QTDDTOT, Literary Edition

[Anonymous No.9644310]

I'm thinking about the next book I'm going to read.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
Heart of Darkness
Are these considered literary fiction or genre fiction?

[Anonymous No.9644323]

>>9644310
Well I can tell you that you should start the first one or the last one because those two are shorter reads

[Anonymous No.9644332]

>>9644310
Read Conrad last; Literary Fiction

[Anonymous No.9644338]

>>9644310
They are all good, read in whatever order you want

[Anonymous No.9644371]

>in Barnes & Noble
>all Barnes & Noble classics are $5
>impulse buy 8 books
>realize that they're probably horrible translations
Should I return them?

[Anonymous No.9644657]

>>9644371
Take a little time to research what translations they are, research whether they are good translations. If not, return them

[Anonymous No.9644705]

What's a psued?

[Anonymous No.9644712]

What are the best places to publish a chapbook?

Want to get my foot in the door of poetry but I know I need some smaller works before I publish larger collections

[Anonymous No.9644721]

>>9644705
Pseudonym. It's a name an author will write and publish under rather than using their given name

[Anonymous No.9644938]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O65rJUJYwzg

[Anonymous No.9644964]

How do I write things that are funny?

[Anonymous No.9645194]

how do i expand my vocabulary? ive noticed, especially with older books, it can take me ages to read a single page because of looking up words. are there any good websites for this or should i just go through the dictionary and write down words

[Anonymous No.9645259]

Do you guys take the dust cover off your hard cover books? mine dust cover was somewhat damaged during an incident and was considering to just take them all off

[Anonymous No.9645261]

what is the point of reading

[Anonymous No.9645272]

How do you do one of this charts? I want to do 2017 version

[Anonymous No.9645365]

>>9644964
Set up an expectation and then subvert that expectation in an unexpected way.

[Anonymous No.9645370]

>>9645194
Read books that have a wide vocabulary, but not so wide so that you have to constantly be looking up words (try Dickens). Write down the words while reading and look them up afterwards.

[Anonymous No.9645382]

>>9644371
Paradise Lost isn't a translation

[Anonymous No.9646592]

>>9645259
I toss all of mine

[Anonymous No.9646749]

Femanon vocaroo ‘At Last’ by Elizabeth Akers Allen pls

[Anonymous No.9646800]

>>9644371
Return all but Les Mis, Siddhartha, and Paradise Lost. From experience those Barnes and Noble Russian ones probably use Garnett which is highly Anglicized, Smollett for Don Quixote is a translation from the 1700's, and the chances of it being a good Metamorphoses translation are next to none and is especially important because Ovid is a poet

[Anonymous No.9646802]

>>9644705
Someone who tries to express an opinion that they didn't personally come to or tries to be someone they're not, usually to give the impression of being more intelligent than they are

[Anonymous No.9646805]

Best secondary lit that explains and analyses Plato - partularly The Republic or trial and death of Socrates dialogues?

[Anonymous No.9646816]

What's a good Pynchon for a non native English speaker? Im reading GR with a little difficulty and since Ill be ordering a bunch o books in a few says I might as well get another one by him. I find the story really engaging, just a little over my head at times.

Also, Im gonna order The Man In the High Castel cause I liked the show, is it worth it? Are any other books by PKD good?

Im all eyes.

[Anonymous No.9646891]

>>9644705
pseud is short for psuedo meaning false/fake
basically a poseur

[Anonymous No.9647096]

>>9646749
C'mon

[Anonymous No.9647230]

>>9645272
>all that pleb
>no Raymond Carver
shiggity diggity cheeki breeki

[Anonymous No.9647231]

>>9644705
Short for pseudo-intellectual
>>9646891 etymologically

[Anonymous No.9648198]

if i want to learn spanish, italian, and german, which is best to start with? do any of them act as a sort of gateway to the others

[Anonymous No.9649314]

German first, because you already know English, dumb idiot. And after that one pick whichever cause youre not gonna make it anyway

[Anonymous No.9649345]

are there any significant works that deal with the origin of preference/inclination to make certain choices

[Anonymous No.9649809]

I'm about to read Crime and Punishment, translated by Constance Garnett. Is this an OK translation? It's the only version my local library had

[Anonymous No.9649821]

>>9645261

holy shit

[Anonymous No.9649885]

>>9649809
Garnett's fine, as long as you can get accustomed to her Victorian style

>>9649345
Bartelby the Scrivener, by Melville

>>9644371
The reason those editions are so cheap is that the texts and translations they use are public domain. The Russian titles are okay as long as the Dostos aren't Whishaw (which they probably aren't). If the Tolstoy is the Maude translation, then that's actually very good

[Anonymous No.9649924]

>>9649885
>>9649345
didn't say it, but I was hoping for non-fiction. still going to read this, thank you

[Nomad No.9650096]

>>9648198
I stared learning german by reading children's books. I then slowly built off of that.

[Anonymous No.9650120]

>>9649809
Garnett is perfectly fine for Dostoevsky. She's really the standard that every translator has to go up against in regards to those books.