So is this book just the disconnected whinings of a failed author for a few hundred pages?
People love garbage around here man. There is nothing interesting about it.
Let me cover your reply:
>pleb
That's right, pleb-o. Now go back to reading structured novels where the protagonist will win in the end.
(Reading is also about pleasure, and the things Pessoa writes are a joy to read)
What's the matter? Too DEEP for you?
What does /lit/ think of HG Wells? I just read the Time Machine and thought it was pretty solid.
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>>7634204
fuck off, I bet you haven't even read it
I liked it OP, but I liked War of the Worlds better. I finished that one very quickly and it was a tense read
H.G. Wells' histories and social thought are actually really fucking good
Deep thinker
What books do you recommend for forging a strong will or breaking through societies constructs in order to live a free life?
>>7633636
>breaking through societies constructs
do you even have to ask?
>>7633636
Stirner
NietzscheThe Bible
The Apology - Plato
Has anything good come out of the balkans? I know of Emil Cioran, but nobody else really.
...The Greeks?
is this b8?
>>7631590
Low quality b8, my friend. Badly meme'd.
1. Should I read Infinite Jest
2. Why
>>7619334
I find Infinite Jest too pessimistic to read actually.
Yes
Because
1. No
2. So you'll understand /lit/ memes
Does anyone know where I can find a PDF of Nectar in a Sieve? Thanks senpaitachi
>>7634292
no
sorry
What author has the best (consistently good, innovative, etc.) cumulative bibliography?
>>7634127
A white male
>>7634138
>a non-white, non-heterosexual
'no'
Reposting from /adv/
I'm interested in reading some books, I'd prefer if you'd recommend some good philosophy books and I'm also interested in slavic mythology, Japan in Edo Period, samurais, egyptian mythology, Marx stuff etc.
Thanks in advance.
>>7634013
The Ego and his Own.
>>7634013
Start with the Greeks.
Will do, thanks for the help!
Which one of you niggers has read this book?It's pretty good, right?
It can be found here: https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
>>7633938
>niggers
reported.
Please keep racism on /b/, thanks.
>>7633938
Ive read so many economic/finance books in the last two years (I had a huge increase in income), and I have to say the three best were Devil Takes the Hindmost, A Random Walk down Wallstreet, and the finance pamphlet by W. Bernstein for millennials:
https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf
>>7633943
> racism
Listen here, THIS IS 4CHAN, calling people "nigs" and "-fags" is part of the culture. gb2reddit
If you can put it into words, what is it that you would say are the markers of a "good" (where good means rich or literary) book?
How much of it is craft, or the very beauty of the language use? Can an idea-rich, thoughtful piece still be literary even if it is very clunky or ugly (looking at you, Kant)?
How much of it is ideawork or theme? Can a piece that has a masterful aesthetic and gorgeous language-use, but is otherwise vapid and without intent, be literary or valuable?
>>7633932
about 17 percent
>>7633932
All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer this year. I have not heard glowing reviews from /lit/, its sorta momfic.
The Man Booker and longlist was awesome this year
The Nobel was great this year.
The Pulitzer non-fic is usually great.actually quality of a book is subjective to the individual and objective only after time and subjective love by masses of academics and readers alike acclaim it so
Do you like the new-ish direction King's work seems to be taking--more toward the human, less about the overtly supernatural horror?
I personally really enjoy that style--I absolutely adore both 11/22/63 as well as MISERY, both of which I think can actually be called quite richly literary. Even other books like UNDER THE DOME or MR. MERCEDES I really enjoyed too.
What are your thoughts though?
I love UNDER THE DOME. UNDER THE DOME is up there on my list of greatest novels of all time. King's writing in UNDER THE DOME is so evocative that when I was reading UNDER THE DOME, I really did feel like I was UNDER THE DOME myself, right there with all those fictional characters who UNDER THE DOME in Stephen King's novel UNDER THE DOME.
>>7633851
thanks for the thoughts bud
Share your favorite author interviews, bio's, ect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1235p_1Z2EI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8TkQvdJVbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWPSt0te2cA
>>7633815
>/lit/ - Literature
>>7633819
authors are the people who create literature
>>7633821
Talk about their works or fuck off, you feminist cuckold
Did Big P write a book in Italian, what's going on here?
>>7633349
I'm surprised how few people know this, but in Italian, V. is spelled M. So when you hear an Italian go "Mama Mia, is a good pasta!", it should be pronounced "Vava via".
>>7633445
>mfw someone falls for this
>The Borginnis took the idiot to his pallet under a wagonsheet and stripped him to his new underwear and she tucked him into his blanket and kissed him goodnight and the camp grew quiet. When the idiot crossed that blue and smoky amphitheater he was naked once again, shambling past the fires like a balden groundsloth. Then he was standing alone on the shore. He hooted softly and his voice passed from him like a gift that was also needed so that no sound of it echoed back. he entered the water. Before the river reached much past his waist he'd lost his footing and sunk from sight.
>Now the judge on his midnight rounds was passing along at just this place stark naked himself - such encounters being commoner than men suppose or who would survive any crossing by night - and he stepped into the river and seized up the drowning idiot, snatching it aloft by the heels like a great midwife and slapping it on the back to let the water out. A birth scene or a baptism or some ritual not yet inaugurated into any canon. He twisted the water from its hair and he gathered the naked and sobbing fool into his arms and carried it up into the camp and restored it among its fellows.
What did he mean by this?
DUDE VAGUE BIBLICAL OUTLINE LMAO
A mentally disabled person nearly drowned and was saved by the supposed mean guy
that's what it means
you are welcome
Lit, I'm planning on writing a novel soon, but the content and the tone of the book was mostly planned when I was in an incredibly horrible emotional state.
My question is: Should I only write this book when I'm feeling terrible? Should I make myself feel terrible every time to write? Is this idea full of shit?
find a smallish piece of music that depresses you to the erstwhile abyss and play that before or during every time you write.
>>7633039
shostakovich's violin concertos
