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Is Batemen the superfluous man of his time?
>>7982381
You mean Baitmen
>>7982381
Bateman is modern man. One must utterly hide their personality and true self, and replace it with an eternally concerned, empathetic character to fit in enough with the herd to gain power.
Not Bateman, more like BasedMan if you ask me.
>>7982488
Nazi dubs of truth, lad.
There's plenty of books with depression as a theme, but what about Anxiety?
Fear and Trembling
Kierkegaard
>>7982355
white noise
>>7982355
the metamorphosis
Which books deserved to be burned by the Nazis?
>>7982206
John Green
Twilight
Harry Potter
>>7982206
What notable books did the Nazis burn?
>>7982255
Hugo
Joyce
Hemingway
Conrad
Huxley
Wells
Dostoyevsky
Lenin
Nabokov
Trotsky
Tolstoy
Kafka
Marx
Plenty more
How on Earth do I avoid cracking the spines /lit/? I want to read a fresh new book but I'm concerned it will ruin my bookshelf aesthetic...
Dude, what? Wear and tear is a necessity. It shows you've read the book.
>>7982176
just buy two copes of each book - one for the booskhelf and one for reading
Don't hyperextend it you twat. Don't fold it back on itself and don't push it down on a flat surface. If you don't do those then only the cheapest books will get creased on their own.
Be honest /lit/, have you ever bought a book you already own because you preferred the front cover?
nope
yes
>>7982149
Sure. My bookshelf is a conversation piece, I'm not even ashamed to say it, either.
Has anyone read this? Is it worth purchasing? I noticed it in my local bookshop yesterday and it has some good reviews online. While I understand it's not meant to be a scientific basis on gender dynamics in the modern era, I'm dissuaded by the potential pseudoscience opinions from an un-credible author (I can't find out much about his qualifications/experiences online, other than the website he runs).
>>7981140
You can just read the website. Pretty sure it's all on there
I read parts of it and like it. It's just the content of his blog and I don't see how how cridibility or un-credibility regarding psychology matters much. He's just reflecting on observations with the principle of female hypergame in mind (women are aware that they are sexually desired by hundreds of guys they pass bye each day and thus their standards are to always date up). From there it's very basic argument and the conclusion and implied guide how to behave with women is thus the interesting aspect.
It's looking at things such as
http://imgur.com/r/ChangingRooms
and...
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>>7982270
Here is an essay on the differences discussed from an academic
http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
The Rational Male book then takes this anti-equality idea and makes it into an ideology. And then discusses personal relationships in terms of the alpha-beta meme
What is your opinion on Joseph McElroy? And what is the best place to start?
There's a good chart I downloaded once hold on keep this thread alive for a few hours and I'll be able to post it
Basically start with Night Soul and other stories
>>7982113
McElroy is one of the best post-war writers. I recommend you start with The Lookout Cartridge or A Smuggler's Bible, and that you avoid Cannonball and Women and Men at all costs, since those are likely to turn you away from him.
>>7982113
>>7982123
Hey /lit/, /biz/ question here.
Why don't all of you write e books and sell them on amazon? You don't even have to be good at writing. You could just write some page turner thriller or robots fuck vampires 7 or any shit that sells well on there.
There are heaps and heaps of easy tactics to use to sell these books, then eventually you can capitalise on the popularity of you as an author and write real books you want to write, while still selling copies.
Done. You are now doing exactly what i would imagine 75% of people on this board want to be....
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>>7982104
well I stopped the moment I realize that all that fantasy of unlimited richness and fame was all but a marketing illusion that amazon's been shoving in my ass, real hard. Now, I'm doing my writing and looking for a normal publisher. That's what stopped me.
>>7982104
If you go to blackhatforum there are tons of threads on how to crank out erotica and sell them. When you have 500+ books on fetishes apparently you can generate quite a stream of income.
Also
>very little effort
>>7982104
So, tell us, how much money do you make with this idea?
and the verdict is breddy gud
Rob Doyle is a very /lit/ writer. He's a bookish young man writing about bookish young men for the most part.
Some might see that as a limitation, but since I'm a bookish young man myself, I don't mind a bit.
I saw a bit of myself in some of the characters he writes about even though he's a potato and I'm a burger.
Like a lot of potatoes, he's much more well-travelled than my provincial suburban ass. Germany, Spain, Paris, Mexico, London, the settings are varied for these stories.
We've...
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Rob Doyle is shit. Here Are The Young Men is just an edge-fest. His article on Houellebecq is very good but otherwise he conducts himself like a tryhard Nietzsche / Cioran fan.
>>7982153
>he conducts himself like a tryhard Nietzsche / Cioran fan.
Well I did say that he seems like the kind of guy that shitposts here.
>I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
hehe dosto was so quirky :)
i love this meme
let's get this out of the way once and for all
http://www.strawpoll.me/10088715
Crying is the shorter and easier (in my opinion also better) book.
The only reason you'd read V first is because it is his first novel and you want to "see his genius unfold" through the rest of his books or some windbag shit like that.
>>7981993
>Starting with V.
V. is too disjointed and complicated for a new person to Pynchon, I recommend reading a lot of his other works before it though since you really need to be used to his style and comedy, Crying Lot is great, easier to comprehend and only really gets any flack because of how short it is. I enjoyed how ambient it was though.
>>7982006
you wouldn't recommend GR before V, would you?
If at one of us on this board could publish a book and hit it big, what would you like the book to be about?
>>7981926
tfw no gf
>>7981997
First post best post
>>7981926
admit it, you are only here because you want use to ask you about your shit book, and you will take that chance to market the shit out of it in the hope that some of the faggots here will buy it. What is your amazon link?
i work all day, and get half-stoned at night.
Awake at four twenty to soundless dark, I blaze.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I’ll see what’s always in my gaze:
Dank sticky buds, a whole lot higher now,
Making all thought impossible, oh wow,
But where and when I shall get more high.
Bubble hash inhalation: yet the dread
Of drymouth, eyes being red,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.
Good work anon, do Love Again next.
What a poem, Mark!
Would studying philosophy significantly enhance my understanding of fiction?
probably
Yes. All critical theory is is philosophy.
>>7981906
no. none of the characters are into what is termed philosophy by universities.
Hey /lit/, I'm a fucking pleb but I want to read Shakespeare because that's what smart people do, can you kind people point me in the right direction for some good annotated editions of his work?
Oxford Shakespeare
>>7981887
If English is your first language you shouldn't need annotations. If you ever reach a passage you don't totally get, read it through a few times and you should get it. Doing this, I've never had a problem understanding shakespeare. There's some words like ere and wherefore that you might need to learn the meaning of but t b h f a m I covered that in high school.
