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ITT: awkward endeavors and confessions regarding /lit/erature-related things.
> younger brother is adamant that he will make a career out of writing
> he tells me all his friends think his writing is good
> I say I want to support him as I'm interested in writing too and that I'll read some of his work
> he sends me it by e-mail, I open it
> it's full of typos, mixed tenses, over-use of hyphens and semi-colons, especially when they're not appropriate, the vocabulary is mostly monosyllabic and he doesn't seem to realise what standard punctuation is
> he doesn't think he needs to improve
> he refuses to ask for tips or look to further his writing experience or education outside of just sitting in his room for a few hours
> he tells me I just read his fourth draft
> most of it reads like i'm-so-dark-and-edgy-look-at-me blog posting
> he rarely actually reads and has only read a handful of Lovecraft short stories and YA fiction
> his favourite book is Eragon
> he's 19 years old
Is he too far gone?
Anyone got that pasta saved about the guy going into the book shop with no books and The Great Gatsby has a back 2 school sticker on it? He farts uncontrollably
Dog-earing your own books, as long as the pages aren't glossy, is completely fine.
I have tremendous interest in post-structuralist and critical philosophy and how it relates to film. I'm looking for films to add to the chart. I don't usually come here I'm on GoodReads or on /r/books most of the time, and I'm french. Sorry.
Only good film in that chart is OGF.
>epiphenomenal
You mean 'third-person' perspective.
>>8224086
>russell crowe
>good
And shits on it, because it is terrible
https://www.traditionalright.com/victoria/
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From the OP of the second thread, highlights of the first thread
>William S. Lind (born July 9, 1947) is an American monarchist, paleoconservative, columnist, Christian, and a light rail enthusiast.
Preface
>The state upheld its unpleasant responsibility of setting torch to faggots, was what marked this as an act of Recovery
Chapter 1
>We lost a lot of guys on Iwo, and they were men, not women. Of course, these were the years of “political correctness.” Our colonel was running for general, and he figured he could kiss ass by being “sensitive to issues of race, gender, and class.”
Chapter 5
>The scum depended on them; no lawyers, no scum (a point we have enshrined in Victorian law, where you must represent yourself in court).
> Boyd was the greatest American military theorist of the 20th century
Chapter 8
>“And in the Marine tradition, I propose a toast, gentlemen,” I concluded. “To the Christian Marine Corps, and confusion to our enemies.” Appropriately, it was drunk in Sam Adams beer.
Chapter 11
>Books like Martin van Creveld’s 'The Transformation of War' had opened quite a few minds.
>Fedora Man
>Who, I would like to point out to those who didn't read Chapter 10, actually wears a fedora and LARP's some idealized version of the late 1940s with his family.
Chapter 12
>“Because Don and the rest of the gays have me by the balls, that’s why,” Hokem said. “Well, not that way, but you know what I mean.”
Chapter 13
>“Ms.” Lateesha Umbonga LaDrek, the Secretary of HUD
>I don't necessarily disagree with Lind, but when he puts it this way it's pretty autistic
>\thread t b h
>Like the Russian BMP, the Bradley was an explosion waiting to happen, a tin-clad rolling armor dump that any anti-tank weapon instantly turned into a Viking funeral for its crew.
/k/ is always so predictably one-dimensional.
why not read a book for its literary merit instead of pandering to your own interest(s) then circle-jerking in your echo chamber.
>>8223628
Oh, believe me. We do that and there's a place for it if we want to post about it. It's called /lit/.
This book is specifically a propaganda piece for the phrenology of the military sciences: multigenerational warfare.
Do you ever troll the fuck out of your professors?
I mean you could, just for a laugh, or to take a shot at bourgeois society, or just in passing.
>>8222987
that's how you get A's
>>8223029
It really isn't.
Something I figured out toward the end of my undergraduate academic career (since at this stage you're simply expected to demonstrate that you are articulate and know how to use facts, argue, etc, and not to actually develop large-scale projects or have original thoughts, although those are nice when they happen), is that professors are also human beings who like to get their egos stroked a bit (i.e. reference what they've taught you in their courses especially while writing papers), but not to the point where they actually feel like you're a sycophant robot with no autonomy, because then from the professor's point of view, you're in the uncanny valley.
The point being that if your first object is to get the highest grade possible, you have to learn the professor's personality, and then stroke them off to the appropriate degree. Even shorter: IF YOU WANT AN A AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL, THEN READ THE PROFESSOR AS A PERSON, LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY, FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY WANT, AND THEN SIMPLY GIVE IT TO THEM.
Smart people can appreciate a good ruse as a theoretical joke-abstraction which doesn't impact /us/ personally (but is fun to read about), but even professors have work-product to get through, and in the course of dealing with teenagers they don't appreciate genuinely transgressive trolls (as most of us, also being humans, also don't in our daily routines). The other part to this is that proven academics constantly get emails from cranks, frauds and boring people, so more :^) - tier contrarianism hazards getting filtered out of their own established bullshit meters.
>>8222987
>professors
>implying lit professors are competent people in even the ivy league schools anymore
How difficult is it?
>>8222822
Just long
>>8222822
looks good , whats it about?
not hard but long, kinda like my dick
Why is modern literature so terrible?
Terrible target audience.
>>8216595
publishers getting more handsy with school and uni partnerships
it all went to shit when they started merchandising in libraries
blame corncob tortillas yecarthy for de-legitimizing "high literature" into being oprah book club worthy shite
now all we're left with is 2 categories: YAshit and oprahshit
In Which We Try to Discuss the Current Scenes Edition!C'mon don't let it die last year it was a great group
/lit/ has an Infinite Jest summer reading book group!
If you have an interest in this book -- whether you have read it or not -- please consider joining us!
We will be reading Infinite Jest from June 3rd (today) – August 11th with an average pace of 15 pages a day.
Discussions will take place right here on /lit/, hopefully we will keep a thread floating around most of the time, but should activity slow down new threads will be made Friday for discussion to avoid daily spamming of dying threads.
TODAY'S READING is pages 380-398, scenes 82 to 85. Full schedule to follow this post.
*Infinite Jest is widely available in bookstores and in free ebooks formats online
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SCENE BY SCENE GUIDE:
>http://faculty.sunydutchess.edu/oneill/Infinite.htm
REFERENCE SITE:
>http://infinitesummer.org/
>>8216336
Schedule with calendar dates, thanks to the anon who corrected them.
I'm about 200 pages ahead of you guys but reading slower
I really like the Clipperton scenes coming up and look forward to you guys catching upEspecially with the Lenz stuff I'm at
Is there any reason the name of the Wheelchair Assassins isn't actually proper French? It's not even a Quebec dialect.
I want to speak against communism, so I should probably read Marx
Where should I start with him?
don't bother, just read r/theredpill
>>8207623
Read Ludwig Von Mises. Specially 'the anti capitalist mentality'. You can't go wrong with the Austrians.
White Wine
I sat at my computer staring down the list of online drugs we would soon be purchasing: Molly, Northern Lights Marijuana, and pure, uncut, Peruvian Coke. Graduation was right around the corner – a month and a half to be exact. Three years and thirty bricks ago I had been a failure, a dropout, an all-around loser; now I’m was drinking tiger’s blood, fucking bitches, and winning. There was Wendy with the nose ring, clit ring, and punked out, skull-tatt, arm sleeve, Kali, curvy with skin the color of aged oak, and Claire, the clean shaven bleached blonde, she could swallow a softball. They were my coven.
It started the night we went down into the steam tunnels. Kali’s hazel eyes caught a glimpse of the Zippo flame and burned with lust. She put two tabs on her tongue and stuck her tongue down my throat. The LSD took hold of me; colors became sound, sound became feeling, and feeling became beyond fantastic. The tunnel was long and damp; the pipes were steaming hot; her kiss was warm and sent tremors through my core. Claire chimed in and offered me some coke.
Sometimes students got lost in the tunnels – their corpses served as rotting sentries guarding whatever secrets those now-closed-off corridors may hold. Wendy teased us; she stripped out of her Alice In Chains tee and let her perky, pierced nipples lead us. Deeper into the darkness we went, the walls were dripping wet.
We fucked like a mad tea party – biting, scratching, moaning, moving. Rainbow tracers reverberated around their bodies and highlighted their shadows like neon signs against the grey steam. Their lips were like tiny bubbles tingling my skin with every soft prick. We climaxed and our bodies quaked into a thousand rays of light.
Black Hat hackers advertised easy to move malware and credit card scammers sold dumps, fullz, phished accounts, and scans. Steam tunnel maps, illegal e-books, and pirated software floated around freely. I met a legit hitman; he gave me a few good tips on how to kill a man. Wendy watched my back and kept a shovel on hand.
Claire’s bleach blonde hair hung low and her nose shined bright when she lifted up her head from that last line of blow. “Woohoo! Today is the fucking day. Let’s graduate bitches!” she said with her rocker chick hands. We started off as degenerate undergrads, graduated to misguided, and held 2 middle fingers up to the upper class. We crashed parties and crushed kegs, pulled all-nighters and wore the same clothes for 3 days. Too many blunts kept me calm and her voice kept me high – music major, her notes spelled out X.T.C. in my mind… Kali was sexiness and divinity.
Through the kickflips and banged up knees, broken bones and skull fractures they’ve been there for me. Three trippy, fly, chic home-girls and a screwed up kid from St. Louis, Missouri. We’re crossing the stage and tossing our hats – taking a toast to Love, Sex, and Dreams.
>>8228625
Vapid and vacuous. Congratulations, you've captured the zeitgeist!
>>8228627
1 out of 3 ain't bad, it least it's not a total miss. Care to expand on your thoughts? Problems?
>>8228642
>it least
*at least
Odd request but does anyone have this book and can upload a picture of the sleeve cover to print, or know where I can find a picture of it large enough to print? I ordered it off amazon and the dick sent it sleeveless without mentioning it was sleeveless.
If you order it directly from the author's website it will come with the sleeve (in my case anyway) and he will even sign it.
This is for about £30 or whatever equivalent.
>>8228480
Aww shit I fucking spent 60 on amazon.months ago. It is going for like 110 used now.
>>8228484
https://irvingbooks.com/xcart/
£29 here
Hello, I have a question as a newfag to books.
I recently started reading Plato and have sometimes really really hard time focusing on it and forget what it was about really fast. I would read 2 pages, just to remember I forgot everything, because my mind was somewhere else.
Is writting down the parts of the book I'm struggling with in a separate book something you do also? I don't know if I'm just dumb or have some focusing issues, so I write almost sometimes the whole page down in my notebook and it helps me tremendously.
Is this just normal, or is my memory fucked up? I know over time my reading focus and memory should improve, but I have quite stressful life and no peace at home usually (kids) and I find it hard to maintain motivation to read something. Any suggestions?
And the other thing is, my library loans out books for 25 days. I sometimes struggle to understand everything in the book, because I also thing everything that is in there is important. So I find myself writting down half of the page in my notebook for 10 minutes. After time, this adds up pretty quickly to 2-3 hours. How can anyone read a book with 400+ pages in 20 days is beyond me, especially if you aren't familiar with the content and are really struggling with. Sometimes it even feels like I'm wasting my time trying to understand something. However, I do have this feeling of accomplishment when I go to sleep and remember what new I learned from the book.
>>8228439
I also think*
>>8228435
>as a newfag to books
>via 9gag.com
get out
Looking for books to read. Nothing about politics or economics. Fiction and Non Fiction are both acceptable. Looking specifically for something not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry has read before. Something not so out there or well known. But it has to be well informative, interesting, or something along those lines. Much appreciated.
>>8228208
check the wiki and do your own homework
>>8228208
my diary
>has had had
>>8228135
you've been has had
that that
English is a shitty language.
It's good for small talk between working class plebeians and nothing else.
What are some good books about love polygons?
Anna Karenina
>>8228125
Romeo and juliet, o wait...
>>8228125
Emilia Galotti
So someone on /tv/ told me my philosophies are too casual and childish.
Can you fine /lit/erate gentlemen give me some books and discussion on a mature and intelligent philosophy?
>>8228122
SWTG
yeah right here pal
>>8228122
Standard Greeks + Plotinus' Enneads.
