Thoughts on this man?
I just read his Poland and Alaska and was afraid i would slog through them, but they turned out to be great reads. Perhaps not the most accurate factually and ideologically, as he takes liberties and creates characters and events alongside historical ones, but i loved the way he creates context for geographical regions and describes the grandeur that exists in things most people would never bother describing like the view of the mountain ranges and forests from a town now lost to time, or the process required to mine gold in a permafrost.
I've never seen him discussed here for some reason. What do you guys think?
How do I get into poetry? Is there a recommendation chart?
The wiki was not as helpful as I hoped?
I started with the Bloom and Norton anthologies and went from there.
>>7600842
Read an intro book to learn about meter, classic poem forms, rhyme and rhetorical techniques.
Then read a poetry anthology to get a good taste of different movements and poets.
Read more poetry.
>>7600848
Any intro books your recommend?
If you had to choose, do you agree with John Locke or Thomas Hobbe's philosophy?
Kant
>>7599675
Popper
Porphyry
What are some good books with a sociopathic protag? For some reason I find it rather entertaining.
So far I've read
>American Psycho (Ellis)
>Chasm City (Reynolds)
>Cows (Stokoe)
>Lullaby (Palahniuk)
>Blindsight (Watts)
>the Begbie chapters (Welsh)
pic mildly related
Crime and Punishment
>>7602992
Kefka did nothing wrong.
>>7602992
The Bible (god)
Like a Bildungsroman?
>>7602884
sure if you know any
Drunken edge lord
Nihilistic genius
Who gives a shit
he was a beautiful man
>>7600346
just a hack faggot
>>7600431
Glad to see someone else thinks so
How do I get my book published? All the publishers either won't respond to my emails or they'll just flat out decline.
>>7602657
Become a tranny
Read some basic guides on what the publishing process is and why it's retarded to send publishers unsolicited manuscripts? How do you manage to write an entire book with so little initiative? Oh, wait. Disregard all that. Just don't bother trying. Put it on Amazon, if you give it a title similar to something else maybe a couple of people will buy it by accident.
>>7602671
So, how do you break into the industry, if not by sending manuscripts?
What books have made you cry /lit/?
Please tell us about the scene if it was character related, or if there was a certain passage if the prose was moving.
>>7602432
The end of the first chapter of The Recognitions made me tear up a bit.
The Prophet by Gibran.
The Famished Road by Okri.
The diary of a young girl, Lolita, some of Oscar Wild's fairy tales.
>staccato
Post the first paragraph from what you are currently writing. Follow that with a brief synopsis of what the story will be. Let's help each other improve from one paragraph.
>>7602565
You first.
![51maejxEQlL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rgmWHKp.jpg "51maejxEQlL. SY344 BO1,204,203,200 [1]")
Anyone else reading this guy? I'm at book 4 now and I feel like I should be bored with it but it's something about it that just sucks me in.
I'm reading the Swedish translation and a lot of it is very relatable, do people not living in the Nordic countries feel the same way?
>>7602207
Wrong board, faggot
>>>/r9k/
>>7602207
That's a lot of /r9k/ memes and buzzwords in one post.
>>7602201
Just finished the whole series a few weeks ago myself. Book 2 is still my favourite.
>>7602201
Is it consistently great through all six books? I don't want to waste my time.
So /lit/ I'm about to finish pic related. What should I read when I'm finished? I want to keep the momentum.
>>7602057
Do you seriously need other people to tell you what to read?
In my opinion you should refrain from reading works by homosexuals, women, and non-whites. Pick an old white male author
>>7602084
I'm asking for suggestion. Fuck you
Hey /lit/, as someone who lives in a shitty part of Asia, I often find myself alone in my admiration of Western ideals.
Most people I know think of colonialism and exploitation when they think of Europe, and they refuse to look any further than this. What books would you suggest to introduce an outsider/layman to Western culture? My go-to suggestion is usually just Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and some Wikipedia articles about things like the French Revolution to provide some historical context, but I was wondering if there are any other books that are more accessible and easy to follow.
>>7601826
Poo in loo
>>7601829
You do know that there was a cholera epidemic in Neaples in the 60s, right? The 1960s.
>>7601829
:^)
This is a general Presocratics thread. Post your thoughts, questions, requests, or anything having to do with the Presocratics.
I have a couple of questions:
1. Is there an English translation for the PS of the same quality as DK?
2. Is there anything to be gained from articles about PS? I have read about ten articles on how (and if) Thales predicted the eclipse of 585BC and have ended up confused, rather than enlightened.
3. What the fuck is Heraclitus talking about?
Bumping for interest and dubs
>>7601509
>translation
Where should I start with the presocratics? I'm ready to start reading philosophy.
How do I evoke that old west feeling of adventure. I've only seen it done really well in films like these
Rio Bravo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o0GPhrY-gM
Searchers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KFCwhBiejI
I'm aware the music is playing a prominent role in this feeling here. How do I do this with words?
>>7601305
I would also appreciate a response.
Bump, I don't have an answer but I'd like to know too
>tell me steps x, y, z to create a sense of adventure
fuck off imguredditumblr plebs
![James_A._Michener_8606[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/tMLVvxF.jpg "James A. Michener 8606[1]")
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