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I'm after good sexual prose or poetry. It doesn't need to be overly explicit/pornographic, just something lewd that describes various guys and girls and highlights their attractive and erotic characteristics.
Yeah, I'm shit at wording what I'm. But I hope you guys get the idea. I don't mind if its not contemporary and the language is old fashioned.
>>8171095
The Marquis de Sade has good stuff.
- Eugenie de Franval
- Justine
- Juliette
- Philosophy in the Bedroom
>>8171113
Thanks senpai
ulysses
Just getting into Lovecraft. Already read Mountains of Madness, but what is the best order to read his stories in? Which are some of his best works and which are ones I should avoid?
>>8171010
Probably his more famous earlier stories
Then his middle epics
Then his pretty good later works
You can read them in any order, really, I would stick to shorter stories first like Rats In The Walls. Read all of his really great long stories like Call of Cthluhu and Dunwhich Horror. Mix it up with long and short, old and new.
Defiantly read all the short Dream Cycle stories before diving into Dream Quest For Unknown Kadath. Then read the two short sequeals that come after that one.
>>8171010
I feel like i've answered this question ten times in /lit/ but ok...
No special order but i would recommend you now read The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
He is barely readable. Cool ideas he presented and the sort of atmosphere he is known for are part of insufferable stories with bad storytelling, which makes them great for usage in movies and video games, but this literature itself is just appaling.
Some things really do age badly.
In a dictionary. I'm reading pride and prejudice right now and I find I need to look up a lot of words either for a British definition, or an alternate or outdated one. Here's my list:
Whist
Retail
Complaisant
Asperity
Arch(ness)
>>8170934
>tfw you learned what 'arch' meant from Always Sunny
>craythur
>samming
those are all I can remember
>>8170934
I like to look up words whose definitions I know already, for a couple reasons: to check how closely my internal definition matches the external, and to familiarize myself with the etymology, which often adds great depth to my understanding of the word.
One of the words I recently looked up was "moron"
the etymology is interesting: it comes from greek, and literally means "an adult having the mental age of an 8-12 yr old" if I remember correctly.
Pick only one:
>become the greatest philosopher
or
>become the greatest fiction/non-fiction writer
Why choose only one?
>>8170904
Bachelors in philosophy is worth/more meaningful than a career as a writer. Writers are literally all just pseuds.
>>8170913
And philosophers aren't?
It's good so far. Thoughts?
>>8170795
It's next on my to-read list
How are you liking it so far?
>hurrr look at me im reading this doorstopper you guys talk so much about, pls validate me!
You want a pat on the back or something kid?
are you reading it in russian?
The Prince and The Pauper,
The prince, born into a life of luxury,
He never has to work a day in his life, for has everything he would ever need at his fingertips,
He never has to worry about where his next meal will come from,
He has nothing but a care in the world,
Then there's the pauper, born into poverty
Every day he has to work from sun up to sun down, just so he can make ends meet
His life style causes him so much stress, always having to worry about where his next meal will come from,
No matter how hard he tries, he's always...
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Me and My Shadow,
In the end, it's only me and my shadow
The sun bringing light to all of my darkest fears,
And then cower in fear as my own cowardice is brought to the light,
These fears are better left unsaid, for they speak volumes of my own suffering,
This suffering, this shadow that constantly looms over me, during all hours of the day, and even in my dreams,
This shadow tells me of things that I should do,
He tells me to kill, he tells me to slay em' all, he says it'll make everything ok
I don't listen to him, but he...
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>>8170544
The OP and the Dragon dildo
The OP, born into a life of faggotry, takes the dragon dildo and rams it up his anus.
Then he dies of intestinal bleeding.
The end.
Previous: >>8163896
Recommendations
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
Anybody read The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu? I like it so far. Will probably pick up his novel.
>consultcucks
>Book is labeled as sci fi
>It's science fantasy
>"I want to write sci-fi but barely know shit about science"
Do people really earn a lot from writing smut or is it all a meme?
I'm a robot and harbor plenty of lewd fantasies.
go kill yourself
I make rent/food money from writing erotica in melbourne, post more of this potential waifu and I'll tell you more lad.
>>8169878
blackhatforums
search function for amazon erotic, read the millions of threads.
Some of those guys pump out a new "novel" every few days and sell 1000@99 cewnts-1.50 along with residual sales.
What are your opinions on brazilian /lit/? I noticed some people here enjoy pic related andd Drummond, but I really haven't seen geniuses as Machado de Assis mentioned throughout my years of lurking.
Have you read any brazilian books? If so, what were your impressions?; and if not, what is your overview about that country's literary production, if any?
![MarcFerrez_MachadodeAssis[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/tnezIRn.jpg "MarcFerrez_MachadodeAssis[1].jpg")
>>8169590
>this
>a genius
lmao, get back to tumblr, sweetheart
>>8169595
not falling for that, mr Fisher
Olavo Bilac is pretty good. Lispector is cool.
What's a word for if someone, tired of having to go along with pretences, uses dry humour to covertly suggest that what they're saying is funny because it's so very not true?
They'd express it in a deflated, removed way. They're ridiculing that others won't pick up on it, but not with any obvious exaggeration or rudeness. It's like flat irony. It comes across as fairly jovial but an unmutual and detached way of dealing with people. They'll reply to inquiries about them that they can't outright say don't apply with joke...
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omg
>so when you like you
fuck off i tried so hard
>>8169494
Its called watch mike leigh's naked, its /lit/, its free on YT and its you. Its you all over.
>>8169530
well it may not be you all over like bruises black and blue all over but it may well be you with a small bruise on the ankle or wrist.
Define postmodernism
>>8169457
Jewish Mind Tricks
>>8169457
after modernism
Is there a release date yet?
>>8169455
>Crash Course
TP confirmed John Green fan
>>8169469
pinecone has probably never even heard of john green. or he's making fun of him
Is this real?
What are the best books on writing, /lit/?
Certainly not Strunk and White.
At Swim-Two-Birds
Just read books written by masters of the craft and write everyday. Guides are as useful as fucking horoscopes.
What are some novels where the protagonist's motivation is primarily sexual, e.g. Lolita?
Every novel.
>>8165167
fuck off freud
I wanna tickle Cara out of her mind.
Rewrite the sunset squatting scene in the style of your favorite author.
She was shitting quite a bit and the sunset illuminating her brown eye did nothing to tend to her shitting which by the way was a lot of shit and oh man lemme swallow up those turds
For sale : women's breeches. I shat in them.
she poop
