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Writers of /lit/, who are your influences? Everything you read influences your writing to some extent, but who are the big ones?
>>7890775
john green
james franco
Burroughs
Ellis
Kosinski
what can I say? I'm an edgy, pervy fag.
My influences are Pynchon and DeLillo, but I aim to surpass them.
Does your mum like your writing?
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrricky, wwwwwhat did you do this time?!? This is reaaaaaaaaaal greasy
Sexy fucking Patrick swayze julian
>>7890781
RRRRANDY
What does /lit/ think of Wordsworth editions of classic novels? I know the paper isn't great and the covers are usually pretty poor (pic related) but I don't think they're beatable for the price, and maybe to just try and older or more difficult novel before committing and buying a nice edition that will last longer
maybe the owner has a fetish of doing this.
just imagine all of the employees editing images as their boss just keeps muttering behind them "yes, yes, now crop that face and make it look mildly bad, but make it look like you guys are trying; hmm yes, yess, now insert some monks behind him"
We had this same exact thread last week...
>>7890729
You guys haven't changed your opinions drastically since then?
I just finished reading this, and while it was fairly enjoyable itself, it mostly has just given me a craving to read more about what it discusses, the Confucian, the Taoist, and the Zen Buddhist. What is some essential reading for these subjects? I've already ordered Tao Te Ching, but I can't seem to find anything quite as championed as that for Zen Buddhist literature.
>>7890623
The Analects.
>>7890640
>The Analects
Do you have a preferred translation?
>>7890623
Chuang Tzu
Burton Watson translation
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Which Books by Kant do i have to read until im allowed to read/able to understand "The World as Will and Representation" (as you englishfags apparently call it)?
Would "Critique of Pure Reason" be enough or what? Please bear in mind that i know absolutely nothing about Philosophy.
Anything else i should read beforehand?
P&P>TWAWAR
>>7890506
You could get away with some Plato & a gloss on Kant. Though strictly speaking, a familiarity with both is required.
However, as anon suggests above, his philosophic system is largely of scholarly / historical interest at this point. You're better off just reading the later essays and aphorisms, which don't require background reading. The commonly available abridged editions will be fine.
>>7890567
Thank you, but im going to read "The World as Will and Representation" anyway. What works exactly by Plato and Kant do you recommend to get a reasonable grasp on their respective views?
>Copyrights
>Contents
>Editorial Notes
>Translator Notes
>Dedication
>Acknowledgements
>Preface
>Preface to Second Edition
>Introduction
...
>Actual Book
>>7890491
i like it cause then when i put my bookmark in after my first sesh i feel like ive made good progress.
>>7890512
It can make you lose the plot of what the book is really about sometimes. Wandering about...
Please tell you guys don't read these unless they're by someone interesting.
Is there a literary equivalent to Sicario? It's a tense thriller about law enforcement bending/breaking the rules to combat drug cartels. It's also pretty brutal and unforgiving. Not a feel good movie.
Got anything like that for me to read?
>Emily Blunt cancels nude scene
Fukken dropped m8
>>7890452
She's not very attractive anyway.
Rec me some more military strategy, /lit/. I read a great book about Scipio Africanus and a book by Patton about his campaigns that were pretty good and would definitely recommend. I read that stupid black hearts book and would definitely recommend against.
>>7890396
Read history
Thucydides
Xenophanes
Arrian
Polybius
Thucydides into Xenophon.
greg seems like he likes foucault's pendulum
Is that pic supposed to represent schizophrenia?
>>7890411
i think it's just some divorced guy tinder messaging a girl
Are there any other practical philosophies in the modern age?
tao, buddhism to an extentstirner
but zizek is right about it, tfw
If you are truly great you will force the world to bend to your chosen philosophy until it is practical by default.
>>7890753
He's right about Buddhism or Egoism? Could you link a response of Zizek's to Egoism?
is Pound /lit/s favorite poet?
i see him praised a lot here, far more than any other poet.
no
barely anyone here has read him
but barely anyone here reads any poetry so whatever
/lit/ doesn't have a favorite poet
Poetry is for little faggot nancy boys that cry in their pillows
>>7890295
He was a stupid traitor wannabe Italian with an ugly mustache that looked bad even for a fascist.
How does /lit/ feel about web series/serials? What are your favourites?
I'm considering starting one this summer. and I'd like to know what advice you have for me.
>pic related
It was infantile to say the least, but I still really enjoyed it for a reason I can't quite explain.
>inb4 pleb
I like the web novel/light novel/anime ecosystem in Japan. It produces a far, far higher Sturgeon quotient but it gets a lot of people writing that otherwise wouldn't have and they get into themes that our high barrier-to-entry publishing system doesn't.
I don't actually read web serials because bad editing makes my eyes bleed, but I appreciate that it happens.
>>7892135
No they don't. At least not for the most part. 99% of web/light """""novels""""" are just generic high school waifushit or fantasy. The western equivalent of that is the kindle store and it's basically just as bad.
>>7892148
>99% of web/light """""novels""""" are just generic high school waifushit or fantasy.
That was exactly what I meant by a higher Sturgeon quotient. And there is some really generic crap that makes it big. On the other hand, you get this real examination of things that are important to the common man - things like video games and how we'd do if we were trapped inside one. Japan has a trapped-in-an-MMO genre, with the majority of works...
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Did Nietzsche really copy the big forehead german guy?
>>7890270
yeah
>>7890270
nah
Nietzsche is more angry than funny.
What are some good novels about partying?
>>7890219
inb4 Gatsby
>>7890219
name is escaping me, but the one by bret easton ellis about michael alig? or something
V.
So, when is your discourse on memes being published?
Mine's coming out this year.
all these geniuses are too busy memeing to use their professional knowledge to the best of its ability, the non miraculous sons of bitches
dumb frogposter
>>7890199
>having not yet published your discourse on memes
Tribune of the Plebs
