Can you imagine how many budding authors we've lost to internet fanfiction communities?
>>7669793
Dont be the guy who wastes his literary talent on shitsposts. thats our collective challenge
Can you imagine how many budding authors we've lost to shitposting?seriously though that is a very real thought and it's fuckin sad
Realistically we have probably lost a lot more due to war, starvation, lack of resources, etc.
What's Updike?
Nothing, what's up with you?
Roth. Not close.
Though Mailer was the best of the GMN.
>>7669708
lol
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
I guess I was referring to http://imgur.com/gallery/N2JxpDE
Really inconsequential and I might delete this later
>>7669700
>Anyone who thinks the best book ever written is by David Foster Wallace hasn't read that many books.
BTFO
DFW ON SUICIDE WATCH
>>7669699
>http://imgur.com/gallery/N2JxpDE
>Why is Hitchhiker's down at #90?
What are some books critical of ideology?
>>7669695
>running late at uni so I decide to grab a coffee in the canteen, which I've never entered before
>the first thing to grab my attention is a large poster of a starving african child with some platitude written underneath along with a note saying that x amount of the price of a cup of coffee will be given to charity
>it's a starbucks, oh boy
>full of hipsters reading popscience and new-age self help books
>I snort in derision and mutter "my God! and so on" under my breath, tightening my grip on my copy of Phenomenology of Spirit with an expression of smug satisfaction before turning to leave
>I'm in the middle of a line to the counter and it would be too awkward to leave
>I begin to get highly agitated, pulling at my shirt and sniffing repeatedly as perspiration begins to glisten on my face
>As I approach the counter the girl behind it asks me what I'd like to order
>"one cup of ideology please"
>She looks confused and tries to ask what I mean, but I keep cutting her off and going “huh? huh? huh?” while closing my hand shut in front of her face
>In my excitement I knock all the cups off the counter and exclaim "ideology at its purest!" before storming out
>>7669695
unconscious civilization - john ralston saul
Hey /lit/, what is your opinion on genre deconstructions. I'm doing one on Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Do you do any genre deconstructions? I might just buy your book.
I dont really like them but they have their place I guess.
I think its because they depend so much on the reader having a per-established knowledge of whats being deconstructed instead of being a straight story on its own.
Think the difference between EVA and Madoka. One played it straight with deconstructive elements on the side, while another kinda banked everything on its deconstructive aspects and didnt really go anywhere else.
>>7669687
If you're talking about Madoka, I hated the arbitrary mindscrew in Movie 3. It was just forced in a way that wasn't enjoyable.
>>7669682
http://www.chillispot.org/chilliforum/topic178079-gentoo-free-ebook-online-the-magnificent-third-rail-a-retrospective-by-robe.html
It's a deconstruction of the shilling genre in that I have no idea what the fuck that post was about. The book's on amazon though.
Hi all i am new to /lit/ and i am interested in reading. I have read oscar wilde, natsume soseki, yasunari kawabata which i enjoyed. But also i have almost completed the new testement of the bible and also the first five books of the old testament. The bible is really unlike anything else ive read in terms of quality and importance. Anybody else here feels affected similarly? Bible general.
what does dfw have to do with the bible
you should check out the greeks as well. I get a lot of the same feelings from the bible and more from them
>>7669581
havent read dfw and he seemed like an interesting person. Did he write anything in reference to the bible?
http://www.cosmoetica.com
What do you think of this great poet?
>>7669421
I think Dan Schneider is an idiot who should leave the critiquing to Bloom. I'm not even that big a fan of Pynchon, but the way this guy just spouts unsubstantiated claims is infuriating.
>>7669434
Being obviously correct in criticism and how some…: http://youtu.be/GMMz44C8xH0
>>7669450
Probably the biggest [citation needed] I've ever seen.
Thoughts? Discussion.
>>7669381
>Female author that isnt Plath, Atwood, Dickinson, Bronte, or Austen
I would recommend another book discussion site, like Goodreads or perhaps le Reddit
It's good but the central conflict is shit. Ill.post a more detailed response when not on mobile.
Someone tell me if the sequel is good
Was it rape?
>Maman died today
Is this the most kafkaesque thing he ever wrote?
Aujourd’hui, maman est morte
Probably. The French reminds me of the beginning of the Metamorphosis because the shocking part is at the end of the sentence just like "transformed" is in the Metamorphosis
>tfw evola next to derrida on my shelf
Who else /eclectic/ here?
>>7669319
I once put Turgenev next to Dostoyevsky, and it burst into flames.
I have Homer next to Taipei
>tfw can't make a single post of substance discussing the books themselves so decide to namedrop
who else /shitpost/ here?
>when genre fiction plebs act like 'narraritive structure', 'character development' and other useless bullshit of that nature actually matters
>when plebs make shit threads like >>7669317
>>7669332
Hi, Ben.
Can we all please take a look at this guy Bernard-Henri Levy?
I normally give these kind of guys the benefit of the doubt but this one is a fucking hack for you. Claims to be a philosopher but is just some weird bratty joke.
Please tell me there's some French people on /his/ that can give some good stories about this fucker
>this nigga need to get himself together desu
Early essays, such as Le Testament de Dieu or L'Idéologie française faced strong rebuttals from noted intellectuals on all sides of the ideological spectrum, such as historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet and philosophers Cornelius Castoriadis, Raymond Aron and Gilles Deleuze, who called Lévy's methods "vile".
More recently, Lévy was publicly embarrassed when his essay De la guerre en philosophie (2010) cited the writings of French "philosopher" Jean-Baptiste Botul. Botul's writings are actually well-known spoofs, and Botul himself is the purely fictional creation of a living French journalist and philosopher, Frédéric Pagès.
>>7669280
If there is one man i could publicly defecate on its BHL.
fuckin antisemetic bastids
What are some good books on empire as a concept? Not really histories on any specific empires, but about the nature of empire itself.
Historical, scientific, or philosophical takes all welcome.
>>7669212
Vanished Kingdoms by Davies
Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee
Submission by Houellebecq
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
The General in his Labyrinth by Marquez
>>7669341
Thanks friend, I'll check these out.
>>7669212
Empire - Negri/Hardt
Share proper /lit/ which you find interesting.
Here's a documentary about Saramago and his wife, made a couple of years before he died:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtRxhfcFi0
>>7669207
proper /lit/ videos, I meant to say.
>>7669211
You first
>>7669217
in the header, the documentary.
Just finished this. I know I'm a huge pleb, but I'm trying to restore my interest in lit. I'm reading Lolita tomorrow.
Did Camus intentionally create an autistic protagonist, or was it just coincidence?
That's the point
>>7669179
OK. So I was right. Glad I caught on to something.
