What are some manly books? Something like Jack London or maybe Ernest Hemingway but preferably something more recent.
tess of the d'ubervilles.
essentially, a mans purpose is to rape. another mans purpose is to care for a woman and raise her cuck babies. no judgement passed either way.
This is aimed at your demographic.
>>7656524
what constitutes a manly book? Does it spit and fart loudly?
What's your favorite book title?
>Fear and Trembling
Repetition
>>7655310
The Vagina-Ass of Lucifer Niggerbastard
My Twisted World
Hi /lit/
I haven't written anything in years but I've been an avid reader most of my life. Anyway I'm going to post a short piece I wrote and just want feedback. Shit on it if you please, whatever. I just want any sort of feedback good or bad.
The Writing prompt was just: Corpses are seeds.
Forests are nature’s graveyards. Mother nature is our Sexton. One can’t help but take a stroll through the woods and wonder of the lives that were, that could have been. Our mothers are trees and our fathers flowers. We’re all the same. Some say when you die you get to choose what your body becomes, may it be a tulip or a great redwood tree. Others are more sceptic and believe whatever happens is random. A complete scientific rebalancing of the chemicals in our bodies with the nature around us. I find nothing more comforting than knowing that after a life of taking a reaping from the land in death I can finally repay my debt.
>>7657778
start a religion/10
>>7657863
I can't tell if that's a compliment so I shall take it as one, Thank you!
>>7657778
It's very undeveloped and immature: your ideas, though numerous, aren't much to look at; your sentence structures are clunky and repetitive, without variation or anything else to make them interesting. I also recommend using proper grammar: you need a box to break out of, ehh? Advice: read authors with great prose--Gass, Hawkes, Joyce, Pynchon, and Proust are good picks--and analyze their style, think about what they are doing and why they do it, and maybe assimilate, synthesize, take pieces to form a whole; but always, because you are nothing otherwise, write yourself; don't write/attempt to write insincerely because it shows.
Would being published in a college literary magazine look good on my resume or applying for MFA programs? I feel like being published even by some obscure magazine would be impressive than college press. I only ask because I'm looking to have a story of mine and maybe two poems published for the lit magazine at my school.
your writing is probably too shit for even that so your question is moot.
>>7655920
OR you could actually give a helpful response instead of making assumptions.
if you have to ask your writing is too shit
fuck off
Best novels on teenage angst?
Mad Toy by Arlt>>>>>>>>>The Catcher in the Rye desu
a portrait of the artist as a young man
>>7657374
Arlt is overrated and people only know him because of Based Bolano.
>>7657559
>overrated
I don't think you really know what that word means desu. Nobady knows that nigga.
I knew about him before I had read any Bolaño tho.
Shout out to these for getting us all into reading the classics.
Oh, fuck yes. They had these in the dollar store, I must have got twenty Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevensons.
>>7654375
But... OP, they're... edited! Striped! Marrow drained!
>>7654375
i had a copy of their Swiss Family Robinson. I loved that book.
How often do we look for a deeper meaning behind trivial sentences just because of the reputation of the author?
this question is stupid on so many levels
go back to R E D D I T where this image gets spammed once a month, you're obviously from there
It's certainly true that people look for irony and satire where it doesn't exist when they read late 18th century novels.
>There's no way a man so intelligent and well-respected could have been so sentimental, right? I mean, this is laughable—wait, maybe that's the point! Maybe it's a SATIRE on sentiment! Yes, his use of irony is masterful!
Why the fuck is this a venn diagram? What's the intersection? Surely the point is that they're completely separate.
Read expected got GO
Pale king might have been the greatest novel ever written, had it been completed.
What are the main problems of New Sincerity?
What are the more recent literary/art movements that you identify with?
I think some might argue that New Sincerity might place an upper limit on the amount of depth a work can have--that irony is somehow necessary for nuanced thought.
I of course disagree with that contention a lot though, and identify strongly with New Sincerity, as well as other post-postmodern, or post-ironic, movements.
>>7654983
Its dumb shit that only merica college kids like.
For all talks of sincerity it seems to still operate on the inescapable epistemological basis of post-modernism which necessarily begets working with and through irony. I feel like the true spectrum people work on nowadays isn't sincerity-irony but awareness from the outsider savant to the hyper (self) aware
I wanna start reading Manuel Puig. What book would you recommend me?
Manny Puig? Wasn't he on Wildboyz?
>>7656755
Spider-woman issue 243 is where his arc starts
Just bought a used copy for 4 dollars.... what should i expect and how should i approach this book?
Read it ironically
>>7655174
Not bad advice... I would say read it with a grain of salt, take notes on the general outline of his history (because it's better viewed in chronological charts than in paragraphs) and analyse it from your own vantage point on history.
>decline
But we are becoming greater with each passing year !
How much ideology is in this clip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu9tb6fPCBw
Are the michelangelos and beethovens simply giving you a third hand account of their second hand account of a world you could go out and experience for yourself?
3.4 ideology grams.
>>7657224
Yes, you are constantly getting third hand accounts of everything but what British presenter man seems not to get is that the things he thinks are facts he treats as if he has certainty about their origins and interpretations. It's his whole notion of epistemology that is questionable. The notion that you can understand everything, that everything is explicable or logical is maybe not demonstrably false but also cannot be assumed correct.
>>7657224
technological determinism/10\
grand narratives/10
there is more truth in this image of a pizza
>borrow Euripides from the library
>it's a prose translation
>reading the worst of the Greek tragedians
>frogposter hasn't killed self yet
filthy dumb frogposting scum
>>7657009
It's all I've got left anon, except the surviving chunk of that Sophocles satyr play.
/lit/ has been boring lately, let's have a fun thread. If you had to relive the life of one character from a book, who would it be and why?
>>7656689
Tyrone Slothrop
god, the bible
>>7656689
Hal/king Henry V
What do you think of him? Except that every photo of him looks like a mugshot.
He gets points for being a materialist that at least recognizes how awful and soulless modern life is. But he loses points for somehow managing to be more anti-traditional than anti-modern.
(This is a man who literally thinks that the future of technology, as a future consequence of the Enlightenment, will somehow redeem our listless, perfunctory, perverted and infantile existences- a present consequence of the Enlightenment.)
His prose is awful. His characters are paper-thin. He would be better if he wrote essays instead of the crap he tries to pass off as novels.
Put another way:
Yes Mr. Houllebecq, we know our life is a sham: I don't need you to tell me. I don't go to books to have my face rubbed in that. I go to books because I want some way, temporary or enduring, out of it.
>>7656635
Literally how I feel about Wallace.
