What are your guys' thoughts an opinions on Kafka's 'The Hunger Artist'? I just finished it and I loved it.
What Kafka text should I read next?
>>7992950
I read it in a collection of short stories, I would do that. The Trial is what I plan on reading next.
I just got the following in the mail:
>Brave New World
>The Man In The High Castle
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>Neuromancer
What do I read first?
>>7992921
milo yiannopoulosus the triggering
You've got a slice of scifi history there - if you want an order, chronologically only makes sense.
ie - BNW first
throw brave new world in the trash and read the rest in any order
Hi friends, /sci/ here. Anyone have a good starting reading list for Karl Popper?
I want to be less of a meme statistician
Popper is a fag. Read Heisenberg's physics and philosophy. Or Thomas Kuhn.
>>7992920
>Popper is a fag.
pls expand
>>7992929
Quoted the wrong, you get the idea.
>Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
It's amazing how quickly Henry James can go from shit to genius and back again. He does it almost sentence by sentence.
ITT times you dropped a book after the first line?
>It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
>>7992952
That's actually a good opening line though
I'm Orthodox, and can we talk about Aquinas? Do Catholics have any reeasonable defense for him saying latria should be given to the cross and to icons?
>Therefore Christ's cross should be worshiped with the adoration of latria.
See: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4025.htm
Also, can Catholic defend these insane views Roman Catholics express of the Virgin Mary?
>If God is angry with a sinner, Mary takes him under her protection, she withholds the avenging arm of her Son and saves himComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>7992800
Church leadership would fuck him up if he said otherwise. That's all the reason Cathocucks need.
None of this is incorrect. Try harder, Orthofriend.
>>7992800
Why ask someone else to defend him when he defends himself in the very text you linked?
Why not begin by explaining what you think is wrong with his arguments for these conclusions?
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/jk-rowling-apologizes-death-remus-lupin/story?id=38817601
Is this really necessary? She made a choice to sacrifice certain characters and she shouldn't need to justify it for the rest of her life should she?
No, she shouldn't, and fuck her for doing this. SHE'S the author. They're her characters. If her readers don't like her choices they can write some fanfics.
I don't even like George RR Martin but props to him for never apologizing to his readers. It's his story, not theirs.
She just says this shit to get attention. Same rationale for retroactively making Dumbledore gay.
If an author has to apologize for their creation it's obvious their work is VERY flawed and that they as a person don't understand the craft.
If people are upset and pissed off at one of your characters dying you should take pride in the fact that you created a character that someone was able to connect to emotionally and have feelings for, not say sorry like a big baby.
Does anyone here enjoy the works of Sylvia Plath?
I'm a big fan of her body of work
>>7992745
would pound
My favorite work of hers:
As for minute joys: as I was saying: do you realize the illicit sensuous delight I get from picking my nose? I always have, ever since I was a child–there are so many subtle variations of sensation. A delicate, pointed-nailed fifth finger can catch under dry scabs and flakes of mucous in the nostril and draw them out to be looked at, crumbled between fingers, and flicked to the floor in minute crusts. Or a heavier, more determined forefinger can reach up and smear down-and-out the soft, resilient, elastic greenish-yellow smallish blobs...
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Is it as good as they say? Is it better than Hogg?
>>7992689
Yes and yes. It's probably the best written, most interesting science fiction novel of the latter half of the 20th century.
>>7992689
I got bored half way in and had trouble finishing it. Other than the sex scenes nothing really interested me.
Better than Hogg? Well no Hogg is his Magnum Opus.
What are the three greatest decades for literature?
429-399 BC
1860-1890
1790-1800: Romantics are god tier
1910-1920: Modernism and memes start appearing
1970-1980: Birth of the postmodern meme
Thoughts on this?
I read this book.
wow op. i am so angry that you would post this here. i am outraged. how could you. this is outrageous
(you) (you) (you)
masterpiece
Is there a living to be made off of novel-writing? I'm currently on page 87 of a near 700 page "Game of Thrones"-ish fantasy novel that I'm writing, could I make a living off of it if I self-publish on for ebooks on like Amazon? Or even the traditional way?
>>7992645
You'd be far pressed to try to get a good living off of just dumping novels out of the blue into the Amazon marketplace and hoping fish bite.
Here's how alot of people make their living off of Amazon using books:
>They write a few books, giving them out for free on the market at first
>After building up enough interest from the free books, release a book for something cheap, like $0.99
>Gradually start building...
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>"Game of Thrones"-ish fantasy novel
There is a living, for people with original ideas
>>7992645
>Is there a living to be made off of novel-writing? I'm currently on page 87 of a near 700 page "Game of Thrones"-ish fantasy novel that I'm writing, could I make a living off of it if I self-publish on for ebooks on like Amazon? Or even the traditional way?
Where the hell do I download Worm by Wildbow? http://bookzz.org/ does not have it.
nvm faggs https://github.com/rhelsing/worm_scraper/blob/master/worm.mobi works
Why does so much important shit happen off-screen in Shakespeare's plays? Like, people would be pissed if shit like that happened today. Half the time, the climax is just being told by somebody else and not actually shown. Shakespeare breaks the show don't tell rule all the time.
He wrote the plays high when he was on weed.
cause show and dont tell is autistically overgeneralized advice designed for genre writers
and shakespeare is for poetics not for plot.
>>7992638
also he had limited actors who would double/triple roles and not everyone could be on stage at the same time so some shit had to happen off stage.
seriously why should other authors even try this year?
>>7992539
holy shit this kid looks cool
>>7992539
jesus christ
how could anyone buy this? who could possibly think the story of a 13 year old who makes kid friendly covers of rap songs would be worth reading? I understand how a lot of dumb books can sell well, including other memoirs, but I just cant imagine anyone buying this
>>7992539
An uplifting and candid memoir from thirteen-year-old YouTube sensation, boy-next-door heartthrob, and musical artist MattyB.
“Don’t worry about what others think. Don’t try to be cool or be someone else or be this-that-or-the-other. Be you.” —MattyB
Matthew David Morris, better known as MattyB, was virtually unknown just a few short years ago. After posting his first rap cover to YouTube at just seven years old, he quickly catapulted to record-breaking Internet stardom. Now thirteen, MattyB...
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I have about a week to pump out about 8 pages about the dreaded "anything we've talked about in class so far"
I'm thinking I might write about epigenetics and the impacts of that field on human development , but I have other options.
The teacher is a pretty easy grader when it comes to papers so far, probably because his class isn't an english or science class. I usually get A's, so my grade is good right now, but this paper is worth a lot, like 20% or something.
I've got pretty bad writers block and I've got lots...
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Write whatever comes to mind and go from there. You're trying to write a final draft right away. Nothing good comes on the first try. Write shit until it's not.