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Magical realism is shit.
literally only a lazy plot device to legitimize a narrative that offers nothing other than the shitty surrealism.
Prove me wrong
how would you achieve a better result but with "effort"?
gr8 db8 m8
> Salman Rushdie
> shitty surrealism
kek
Either you are a cynic and lack any suspension of disbelief or you have such shit taste you can't even appreciate the level of beauty and complexity in the S.V. writing
What does /lit/ think of this new development in poetics? From concrete, to found, to instagram; a whole new generation of poets is rising. Is it good? Is it inane teenage shit?
So long as poetry is relegated to whining about social issues and not the effacement of the beauty of language, it will be dead.
Now please shit on this post.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/23/instapoets-instagram-twitter-poetry-lang-leav-rupi-kaur-tyler-knott-gregson
>Kaur, an artist and poet who lives in Toronto, says on her website that she writes about the “experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity”. She already made headlines through her Instagram account earlier this year, when she posted a picture of herself in bed with a small amount of menstrual blood staining her pyjamas and sheets, a photograph which Instagram temporarily banned.
>On...
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All I know is this Lang Leav character makes the rest of that shit look like Whitman. Holy fuck. What a worthless fraud.
So if I found Part 1 to be a waste of time, is there even a point to finishing this shit?
nope. not much else will happen.
>>7385560
Disappointing. I guess the wikipedia article was just written by an enormous fanboy blowing smoke
>Have you read The Magic Mountain?
>I read the first part, but I found it too boring to continue.
>Oh, okay.
>[What a fucking piece of shit pleb holy fuck.]*
>* "[...]" denotes internal thoughts
Your choice whether or not you want this to be how people treat you the rest of your life.
I'm 13 novels deep into this series, I just cant stop, haven't loved a series this much in a really long time. although ill admit I had to struggle to get through some of the mid novels.
can we get a thread about the wheel of time series going?
mostly I'm interested in your thoughts on why it hasnt been turned into a series or set of movies yet. surely there is enough likable and complex characters and the story is more then unique enough to garner an audience
am I right in assuming that Olver is Bridgettes endless love reborn?
Finished it yesterday.
Loved every moment of it, even though it's true that the middle books are a bit tiresome.
I think the final volume is my favourite.
>series
Saged. Hidden.
>>7385415
It is. I heard it's getting a series.
The good thing about Game of Thrones is that everybody is clamoring to make a fantasy series now. I heard the Magician's Tree (?) and one of Tamora Pierce's series is getting a tv show.
But I've heard a lot of things, so who knows.
I'm generally liberal but wish to know more about conservative beliefs. Can any one recommend books that give a good account of moderate (ie. no Hitler) conservative views? Bonus points if it gives some contrast or rebuttals to contemporary liberal/progressive ideals.
Both Harold Bloom and Allen Bloom are easy to get into and put up some solid rebuttals to liberalism/progressivism (focus on post 1960s America)
Read a bit of Edmund Burke if you want to get into the political/historical side of conservative ideas. Can still apply to contemporary ideas.
If you've got any Catholic (or generally liturgical Christian) inclinations, GK Chesterton is a lot of fun. CS Lewis is his Protestant version (Screwtape Letters a must for everyone).
just stop being a pinko commie desu senpai~
>Hitler
>A National Socialist
>Held Conservative Views
Shaking my head family, shaking my head.
...exactly what is a Quantum Storytelling...
>>7385353
Pretty hot whos this
>>7385353
...in the teleological movement that arises from vibrant-matter or is it potentia-living-matter...
... mattering and storytelling are in an intra-active relationship...
...Storytelling is not just a sensemaking or linguistic account, it is also about mattering...
... Storytelling is the teleological movement that arises from timespacemattering that is not strictly reducible to sensemaking consciousness...
My girlfriend only reads young adult books like harry/twillight/hunger etc.
What is a good book gift to gift her as a stepping stone to some more "real" literature?
I have no idea
i have a stupid girlfriend who only reads that shit too, but i've been suggesting her to read the wheel of time series. idk. opposites attract. get her to cook or suck your dick more or something while you handle the intelligent side of the relationship
maybe Hemingway, that halfnasal whine of any of his characters will ultimate be counteracted by the works´ literariness.
I've been very depressed lately. I feel empty. Nothing really keeps me entertained or makes me feel much of anything. I figured a book is a good idea. I guess this is a broad question, but whats a book that could change my life or whatever?
Pic related, it's the last book that "changed my life".
bump?
>>7385270
Oh. Oh. This is a fun one.
Uhmmm. Let me see.
Coming Through Slaughter
Probably the last book that "changed my life"
>>7385270
Notes from the Underground
What do you prefer? Writing on paper with lines or writing on blank paper?
I'm midway through my masterpiece on lined paper, and I'm having a neurotic ocd fit because for some reason I remember reading somewhere that great authors should write on blank pages because it helps creativity.
What do you guys prefer? What did the greats do?
>>7385238
Hurr a durr think outside the lines
Hurr a durr don't conform to established rules
>>7385238
Quad ruled master race desu senpai
>>7385238
>Handwriting
How does it feel living in the past
Does /lit/ have any personal recommendations for reading the Greeks? Any good links or charts for myths/philosophy/plays?
bump for interrest
Aristophanes is pretty based, and easy to get into. Makes for light reading compared to the philosophies and epics that are the "must-reads"
Fart jokes are truly universal
>>7385236
Saved from my thread last week. (1/2)
what are the best books for learning how to write better?
>>7385174
swtg
>>7385174
Good books - especially what I guess is called the 'Western Canon'.
>>7385174
Just read.
Now that the dust has settled...is it shit?
It's required reading. Says so right there Ya dunce.
>>7385146
>It's required reading.
>Toni Morrison.
How about no.
Pretty irrelevant to where I live. Even so I've read more than enough black gripe stories. I also find it irritating that this is the guy who wants white people to pay black people trillions of dollars in "reparations."
Can you imagine the chaos? Months of alcohol fueled riots, people walking away from their jobs, buying luxury goods, and then ending up just as impoverished as they were before. Except for a clever minority that makese a killing of the stupidity of white liberals. It's disgusting and hateful idea.
No matter eloquent this fellow...
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>walk into used bookstore
>see used copies of philosophy books
>not textbooks but primary sources
>feel like my unique esotericism has been shattered
This feeling is stupid but it keeps happening.The other day I saw a full set of Hegel's Encyclopedia in German.
>>7385069
why?
not sure what you're getting at
What?
Infinite Jest
Immortal Joy
>ends
You guys just don't fucking get it. Jesus. I mean, how can so many people posing to be so many things get so much so wrong so often and so completely implausibly? I just can't even begin to grasp the grease soaked truth that is all of your undeniable pads of intellectual shoulder meat that you braise in the overly reductive bourdelaise sauce stirred by nature's nefarious specter of glum n 'turbation and his sommelier buddy George who's just here for the weekend.
I mean, FUCK. You guys just think that you're all the tartest in the smarties...
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are the canon writers like cervantes and shakespeare just too good or is the average person/writer just mediocre as fuck?
I don't buy the genius label people use on them.
I do believe someone in 2015 with enough IQ and really studying the rules of writing, like figures of speech, storytelling, hero's journey, script writing, poetrhy, read the basis of philosophy, economy, psychology, teology, sociology (by basis I mean, intro first year college books at least), have read at least the western canon, etc, could produce something of better quality than older...
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>>7384930
>hero's journey
>>7384930
Of course it is possible for someone do outdo them, but the average person, no matter the time, will never be capable of doing so.
>>7384939
so, can we agree the average person is mediocre as fuck and don't wanna get gud?
