ITT: people who couldn't write a single novel to save their life
>>7697544
>itt: people who couldn't write their own name to save their life
ftfy
>>7697544
Novels were apparently not meta enough for this smug fucker.
Does /lit/ believe that the current climate of sexual commoditization and malaise is a direct outgrowth of the "Free Love" movement in the 60's?
As far as I can tell, Zappa pretty much predicted the future. Also, does this belong on /mu/ just because I'm referencing Zappa? I would rather know /lit/'s opinions on this
>>7697533
It has nothing to do with capitalism, you cultural Marxist cuck. It's because of the Jews who own Hollywood. They want to breed out whiteness
Take the redpill
>>7697537
I'm a non-white who experiences sexual malaise. Is my only solution suicide?
How do I overcome the fear of the unknown?
>>7697504
Take the redpill
You don't fear the unknown, my son, you fear others. But, throughout these years you've become a damn veteran at struggling with fear. You can only embrace the unknown for it puts everyone on the same ground. You know how to stand the fear. You know the feeling of gazing into an abyss. Do they?
>>7697514
le ebin meme stroikes agan lel
It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down...
>>7697484
wrong board for your anime memes
I´m want a tattoo. Which is the correct order of the seven deadly sins? from worst to best or the order Dante found them or just some kind of order
Why don't you just read the Interno or do any of your own research you lazy fucking prick?
>I´m want a tattoo.
>I´m want
>>7697441
OP's got a jump start on sloth.You're showing us some wrath for that matter.I would fall under Pride right about now.
>2016
>hasn't read Menexenus
Why anon? It's one of Plato's most important dialogues
>>7697400
This recurring thread made me confused when I first saw it, but now I chuckle every time.
Or any of Gil Orlovitz's other works such as Ice Never F?
Uh, oh.
>>7697417
"Uh oh" what?
>>7697788
Books become "memes" around here so fast.
Where should I start with this bad boy?
page 1
>>7697344
>not starting on page 0
>>7697351
All those extra pages add up. Every few hundred books you start on page 0 equals oe more book you could have read starting on page 1. Hell, I sometimes start on page 4.
Hello /lit/, I've been coming here for a couple of months now and I've been wanting to learn to appreciate literature on a deeper level. There seems to be a great deal of websites online dedicated to teaching courses on the likes of programming and mathematics, but very little in terms of literature.
In short, where can I study a University tier literature course online, for free? It doesn't need to be accredited, I don't plan a career in literature and want to do this purely for pleasure.
>>7697265
there are Yale and Harvard ENG lectures online. just read what they read in their syllabuses and watch the lectures accordingly
Classical studies.
>>7697325
Thank you, the only Yale course I can find is an introduction to English literature. Should that be sufficient?
I know Ligotti gets brought up A LOT in horror threads on /lit/, but I was wondering if anyone else finds his work to be a bit underwhelming? Since Penguin reissued Grimscribe/Songs I've read four of his books (the other two being Noctuary and Teatro) but I feel like he's been writing the same story for the past thirty years or so (Protagonist encounters malevolent force that is usually indescribable/extremely abstract that confirms the absurdity and meaningless of human consciousness to him.) I can appreciate the general atmosphere he conjures in stories like 'In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land', but in terms of actual substance he seems a bit lacking and at times his stories seem borderline devoid of plot. I'm not at all saying that he's awful (I've enjoyed him enough that I've bought/read four of his books), but why has he become such a cult figure in horror fiction, to the extent that he has an entire forum dedicated to discussion of his writing? Am I missing something major here?
I read a bit of Teatro Grosso and gave up midway: was bored as shit by it. Not scary, just ambling atmosphere with figures in the dark.
>>7697363
Pretty much. He sets up a creepy atmosphere but doesn't do anything with it. Also his endings suck. "END THEN A SKELETON POPPED OUT"-tier. He could just end his stories a paragraph or two earlier out of nowhere and they would improve.
I agree. I was a huge Ligotti fan for a while, but after reading Grimscribe/Songs, it does seem like he was a one-trick pony. Before I read them, I thought maybe he had something interesting going on, something that wasn't just an evolved Lovecraft rip-off, but now I realise that his new stuff which I had enjoyed so much was simply built on his Lovecraft imitation. Discovering the missing link made it all so underwhelming.
On the positive side, means it's less work for me to outdo him. Or anyone else.
>Tfw when there's no working /lit/ archive.
>>7697183
only the memes remain
https://dialecticarchives.com/
"if you can't remember it, it's not worth it." - bob marley
I really want to get pic related, but I'm only interested in getting this specific cover, as I think it's beautiful and it's the same as the version I checked out from the library. Unfortunately the dumb bastards at Modern Library have since reissued the book with a lesser cover but with the same ISBN. I'm having trouble tracking down this exact copy, especially since most booksellers are a bunch of cunts who use stock images and don't guarantee that the cover will be the same.
Anyone have any tips?
then email them and ask what cover they have. are you stupid
get it used on ebay ya dingus
Can you really learn Italian in two weeks?
What is the easiest language to learn to speak conversationally?
You can't
Probably English
>>7697113
Why did he say that then??
>>7697114
I don't know, I haven't read the book. I'm Italian tho and I meet foreign people on a daily basis, which provides me with empirical evidence that no, you probably can't learn a language in two weeks - although you can probably learn a few hundred phrases and get around with those, so maybe that's what I meant.
![140272627-grooming-needs-senior-cat-632x475[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/wTsml2I.jpg "140272627-grooming-needs-senior-cat-632x475[2]")
Has anybody here learned a language just to be able to read fiction in that language? Tell me about your routine.
That is one highly detailed pussy
i started learning Russian. in the process, i got to know quite a few Russian people. i found them untrustworthy, manipulative, deceitful, bitter, angry, careless, rude, opinionated and self-centered.
think i might start learning Japanese instead.
>>7697065
You don't actually have to learn the language in order to read literature in that language. Just enjoy the beautiful sounds of the language.
So I just finished reading this book, and I really enjoyed it a lot. I didn't get a lot of the 80's referances, being from 88 i missed out on most of the 80's. But I knew most of them, Can't wait to see how they will translate it to the big screen. I really hope they keep the robot battles and the puzzles mostly the same. I understand that they might have to xhange some things due to licensing. Makes me wonder how they were able to put this book out in the first place, so many fun little referances.
I'm planning on buying Armada, the second book of this author. Does anyone know some other books with a similar feel to this one?
0/10 bait
>>7697066
I just want to talk about this book, and maybe find some new books to read.
>>7697125
This is a literature board. Try r/books.
