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Jonathan Green, born roughly 1950 - 1990 BPH (before post-humanism), was an pre-techwar American public intellectual and writer. While only fragments of his work survive, modern scholars unanimously place him among the greatest writers of the pre-transhuman era. After long debate, scholarship now generally accepts Green as the author of the work known as "Cancer Girl".
Sources suggest that while Green was principally known for his writing, he also performed sermons on the "YouTube" sector of the internet, just fifty years before the medium was destroyed....
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>>8169989
I zozd
>>8170018
Does that come from ones penis?
>>8169989
10/10. Nice work OP
Sup bitch ass nigga! I'm about to open up dat dennis cooper book.
no read Hogg instead it's a fun romp
>>8169918
>>8169918
Hogg is genuinely the most edgy book I've ever read. Even after reading it I'm pretty sure it's just literally pornography but I still found it to have some literary merit
Has anyone else read this? I was surprised at how good it was. Very bleak and at times, especially the descriptions ofher mental and physical collapseto be depressing.
A mixed bag of messages and readings can be had here.
Great book.
>>8169874
He wuz Kang and shit.
>>8169894
*She
>>8169874
Its up for the man booker international. i didnt grab it because it sounded like asians whining about meat but if there is some depth i would read it.
Lit I can't fucking finish Nausea by Sartre. I've gotten 20 pages in in 4 days, I finished The Metamorphosis in 1 day and I did the same with The Stranger. Is it okay if I drop the book and pick up something else more fun and then come back to it? I feel bad about dropping a book but this one is just fucking not fun.
It's not OK. I'm on page 250 of nicholas nickleby and still have 450 to go. I've been at this stage for months and read nothing in that time.
IT'S CALLED BEING A PATRICIAN
>>8169715
Just drop it already or at least stop posting about it
>>8169709
Holy shit that's slow, I struggle with Zarathustra alot tought, takes me 1 hour to read and understand 10 pages.
Worth a read? If not, can you offer some alternatives similar to it? Subtle, supernatural Americana vibe is my jam.
>>8169669
Its a "im stuck at the beach for 6 hours with my family and have nothing better to do than drink booze and read a book I can finish, understand, and not have to dedicate my full faculties to understanding" type of book
>>8169669
>struggle to read 50 pages a day
>decide to reread ASOIAF for the 4th time
>(since the new one is coming out soon)
>read 250 pages a day for 4 days straight and counting
>reading until I actually cannot keep my eyes open
what is wrong with me?
You like reading books you like
>>8169418
It's called an easy book.
Martin requires 1/5 of mental attention usual real literature does, 1/10 of say Moby Dick.
>>8169418
>qt-pa2-t
Hey /lit/.
I just finished an advanced creative writing workshop last semester, which ended up being a irritating experience. Most of the students were snobby, pretentious upperclassmen who equated good writing to whether or not a piece conformed to their own personal tastes. They focused heavily on expressing whether a piece was good or not rather than talking about what in a story worked/didn't work and why. They opted to criticize instead of being constructive. They'd share where THEY would want the story to go and do for them --rather than looking at the story...
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>>8169256
imo workshops are always very dependent on the instructor leading the discussion but if you get stuck with a shit cohort there's not much you can do other than seek feedback elsewhere (ie the instructor, during office hours)
>>8169256
This is fairly typical. All the old models of "how to write well" have been dismissed or reduced to "one model among many". People look for what "works for them". Thus, they read your work through their own tastes and opinions, not someone else's theory or convention.
You can help push your fellow students away from this. I suggest you look at the workshop process as a roleplaying opportunity.
When you read another student's work, take on a new identity. What would...
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>Writing Workshops
poor fool
hi /lit/, happy bloomsday
do you happen to know of any book that features an fundamentally angry person, but who doesn't express that anger mainly through violence?
cheers
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
>>8169239
I don't remember him being fundamentally angry. Of course he wasn't happy with his situation but I wouldn't call him an angry person.
>>8169239
good idea, but he seemed more disdainful than angry from what i can remember.
Oh lord please help me. Out of nowhere I suddenly "remembered" a book I read when I was like 7-8 years old.
I think it was about a family (or at least father and son) who lived out of fucking nowhere in Australia. They was mining for gemstones. That's like all I remember of it. Sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtMY2109cZw
Bonus video, it's really comfy.
>>8169032
i worry for kat william's mental health
>>8169041
His mental health is already gone.
>>8169032
These threads are funny. We have them every couple of days and never once have I seen the book identified. There are literally millions of books out there. There is no way we can identify one obscure book from your shitty description. Best bet is Google, but that probably won't help either.
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How could some authors write such masterpieces while being constantly drunk/high on drugs? Alcohol kills brain cells, so how could you be productive as a writer while being a drunkard?
I myself can't imagine being intoxicated and able to concentrate to write something.
Also, discuss generally about improving your mental performance.
You sound like a little bitch.
>>8168989
/Thread
>>8168984
Highly intelligent people need to dumb down their genius in order to function desu. Smart people tend to get caught up with alcohol, benzos, opiates et cetera. They need to self-medicate their unbearable level of consciousness.
Mediocre people need that extra brain activity boost to do anything remarkable and are susceptible to stimulant addiction.
The real idiots are the ones who praise weed and psychedelics because that's the only way they can glimpse the near crazy state of mind the overly intelligent...
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Which books will inspire me to live a clean, healthy and wholesome life?
Trying to dry out desu.
>>8168883
not my diary desu
the bible
The Qur'an
>Since 10, Come up with stories for cartoon series, movies, etc.
>Hated reading since 4th grade
>Since 2011, have been outlining an epic story in head.
>Would love to see it drawn, but no art skill.
>Would love to see it animated, see above.
>Only option atm, outline and script as much as possible.
Got any suggestions for books to help inspire an Epic-Scifi-Fantasy-Adventure...
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>can someone "WRITE" a comic book?
Yes, ofc. Many comic books were written and drawn by different people. The only thing is that you would have to "write" it thinking in comic-book ways, aka, in panels.
Alan Moore
Hi. I'm looking for some books that are as easy to read as The Catcher in the Rye. English is not my native language. It'd be great if they were as good and interesting too, especially for a person in his twenties.
Finnegans Wake.
Ulysses
Ignore the trolls thusfar
Slaughterhouse 5
Catch 22
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Happy Bloomsday /lit/friends!
Whats that
>>8168877
MUH HISTORIC HANDJOB
A little too dilettante for my tastes. Plus I detest the literature of ideas.
>>8168892
June 16, 1904 is the day when Dubliner Mr. Leopold Bloom eats a kidney for breakfast, goes to a funeral, admires a girl on the beach, thinks about his wife's impending adultery, and befriends a drunk poet in the city's red light district.
The cruelest irony of all is that Marxism, too, essentially takes the view that culture is rapidly degenerating in proportion to the globalization of capitalism and the institutionalization of multiculturalism, both of which are rightly abhorred by the so-called alt-right. A proper Marxism must always also be reactionary, for it bemoans the persistent slippage into the past of political literacy and revolutionary potential. What the alt-right calls "cultural Marxism," Marxism calls an ideological strategy of containment, the false appeasement of minoritarian labor...
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>>8168651
Thus, though they forecast radically different ideas of what should come next, traditional monarchy on the one hand, communism on the other, the alt-right and Marxism might for the time being make good bedfellows, sharing a common vision of the destruction of the capitalist mode of production.
>>8168651
>Marxism, too, essentially takes the view that culture is rapidly degenerating in proportion to the globalization of capitalism and the institutionalization of multiculturalism, both of which are rightly abhorred by the so-called alt-right.
yes
>A proper Marxism must always also be reactionary
no. You don't know what reactionary means
>>8168666
there is such a thing as a "revolutionary nostalgia." the idea, in a perhaps recklessly vulgar form, is one step backward, two leaps into the future, bringing with them the variously more revolutionary ideologies that existed around the turn of the 20th century. we see this kind of nostalgia again and again in Marxist theory—Lukasc is a prominent example, as is Benjamin.
