@Ash Could Twitter be any use in attracting people who've read the same stuff as you? We have a Lit.SE Twitter account, and a chatroom from which you can tweet directly using it (just post a message in that room, pin it, and it'll automatically be tweeted from the site Twitter account).
I think you mentioned that some of the authors you read are Twitter-active themselves? If we're really lucky, you might attract them to the site in person!
@MattThrower Awesome! Here's to the next 5k :-)
@NapoleonWilson I'm sure you could find some stuff to downvote to balance out that +2 ;-)
According to Wikipedia, the character of Snufkin in the Moomin series of children's books by Tove Jansson is based on her real-life friend Atos Wirtanen:
Tove Jansson based the character of Snufkin on her friend and one-time fiancé, Atos Wirtanen.
But neither of the above-linked Wikipedia p...
Interested in #Shakespeare? Can you solve any of these unanswered questions? https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/william-shakespeare?sort=unanswered&pageSize=50
"But, Miss Taggart -" [Mr. Thompson said.]
"I didn't come here to argue."
She was at the door when he sighed and said, "I hope he's still alive." She stopped. "I hope they haven't done anything rash."
A moment passed before she was able to ask, "Who?" and to make it a word, not a scream....
In Slaughterhouse Five, the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, suffers from PTSD caused by the mental trauma of having been in the war. He deals with this by imagining that he has come unstuck in time and can relive various moments of his life in whatever order he pleases. In the novel, because of this ...
I'm want read articles about fiction books, but i cant find interesting sites/blogs devoted to books
review, announcements, articels about world awards/contests and etc.
can you help me?
@MattThrower I first studied literature & linguistics and then (some) computer science (with some library & information science in between). But I've been working in ICT accessibility for more than 15 years.
@ChristopheStrobbe The tangled webs we weave. I was originally a biologist - but for my degree I was seriously torn between science & lit. One of the best programmers I ever worked with had a 1st degree in lit
@MattThrower That reminds me that once worked with someone who had a degree (and PhD, I think) in chemistry, and he somehow got into ICT accessibility.
And then there was that former skiing instructor who was looking for a new job, walked into the wrong room at a job centre and ended up working in ICT accessibility.
@ChristopheStrobbe In my case it was because I came onto the job market in the middle of the dot com boom. Demand for programmers meant you could find entry level positions if you were remotely familiar with programming
Franz Kafka was fascinated by ambiguity, and often includes in his fiction long arguments in which various interpretations of some puzzling phenomenon are canvassed or in which the speaker, by faulty logic, contrives to stand an argument on it's head.
Where can I find real examples of such argum...
@Randal'Thor Hey, I'd like some book recs please. Recently I've read The Neverending Story (for the third time...), Wuthering Heights, the Divergent series and am reading the Children of Húrin (I've read LOTR and the Hobbit). Now I don't know what read next, just anything gripping really. Thanks!
@Fabjaja Well, that's quite a diverse selection of books! Let's see ...
If you like The Neverending Story, I'd recommend Momo (by the same author, Michael Ende) and Cornelia Funke's Inkheart trilogy (which also revolves around the idea of people literally entering into the books they read, or characters from those books entering the real world, although the story is very different from tNS).
If you like tragic English romances such as Wuthering Heights, try some of Thomas Hardy's books. Reading his Jude the Obscure was one of the most emotionally harrowing fictional experiences I've had. (I haven't read WH, because it's too miserygutted even for me.)
I haven't read the Divergent series, but apparently it's in the same genre as the Hunger Games, which I'd also recommend (both books and films). For something less well-known, you could also try Patrick Cave's The Selected or Nancy Farmer's The House of the Scorpion.
Yeah, Divergent is dystopian scifi, so like The Hunger Games, Maze Runner, The Giver, Arena 1, The Shadow Children, and so on
@Fabjaja I might be able to provide some recommendations, but do you have a reading level/age level whatever in mind? I'm pretty sure Divergent is young adult, and I read a lot of young adult stuff, so I can recommend some stuff, but only if that's what you're looking for
Thomas Pynchon is a writer famous for having dense and hard to read books, but is acclaimed for those books. He wrote V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, and others.
What order should I read his books? His books are often read in specific orders, because all of them are hard to unders...
According to Wikipedia, the character of Snufkin in the Moomin series of children's books by Tove Jansson is based on her real-life friend Atos Wirtanen:
Tove Jansson based the character of Snufkin on her friend and one-time fiancé, Atos Wirtanen.
But neither of the above-linked Wikipedia p...
"But, Miss Taggart -" [Mr. Thompson said.]
"I didn't come here to argue."
She was at the door when he sighed and said, "I hope he's still alive." She stopped. "I hope they haven't done anything rash."
A moment passed before she was able to ask, "Who?" and to make it a word, not a scream....
I'm want read articles about fiction books, but i cant find interesting sites/blogs devoted to books
review, announcements, articels about world awards/contests and etc.
can you help me?
Thomas Pynchon is a writer famous for having dense and hard to read books, but is acclaimed for those books. He wrote V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, and others.
What order should I read his books? His books are often read in specific orders, because all of them are hard to unders...
