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Who's the American James Joyce? Brazil has one.
Faulkner, no? Either him, or Burroughs.
Faulkner, Pynchon, Barth, Gass, McElroy, take your pick. American lit owns
There isnt one
Knighthood Edition
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>Opinion on Reddits top fantasy novels? https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/4f1jfj/the_2016_top_rfantasy_novels_poll_results/
>opinion on reddit list
It's shit.
WoT doesn't deserve even a top 25
>harry potter
>Rothfuss
>Sanderson
>top 10
Pick one
At least Hobb gets a deserved mention in the top 10.
>>7932051
>Opinion on Reddits top fantasy novels?
Awful. The top 15 is full-on shit-tier "fantasy series" books.
The only entries worth reading are Guy Gavriel Kay, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, T.H. White, Mervyn Peake.
What do you guys think of "Demonbane" series?
I've often seen it mentioned in those power level discussion how Demonbane is supposedly so bad ass.
But it's really just a shitty story that's not coherent and just plain awful.
Also most of the claims people make are just misinterpreted shit.
What indian literature should I read to impress an indian qt I know?
>inb4 bhagavad gita
bhagavad gita
>>7930651
>>7930650
>INDIAN LITERATURE
>INDIAN=/=LITERATURE
just talk about slumdog millionaire? talk about curry? talk about poo in loo?
Read the rules OP, this is a literature board
Fucking steve jobs/moot or whoever rotates images like this. Jesus fuck
>>7929239
Okay, I laughed.
>>7929239
This image makes my brain hurt.
Do I really need to read this thing to understand allusion and references in other pieces of literature, or are the stories and ideas in it so well absorbed that it would be a waste of time?
>hasn't even read the bible
modern /lit/, everyone
>>7934530
>do I need to read the book that's influenced western society for nearly 2000 years?
A Norwegian in the Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDvnClYmJQ
The Vincetti Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQzNL1Y50Ck
Novel Structure, Symbolism, and Overplotting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FZIgLSGCwg
Total Immersion and Great Dialogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO1jzOjDQoo
Literary Technique for Novels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-bAvXFntEk
Placement and Ambiguity in Novels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZPJFWHOcxg
Large Scale Novel Structure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIfPvkkRnA8
Great Secondary and Tertiary...
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Post your work OP
>>7931493
Inside of Ridgewood (Prose) :https://web.archive.org/web/20070315234234/http://www.the-manifest.org/19/ridge.html
American Imperium (Poetry): http://www.cosmoetica.com/American%20Imperium.htm
Omnisonnets: http://www.cosmoetica.com/Sonnets.htm
Fat Nasty Bitch (Prose): http://www.hackwriters.com/bossbitchJS.htm
UPG Poems: http://www.cosmoetica.com/UPG.htm
>Getting any of your writing expertise from Youtube videos
>im-FUCKING-plying
Is this accurate?
>>7931315
Isnt anarcha-feminism just a critical lens?
>>7931315
They're all shit tier because none of them maximize aesthetics.
Ghostbuster tier: Egoism
Your thoughts on Buddhism /lit/? I have recently started reading up on it after I really, truly confronted my fear of non existence and consciousness being solely a psychological process.
Buddhists are quietists from a culture (read: entire continent) that never developed individuality.
Go directly to the Upanishads and don't look back. Buddhism is for fuckboys.
>>7925474
Check out the book Buddhism as Philosophy. I have a PhD in phil and think it's a great book on the topic.
Read on it and form your own opinion, if you're drawn to it you might find it fruitful. Zen in particular might be to your liking.
/lit/ in general is far too insular and Eurocentric to offer you anything insightful on this topic, better to just dive in.
Where should I start with his works?
>>7933454
You don't.
>>7933460
/thread
not at all if you're not a teenager any more
Professor Jenny Pickerill, who teaches environmental geography at the University of Sheffield, told the Times Higher Education magazine that students "struggle" with the books she recommends.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/reading-a-book-too-challenging-for-university-students-a3226041.html
The professor claimed her students often complained "the language or concepts are
too hard" and they suggested other, easier alternative things to read instead.
can you fuck off with this worthless thread
Even in the Humanities it's pretty bad. Even in philosophy graduate seminars I've been in.
It's really weird. After five years of becoming a philosophy guy, shouldn't you be able to do more than a bizarre surface analysis of 37% of a short book or article? Every single reading discussion we had went like
>I felt like he made his argument really well, but I didn't like that he _________.
Just a vague-ass statement like "I liked it", and the critiques were always so off-base that you'd wonder...
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Perhaps they've been ushered into the wrong field of education.
Who would want the "wrong types" to pool into their communities, anyway?
If there were a genre called "Human Suffering" what books would you say make the cut?
Job.
My Twisted World
Job's Twisted World
Self-improvement thread.
Post authors and fictional characters you get the most inspiration to go on living from.
Pic related.
Also recommend books.
Here goes:
Final Exit - Derek Humphry (Guide to suicide, really tells you what you're in for).
full catastrophe living - Jon Kabat-Zinn (On meditation, meant for people with real problems, will help sensitize you to suffering and how individuals even in the most pitiful conditions try to overcome it)
Meditations
Zhuangzi
Tao Te Ching
Tao of Pooh (Easiest of the lot,...
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Unaesthetic
This post was actually incredibly motivational.
>>7932026
Have you read the Te of Pigglet where the author goes on a rant about how feminists are destroying the masculine/femmine balance?
John Green general - brother hank edition
What's your favorite John green novel?
When is his next opus coming out?
Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?
>>7930433
>John Green
finally, a thread worth posting in.
>>7930469
I know. It has been an entire hour.
Hang yourself faggot.
>Ah… to write French you have to know it. English is so plastic—if you haven't got a word you need you can make it, but to write French you have to be an artist like Anatole France.
Is he right /lit/?
>>7929683
He's right but Anatole France is not that great.
It's right, you can't create a new word in French whenever you want it. However Anatole France isn't that bright.
>>7929683
he was an sjw cuck of his day, so fuck him
How many pages do you read per day?
50 when I'm not motivated to read
100 on a normal day
150 when I'm liking the book so much
The again, I'm a NEET.
Extremely relative given the size of this book and that book, and how youd have to caluclate to measure what you read digitally would fit as a standard book, etc.
Defining the standard of measurement would help too.
Most days I get to page 3 or 4 but sometimes I find an interesting thread on page 1 and stick to it while browsing porn.
