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I feel quite out of touch with the literary community. I still read a lot, but I don't post on /lit/ anymore (well, clearly I do, but I barely did for a couple of years). I probably know quite a lot of the "important" books, but help me out here. Also, are they any good, IYO?
> A Dance With Dragons, GRR Martin
> City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg
> Purity, Jonathan Franzen
> Brookylyn, some woman
Uh...that's all I can...
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ferrante
>>7818460
Middle C is the best novel of this century.
>>7818460
>America
>good
>Britain
>good
>Israel
>neutral
>Russia
>evil
>China
>evil
Triggered.
Has anyone read this? I am 100 pages in and the main character is making me cringe too much.
>>7816412
I have read it. I really love The Name of the Wind, the 2nd book, that's called "The Wise Man's Fear".
I think you have to finish it (as every book) to know if you'll like it at all or not. Personally, as I said, I love it, it's one of my favourites books and authors. I really like the way he tells the things, and he is, imo, very original. Hope you enjoy it too.
The little boy is perfect. He can do everything. Its annoying. But it was fun.
It's the lack of originality that kills this type of story. A young boy orphaned after he witnesses his parents and friends brutally murdered grows up rough and street smart fending for himself, swearing revenge. He has many whacky adventures each becoming more increasingly serious adult time now, until he finally faces his enemy only to lose the one person he cares about most. Oh, there also isn't any magic it is all ancient technology or something, because religion and faith is bad.
I basically described all 3 books there, predicting the plot of the third.
Each...
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Who has read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Summarize it!
>>7816378
>>>/hw/
a white boy and a black man go for a boat ride
sadly they don't fuck
>>7816387
His dad tries to fuck him in a cabin in the woods, though.
I think that is where Salinger got his inspiration for Holden raping his little sister.
I fucking hate this cunt. She is no philosopher.
True, but she did suck a real philosophers dick.
> she
> philosopher
>>7816353
You don't know shit about philosophy though
When will /lit/ realize that Wittgenstein was the closest humankind ever got to become god?
>>7818196
Some time ago tbqh.
>implying Wewgenstein isn't one of /lit/s most highly spoken of philosophers
>says a bunch of shit
>says a bunch of other shit that contradicts the former shit
Yeah it fits.
>Don't ask "is this legal" ask "is this right?"
Is leaking a script ethical?
Ask "does anyone care?" No.
>>7816341
What script?
Haven't been on this board for a while. Quality of discussion has dropped significantly. What happened?
>>7818037
Memes
meta meem's
>>7818037
/reddit posted that "/lit's top book" chart and now we've had a flood. It's never been the same.
What's the /lit/erary equivalent of Twin Peaks?
Murakami. Try Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
>>7816182
Vonnegut, desu.
Awful show, lad.
>>7816192
/thread
Where can I download "Plus" by "Joseph Mcelroy"?
As free epup or mobi or pdf or azw of course!
>>7818000
I don't know if there even is one. You could always just buy a copy.
>>7818002
It's available on amazon for kindle.
Could you buy it and upload it somewhere please?
>>7818008
No, I don't use kindle
What's the difference/relationship between absurdism and postmodernism?
>>7816157
Postmodernism isn't real. Modernism has just been decaying for the past seventy something years.
>>7816157
absurdism (as its name implies) focuses on the absurdity and inherent meaninglessness of life.
postmodernism is more of a complicated issue, and can be seen as an umbrella-term for various things including anti-Enlightenment values (caused by both world wars); capitalism and consumerism; the analysis and death of ideology; etc.
Metamodernism is the present, past and future.
you can find some links to relevant writing about it here as well as some chill metamodern music
https://craigculberton.bandcamp.com/album/book-of-the-damned
I thought this would be the right place for this.
I would appreciate it to get some advice on how to improve athmosphere , since this was my first serious attempt ever. Not even done fanfics before.
if you need to have some more info , i can provide on some parts of the story i have planned to write down next.
I will write it down in the following posts , since .pdf deosnt seem to work.
this is the first and probably still incomplete chapter of what i am currently doing
The Marble Town – Broken Mirrors
This is supposed to be an alternative start to my rather clunky attempt to write the stories of the adventurers , outcasts , heroes , murderers , monsters and humans which have walked upon the soil of this World.
I – PROLOGUE
“Do you hear everything?” the Moth asked in a bored matter. The way he wrapped his wings around him made him look rather voluptuous. His expression was hidden by the tips of the wings , which formed a mask in front of his face. The odd , face-shaped pattern intensively stared at the person ,...
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The hunter effortless slipped through the window since there was nothing resembling a door.
The Interior had a single staircase on the left , with an angular , black and shiny humanoid silhouette trying to climb upwards. It was made out of diamond-shaped black and slim crystals , which didn’t only hold together in a movable structure , but seemed to shift into one another as if it had no mass. Instead of hands and feet , there were only the pointy ends of its arms and legs.
The shards around the left hip were shattered , dusted , losing material whenever they were moved...
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She sat down against the wall for a few minutes , it took a bit until she could breath normally again. It still hurt like a nasty bruise , but the internal wound seemed to be growing back together already.
After a few moments , she stiffly walked towards her opponent, leaning on her weapon, retrieved the satchel from the pile of broken obsidian , and confirmed if anything was missing.
The tiny copper coins , the powder that is supposed to help clotting bleeding wounds , the red soapstone , her lunch , a pleated piece of parchment and the roll of bandages.
Everything...
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>just read pic related
>realise I've been living life pretty much as proposed in the book
>about to read the roman and greek stoicist authors for more reference
But anyway, is there a more superior philisophy to life than stoicism?
Discuss.
>>7817631
>>But anyway, is there a more superior philisophy to life than stoicism?
yes, the dhamma, since it is a user manual to establish, in daily life and in the jhana, what is called equanimity
calmness is overrated. It's a means to an end, not an end in itself. Do you think you were put here on Earth to be calm and still and peaceful and quiet your whole life?
The value of calmness is that it keeps you from getting bogged down by molehills, so that you can set your sights on a mountain.
Remember: the goal is not to eliminate emotion; only to ensure that you are not a slave to emotion.
>>7817631
I'm reading the sources now; who do they reference? I read Epictetus and Cicero's friendship one, and I just started Seneca; any others?
I liked the Wasp Factory. Does it follow I shall like this?
Yes, very possibly.
>>7816169
Thankyou. In return for your kind assistance, I in turn recommend Sheepshagger by Niall Griffiths
>>7816123
McCarthy's best book imo
I'm trying to come up with a word/label/phrase fitting this definition: a place of comfort where a normally anxious person is put at ease - due to being closed away from other people, understanding with confidence their position in space is unknown by others, and having security of mind that there are barricades that prevent surprise visits.
Maybe a word/label/phrase already exists for this, but I don't know it. Help me out here. It may sound like a hugbox, but it's not. This is specific to a location of comfort, and not necessarily against rational thought.
I...
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Womb
Den
Nest
Enclave
Sanctuary
Pod
>>7815965
All good, except I'd prefer a phrase that isn't shared with another meaning, and won't be confused with that meaning also. Something unique to this.
>>7815947
Panic room.
Anybody know any good books which examine the role of the internet in modern society?
Kind of like how TV is discussed in White Noise.
Alone Together, Tangled Web, Dark Net, Data and Goliath, @War, The Machine Stops.
>>7815853
Marshall McLuhan was already writing about it back in the 50s
>>7815853
I meant novels by the way, sorry should have specified.
