>greatest writer at the time of his death>had a vast library containing tens of thousands of books on every subject under the sun>reached advanced proficiency in math and physics for fun (a member of SFI said he matched most professors in those subjects)>had a large circle of friends from every discipline; his best friend was the inventor of the quark>didn't own a computer, use a smartphone, or have any internet presence whatsoever, not even an email addressCan we just admit that computers are the bane of creativity?
>>25181314McCarthy trashing him has mentally destroyed pynchon's reddit infested fanbase of mere 5000 midwit retards.
>>25181318>We were talking about blood meridian here a decade agoahh, fond memories of posting on /lit/ in the 20teens when nobody irl had ever heard of blood meridian. /lit/ worshiped that book and then it got popular and now everyone knows that it always was and always has been shit and reddit and cringe and blah blah blah. /mu/ has death grips, we've got cormac
>>25180807Oh I see. The lovefest that enwraps Cormac has nothing to do with the ineffable delights of his prose, such as there are, but rather the emblems of his intelligence. Once again posters judge a writer's worth by extraliterary status signifiers.
>>25181389As is the case with every board centred around an artistic medium, they like someone or something only if it/he/she meets their criteria in being “based”, to say nothing of their artistic quality.
>>25181359You don't seriously believe /lit/ popularized Blood Meridian, do you?
You have eyes but failed to see Mount Tai! EditionStubbed >>25172742>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25181310I have no issues with it, all I want is separation of smut and goon shit from litrpg/progression/cultivation/adventure literature.
>>25181327"No"
>>25181335Why not?
>>25181352because I want to write and read about hot evil women killing the representations of ideologies i consider evil
Any good mecha themed web novels?
"classic" or transformative books you were tricked into reading that were just shit? I'll start
>>25181329He was one of the first popular non-white non-western fantasy authors.
>>25181354Borges was white and Argentina is in the Western hemisphere.
>>25181354Borges was an Englishman with family from Stratfodshire. His forefathers were the Saxons and Jutes of Denmark.
>>25181319Let's see if you got it: Explain The Circular Ruins
>>25181319You’re just retarded OP (and a faggot, naturally). Though, like Borges, you have shit taste. Unfortunately unlike Borges, you can’t write.
Which hero from the three Greco-Roman epics is /lit/'s favorite? Picture of X-fags missing the point of the Iliad attached for entertainment purposes.
>>25178878Achilles is not meant to be an emulatable ideal hero. He is basically a god-king trapped in mortal form because Zeus subverted the succession prophecy.>>25178905>>25179245Bizarrely he's the only one who goes to Elysium according to Homer. Is this some sort of compensation for fucking up his marriage? Who knows.
>>25179245I dont remember the last part. He fights pretty actively in the war.
>>25178878Hector obv
I'm an Ajax fanboy
>>25180829Orestes by Euripides
Where have all the serious, urbane, book-reading men gone and why have they been replaced with women?
>>25181296referring you to my earlier post >>25180106>if it's so lucrative then why isn't it being done right now? if it's so profitable then why are we having this argument? seems like if you were correct it'd already exist, but this isn't what we see
>>25181326Now type it with two hands
>>25181326>AmericanessKek. They’re awfully gross
>>25181305Very nice of you thanks, I think we may be a bit too far apart geographically for that.>>25181317...Samuel?
>>25179888>de brevitate vitaeSo what should we do instead? I have trouble understanding Seneca in this book, what exactly mean "to adopt the contemplative life of the wise"?
Part 1 was kino. Parts 2 & 3 were meh.
In literature class in high school,you got extra points for reading anything the lit teacher had on her big shelves.then you took a little test to prove you read all of it.all I have to do, is read books and prove i read them?to guarantee an A?so yeah I read Canticle.my thoughts mirror OP's thoughts.it was okay, but...I was waiting for it to really take off?never really did.at the very end, I'm scratching my head.the hell was even the point.all I could come up with...catholic religion, is old and less useful every passing year.seemed to be the only real theme.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25181058i now realize my lit teacher, was an old jewish lady.so you have to read hew books, to please hewish teachers.skip Canticle,replace it with "the painted bird" by Kosinsky.much more adventure and danger,some excitement.plus you still get your "good goy" jew points for it.
>>25181058>>25181067lol you bent the knee to an old kikess
Yeah, 1 was the best, although I really liked the ending of part 3.
i think part 2 was the best. and the opening and end of part 3 were pretty kino
>agenbite of inwit>u.p.: up>charming soubrette>bullockbefriending
OP exemplifies the ineluctable modality of the faggot.
>>25177923why was he unable to review anything without going on a 10+ minute marvel quip interlude?
>Cuck Mulligan
>>25179921>The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea*cuts to Doug* ... uhhh so that's a way to describe the ocean I guess
>>25181366>>25179921I know very little about him; has he even ever read a book on his channel?
Either regularly or now and again count>Granta>DIAGRAM>New Yorker>Ploughshares>Paris Review>Heavy Traffic
I've enjoyed a few stories from Volume 0, but it's mostly foidslop as you'd expect
I'm surprised that The Stinging Fly is so good, but I guess I shouldn't be. Nation of poets and writers, I guess. Irish journal. Has a good press attached to it to
>>25180310I've seen the Stinging Fly recommended before (by the author of Brat when he was posting here), but I don't think I've read anything they've published. Anything good of theirs online you could link?
>>25180976Yeah, this one. "Let's Go Kill Ourselves" by Colin Barrett. >https://stingingfly.org/2014/07/24/lets-go-kill/GREAT story. The magazine decided to publish his first book of stories (picrel) off its strength and it was fucking killer.
>>25181182Thanks, that was great. I remembered I've had a copy of Young Skins on my computer for a while, and probably heard of it on here. Were you recommending it before? And my own Irish rec would be Nobber by Oisin Fagan, which I really enjoyed last year. Brat by Gabriel Smith is good too.
I cried at the end of The Road, but was completely indifferent to the fate of the Kid, or anyone else in Blood Meridian.
Same here, but the characters are completely different. Why would anyone shed a tear for a band of marauders except for their mothers?
>>25181055do you look like that
the kid dosent have a contrasting philosophy to Holdens, hes just slightly less evil. nothing about him would warrant sympathy
>>25181055I was sad about the bear
>>25181055They’re all just a bunch of evil cunts in BM. That all being said, I don’t care for anyone in either book. Glanton, he’s cool.
But if you think the writing is extremely amateur then are you implying you could do better? That you can actually write something that entertains a lot of people? Can you really, amateur?
>>25181251>>25181113I get it. You hate /lit/, many people on this site do. We hate each other here too; you should go back to /v/ or whatever and hate each other over there.
>>25180884>tfw too smart to be rich and successful
>>25181008heck YEAH, the Beatles ROCK(upvoted, btw)
>>25181301Not trying to be cynical, but I believe that high intellect and high empathy is really a curse, especially when society is so degenerated. The cultural environment that's being continuously formed around you by less and less intelligent people is more and more demoralizing and it needs nearly superhuman optimism to find a will to create something by yourself that's valuable by your standards.
>>25181307They’re not the BEST band in the WORLD, EVER, for nothing.>>25181340>high intellectI’m not doubting you, but having that own sentiment about yourself can prove to be more of a hindrance than you’d think since it more often than not comes with a hint of conceit. There are plenty who exist with the same level of intellect, if not higher than you. Once you understand this, you may very well be able to push forward because you can learn from other likeminded individuals more about yourself. I’m not sure if you’re an autodidact or not, but if the latter, my point becomes weaker. Still, convincing yourself that you can do something brilliant without putting that to the test feels empty.
How the fuck does this get published?
>>25180995Yes, dialogue should sound natural for the setting and time period of the book. Assuming this is modern day America, they can't be walking around speaking to each other like they are characters out of a Dickens novel. It's slop but accurately portrayed dialogue
>>25181039something like the top 1000 published books sell less than 100 physical copiesit's all a sham
>>25181269ah yes, the elusive chad with reddit humor.
>>25181324I'm speaking from experience. No I'm not talking about myself sadly.
>>25181269I saw the movie in the theater. There were some hot women, one which was seated next to me and another behind me with her husband or boyfriend, all there laughing at all the jokes. The one sitting next to me looked at me once while laughing but I think she noticed my face was stone cold.
Other /latam/ reccomendations anons? I really loved this one, currently reading Bomarzo by Lainez as well
>>25173472Nezahualcoyotl is probably the best and most original poet in america, so wrong.Juan Rulfo, Juan Jose Arreola, José Revueltas and Ibarguengoitia all contemporary novelists that lean on the indigenous side.Carlos Monsivais and Octavio Paz are heavily indigenous too, first is a chronist and latter nobel prize essayist and poet.Jorge Cuesta looks quite indian.Anyways, you are retarded.
>>25180314Nezahualcoyotl is only original because the tradition he drew from was almost totally wiped out.I've never been able to take Octavio Paz seriously after my faher told how and why he met him, back in the 70s. Just uncomfortable now.
>>25173472mestizos are white now?
>>25180314>Ibarguengoitia>His father, Alejandro Ibargüengoitia Cumming (Basque + English)>he studied in schools that belonged to the Marist Brothers (French Catholic influence)>and was a boy scout (American globohomo imprint)>he received a Rockefeller grant to study in New York City (more American globohomo)>Married to Joy Laville (ummmh, indigenous? Ah! No, wait, Anglo influence strikes again!)>They settled permanently in Paris in 1980 (...)>Died in Madrid (Hispania!)Dude, what indigenous side does he lean on?
>>25180746>Just uncomfortable now.tell us the story anon
the walls of tyrosh editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25132678
>grrm said he gave main plot points to the show (like Stannis burning Shireen)So how will the books make it?I've seen theories that because Azor Again had to sacrifice his wife to make the original Lightbringer, Stannis thinks he has to sacrifice Shireen. I've seen theories that once the Others begin to come south, Stannis feels he has to sacrifice Shireen to save the realm.
>>25180635Hopefully the book is taking so long (it was almost finished in 2019) because he's rewriting all that dumb shit.
So how do you think Brandon Sanderson will finish the story?
/grrm/ peaked in 2024
>>25180790Bran ascends to godhood and becomes God-Emperor of Westeros (so basically nothing changes from the show ending), but in the epilogue we'll see a character named Maester Hoid, with one of the most extensive maester chains you'll ever see in the story, leaving Westeros with a bag full of weirwood seeds and a dragon egg.
what books to read to a baby so that it does not go full chud
Are you really unironically looking for parenting advice from 4chan posters who call people chuds? Doubt you’re procreating but this kid is beyond fucked >you know who would know how to raise a kid? Soibois who had even worse relationships with their own dad than the average redditor
>>25180667Are you legally barred from owning mirrors lmao. How is it possible to have this little self-awareness
>>25181077>voted for trump in '20supertard>voted for him again in '24gigatard lmfao christ you people are so fucking stupid>>25180627beat him with a copy of Mein Kampf so every time he sees it discussed online he has ptsd flashbacks and closes out of the tab
>>25181066>>25181077dubs>checkedanyways, I was a neocon until I was 29. my reason: I didn't like brown people so a temporary alliance with jews was necessary to avoid that.
>>25181158relax, the women I impregnated raised the chud concern. she said the fetus feels chuddie
Will Gen Z ever produce a literary figure as lauded and original as Cormac, Bellow, Pynchon, etc?
I'm a literate zumzum and I write good. So yes.
rupi kaur
>>25180678What will they write?
>>25179266pynchud was literally nominated for a nebula award
>>25179264pynchon is a trash ((writer))
