/lit/ - Literature

This would be my image for "what I got" with Count Zero.

Yeah, but which room?

Fine, here's an old account from my good old Ruroken days: >cross_scars@hotmail.com

Add if you want.

I remember more than one /lit/ chatrooms. Some were good but they died pretty quickly, unfortunately.

Don't mind trying again.

Just work out what direction you want to go in OP. That's the most important thing I've learnt from my chronic procrastination (and sorta lack of ambition).

As I mentioned above, I finished my MA three years ago and didn't know what I wanted to do afterwards. I've spent the majority of the time since working in a bookstore as that was the first thing that came along. A lot of good came out of that and, although I never considered that being any sort of a future, I do wish I had forced myself to look at a career path sooner.

Get that sorted, work towards it in whatever way you can (internships, unpaid voluntary experience, whatever), and you'll do fine. Might not get there straight away but it'll happen.

>>849129

I think that there's more than you realise (I've found a fair amount in short story anthologies) but a lot of it's crap and so it doesn't get any attention (mercifully).

sage and hidden

>>849024

I am perfectly well aware of that, but he's hardly in the league of Marquez and co. is he? His books aren't touted as among the best things ever written, are they?

>>848998

Well, I'm afraid I don't think so. Plus, it ends on a cliffhanger so you'll need TLF at the ready.

>>848990

What? He might not be a tad annoyed that some authors write some outlandish stuff and get literary praise lavished on them, whilst he's pigeon holed as genre and left on the sidelines?

Well, OP, I got my MA in History a few years ago. I understand a lot of what you're thinking. Yeah, these sorts of Arts degrees aren't the most useful career-wise, but then we don't choose to do them because we think they'll set us up for great jobs, do we.

Don't worry though, there are all sorts of jobs you can do. Plenty of employers don't care what your degree is, so long as you have one. There's a tonne of jobs out there for you to do, which you probably don't even know yet. Hunt around and you'll come across something no problem. I'd have thought your translation experience (and the fact you obviously know more than one language) should be a real help.

Never lose hope!

Jeez, anyone who thinks magical realism is like fantasy obviously hasn't read much magical realism.

Makes me think these guys - >>848934 - must just be really butt hurt.

>>848932

Personally, The Unconsoled by Ishiguro.

Like Discworld; don't dare watch those horrid Sky adaptations.

Ignore the Chrestomanci series altogether because they're rubbish and go read a better DWJ book, like Howl's Moving Castle (ignore the film, it's really good).

Turgenev

Alas! I cannot.... rise to the occasion. When put to the test it appears that real love is an emotion quite unlike the kind I used to imagine. I must left thee here, in these wilds with so many memories, but none worth remembering. Before me a long, long road and nowhere to make for. I do not even want to set out.

>>848575

>About 25
Yeah, near enough.

>College Student
No, but I do think about going back and doing a PhD or some other course.

>Male
Uh huh.

>You don't talk that much.
Depends a lot on the company I'm in.

Love Faber Poetry's minimalist covers.

The bookshelf nearest to me is full of my art / graphic design books -

NiceToMeetYouToo: Visual Greetings From Business Cards To Identity Packages - Author N/A

North Korea - Philippe Chancel

Love Hotels - Misty Keasler

Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence, 1620-1800 - Michael Snoodin & Nigel Llewellyn (eds.)

Tragic Kingdom: The Art of Camille Rose Garcia - Author N/A

Eh, I'm just bitter right now. Read almost half of Underworld and had to give it up the other day.

I don't care if there are four pages worth of quotes from esteemed authors and publications praising it as the greatest novel of the last thirty years - it still bored the fuck out of me.

It's books like that that make me retreat into genre for a while.

Penguin modern classics are okay, cover-wise. There are plenty that are worse out there.

Don't worry, you're just seeing through the literary twaddle.

Meh, I was thought /lit/ was always good to sci-fi and fantasy. How many fricking GRRM / ASoIaF threads do we need? And the SF / F recommendation images were among the first done, as I recall.