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Everyone talks relentlessly about left-wingers, but few spend any time trying to figure out what they're actually saying.
You all seem like a well-informed bunch. What are some essential books everyone who describes themselves as left-wing would read? What are the key ideas presented in those books and their relevance to the current discourse on a given topic? How did some of those ideas manifest historically and influence our current thought? Which ideas persist? Which have faded into obscurity?
I don't expect expertise, but surely some of you are aware.
>>7930006
What do you mean by left-wingers? Liberal or socialist?
Way too much Zizek on there. Nice to see Paulo Freiere, though. Fromm's nice to read, but I disagree with many of his moralistic ideals. Lenin is absolute trash. Neoliberalism is a joke as well.
Where's C. Wright Mills, Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky, and Pierre Bourdieu at?
>>7930006
Read Stirner, too.
How do you make an original world for your story?
>>7934917
I study archaeology so ancient civilisation's perceptions of the world form most of my inspiration
>>7934917
causation, causation, causation
You don't include an isolationist nation of proud ivory tower elves because something something 'tolkein did it it must be good,' you include it because X led to that situation Y. If you don't have a good reason for X, you shouldn't include Y. Worldbuilding is less a matter of drawing a map and more a matter of timelines and falling dominoes.
>>7934917
Get inspired by history. Have a solid understanding of geography, meteorology, physics, economy, technology and languages.
Also preferably ignore all other works of fiction, world building in these ranges from bad to worse.
If you can help it, don't bother with creation of your own world at all.
Ignore all these people and those related to them!
Soon to be updated :)
>>7933027
>putting our heros and our enemies in the same list
are you trying to humanize those lefty cucks or what?
Fuck off tripfaggot
>>7933027
Who is that semen demon in the bottom right corner? I want to pseudo all over her lectual
Are there any "literary" page turners?
>>7929338
I think a lot of them are. Middlemarch probably tops it for me, because of just how long it was, and how much I still wanted to read it despite sitting there for 5+ hours at a time.
Libra certainly is.
>>7929338
Finnegans Wake. Every time I picked it up I would turn back the page I was on and think "wtf, I don't remember reading any of this".
>"I can tell if a woman wrote a book just by reading a paragraph or two, it's evident in their style" - VS NAIPAUL
Is this still true? Since women are losing their feminine touch and becoming masculine I assume it doesn't hold anymore
I don't know. I'm boycotting women authors
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>>7927386
Tits or gtfo
ITT: Books you consider to be be a "must" for any serious reader. Books that, will change your life for the better, and improve with every read.
>>7937580
bible
Check out the "Books to Hang out With" passage in Baba Ram Dass' Be Here Now.
>>7937580
>Books that, will change your life for the better, and improve with every read.
You write as though you don't read.
what is the most /lit/ city in the world? Where would I go to surround myself with other literate people?
sarajevo, many literate cuties too
>>7935596
Probably Prague. I rented an apt there for a few months and there were so many young, beautiful people all over the city.
Hard to say. Concord Massachusetts is a really cool place to go if you live on the east coast and are looking for a /lit/ sort of vacation. The place is totally fucking fantastic, I imagine in the autumn it would practically be sublime.
So who wrote the plays
>>7932264
Gillie Da Kid
>>7932264
Not many people know this but William Shakespeare was a black man. His name was William Shekabembe.
>>7932538
No but he published the plays of an unnamed black woman because racism and sexism
/lit/, please tell me that one of you guys still has a link to the file with all these short stories. The link on the wikia is not working.
This is relevant to my interests
C'mon guys, no one?
>>7932210
Rawl
>using adjectives or adverbs
>using a metaphor or a figure of speech
>using long or unusual words instead of everyday English
>using anything other than ',he said.' in a dialogue
>not a window pane
Why is /lit/ and most of what /lit/ likes so fucking purple?
why bother using words at all tbqhwy
>>7932067
best prose uses only words that are necessary. The fewer words, the better.
>>7932075
You should shut the fuck up then, that would be some great prose
Are there any books that explicitly contain the moral "It is perfectly fine to be a virgin"?
No because it's not something most people give a shit about. Literally such a non-issue nobody ever felt the need to say it. I want you to leave this board but go somewhere other than /r9k/, it's killing you.
>>7929191
>such a non-issue nobody ever felt the need to say it
You haven't most Zoroastrianism texts, have you?
The Holy Bible.
Would you end a relationship on account of your girlfriend claiming that pic related was her favorite book?
I'd end my girlfriend.
>>7933928
depends on the sag of her tits and the rump in her bump desu
It's either that or a girl who hasn't read a book since "The Giver" in elementary school
Write a kafkaesque story in one sentence.
I'll start:
"I hope I'll make it in time for the funeral," he thought, in response to being buried alive.
You ruined it. Guess where.
OP posted no 4chan's literature board only to find himself transformed into a large vermin.
>>7931632
This is a little too much.
"I hope I'll make it in time for the funeral," he thought, while being lowered into his grave."
Does China have good literature? written after the cultural revolution
