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Is it possible to become a good writer in two years?
>>7566359
it is very possible to become a better writer than you are in now in 2 years.
read and write everyday.
>>7566359
My knee-jerk response is "absolutely not."
My considered response is: "where is your starting point?"
My own writing only matured after about three years of drivel (started seriously at 17). Rimbaud, Pessoa, Dylan Thomas and other precocious writers started reading and writing much earlier, as children. And they are the exceptional cases, bear in mind.
>>7566373
21 and don't write fiction regularly
I'm writing an essay analysis on this shitty book. It's due in 8 days, and I've only read 40 pages.
Please help me by telling me some points I can write about.
Thanks!
>>7564593
Big Brother did literally nothing wrong
>>7564593
penis in saggy vagina
>>7564595
In the theme of essay-writing, please expand, with supporting evidence.
In what order should I read his major novels?
If you have to ask an ancient egyption papyrus board, you're not even going to make it through the first one you pick.
objective truth:
>notes from underground
>crime and punishment
>demons
>the idiot
>brothers Karamazov
>>7563596
/thread
Are there any science students here? What do you study and what's your take on literary fiction? Is it just a waste of time?
>>7563142
>What do you study and what's your take on literary fiction? Is it just a waste of time?
Why would we be on lit if this is what we thought?
>>7563154
To tell people who like literary fiction that we don't consider it a worthwhile activity
stemfag here
i like books
What do you think /lit/?
Is tagging a piece of work as "pretentious" an invalid criticism of poetry or literature?
>>7562076
most of the time - yes
>>7562076
whoops forgot the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSQYEM524aE
She's hot desu
who /swedishstudent/ here?
uppsala reporting in. despite having kulturintresserade friends and whatnot (at least they've studied writing/cultural history/lit, which is more than most il/lit/erates), i'm having trouble finding people (read: anyone desu) who are genuinely interested in reading something as basic as classics
>not thinking starting an anonymous book circle or anything of the likes is such a bad idea
pls help. i'm serious
(pic semi-related, not a big fan of stenmark)
I feel you. Studying at Chalmers, haven't met a single person who doesn't think reading is a waste of time. I feel like a massive idiot every time I do a bit of late night reading in the studying halls.
Gjorde du inte denna tråden för en kvart sen?
>>7562069
why are swedish guys so qt
Is there a more spectacular blunder possible than reading Nietzsche as your very first philosopher?
I mean, fuck. At least read Plato first.
... really? I ... kind of was going to start reading it this monday.
>>7561542
Don't listen to him. Just take your time and read him thoroughly; anything you don't understand just look up.
Nietzsche is very much based off older authors, but at the same time is highly idiosyncratic in both his style/methods and his goals. As long as you stay vigilant throughout the reading, you should be able to get something from it.
>>7561542
Don't listen to OP. Nietzsche is a lot of fun and pretty profound.
/lit/, what's the nicest (or most memorable) thing a stranger said about your writing?
"Reminds me of Bret Easton Ellis but more wordy"
>>7561016
>it's shit
Is he still worth reading in 2016? I've only read pic related and found the subject matter to be very dated. Underworld is, apparently, one of the greatest novels of the post-modern era. Worth the time or are we past it?
>>7560897
Haven't read Underworld, but I can tell you that White Noise, surprisingly, is pretty much as relevant a commentary on media and technology today as it was in '85
>>7560897
>the paralyzing fear of ones own inevitable demise
yeah such dated themes
It's only 'dated' insofar as it addresses the foundation of our times. How is that not worth reading?
Alright guys! So we're off a great start! We've chosen the type of text that the project will, we've chosen what the topic will be, and we've chosen who it will be about. Now we can start writing!
So, just to recap everything:
This project will be a short story collection.
The topic is:
"Pick one figure, real or fictional, whom we all admire, and write a collection of short stories some how revolving around that figure, tying it together in a single round of editing at the end.
The stories don't even have to feature that...
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>>7560292
It seems that you've removed a great deal of short stories.
Are you planning to leave the others currently in the file?
- a concerned author
Are you planning to leave the ones left over?
>>7560336
Since those short stories were written before the topic was decided, I felt that they were no long relevant, so I've removed them
I don't plan on removed anymore that are currently in the file, although one or two don't have much to do with either DFW or Zizek.
>>7560347
Some of them might make a great introduction - I mean the poem or the Empty Man novella. How about that?
Hey guys, I'm thinking of picking up a copy of pic related.
Can anyone suggest some more contemporary literature (2000-present) worth reading?
>contemporary literature
top kek
Kazuo Ishiguro
I read Banville's Mefisto and it was good if you're into Faust myths. He seemed like he had some interesting things to say and The Sea is supposed to be his most acclaimed book so go for it.
>>7560247
I always feared, perhaps irrationally, that Ishiguro was just a classic middle-brow patrician spilling out stylistically conservative novels with enough skill and know-how to rack up a bit of critical acclaim among Guardianistas without rocking the boat too hard.
I will rectify my ignorance and presumptuousness at once. Where do you suggest I start?
Come up with a new name for Science.
Weakness
>>7560204
knowence
Emptiness
The whole "to each according to his needs" thing in Critique of the Gotha Program is, i think, a good idea when we are talking about access to healthcare, tools for the disabled, food and water donations, e.t.c. but the idea that we should redistribute actual wealth just seems like retarded nonsense, i have never met anyone intelligent who believes in it
I think the wealth of the earth belongs to its inhabitants. Having your own property so long as you or your families uses it is fine, but owning miles and miles of land that other people work, is just greed.
>>7559922
It's an ideal built upon jealously and envy that put into practice, is a good way to break human rights, kill off people and ruin nature. And yet people keep saying "maybe next time".
>>7559922
How sure are you that we can trust your ability to assess intelligence?
When you say the redistribution of wealth, do you exclusively mean money, or do you include things like businesses and property?
>left wing nietzschean
that's only two terms you didn't understand, OP, you're not even trying
nietzsche was the first cultural marxist
>>7559404
Why is that anime girl so turned on by left wing Nietzscheans? It's pretty lewd.
Lets talk about the Bible, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Crime and Punishment and any other Christian literature you can think of.
>>7559400
20th century had a lot of great Catholic authors, Greene, Tolkien, Wolfe, O'Connor, Chesterton. Any more notable ones? Especially outside English language.
>>7559400
>Christians in charge of literature
Books with Christian themes that aren't direct bible fan fiction are trash. Yes, even Dostoevsky.
>>7559406
Shusaku Endo
