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You lied to me when you said it was a /r9k/ novel !
It's just guys getting drunk in a bar...
I read 40 pages and I don't know if I can continue, his mongoloid style is a bit too much for me.
>>8055074
Who the fuck would call this an /r9k/ novel?
Man up and read The Room, if Last Exit to Brooklyn isn't edgy enough for you.
Hubert Selby, Jr. can tap into the mind of degeneracy better than any other author I can think of.
should've picked the demon instead
>caring what europe thinks of your literature
>caring so little you make a thread about it
>>8054986
Hey Europeans look at me!
Look at how much I don't care about you!
Over here, me with the beard, look how I totally don't care about your opinions.
What do you think of that eh?
Save it, I don't care lol
>>8054986
More like
>caring about what people aged over 16 think of your literature
weird/stupid question time.
has anyone ever written a book where you can't tell what era/year it is?
they leave out defining details.
we listened to music. instead of we listened to the record.
>>8054974
lizards
>>8054974
who is this semen demon?
Random Oldfag Edition
Previous thread >>8046540
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.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/
Any obscuremaybenotsogreat authors you'd like to share?
>>8054973
First for Emperor Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, known to the Fremen of Sietch Tabr as Usul.
>>8054892
>Write what you know, man. Don't write women at all. This is how we end up with Brent Weeks.
What do you mean by that, I thought he wrote pretty good women
Just finished pic related. I thought it had some superficial resemblance to Haldeman's Forever War. In this case, a crew of two encounters different versions of the universe after every interstellar transition. Also, sexual mores were brought up every time. Originally written as separate books, it doesn't have the same strength of narrative, but was enjoyable none the less.
>noticing your thoughts become more lucid, your articulation more precise and the breadth of your expressions greatly expanded after spending a time reading
YES...YES I CAN FEEL THE POWER OVERWHELMING ME
M0nK3Y approves.
>>8054925
I've noticed the same senpai.
I get more tongue-tied and awkward the few times I am in contact with another human being after reading and spending so much time alone.
It's one of the highest ranking universites in Turkey and It's full of hipsters.
kebab die, God smile
>>8054820
>Turkey
Who the fuck cares?
Impossible to fix that shithole country, lost cause entirely.
Looking for Southern Gothic that isn't Faulkner or O'Connor
>>8054811
McCarthy. Try Blood Meridian or All the Pretty Horses
>inb4 corncob
>>8054811
'The Moviegoer' by Walker Percy.
Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a good pick)
Are there any exercices on how to read faster? l can't do pic related. l wish there was some symbol language where the symbols are unpronounceable
>>8054796
Look into Spreeder and eyeQ. Also try taking a speed reading course if you are willing to pay, either that or do the exercises yourself.
Otherwise, read more.
>>8054810
>Otherwise, read more.
This. Even if you sub vocalise you can read really really fast. I'm p sure that Harry "I can read War and Peace in an hour" Bloom subvocalises (because he for example recognised that everyone in Harry Potter "stretched his legs", he picked up a particular verbal repetition quickly).
You're not going to get to Kim Peek levels and he was like the ultimate non sub vocalising speed reader. And probably you wouldn't want to.
>>8054860
I'm p sure Harry "I've never actually read Harry Potter but I'm going to shit on it because I'm a liar and an idiot" Bloom has never read Harry Potter because "streched his legs" occurs like three times in the book.
I'm writing this while high. It doesn't matter what you think of it. All I'm doing is telling the story which only I truly know.
It was Year 6, and I lived in Melbourne. I had a friend named Oscar, who was really cool. I liked him because he was "mature" and yet we could have innocent child's play. We went through puberty together, and although we physically developed differently, we discovered sexuality at the same time. I remember being heaps more advanced than him, as I was watching porn at the time, and I could talk with the other boys about sex.
>I'm writing this while high
Stopped reading. Sage. Ignore.
>>8054648
Oscar was always cooler than me. He just carried himself so well, and maintained such a confident spirit. Oscar was lucky, I guess, because he was born in St. Kilda - the trendy suburbs for cool Melbournites. In a way, he embodies that whole atmosphere of progression in Melbourne adolescents, I mean, every thing is going right for him. He gets lots of Facebook likes, he's good looking, he's dating a 10/10 girl, and he's loved in locally because of his AFL playing.
John Green is a better writer than you.
I have found myself in a sort of peculiar situation, and I was wondering if other writerfags have encountered this dilemma.
The problem is this: I am writing a story based in a world which is not Earth. So, there was never a Rome, nor France, nor any other place from which we draw our culture.
So: because France or Rome never existed, I find it odd to use French or Latin words.
So I began by avoiding Latin phrases, no et cetera, no pro bono, and that was easy enough. But the problem compounds. If I can't use et cetera, can I use the word forum?...
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I'll confound you even more. Are you aware that the words Kaiser and Czar are just variations on Caesar? There are tons of words with origins like that.
I'd just avoid proper nouns, and you'll be fine.
>>8054636
It's written for people on earth, use earth language
>>8054636
Look at Tolkien
![lJyEV6J[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/WtRNtp8.png "lJyEV6J[1].png")
>i study philosophy/literature/
you had one chance and you blew it
>>8054575
Chance for what? I'm living the best life of anyone in my family, at least.
>>8054598
are they all janitors?
>>8054601
No, mostly drug addicts, prisoners and otherwise miserable from life choices. In comparison, my choice to major in English was certainly not bad. I have a great job that allows me enough free time to raise kids, plus gives a good excuse to hoard books.
> In logic, a tautology (from the Greek word ταυτολογία) is a formula that is true in every possible interpretation.
> Logic An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false; for example, the statement Either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow.
So, which definition should I use when using the term (when addressing logic)?
>>8054524
>which definition should I use
You've fallen into the is-ought trap m8
>>8054548
Haha haha, what an idiot. Kant blew Hume the fuck out.
No, I won't summarise Kant here. You should go and read his 90001 pages of obscurantism and think about why you are wrong.
>>8054588
> people don't actually read this shit so I'll just make something up
State of philosophy today everyone!
Outside of posturing, it depends on what perspective you are taking/want to take. Hegel is a decent place to look imo since he talks about how tautologies can be shitty like "an elephant is not a rose" or similar. And Wittgenstein obv, where logic is really a practice of finding tautologies.
What does /lit/ think of Will Self? Fraud or talented?
>>8054521
I heard The Umbrella was pretty decent.
>>8054521
I have no clue about his fiction but his political personality is insufferable and I say that as a Leftist, I wouldn't call him a fraud for it though
He's literally everything wrong with the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/t-magazine/my-10-favorite-books-marlon-james.html
Pretty patrician desu
>>8054433
whos marlon james
copy and paste it next time
not only is he patrish but he's a also fag so he'd probably let u suck on his beeb
Jonathan Franzen went on Jeopardy and missed this Shakespeare question.
So, /lit/, would you have gotten this correct? Be honest.
![note_shrew_001[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/G70SLuO.jpg "note_shrew_001[1].jpg")
>>8054419
>>8054419
I don't remember the names, no.
>>8054419
I would have got it but I'm pretty sure it's from watching 10 Things I Hate About You so much
