pretentious cuck, or legitimately good writer?
>>7629140
He was good no doubt but there are hundreds better
>>7629147
list 5 right now.
>>7629140
I like him, but he is a product of his time.
Is this book any good?
Nah.
>>7628560
Yeh.
Daily reminder that if you read more than two chapters of Dune Before dropping it you are a pleb
>Look Mom I did it again!
Oh thank god, I only got to the end of one before getting fed up with all the force fed info. Whatever happened to exposition? Info dumping is a cancer, especially in science fiction. Discovering a world with the characters does wonders for a setting, Bradbury being a fantastic example of Sci fi without the plebiscite writing.
>>7627987
stupidity, the post
Hey lit, do you know any commonly used phrases that refer to past gone technologies like
"Stay tuned" or "roll down the window" or "hang up the phone" or "rewind the movie" ??
>>7627893
Yes:
"Stay tuned", "roll down the window", "hang up the phone" and "rewind the movie".
Yes - "stay down the window", "rewind the phone," "stay the movie," and "roll down the tune."
>>7627893
How is “hang up the phone” a reference to a gone technology?
Anyone have experience self-publishing through Amazon here? You get many sales?
I've got about 100 sales. Amazon take a 85% share of the profit though.
Since when? In all the sign-up stuff, they said they'd only take a 30% share in most territories (excluding Japan, etc.).
>>7627355
Is it gay dinosaur porn?
Do people actually respect this edgelord?
This is the problem with the younger generation. They talk out of their ass like they'd recently had chipotle pumped straight into their colon.
Go back to highschool, kid.
>>7626100
hey, he's a teenager. they don't get taught this at school, because, you know, school is a tool of mind control and doesn't teach you anything worth knowing - but teens learn from observing that strategically it is safer to shit on something rather than praise it. a nervous babby doesn't want to risk saying "I thought the great shark hunt was pretty funny" in case some other babby attacks him for it.
One of the things you have to deal with in this business is being
whipped on by brainless freaks and special-interest pleaders. It
never ends. On some nights they gnaw on your doorknob, and on others
they plot rotten lawsuits and fondle themselves like chimpanzees in
rooms lit by 25-watt bulbs.
- Hunter S Thompson, "Revenge of the Fish Heads"
RIP Doyle
What does /lit/ think for Tao Lin?
>>7622929
Tao Lin pls go
Greatest human bean to be alive. So proud to know him personally.
This is my Girlfriend's bookshelf, what do.
>>7616693
live and talk and breathe and laugh
>>7616693
I could never be with a woman like her. Maybe you're just as retarded? Or are you there just for that sweet, tasty pussy juice?
>>7616693
Unless yours is similar ditch her.
this board is fucking dead
what the fuck happened to this place
i cant even go on warosu and look at old threads because it's also dead
>>7630413
why not make the change you want to see. Did you really think this thread would help?
ayy /lit/, can anyone help me find this book in .pdf or .epub form?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130384.The_Neurotic_Personality_of_Our_Time
>>7630320
I feel some sort of imperative to point out to the board that the author's last name is pronounced horn-eye'. A significant name to know in personality theory.
>>7630337
It's good to show off your knowledge of the subject, but do you have any idea where I can find it?
Hey OP I have this book in my flat. If you're in the UK I'll post it to you.
What did he mean by this?
kill john lennon
>>7630229
/thread
>>7630222
Salinger would get memed 6 months at a time by different meme philosophies and religions. plus lived in a compound and surely used piss bottles
he was /lit/
Do you think Greek and Roman paganism contributed to their ability to excel in scientific and philosophical areas?
I have been reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and while I think everything in here is another level of brilliance, Aurelius seems to consistently 'slack-off' existential problems on the gods. His conclusions about man are correct, but when you lay all misfortune and chaos on deities, it removes yourself from responsibility, allowing you to let those things pass.
It came to my attention on the toilet today, that this might be a contributing reason as to why Rome and Greece excelled in unknown areas. If one doesn't have to wonder existentially, or about their after life, it allows them much more freedom to explore the present. I'm obviously inclined to believe that there aren't deities living atop Mt. Olympus, or anywhere for that matter, and that takes away that 'comfort', and just adds uncertainty and chaos.
What do you think /lit/?
>>7630195
>Greeks and Romans excelled in scientific areas
Sure thing bro. Earth is made up of cubes made out of triangles.
It had the opposite effect at times. Often when there's a major crisis in Rome, there's a vestal virgin trial. These were religious trials where they accused them of losing their virtue or leaving the fire go out, as an excuse to explain the political or financial turmoil of Rome. Since this didn't fix anything political or financial, Rome often just fucked up more after they buried a virgin alive.
Fun fact: the charges against vestals for breaking Rome's contract with the gods by lost virtue were charges of "incestum", where we get the modern word "incest" from.
Hey guys, anywhere I could download this book for free? I'm broke and I really want succeed in this class. Essential Calculus in English.
Do any of you anons have your own "Abbe Faria's book list" ? The list should contain "everything a man needs to know".
>>7630160
The relationship between Faria and the count was one of my favorite things in that book
anyone?
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/26/white_women_of_publishing_new_survey_shows_a_lack_of_diversity_behind_the_scenes_in_book_world/
> "When 2015 Man Booker winner Marlon James controversially stated that “we writers of colour spend way too much time pandering to the white woman,” he was more accurate than he knew: The “archetype of the white woman” setting the tone for the industry is sitting behind 84 percent of editorial desks."inb4 Salon, we all know how far it's fallen
>>7630098
>tfw all new literature is being controlled by a small group of moms
Translation: less white people.
Gee.
