https://iwl.me
Enter some of your writing and post the result here.
>I write like Arthur Clarke
>mfw
>Dan Brown
I'll just go kill myself right now
>>7532700
>https://iwl.me
>I write like DFW
not even a joke familia
>Palahniuk, Clarke, and Lovecraft
So, what's the best place to buy some strong rope?
Chart thread!
>>7526275
So after I read all these I'm an intellectual?
>>7526386
not really, it just introduces you to books that aren't within the sort of /lit/ aesthetic
ITT we share the books that changed us, altered our views on our existence, or moved us deeply.
Pic related: Mine.
>>7536541
Really helped me with my financial situation.
helped me through my shitty alcohol habit...still smoke weed tho.
Unfortunately, we can no longer keep our literary journal together. Due to infighting, missing funds, and the general lack of submissions, we will be closing shop. It was a great run, /lit/.
Thank you for all the support!
Goodbye Lenin
>Due to... missing funds
I knew you guys were a bunch of rat bastards. I called it all along.
>>7532397
It was a good movie, the soundtrack is nice too.
Was mathematics created or discovered?
The system we use to quantify mathematics was created by man.
define 'mathematics' and we'll talk.
>>7531882
>le naive formalist face
now you just have to define what a system is, what mathematics is, and provide empirical evidence that the system was the creation of man
Are you working on a novel? If so get in here and share your ideas, post some experts.
I'm writing a novel in the concrete-literal style about a bunch of disaffected artist types who aren't really going anywhere in life but they do do a lot of drugs but it doesn't really help them at all. The novel is set up in a semi-episodic slice-of-life style with little apparent overarching plot.
I'm working on a novella, I want to have a MS I can send to agents by June. I was going to put together a timetable of deadlines to finish plot, then the first draft then editing and polishing.
Any suggestions for what sort of division of time to aim for?
>>7530610
i'd consider reading it, as long as it doesn't degenerate into RENT-style "Mah AIDs" melodrama
What ideology keeps you going?
Has a book ever changed your life in the long run.
>>7529380
>IDEOLOGY
pyrrhonism
>>7529380
Dilettantism/Aesthetics.
fun reading but, what's the fucking point if i don't agree with anything in this book?
You're too pleb for it basically. You better not be reading it as a political treatise because that's super Reddit.
>>7539507
it's hard not to
>>7539501
>what's the fucking point if i don't agree with anything in this book?
Are you fucking kidding me with this?
Hello /lit/
I seek the help of anybody thats knowledgeable of this type of stuff since I've taken on a personal project of doing an investigation.
Basically I need to know about Cults in general. People worshipping or idolizing Figures, entities, people or Gods. Organizations or Societies (secret?) that are centered around these type of ideologies, etc.
People have pointed people like Alesteir Crowley and The Book of Law, however trying to read his stuff feels too advanced for a complete beginner in the topic like me.
Basically I want to know about Religions in general, years, beliefs, rituals, symbols.
Any books that you can recommend that deal with these type of subjects will be very appreciated.
Currently reading Pic related. Which seems to be very good.
Might not be 100% what you're looking for but check out The Occult by Colin Wilson
Mircea Eliade
Clifford Geertz
Lucien Levy-Bruhl
>>7539496
>Colin Wilson mentioned on /lit/
oi what are you all about m8
>>7539494
go on /x/
and also
https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ!FcgnlaBC
thank me later
How do you guys feel about this book?
>>7539250
Never fuckin heard of it
>>7539250
Haven't heard of it either, before now. Is it similar to Pilgrim's Progress (in structure, import, or goal)?
The wikipedia entry looks very interesting. I am not as interested in Christian meditations as I am in Eastern ones (not Buddhist, more Vedantic), but I'd be very interested to hear your views on the content of "the way of a pilgrim," and how (if at all) its technique has helped you.
>>7539301
>Is it similar to Pilgrim's Progress
No.
>I'd be very interested to hear your views on the content of "the way of a pilgrim," and how (if at all) its technique has helped you.
The technique takes a long time to master, a lifetime even, if you ever master it. But it is like the Orthodox equivalent to the Rosary, I've found it very helpful.
Osamu Dazai > Haruki Murakami
Your thoughts?
>>7539175
Kawabata > all post-War Japs
>>7539310
>pretending to read mishima
m8 those are actual faggots, not faggots with enough faggotry to pretend to read faggot shit
Can you correctly guess the book cover?
>>7539041
My diary to be honest
Looks more like a couple kissing outside next to a tree.
>>7539067
Close.
What do you think?
excellence
>>7538972
GOAT psychedelic literature for children
underrated
Hey guys. Who is your favorite mainstream author? I personally love Stephen King, no matter what anyone else has to say about it. He's written more (best-selling) novels than most people have read, so he seems to know something about the craft.
>>7538943
So has, i dont know, Lee Child.
If there is such a thing as a mainstream contemporary author, then there are no good mainstream contemporary authors, since the only ones I can think of that strictly speaking fit that classification all suck
Jonathan Franzen is mainstreamish?
So's Philip Roth I guess?
Is Mordecai Richler?
>>7538943
THE DECISION to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for "distinguished contribution" to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life. I've described King in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that is too kind. He shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe. What he is is an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis.
Why do sone of you guys frown upon reading for prose?
When I was a teenager I read for plot and themes, but now in my early 20's I mainly read for prose. Reading As I Lay Dying right now and its got some of the best prose I've ever read next to Tender Is the Night.
Tell me whats gud /lit
>>7538741
>sone
Like I'm gonna fucking argue with a cat. Try posting this thread again, memelord.
>>7538988
>bump
Literally why? It was about 4 threads from the top of the first page.sage :^)
