/lit/ - Literature

>>2159860
I have a cheap fake-leather journal that takes 200-some-odd pages of paper at a time.

I put story ideas down, publishers, dates. But mostly story ideas. Don't use it much anymore since I've begun to write more and more on the computer.

>>2057162
Considering the books practical value lies in getting you to think like a General, and to focus on war as a CONCEPT... well, I'd say you are missing the point.
Besides, it was written by a Chinese adviser during the Three Kingdoms era, of COURSE he won't spell it out to you clear as day. Considering the book has been translated who knows how many times, some of the meaning has no doubt been lost.
Regardless, the book does have practical value. And considering how widely it is used, and who uses it, I think you may be wrong.

>>2057148
The Art of War was never meant to be taken literally.
It's not like you can read the AoW once, call it a day, and understand how to win a battle.
The point behind the book is to get you into the correct mind-set, and to think about war the correct way.
It took the Chinese all of three fucking seconds to realize that.

Karl May, guy was fucking HUGE in Germany. And he still is. I can see why.
The guy wrote fucking Westerns, involving Indians.
If you want to read some proper German literature, read some Karl May.

Why do none of you people enjoy the Dream-Quest stories? Sure it can be a little aggravating at times, but they reveal some of the greatest places his imagination could dream up.

That said, I am shocked he sat down and wrote Dream-Quest, it seems very... un-pulpy, might be the best word for it.

You guys really slipped in quality here.
What happened to the editor you picked up last issue?

>>1900628
True, but it doesn't hurt to see the other side of the spectrum.

Ya know what she should pick up? Dracula, it's a pretty good book, and it involves vampires. Seems like it would be right up her alley.

Truth be told, most editors take forever to reject a story. I know it took a magazine took three months to reject a story ten pages long.

So what did you write, OP?

>>1845434
If Minecraft had Russians hunting dinosaurs and fighting giant ants, then yes, yes it is. Oh and the wooly mammoths. Which they hunt. And the Sabertoothed Tiger, which they scare off. Although the scientific explanation given is so ridiculously over-the-top, I'm surprised the book wasn't turned into a bad 50's movie. Despite this, the author actually got letters from people in Russia asking if Plutonia (the name for the mini-Earth inside the Earth) was real.

>>1845414
Obruchev's novel, Plutonia, the one that got me hooked on him? Was his attempt at a more "scientifically correct" version of Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. It's quite good. If... well, a little scientifically inaccurate.

As for August Derleth, his most famous Lovecraftian tale is The Lurker at the Threshold. So try to look for that story first.

1. HP Lovecraft
2. Robert E. Howard
3. August Derleth
4. Johnathon Stroud
5. Vladamir Obruchev

/lit/ I feel this is a good time as any to ask you a simple question: What genre of fantasy do you like the most? For me personally I enjoy sword-and-sorcery like Conan. But HPL's weird fantasy is good too.

A product of his time. Writing was pretty good, the settings he wrote were some of the most detailed that can be found. Especially in regards to the gods, books, and cults.

I'd say that he is one of my favorite writers, right behind Robert E. Howard.

I'm going to make a strange decision and say you should do the Bartimaeus trilogy by Johnathan Stroud. It's got some good characters, although the third book is kinda meh in my eyes.

Once again, I will put out the question to the rest of /lit/: Would you /lit/izens be willing to read a story of heroic fantasy/sword-and-sorcery by an amateur writer? It wouldn't be a Conan rip-off, although I would intend for the main character to be recurring.

>>1821334
Sir, I would like to begin by saying: thank you for making this so much better. Quick question though, how much editing experience do you have? Not a criticism, just wondering.

>>1818742
I said nerds, not a pair of psychopaths who got their hands on automatic weapons. Although in retrospect I should have seen that coming.

>>1818719
Possible, but highly unlikely.
There are quite a few people like me, but almost none of them are me, if you understand that.

>>1818726
I meant in real life, although even then I'm probably not unique, but my friends all think me as being exceptionally weird for knowing just what sort of a gun uses .38 caliber bullet. It's a revolver.

I dislike being called a "nerd", but that's what most people call me.

Really, how many nerds work out every day? How many nerds enjoy weaponry, who maintain their own guns, and shoots them for fun?

Anyways. I read stuff that I find interesting, mostly history books and the like. Occasionally I read some of the "classics", but I mostly enjoy stuff like the history of the last Khan of Mongolia being a Russian noble. Ya know, the quirky stuff that nobody else cares about to learn.

>>1803019
Who exactly is the AT guy? I've seen a lot of tripfags/namefags in my time around here. Never you seen before, though.

>>1803017
Ah, excellent, nothing changes then.
And if all else fails I'll just get a degree in paleontology. There's no job security, no pay, but it would be damn good fun while it lasted.

>>1802991
The only part of my job that has me worried? The lack of good internet. That and I highly suspect the miners will not be good conversationalists.

>>1802956
I'm wearing a North Face right now actually. And I have nothing wrong with pencil-pushers, but I could never be one. My father's a pencil-pusher in upper management, my mother's a pencil-pusher... and I hate it.

>>1802960
Well, I'll try to not be one. I will be going to Graduate School after I'm done with my Undergrad work. So hopefully the time/energy expended there will allow me to skip being a cubicle monkey. And if worse comes to worse, I'll simply be the guy that bosses around interns all day.

>>1802963
Not even a bit jealous. My one regret is that I won't remember this conversation even happening in seven years, so I will never have the chance to prove /lit/ wrong.

>>1802936
Replace laborer with "guy who finds out where the stuff is, and tells others to get it out for him" then yes, I am a laborer.

>>1802920
Perhaps not, but my job is going to involve going all around the world looking for this stuff. Which is a damn side better then the pencil-pushing fucks I have to put up with now.