/lit/ - Literature

>Professor replied to my graded Essay submission with smiley faces and emoticons in an email.

Who ever does it should look at the threads from the last years, because those OPs seemed really disappointed with their method and results, and most didnt like any of the charts.

Imo:
>1. make a goodle doc with 5-1 (5 points is highest) ranking for fiction(including poetry and drama ofc, Bible, Daoism, Hinuism, etc probably as well) and then non-fiction 3-1 (but /lit/ related, so philosophy, psychology, sociology, no physics and such)
>2. allow yourself to make choices to weed out memes: no harry potter, hunger games, 50 shades, Song of ice and Fire, (Guenon?), mein kampf (in the fiction part)
>3. sample at least twice during the week and only for as long as the thread is alive
>4. combine the two based on the points they got from highest to lowest
>5. let others help you pick the best covers for the chart

>(6. ignore the seething faggots and trannies who will bitch at you. otherwise it is all work and no fun which would make you a dull boy)

Is there a name for a book that was a drag reading it, where many times I had to pick up mid chapter again, and eventhough there were many palpable satisfying parts while reading it, the true greatness of the work only gets felt After one has finished reading it.
Because that is definetly what The Pale King was like. Now looking back I would recommend it to some, but while I was reading it I would have hesitated to do so. Similar experiences I had with Alfred Döblin - The three Leaps of Wang Lun, Dante - Divine Comedy, Hesse - Glass bead game.
This is rare though; some where I might expect such to occur, such as Moby Dick, Tolstoi, it did not.

>>10763546

>and let anons smash your dreams and usher in a state of depression in your life.

Are you guys really that anxious about having your 0th-draft notebook scribblings criticized?

This is why your work sucks. You're a bunch of low self-esteem young people who come to fiction to be Taken Seriously and gain respect. You write out of a sense of ego rather than a joy for writing.

>>10552311

I agree, art isn't supposed to be studied, it's supposed to be appreciated. Appreciation of art is the only recreation fit for someone who lives a life of the mind- and certainly not making dull troll posts on an indonesian recipe-swapping message board.

tl;dr: gb2 /sci/ you fucking morlock, have a sage for ur dumb thread

>>10182500

>one person's writing can be "more human" than another's
>one feeling can be "more human" than another

What did he mean by this?

Yeah. Man's gotta ride this snake to the end. It's moving too fast now to safely get off.

>>9997066
>And of course, Kevin Smith.

>>9937603
>no you

>>9922780
*secular not quasi religious my b

>>9703384
>19
>I have a cyst on my pituitary gland that prevents my body from synthesizing it's own growth hormone
>Lolita

I learned recently about a video-game term that teenagers these days throw around: "overpowered," or "OP" for short. If a character type in a competitive video game is inordinately more powerful than the others, then it is "overpowered"; the game as a result is deemed "unbalanced," and fans will complain on forums that the developers have delivered to them a swift "slap in the face." It's an interesting metaphor. Life, of course, is no game, and it's a truism that it isn't fair. But every once in a while we get a striking reminder of how unevenly Mother Nature distributes her gifts. Take the literary world for instance. By any measure, David Foster Wallace, the author of the acclaimed novel Infinite Jest, was overpowered. If he were a class in a role-playing game, then you wouldn't hear the end of the complaining. When it came to the writing of fiction, Wallace blew his competitors—historical and contemporary both—out of the water. To borrow another term from video gaming, it's fair to say that he "owned" them. When Infinite Jest hit book stores in February 1996, the title's two words were in the mouth of every serious reader in America; every living writer, however, was faced with a different pair of words: "Game Over."

>>9656313

A lot of taste depends on knowing what's overdone as a topic. Drugs as an edgy lit topic was Burrough's thing. Trainspotting was only memorable as a movie- the novel was a re-tread. Drugs were never the point of Fear and Loathing.

Drugs are always a great starting point for new writers with poor imaginations and a poor grasp of drama and tension. Very few writers can spin a career out of having bad ideas and a weak understanding of people (pic related), and he needed a marketing blitz and an endowment to put him on the map.

I didn't even read what you wrote, btw. Just write about something else, please

>>9631552

Which do you like better, academic-sounding jargon babbling Dave, or inane platitude Dave?

>>9605539

>nuh-uh you're wrong!

Lots to think about here, thanks. Great discussion.

I could blame 4chan for making me read this, but I have no one to blame but myself. I wondered what all the memes were about and gave it a shot.
what I found out was, it's a meme for a reason.
it's a book about riding horses. it's about spitting. maybe occasionally killing some injins and taking their hair. then it's about getting wasted and partying.
3 quartets of the book is just about scenery and riding horses. they rode on and on and on and spat and ate some tortillas and spat and rode on and said ye.
corncob describes a lot of nice Vistas that I can't imagine because I'm not a pleb. so basically I could have skipped to the last 70 pages or so when the unkillable outlaw band somehow gets ambushed and all killed. yay it's not boring anymore. blah blah skip to a few years later. oh yeah the judge. he's some guy that's all smart and bad and stuff. well him and some kid meet up again. this is where corncob tortillas YeCarthy let's you chose the ending. it's like a puck your own adventure. wtf happened. who knows. this is what I think happened. I fucking hope you read this book or this review isn't for you. well some shit goes down with a bear and some girl and I think the kid rapes the girl, fuck I don't even know I wasn't really paying attention. well the judge don't like that to much and he challenges the kid to a game of blackjack. the kid bets all his chips on red and loses. he gets pretty pissed so he flips the chess board and pieces go flying everywhere and one actually hits the judge. well the judge he don't like that to much. he stands up and yells habeeb it and socks the kid right in his keister. the kid yells out twinkiehouse and the judge pulls down the kids pants and sticks his flaccid penor in the kids bum. the judge thinks of Margaret thatcher naked and gets a huge boner. like a 6 foot boner and the kid explodes. that's when some dude walks in and is all like "woah fuck this shit I'm out of here".
then there's some blurb about some other shit on the last page that flew over my head cuz I'm retard.
so yeah if you like riding horses and actually subvocalize and picture shit in your head this book might be for you. I thought it was a right snore fest. fuck you /lit for memeing into reading this. I got tortilla'd and I'm a stupid corncobber fuck

>>9456074
>Did he get the refrence, or not?

It's worth reading the first 100 pages so you can understand how bad it is.

>>9387158

Uh... isn't an artist's job basically self-expression? Isn't that what artists are supposed to be really good at?

Well, I guess there's just so much inbent fractals inside DFW that IJ is the best he could do.

>>9345491
Some assume that the human way of viewing things is the correct way of viewing things (or that there even is a correct way of viewing things). Determinism is a human way of viewing the world. It could be that there is a realm outside of determinism, but we would likely not be able to understand it because we are structured to see things as cause and effect.

Honestly I'm just parroting Nietzsche. If you want a rousing argument against determinism then I suggest that you read Will to Power.

>>9319622

Itt post books /lits not smart enough to read. I'll start.

J R by William Gaddis

Itt: post book /lits not smart enough to read. I'll start.

J R by William Gaddis