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what's a truly disturbing book? I don't mean like some gore fest, or just saying things in a way that's designed to evoke disgust. I mean like kafka, a book that makes you face a reality you may not enjoy, except I am looking for a book that says things that are so difficult to handle, it may leave you feeling very depressed.
>>8084627
Any self-published book, especially ones spammed here like gasautist's and that other guy's. In that it's disgusting that they're "books".
>>8084634
lol
The Painted Bird
Is this a decent version of the Arthurian legend?
Not op but also curious
>>8084602
holy fuck who cares. it's one of the best books of all time. it's so damn funny. then hilariously tragic. one of the few literary fantasy books. although it doesn't go in too deep about the other Knights and shit. it goes super deep with Arthur. him as a kid was wicked. lancelot is pretty funny in it aswell. he's truly retarded. the author even tells you to read thomas mallory if you want the ultra detailed version. it's a must read for anyone. even if you think genre fiction is shit.
king...
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>>8084629
Is it truly genre fiction if it's an adaptation of older legends and doesn't necessarily attempt to conform to any one genre as a individual piece of work?
Thoughts on how to make this less edgy/better in general?
Hiro stood ankle-deep in the reddish-brown mud, cold rain pouring down on his lowered head. He wiped his sword off on his already soaked and dirty sleeve before returning it to its sheath. Any more fighting would be pointless. He had heard that Lord Imagawa had already been slain, and he could see his remaining forces scattering into the surrounding forest.
So this was war. Hiro had seen death before; a lot of it, but never to this extent. Victory had been so certain, but the Oda had swept in from the forest...
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>>8084462
can't find anything I don't like about it tbdesu, got more?
>>8084487
Are they changing desu to desu automatically?
>>8084487
this is all I have so far. Was thinking of making it part of a short story about a ninja in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Wasn't sure if I should continue it though.
Anon posted this earlier in a general >>8078729. Any suggestions on which one to start with? Which one is the best?
>>8084438
never let me go is one of the best novels of all time. it will teach you to stop wasting time in your life.
>>8084438
>Samuel Delaney
>Ursula K. Le Guin
good stuff
Seems to be a theme of power
Isn't it wonderful?
>Wild eyes were another sign. It is something I have seldom seen — the expression of an ecstatic state — though much is foolishly written of them, as if they grew like Jerusalem artichokes along the road. The eyes are black, right enough, whatever their normal color is; they are black because their perception is condensed to a coal, because the touch and taste and perfume of the lover, the outcry of a dirty word, a welcome river, have been reduced in the heat of passion to a black ash, and this unburnt residue of oxidation,...
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one and a half sentences in and I'm already annoyed by his too-frequent alliteration
also fuck off Gassposter
McCarthy does it better
>>8084379
too try hard
WELL? HOW CAN I?
Haha jk lol. Femanon here. Unlike science philosophy is never right or wrong. Philosophical problems are genuinely unanswerable. And that's what's so AWESOME about them! Any books with funny questions and paradoxes like pic related?
Love Hank and John <3
because frankfurt counterexamples
now put shoe on head
>>8084052
heres
youre
respons
This is a good one too! Also in this video Hank referred to "a philosopher" as she! Not he or they! He just does the right thing and doesn't make a big deal out of it. And that's awesome.
Happy 100th Birthday
>>8084009
big fat penis
>>8084010
this
so what the hell is this fuckers deal why do you fags wanna suck his dick so bad
Why does Stirner believe that one should be an egoist?
He says that "I for one take a lesson from them", so did he just see that everything and everyone acts narcissistically and decided to act in likewise fashion, if so then what's the justification?
Or is it because once one despooks oneself all one can think is for itself? If so then that's just retroactively justifying his egoism, what prompted him to think egoistically in the first place, why should one despook himself in the first place?
If the last question assumes a normative statement, then...
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>justification
heh...you just activated my trap card
>>8083849
>Why does Stirner believe that one should be an egoist?
Because he was extremely insecure that no one else cares about him so a philosophy in which carer for others is bad was appealing to him
Wonder if he ever talked about his relationship to his mother
New thought just popped into my head, is it because you can change rationality and reason to justify whatever you want, and even if you pick one that "contradicts" him you're still acting egoistically (to your own end)?
>in a spanish bar
>this guy walks up and slaps your gf ass
wat do
give him electroshock therapy until he kills himself
>"bet you could have slapped her ass harder if you weren't such a flabby, old tryhard. Least I can still get it up. If you were half the man you claimed to be, you would've died in the trenches"
>two weeks later
>blows brains out
>>8083764
guffawed
Who has the best poetic prose? Why?
>>8083558
st augustine
>>8083558
Gass: no other author has the range of expression and style, and no other author can compose a sentence like he can.
Just read actual poetry desu
>"yeah i love reading"
>***LISTENS*** to audiobooks
>"I love David Foster Wallace!"
>has only read his essays
>>8083466
i like the one about water
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>>8083466
>dfw reaction image collection
>didnt even listen to his shitty youtube speech
what am I in for, /lit/?
>the 1922 text
you fucked up
It's the greatest novel ever written. It's large, sprawling, and full of imperfections that somehow make it perfect
It is the Trout Mask Replica of lit
>>8082428
Yup, what a great idea to produce a copy of Ulysses with all of the original mistakes unfixed.
>professor calls me a pleb
>professor is a pleb
>pleb professor calls me a pleb
>pleb calls me a professor
Does anyone have a version of this chart for /lit/
>>8081219
Yes
>>8081232
Okay, good
This has the same concept, really--the deeper you go, the more strange, obscure, experimental, and difficult it gets. Remember, though: it's not a measure of quality.
>When I first started college, I promised myself I'd have a published book by the time I graduated
>I'm now 24 and haven't even had anything published in a magazine, let alone a entire book
I can't help but feel that no, we are not all going to make it.
>he fell for the "you won't be a failure" meme
Haha
>>8080557
But you won't be a failure as long as you keep trying
>>8080549
Have you ever read a book in your entire fucking life? There's hardly anything out there that doesn't hump your face with the message that failure is a part of life and you need to accept yourself for who you are. Are you just retarded or what?
