For YA, this wasn't really that terrible.
>>7570912
>For shit, this wasn't really that smelly.
It was his best.
That isn't saying much though.
Tbh I understand why he's popular among young girls.
>inb4 Reddit because I bothered to read them instead of blindly insulting.
>>7570931
YA is fine if you're part of the intended age group.
Below 16.
Critique my writing. I'm on track to becoming a professor erotic writer. I don't give a shit about writing patrician level novels anymore. E.L James is worth 50+ million dollars because she wrote a fan fiction turned erotic novel. Sex sells.
Anyways, here it is.
"Hey handsome! I love you," she said. She turned around and shoved her ass in front of my face. I smelled her butt like a wolf; I wanted to make sure there is no tuna smell waffling.
"I love you too," I said and winked at her. The loud music was hurting my ears. Maybe I'm just getting old. It's time to get some pussy tonight; I need to make sure the "plumping" downstairs still works.
I leaned closer to her.
"You come with me?" I said.
"Come with my handsome? Okay!" she smiled. My type of lady. I handed some money over to mama-san, usually an older woman who is the manager of the bar. Everytime a customer leaves with a dancer, he pays a bar fine.
We took the taxi to the hotel.
Pattaya, the city of sin. Good men die and go to heaven; bad boys go to Pattaya - or so the story goes. Pattaya is all about value.
Rich men could fornicate with expensive hookers in Las Vegas and Macau. Regular Joes like me go to Thailand for cheap beer, amazing food and pussy. The type of pussy that smells like flower after a rainy afternoon.
>>7570738
I smelled my ex-wife's pussy once - I put my nose in there and vomitted my lunch. The next day I did it again, just to re-enforce the experience. Call me a trooper, my friend.
Thailand, the land of smile. Pattaya, the city of sin. We're all sinners. I have to sin some more before I go to hell.
My kids are all grown up now. One of them went to medical school and is now a doctor. Another started his own business. I very proud of them.
What's more, I'm very proud of myself because I'm getting 21 years old pussy tonight!
She leaned over and kissed me.
"What's your name," I said.
"Maya."
"That a very pretty name, for a pretty lady." I winked at her.
>picture related, me and my ex-waifu (japanese)
>>7570758
I whipped out my key card and kicked open the door.
"Welcome!" I said. "May I get you something to drink?"
"Water?" she said.
I gave her a bottled water; melted water taken from the ice berg somewhere in the north pole - that's what the sticker on the bottle claimed.
I turned on the washroom light and admired myself in the mirror. The beer gut is growing, like a fetus of some sort. I brushed my head and felt a few strands of hair. I love myself.
"Who is awesome? You're awesome." I gave myself an "okay" sign.
On the bed, my new lover was watching TV, a Thai game show of some sort. I kissed her lightly on her forehead and she giggled.
"Thank you, handsome." she said.
"No, thank you, pretty." I said and bowed to her. In Thailand, people show respect by pressing both palms together and putting it on their forehead.
>>7570762
"Can I smell you?" I asked.
"Okay handsome."
She spreaded her legs open, like an eagle soaring above the sky. I planted my nose between her legs. Hmm, smelled like orange, apples and flowers.
Outside, drunken people were shouting incoherent sentences. Cars and motorcycles were honking endlessly. This is the sound of Pattaya.
They call Thailand the land of smiles. It's also the land of fresh smelling pussy. The kind of pussy that if you smell it, you gain 3 extra years on your life. That's why I smell fresh pussy every morning.
What is your honest assessment of Murakami's books?
Is he a crap writer only popular with college-aged fagboys?
>>7570620
The people I know who love Murukami are:
a) my gf's dad (who is pretty patrician, writes poetry, former journalist)
b) a whole bunch of 18-22 year old girls at my uni, I think at least half a dozen I know of really like him
c) this 18 year old heroin addict vietnamese guy i know who wants to be a cartoonist
Middlebrow drivel.
>>7570620
Underground is a really great book.
Some guy shows you picrelated and asks you for a more iconic *scene* (not simply a line or aphorism) from literature. How do you respond? What could possibly compete with picrelated?
>>7570330
I'm unfamiliar with that scene so practically any scene from literature would for me be more iconic
>>7570330
Tortoise and the Hare.
>>7570345
>he doesn't know every episode of golden age Simpsons inside-out
Any good books on this guy and how he changed the face of Europe with the radical idea that interpretation of scripture is up to the individual which lead to this secular age?
I'm unsure but I feel like Kierkegaard must have addressed this. Maybe check out GK Chesterton? Bump because I would like the answer as well
Shameless self bump
It wasn't really his radical idea it was proposed often before him and the increase in secularism is only indirectly related to his theses.
Life is anything you want it to be. Life can be your dreams and aspiration. It can be your pleasure, it can be your sadness and demise. LIFE CAN BE ANYTHING AT ALL TIMES. That doesn’t mean life HAVE to be everything. Life is just life. When you bloat it up with goals and dreams and desires then it becomes those other things. It is no longer just life. Life is given to us for us to enjoy. Just like every other animal on earth. IF you like creating then do that. IF you like sitting around doing nothing, then do that. IF you like to work hard and earn lots of money and be super materialistic then you can do that too. The point is not forcing goals and achievements up your own ass just to feel good. Life is just about feeling good. Its not as complicated as it seems.
When you look at the core of life its simply existing. Universe did not dictate that fact that everyone should achieve a certain thing during their life time. In fact, the universe does not give a shit. So don’t think your goals and aspiration are real in anyway. They are all product of modern society and years and years of social construction.
All this doesn’t mean everything should just lie down and die. It simply means don’t try and follow anyone else’s foot steps just because you feel they are “right”. Do what gives your own self a sense of value and joy. When the self exists based on other people’s approval and perception then what will happen when it loses all those things. The self is crush and defeated. But if the self can exist without relying on anything external and can feel fulfillment by itself then it is a healthy self.
Working hard and having goals doesn’t mean it is all “good”. It just means you are working hard and trying to achieve some goal. A more universal saying can be: seek out freedom and give value to yourself. Be free from other’s perception’s of success and give value to yourself by doing what you think is valuable. (yes that could mean having goals and shit).
Ben, your tunnel vision of this “goal” is unhealthy. Im not saying it deadly like leukemia but its more like… You have broken bones. It will heal with time but at the present all you are focusing on is that broken bone. Lets say your goal is wanting to have your broken bone healed, But what’s after that??? After this goal do you think you won at life? No m8 there is a lot more. Life is of infinite possibilities and your idea of tunnel vision at life is just dumb.
Cont..
pt 2
Wisdom is not sought out. It is noticed. Wisdom is all in the experience. Reading about it doesn’t do shit. You read your bible, gathering all these “wisdom” and then you work hard and ignore everything else. THAT’S NOT HOW YOU USE WISDOM. Wisdom is universal. It is applied to everything. To read all that wisdom and then tunnel vision at life is contradicting. And don’t think that these wisdom help you achieve your “goal”. Wisdom wasn’t created for everyone to achieve their goals. It is was then our world wouldn’t be so shit right now. Wisdom is showing us how to appreciate life and enjoy life at every single moment. It is used so we can find out self and be comfortable with it. Wisdom is just “wisdom” its not a life hack that help you achieve anything.
I think right now. Saying you have a “GOAL” is comforting. Because its kinda like you threw a flashlight out into an infinite road so when you get to the flashlight, it feels good to pick it up. But you should realize that the joy is simply just running. I know how scary it is to live without a goal, The fear of not knowing what is going to happen in the future. I lived that fear for a few month so I know what its like. But after seeing family I realized. We can all make up goals for ourselves. We can set achievements for use to reach. But… we have to get there. We have to walk the road and go through the time. Nothing we can do can teleport us to our goals. Nothing we do is going to make anything go faster. Hurdle jumpers don’t look at the finish line leap over 30 hurdles. They just jump over each one until they reach the end. So knowing that there will always be the end and it will be reached at a set time. Why not just enjoy the journey.
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>>7570267
I dont go on reddit pls back to topic
What went wrong?
That fucking hat
>>7570259
posting a meme
sleep tight pratter
>"Anon, let me show you this trick I learned from a John Green video!"
What do /lit/? Have a nice relaxing later-on-nostalgia-inducing day lounging in the park with prime young pussy? Or walking away right that second and going to your writing cellar to work on your book in solitude for the next 10 hours in order to maintain patrician cred?
>That's cool. Hey, if you want to hear about the opinions of a person that isn't suffering from severe Asperger's, you should really check out <preferred author>
Works every time.
>>7570227
she didn't ask me to read one of his books
what are you, a faggot?
>>7570227
>video
crashcourse?
no worries anon
Which book has changed how you view the world permanently?
For me, On the Wealth and Poverty of Nations,
Manufacturing Consent
>inb4 edge lord
The Zeroes by Patrick Roesle
>>7570032
Thank you for your contribution anon!
>>7570023
War is a Racket, Schopenhauers essays.
What do you all think of The Silmarillion, the Children of Hurin, or Tolkien more generally.
The Silmarillion was fairly good. It's sad we never got to see what Tolkien would have wanted. Children of Hurin is fucking brilliant and probably out does LOTR in content (not completeness or grandeur by any means). I just finished the Tree and Leaf book that is being printed, it was a pleasure to read. I've found Tolkien a lot more approachable after learning Old English. His poetry makes more sense but it still lacks the finesse of an accomplished poet. His translation of Beowulf is shit, but the notes at the back are useful. And LOTR his magnum opus is of course an incredible novel and fuck all the patricians who will deny its brilliance.
>>7570606
I agree
>>7571622
great input, very constructive.
What are your goals for the year, /lit/?
Reduce my liquor intake to acceptable proportions, stay NEET, acquire more ataraxia, read some books.
To finish both meme trilogies.
to read at least one book
Most of the people I talk to, whether they claim to be Marxist or absolutely hate him, haven't read Marx. They don't even know who Hegel is. They just spout quotes and jargon without any knowledge of Marx's ideas or how Hegel's ideas influenced his thought. Do you think it's necessary to read Hegel before Marx, and if so what should I read?
Help??
It's better to start off by reading the works of Hegelians before reading Hegel himself to understand the dialectical method in action. You just need to understand a bit of Hegelian philosophical terminology before hand:
http://www.london.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/students/philosophy/ba_course_materials/ba_19thc_hegel_glossary_01.pdf
First read Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity and his Principles of the Philosophy of the Future:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/essence/
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/future/index.htm
Then read Marxs "Feuerbach," from The German Ideology and the "Theses on Feuerbach."
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
Then read the preface, introduction, and opening chapters through the "Organic" of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Mind
>>7569828
thanks pal
So, I'm audiobooking this novel.
I read it in high school when I was 15, but I couldn't get into it and even had to cheat using Sparknotes just because I couldn't understand what was going on.
24, now, reading it as part of my classic literature pilgrimage, and while I understand what's going on, it's just so goddamn BORING.
Please tell me there's a theme, underlying message or symbolism that I'm not seeing so I can enjoy it. Just got to the part where they picked up the Duke and the King. I've heard someone say this is the Great American Novel, but so far, it's just a bunch of unstrung adventures featuring bland one-off characters. The only stuff I like is the relationship with Huck and Jim
>>7569732
It's the Great American novel because it doesn't mean anything and Americans don't do anything t b h
>>7569739
Wow, never got a post this fast, before.
Strong point, lol.
Anyone else?
You're probably just a moron with no idea how to read basic elements of literature.
>Just got to the part where they picked up the Duke and the King. I've heard someone say this is the Great American Novel, but so far, it's just a bunch of unstrung adventures featuring bland one-off characters. The only stuff I like is the relationship with Huck and Jim
Could any of you recommend literature that sort of resembles greentext stories on 4chan? Basically stuff written by outcasts, weird stories like that? I like Bukowski and I sort of like Dennis Cooper. I'm looking for autobiographicalish stuff about maybe "disenfranchized" youth or something. Obscene stories about alternative kids.
>>7569706catch her in the rye
>>7569706
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis is the best story about a NEET ever written
>>7569754
Verwandlung is not entirely a story concerning a NEET, considering the fact that Gregor Samsa is the sole source of income in the family.
It is rather a story of a massive cuck and beta.
Hi lit
>>7569550
hello
>>7569550
Hi anon.
sup nigga?
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