Is "The Decline of The West" worth reading?
I'm nearly a third of the way through the book, and I'm finding it to be a blissful experience. It's like talking to an old woman who has been traveling through history over the course of her lifetime.
It's not to be missed, but you'll find difficulty in taking notes at times!
>>7581178
nice handwriting and thick bitch, anon
>>7581178
Why do you mean by "find difficulty in taking notes at times"?
Is there such thing as a good book with a female protagonist? pic unrelated
>>7581042
>The crying of Lot 49
>The Bell Jar
>¡Que Viva la Música!
>Speedboat
Is there a secret? Some other randomer the other day stated that you should always avoid women that don't fit into either 'wife' or 'slut,' and that they're always sexual, that everything they do should be motivated by their sexuality first and foremost.
That's not true, is it? If not, how -do- you write women? Don't write "like men"
Pic unrelated.
Why don't you try spending some time with them and observing how they act then writing characters on that basis?
>>7580993
Well first of all, I'm not gonna manipulate someone untill I'm a close enough friend to find out all their secrets and ways of thoughts n motivations
Second of all, you really don't learn much from day to day conversations about vapid shit. I might just act too autistic to notice that stuff.
>>7580993
This. Do you have to be spoonfed instructions on how to write every little thing that you don't immediately know how to write? Look at the women in your life and try to find something they all more in less have in common, then work from that. If you don't have any women in your life, look to women in literature and watch how the author treats female characters differently from male ones.
How does it feel to have written a book that's topping the charts?
Think of all that money the editor is getting off of our work.
What's the book about?
>>7580874
shitposting. The book, not you.
Its possible for someone to be a great writer or filmmaker or any other type of artist without having consumed a huge amount of material in the media they intend to work?
Sure, just look at tommy wiseau
>>7580674
ehh that's a post-hoc explanation
>>7580659
sure, just look at my diary desu
How do you pronounce "socs"?
"so-sez"
At least, that's what my teacher told me when we were reading it.
Like "social" but without the 'ial', + es.
Soshez
>>7580520
sosh-ez
At least thats what my 5th grade teacher told me.
>preface spoils the book
Lmao "spoilers" is the meme I want to die the most
>>7580492
It's as reddit as it gets
>>7580488
>post-face redeems the book
Any critiques of social media? I'm looking for something along the lines of Society of the Spectacle, just updated to our internet age.
>>7580485
>>7580485
I don't know but if you haven't read Society of the Spectacle because something is turning you off about it I would recommend just reading it. As I read it I found that almost everything in it applied to social media and why people do what they do on facebook etc. Even if someone wrote a recent book about that subject and the internet I kind of doubt it would be as good as SotS.
>>7580511
This, same goes for Simulacra & Simulation
Now that we officially know that GRRM isn't going to finish TWOW before the tv series airs the content, is anyone actually going to care about the books?
I honestly don't think he has it in him to finish the series.
>>7580310
I'm just treating them as two separate things at this point with the TV show being an alternate take on some events.
>>7580310
>/lit/
>GoT meta discussion
Thank you for ruining the board, plebbitors.
>>7580310
>Is anyone going to actually care about the books?
Well not me.
How does this make you feel, /lit/?
Where's Glamorama?
>>7580061
Reminds me of my 15-year-old self.
Reminds me of my last gf
What's your favourite subject, /lit/, and what three books would you recommend as a start to them?
Mine is Psychoanalysis.
1.The essentials of psycho-analysis
2.Routledge introduction to Jaques Lacan
3. Jung: Psychological Reflections. a New Anthology of His Writings
>>7580020
How about just read a textbook on the topic? That's what I've been doing recently.
>>7580020
If you're getting into Lacan, I'd recommend Bruce Fink's 'The Lacanian Subject - Between Language and Jouissance'.
>>7580023
Was actually just looking at it
Thanks, Anon
Do people only read so they can act pretentious feel superior or is there an actual valid reason to read?
Do people post threads so they can pretentious and feel superior, or is there an actual valid reason to create pointless threads?
>>7579777
If the thread is pointless then by definition it there would be no valid reason to post.
>>7579777
And this is a serious question since in my experience when reading I haven't come soon anything that has any real value.
>"What programme, what policy would make life under neoliberalism less demeaning for women, queer people and their allies? At the occupy protests, during the spring uprisings around the world, we were asked again and again what our demands were, so that they could be dismissed. Our first demand was not being forced to engage on those terms. We did not want to be invited on to their panel shows or to the bottom of their ballot boxes. We refused the politics of the soundbite. We knew there were no easy answers. Revolution begins with the human imagination. They can come for us with clubs and dogs but as long as we continue to dream of different ways to live, different ways to love and fight and grow old together, they will not win. There is power in the communities built by exiles and outcasts. There is power in the societies of broken kids growing up to change the world, and when it comes down to it we are all broken kids, fucked-up girls and lost boys just waiting to be found. We find each other in the unwatched spaces, the secret places, for as long as they last. We have the tools to build a better world in the wreck of the old one."
Where were you when Laurie Pennie btfo'd white patriarchs?
Perry knocked over the table.
>>7579742
This is tripe. Adolescent tripe. It belongs in a gutter.
I was wondering, are there any "serious" Western assessments of Eastern philosophy/spirituality? All I've read so far is casual shit like Watts, I'd prefer a book where the topic is discussed analytically and critically.
Any recommendations?
>>7579729
read schopenhauer with an understanding of brahman
>>7579734
Thanks.
Anything else? Should I try Evola?
>>7579729
Reading Schopenhauer, Evola, Guénon or Frithjof Schuon are horrible answers. If you want a serious assessment then read one by an academic specializing in eastern philosophy.
What do you think about this DFW?
classic, similar to stuff in vollmann's rainbow stories
>>7579648
Remove last sentence, and actually make some kind of point instead
>>7579657
That last sentence... I don't get it at all.
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