It's just misery porn.
>>24115296tbqh just a misery porn desu
>>24115296What I wanted from the book was more promising than what I got tbqhfam. WW1 is fascinating and I'd have rather read a book about a doctor struggling miserably to do good and succeed in a failing war where bodies are trucked in and out of the front lines all the time, instead of the war ending in 2 chapters and him complaining about poverty for the rest of the book.
>>24115313I found The elementary particles(Atomized is a gay title) more distubring because all the gooning seems so much more pointless; the ending left me feeling empty. At least Ferdinand had an adventure. his misery is mostly just his own personality.
>céline in translationas bad as joyce in french
>>24115321I think the what you got image looks a lot more enjoyable
>>24115296you got the good translation, >>24115321 didn't, yours is way funnier
>>24115325>his misery is mostly just his own personality.Anon, he lived through the most devestating event in human history, was left crippled and schizo as a result. You can excuse him for being a tad jaded. Besides, he had sovl in a sovless world.
>>24115296It does have some great writing. "When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word.""A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there’s a war. When other people start thinking about you, it’s to figure out how to torture you, that and nothing else. The bastards want to see you bleeding, otherwise they’re not interested!"
>>24115296It's literally this meme. What's so hard about working as a doctor and coping with BPDwhore gf of your best friend
>>24115338He was a weathervane, he saw what was coming when he wrote that
>>24115335I think those are both Manheim.
>>24115342He should have taken the American prostitute with him.
>>24115347nope, one's Marks
>>24115296Map covers are pretty neat.Someone post one up earlier in another thread and got me admiring it.
>>24115375how's the book? sounds like Hogg, but a review said it sucked
>>24115321>WW1 is fascinating and I'd have rather read a book about a doctor struggling miserably to do good and succeed in a failing war where bodies are trucked in and out of the front lines all the timelmao you're a retard
>>24115385never read it.just liked the cover.
>>24115385Card has never written a good book.
>>24115395What about Orson scott card?
>>24115321needs a pic of women's legs.celine is a leg and thighs guy
>>24115467go /b/ack
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>>24115321Arty farty nihilists deem your desire to have actually compelling and interesting stories FAR inferior to boring mindnumbing tedium about le absurdity of le life. Don't you know? Your novels are only serious if they contribute to the pose of anemic sable-clad caffeine addicts. Interesting stories are for icky conservatives (POO WEE!)
>>24115758As an acclaimed and published author, I'm constantly struggling when writing; I feel like there's always a plot ready to burst out of nowhere and I have to hold my pen back.All it takes is a protagonist's short walk down the driveway and then, shock, he comes face to face with conflict or desire. And we can't have that.Better to keep the lad indoors. Sometimes all it takes is the basics. Maybe he catches his eye in the mirror. I can squeeze out five or six pages of reflection about that.Often times it can be harder. Waking up in the morning is a good one, lots of penumbral dream sequences to be had then. The advantage of the waking scene is that this must happen at the start of every day in the story so you have plenty of licence to use it.Remember how the supporting cast acts in that film, The Truman Show? Well in my stories, if there really is the pressing danger of a story breaking out, sometimes, just for example, a distant relative will rush to bring in uneventful news from a faraway land, and the regaling gossip can go on for pages and pages. Now the threat of something happening recedes greyly over the horizon.I won't tell you my name, but let's just say I have several books in the /lit/ Top 100.
>>24115326I've read Voyage in both English and French. The experience was exactly the same. I really wish this whole "translations are trash" meme would stop.
>>24115866Why, Lord, am I always the thread killer? Is it not enough that I am alone in life. Must I also be ignored on 4chan?
>>24116960Me too man
>>24115811Well, you definitely don't write YA. And, writing like yours is precisely why I'm rarely captivated by "adult" books. What you just described doing, adding tons of fluff for just for the sake of putting off addressing the actual plot, really just doesn't need to happen.As far as I'm concerned, there's two kinds of readers in the world: those with attention spans long enough to put up with "top" writers stuffing their books full of useless information and everyone else.And, because 95% of the population is in the "everyone else" category when it comes to reading, adding all that fluff only makes your writing super inaccessible to the general public. And that's a shame because you "top" writers are clearly masters of one of the most fundamental aspects of the human experience, which is story-telling.So, who are you writing all that fluff for? Is it because your book is expected to be of a certain length?I would challenge you to write your next book without this invisible rope tied to your ankle. Write as little or as much as you need to tell the story. Do not write as little or as much as you need for any other reason.Now, throw the money out the window and publish it. I can guarantee you that you'll find yourself asking why you needed that useless fluff to begin with.
