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Lenar Hoyt did nothing wrong.
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>>7663521
Literally who?
>>7664839
>being this pleb
Fuck it, there's no archive
What's the best McCarthy after Blood Meridian, Suttree and Child of God?
Did he really go to shit recently like Pynchon and Dellilo
and talking about Delillo, is cosmopolis really that bad?
>>7662708
How could he have gone to shit if he was already shit from the start?
No Country For Old Men
How do you deal with writer's block?
>>7661707
I beat up SJWs
I have many projects going on at the same time so that if I get writer's block, I can switch projects until my inspiration returns.
>>7661707
Write more. Describe an empty scene vividly until a character appears. That's all you need
Oh sorry did you want a magic bullet? Take meth man you'll be SUCH a better writer you don't have to solve your own problems lol
1. Your country
2. Which school would you probably have to go to?
3. How do you feel about that? Could JKR do better with her worldbuilding?
Your choices are:
>Beauxbatons Academy of Magic
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Beauxbatons_Academy_of_Magic
>Castelobruxo
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Castelobruxo
>Durmstrang Institute
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Durmstrang_Institute
>Hogwarts School of Witchcraft...
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Kill yourself
^
Obviously.
>>7665295
Rude desu
>>7665289
Not lit so fuck off.
What's her best novel, /lit/ ?
>>7664796
None, they're all fucking trash. Not worth the calories you'd waste turning the page reading that shit.
David Foster Wallace's private letter to Zadie
"To SADIE
Bloomington, IL 2 December 1999
………………………….
My love for you allows me to pray to the spirit of eternal beauty and tenderness mirrored in your eyes or fling you down under me on that softy belly of yours and fuck you up behind, like a hog riding a sow , glorying in the very stink and sweat that rises from your arse, glorying in the open shape of your upturned dress and white girlish drawers and in the confusion of your flushed cheeks and tangled hair. It allows me to burst...
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White Teeth is a masterpiece. The others are meh.
Name a better German author.
protip: i can't
GOAThe desu.
Let the Greek mould his clay
To the forms he’s planned,
And take increasing pleasure
In the product of his hands:
nah he's GGAOAT
So /lit/izens, I am curious about your opinions on who are the most poetic hip hop lyricists.
I am asking on /lit/ to see who has the best technical ability in writing rhymes, and /mu/ wouldn't be the best place to ask about poetic capability.
>>7664236
I haven't heard any hip hop with any poetic merit.
They can make some rhymes, but that alone does not make poetry.
>>7664266
Not the question. I didn't ask if hip hop had any poetic merit, I asked which hip hop performers had the most poetic lyrics. Obviously their rhymes are not going to be on par with poets like Keats or Poe, or many popular poets in literary circles. I was just curious who /lit/ thought had the most skill.
eminem desu
"If I can't batter the women, how the fuck am I supposed to bake them a cake then?"
GOAT
I want to become a certain kind of medical professional. I'm trying to get into a program. I have a few great textbooks thanks to bookzz.org and #bookz on IRC.
However, when I sit down to read, I can't stay focused. I'm genuinely interested in what I'm reading and I am passionate about getting into a program, but I just can't fucking focus. I get into it and within 10 minutes I'm thinking about what needs to be done around the house or remembering things I've meant to look up online.
What the fuck can I do to make myself a more...
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>>7664211
Get on a train journey, put some in-ear headphones in, music or not as you please and enjoy 1-2 hour each way of joyful reading time. I do it a lot on the way to work (about 2 hours each way of reading) and even with the disturbance of being in the rush hour i can pile through books at speed. Plus try reading something different made of paper if you are reading electronically, it may make enough difference to start you off.
>>7664211
Any answer I give would be like telling a fat person who is asking how to lose weight to eat less.
>>7664211
- Pomodoro technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
- Try to focus on the process of reading the book
- Learn to ignore distractions
- When you are lying in the bed or some shit and you want to read 4chan or some other shit, start reading the book instead.
/lit/
I'm curious. What made the greats great? Was it because they wrote about things no one ever wrote about before? Or is it because of the way they wrote and they're ability to put out page after page of solid work? Give an example of a writer you consider to have been truly great and the reasons why you believe so.
Shakespeare, William. Read complete works between 14 and 15. One would like to have filmed him in the role of the King's Ghost. His verbal poetic texture is the greatest the world has ever known, and immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. It is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play. A genius.
>>7663991
Bump for hugely under-rated subject proposed in the thread
>>7663991
They had great publicists.
>making your history start with a character waking up
>"dirty realism"
>bureaucrat suffers existential crisis
>comparing something to a whore
>>7663738
>"dirty realism"
I could understand calling it cliché, but why lazy?
>>7663738
examples of comparing something to a whore?
>>"dirty realism"
Such as?
>>7663753
Shakey did it in the second scene of Macbeth, iirc. Fantasy authors do that all the time too
So we all agree he's the best writer of the 20th century, right?
The question should be : is Joyce the only worthwhile contestant to that title ?
Answer: maybe.
Thomas Pnychon
>>7661347
Joyce is gay
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Will reading sad literature help me tune with my emotions or will it just push me off the edge and an hero?
I'm crushingly lonely and in a college without any future prospects.
I refer to books such as Sorrows of Young Werther or Stoner.
There is no way to know until you try.
Read Meditations, pussy.
It depends on your take of the books of course.
If you see light it will give it to you, if you see darkness you will read that too. Your mind poisons your reading.
Let's talk about the greatest American poet /lit/
>>7660159
you go ahead, anon
neither of these people are edgar Allan poe. Thread failed.
>>7660649lol
any good books that serve as a good intro / overview to / of feminist theory / care ethics?
Beauvoir's Second Sex? I have a friend that swears by it.
Oh and for care ethics, look in to Rudolf Steiner.
the golden notebook^1
1. i don't really know if this does or not
I need some books that would help me understand complex political theory, geopolitics, etc.
I just finished reading Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington and I found it really interesting.
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury is fantastic for understanding the impact of perceived Soviet espionage in the 1950s, as well as the diplomatic process toward a resolution. It's also a valiant effort at chronicling the machinations of the Senate, which is often poorly done. Would recommend
>>7664599
Thank you, I will be sure to check it out
Anything that would help me understand the international political processes
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer
Theory of International Politics by Kenneth Waltz
Politics Among Nations by Hans Morgenthau
Social Theory of International Politics by Alexander Wendt
World Order by Henry Kissinger
