>>24794394Le feu follet
ITT: Books that made you drop a series.I'll start.
>>24794037>at some point he killed my favorite character for literally no reason other than "lol fuck you no happy endings"Truly Game of Thrones has ruined literature.
>>24794040bro, it was so fucking infuriating. the character's entire arc was finished, his story was done, and there was already a perfectly good way for him to make his exit from the story and ride off into the sunset. and then the author literally has a mother-fucker, no joke, magically teleport behind him and stab him in the back. for no fucking reason at all. i was so fucking pissed i'm still fucking chapped by that shit like a decade later whenever i think about it.
>>24794048That's actually similar to why I dropped the book in OP. For the first book the main character is tormented by his bitchy ex wife who publicly humiliated him via cheating on him, and takes every chance to rub his face in it. He's extremely bitter and hurt and refuses to trust women again after that.Until he meets a love interest. She slowly convinces him to let her in. And they're happy. Then come the second book and the bitch randomly cheats out of nowhere, and the book's moral about that dumb sub plot is "shit happens". Like fuck you, book, I read to escape random bullshit misfortune.
>>24794036>that faggot author had to keep inserting cuckoldryWhy are burgers like this? The book is going well and out of nowhere they shoehorn cuckoldry
>>24795608It’s a French and Russian convention
Who is this shit even for?It's for kids but it has swearing in it? Wow so edgy.
Why is reddit's favorite Shakespearean character Hamlet, but 4chan's is Falstaff?
>>24794013Where did you see a performance of Welles' Voodoo Macbeth?
>>24794032Photos and descriptions supply all I need to know if a performance is dogshit.
I'm actually about to reread Macbeth for the first time in a while. I managed to memorize Tomorrow And Tomorrrow And Tomorrow, too, though I suppose that's not as much of an accomplishment since it's such a short speech.
>>24790472>At breakfast R. mentions the four most original characters literature has given the world: Hamlet, Falstaff, Don Quixote, and Sancho.>He reads Hume and is very taken with Henry V, intends to look at Shakespeare again to find out why we find him so unsympathetic there. He thinks it may be because of our feelings for the “genius” Falstaff.
>>24795630I guess I'm not big-brained enough to get the fawning over Falstaff, especially versus Hal, because Hal/Henry to me was always the best character of the Henriad, and I love him in Henry V. I love his aggression and drive to succeed, and his cleverness in hiding his true nature.I honestly identify a lot with Hal. I don't really get "literally me" with characters I read about, it's not typically my thing, but I confess I do see a lot of myself in Hal.
Name a bigger failure. Go on, I'll wait.
>>24795539>Hemingway>goodthis fag never read Hemingway
>>24795545>hemingway>badthis fag never read Hilary Mantel
>>24795541man shut the fuck up
>>24795556>Hilary Mantellooked like Gollum
>>24795622>he bases the literary gods on their visual appearanceembarrassing
Gay fiction that isn't shallow yaoi fir straight women? Something thst actually speaks a little to the male condition?
>>24794160I will add Lima's work to my chart
>>24794107>Something thst actually speaks a little to the male condition?Gotta hit up the lesbians for that
>>24794239That's just you, isn't it anon?
Symposium
>>24794118neat
Were dead baby tree and the corpse sodomy REALLY necessary?
>>24792817You can't have much of an imagination if this sort of shock schlock is what you think of when you think of the depths of depravity.
>When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.Woah...
>>24792767Read The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens. McCarthy attempts to portray the brutality and horror of this time period, but it pales in comparison to the realities. The Comanche and Apache in particular were especially heinous in their treatment of captives and combatants.
>>24794685drop it and pick up The Crossing insteadit's more like what you think you want
>>24792767when I first read the comanche attack, i thought okay this is an exaggeration right? Apparently he toned it down. War use to be genocide looting rape and a little torture for shits and giggles.
How does one become a successful writer in current year if literacy rates are plummeting and only romanceslop sells?
>>24794455its two things, if you think you are successful/famous enough to take it to the next level you write a book. if you write a book without having any fame or success you wont become famous or successfulthis guy belongs in the first camp, most authors belong to the secondlook at a list of bestsellers in todays day, youll notice most are books written by already successful people with the rest being either industry plants or slop written by someone that won the literary lottery
>>24794063what is his book about? title?
>>24794063Make a Visual Novel.>but the visuals!Invest some money unto an artist. Don't fall for the AI trap (unless you are making porn)
>>24794455>>24795134He started an instagram 3 years ago where he basically lambasts modern architecture/art and got a million followers from it. he stole our bit and got rich from it
>>24794063Literacy rates aren't plummeting and romantasy doing well is just a trend, like cozy mysteries or erotica or doorstopper fantasyif you don't want to follow a trend than don't lol. it's not hard. a trend means it's doing better than average or expected, it doesn't mean it's the only way to be successful. in fact there are plenty of opportunities during a trend to capture the people tired of it, or to get on board a new trend that fits more what you're hoping to do.just do what you're good at. the advice has been the same since time immemorial.
Hey /lit/, I'm a /mu/fag who's listened to a lot of stuff that's either influenced or been influenced by the beat generation, should i actually get into these writings, or is it just incoherent meme shit?
>>24795261writing is downstream yet your proof lies in... nietzsche and schopenhauer.robert graves said a poet cannot escape into mere rhythmic sound; there is always the dead load of sense to drag about with him. in poetry, everything is relevant; it is an omnibus of an art - a public omnibus.
>>24793578did you come from the nirvana thread, anon? there's good shit and meme shit. just give it a go and see if you're into it..
>>24793578>/mu/fag who's listened to a lot of stuff that's either influenced or been influenced by the beat generationBurroughs. Burroughs only.The other two are irrelevant to music as compared to Burroughs, whose cut-up ideas did influence Throbbing Gristle and their first proto-sampling experiments, which in turn influenced the rest of musician relying on samples and experimentation.Burroughs also planted the roots for cyberpunk literature through his Nova trilogy, which in turn influenced cyberpunk music like EBM. The other two didn't influence culture, directly or indirectly, in the same way Burroughs did.
>>24793620true and rare take. junky and queer were his best works, also the semi-autobiographical parts of naked lunch.
>>24793578only a portion of it is worth reading. check big sur and the town and the city by kerouac.
Which authors have the most interesting familial background?
>>24792223>As opposed to what?Mulatto. Half-breed.
>>24794018>>24793944People can identify with whatever they think best suits them. After a couple generation of mixing around and there isn't enough names to describe every mixing, some don't even know exactly what their background is
>>24794244They're mutts. You can also identify as a woman but
Black man, Black woman, Black babyWhite man, white woman, white babyWhite man, Black woman, Black babyBlack man, white woman, Black baby- Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
>>24793479>You can't be a half-virgin, for example, you are either a virgin or you are not.Is that why there are so many arguments over which intimate acts qualify as losing virginity?
Why hasn’t a woman written a masterpiece? Nothing they have written can really be compared to Joyce or Shakespeare or Cervantes. I always chuckle when holes try to compare Middlemarch to Paradise Lost as if they are even in the same ballpark.
>>24793047She was a fairly masculine woman
>>24792893they hated them because they spoke the truth
>>24794539>>24794551For me it has always been 5'3" and an attitude.
>>24792874booba
>>24793000She was a nasty classist
>they defeat Cthulhu by driving a boat into his headare you fucking kidding me?
Sup, lads? It's time for the weekly stack accountability thread. Unlike the threads that are just people showing off their stacks, this thread is about being accountable for your reading.Post your stack, last week's stack, and discuss what you read this last week. My current stack is on the top. I finished up David Gates' Jernigan (not pictured because I read the ebook) sucked dick, 2/5 would not recommend. I started the Srimad Bhagavatam and got about about 15% of the way through it. I'm enjoying it although it's not the sort of thing I'd recommend if you don't already have an interest in Hinduism. I started and got about halfway though the AJ Liebling book. Like most of Liebling's writing it's very funny and readable.I bought two Richard F Burton kinos and a book that someone claimed was a good introduction to advaita vedanta
>>24794056read faster, 4head.no wonder your stack has 10 books and counting.
These threads are always so try hard
>>24794339What are you reading, readboi?
>>24789905Doing pretty well with this stack. Also finished Vol 1 of The Civil War: A Narrative, but don't have a physical copy yet (my Vol 3 needs rebound and if anyone can point me in the direction of some good materials, I'd prefer to do this myself). Should be able to to wrap 1776 and Birth of America by the end of the year.
>>24795204The Rest is Noise, The Mirror and the Light, and Henry VI Part 1
Which e-reader do you have /lit/? Are you happy with it? Is it complicated to get books to it?I am thinking about the Kobo Libra but it seems like getting books onto it is an extremely convoluted process that involves Calibre, KOreader, some plugins, and I don't even know what. And then I looked into Calibre and the first thing I see about it is that it doesn't let you put books in your own folders and it copies your entire library according to its folder scheme. Is there a better library program and a better reader or a better overall experience that isn't like installing Linux? At this point from what I've read I think I should just continue buying actual paper books because this all just sounds like an extreme annoyance. Or maybe I just need to install a good reader program on Windows. What's a good Windows program to read books in like ComicRack for comics?
>>24794620Thank you for your answers
>>24794504>Are readers worth it? They're cheaper and more convenient than print>Does it sadden you not to physically own the books you love reading on these things? I'm not a tiktok girlie.>Does it ever hurt your eyes? No, that's the whole point of e-ink>What do some models offer that others don't? A few gimmicks here and there, none that really matter honestly. The main thing you should look for is models with the screen size you want and/or page turn buttons>It's meant for reading, what could a more expensive one offer that a basic one does not?Some of the expensive ones can be used for taking notes but that's about it. Honestly just get a notebook and a pen.
>>24777830I use the Forma which is the predecessor of the Libra; it's a great form factor.You don't need Calibre, just plug it in and drag and drop. There's probably a way to use Wifi, but wifi gives you space aids, so use a freaking wire.KOreader is good if you keep a lot of science texts in DjVu, but otherwise the native software is fine. I do have a lot of science texts and admit KOreader is a bit annoying.Calibre; I only use it to convert books to different formats, and crack amazog books so I can put them in the Kobo.
can i sync a pirated ebook and an audiobook on a jailbroken kindle?
>>24777830Buy a used & serviced iPad mini. You might end up paying less than you would for a mid-high end e-reader, while having more functionality. The only downside is you have to charge it at least once a week if you use it often.
Why doesn’t he just muster the jungian spirit of hating trans people to will himself back into shape?
>>24795419>If you can't deal with the fact your chatgtp blogpostYou can't deal with the fact it lays out a clear argument and goes into specific detail in order to back each part of it up. Not being able to understand it is a you problem, retard.>what is there to say to you anon?You have absolutely nothing to say because you can't discredit a single line in the post nor point to anything part of the post that is confusing.Thanks for playing, fag.
>>24787660>inb4 >>he's a drug addict tho! It's strange to me that someone with so much insight into how the psyche works would let himself fall victim to drug addiction
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>>24790494Anyone have the meme where Peterson hugs a rabbi for paying him?
