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The future of poetry:
https://youtu.be/g4Q1jZ-LOT0
An honor student in the pre-school of resentment
Where did modern poetry go so wrong?
At what point did poets give up on craft and instead concentrate on self-absorbed, narcissistic ejaculations.
lol
The world is a big place OP
Ignore the trash
I just tried to start reading this. I had to put it aside after barely making it through the first chapter. The preface from the author says people will either love or hate it, and I can see why.
From the first chapter:
>He asked boldly.
>The woman smiled coldly.
>her features thin and unmemorable
>he muttered, under his breath, as if the words were not meant for anyone else's ears.
>The commander's eyes narrowed, gauging.
Show, don't tell, for fuck's sake. This book is quite literally someone transcribing their tabletop campaign. No wonder it took years to get off the ground. I'd rather read someone's description of their dream written thirty seconds after they woke up. At least that would have some substance.
The book starts with a "Dramatis Personae" that lists off a hundred and twenty-two characters, telling me who is who's lover and which assassin belongs to which clan. The first chapter opens with some turgid verse a la Lord of the Rings directly followed by faux oral history, both given actual chapter and verse numbers. I guess I have to give Erikson props for forcing his dreams and ambitions on people until someone caved and published this. If I've learned anything here it's that what my parents and teachers taught me is wrong and I should badger people until I get my way.
Someone here recommended this series. Why? Was it as a joke? Do you enjoy this? Can you explain why?
The first novel is complete garbage, didn't read further.
It's an excrement of a dnd playing neckbeard who never went beyond fantasy and it shows.
>>8277507
Are you sure someone didn't just recommend Steve Erickson (a cool author endorsed by Pynchon) and you got the names mixed up?
There are no excuses. The first novel is trash. The second, third, and fourth novel are some of the best pieces of high fantasy you will ever read.
I ordered a brand new book on amazon for 10 dollars with prime shipping and they sent me a rough used copy. Should I even bother sending it back for a refund? It's so much fucking work.
Try complaining to them, not us.
>>8277502
You don't really get the nature of the question.
>>8277504
I do I just don't care about your life.
Am I pretentious if I like and try to emulate the existentialist image, while also genuinely subscribing to it's school of thought?
Nah that just means you're a sheeple with no originality
I don't understand this retarded question. Are you saying you like to dress and think like Camus or something?
>>8277483
This is actually the answer I was looking for. Thanks, time to kill myself.
What literary series are there? Most series I see (like books in a series, e.g. a trilogy) are genre fiction, generally fantasy and science fiction.
What are some example of series' in literary fiction?
Proust
Faust
As good as everything Dostoyevsky
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Epic Cycle
Inferno, Purgatoria, Paradiso
etc etc
vote on what book I read next http://www.strawpoll.me/10740181
is Hogg by Samuel R Delany on that list?
>>8277663
I hate fags, so no.
i vote kys
Why do the humanities hate intellectual diversity?
Properly speaking this is
>>>/his/
>>>/pol/
At the risk of helping a dumb thread along, let me just say that the concept of "intellectual diversity" is absurd: we would not expect a flat earther to be in every physics department.
Second, "the humanities" should not be confused with "university departments in the humanities since the 1960's." It's well known that certain departments have been inclined to...
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>>8277339
>we would not expect a flat earther to be in every physics department.
That's because physics is objective. The humanities are subjective, and as such should welcome dissenting opinions.
>>8277339
Listen, I despise as much as you to such people (/pol/tards), but ... Anyway, read this text. Cultural Marxism is everywhere you like it or not...
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2016/february-16/psychological-science-and-viewpoint-diversity.html
recommend some happy lit
Don Quixote by Cervantes never fails to give me a few good chuckles, i recommend it highly if you haven't already read it.
siddhartha by hesse
dreamers by knut hamsun
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How to convert pdf to azw3/mobi in such a way you get normal paragraphs? I converted it in default settings and got this. It's indeed readable, but still wish it wasn't so messy.
>>8277193
As far as I know a PDF doesn't contain any explicit information about how it was formatted, in this regard it works more like an image than a text file. The only way of extracting the raw text is through optical character recognition (OCR), where each character is isolated and identified through comparisons with known characters. Often the user of the OCR software needs to manually identify the first occurrences of some characters before the software can reliably recognise them.
As you can imagine the...
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>>8277308
>As far as I know a PDF doesn't contain any explicit information about how it was formatted
I should have written "...about how it was originally constructed"
>>8277193
What book is it? I bet libgen has an epub which is very easy to convert to mobi using calibre.
Hello, over the years I have read that /lit/ is the smartest board, maybe because usual 4chan users do not wander around here.
I thought Ill take advice from /adv/, but posts there are really uninviting.
I recently realized that I emotionally invest in politics, bad government decisions, money squandered on shady deals. I tried to take on the Carlin-esque spectator approach, but still I lose my health and nerves over things that I cannot change.
If one is like this now, can he change ?
"What can change the nature of man ?"
>>8277169
That's up for debate
>>8277176
I mean the
>>8277169
>smartest board
Part
>>8277169
Read Seneca
What would he say about the state of the modern world?
nigger
He would surely be horrified and shocked, probably more so at the state of individuals than at the state of the environment.
Thoreau was one of several writers who have led me to start thinking of the political, economic and environmental problems of our time as direct causes of a general degradation in the quality of individual human persons.
Are there any Asian fantasy books in a similar vein as "A Song of Ice and Fire," preferably written by someone more competent than GRRM? ASOIAF is bogged down by lousy writing from a mechanical standpoint, but I do like the idea of seeing the story of an empire being told through many perspectives.
I think it would be cool to see something like the Warring States period or the rise of the Shogunate put through a fantasy filter the way GRRM did with the War of the Roses.
If such a novel does not exist, please go write one. I want to read it.
>>8277140
There is always Legend of the Galactic heroes, it is sci-fi but heavily inspired by three memedom wars. Hard to say it is "game of thrones in space" but they are similar in realism aspect, albeit logh takes a bit more romantic approach.
2/10 novels are translated into English, they are okay albeit not great, there is also the animu which is considered a classic.
>>8277143
Thanks, I'll check it out. Is it worth reading the books first, or is the animu that better?
>>8277144
That much better*
What the fuck is his problem?
Melville already lays into him better than I could.
He's a dispassionate Christfag wagecuck who thinks based old Ahab is a blaspheming psycho who's going to carry them to oblivion, and he's right, but still. When they introduced him I thought he would be one of the cooler characters but Stubb is the best officer on board after Ahab.
I have about 70 pages of it left. I just finished the part where he forges his new harpoon for Moby Dick and baptizes it in blood, I had a raging boner the whole passage.
>"Ego non baptizo...
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>>8277146
Starbuck was the only decent human being on that entire damn ship.
>>8277171
the savages were pretty based, although the gay vibes from queequeg we are a little weird
I wanna read the Greeks, give me some good translations of the basic works.
>>>>sticky>>>
>>8277115
>translations
You don't want to read the Greeks.
Listen to Michael Sugrue
"Moby Dick is about a lot more than whales, and Socratic philosophy is about a lot more than a wise man walking around saying enigmatic, sometimes ironic things"
Lecture on Love and more
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/plato-socrates-and-the-dialogues.html
#13
Is there an album w better writing than this?
BUMP
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do you seriously think that bob dylan is a better song writer than joni mitchell and joanna newsom?
>>8277523
or meghan trainor or shupac?
