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What can I read to help get me out of my depression or put my crummy life in better perspective? Will any of the romantic poets help me?
go outside instead
>>7865872
Take the redpill:
Mein Kampf by Hitler
On Women by Schopenhauer
The Decline of the West by Spengler
The Culture of Critique Series by McDonald
The Manipulated Man by Vilar
Atlas Shrugged by Rand
The Bell Curve
>>7865882
this tbqh
but after a while the depression comes back and you lose the desire for anything again
What's lit's critical analysis and response to DFW's famous 'This is Water' commencement speech at Kenyon College?
[Full text found here: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFWKenyonAddress2005.pdf]
This speech, in my view, sums up DFW's zeitgeist in one compact twenty minute session. You see the mind at work, the despair, and the hope peeking out through the cracks. It's a shame the despair triumphed in the end, but so it goes.
It's basically just mindfulness. Pretty old hat advice IMO.
>>7865538
Sure, the rule taken from this speech can be condensed to mindfulness. As a whole though, I see 'This is Water' as a microcosm of DFW.
>>7865553
could be expanded into mindfulness... haven't actually read much DFW desu senpai
Who's the most right wing writer ever? Evola?
Um. Hitler?
define right wing
Bowden seems to think so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YqKf3v2aPs
“If Zizek=Pure Ideology, then Land=Pure Autismo.” – Anon, /lit/
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So the last Nick Land thread (http://boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/7848910/nick-lands-dark-enlightenment) can’t be bumped anymore by users and is going to die (R.I.P @ 340 replies). Here’s the resources gathered thus far:
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Fanged Noumena:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/406213/42bdb859549f609953a0ca61aca0bee3.pdf
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nick land youtube videos
1994 - land...
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which authors, and which of their works, are necessary to read before reading Land?
then, having read those, where do I start with Land?
I am autistic, and I know a (very) little about Land, so I am fairly sure I'd enjoy him.
>>7863372
>i dont even know how to use 4chan
fuck off reddit.
there were a bunch of links to articles and papers in that thread mang
Why does /lit/ hate pic related so much?
Who is /lit/? I love this film. Verhoeven is a far better artist than that fascist faggot Heinlein.
>/lit/ - Literature
>>7863233
Fucking perfect film what are you talking about
Is there a Lolita equivalent for bestiality or do I have to write it myself?
Don't you dare touch that lamb
Please do.
Oh read the acid house by Irvine Welsh. It's genre fic really but if you like sexy sheep...
> book you last read
> book you're currently reading
> book you plan on reading next
Others guess things about each anon. Have a comfy time.
> Last read
The Crying Of Lot 49
> Currently reading
Moby Dick
> Reading next
The Trial or Child Of God, I want to read something shorter after Moby Dick
last: Ernest Shackleton's South: The Endurance Expedition
current: Soseki's I Am A Cat
next: Hubert Selby Jr's The Demon
> Last
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Didn't like it tho
> Currently
Dubliners
> Next
Maybe Lolita or finish up Proust.
Why did no one make a new thread edition
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.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
>What are you reading right now?
>dunno just talk about what you want
No one made a new thread for a good reason.
Fuck off with this garbage
>>7847170
no u
>>7847157
Not reading anything /sffg/ right now, but I found some pulpy old Philip K Dicks in a thrift store and I'll probably do one of them next. Which of these would be a good starting point?
(Also, I'm congratulating myself for making it through this post without a "Dick" pun).
Just finished The Last Mortal Bond
Really a disappointing ending for a promising series desu
>favorite/least favorite book
>favorite/least favorite cover
>favorite/least favorite episode
>other books by R.L. Stine
>nostalgia feels
Didn't we just have one of these?
>favorite/least favorite book
Attack of the Mutant; Go Eat Worms
>favorite/least favorite cover
Egg Monsters From Mars; Deep Trouble 2 (holy shit that cover was bad)
>favorite episode
I only saw one. My library had a copy of Night of the Living Dummy 3. Even at the time I knew it sucked.
>other books by R.L. Stine
I read the first Mostly Ghostly recently... I'm sure I would have liked it more...
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Been over a decade since I last read one.
Still, pic related always stuck with me.Main character was a Robot in Training. I couldn't even tell you the plots to the rest, though I remember really liking them at the time.
>favorite/least favorite book
Camp Jellyjam; Monster Blood
>favorite/least favorite cover
The Haunted Mask 2; My Hariest Adventure
>favorite/least favorite episode
The Cuckoo Clock of Doom: How I Got My Shrunken Head
>other books
I read some of the new Horrorland series, if that counts. I think I also read a Fear Street back in the day
>nostalgia feels
Oh man, where do I start? Goosebumps was my life....
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Rate this novel, guys.
>>7867792
not as good as taming riki/10
Aight I'll read it in the next five minutes then give you my eval.
Okay I'm done. Only took two minutes, shorter than I expected for a Tolstoy. It's not very impressive. Some evocative descriptions of moral and mental isolation I suppose. I give it an F, one star, 2/10. Next please
One of his best works.
>>/A N T I - D I A L E C T I C A L/
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>>7867435
post-modernism pls go
>>7867435
in other words you want to prompt a response that tries to reorganise the scattershot idealogies you evoke.
it's a metaphor for recapturing order armong disparate post-structuralist frameworks.
>start reading this.
>cant create a truthful image in my head of any of the birds mentioned except the peregrine.
>can't even create a truthful image of the English countryside.
Does anyone else here have problems like this that prevent them from reading?
type it into google lmao
>read this
>literally start crying with the beauty
>can only read a few sentences at a time, have to close it and contemplate, so blown away have to stop and think
>i've read it 7 times
>still amazed
how is it even possible to be this good
equal wth joyce
I've always been more of a verbal than a visual thinker and I have trouble visualizing a scene in my head unless I pause and make a conscious effort to try to conjure up images. It's never prevented me from reading or enjoying any literature though.
Write a short opening sentence and the next poster has to continue the story. Not too long so the philistines don't get discouraged. End result should be 100 words max.
I'll start:
There was something about the city that made her skin crawl with a kind of primordial disgust that evades explanation.
>>7866068
Yet on that crisp Autumn night even the dive bars and flickering church letter-boards carried a nostalgic charm
>>7866304
but I must stop thinking and start walking to reach my drug dealers house before he leaves
Does /lit/ care about movie adaptations?
And the black casting of Roland from the dark tower series?
https://www.change.org/p/https-twitter-com-stephenking-https-twitter-com-realronhoward-https-twitter-com-sonypictures-idris-elba-should-not-play-roland-in-the-dark-tower
>>7865923
No, fuck off, /polTV/. Stephen King isn't /lit/.
>>7865939
No, why not? his writing is generally good
Outrageous tbqhh. So the crusade against the white race continues.
The west is finished, let it fall DEUS VULT
Which city is today is comparable to Paris during the 1920s?
>>7865288
I heard somewhere that there are parts of Senegal more French than France. Probably somewhere over there.
what's so special about paris in the 20s?
The Internet
