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What are some good books about individualist anarchism?
>>8086528
stirner
>>8086528
>"Anarcho"-Capitalism
>"Individualist
You're gonna be collectively slaving away for the benefit of whichever lord... I mean "CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY" enslaves you... I mean, writes up a contract of indentured servitude with you.
Stirner
Proudhon
You guys are about to fall in love wayy to hard.
Brace yourselves:
http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1464247881561.webmOdds and ends lie scattered about
Strangers, friends are left in doubt
To what was inside them in years gone before
What was behind the door?
>>8086388
Eh no thanks, she has a bad case of Britface
>>8086406
Pic very related
bump for poetic introvert cutie.
Why do you hate me so much, /lit/? Is it just because I'm successful and you're not?
Curious, what exactly is wrong with Coelho's texts? Why are they so bad?
>>8086625
There is a pasta? I haven't actually seen it. I-I'm sorry... I got into an argument with a retarded friend about Coelho being shit, and instead of reading The Alchemist I wanted the 5 minute version from /lit/...
Are you creative and playful with your brain ?!?
>>8086206
YeA we have sex every night
Stories (and even individual parts of stories) have a resonant, alchemical relationship with the way
we experience life
>there are people that still believe in the right left hemisphere dichotomy
I've tried to get into books, really I have. I started with the Greeks, tried to work my way through the works of Plato then the Iliad and Odyssey. Tried a bit of oriental philosophy books along with Sun Tzu's Art of War. And I just...don't feel it. I really don't feel any motivation to keep going with it. Even fictional books meant to be 'fun' and whatnot bore me. I think there are two main problems I have with books.
A) Very often people take 30-50 pages to describe a concept that could economically be explained in 3 paragraphs or less if you...
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>>8086131
read what seems interesting to you, not some lit memes
A) Just a case of reading better books, good writers know not to waste a single word.
B) It's probably better to finish a book before arguing with it, but if you dont like it just drop it.
Aside from that ask yourself why are you reading anyway, because of some vague idea of being "well read", or are you actually interested in reading them?
>>8086131
Just start with some good fiction book that is highly related with you
The Japanese read horror during the summer because it "gives them the chills" and helps cool them off accordingly.
Time to scare the bejeezus out of ourselves.
Post more holy-living-christ-what-was-that-noise-I'm-sleeping-with-the-lights-on-forever-tier horror novels.
Pic Related.
>>8086095
Only book I've read that induced actual fear is Night Work, by Thomas Glavinic.
A man wakes up one morning and everyone else is gone. It's like a zombie movie with no zombies, just utter existential dread.
>>8086095
October- December is the only correct time to read horror
Fuck off Japan
>>8086453
pshaw
even ray bradbury wrote that sort of crap (and we were forced to read it in the school, phh), 'the vacation', who cares of some australian from 50 years past bradbury
Hey /lit/, I'm looking for non-fic with god-tier prose, interested in any subject I guess. One example of this would be James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Not really interested in memoirs (it's mostly whiny middle-aged women), but if the prose is absolutely top-notch (as in Nabokov's Speak, Memory) then I'll accept it.
We could also turn this into a non-fic sharethread, if anyone's interested.
>>8086041
Anything Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Chesterton or Belloc desu
>>8086041
La Bible d'Amiens - Proust
Anything by Walter Isaacson
Essays - Montaigne
Illuminations - Benjamin
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti - Rokeach
Theological-Political Treatise - Spinoza
Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche
Laocoön - Lessing
Why Read the Classics? - Calvino
Im not sure Devil in the White City counts but I'll include it
>>8086539
Oh and The Goshawk - White
Just writing this in the post box, tell me what you think of it
Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware,- the Sleds re brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stocking'd-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by the ringing Lids of various Boilers and Stewing-Pots, fragrant with Pie-Spices, peel'd Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar,- the Children, having all upon the Fly, among rhythmic slaps of Batter and Spoon, coax 'd and stolen what they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy Advent, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House, years since given over to their carefree Assaults.
>>8085865
Not bad actually, could be edited to be a bit smoother pacewise
>>8085870
Top pleb
>>8085870
Plebeian.
Was he a overrated hack or was he legit a litterary genius?
>>8085567
neither, wrote a biblical allegory that wasn't suitable for children or adults, creating manbaby literature in the process, which doesn't make him a hack per se
>muh nature
Nobody on this board is qualified to say shit about him.
tfw satan is real and has altered the word of god...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=111&v=jfM4ZX-xO_M
>>8085315
Satan is a fairy-tale and god is a metaphysical being beyond all human comprehension.
The world as you know it is over every nanosecond.
>>8085323
What happened to the bibles anon?
>>8085333
Biblical texts are human history's greatest memes, by which all other memes are measured.
Submissions thread.
Where have you submitted?
Anything accepted?
Anything rejected?
How did your rejection letters go? Any personal ones and not form rejections?
Some retarded local shit rag called Perversion Magazine. 3 months later, no response, and it's a no pay market.
Form letter rejection from Clarkesworld.
Awaiting a response from Phobos.
On the final edit of a short story, horror story, that I worked on in a workshop, will try to find a place to submit that next.
>>8085240
This quote is shit.
Tell that to Faulkner
>>8085240
Rejected from everywhere (20 agents and several publications, though obviously I wasn't sending the agents the same thing as the pubs) expect for some lameass places online that published some of my stuff.
:(
>>8085203
Mannnn I hate that when I'm reading goosebumps
#YaLitYay
>>8085210
>#YaLitYay
Just googled that. What the fuck is this shit?
Thinking about finally getting an e-reader
Everyone keeps suggesting I get the Kindle Paperwhite
Does /lit/ agree?
>>8085172
Been using mine daily as of late, so I would suggest getting one.
>>8085172
Yes, get a kindle paperwhite.
>muh file formats
use calibre.
>>8085180
What's wrong with the file formats?
splortersplax et en deau. fenderways oer yonder bast blexis and bejoy. attaway lies gold and silver. unto ferrowinds and red you traxk, fleur weighting upon yew. luvibration sleeps low betwixt synapse and skin.
Write something and post it!!!!
JUST DO IT!!!!!
pls respond
>My name is Recktall Brown.
Did I get memed, and why do I like this?
William Gaddis is one of the finest English prose stylists and straight up best authors from 1950-now
>>8084671
I'm on page 400. it's hilarious. otto is a spitting image of most of the people on /lit.
>thinks he can write
>can't really write
>beta
>tries way to hard
>everyone thinks he's gay
it's funny how artfag hipsters never change.
>>8084671
>reading trust fund baby shit
