/lit/ - Literature

Wouldn't a prequel to Fahrenehit 451 be great?

The main character would be young captain Beatty,
and the plot revolves around his love of books and how that went away after his life crumbled apart in his hands and when he turned to books they offered no comfort anymore.

I don't know what you expect. It's a casual reader's book. Do you expect people to read on the same level that /lit/ claims to be on?
Also:
>Judging a book that you haven't read.

>>2789217
Write what feels right. If you force yourself to write a novel that is not what you want to it be, it will be shit.

>Number of books read
Around eight to a hundred.
And this question brings up something important. Any fucker who actually counts every book he read is a tryhard, an idiot, or has way too much time on their hands.
>Age
I'll admit it, 18
>Favorite Author
Hemingway

>>2775752
>Screams "troll" and throws fit
>Claims that we're the only childish ones
You are on 4chan, so you should expect to surrounded by people as mature as you.
And how did the thread "Go to shit" when it started with a shit OP about a shit author.
Just delete this farce of a thread.

>>2775510
I finished half of that book. "The Music of Erik Zahn" and "The Whisper in the Darkness" were two of the most horrifying things I've ever read.

>>2775675
No shit, every American book cover is a fucking mess.

>>2775648
>>2775648
>Liberal Arts

>Terry Goodkind
>Not the Any Rand of Middle-Earth
Seriously, OP, get some fucking standards. And stop fueling your own delusions. I guess in your fantasy world Terry Goodkind is "deep" and a "good author", but this is reality . . . or as close to 4chan can get to reality.
I read tons of fucking fantasy, too much, but at least I don't delude myself by saying it's deep
>>2775600
>Implying 4chan isn't all of those.
Oh great dubs-lord, we know ye art the greatest.
>>2775611
>Bachelor's at nineteen
That's probably when you dropped out of community college.

>>2774126
>H.P. Lovecraft
>On the Road
Mah nigga.
>that feel when there will never be a good book written with elements of both.

I have seven books "opened", by which I mean I've read pages from them. Though, I usually actively read three at a time, OP. If you can handle Fyodor (which I'm far too lazy and unpretentious to do), then yeah, you'll be fine. You won't lose track of the story.
But there is a difference. Along with my "literary" books, I read fantasy, which isn't that hard to keep up with and doesn't need to be analyzed.
Tl;dr, you can, just not too many at a time.

Breakfast of Champions was pretty cool, in my opinion. A bit of a mind-fuck towards the end, but I always find Kilgore Trout's POV's to be hilarious, particularly his in-universe works.

>>2769407
All urban fantasy is awful, you twat. But Dresden Files is the best the whole genre has.

>>2768284
>Epic Fantasy
Surprisingly good list.
>Urban Fantasy
>Gaiman
Faggot shit
>Dresden Files
WHERE THE FUCK IS IT? Dresden Files is the quintessential urban fantasy.

>>2765855
Then you made a great thread, I hope you're happy about that and your dubs.

>Walk three miles from my house to Forest Park in St. Louis so I can read my new books.
>Yesterday, at noon, when it topped off at 105 degrees.
>Be fat, walking three miles, I swore I smelled bacon cooking.

>Every book I hate
At least they're reading something and I know there are other literate people in the world.

Why the fuck do you care what people read, OP? Are you so insecure that you have to insult and demean just to make yourself feel a little better? Stop wasting your time whining over this when you can't do anything about it.
Also, why would you think of 4chan IRL? And this doesn't make a great thread, it's an awful one.

>>2764205
(Same guy, just forgot my stupid trip)
Well, calling myself a "beta" is a lot simpler than mapping out my characteristics. It's a pretty straightforward thing that people read and say "Oh, I know what he is".
But, you are right. Humans can't be separated into two categories, or any for that matter.

>>2760431
So we agree?
Purple prose is a form of bad writing, not THE form of bad writing.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

>>2760387
>Define
Complex syntax and redundant usage of adverbs, descriptive verbs, archaic words in LIBERAL DOSAGES. I'm not saying it's bad to be descriptive, but there is a line that, when crossed, the writer has walked into the territory of literary masturbation. All I'm saying is that perfect niche for a writer's prose is somewhere in the middle. The paradigm of prose, in my opinion, can be summed as "descriptive when necessary".
>improvisational grammar
Like Finnegan's Wake? That is essentially literary masturbation. The only sense I can find in improvisational grammar is for the author to have fun and fuck with the reader.

>>2760375
"Redundant" and "pointless" perfectly sum up what is commonly referred to as "Purple Prose". If you don't think so, you're simply an idiot or you've just grown up reading books with a POINTLESS style of writing and have grown complacent.

>>2760351
In my opinion (I'm not him, obviously), eloquent, flowery prose need to be used in moderation. Too little and the writing is dull and bland. But with too much, you have these massive, redundant sentences that are gratuitous and pointless. Most authors, particularly in fantasy because the lack of attention to prose, are to one extreme or the other. The best writers find a decent middle ground that leans to one side or the other.

People like Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard can do full-on purpose prose well, but that's only because they did it in small doses. This is the same reason why the Scarlet Letter is shit, but Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories are far better.
>>2760361
Fitzgerald had a verbose style, not a complex style.

>>2760331
>>2760331
Huge Cyberpunk fan right here. What's it about? Sauce or gtfo.