/lit/ - Literature

[saucy No.10652120]

What is this book about?

Are the sequels any more explorative?

[saucy No.10652203]

What about this book?

What about this book makes people so fucking mad when they've heard the most "experienced writers" haven't read it?

[Anonymous No.10652381]

>>10652203
It truly is one of the best ever written, and especially top tier among USA writers. For the same reason that a writer should be blasted for not having read the Bible, Greeks, or Romans, they should be dismissed for not reading Moby-Dick.

[saucy No.10652421]

>>10652381
Adverbs are among the most useful to writers, although there are many who decry their usage.

I think the quote is: "I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one’s own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I’ve used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample — that fear may be intense. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him."

As with Moby-Dick, which is grounded in myth, and reveals the depths of it, the nature of writing and its bad practice can be traced back to some classic novels centuries ago.

[Anonymous No.10652472]

Perhaps I'm a Chan virgin but this was the most awesome example of thread-hijacking I have ever seen.

[saucy No.10652481]

>>10652472
it doens't help if you still suck at the game

[Anonymous No.10652488]

>>10652421
The passive voice is an unimpeachable choice in certain cases, e.g. when writing a satire narrated by a timorous person.

[saucy No.10652492]

>>10652488
The critique of passivity isn't literal. It's meant to be an axiomatic approach.

[Anonymous No.10653418]

desu I think Catch 22 is kinda overrated. Catch 26 is what really deserves the spotlight. But eh, at least it's not as bad as Catch 19.