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What ereader do you use? not looking to spend much money is the cheap fire any good?
I bought an Amazon kindle 2nd gen for $20 at a thrift store. They're probably cheap on ebay or whatever as well. You can put pirated books on it no problem, and although the screen and font are probably shitter than the new expensive ones, they're pretty good. I say go for that.
>>8003272
the fire is not an ereader, it's a tablet
>>8003282
Good point. Reading on tablets probably fucks up your eyes to a greater extent than e-ink screens.
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>youll never be a literary superstar
why live
>you will never be a science man
>why live
You should be asking that to DFW.
>>8003158
>writes because he wants to be famous
why even write?
Mine is Infinite Jest
Broom of The System is better
arguably more pretentious, but less didactic, and interested in entertaining the reader instead of literally boring them on purpose to communicate a preachy moral
the cat in the hat
>>8003101
Fair view, I don't see didacticism as necessarily bad.
This book is surprisingly erotic. Can /lit/ recommend any more boner-material?
>inb4 lolita
Also Catch-22 thread
You're mother's diary LmAo !
>>8003057
Don't ever fucking come here again, delete this post.
Crying of Lot 49 had some pretty kinky stuff in it.
So /lit/, tell me about the essays you've written for uni, how you wrote them, what you talked about. Did you manage to write about your interests in a way that related them to the overall subject? Were you able to write something that, regardless of its topic, was enjoyable?
revisionist myth in ezra pounds cantos
patriarchal oppression in lot 49
pynchonian narrative in the films of jacques rivette
>>8003009
Of the papers I'm proud to have written:
>Faulkner's use of pulp genre conventions in Sanctuary, Light in August, and The Wild Palms.
>Keats's synthesis of Keats's suspicion of the eternal in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Bright star! Would I were stedfast as thou art."
>>8003204
Oops..delete "Keats's synthesis of"
>How’s this for a powerhouse combination: Russell Crowe is in talks to star in a James Franco-directed adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian with Tye Sheridan and Vincent D’Onofrio also boarding the cast.
So this man will be playing Judge Holden, right?
He'd actually make a good Judge. I didn't think anyone would really fit the role but he wouldn't be bad.
>>8002874
>James Franco-Directed
>directed
>James Franco
Pick one
What intro gnosticism should I read before BM?
Can someone tell me why this USELESS FUCKING UNTALENTED HACK CUNT FUCK NIGGER FAGGOT IS DIRECTING THE MOVIE ADAPTATION OF BLOOD MERIDIAN
>caring about movie adaptations
>caring about pleb mccarthy
>>8002850
>Speaks loudly and says nothing at the same time
The Coen Brothers did No Country justice.
Why didn't they tap them for this?
I am in the process of writing a sex filled erotic story and I just discovered that stories like that arent allowed on Wattpad. What are some other online places similar to Wattpad that allow pornographic books and stories to be posted?
>>8002729
Also, the story revolves around consensual, underage incest.
Literotica and Asstr are the main places I go to read wincest stores
I've noticed that, of all the world religions, Zen tends to get the most respect on this board, which makes me wonder. What books does /lit/ recommend on the subject? I've been told that Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is the only book that you need to practice Zen, but that just...that seems like it can't be right.
>>8002726
Lookin' ta get spooked?
Dōgen Zenji and Keizan Jōkin are the authorities
why don't you read the fucking book you cretin
Suzuki has a very specific vision of Zen, he was very consciously trying to promote it to 20th century westerners.
Personally, i'm not interested in 'practice', but I am interested in Zen as literature.
I'd recommend "The Record of Linji" translated by Ruth Fuller Sasaki. It's a translation of some 9th century Chinese stuff. Go to the source m8, it's weirder and more provoking than a polished 20th century self help book.
There's a free pdf if you google it.
What are your thoughts on animal extinction? There seems to be this, apparently arbitrary, ethical weight laid on the extermination of an entire race of animals juxtaposed on the killing of individual ones. It's sort of a whimsical attitude, isn't it? That the world shall not be deprived of this template of creation but rather smaller instances of it.
>>>/t/his >>>/i/s >>>/his/
>>8002655
One out of a species of a million animals compared to one out of one thousand. I'd rather save the one out of one thousand. Essentially diminishing marginal value for animals.
>>8002663
What killing about a human (~7 billion) or a panda (<3000)?
What are some unique books about dystopias? Surely there are other ways of doing it. Are there more happy dytopias, like Brave New World?
>>8002556
Brave New World is terrifying though. Unless you mean it as in people are happy in it then.
>>8002563
Yes. I'm interested in the idea of the happy dystopia where the people go along with it because they feel their meetings are being met. Or maybe they're actually being met. Can there be a functional, altruistic dystopia?
>>8002571
BNW definitely is functional and altruistic. The main character's conflict comes from not being able to accept it.
ITT: write the logline of the book you're writing, the book you want to write, or the idea for a book you've thought of before.
A demon with a good heart wants to become an angel, much to the dismay of the angelic community.
>>8002524
preordered, 9/10 on goodreads
>>8002519
A group of people find something valuable, diamonds, and deliver it somewhere safe in africa. Some people don't like the authority and rule of the leader so they try to rebel. Concepts ripped off from LOTR and Paradise Lost
And then there's one about life in a sex cult, there's more to my idea but I need to write more before sharing it.
So /lit/ lads,do you have any good books on political science,political philosophy and economics?
>>8002494
The Republic
Aristotle's Politics
Is pic related the ideal philosophical ubermensch?
>>8001924
This is literally the most patrician TV show can't believe there've been no replies 5 minutes in
>>8001934
>This is literally the most patrician TV show
my sides
>>8001934
>patrician
>TV
What is some /lit/-approved right-wing literature?
Could you please link me to some books or a reading list? (Also, no mein kampf please, thanks.)
>>8001919
All 'literature' with overt political overtones, whether they be right-wing or left-wing, are complete shit
If you're looking for something that generally promotes but doesn't emit miasma of edgy mid-pubescent crisis then I guess Dostoevsky
>>8001932
>he doesn't even know that all art is propaganda
Anyway, OP, pic related is the usual fare, even though quite flawed (The Glass Bead Game, wtf)
I'm partial to Storm Of Steel, WW1 autobiography very positive in tone
Every day this same fucking thread. How hard is it to read the sticky
