/lit/ - Literature

What are other fellow canfags reading on this long weekend?
I made this to find something to read.

Hello let me introduce myself. I'm a 20 years old student studying Biology. When I was 9 I use to read Harry Potter books and that's when I started writing a small "book". Nothing really came out of it, wrote like 10 pages or so... In high school, I think I kind of lost hope when it came down to me and writing, grades were fine but not good. Vocabulary in my own language isn't that good, English vocabulary was actually really good when I was 11 comparing to other peers but now it's just .. normal. I really think I still got some imagination left in my head that wasn't lacking at all when I was little so I'd please ask for advice on how to begin with if I'd like to put my imagination down on a paper > write a book. I truly need to work on my vocabulary and probably start reading books, I'm not really talented but I've got plenty of imagination I guess.. Any help is appreciated but I know that writing a book is like climbing a very very high and rought mountain.

Are there any books that are like the book equivalent of the song holy wars the punishment due by megadeth

Evening, /lit/.

I'm not really well-read as I am trying to get back into the habit of reading, and most recently I've had to compose an essay about Robert Frost's life in relation to his body of work (no, I am not asking /lit/ to do my work for me. Just being honest). I've decided to do some preliminary research on Frost before creating my thesis, and found that he was what is considered a 'modernist', or so says poets.org. Their explanation about modernism seemed kind of vague, so I was wondering what your take on it is, /lit/.

Was modernism really just the 20th century rejection of old literary/artistic traditions, and the innovation of new techniques? Don't artists continuously do the same thing in the present? What would be the difference between post-modernism and modernism be then?

Perhaps it'll make a bit more sense. Might as well as you guys as well: April is National Poetry Month. Are the poets of /lit/ doing anything special to celebrate it? I'm thinking of going through Frost's poems a bit more, as I feel terrible that I'll be doing a haphazard job on this essay about such a prominent writer.

What term describes the phenomenon of being born into a world where society gives us safe access to people and supportive access to technology

Life's nature is to survive and reproduce, those are our two main primal instincts

Survival warns itself through pain and fear, things that prevent us from death and keep us safe from dying. Reproduction is a means of avoiding death through offspring, through creating life we palliate our own deaths

Is nature fearful in some way of death? Why does the nature of life fight this vain battle against death?

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good day lit

long story short
>12 - "diagnosed" with 147 IQ
>14 - was all over nihilism, i havent saw any purpose in anything
>15 - started hating every human being, came to a theory that every one is using you for their own reasons (my mom used me to fullfill the instinct that was given to her from mother nature) - you can imagine what happened next, i wanted to leave everything and go fucking away from this shit world
>16 - i understood that i gotta do something first if i want to leave this world and live a happy life
>17 - got taught into business by my dad, tried doing it on my own, suceed a lot, i was finishing high school
>18 - decided not to go to college, started really getting into the business, ive visited 7 asian countries when i was at this age
>21 - already well known name in my home country, gave interviews to a lot of magazines
>25 - Top 5000 wealthiest men in my country


Now back to the real reason why i wanted money.
I will be leaving all that i made here to the people that will take care of it.
I will be moving to Canada into the mountains near Alberta with my wife

I want you to point me out the books that i should read(in your opinion)
Just a brief explanation of what i have read with the very little spare time that ive had throughout my busy and to this moment unfullfiled life - stoicism - mostly M. Aurelius, some Rand novels, i think A. Shrugged, Aristotle and obviously specific literature that i need to read for the business part.

I will be taking maybe 500 books there, i want to finally have a good time for the next few years atleast.


Please leave any hateful responses to yourself, they will be ignored.
I only want you to express your opinion and i only want to hear that part of your opinion, that might be helpful to me in any spectrum of my future.

pic is obv unrelated

Hey, I'm looking for help finding a story. All I can remember is at the end the narrator enters the scene and gives the main character free will. Maybe a James Joyce novel?

Thanks

How much of a book of poetry do you remember? Lets exclude canonical poetry where its saturated the literary landscape.

I'm rereading an anthology that I read a few years ago and apart from a phrase or two that give me vague a sense of deja vu, I can hardly remember anything.

And now that I think about it, I don't remember poetry in the same way I can remember a piece of fiction or non-fiction that have salient characteristics you can grapple on to: plot, theme, character. Poetry is transient, intangible and all I'm left with is barely a shadow of a feeling even though there exists a form to grapple onto, albeit one that is entirely dependent on the language used to create it.

Is this a function/limitation of poetry? Its aural nature allows one to experience it in the moment but not remember the poetry that illicit such a reaction save a vague outline of the experience?

Lots of poets recommend memorizing poetry, is this them an attempt to stave off the ephemerality of poetry? The only way for poetry to stick with you is to digest it whole and then vomit it out, complete and untarnished, when needed? What is the point of that and what makes it different from memorizing pithy aphorisms and quotations to garnish a conversation?

Any advice for writing fight scenes? I've read tons of different advice from different sources, but every single one of them seems to contradict each other, so I don't know which one I should pick.

I need you guys to help me remember a book. It was about a Dystopia Novel set in America, in which radical Christians had taken over and had established a theocracy of sorts. The main character is a woman and I believe the plot is about her servicing a General. Another thing is how the group that took over America were called the Sons of _____. I don't remember what exactly but that should help.

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The tone did seem familiar (I'm Ross, the third year who messaged you). Anyway, as I said, proof enough for me.

How can you write fiction that acts as a social commentary and brings up recurring faults in humanity without looking like a pretentious/edgy tryhard?

Or rather, what should I avoid when writing something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hR4C4iMe3E&list=PLKaMVzmGcqBIxU1cT3-BnRB8IIjsPtwoS

I need to stop browsing this board while going through cigarette withdrawals. You fuckers make me angry.

What do you guys think of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy? I'm making way through The Hamlet right now and it's just starting to get damn good. The style is a little more long-winded than what I'm used to from the guy, but it's beautiful in its own way, and the depth of characterization in the novel seems to rival Absalom. Are the other two books as good? Apart from the big four, I've heard these three are the best of his stuff.

Also, has anyone read Sanctuary or Sartoris? What did you think?

can someone find me a PDF of this play?
"This is Not what I Ordered: A Play in Several Courses
By Stephen Fife"
Can't find one anywhere
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I'm on this path
this path of an unsolvable crisis
its not want I hope for
but I want to get there
get there quick, soon
skip out these times of worry
these times of hate

German literature sucks.
I am from Namibia and had to read much of it, but it really sucks. It is something of sterile and brainily egocentric....Dunno...
Who agrees with me?

Sup /lit,

What are your favorite "whodunnit" books/authors?

/lit/ what's your preferred PC ereader?

I've been using the nook PC software because of its unobtrusive interface, but it's shit for organizing the ebooks I have and it only reads epubs, no .mobi files or .txt.

Calibre is awful, I don't even use it for converting ebooks, even though people constantly recommend it.

how do you view someone who doesn't enjoy reading, /lit/?

/lit/, what are some good adventure books? I don't care if they are fantasy or whatever, I just want to read about a grand adventure featuring a group of individually characterized companions. Also I have already read The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.

As often-times the too resplendent sun
Hurries the pallid and reluctant moon
Back to her sombre cave, ere she hath won
A single ballad from the nightingale,
So doth thy Beauty make my lips to fail,
And all my sweetest singing out of tune.

And as at dawn across the level mead
On wings impetuous some wind will come,
And with its too harsh kisses break the reed
Which was its only instrument of song,
So my too stormy passions work me wrong,
And for excess of Love my Love is dumb.

But surely unto Thee mine eyes did show
Why I am silent, and my lute unstrung;
Else it were better we should part, and go,
Thou to some lips of sweeter melody,
And I to nurse the barren memory
Of unkissed kisses, and songs never sung.

Silentium Amoris
Oscar Wilde