/lit/ - Literature

Just read "The Festival"
Honestly, I didn't like it as much as the nameless city, it feels like instead of the mistery being slowly solved the matter remains completely unsolved during the whole tale. At the end I undestood the events just as much as I did at the start, it felt very unsatisfying

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Post paws

>>14717617
>it was awful
It's an autobiography by an autistic man

>conceited
Are you really dumb enough to expect a man like that not to hold a high opinion of himself? At his first seminar Einstein, Pauli and Neumann were not only present but had a discussion on the range of applicability of his findings, which eventually in turn led to his findings that won him the Nobel Prize. In other words, you're outing yourself as a jealous loser. Indeed, if you were in a position even a millionth the gravity of his you would be an unredeeming, smug fuck (way beyond what you already are).

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>>14446160
please stop

>>14405028
nowhere. you can install tinder right now and do this and i beg of you to keep trying, sieur

>>14363014
welcome back

>2019
>not storing your books with your cigars so the pages smell like fine tobacco

Share your favorite bookish/rare/not commonly used English words
I’ll start: Morosely

hey guys what was the lit meme with the guy with the mustache and the paragraph of him talking

it ended with "X person not Y person"

i dont remember much else about it, please help me remember it

Hey! Congrats on that long post you made. Everyone was really amazed at it. Keep it up!

>etc. etc.

I don't read books so I have to ask:

How linear does storytelling have to be in general in books? What I mean by that is in TV shows you may get timeskips very often, showcasing different eras of characters that are followed, teaser is about the future, the rest is about the present, then the next episode's teaser is about the past etc. If you watch Better Call Saul, you know exactly what I am talking about.

So I guess my question is: does that kind of storytelling exist in books and if yes, how does it work there? I am very curious about that because I really like that style, where you have to wonder what happened or will happen to make the situation in that state.

>girard and taleb is DEEP shit bro!!