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>want to write a story for an anime
>stop because even if it's good or better than most animes it still gives me cringe because it's not worthy of being literature
how do I stop this feeling.
>>8164503
don't write anime stories
I have the same feeling when writing scripts, it's almost like I'm engaging is some sinful debauchery. Can't imagine how amplified this feeling would be if I was doing anime.
>>8164507
I'm trying to write a story about a girl who is alone on a island after a shipwreck and desires a friend, then finds a pirate treasure with some female demon who'll she have to gain her trusts.
I'm sure it's better or more serious than most anime, but still feels super cringe.
Not OP from previous thread but was inspired/motivated by their last post. What are the best books which you could compare and/contrast? Just curious because in the last thread I've seen some interesting suggestions like Dorian Gray, and Faust or "The Idiot", and "The Stranger", so I was looking for more.
>>8164485
>>8164485
You could compare both of those to We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
1984 a shit
Huxley got it right
Also, have any of you read BNW Revisited?
Is this accurate on stirner?
My professor sent me this PDF on this unknown american philosophy and this part caught my eye that he mentioned max stirner
>>8164436
He's only riffing off stirner. That's not much stirner content sans the quote
>>8164436
Enjoying people and possessions when you don't indentify with them? Seems paradoxical
>>8164436
this your "unknown american philosophy" is a shitty new age rendering of buddhism
you don't need to abandon your possessions, just pretend that they don't matter while you are enjoying them :^)
i also snorted at that line how
>Esoteric knowledge clears up every confusion created by lack of understanding.
Is this the best selection/translation of pessoa's poems?
I really wouldn't know but Richard Zenith's edition of the Book of Disquiet is the best edition of the book. If you see Richard Zenith on the cover, buy it.
>>8164460
is there much difference betwen Richard Zenith's version and Phillip Pullmans?
Is this anything like BoD?
What does /lit/ think of this book?
>>8164318
Capote had a crush on Perry Smith. Otherwise a great book.
Fantastic novel. Don't consider it a 'true crime' book, as there are so many embellishments on the truth it can't have any claim to legitimacy. But that's what makes it genius. Capote shows that it is impossible for someone to be impartial in a world they are a part of, and all we can do is communicate our respective reality tunnels
>>8164318
It's my only first edition, found in nanas attic.
>tfw no book of the month club logo on spine
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>local thrift store has book-sale, all books $0.25 each
This is heaven for a $550 a month poorfag like me. It's a shame I already cleared out most of the good stuff on the regular $1.20 price, but now I can get everything I was doubtful or mildly curious about.
>no car
This is not a drill.
>/lit/ - Literature
>>8164212
Sorry I forgot books are not literature. I always report recent purchases and bookshelf threads since they're about books and not literature. I'm a hypocrite, I cower in shame.
Just walk there, that will help you consolidate your love of literature
So I don't usually like fantasy apart from Tolkien, but a 7/10 girl in my class told me to read this and I decided to give it a try. I'm only a few chapters in but so far the lame jokes and Gary Stu Firecrotch are starting to annoy me. Does it get better, /lit/? Is there a reason for everyone calling it the greatest work of fantasy of our time?
1. You come across as incredibly vain and shallow, and I hope you die.
2. By all means finish it and suffer the torture.
3. No, it's shit.
>allowing yourself to read a book a female told you to.
>reading fantasy
>recommended by a girl
kys
I guess there's a timeless element to fiction, and we could certainly find wisdom and great ideas in older literature and philosophy - but do you ever feel like you're wasting time reading the Greeks and/or these repetitious texts on age-old moral philosophy, when you could've read things that are more current and practical to us?
>>8164000
>things that are more current
No, s'all bad.
>practical to us
I'm sorry, are we still talking fiction here?
>>8164006
>I'm sorry, are we still talking fiction here?
nope. Let's say you spent your time learning of modern terrorism and fear, or the Syrian conflict and consequences of it, or the environment issues and their urgency/non-urgency.
>>8164011
>nope
Well then sure, I'll be reading a modern manual or two and perhaps a DIY magazine instead of Hero of Alexandria's Mecanica.
>chilean coal miners or poor african children problem have great ideas for novels just not the resources to put it on paper and follow it through
how does this make you feel. all those great books lost
>>8163990
hehe chilian and african are inferior to the white man's intellect, they wouldnt have created anything anyways. Maybe Harry Potter tier trash lol that women write
take the redpill
DEUS VULT
>>8163990
>have great ideas for novels
1. they don't
2. I don't care about novels. you people and your unquestioned belief that novels are the be-all and end-all of literature is sickening
3. >reading for plot . an idea for a novel doesn't even make a good novel
>>8163990
Lost potential is near infinite, crying about it is faggy and dumb.
I've decided I'm going to get serious about literature but I'm having some difficulties.
Do you take notes? What kind of notes?
Highlights? Highlight what?
Should you study every book?
To what extent should you study the book?
just read books and quit being a fag about it
Notes of things you notice. Be it structural things, passages you like, characterization, whatever. Do it at your own pace. Study what you want to. Just don't think too hard about it.
>>8163799
Study what you deem relevant to the extent that satisfies you.
Underline what you think is memorable.
Write down what you think is noteworthy.
Read what interests you.
anyone read this? is it good?
wish it was 1,000 pages like the stories about it a year or two ago said
>>8163775
you tell me
you wrote it, emma
>>8165024
op here
i resent the implication
Whats the best sentence in the English language?
>Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
>>8163694
This post is so stupid and strange that I honestly can't tell if it's a shitpost or not.
>>8163694
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted...
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"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense "
- Franz Kafka
Tell us your rashest literary opinions.
>>8163406
Nabokov is a jealous, autistic hack who's sad he can't write a story as heart-wrenching as brothers karamazov
>>8163406
Language has failed, and the whole of humanity is doomed because of it.
YA is fine
Genre Fiction is fine
Translations are fine
Women authors are fine
Jew authors are fine
Black authors are fine
Vonnegut is fine
Salinger is fine
Toni Morrison is fine
John Green is fine
Trump is fine
Buying physical copies is fine
Comic books are fine
Feminism is average
alcohol/drugs/coffee don't make you a better writer
Pynchon isn't that good
Personal experience doesn't matter
99% of Po-Mo is boring
If all you've read from Orwell is 1984/Animal Farm your opinions don't count
If...
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WTF?!?!?! I hate jewish people now!
When I first read this I did not know the Jewish guy was a villain and that the cross-dressing woman was.
>>8163297
You and 99.99% of human history. There was a time when tolerance was considered edgy.
>>8163297
Is the point of the play to make you hate Venetians? They seem like such bastards.
List the books you want to read, roll for it, and read it.
1-3 Love in the Time of Cholera
4-6 Beckett's Three Novels
7-9 Requiem for a Dream
0 Reroll
>>8163131
Marquez it is, thanks guys.
Fuck love in the time of cholera
>>8163131
>1: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
>2: The Brothers Karamazov
>3: The Remains of the Day
>4: The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
>5: The Prone Gunman
>6: I Am a Cat
>7: Titus Groan
>8: The Light Fantastic
>9: The Book...
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