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What's the best book written before 1500
>>7470142
>best
?
Anyhow, probably the Bible.
>>7470142
Canterbury Tales
>>7470142
Tale of Genji
Guys, do you know a novel or a tale setlled in a dark weird universe ?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
>>7469338
I'm reading it
>>7469344
I'm glad you took my suggestion.
The only critique thread up is for poetry, so here's a critique thread for the rest of us.
Post your shit and respond to others.
>>7468859
http://pastebin.com/cCSSin5Z
>>7469003
I read through your story. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The tension was very well defined but I felt that Jonathan's outro wasn't quite well defined enough.
It gave the ending an almost hasty feeling that left me unsatisfied. Perhaps more clarity to the conspiracy at the end and more detail in Jonathan's disconnect leading to the murder.
>>7468859
http://pastebin.com/3LFm4XvQ
I wrote this on the fly in my own thread on here but nobody is saying shit. I know the grammar is a mess lol
Today I was on/pol/and there was a thread with a news article about how a black dude was complaining that there are no black Hobbits or African themed movies/shows such as GoT.
It got me to thinking, what if someone wrote a High Fantasy book featuring African mythology, or if Africans were knights but set in Africa?
I think the liberal media would eat it up, Jews would love the idea and it would probably do good box office numbers if it was made into a movie because they would be promoting it a ton and a good amount of blacks around the world would go...
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>>7468636
>So, anyone know about African mythology?
I don't think Africans know about it, since they weren't too good at recording history and literature
>>7468636
A white guy writing this would be appropriating black culture.
A black person writing this would make it all about slavery and reparations.
Black people don't actually care about African culture and actual African people think books are toilet paper.
I guess if you could get a white guy to write it and a black guy to put his name on it, other white people may read it.
Any movie based on it would do poorly in America and flop as hard as possible in China.
That said, I think...
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But there's already tons of fantasy about Egypt.
So I was presented with a really cool post-grad opportunity(I'm an English major, so being more than a barista for at least a few years is something worth pursuing - and this potential job will also directly support my graduate degrees)
So the point of this - I have to take some unusual classes that are outside of my comfort zone. Namely, I am taking an education class. A teaching class, on teaching literature.
I have to select 40 books and write 3-5 page lesson plans based around each of them. They have to satisfy the following 10 categories, 4 for each...
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do your own work faggot
>>7468608
I've got something in Animals, but realistic, not fantasy. Does that interest you ?
Otherwise, I can think of "City" by Clifford D. Simak
>>7468616
Animal fantasy is qualified by these traits:
animal lead/narrator
human-like thoughts(i.e. no "realistic" animal thoughts)
Nothing else. Not sure why exactly it's called fantasy.
>>7468615
I'm asking for general recommendations for things to look into for a couple of very difficult categories. I figured it would start some discussion, and I've put a lot of time into trying to come up with good options for these categories...
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Serious question /lit/
How in the fuck does one become a genius tier writer such as Milton, Nietzsche, Dante or Shakespeare etc? What seperates them from the rest of us plebs?
It's like they weren't even human. Everytime I remember that Nietzsche was professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland at only 24 years old, or that Blaise Pascal wrote his first scientific paper at age 8 and by 16 had written a mathematical essay advancing the field of geometry or any other similar stories of great minds throughout history I get...
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>>7467691
>How do we become great /lit/?
Stop going on 4chan
>>7467704
I don't believe this though. There must be a way
>>7467713
So you're saying do not allow yourself to be distracted at all costs?
>>7467691
>We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
~Aristotle
I'll start
>Dostoyevsky
>Terrorism
>Myths
>>7466047
It varies, but here is what my writing normally focuses on:
>alienation
>the nature of art
>absurdity
>monads
>bimbos
>megahertz
>pride
>Huysmans
>distance
Why were fascists such good writers?
Hating jews doesn't make C-line a fascist
>>7464850
He openly praised fascism
>"Who is the true friend of the people? Fascism is. Who has done the most for the working man? The USSR or Hitler? Hitler has... Who has done the most for the small businessman? Not Thorez but Hitler!"
>>7464748
It's the patricians political stance.
Post your best poems for critique, and I'll tear you a new asshole (I'll also tell you if/where it's any good). I'll try to keep up with everybody if this takes off.
I like the critique threads going on but those are usually 2/3 prose.
>>7456816
working on it now, it might take me a moment
>>7456816
First thing: it's 2015, not 1975, turn off the MS Word auto-capitalize at the beginning of each line. It makes for easier reading.
There's a fair bit going on here. My main criticism is that it's way too wordy. L1-4: do we need to know about the "nameless third?" I don't think so. Just close the blinds, everyone understands the significance of closing the blinds. Now, there's some weird conflation going on here. It's night, but you're having sex. Each of those things...
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Would people buy a sci-fi book about mechs? Give your opinion if you want
>>7472047
>a sci-fi book about mechs
that tells me literally nothing about the book
to get people to read something you have to prove it's interesting or at least stands out in some way from 99% of people have already made
>>7472047
Sure, why not.
>>7472047
>>7472055
Alright, the year is 2130. In the turn of the century robotic scientists have perfected the manufacturing and use of bipedial robotic vehicles. About 30 years later an alien race of warriors have contacted earth in hopes of claiming the solar system as part of their empire, earth refuses and all countries have temporarily joined together to defeat the common enemy. The race of aliens have requested that earth follow a war protocol of their people that dictates...
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Stoicism after Aurelius
you sure you don't want to save this thread for a friday night?
>>7472011
Why? Everyone here are NEETs anyways. Everyday is the weekend.
>>7472028
Just thought it might be nice to have something saved for a /lit/ special occasion for once.
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