Holy shit, this dude is a shitty writer.
>>7665168
? The quality of his wtriting is beside the point.
>>7665172
I can't get to the point because it is an unorganized mess.
>>7665207
Oh, I thought you were talking more about his phrasing etc. It's maybe a tough thing to get organized, given the endless variations on the overall theme.
ITT - Discuss the best book covers
>pic related
>>7665006
That's quite haunting.
10/10
Hi /lit/ I'm sick of short horror stories that all seem to blend together after awhile.
I want primal fear. monsters but nothing too scifi and definitely no Lovecraft I've worn that out unfortunately
sit still in silence with your eyes closed
>>7662543
I already go to bed early to be alone with my thoughts I'm looking for actual suggestions on stories to read
>>7662548
horror is pretty pleb
you might like 1408, by stevie king
What does /lit/ think of Bukowski?
>>7661420
degenerate liberal cuck
they are upset by him. they cannot get the vision of chuck squatting over their waifu's mouth and squeezing a semisoft shit from his craggy hair pie.
>>7661428
Hey man, that's not even a real criticism
Post your favorite book covers /lit/.
>>7654227
>The Hobbit cover
>map includes Rohan, Gondor, Osgiliath
>not even one of Tolkien's actual maps
>2016
>not writing with Swiss made luxury writing instruments
Very veblen
> not zebra mech pencils
D R O P P E D
Futuristic Military Fiction
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110612005642
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100710233344
http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
http://imgur.com/A96mTQX
>What are you currently reading
>What is your favorite futuristic military fiction
>Which author writes the best futuristic military fiction
Old thread >>7633250
>>7651355
What is some good japanese scifi? tried reading all you need is kill and my god it was awful.
>>7651355
>What are you currently reading
Titus Groan & Ficciones for fiction
>What is your favorite futuristic military fiction
I really liked Horus Heresy but I stopped reading it a while back, probably should return to it.
>Which author writes the best futuristic military fiction
I dont know, Dan Abnett is cool. I'm down for any other reccomendations
>>7651367
I hear Genocidal Organ is really good, shame the anime movie is all held up. It looked really promising.
>Marquis de Sade
>"philosopher"
>>7666244
This is the literature board, bub.
sage and report
>>7666247
Marquis de Sade is literature, though.
>>7666250
Autistic categorizing belongs on /mu/ though.
So I've just read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for the fifth time - what a beautiful piece of writing this book is.
It employs any literary technique HST felt like using to develop itself to the fullest, its language is hot and rhytmic and tangential to the issue at hand while still being teleologically pointed to what is wants to convey or excite to/in the reader (that's prose for you, in a nutshell) and its plot, holy shit. Have I ever read a more accomplished contemporary work of profoundity and ALLEGORY. A new Knight, a new Quest. Also Kierkegaard and shit but I posted that elsewhere.
What do you think? How do you feel about it? What isn't as well as I think it is? Also, would you recommend the gonzo papers?
>>7665144
It's a work knee deep in Allegory for sure, but I feel like it had a lot of redundancy and baggage in getting across its central point. Too much stuff to tell too little.
However, as a work of comedy I rank Fear and Loathing among the greatest books ever written. Every one of Hunters little observations he makes throughout the book is an insightful and cutting political comment and makes him feel like a very real person at least to me, as I know a few people like that, with strong opinions expressed entirely through the medium of jokes. I feel like you have to read Raoul Dukes strange rantings as Hunters sense of humour being expressed in the way he would express it in real life, as opposed to the ravings of a madman, which it may look like.
Also, when the book shys away from the comedy and gets serious, boy does it hit home.
>>7665182
I'm very tired and that on a second reading this comment appeared a little incoherent. I'll continue discussion in the morning, as I am heading to bed, but my opinion is as follows: Fear and Loathing primarily succeeds as a work of comedy, accomplishing all of its political and social commentary through that, and I feel that the book must be viewed through that lens to really shine. It's almost like Jonathon Swift (in A Modest Proposal in particular) but with the more modern use of everyday sarcasm.
Of course, that's also one of the great tragedies of Fear and Loathing: that Hunter, once the idealistic activist that he was, is now reduced to nothing but drug fuelled sarcasm in a shitty hotel room in Vegas.
>>7665144
I feel like it's not as good as the The Tunnel. You should read The Tunnel.
Is reading plays stupid? Arent they meant to be experienced in theatre?
No.
kinda
Who do you think would win in a fight, Plato or Hemingway?
![498ed76be651cffb6bb9bac6a9bb75c3[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/Um62PsH.png "498ed76be651cffb6bb9bac6a9bb75c3[1]")
>>7664982
Better question... If Machiavelli fought Homer, who would win?
Plato. Hemmingway only ever won a fight against Wallace Stevens who was nearly 60 years old at the time of the fight.
Joyce would rile up people at the pub just to see people kick Ernies's ass.
>>7664992
Considering The Prince was satire that was written so that Machiavelli didn't get his shit permanently kicked in, I'd say Homer.
Favourite epic poems? Bonus points for lesser known
Aniara
gerusalemme liberata and orlando furioso are great
he Epic of Manas (Kyrgyz: Maнac дacтaны, Turkish: Manas Destanı) is a traditional epic poem of the Kyrgyz people. Composed and sung entirely in oral form by various singers throughout the centuries. As nomads, the Kyrgyz had no written language. Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov notes: "If other peoples/nations displayed their past culture and history in written art, the sculpture, architecture, theatre and literature, Kyrgyz people expressed their worldview, pride and dignity, battles and their hope for the future in epic genre."
Today there are about sixty versions of the epic Manas recorded from various epic singers and oral poets. Its longest version, consisting of half a million poetic lines, was written down from one of the last master-manaschï (singers of Manas) Saiakbai Karalaev (1894-1971). The epic is indeed unique in its size. It is twenty times longer than the Homeric epics Iliad (15693) and Odyssey (12110) taken together and two and a half times the length of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
If I read nothing but the New Testament for a year, will I become a good writer /lit/?
>>7664326
Yes but only if you write in double column.
Stop deluding yourself. The NT is merely a history book with certain, shitty life lessons. There is no reason to read it more than once and stop lying to yourselves
>>7664344
Just admit it's over your head.
I'm 150 pages deep and I'm still not feeling it. I get really into some passages, then others (usually the theological stuff) really send me to sleep. Is the theological stuff the point? Should I persevere? Am I just too plen for this?
took me an entire summer to get through
8/10 would not go through again
Keep going until you finish The Grand Inquisitor, then stop if you don't like it. Revisit it some other time if you want. You're not going to like everything hailed as incredible and that's okay.
I'm nearing the end of the novel. The final third, with the exception of one of the "books" which is total filler, is really engrossing. If nothing else, read the Grand Inquisitor. All in all, though, it's a pretty turgid book with a lot of fluff.
>"A cultural idea - such as belief in Christian heaven above the clouds or Communist Paradise here on earth - can compel a human to dedicate his or her life to spreading that idea, even at the price of death. The human dies, but the idea spreads. According to this approach, cultures are not conspiracies concocted by some people in order to take advantage of others (as Marxists tend to think). Rather, cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.
>"This approach is sometimes called memetics. It assumes that, just as organic evolution is based on the replication of organic information units called 'genes', so cultural evolution is based on the replication of cultural information units called 'memes'. Successful cultures are those that excel in reproducing memes, irrespective of the costs and benefits to their human hosts."
Thought you might like this /lit/
>>7663026
>"OMG he said maymay, guis!! XDDD"
epin
>>7663033
I don't like interesting things, the post.
>>7663044
>memes
>interesting
back to /s4s/, cuckold
