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What read first from my plebby first book collection, /lit/?
Hamlet
I did my best trying to find a good book there but I couldn't. Sorry.
>>8106445
Translation: it's not /lit/core therefore it's bad
OT: Go read Catch-22 I guess.
> So it goes.
What did he mean by this?
>>8106362
but it do
it is known
>>8106370
>ywn be her panties
Where do I go from here if I absolutely loved this book?
de Sade
Immediately pay for a wordpress-based blog site and make the title of the site something edgy and lowercase and maybe a literary quote and then give the site a minimalist style that you found on the Internet and get frustrated that you can't remove the annoying "STYLE BIZWIZBINGBONG, BY RASHID KHALIM @ STYLEDESIGNS.TK" from the bottom and then fail to understand some nuance of the layout so it kind of looks weird and you didn't set the fonts right but start posting your poems about Bataille and sex and drugs immediately and link it to your friends and family...
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>>8106361
a good psychatrist
This is a work in progress on anxiety and introspection, also, a girl. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Should I keep at it?
edit: its 3 paragraphs long
its shit kys
>>8106302
You're just like me except you don't have the sense to realize you don't have anything interesting to say.
You should keep at it though, if only for personal purposes. Nobody is a great writer from the first narrative they write. Continue with the introspection, maybe someday you and me both might have the insight or the talent to propel a novel.
if you actually read this, you wouldn't consider it a meme. why do you think it's a meme anyway?
cause jonathan franzen said it was hard and he's real smart
>>8106288
loooooooooooooool
>>8106281
I'm reading it right now and it's definitely a meme.
>Otto
>all the shitpost-like jabs at Hemingway
>metaphysical reveries about dicks
>"My name is Recktall Brown."
>copious use of the word nigger
>"He told me he was a positive negativist."
It's a great book, but it's undeniably memetic.
What's /lit/'s opinion on this?
>>8106164
Edgy for YA. Unremarkable otherwise.
>>8106164
3+ years ago there were constant threads about it
>>8106164
Not bad, but that 'twist' seemed kind of pointless. Didn't really add anything to the story and in fact took a lot away from my interpretation. Mental illness doesn't have a 'reason' or direct cause in 90 percent of cases.
Do you think the philosopher's native language shapes his philosophy?
Are Anglos more analytic and the French more continental because of the language they use necessarily shaping their thoughts in such directions, for example?
>>8106159
Probably more broadly cultural than just linguistic.
>>8106171
This. There are plenty of great French mathematicians and scientists, so the language itself does not induce irrationality and nonsense.
>Anglos
I'm going to Japan in a few weeks, I have read many books from Japan but only a couple of books in actual japanese.
So, Im planning to get a bunch in a second hand book store: No longer Human, a couple of meme Murakami, Kinkakuji, Kokoro and I am a cat. What else should I get?
And in a related note, do you believe that original works are always superior?
Abe, Oe, Kawabata, Tanizaki, Endo, and Mishima.
The box man by kobo Abe: -)
Check out Japanese Kurt Vonnegut at least once.
Would you keep reading after the beginning of this short story?
>http://pastebin.com/zYEJXTjp
Also post your writing here
You've posted this like eight times. I still don't want to read past the first thought.
>>8105970
Depends on how long it is, but sure, I would read some more.
Stop nominalizing, it makes you sound very dumb.
Just finished pic related. What other Dostoyevsky books do I read next? I have no idea what novel of his to read next.
I hated this book. The main character felt utterly ridiculous and in no way realistic let alone relatable - which made it even more of a disappointment because it didn't make up for the senseless drivel of the first part of the book.
>>8105863
C&P
>>8105863
crime and punishment and then brothers karamazov. after youve done them you can do any of the others, but those two are obligatory.
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Is Stephen King a great writer? I enjoy reading his novels, I find his stories compelling and suspensful, but his writing seems to be fairly simplistic. Is he actually really good or just a Pop writer?
>>8105645
He's a good storyteller for the most part IMO. My favorite by him was Carrie and IT. Which I thought were written very well.
But I do like his advice on not keeping a notebook for writing ideas.
>>8105645
He admits himself he's a pop writer. Though most of the time, he's not even a very good pop writer. His plots always disappoint, he reuses characters, and his actual writing is slipshod and full of cliches. He can be quite good and avoid these if he takes his time, but he doesn't do that too often.
>Everything before lead up to him
>Everything after was degeneration
Did Plotinus finish philosophy?
who?
>>8105651
Google you idiot
Plotinus is good but you should also check out other neoplatonists especially Poryphory and Proclus.
Hi /lit/, what are some fun genre novels about two geniuses locked in a long-distance, high-stakes game of cat and mouse? The sort of thriller that plays out like a detective versus criminal chess match.
>>8105590
The Surgeon is pretty good.
Thirteen also has elements of this, and is cool in general.
>>8105590
Angels and Demons :^)
Why is it out of print?
Its critique of capitalism was too threatening to the system so They are trying to supress it.
>>8105508
There are enough extant printed copies to satisfy the demand for printed copies, therefore no commercial basis to print more
Also the cheapest copy I can find on Abe costs 80 euros. What the hell is up with this book?
Why is Cyberpunk such a limited genre within literature, but so thoroughly embraced by other media? It seems like true-to-form cyberpunk literature is something that happened within the blink of an eye in the 1980s and then immediately became more of a toolshed where writers of other genres could borrow some easy plot hooks and themes.
Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like every "top X cyberpunk novels" list is 50% classics that all happened within said blink, and 50% works that only borrow from cyberpunk, without actually belonging to the genre.
Its just an aesthetic, so visual mediums can use it to more effect.
Theres really nothing in the Cyberpunk genre that standard sci-fi hasnt already done without the label
>>8105422
This is the third anti-Cyberpunk thread I've seen in /lit/ the past couple of weeks.
Is there any reason why you keep posting this same ideal over and over again? You seem spooked.
>>8106622
He's not against cyberpunk, he's asking why it peaked once and then kind of disappeared in literature - which is kind of true, if you compare it to music/film/videogames.
>>8105422
Well I don't really agree with you - cyberpunk is not dead, but when you define it as "like Neuromancer kinda" well, that's when you get the classics-only list. A few contemporary examples of the genre could be Dreams of Amputation, Blindsight and William...
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