QUICK, /LIT/.
YOU HAVE TO HAND IN 100 WORD ESSAY ON YOUR FAVORITE BOOK BUT THE DEADLINE IS TOMORROW.
WHAT DO YOU DO
kill self
You should have done it earlier instead of posting in the Bathroom u retard
>>8013195
wait oh shit what book are we allowed to do it on any???
Suffering from a terrible writer's block for my novelette after 15k words. Please give me ideas, or just anything to pull me out of the slump.
The story takes place in the world where you can pre-incarcerate yourself to commit a crime later. You get immunity from prosecution and punishment for an amount equivalent to the time you served. The minimum is fourteen and the maximum is fifty.
In my story the main character just got out after serving fifty years, and everyone is scared for the crime he is about to commit. There are flashbacks to his past, and another...
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Seems to me like with this setup, it would have to involve his personal relationships right around the time he committed himself. Of course, fast forward 50 years and even the youngest person he could've known is now middle aged.
Or he started his sentence with the idea of committing a crime involving a personal relationship, but while in jail he became more and more dissatisfied with the society he lives in and in prison plans one of the most elaborate coup d'états in history.
>>8013206
He went to jail when he was twelve (this law applies to juveniles).
The way the original plan went was like this: his father used to be a chemist and had partially synthesized a miracle drug that he had extracted from a plant/flower that blooms once in sixty years. The drug had major side effects, which he couldn't eliminate. Evil corporate bosses wanted him to reduce the side-effects, but he resisted, saying that if even one in ten people have a chance of experiencing it, he won't do it. They kill...
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What is even the purpose of analytic philosophy if it is just a cuck for exact sciences?
This is a really REALLY good meme
>>8013281
Wittgenstein's a fascist supporter?
>>8013310
Fuck off
Share your favorite text, anon!
>>8013001
i'm dead and posting on 4chan from beyond the grave
>>8013004
I came back to post this.
I think I will return to my grave-Reddit-.
Love you, guys.
Are there any good 'booktubers' or are they all obnoxious faggots?
They are all obnoxious faggots.
>>8013017
this
You should instantly be wary of anyone who wants to be the center of attention while not having anything remarkable to justify it. Their brains are fundamentally sick. They think their baseline contributions as some fucking nobody are valuable. That means either that they think random proles are entitled to opinions (not just opinions, but opinions delivered over a 16 minute quirkmaster video), or that they think they actually transcend the prole ooze by being a random dipshit who reads Great American Classics.
Your immediate reaction to someone saying they have a Booktube...
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Favorite parts?
bananas, shiteating, sentient lightbulb
the end of theTchitcherine/Enzianplot
>>8012978
also the part with the linguistic bodies exchanging pranks and the Kirghiz light
>burning desire to express something
>Will never be eloquent or smart enough to express it well
>something
>>8012941
Guess I exemplified it pretty well in the first line
>>8012932
You've expressed your frustration with your lack of eloquence just fine. "I can't write shit, so hear me out while I go on about it" is a well used, though far from exhausted trope in modern fiction. Have at it.
P.S. I was just about to forget to call you a dumb frogposter, as is my duty and your fate.
Are John Green's books and ones like them (Diary of a Wimpy Kid etc) just a retelling of the kind of romance-centre books featuring oppressed female outsiders as their protagonists (Jane Eyre etc)?
In a lot of older books, the kind written by Bronte et al., there's a shy, innocent girl who gets overlooked (often due to not being very pretty) and treated badly by those around her. The girl usually falls in love with a mysterious male stranger who is assertive and eccentic and who is attracted to her despite her lack of confidence or social status. The guy is...
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>>8012830
Jane Eyre is oppressed by her evil guardians, etc.
>>8012824
>In John Green and a lot of other contemporary YA books there's a shy, innocent guy who gets overlooked (often due to not being very pretty) and treated badly by those around him. The guy usually falls in love with a mysterious female stranger who is assertive and eccentric and who is attracted to her despite her lack of confidence or social status. The girl is often referred to as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
consider to watch anime lol, a shy guy often gets a whole harem...
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>>8012855
I don't think it's so much a crisis of masculinity as the portrayal of meek, beta males as virtuous and deserving of both pity and special attention.
I'm reading Looking for Alaska right now and it's so unbelievably retarded I'm just hoping the protagonist gets put in his place for being so faggy.
He routinely mocks people who like sports, who work out, who are popular and so on while pointing out on every page how skinny and pale and unassertive and friendless and intelligent...
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>"it's picaresque"
>>8012819
>long words r hard
>>8012819
it's "a picaresque" you dumb fuck
kill yourself
>>8012822
if you can't say what you think using Anglo-Saxon words only you're a bad writer
Did a book ever make you cry? Like properly cry?
This has never happened to me, to the point I don't think it is a real thing. Am I autistic or is everyone too sensitive?
A daily reminder that some people are just that sensitive. It's a real thing, believe it or not.
End of The Red and The Black, Brothers Karamazov and some middle parts of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis did it for me. I think it's more a quality of longer books, as you get more involved into the story and the fictional universe.
I've never cried from a book or a movie that I remember. I get very emotionally invested in them but knowing that it's just a narrative kind of disconnects me from it.
Music, on the other hand, seems more like something amplifies your emotions than something that stands on its own. Hospice by The Antlers is honestly the only media of any form that has ever made me cry.
Have books ever given you a boner?
Lolita all the way
Yes. What the fuck do you think "bibliophile" means?
The sex scenes in Illuminatus! Always ended with me jerking off
Do you hoard, /lit/? Do you buy books without thinking?
I thought I didn't have that problem because I make sure to read of my fiction books (sooner or later, but I always finish them).
I recently got a new interest and want to get a whole bunch of textbooks to get familiar with the subject as much as possible, and I fear that most of them will end up being dust collectors.
What do you do in a situation like this?
>>8012758
only buy upon completion
No, I only buy physical copies when:
1) It's a philosophy/technical book that I will need to annotate stuff
2) I can't find a decent .epub or ,mobi on the internet
3) The e-book I have has a shit translation or shit diagramation
God bless, Bibliotik.
What are some of the most hilarious books /lit/ has read?
Once I got the bus out of the lobby and back on the road, all my passengers started criticizing the way I had been driving. Everybody's an expert. The kids in the back gave me the worst time. There's something about being in the back that brings out the worst in people. They were really making fun of me, and getting some pretty good laughs at my expense. I hollered over my shoulder, with growing anger, that if they didn't quit being so funny at my expense, if they didn't start making their humor more generic, I was going to pull over, make everybody walk...
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their autobiographies
>>8012638
their they're in there chairs
Are the old timey greats such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dickens, austen, etc proof that consumption of art does not correlate with production, which means that academia-publishing-media industrial complex and its associated pseudo-intellectual hangers on are wrong when they tell you that you're retarded for not spending shitloads of time buying books and reading them and paying tonnes of money (and time) """studying""" at universities?
>>8012587
all of these people you listed were well read and educated.
you think they didn't read a whole lot?
>>8012587
>Thinking Chaucer wasn't well read
Have you read anything he wrote? He drops references to French, Italian, and Latin(both Roman and translated from Greek) works constantly.
Are there some good /lit/ sites online where you have something good to read, be it reviews news or anything not related to cultural marxism or memery or both?
http://www.openculture.com/
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/
http://mindfulpleasures.blogspot.com/
http://posledevedesetgodina.blogspot.com/
>>8012644
ne jedi govna picko usrana
thanks for the mid two links though