/lit/ - Literature

>>1378275
I'm not sure who you're accusing of materialism or even what you mean to imply by such a denunciation, as it were. Expand?

Only that I need to read it, I thoroughly enjoyed A Brief History of Time.

>>1378285
I'm totally copying and saving this. It's going to come in handy again.

>>1378272
>>1378212
I just finished The Count earlier today. I didn't like how Danglars got off easy, and I also didn't like the contrived take-a-pill-that-makes-you-look-like-you-are-dead device, which has been used everywhere from Romeo and Juliet to the Wolverine film. And the circumstances in R+J were remarkably similar.
I just started on Life and Fate. It felt good to understand the first little bit of french in the book - I couldn't do that when I read War and Peace.

I can't believe you pay a monthly fee to play a video game.

>>1378227
I like writing with pen and paper as well. I knew a guy, though, who liked writing with his keyboard better because he said it engaged both sides of your brain, where a right-hander was thinking predominately with his left brain when writing with a pen.

My flannel is WAAAAAAAY more flannel than that.
And I can't see from here but I bet my jeans have more holes than his.

>>1378204
Speaking of Solzhenitsyn, you have read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, right?

>>1378071
>>1378081
can't find my brofist.jpg

>>1378071

This thread has been making me nauseous all day long, and then
>fox news contributer
and I stopped reading.
epic troll potential in here, i know it and i'm still getting sucked into it

>>1377980
ooh yeah, that one makes me cringe. i have a friend who uses this one and
>>1377957
this one all the time.

colloquialism

>>1377891
Late troll

>>1377718
Newfag detected

I finally got a copy of Life and Fate today. Not a moment too soon, because I finished The Count of Monte Cristo this morning.

Esperanto or Klingon.

Funny you should mention that, I'm on the last 100 or so pages of this book right now, same 2001 Penguin Classic edition translated by Buss. This is my first reading of the book, so I don't have another translator to compare it to, but I've noticed a few editorial mistakes (are where it should be is) as well as a couple typos. No biggie. I'm thoroughly enjoying it anyways. A couple of words I've had to look up in the dictionary. The last one was "cynosure."

>>1374846
That may have been a good move - War and Peace was, I believe, the first Tolstoy I read. I was quite taken by it. I think about it often. Make sure, if your version has it, that you read his small exposition on historicity at the end of the book.

>>1374800
>>1374819

Capsguy have you never read War and Peace before? Really?

I'm about to finish The Count of Monte Cristo tonight. Maybe I'll pick up Les Miserables as my next fiction. I also mean to read War and Peace again, but I'm going to buy the newest translation before I do that. As long as I'm reading it a second time, I might as well see if a different version has something else to offer.

>>1374599
This feels like a confessional thread all the sudden.
I didn't like The Metamorphosis.

Have you read any other Steinbeck? East of Eden might not be the best place to start, but I'm pretty sure it's my favorite work by him.
the ending to Grapes of Wrath sucked

inb4 bell jar

>>1374392
I'm in the US midwest.
still in the sticks

Write a page a day even if you don't feel like it. Always carry something to write with and on. If you don't feel like you're writing the right stuff for what you are working on, then start working on something else. It's okay to have more than one writing project at a time.