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I'm considering reading Atlas Shrugged. Would I be wasting my time?
yes.
>>8064258
You definitely wasted mine.
>>8064258
Yes
Think of a book you like. Got it? Good.What kind of reviews does it have on Goodreads? Find something funny and bring it back.
ne1?
DAE throw the book across the room??? pretentious!!
>and the baron...baron Harko...oohuhuhuh...the b...Wuhahahaha...okay so baron Harkon... PbfffftbahhaHAHA...baron Har...KCKCKCAHAHAhaha...oh my god heheh...so baron Harkonnen (hmhmhmhmckohohehehe)...baron Harkonnen (huma huma heeheehe) was (chrtlechortle) FAT! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA AHH HAhohehoHAHAHAHA FOUR HUNDRED hehe POUNDS AHH HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHA
>>8064108
Fat people are both pathetic and hilarious. If you aren't on board with that, go take a lap, fatty.
>HAHAHAHAHA hoHAhoHahemdmdmd, wait there's more, okay okay he was so..pffHARHARHARDHADHARhehehahohu...and he was so kffffpt FAT! Ohhohohoho this next parts good hehenghenghenlelen...he was so FAT that he needed SUSPENSORS to MOVE HUUUUUHUUUUHUUUUUUUUE HAAAA HHAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHOOOOOHAHAHAHA HAHAHAhaha...ho hu ho ho...h
>>8064108
>planet full of dyonesians and degenerates
>not gonna have fat people
what are some good scifishit that feature a 4chan style community?
How is this not a most authentic and sincere first person description of our Zeitgeist?
Are there no fictional copies, or were such writings just not taken seriously?
it is
>>8063930
houllebecq
>>8063915
Only the /r9k/ zeitgeist. That one shitty spammer here is more applicable to the broader 21st Century zeitgeist.
Should I read the book?
Howl's movie castele? naa aman. You probably shouldn't.
>>8063822
I really enjoyed it. She had two sisters in the book who turned out to be interesting characters, her stepmother was a cunt, and the missing prince makes more sense. It was an ok book to pick up if you are looking for something light and fun to read.
>>8063822
No, because after reading it, you'll realise the movie makes no sense, as nice as it is.
Is this a good place to start with Wittgenstein? Or should I start with another book or another author?
>hairdresser: so what do you want
>wittgenstein: I want the flat top
>hairdresser: got you senpai
he sliced it off with one swipe of his katana
>>8063767
Start with A.J. Ayer - "Language, Truth, and Logic".
No it isn't. That book assumes you've read his prior work.
Best place to start is a contemporary introduction to Philosophy of Language and its history, which will introduce you to a broad range of theories, Wittgenstein's among them (yes, PI was a theory of language despite what some might say; if you talk about something and state that that something is such-and-such then you're basically introducing a theory), concerning the relation between language and the world. Then you can dip into either Tractatus or PI or both. Both books are cryptic as hell...
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Does this book pass the /lit/mus test for a good book?
how many scatological passages does it contain?
>>8063561
Don't you realize that we hate all books here?
>>8063561
One of my all time favorite books!
It has beautiful prose, but /lit/ probably dislikes its message about vilifying a down-to-earthhedonisticlifestyle.
I think I'm Kierkegaard. What should I do
take a leap of faith and fuck off to /soc/
nice hair anon
>>8063422
get some vitamin E you greasy faggot
What are you reading rn /lit/?
Pic related, I'm a little over halfway finished.
how is it? everyone here always says it's terrible
>Aomame spends an entire fall locked in an apartment, where the book becomes her only entertainment. Aomame's days are spent eating, sleeping, working out, staring off the balcony to the city below and the moon above, and slowly reading through Lost Time.
is it as comfy as it sounds?
It's been a while since I've read a book. So, I just want to read a classic that's funny and enjoyable the whole way through.
Could we get some actual moderation on this board, please?
>>8063321
I haven't seen much wrong, what threads do you think should go?
>>8063172
>>8060208
>>8062882
>>8063336
>>8063325
Just a few. Not OP, btw.
>Find an editor
>Works well for the first chapter, immediately drops out
>Get second editor
>Makes it a few chapters longer
>Takes 4 months to do just 6 chapters
>Quits once I finish the rough draft
Holy fuck, what is with editors being so garbage at doing their job? I just need one person to read the whole fucking thing, but they all drop it because of personal shit.
>>8063179
That's a cool picture you have there, lad. Mind if I save it?
>>8063200
you don't want that one. digging the sword into the ground like that would dull the blade.
>>8063179
Editors, especially freelance editors, are a meme. You honestly don't need one. Just proofread your shit a few times and make some changes wherever you think they're necessary. It takes a while to develop a sense for this sort of thing, but after editing a 200+ page book of your own a few times you'll more or less be able to do any editor's job on your own.
Describe picrelated
"help me"
"i can't"
"why"
"i need help myself"
"help me then help yourself"
"okay"
"huuuupmhhhh"
"..."
>>8063169
hold on, i'm melting into the floor.
oh, that's okay, i am too.
hey, i have some candy, want some?
sure.
>>8063169
these women look like
sandals and they are melting
why are they melting?
wtf
why is this in spanish
i bought it in an american bookshop
why is not english
how did you miss the fucking title
>>8063084
Leelo en el idioma original maldito idiota, cuan dificil es aprender otro lenguaje?
>>8063107
>judging a book by its cover
Would you consider this to be the most recent work in the western canon?
>>8062940
no its fucking boring garbage about spitting and riding horses
its not in the canon. it's supermarket genre drivel tier. they're desperately trying to secure a deal to make a movie out of it so they can sell more copies to same type of people who buy dan brown books.
So, /lit/, how does it feel to know that people who can't write for shit will still sell just because they have a pretty face and a well-known surname?
I don't really care.
literature is literature. it's not meant to be good, it's meant to be words
a ghostwriter wrote them a pulpy sci-fi YA novel that flopped, so no. Embarassing trash.
>inb4 they'll be fine, but of course they will
