/lit/ - Literature

>>2483127
>/lit/ being unreasonable
how am I not surprised

>LAST READ
The Walmart Effect

>CURRENTLY READING
Homage to Catalonia

>WILL READ
Notes From the Underground
Stranger in a Strange Land
Roadside Picnic

>>1586781

FUCK YES THE GOOD EARTH

One of my all time favorites for sure.

Hey lit, do you have any suggestions for someone who wants to write horror novels? I feel like I never get the pacing right for that feeling of real dread.

Hey /lit/
I got a question that has been bugging me forever:
The thing is, I'm really anal about my books and I tend to buy them in the best condition and best edition possible so they last a long time. When buying classics, this is really hard since I got no clue which edition is the best to buy the books in.

I need several things from an edition to be able to fully analyze a work:
- Decent introduction/preface (something to introduce the work and set it in a historical context and the context of the author's life)
- Textual notes (like footnotes or endnotes)
- Explanatory notes (like anything else that might expand on the themes/notions in the book)
- Supplements (misc. notes, documents etc. that put the work in context)
- Preferentially, I'd like it to be hard-cover so it lasts longer; I underline and write in my books as I read through them and its not so easy to just buy another copy to replace the last

Excluding foreign works (which have the added annoyance of translation versions to work out), which of the following "lines" of classic literature is best to buy books in?
- Barnes and Noble Classics
- Penguin Classics (the one with the black bar on the bottom of the front cover)
- Signet Classics
- Everyman Library
- Penguin Classics with the hard-cover design
- Oxford Classics
- Vintage Classics

Like I said, let's ignore translations and Shakespeare too (since I assume the best edition will be the Oxford editions). I like to have a uniform set so I'm basically looking for one good edition to devote myself to; price is not really significant since they're all within a few dollars range of one another.

"The decay begins at birth. As the Thanians grow they begin to show less and less of their humanity. The land, water and air of all of the region is forever ruined. As such, those that occupy the land must artificially adapt. Their first artificial part is attached at the age of 13. From then on they only grow more invasive and intricate, lest they die at the age of 25."

>>446231
that guy was damn good

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