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is it all about who you know when it comes to writing? or is this the one field where quality trumps nepotism
>>8291830
Well, you can self publish with Amazon, so that's a moot point.
>>8291830
>is it all about who you know when it comes to writing?
if you are talking about big publishers, yes
>>8291830
>is it all about who you know when it comes to writing?
No, you can take a piece of paper and write right now.
If you're talking about having any success or recognition or even your work reaching people in any way, then yes.
What are some books that make you happy after reading them?
Moby Dick.
>>8291795
Pretty much anything by Jack Kerouac. On the Road and The Dharma Bums are both very happy, "joyous" books. Very comfy. Have fun, OP.
>happiness
Pleb emotion. Grew out of that one at 10. Contentment is the hip new thing.
>tfw been an Anabaptist Christian all my life but lately I've felt like converting to Buddhism
What do, /lit/?
I just finished Siddhartha too
>>8291771
>it's a sheltered white western liberal wants to convert to Buddhism episode
I bet you suck dicks too, faggot.
Namaste.
>>8291846
Not him
Buddhism turned me into a republican because all of those things are voluntary and shouldnt be forced onto people.
Hello guys,
I was inspired to write a book called "Conversations with Death". I also started a new blog series on youtube to document it as I'm writing it, and thought I would share it with ya
You can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwIiw1gYcNX-uSlg_p8-VacJSVph9YNQr
Any comments welcome :)
jesus christ that nose!
ohboyherewego.jpg
>>8291733
the nose is the source of intellect
post dank, obscure literary factoids
>>8291557
David Foster Wallace was unable to provide for himself or his fellow conversants a coherent description of water
>>8291477
I am an atheist, but I wonder how in this day and age, a person can feel a sense of wonder and passion and beauty for life, or more precisely, mental well being. I feel like everything is so superficial, a lot of times I just feel oppressed by looking at the world around me. I look at it on most days and it looks like a grey canvas, it looks like it has no vibrance, even if it's a beautiful sight it doesn't fill me with any sense of wonder, because I know in my heart that it's all meaningless to me. It's weird because every once and a while I get these inexplicable experiences where I feel like I'm experiencing life with more of my senses and more vibrance, and just being conscious is nice. I don't know how I could feel that way all the time.
I wish I knew how I could change that, I feel like I can grasp that sense, like the sense is there just waiting to be felt. I can almost feel exactly what it would feel like, but the feeling is so faint that it is really only a memory, but I can almost taste it. I want to feel that feeling where everything is vibrant and I feel happy when I'm experiencing the world around me.
Realizing you're own existence is a paradox, because the mind can't undo the incalculable error that it brought upon itself. I want to have that sense of reaching outside of myself, I want to feel that sense of wonder for the world, instead of everything else around me with it's superficiality and it's constant reinforcement of meaningless seems to instill in me. "yolo" "life is very short" "take out a life insurance policy" "when you grow old" "your parents won't live forever" "we're all only mortal". People just reinforce these obnoxious soul crushing statements like it's nothing, it sickens me.
So, I gotta cap off the thread by asking, since this is a literature forum, is there a book that will make me feel this way if I read it?
You have a depression, eat anti-depressants and stop bitching. Simple as that. It really, really, is.
>>8291567
I don't trust antidepressants.
>>8291555
Myth of Sisyphus. If that doesn't resonate then switch gears and read Siddhartha
Solar system editon
What planet has the best SF and why is it Mars?
Previous: >>8283010
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
>>8291459
>and why is it Mars?
Because it's the only one that seems even remotely plausible for colonisation
>>8291459
What is the biggest problem plaguing modern fantasy?
>>8291459
I started reading Larry Niven and loved his novels. So far I read:
Ringworld
The Ringworld Engineers
Ringworld Throne
Ringworld's Children
Protector
The Fleet of Worlds
The Juggler of Worlds
However, I hope to read his short stories later, and I hope to get into more serious sci fi. I have Segan's Contact on my reading queue.
Anyone have recommendations? I've read all but the last of Frank Herbert's Dune series (which isn't the type of sci fi I'm craving).
Why does /lit/ so rarely speak about Proust? Is it just because noone bothers to read In Search of Lost Time?
He's so widely acclaimed by the literary community, yet I don't see him mentioned on this site as much as, say, Dostoyevski.
>>8291423
>no one bothers to read
this
>>8291429
Though Knausgård is mentioned every so often
>>8291437
Knausgard's much more accessible than Proust, and more hip.
Why do we have so many foot fetishists in this board?
wtf lit?
i just wanna get slowly swallowed by a giant cock turned into cum and then jizzed into a milfs asshole where ill be wiped out and flushed down the toilet along with all her shit
idk, please someone tell me where it comes from. my fetishes started innocently enough at milfs, then wam bam bang, I'm knee-deep in incest, bbw's, breastfeeding, smothering, trannies, and borderline bdsm. I project a fart, scat fetish in the next ten years.
>>8291408
It's not a fetish man, feet are just objectively hawt, like tits or whatever. Maybe you just don't get it.
Anyone else reading UNSONG?
>>8291301
The aleph intrigues me. What's it about?
I read the first few chapters, at first I thought it was entertaining in a Neal Stephenson type way.
But the part where the awkward smart-but-lazy narrator has a threesome with quirky girlfriend and her hot cousin was too much.
>>8291326
It's sort of "kabbalahpunk". Sci-fi in which elements of judaism/christianity are real + some fantastical stuff inspired by kabbalah, Blake, etc.
can someone explain to me the appeal of this stuff?
why is it considered god tier?
I've read the synopsis on wikipedia on all books and it really seems like an incoherent mess... basically it seems that at each chapter a new "random" thing is going on and that there is no coherence to the world, like King threw up every conceivable idea possible in the book.
Is it really like that or is it worth reading?
For instance in the book do they ever explain the lore / setting etc? or do they ever explain why Roland is looking for the dark tower?
or whythe tower sends him back in time at the end?
or is this too pleb for lit ?
>>8291221
I think you're probably making too much judgement of the series after reading the wikipedia summary.
It's a bit tangential, really, but not altogether too bad, especially if you like King. I don't know where you heard it's 'God Core', when there' much better genre fiction.
>>8291262
Idk I've always read it's King's magnum opus
I just have a hard time understanding how it can be full fledged when it seems that the books are 500 pages at most, and yet in the summary they cram tons of unrelated concepts where basically every trope of fantasy is present
Is there a chart or a general set of books for one who wants to feel while reading?
Anything that covers the topics of depression or tragic events?
Got you senpai
>>8291219
thanks! Is there a certain order with those?
>>8291226
Naw, just whatever you can get your hands on first.
ok am i dense? right off the bat i am confused. did log jam turn into a gay bar or not?
>>8291035
Yes.
>>8291035
>log jam
C'mon son
>>8291536
He couldn't make it more obvious.
How can other books even compete?
They can't
They can't, so they do their best to ignore it.
I keep telling people that they can't just "read" novels without having read Don Quixote, but nobody even knows what I'm talking about.
The word "novel" has been subverted and there's not a whole lot we can really do about it.
>>8291148
>I keep telling people that they can't just "read" novels without having read Don Quixote, but nobody even knows what I'm talking about.
What are you talking about?
>>8290571
Fun read, every other cyberpunk story is just a ripoff
Seminal and pretty bad
Hasn't aged well I think
