what books have you guys heard of
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ive heard of this book about cowardice called youwussies. written by a blind irish drunk. its about this guy who goes on a walk
she's 100% right, good presentation doesn't matter if what is being presented, the story that is, isn't also good. but a good story is a good story even with a mediocre delivery.
you can have well-written books that are shit (for example: moby dick), but every good story makes a good book
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I don't want to be Newt Gingrich.
You will never be literature?
No idea.
You will never be IQfy
You will never be not gay
anyone who couldn't figure these out is completely moronic
A good story alone does not make a good book.
I have read many terrible translations of good books and I can assure you that shit writing can ruin any story.
There are more than enough good books with good writing that you shouldn't ever need to read a poorly written book unless you have a personal connection to it for some reason.
She's wrong because she makes the mistake -- made, sadly, by IQfy posters too -- of thinking that writing is just presentation, just the surface trappings used to convey the narrative core. In any good book, the two levels are inextricable. They don't even feel like different levels. They're a living whole.
The careful descriptions, which add up bit by bit into a grim, thwarting world, against which the narrator can only add his few sad reflective phrases, are the only linguistic habitat in which the characters in a Joseph Conrad book can really come to life, and it's a style that springs straight from their own sea-tales of doom.
In Dickens, the winding city, its nooks and crannies, its odd fellows and casts of crooks, could only be navigated by a narrative voice that wanders, peers curiously, but never loses its light touch or its moral sentiment, like a recording traveller snug in his stage-coach while winter nips the pedestrian mass.
The struggle in DH Lawrence to find a fresh and powerful voice, which gives him his Biblical simplicity, his way of repeating the rare, vital phrase once chanced upon, his dark, velvety vocabulary of the senses -- that struggle is waged alike by his characters, who feel stirring within them a soul that must burst the husk of convention.
Thinking that you can cleanly separate something like 'style' and 'content' is the most fatal mistake you can make if you want to enjoy literature. You don't experience life through bare facts but through its specific, material density; you don't love the concept of a person but their specific, manifest presence; and if a character and a world don't make themself felt in the weight and momentum and texture of the sentence, then they hardly exist at all.
Literally me with the Illiad
It is important to remember that women are quite similar to dogs and other domesticated creatures. Now I do not say this to disparage the fairer sex, but rather to make a point. Observer, for example, how when speaking to a dog what you say is much less important than how you say it. It is the same thing when interacting with women. What I am trying to communicate is that the way a woman feels about something is much more important than what something actually is
But the point on the OP pic is the contrary.
>the way a woman feels about something is much more important than what something actually is
No, it's the perfect example
There is no such thing as how good a book "actually is."
You should have the self esteem to admit that your favorite books are sometimes shitty. I've devoured 2/5 books in a single night and I will again, and I enjoy it.
Some c**t on twitter is now the final authority on writing, apparently.
>tfw never really felt anything from literature just read because of strong reading addiction from childhood
is it over for me
>if I got obsessed with a character
Why do roasties do this? I don’t think that I’ve ever gotten obsessed with a character, nor have I gotten pissy because they got killed
yeah same. not to be racist or anything but a lot of my women friends do this very unabashedly. whenever they recommend a book or a TV series it's always because they're obsessed over one (or more) of the characters
>roasties
You scrotes larp as Bateman, Gosling, that guy from Stones and many others all day here.
Rating books is moron behaviour anyway so you might as well approach it like this