves to be true my plan is to include multiple shorts by the same author, so that we can discus him as well. This will allow anons who don't want to read a whole novel to participate, while still allowing a depth of conversation.
==The White People== =
by Arthur Mache
E. F. Bleiler wrote that the narrative in the Green Book "is probably the finest single supernatural story of the century, perhaps in the literature", and Michael Dirda has stated: "If I were to list the greatest supernatural short stories of all time, I would start with Arthur Machen’s 'The White People,' about a young girl’s unknowing initiation into an ancient, otherworldly cult." S. T. Joshi has called the diary "a masterpiece of indirection, a Lovecraft plot told by James Joyce", and H. P. Lovecraft himself wrote that "Machen's narrative, a triumph of skilful selectiveness and restraint, accumulates enormous power as it flows on in a stream of innocent childish prattle". I copied this off of Wikipedia, since I don't want to give away to much. I'm going to read it again before I write what I think.
RULES
Use spoilers if what you say requires them.
Recommend some good apathetic /lit/?
Something good so that if my eyes gloss over the words I'll get it. It's become my sole mode of reading now. I find I like urban apathetic; I'm open to other apathies, too.
English or German. I've already read Naked Lunch, American Psycho, and a handful of Bukowski. and I want to diversify to other authors before reading more of Bukowski et al.'s works.
Race Realism/biological determinsm Books
I'm currently reading "The Blank Slate: A Modern Denial of Human Nature" from Steven Pinker.
It was published on 2002, so is it still worth reading today? Is it scientifically dated? Any better book on human genetic/biological determinsm of human nature, race realism etc?
Strindberg
Life is Hell for most, Purgatory for some, Heaven for none.
This man's works are great. They thoroughly go over the bleaker aspects of our existence. Anyone heard of him? Thoughts?
also check out my board >>>/blucaf/
Do I have right ?
if people were deprived of individuality and ambition, the world could become a better place. There could be a world government that he
would provideto the world of stability. People would be happy without ever wanting something they could not get. Having a similar worldview and mentality, ride
the same cars, living in the same homes or apartments, having the same entertainment, living in a state of blissful ignorance about
passions and strong emotions could be so conditioned that they would practically be unable to act otherwise than they should.
When reading the book "Brave New World ", I always wonder: what exactly is wrong with the world described there? Wars, hunger and diseases have stopped.
Social hierarchy still exists, but those at the bottom are genetically designed so that they do not bother them, they even enjoy what they are. Blessed soma
it is enough for everyone, there is a joyful consumption and freedom of manners. Few visionaries get deported, but so what? New ideas, books or inventions
they would only destroy the previous harmony built with such difficulty. It does not sound like an dystopia, rather the opposite of dystopia.
If our goal is universal happiness and security, the individual's freedom seems to be a temporary, unsuccessful experiment that is an obstacle to his reached.
lazy fatass fuck
Hello everyone, I am a lazy fatass fuck. It takes me 7 fucking years to write a penny-dreadful, film-script based "novel". And it doesn't matter that it's my full time fucking job, literally the only thing I'm required to do, or that I jack off at 67 years of age by taking bum fuck vacations all over the world to live off the prestige of my now stagnate series that I can't fucking finish, that I'm constantly giving interviews and bullshit for the industry, and that I'm writing OTHER books that literally no one gives a fuck about. That's right, I'm not writing for the series that is the sole reason for all my fame and which everyone wants, no, I write other books that are truly shit and no one gives a fuck about. And when those that gave me all this money call me out on this shit, the best I can do is twiddle my fat fingers, flip them off and then whine on my blog about how ashamed I am of being a lazy fatass fuck. Oh, did I mention that I waste time playing videogames? I have all this responsibility, I'm 67 fucking years old and I waste time playing videogames, because that's really going to get the job done and get all these people off my back. Did I mention I'm a lazy fatass fuck?
Father Figure in literature
Is it fruitful to look for a father figure in literature? May be a fictional character or even the author himself? Recently i feel like i've lost the sense of purpose and i can't turn to my dad because he's just like the father from 'Rebel without a cause' - he lost his job, stays at home and slaves (not helps) for my mother. I grew up while he worked across the state, hence i never had the slightest of paternal care or guidance.
Where do i look to for some kind of a direction? Help me out brothers.
world domination
anyone know any good books/novels about world domination or something of the like. Something that wouldn't be afraid to be at least slightly bombastic/sexualized or have other slightly childish qualities?
to be honest, any books or novels which have the mc or mc's go for world domination as a goal without much regard for good or bad morals and wouldn't be complete pain to read. i suppose something like GoT, better or worse, just want something with a similar topic.
thanks in advance /lit
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This is the most overrated book i have ever read
House of Leaves was a book i remembered hearing about a lot from Silent Hill fans back in the early 2000's. They described it as the ultimate note taking mystery. A puzzle you needed to deep dive into and spend years unravelling. I always meant to get around to it but only recently did and boy was this an oversold product.
The 'puzzle' is that its a book about a guy finding a dead mans unpublished novel about a movie that doesnt exist and the junkie burnouts notes as he tries to put it together. Somehow this drives him insane though i think the point was meant to be that like his mother he was suffering an illness already.
The big let down however wasnt the story which was a fine enough piece of meta fiction but the sheer childish nature of the 'hardest book you will ever read' i was sold on. Sometimes you have to read a page in a mirror. Or turn it upside down. Sometimes the amount of text on a page gets smaller and smaller as the formatting squeezes it into a smaller box of broken words to convey the feeling of the characters in a shrinking hallway. Yeah i get the symbolism here. That doesnt make it a puzzle though.
I finished it in about 4 days of casual reading and left it with a resounding 'okay, that was it' but i see hipsters gushing about it on youtube who seem like they desperately want to be 'part of the smart kids club' about this and i feel like its a case of it since many say they took over 8 years to read it.
I feel like it was probably a lot more amazing at the time it came out with all the experiments in media at the time but compared to a game like Silent Hill 2 or a multimedia project like This House has People in it the whole thing came off as outdated and bland.
Am i crazy or is this just some hipster badge of honour shit at this point?
Wanting to explore Kierkegaard
Memes aside, anything in his books that make observations on the current situation applicable? Early or later works? Need something that might ease me into his writings. I think I only I have one book and an essay. So /lit/erati, point me in the correct direction…
Did literature studies may improve my writing?
I've been reading intensively for almost three years and during the last months I've taken advantage of being unemployed for writing some poems and short stories. In September I plan to follow literature courses at the unit next to my apartment, but I already feel tired of start off again the study routine (stressful exams, irritating classmates, boring professors) although the content of most of the courses really interesting me. The diploma itself has no significant value for me since I already have an engineer's degree, all I want is to perfect my writing in order to get published some day.
What would you do /lit?
Artemis Fowl
>book 1
>pretty interesting anti-hero book, some nice lore building and entertaining story
>book 2
>not too bad, but the muh father shit was really annoying at times, though I appreciate wrapping up that plotline as quickly as possible instead of dragging it out over several books, also Opal Koboi is kind of entertaining as a villainess
>book 3
>probably the best of the bunch, even if Butler aging by around a decade to save his life was completely pointless and does not affect his character whatsoever in the future books
>book 4
>kills off one of the best characters in the series, Opal Koboi is back again, and is probably the last entertaining book in the series that does not go full retard
>book 5
>goes full retard with demon shit, also more unnecessary aging of characters towards the end, and some really dumb antagonists
>book 6
>possibly even more retarded than book 5, antagonists are full-on strawmen so Eoin Colfer can spend half the book forcing his hippie environmentalist leanings on you, also it has a 14-15 year-old boy make out with a 100 year-old elven dyke just in case you didn't get that the author was basically writing fanfiction at this point
>book 7
>continues the series' progression towards full retard storytelling, villain is a whiny tool, the only saving grace were the occasional moments of Artemis having a split-personality as a wannabe Don Quixote/Casanova fusion and hitting on Holly which still doesn't negate the general stupidity
>book 8
>I don't even know what the fuck was happening here, it seems like the author just threw all logic out the window and made up shit as he went along, this shit is worse than Deathly Hallows, which is fucking saying something
What happened? It started off so good, and then took a sudden nosedive, kinda like Harry Potter did with Order of the Phoenix. Except with HP, the reasons are kinda obvious, with AF, not so much.
ITT: Books about sex, paraphilias and fetishes
I've always been interested in understanding why some people are attracted to things like pain, particular parts of the body (feet, hands, armpits and so on), being dominated etc.
However I only know three authors that could help me understand paraphilia: Frued, De Sade and Bataille.
I haven't read any of their books yet.
Are there other authors who talk about sex and paraphilia?
What are the best books about these topics? Where should I start?
Post the best writing you've ever read.
But at the same time I seemed to hear more than a teacher's switch as it came down upon a pupil's body. Sounds more serious and more strange intruded upon the hush of the classroom. They were faraway sounds lost in the hissing of rainy afternoon: great blades sweeping over great distances, expansive wings cutting through cold winds, long whips lashing in darkness. I heard other sounds, too, other things that were stinging the air in other places, sounds of things I heard but never give explanation. These sounds grew increasingly louder. Finally, Miss Plarr dropped her pointer and put her hands over her ears.
Miss Plarr, Thomas Ligotti
Did philosophy essential to fiction?
Did a relevant philosophical background is necessary to consider a fiction as a good piece of literature?
Russian author's example for affirmative answer: Dostoevsky, his novels are full of existentialism interrogations judiciously incarnated by his characters.
Another Russian author's example for negative answer: Nabokov, his novels have an excellent style of prose and many appealing themes, but they are not particularly challenging on a philosophical level.
On the French side, it's kind of the same thing that differenciates Sarte from Celine, for example.
So, what's your opinion on that question?
Which books of Agatha Christie that do not belong to any particular series, would you consider a detective story? I am asking because after finishing Poirot and Miss Marple series I moved on to "independent" books and I already disliked the first two books (chronologically), The Man in the Brown Suit and The Secret of Chimneys (although the latter was decidedly better).
I would consider those two as more of an adventure/light thriller stories. They are way too "action"-packed and I don't believe that these books are Christie's forte.
Are any of the books outside of any particular series a detective story instead of thriller? By "detective story" I mean a story like the books from Poirot or Miss Marple series.
Hello /lit/.
I am not a very well read man, i've barely read a couple of books; so you could say I'm very ignorant. I'm smart in that I can pick up on things easily but that's about it.
I'm 20something and I feel "insufficient" in the intellectual department. I know I should have read stuff like Plato, kant, Smith, heidegger and shit like that by now, but the problem is that I don't know where to begin.
How do I gain the philosophical foundation and 20th-21st century knowledge I need to be an above-average wise man who has a better understanding of the world around him? Which books and in what order should I read them? How can I stick to a reading plan that doesn't disrupt vydia+work time too much and is considered consistent and effective?
Which magazines or sites you read to stay up to date with geopolitics in a way beyond basic bitch pundit opinions? what should I read to understand Oil markets and gay jewish banker witchcraft?
Don't recomend me any fiction gay stuff, I'm not interested in reading some fantasy about the world through the eyes of some bleeding heart drunkard, I want more real stuff so that I can debate politics and philosophy like a real sexual tyrannosaurus. I'm currently reading crime and punishment but I find the descriptions of flowers on wallpaper and strange textile elements to be droll.
I've been memed into reading the following at some point in my life:
>The Ego and Its own
>Mein Kampf
>Harry potter 1,2 &3
>A bunch of Short Stories by Borges
>Promethus Rising
Other than that and a couple of mangas and Comics, that's pretty much it, as you can see i'm in a terrible position.
Thanks for your help.
What are you working on? V.2
Old thread >>5000 is at the bump limit, so I'm making a new one.
"A /lit/ board without a writing thread is worse than useless."
Aspirant authors, tell me of your work.
Feel free to post excerpts or general ideas and don't hesitate to critique someone (especially if you want a critique of your own work in return).
To start it off, here's my post about what I'm working on from the previous thread: >>12848
Where to go to get feedback and improve?
Where do you go to get feedback on your writing? I'd rather not post my shit on 8ch or Wizardchan but they're the only places outside of Reddit I know with writing communities who aren't pozzed to shit.
I'd like to do self published short stories and I'm willing to put the work in to improve. I just don't know how to get there yet.
Where should I be looking?
Stephen King
Is he a hack? I've heard people say he steals ideas and overwrites. Plus he acts like a virtue signalling faggot on twitter.
How does his literature compare to others? Do they hold up on their own or is his writing an extension of post-modernism, hence it's (((popularity)))?
Disgusting
My dear anons… How about the book that you just couldn't possibly finish reading, not because it was bad per se, but due to sheer disgust. I want malevolent, disturbing, truly unruly books. If it shook you, share it
PS: on another irrelevant but still interesting genre, what was the realest book you read? Something like Bukowski or John Fante, some authors that exposed their guts without embelishing their opinions.
Byzantine Literature
I've been reading a lot of Chretien de Troyes lately, and decided to check out what literature was like on the other side of medieval Christendom, namely the Byzantine Empire. What do you guys recommend? Something from around the same time as de Troyes would be nice, but honestly I'll read anything.
The Captain underpants movie coming out lately has got me thinking.
If someone like say, Netflix, ever did another adaptation of the classic Wayside School books, one where Louis Sachar actually had input(like he did with Holes), which art style would be most aesthetically pleasing to use?
I just got an idea to overcome writing block, especially for the times when you got a vision or a detailed plan but don't know how to put it to paper because you just cannot find a good start. I've never heard this idea before but I cannot imagine I'm the first one to come up with something like that, but anyway, here I go:
>Write down scenes in your head in a somewhat chronological order
>Number them
>Throw a dice or use a random number generator to determine what scene to write
>Repeat until a good part of the novel is standing, then fill in the blanks
It's simple, it might turn out to be a shitty idea, but I'll give it a try. I'll let you know how it goes.
Assigned school reading
What are some books that you were assigned to read that you actually enjoyed? What are your "classics"?
I want to read more books that are more generally well known. Some of the titles I was assigned have been:
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Frankenstein, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, The House on Mango Street
H.P. Lovecraft
What's a good entry point if I want to start reading some Lovecraft?
Should I just grab the Necronomicon and/or Eldritch Tales, read some random short stories and skip to the next if they don't catch my interest?
I'd rather read something lengthier like a novel but from what I understand even they are at most ~150 pages. Which is fine I guess, but I still don't know where to start.
I'm only vaguely familiar with his work but I think I'd prefer to read the ones in a more overt 'mystical' setting
I was talking with a guy that gave me a bunch of suggestions but he also said that it wouldn't hurt if I'd ask for some other people opinions as well (and here I am) since he had read far from all of it.
>Some random suggestions that I wrote down
Dagon
The Horror at red dread hook
The Dunwich Horror
The doom that came to saranoth
The case of charles dexter ward
At the mountains of madness
The shadow out of time
The haunter of the dark
The thing at the doorstep
The shadow over innsmoth
Best tools/programs to use with writing?
I'm talking all kinds of tools - from just writing to proofreading and organization.
I hear good things about grammary but haven't tried it yet.
Also, a program called Campfire that helps with writing books/novels, since it has maps, timelines, characters, encyclopedia, character arc and such to help keep things neat, organized and visualized. The installer is 200MB, kinda big for a program that just organizes text and images.
So yes, I'm writing a novel and am looking for anything that can help improve the process.
Post about stuff that pisses you off
I can't stop my autist rage. Whenever I mention reading books to people they inevitably start talking about how they used to read a lot but don't read a lot nowadays. I don't fucking care, pick up some Chekhov. Or don't, just leave me alone and stop trying to #relate to everything I do.
My dog died. I'm spiraling in existential crisis that our mind is tied to our brain's death. I need texts for a confirmation bias of continuing on conciousness to help me cope. Something that will confirm there is more to existence after death. I'm looking for babby tier books to understand dualism, or anything transcendental. Something with intelligence. No 'The 'Alchemist' bullshit. Is dualism philosophy? Many of the terms, I dont understand. Any other analytical subjects that will help my heart ache is welcome as well. Thanks /lit/.
I loved that dog more than anything. She was 2 years old.
what are some books that you REALLY want to read but can't find anywhere due to any reason whatsoever?
For me it's Milkbottle H by Gil Orlovitz
>American publishers weren’t interested in Orlovitz’s work, as either poet or novelist. Despite decades of productivity as a poet no major U.S. house had published any of his work. It’s no surprise that Milkbottle H was rejected wholesale in the U.S. after years of circulating among publishers
>Defining ‘Hard’ SF is a bit difficult. If we use the Millerian definition (scientific or technical accuracy and detail), it won’t hold water. The reason is not all sciences are equal in SF. In my experience, fictional works that focus on physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering and (to a lesser extent) chemistry tend to be filed as ‘Hard,’ especially if there is an exploratory or militaristic aspect. The further the extrapolation of the science from what is known, the more likely the story will be classed as ‘soft.’ On the other hand, those that Jeff VanderMeer jokingly refers to as ‘squishy’ sciences like botany, mycology, zoology, etc. tend to be classed as soft SF along with the social sciences like anthropology, psychology, etc. Medicine can fall either way, depending on the actual narrative.
>That the definitions are problematic becomes obvious immediately. I find the terms intellectually uninteresting because they assume that social sciences use less rigor, which I know to be untrue. My background is in medicine and anthropology, and I have seen both sides.
>There may be other elements to the definitions. There may be a pejorative flavor to being designated ‘soft’. There may be some gender bias, although I have seen this in discussions, and not in print. Take a lot of the work of Ursula Le Guin. Many would not class her SF as ‘Hard’ despite her clear understanding of anthropology and psychology. The exploration of cultures should not take a back seat to the exploration of the solar system. Take Frankenstein, which is often regarded as the first science fiction novel. Few would regard it as Hard SF, yet it used contemporary scientific beliefs. At the time the novel was set, galvanism was a big thing. Reanimation was not thought to be impossible. The Royal Humane Society in England started with reanimation of the dead at its core, and its motto is a small spark may perhaps lie hid.
>At the root of the Hard-Soft divide is a kind of “I scienced more than you” attitude, which is unnecessary. There are fans of all flavours of SF and the last thing we need is to focus on divisions that were introduced in the late 1950s.
Do you agree with these sentiments? Curious to know what /lit/ thinks about this debate
