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>write paranormal romance for teens on kindle
>make millions a year
While the litrary guy dies broke.
>ywn be published
>>7813766
>book 19
yo what the fuck
>'post successful' is the closest you will come to a literary career.
Where do I start with Murakami?
Don't.
with a different murakami
the rubbish bin
>ok class, today we're going to be reading our essays aloud
I literally packed my bag and walked out. Why the fuck do professors do this shit?
>>7814807
Why can't you just write something you'd be proud of?
>comfort zone, the post
>>7814807
That's how he weeds out people who suck and aren't confident in their work. Don't come here thinking you'll get a hug box because other spergtards frequent these lands.
Which modern writers do you think have the most beautiful prose? Gass? YeCarthy? Pinecone? Drop some names for me, boys.
>>7813669
Gass, McCarthy, and Pynchon are not modern writers. The modern writer with the best prose is James Joyce, bar none. Illiterates disagree.
>>7813702
I think you mean Modernist. Don't play ignorant, it is obvious what OP means
I like Coetzee. It's very simple but also very calculated and powerful. McCarthy is great, obviously. Carpentier. Nabokov. Saramago. Kundera. Bellow. Rushdie. There are tons.
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Okay, this was shit.
And i read somewhere that this is considered a comedy book, but it deppressed me. The whole third act is sad as fuck.
>The whole third act is sad as fuck.
Refresh my memory; what was the third act?
>it depressed me
Hit a little too close to home didn't it?
>>7814841
Daily reminder there is nothing wrong with Ignatius, and he is better than nearly every character in this book
Help me come up with a senior quote guys
Im not underage
>>7814576
"As I got in the taxi, panting from the strenuous exertion of walking, I muttered-in between my desperate breaths, 'the library, and step on it!'"
"Actually, i AM under age" -- OP
"So it goes."
I've only been lurking /lit/ for the past few days now so I don't know how often this has been discussed before but I wanted to ask this question.
How come girls/women are so much more likely to read then boys/men do? I know they usually have shit taste but they seem to enjoy it more than we do.
[citation needed]
>>7813587
im a girl and i can verify it, boys are just dummies.
>yfw grills have found a way of accessing porn which makes them "smart" not "creepy" and can be done in public
If art offers a way for people to temporarily escape the suffering that results from willing
And if beautiful women are subjectively deemed as aesthetically pleasing forms of art
Then is indulging your life with beautiful women a way to escape the suffering that results from willing?
If so, isn't female beauty the highest form of art, as it contains all four dimensions?
*If I am getting this concept [aesthetics] wrong, which I mainly am getting from Schopenhauer please critique or correct me. Obviously my case assumes that the viewer is fond...
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>>7814507
I'd say not. As I understand it, art is an extension of the artist, and contains his ideas, his emotions, and, more importantly, his interpretation of reality. And since the way a woman looks is not normally a choice, in my mind, it wouldn't qualify as art.
>>7814507
Women ruin their aesthetic value by possessing an independent will.
This makes them the cause of, rather than escape from, suffering.
>>7814507
>isn't female beauty the highest form of art
nope, male body has higher aesthetic potential
strictly no homo of course, but people outside /fit/ have trouble grasping that because they haven't seen enough naked male bodies yet so they're insecure
Should you read an author's work chronologically?
Not necessarily. Sometimes an author only writes one worthwhile book, and it's not necessarily her first.
I typically read an authors most notable book and then try to go chronological.
I find it interesting to compare and contrast their works as they get older to their opus.
>>7813521
>Harper Lee
Exodus > Genesis > Revelation > John > Luke > Mathew > Mark > Acts > Judges > Kings > Samuel > Isaiah > Chronicles > Jeremiah >>>>> All of Paul's Letters >>>>> shit >>> The Poem books >>>>>> The Quran >>> Leviticus > Deuteronomy > Numbers >>>>shit >>>> all other books
the last shit was supposed to be suicide
>the New Testament
>ever
Are you serious? It's literally fanfiction of the Tanakh.
>>7813486
pretty based how it glorifies Jesus, and it really makes him look like he is a messiah
Hello brothers,
I have posted here before for advice regarding getting published and gained a lot. I've written a lot of works and am intent on getting them published so that they may receive the attention that all art deserves.
I have sent queries to agents and to magazines with my longer and shorter works and in the meantime, I thought to make a blog would be beneficial if it gains readers. The idea is repulsive and has been for a long time but for the potential exposure of my works, I am willing to compromise principle.
I have been keeping a journal...
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You need to shill your stuff on reddit , good reads and other forums.
Don't bother shilling here because we are like 5 people in total
>>7813457
I don't have anything to shill yet, but you five are more precious to me than all of Reddit.
bump for new eyes
any good books about hikikomori?
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=18fd2f7a8716507fd209fec3a6c8da6a
my diary desu
>>7814674
what dy mean bored
>>7814708
i said about not by
>>7814758
dude, just give OP the list. if he buys them and never reads them, your fav researchers still get the money.
i'm almost finished Rendezvous with Rama and my friend loaned me the second. Is it worth reading? I'm enjoying the first book but I'm hesitant as the second is mostly written by this other guy.
bump.
no. it is not. none of the sequels are.
the first book is a thoughtful exploration of an alien wonder.
the sequels are thoughtful explorations of just how vile people can be when plotting to exploit those alien wonders.
it's like the first book is a tour of a tropical island, and the sequels are films of the natives being starved and raped.
>>7814490
Back then reviewers critiqued Rama 1 for having no human characters, practically robots who are exploring an alien landscape.
Clarke took that to heart so Rama 2 completely overshot into the other direction, everything is about humans, nothing about aliens.
>"Suppose that a person with knowledge of an imminent terrorist attack, that will kill many people, is in the hands of the authorities and that he will disclose the information needed to prevent the attack only if he is tortured"
The conditions of this event are so:
>The evidence in support of the contention that he has the relevant information would satisfy the requirements of evidence for convicting him of an offence.
>There are reasonable grounds for believing that he...
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He obviously should be tortured
no man, its nobody's responsibility but th guy who set the bomb
no need to become violent yourself to combat other violence
I'm a failure /sci/,
Why does it feel like all of literature and philosophy is just fruitless escapism?
I doubt many of you here are actually involved in the field, does anyone use /lit/erary works as an actual driving force for their happiness, given that it doesn't help them with better career prospects or more ladies?
I mean, atm, nothing other than reading Kant, meditating and gyming seems to take my mind of suicide.
Yo no se if this is sustainable.1
>>7814466
Everything is escapism, anon.
The enjoyment of literature is an empty thing.
It is fruitless escapism but it is truer to life than most things, literature or at least the reading of literature is not suppose to be anything beyond this act. They are just moments of fancy.
Happiness is better palpable when the act of enjoyment is no longer about turning away from some other thing, then the act becomes a bit truer to itself.
>>7814475
Second this. People that are depressed are just acutely aware of looming mortality, and the inevitability of the end of existence- to them, diversions from this realization are frivolous and desperate
