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How do I quit video games to read more? It is a colossal waste of time, and after Dark Souls 3, I plan on reading. Any advice for a pleb like me?
>>7885157
Exit game
Like any other addiction, either get some willpower or die
>not treating reading like a video game
>not leveling up by becoming better read and knowing more philosophy
Fight about Nietzsche, /lit/.
'no'
>>7885126
I know you want it.
>>7885123
Full quote
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
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I'm currently reading White Noise, which I love so far. What do you guys think is his best work, and which of his works should I read next?
You've just read his best.
Libra and Running Dog are the followups.
>>7885058
Underworld is a freakin' masterpiece so long as you love his style. Anything from early on except for Ratner's Star is great. Most of the recent stuff is average, except for Point Omega. That is great.
Thanks for the recs guys.
“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players”
- William Shakespeare
For Goffman, there is no true self (no face behind the masks we wear). We are all actors on a Shakespearean stage, putting on select farces dependent upon the setting and people with whom we are with in order to find a social sense of acceptance.
Thoughts on The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman, /lit/?
>>7884931
I'm jelly, I've been wanting to read more of him. I don't know about the no true self idea, though; in his book on Stigma there's a certain amount of acceptance that there's a real self; even if the kinds of selves he imagines are socially, or wholly, constructed selections, the divisions of kind and consequences of stigma/normalcy are portrayed as real.
>>7884944
i mean self in an objective sense. identity and appearance is pretty subjective stuff. as goffman shows, it tends to vary by setting. for example, you don't act the same way you do in a bar as you would at work.
you're spot on about the whole stigma thing. sitgma and deviant groups are definitely real. even if the self is constructed, the consequences of the existence of the concept of self have immediate impact upon reality, especially that of cultural and social groups.
Read a bit of it in second year uni, it's an interesting book and it definitely shaped how I think but I have to admit texts as dense as this are tough. Back to r/books for me I guess
Does anyone study or work in journalism here?
I'm considering it as a career, but I've not sure about what the industry is like and the types of positions that are available
>>7884688
sauce?
Man, boobs are pretty great.
what were we talking about
>>7884716
Feet>tits tbqh
IGNATIUS DID NOTHING WRONG
>>7884672
He tried to rile up the colored.
>>7884672
the only man that could make Detroit great again.
Would read a book about Ignatius as mayor
/pol/ meets /r9k/
/lit/ u are 2patrician4me
hardly
i started reading 3 years ago and i'm already way ahead of 75% of these frauds
>>7884605
>i started reading 3 years ago and i'm already way ahead of 75% of these frauds
>i started reading 3 years ago
>i'm already way ahead of
>75%
>these frauds
>3 years ago
>3
>>7884605
>i started reading 3 years ago
I doubt you're ahead of most people from /tv/ or /fit/, much less 75% of /lit/.
Post poems that cheer you up
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I wonder how long
I can be without you
https://youtu.be/zLAhRiUeJ8E
desu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txe6NDt7DHU
Song of Myself
why wasn't /lit/ in writer digest's top 100 websites for writers?
It starts with a 4 and ends with chan
>>7884356
Because it is fun to shitpost and argue about books here. And that's it. I'd never let one of you insecure tasteless faggots read my writing.
we're a secret club, nobody knows about 4chan it is a website for anonymous hackers, the website title itself is gibberish so you can't get on unless you memorize the password ie '4chan'
Children's and Teen books. Leave that YA bullshit at the door.
Saw a thread talking about this one earlier this week and remembered how awesome it was. Post your favorite kid's lit books and discuss.
>How to Eat Fried Worms
>Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing
>Edge Chronicles
>>7884200
Edge chronicles us fucking great, the Quint trilogy was clearly the best
>>7884291
I actually enjoyed the Rook trilogy, really kind of post-apocalyptic feel... Y'know, for a series with no basis in earth whatsoever.
Curse of the Gloamglozer was great, but I had trouble getting through Winter Knights.
>>7884200
The edge Chronicles were the shit homie. I kind of want to read them again but I definitely dont have them anymore.
Can we discuss this novel? I rarely see it mentioned here, why is that?
> I rarely see it mentioned here, why is that?
are you trolling?
http://www.nfb.ca/film/volcano/
This documentary is very good if you are at all interested in Lowry's biography.
why don't you start, pleb?
I want to write a book about a man who wants to fight the sun, everyone tells him he can't do it, but he does and he wins. How can I go about this?
>>7884090
If you are asking here you are too uncreative to write it in the first place
Also the premise sounds dumb.
>>7884097
Do you not think you could fight the sun?
>>7884090
he puts his hand up to it, blocking it out from his sight. or he walls himself up in a windowless room, where no light shines. have your story center on talks about human subjectivity.
Books that have made a mark on you, also what should I read next
What did you read first, negro?
Moby Dick left marks on me.
>>7884179
I'm not black lol I just finished the brothers karamazov guess I'll read moby dick
>>7884179
>Moby Dick left marks on me.
This
Stories like this one?
I Don't Have a Hole and I Have to Poo
>>7884052
Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
>>7884058
why are you here. go away
Are there any good novels about transexuals/transgenders?
>good novels
>transexuals/transgenders
