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Will one of you fucking assholes prove why "stream of consciousness" narrative mode is in any way a redeemable quality to any work of fiction?
Why the fuck is anything in written in bullshit ass stream of consciousness considered good? Why is it considered anything more than a bullshit ass cop-out by the writer to "appear" good?
Someone prove to me why stream of consciousness is "good."
A technique isn't intrinsically "good" or "bad", faglout.
>>7466053
Nothing is redeemable: intrinsic value is a spook.
Why do people make use of memes so much?
Does the use of greentext and memeing happens because of an unconscious 'satisfaction' of the poster given by the false sense of community?
What occurs in someone's mind, when posting something like
>start with the greeks
>reading translations
>being this pleb
? Why leaving the message makes the poster more happy than don't leaving the message? Memeing and greentext are not, for the most part, elements of discussion,...
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>>7465901
It's a way of affirming the community while excluding outsiders (those who don't "get" it). It's an animal instinct.
>>7465901
Why do you write in the language you write in?
pure ideology
Which are the best extraordinary voyages?
Sailing the circumference of your mother.
>>7465640
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Mysterious Island (be sure to read Leagues first)
also, Verne >>>>> Wells
Around the World in Eighty Days
Tell me how to run away from adulthood. I'm here so I'm halfway there, but being unemployed would be living on a prayer.
>>7465408
>Tell me how to run away from adulthood.
Play a whole lot of video games and watch a whole lot of anime and superhero movies.
>>7465418
Shitpost on /lit/ like a two dollar faggot
>>7465432
catch feelings on /lit/ like an absolute spergtron
Hi /lit, so, long story short is that I am working on something and one of my character is a war veteran who is highly traumatised by things he had seen and so on. As a resource and inspiration I'm looking for books that depict soldier's life and the tragedy that is war. You know. I've read most of classics like Slaughterhouse numer 5 or some petry by war poets, but still I want more. Also I am from a country that was almost completely destroyed by WWII so I find it hard to find good books in my language because it is still all too fresh. So anyway I am looking...
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Storm of Steel - Jünger
Under Fire - Barbusse
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque
>>7465490
Under Fire is one of the most powerful book I've ever read. The prose is sublime and made me feel down to my bones, after having studied it for the years, what it felt like to be in the Trenches.
>>7465396
>That sweet Isenheim altarpiece structure
Where do I start with Psychology? Sigmund Freud, then Lacan? If so: what books by freud should I start reading first? And who is the lastest most admired psychologist?
Start with the Greeks (As in Oedipus the King)
>>7465290
how does that book play a part in psychology? Would you mind elaborating?
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan
William James is good too
The Greeks are required reading for pretty much everything. Read them
What are the major literary works in the Norwegian language?
Ibsen.
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Norwegian Wood
So, how hard will you WTF when none/next-to-none of the top twenty characters that are from the EU show up in the first two movies?
>not muh wookies
So they want blacks to watch it, give them a break. Also the EU was shit, wasn't it? You're the kinda dork who'd know about it, you tell me.
>>7465195
what is eu
>>7465242
European Union
>consider myself a short story writer if anything
>never satisfied with my works, rarely finish them
>decide to start writing poetry
>crank out one a night
>mfw they're shit
>mfw it's fun as hell anyway
You go, anon!This was a sincere post.
Also post some of your shitty poetry.
I know that feel. Though I tend to crank out several at once and not even review them.
Well let's see some!
What's the general consensus on Mr. Saramago, /lit/?
Thinking of picking up one of his books, not sure where to start.
>Saramago joined the Portuguese Communist Party in 1969 and remained a member until the end of his life.[11] He was a self-confessed pessimist
when he wasn't tipping his fedora he was writing hamfisted political bullshit
>>7464867
the cave was good, at least the last 50 pages
>>7464867
Blindness
So I'm in the middle of researching Christianity because reasons. I'm currently reading the Bible from cover-to-cover as the obvious starting point, but is there a high quality apologetics starter pack?
The wiki has some recommendations for things like church fathers and ancient primary source philosophy material, but I'm looking for scholarly arguments for the veracity and truth of Christianity.
I already have some material arguing for the historicity of the resurrection to read over winter break. Namely "The Resurrection of the Son of God"...
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>>7464702
A MAP OF LIFE, by F J Sheed,
(short book, upper 6th onwards)
Truly attractive, showing that with faith reason is not suspended but the opposite. One discovers the joy of applying reason to the foundation of one's faith and, perhaps for the first time, of thinking through the content of the faith and its consequences in everyday life. A great read for anyone, but especially the younger (late teens to twenty-something, third level students etc.). And all the more so if you're tending to distance yourself from your Faith because it seems all feelings and sentiment, built on feelings and sentiment, and expressed in non-sensical rites and formulae. While focused on reasons for believing in general, it does draw out in a lucid, if introductory way, how the Christian and Catholic Faith does not contradict reason but finds sure foundations in reason. (From a
review in the Amazon-UK website)
Available at Angelus Press, USA.
THEOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS, by F J Sheed,
ISBN 7220 7288 0
(short book, university onwards)
This book expounds the Church’s main dogmas as simply and as compellingly as accuracy allows. Beginning with the reasons why the ordinary man, woman or teenager should study theology at all, it goes through the key doctrines: Spirit, Mystery, God’s infinity and man’s creation from nothing; the Trinity, man’s fall, the Incarnation and Redemption; the Church and Our Lady, its first members; grace the sacraments, the next life and the end of the world. An excellent and necessary read.
Available at Angelus Press, USA.
THEOLOGY AND SANITY, by F J Sheed, (1945)
ISBN 0-7220-7820-X
(350 pages, late university, post-grad.)
Brilliant synthesis of the Catholic conception and understanding of life. This book is a development of Sheed’s Theology for Beginners. The author portrays in a wonderfully simple and in places humorous style the essential and irrefutable reasonableness of the Catholic Faith. He also shows how the Catholic should view and understand his life and life in general, in the light of the truths he believes.
The book is a masterpiece of logic, clarity, simplicity and common sense, a great classic for the modern world.
>>7464702
THE BELIEF OF CATHOLICS, by Ronald Knox (1939)
(short book, lower 6th onwards)
A succinct, precise and unpretentious presentation of the belief of Catholics. In his gentle, quiet and unassuming style, Knox calmly exposes the essential truths of the faith in answer to the most common objections. It is as if the book were specifically written for self.
TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST, by F J Sheed
(400 pages, 6th form onwards)
A study on the Gospels. Ultimately, the knowledge of the faith is the knowledge of...
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>>7464702
THE IMITATION OF CHRIST, by Thomas a Kempis
No comment is needed here. This small book of piety and learning presents the essence of Christian aesthetical and mystical teaching. Every Catholic should be familiar with its counsels.
THEY HAVE UNCROWNED HIM, by Archbishop Lefebvre
(University onwards)
A compilation of conferences given to seminarians, on the errors of Vatican II and the Conciliar Church. His Lordship revised his work in order to edit it as a single book. In the light of the great modern encyclicals of those popes prior to Vatican II, his Lordship demonstrates in detail
the fundamental disagreement of the Conciliar theories, in particular that of Religious Liberty, with the constant magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church. His exposition is clear and irrefutable, and most apt to any youngster who wishes to explain to a friend his or her reasons for refusing the Conciliar Church.
Available at Angelus Press, along with many other titles of the Archbishop.
THE SEVEN SWEET BLESSINGS OF CHRIST, by Gerald Vann, OP
ISBN: 0-918477-55-7
(for all, 6th formers and adults)
Formerly titled Divine Pity, Gerald Vann presents and theological work on the relation between the seven sacraments, the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost and the eight beatitudes. In a studious manner, closely following St Thomas Aquinas, he describes the growth of the spiritual life as the fruit grace and the consequence of the reception of the sacraments, etc.
The value of this book lies not only in the detailed study the author makes of the spiritual life, but also in the simplicity with which he sets out the path to sanctity. One often thinks that sanctity is impossible. Youngsters are tempted to think avoidance of serious sin is sufficient to be a good Catholic. This book shows how sanctity is attainable, and that by the ordinary means Christ has left to the Church (sacraments and gifts) and the practise of the beatitudes. An uplifting and consoling read.
Available at Angelus Press.
SOCIETY AND SANITY, by F J Sheed
(University)
Companion to Theology and Sanity, this book sets out Christian principles on topics such as marriage, family and state. The book is one of the clearest explanations of how society should be, written in Sheed’s easygoing and wonderfully clear style.
So am I a pleb or was this book pretty shallow? Maybe not shallow in the way a pretty girl is, but certainly shallow in that it lacked a good deal of depth in character and story.
>>7464686
you're not only a pleb, but you may also be retarded
>>7464686
>lacked a good deal of depth in character
what?
>>7464686
American lit is shallow. Deal with it.
so did anyone read the alchemist by paolo coelho
what do you think about it ?
>>7464651
Garbage. Pretty much a pandering to "yogi"-culture/mentality. For children who want to settle for superficial happiness and meaning and sound like they have it all figured out.
>>7464663
never read it/10
>>7464671
I did though, are you upset because I don't agree with you :^) fuck off twat. Don't ask for opinions if you can't handle what you don't wanna hear
Hey /lit/ how are you doing this fine morn? I have a question I would love your advice on, What is the best book('s) to read about all the Norse Mythology stories and adventurous whilst I'm teaching myself Icelandic to read the Eddas in their original language?
not him, but bump out of interest
>>7464643
Norse is barbarism for plebs
Celtic is for patricians
>>7464643
Hai, Icelander here, there is this book called Snorra-Edda written by Snorri Sturluson. It goes through basicly the whole of the mythology alongside some stories of mainly Thor and Loki
>tfw just turned 25 and haven't even written a novel yet
>24
>haven't written anything since poetry class junior year of college
>>7464393
Read Zadie's White Teeth.she was 24 when she published it
/r/ing that huge list of famous authors who first published by 25 or earlier
