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Have you read this dude?
Pro tip: You should - hatred for humankind and jew especially.
>>7689629
No thanks :)
>>7689669
Elaborate?
>>7689674
nope :)
This reads like novel adaptation of a screenplay for one of those YA adaptations. Aren't people fed up with this type of trash?
>>7689132
>This reads like novel adaptation of a screenplay for one of those YA adaptations
that's how all of those YA books read
reading Morning Star right now :)
Why are you reading it then you tit?
Is this set /lit/ approved?
Fitzgerald is better desu
Lattimore for Homer.
Mandelbaum for Virgil.
>>7689020
nope.
Those 3 books are shit. We always say it.
Damn, boy! Don't you read the threads here???
Are there any books on Cultural Marxism? The further I go into researching it, the more dead ends I hit. Either that, or any information on it has been retconned by Wiki-fascists claiming that it's a conspiracy theory.
Maybe the reason you are having such difficulty is because it actually, in all earnest, really is just a bizarre conspiracy theory crafted by fringe lunatics on the internet as a scapegoat for everything they see as wrong with the contemporary sociopolitical ecosystem.
Just a guess.
What I find funny is that people who think Cultural Marxism is real point to theorists like Adorno as examples... despite the fact he was so elitist he thought jazz music was degenerate and that the radio was rotting the minds of his time with senseless entertainment.
No such thing as cultural Marxism. It's a boogieman that prevents conservatives from going back to the "good old days." Marxism proper is about only one thing: class as the primary factor determining historical outcome.
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I just finished my novella and want to choose a pen name that sounds oppressed. I don't want to use an Asian one since publishers may be on the lookout after the whole Yi-Fen Chou ordeal.
What kind of name should I choose? I was thinking of either one of those wacky African names, or just something with a lot of accent marks.
Dan Smith.
If your writing is good it will get published don't hide because you fucking suck mad ass at writing.
only right answer
>>7687589
Why not give myself an extra edge?
Poetry thread
Wiccan Witchcraft
Working late shift she came to my shop
With such beauty I was left in shock
What a surprise she knew me by name
Wishing I'd play her demonic game
Interested I made the first move
In this moment she knew I'd lose
Incantations and words she knew well
Intricately, she wove a spell
To my absolute glee we hit it off
Time to close shop and head for my loft
The party we had was one for the ages
Truth is my heart still rages
Carefree and wild we danced
Come morning I'm...
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"bad poetry
o noetry"
- drew
>>7687596
It's my first attempt at a poem. It's too blunt?
For my playwriting class we all brought in a small piece of writing that had language we found interesting. We got in groups of three. I brought in the first verse and refrain of Emily by Joanna Newsom. One guy brought in a small part of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain. One girl brought in a Philip Larkin poem. Then our instructor made us write using the style of the piece we brought in and write from the perspective of the speaker as if that speaker wants something from one of the other two characters. I did this and changed Emily to Eleanor because...
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Greetings and goodevenings, /lit/. I would just like to bring to your attention this wonderfully crafted, beautifully composed sentence from The Tunnel. Enjoy, friends.
Whatever the world really is; whatever we share when we think we share something; whatever the truth turns out to be, including the possibility that the truth was turned out of this world like a disgraced daughter long ago; in short, whatever remains and acts with regularity and can be counted on, whatever that whatever is, Kohler: this much is true of it, even of the untruthful part, namely that reality...
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Top toad, /lit/hren
>>7687425
Which was your favorite part?
Hey, it's Gassposter!
Thanks again, Gassposter
I read Catcher in the Rye recently and loved it. My favorite book this far and it made me want to start reading more.
I really identified with Holden. Is there any other books I would like with a similar main character or theme?
Judge Holden in Blood Meridian
You want cynical coming of age books? There's quite a lot of them to choose from.
>>7686677
/thread
http://theprimeversion.com/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-to-be-published-as-a-book-on-july-31st/
>>7682963
good news! thanks
The biggest book series of all time is back
Where the sticky!!!!!
>>7682963
So who's the new villain going to be?
ITT: major philosophical questions we just don't give a shit about
>life has no meaning and nothing we do matters!
>>7689701
If space is made of composite matter, how do we perceive simple objects?
>>7689718
I couldn't find the original, antman
>Hey Buddha, that's a pretty nice doctrine you have there
>Thanks Siddhartha
>Yeah, but Buddha what about all these things in your doctrine that don't add up?
>You're clever, Siddhartha. Be careful, it's possible to be too clever.
>lol, I know, Buddha, thanks any, see you later!
Why do people wank over this book?
>>7688697
Because they aren't as intellectually enlightened and well-versed in literature as you, obviously.
Because wanking is orgasmich hehhhhhaa
>>7688697
Why are there so many Siddhartha shitposters? Or is it just the same guy?
Does the literary world need more Naipauls?
It is a sad thing that Naipaul hasn't written quite a lot in recent times owing to his age.
You know something about great writers? They are prophetic. They spotthe undercurrents brewing before they come to the forefront and dominate the headlines. Another thing about great writers is that they are masters of the language. And Naipaul is greatest living writer of the English language. No one comes close. Coetzee perhaps a far second.
Naipaul is supposed to be the author you adorn your bookshelf with but never...
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i read a few short pieces by him and was not a fan, sorry OP ;; you seem so genuinely enthusiastic about him...keep fighting the good fight mate
>>7686430
No problem, dude. I think his real genius comes forth comes in his non-fiction. As Orhan Pamuk accurately observed:
>Conrad,Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness.
He belongs to that unmarked continent of expat writers who relish on their rootlessness, and the only thing...
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The reason I made this thread was because
a) I'm drunk
b) I've never seen Naipaul being discussed even though he's one of the most talented writers living and even won the Nobel Prize (a surprise, really, given his anti-left disposition)
c) I recently read Joyce Carol Oates, a supposedly respected /lit/-type novelist sucking on Islamism and Jihadists. In the best case scenario, she knows not what she is supporting, that the same people would rape and then stone her 80 yr old self without remorse. She doesn't know what Islamism has done to converted...
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>English professor hasnt heard of dfw
Is my uni shit?
It is ideal.
That depends on how old is he.
Maybe he is so old he dosent give a shit about literature anymore and just want the $$$
>>7686449
Late 30s i would guess
He isnt old
>the internet has killed academia.
Agree or disagree?
Why go to college when you can download all the books you want and watch lectures of esteemed professors from all around the world on youtube?
because when online you get distracted by porn
>>7684627
Academia seems to be a mostly rotting corpse anyway. I think the internet gives a willing young person the ability to circumvent it entirely.
So by the end of this semester I'll have written a 20 page paper on a Borges fiction. My choices are between Funes, The South, The Aleph or Tlon. I have to commit now basically and I can't decide which.
I've read them all and they're all 50% pure corny and 50% interesting, but overall The South is less interesting (maybe because it's less 'fantastic' and more about narrative techniques, whatever the narrative techniques are the cringiest).
What do you think? Which is your favorite. Help me commit /lit/.
>>7690183
I think The Aleph or Tlon have the most depth to plumb for 20 double spaced pages, and the most wiggle room to reach your own conclusions without offending the typical undergraduate professor.
>>7690183
Tlon will definitely give you the most to work with, in regards to a writting topic.
>>7690235
>>7690199
I thought so, but in terms of 'discovering' a thesis or something i think most of what's in there is about literary culture, south american/global, owing also to the amount of names he drops.
That might not be a bad thing, but could wind up pretty dry. idk. Funes would be the same thing I think. I suppose I should go through Tlon again and see if there's anything particularly confusing/some questions that stick out about the construction...
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