What's your opinion of Whitman, /lit/?
>>7396529
I think he's a poet.
That's my opinion.
>>7396529
Homer... Dante... Shakespeare...
Whitman!
>>7396529
One of the few to do free verse right. Great poet.
>tfw Positivism killed metaphysics
>tfw kant
>tfw the killing of metaphysics killed positivism
>tfw everything is kill
>>7396504
wew
>>7396491
This is bait.
So, Meursault killed the arab because of "the heat of the moment"? Wtf Camus
there's no because
>>7396443
Because French "people" are imperialist racists.
And then...HE KILLED THE ARAB!
HAHAHAHAHAA
I need a good name for a horror novel.
Suggestions?
>>7396232
Gorepenis
>>7396232
The creepening.
Hello /lit/, I'm spending the majority of next year in the Canadian Rockies in the middle of nowhere, and I'm looking for comfy books to take with me to help occupy my time. Escapist stories that aren't so banally written that I'll get bored half way through, with thick plots to lose myself in. Needless to say I'm open to fantasy and sci-fi.
Non-fiction and/or lit-fic suggestions are also welcome, but I have a little backlog and not much by the way of comf that I can think of buying before I leave.
>>7396127
Tristram Shandy is honestly pretty comfy Uncle Toby has to be the next best comic character after Falstaff.
try some robin hobb, the fitz novels
>>7396127
You need to try Terry Pratchett.
/lit/ is writing an awesome book, just get in the doc and write, write, write!
Original doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S8m2khM4VLInh87azaQi702LYPXuSmoxlE_kxY-Z2jE/edit?pli=1#
What we have so far:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntfk1PTsiD2E3KabYXS2q4XmgX7f3o7htzkIxsaDGVs/edit?usp=sharing
The David Foster Wallace jr story is amazing
Why rehash TLOTIAT... Again? It's not even as good as that. I really did read this one. It's really bad, guys. Step it up or let it die.
>>7396145
why not? It is pretty funny imo
What do you think /lit/?
Should this book be moved from the children's section or are the CIS White parents wrong to complain?
>[Author] James Dawson criticises parents who attacked his LGBT guide [titled 'This Book Is Gay'] for children
>The book has been challenged in Wasilla, Alaska, after a 10-year-old boy picked it up from the juvenile non-fiction shelf of the public library, and his mother was “shocked to find it contained frank drawings and descriptions of gay sex acts inside”
Excerpt:
"“As with hand jobs and breakfast eggs, all men like their blowjobs differently.”
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/26/james-dawson-criticises-parents-who-attacked-his-lgbt-guide-for-children
>>7395875
No opinion but this guy looks a little bit retarded, no? Got any photos with him more expressive, meme material namean?
I definitely think it should be removed. Children shouldn't be taught stuff like that.
>>7395976
Bigot detected. Literally LingMAO at your ignorance.
#lovewins
Are there any articles like this, but about some author instead?
It's about Kubrick's daily routine and habits. This type of stuff is fascinating to me. I'd love to read first-hand accounts of how famous writers spend their time.
http://www.krusch.com/kubrick/dayinlife.html
>>7395848
https://www.google.ro/search?q=authors+habits&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=v09YVr-tG8P2PprvjNAL
Most biographies have things like this: Benjamin Franklin's is an example.
>>7395848
Hunter S. Thompson's daily routine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsoVgc5rGs
>>7395815
>"MAX SSTURNER".
IT IS "MAX SCHTIRNER".
I guess Cecil's videos are known on /lit/ but what about
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>>7395852
Dr Sadler I'm CIA
I'm new to this board but I've been trying to write a psychological romance lately. It's about a guy with an imaginary girlfriend. I don't plan on making it a big hit so I don't mind showing the ending. Any feedback on my writing style, word choices and things like that would be appreciated.
>>7395682
Plus I've never ended a story before so I want to know if you'd be satisfied with this at the end of a book
>>7395682
its shit
>>7395727
Why?
>live in a very upper middle class environment
>consume like madmen in dat sanctified gated community
>mother and father ignore problems until on the verge of divorce
>alcoholic father with bad cardiovascular has a stroke
>mother put into the throes of alchoholism because she's now stuck with somebody she wants to leave as well as by an internal emptiness she doesn't have the know-how to fill.
>family assets and happiness slowly degrade
>continued "those who know but do not care" disposition
I really need a book that, in some way, explores the cause of vapidity and emptiness on a non-pejorative basis i.e "Wow look at how ungiving these plebz are. Lol Satire!!".
Or at least get to some deeper level of the consumption of the prototypical middle/upper middle class on the personal level, and have something i can identifydisposWwith what you can assume from the aforementioned). If that doesn't exist then I'll just make it, but I really need a book to not feel alone with this, and I doubt I am.
Inb4 Too much info, or /r9k/
My phone fucked up one part.
Should be: or something i can identify with (with what you can assume from the aforementioned)
>>7395648
You should try putting your thoughts down on the page and doing some constructive self-expression unless you want to end up as the /lit/ version of Elliot Rodgers to be honest family.
>>7395655
Been writing small vignettes and shitty T.S Eliot wannabe poetry since junior year of highschool and in the past 2 years I've dedicated to more long form. It does really help with getting the the heart of the personal, but also external issues, in a non-edgelord way. No worries, I may plan on ol' suicide if things never get better, but I don't ever want to hurt anybody or externalize in the way that kid did.
All i want is a book about familial polarization that isn't an angsty manifesto on "nobody understanding" or "my daddy never loved me" cliches, but an actual plain-face take on something like "I do not have a vestige of belonging in my family."
or anything about family that isn't Karamzov
Alll this ust so that i can fuel my non-objective and irrational feelings for a little and also not feel 100% alone.
You could be reading right now
Oh shit! You're right
Probably, but I'm about to go to bed
Anything in mind?
>tfw you study enough to realize that ~92% of what normalfags say about life is the truth
>tfw you realize that just being a generally solid dude with good moral values and a good social circle is worth infinitely more than any amount of interesting knowledge or intelligence
yea like i care what some fucjkign n ormie has to say
Being a normal person is much more fulfilling and productive than being a beta scholar fag. If you really want to be a scholar fag, at least get a spouse and some friends, or your life is pointless and your work is shit.
>>7395502
Why is it worth infinitely more?1
anybody else ever feel like you read a solid amount but are still overwhelmed by the books, essays, and texts you don't have time to read, or should have already read, or /need/ to read, or the ones that soak up dust on your shelf after you bought them and only flipped through them. this shit haunts me.
what do you do
>>7395454
i'm thinking not just of the classics, the canon, 'world lit,' etc., but recommendations, reading lists, introductory texts to topics you are interested in, etc., etc.
it never ends and it towers
and the worst thing is, i feel like this fear ruins my time reading. especially with works that have an argument, theoretical texts, nonfiction texts, etc., it feels like it's not worth reading anything that's been disputed, or not worth reading anything if i won't have time to properly contextualize it, etc.
it's a spiral
>>7395454
no
being smart is for faggots
just go drink and party with your friends, and maybe listen to some cool tunes as well
>>7395461
i am a faggot tho i jerk to twink vintage
What's the best translation of Notes from the Underground?
P&V you fag
>>7395376
I was told p&v was absolute trash for the brother's K, is that not the case here?
Dostoevsky translation.
