/lit/ - Literature

Tao

nabokov

Stirner

Lord of the Rings

>>4584658

10/10, rustled as fuck

Hesse, Puzo, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Nicholas Pillegi

Just read some Discworld or something.

Harry Potter fanfiction. Fluff literature based on fluff literature.
Just look for the stuff with over 100,000 words. There should be a few thousand; basically all at that wordcount have tolerable styles, i.e. don't sound like a yokel's wedding speech.

>>4584674


funny thing, ive actually been spending alot of time reading fan-fiction lately.

some of the best ones are actually crossover fics combining compelling elements of one thing with another that has an expansive setting with lots of room for exploration (for instance, there are a lot of good mass effect cross overs, though mass effect by itself is not so good)

>>4584709

What fictional universes do the good ones combine?

I know how you feel, OP. When I finish 'Don Quixote,' this is up next.

>>4584674
>>4584710
>>4584709
>>4584674

>reading fan fiction

you are the root of all evil in the modern world.

>>4584739
If you can't appreciate the 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' value of truly terrible fanfiction, I feel bad for you.

Relatedly, I'm working on a French translation of 'My Immortal.'

Try the Samurai Cat books op, or the Surfin Samurai Robots series

>>4584710


hmmmm, well for starters manga crossovers tend to be bad (stand alone AU fics are usually better in this case). when crossing something over a certain level of plausible compatibility is desirable, elsewise theres no internal coherency to the story and things just seem to happen by arbitrary asspull, which is unsatisfying. familiar of zero is a significant exception however, writing foz crossovers is practically its own genera.

more generally speaking, a setting with a big 'universe' tends to make good crossover fodder, think of something like warhammer or ME again (eg, theres a good number of halo/me fics), but not necessarily big in terms of mere scale (things like touhou or rpg settings also lend themselves well to crossover).

if you can tell from some of the examples, when it comes to this sort of thing one can simply ask themselves 'hey, wouldent it be cool if x was put in/replaced y?', and then chances are someone else thought the same thing .

>>4584747

i feel bad that you're foolish enough to believe fan fiction has value.

>>4584637
Fredrich
Nietzsche

>>4584738

Is that Justified?

>>4584757

can you post links to fanfics that you like? Or googleable names?

>>4584771


tvtropes 'recommended' lists are a good starting point. a few ive enjoyed recently are 'a green sun illuminates the void' (should probably skip unless already familiar with the setting), 'ME: human revolution', and 'team 8'.

>>4584759
>Legolas was riding along the woods and one day he found a baby whaped in colth so he got off his horse and went to the baby and then Legolas said"who left you here little one"and then the baby just cryed and then Legolas pick her up and hold her and then the baby stoped crying and then Legolas said"your name is going be Laura"and then Legolas and the baby went onto the horse and went back to the castle where he lived.

Tell me you don't find that amusing.

>>4584764
Yes. Yes, it is. After that I plan to continue my rampage with 'Dracula' and Greg Sestero's book about the making of 'The Room.'

Is The Sun Also Rises a relaxing book?

>>4584781
It just sucks. It doesn't even suck particularly badly.

>>4584747
>Relatedly, I'm working on a French translation of 'My Immortal.'
Put that shit on pastebin and read it aloud on vocaroo. There's someone I know who will find it very entertaining.

>>4584780
Are those mass effect spin offs?

>>4584791
No? Okay, I recommend 'My Inner Life,' then.

>claims to have read heidegger
>forgets the truth of Being
you didnt learn anything

>>4584811


one is.

>>4584637
>had it with Homer
Might as well kill yourself.

>>4584826
What's "a green sun..." about?

>>4584830


its about what happens when the zero becomes EXALTED!.

>>4584637
wHAT DID SHCOPENHAUER SAY ABOUT AESTHEIHCS?

>>4584889
Shcopenhauer?

Stephen King is a pretty good read for genre fiction. I recommend him for a relaxing read.

>>4584637

This is seriously one of the first internet images where I actually laughed out loud, way to go OP

>>4584783
It gives me anxiety

>drug addicts trying to inaugurate themselves as part of the literature scene
it's like the direct equivalent of the gamer girls phenomena

>>4584747
Reading bad fanfiction for a laugh is fine.

But once you start looking for value in it, you've gone too far.

>>4584967
He didn't make it, though.

>>4585070
How do you know?

>>4585086
/fa/ started all these. I remember seeing this in a /mu/ thread a month ago and posted it in here asking if this was the typical /lit/ user. Someone on tumblr made all the variations of this meme.

>>4584943
Aye. He shcopesh hauersh, ash well ash arshesh.

>>4585109
I see, sorry Mr. Connery.

>>4585103
I thought /mu/ started it and /fa/ started the variations, that's what i at least read on /fa/.

>>4585129
ahh, you're right, actually. I have a porous memory, but now that you said that, I can see that i was wrong.

>>4585136
Not that it matters, a funny pic is a funny pic.

>>4584637

>need some proper plebeian shit to relax

lol, don't make the mistake of thinking that, OP.

Once you go patrician, you can't go back without realising you're reading shit. I tried to alternate pleb and patrician and instantly got tired of pleb.

>>4585164
this, sadly
OP your only choice is to read the action/adventure stuff that is patrician, such as Don Quixote

>>4585171
B-but my Donna Leon crime novels...

>>4585175
let them go

>>4585179
Arrivederci Commisario Brunetti :(

>>4585184
read don quixote
edith grossman translation

>>4585189
>Oy vey this new translation by one of G-d's Chosen is a must read!

>>4585221
>>>/pol/
pls go

>>4584670
I recommend this. Whenever I'm feeling mentally overstimulated, the earthy wisdom of Pratchett tends to let the air out, remind me I'm not all-knowing, make me laugh, cringe and keep me engaged and interested.

>>4584670
>>4585455
came here to write that

>>4585227
>>>>>>>>>/b/

Are people in this thread really suggesting that Don Quixote is plebeian?

>>4584637
Nothing cleanses my palate better than some quality non-fiction. I highly recommend "Heat" by Bill Buford and "The Botany of Desire" by Michael Pollan. One's about learning to cook Italian food, the other is about plants' influence on people.

>>4584739
Shakespeare was fan-fiction.

The Greek Tragedians were fan-fiction.

>>4587542
I think they are saying that it's the lightest sort of book he'll be able to appreciate without thinking it's uninteresting shit.

>Nabokov
>Someone you need to take a break from

He's fun as fuck to read you pleb. I guess if you reallly want to read some literary pulp, read SHerlock Holmes or Poe.

>>4587553
This so much, non-fiction travel diaries and adventure stories are like candy to me/

>>4585129

Does /lit/ dance?

>>4589396
Only those who can hear the music.

>>4587765

>I guess if you reallly want to read some literary pulp, read SHerlock Holmes or Poe.

fuck that noise read all the works of Conan the Barbarian like a trve baller

>>4589396
Does /lit/ do anything?

In my case, I don't like to dance in a serious and artistic way (mostly because i don't find myself voluptuous), but I'm not an autistic man who can't refrain his fears, so when I have a blast, I dance, but not to eletronic nor dubstep shit, i like to choose what I dance to (i e animal collective)
The one who says fedora will be torn apart.

Danielle Steele

>>4589533

>i like to choose what I dance to (i e animal collective)

you're just a typical white boy with no sense of rhythm, only you try to be slightly more indie to compensate

not riled though because you're not offensive. you're honestly too milquetoast and boring to ever really offend anyone.

Dumas, Fleming, Sabatini

>>4589580
>this whole post

I remember guys like you from middle school.

>>4585060
If it's amusing, I'd say that has some value. I think that some fics (the ones that are awful more because of story structure and characterization than just because the author is semi-illiterate) can also be valuable in that they compel you to examine why they're awful, and can teach you a but about writing by showing you what errors a writer can make.

>>4589708

You remember getting told into oblivion in middle school?

> Tfw when you can't just relax with peb shit anymore

>>4589729
Go shitpost on /mu/.
Even /pol/ was a better influence than you faggots

>>4589733

420 til die lets settle this on the blacktop get ur fukin pink slips rdy u cheeky cunt im goin HAM

>>4589580
>you're just a typical white boy with no sense of rhythm, only you try to be slightly more indie to compensate

Is that a bad thing? I think he could have a worse perspective on his dancing abilities, at least he understands his limits and tries to make up for them.

>>4584783
It reads exactly like >>4584781

It was a real chore for me.

>>4584739
Someday I'm still gonna write a dense stream-of-consciousness post-modern massive crossover fanfic-to-end-all-fanfics

>>4590950
Who cares? It's just going to be one monkey's trick after another.

>>4590963
You say that as if it was a bad thing

Batman.

>>4584670
Came here to say this.

Plebeian in the good way.

Or start reading Warren Ellis comics. (Transmetropolitan would be a good start)