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I'm about to get spooky as fuck and read the ego and its own, but I want to be sure I understand Hegel first.
>Hegel believes our mind is shaped by the thoughts and languages of others i.e. the SPIRIT of a society is the collected consciousness
>Things constantly are evolving, like an argument/socratic method (and shit fixes itself through a similar process)
>You can predict history (past and future) just by understanding and applying a logical system with the aforementioned...
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>Understand
>Hegel
hegel is possibly the stupidest thing ever except maybe wittgenstein, why do ppl waste their life on this
>>Hegel believes our mind is shaped by the thoughts and languages of others i.e. the SPIRIT of a society is the collected consciousness
>>Things constantly are evolving, like an argument/socratic method (and shit fixes itself through a similar process)
>>You can predict history (past and future) just by understanding and applying a logical system with the aforementioned in mind
>>Big government is responsible for everything and should take care...
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whats so good about it
Its an interesting read.
I think its a condemnation of apathy or something.
Maybe an endorsement of apathy.
I.
Dont.
Know.
It's relatable to autists (camus crowd) Other than that it has no redeeming qualities
entry level french existentialism for pussy hipsters in their tweeny bop years that moved past john green already
I need a book on improving my social skills. Can I just read my way out of autism? I just want to know how to make basic conversation with people I don't know.
I am not even sure if this is /lit/, /soc/ or /adv/.
How to have confidence and power in dealing with people by Les Giblin. I thought it was pretty good.
It essentially just tells you to go out there and talk, but it does give some good tips for conversation.
>>7898380
That doesn't make any sense. Like you can't learn piano or karate just by reading from books.
>>7898407
You're right, but you learning piano without a book/teacher is a lot harder. I am not autistic, I just have no skills in basic conversation.
I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing.
I'm so close to finishing my first book. I've been posting it somewhere online and the reviews are incredible. 95% of all the chapters have a rating of 4.5 or higher, and there are none rated below a 4.1. I get amazing comments every day saying exactly the things that I wanted to make people feel, and even some that shocked me.
I'm so close. So fucking close.
And I'll never be able to publish this.
There is no possible way that I could get this book to publication except for going...
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Finish it, you're going to make it.
We're all going to make it!
you might as well finish it and publish it before you off yourself. either it will snow-ball quickly into a success or it'll get acclaim after you're dead.
In all seriousness though have you tried sending manuscripts to different publishers? What's your reasoning on why it couldn't be published anywhere but Amazon?
>>7898394
I read that you have to get an agent to send out your manuscript.
And...
My story's published on Literotica.
In the Gay Male tag.
With vampire themes and overlaying body mod fetish.
I've spent way too much time on it and it's actually become an extremely in-depth, detailed, mindful story.
With gay sex every two chapters.
Pic related is the wordcount. I'm nearly at 300 pages.
Does anybody here have experience starting from almost complete scratch when beginning to read recreationally?
I used to read like a madman in my younger years, but discovering video games and youtube and shit made an overstimulated vegetable who can't hold focus on a book for more than 10 minutes.
I've considered replacing my morning and afternoon commute with an audiobook instead of music, is that at all a good idea, or are audiobooks going to create a bias and fuck up the actual literary experience for me?
Depends on what you actually wish to achieve, if anything. Audiobooks are not literature in the same way a youtube vid isn't cinema. They share some commonalities, but ultimately don't deliver the same experience.
As to your focus issues, that's something you will need to work out yourself. It isn't some unconquerable ogre on the mountaintop. It's simply a matter of discipline, focus & willpower.
Try the /lit/ starter pack. YA fiction is easier to consume but it's watered down content & grade school grammar will unquestionably...
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>>7898387
>Audiobooks are not literature in the same way a youtube vid isn't cinema.
Fanfiction isn't literature in the same way a youtube video isn't cinema.
Audiobooks are not literature in the same way way reading the script of a movie isn't the same as watching it.
>>7898402
>way way
See? I can be pedantic too.
/lit/ are there tips& tricks to writing believable dialog, with ass hole character? I don't want to hit the reader over the head with the "This character is an asshole" club.
I have a female protagonist forced into a meeting with her, Gaston level manwhore, ex boyfriend. She is trying to save him from his own stupidity, while he is trying to manwhore himself back into her pants.
Gosh it disturbs me to see you Gaston, looking so down in the dumps
>>7898287
I know right? Isn't he everyone's favorite guy?
>>7899792
everyone's awed and inspired by him
So i'm fairly new to the whole literature thing, only started reading heavily this year. In the past few weeks I read through The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano and Stoner by John Williams. These two made me think that I really need to start getting into more poetry but I'm not really sure what the place to start would be, any suggestions?
Just go to the library; imagine you haven't eaten in a week, and the poetry books are any kind of food.
read the classics ffs, contemporary lit is shit compared to them. as for poetry, read the poetry handbook by lennard to get a better grasp on how to read poetry properly then just go for your language most notable poets and read their work, it's that simple.
get an anthology. bloom or norton. ignore commentary beyond any background/context that you think is interesting, use it to find poems/poets you like. read more by the poet. find poets similar. start building out an idea of movements and how poetry evolved. go from there.
