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Give me similar books to the Tao te ching
>>7803923
The Enchiridion
>>7803959
I just listened to the audiobook. Thanks that was great.
Any more suggestions?
steps by jerzy kosinsky
>tfw you just remember the insecure teenager shit you submitted to your creative workshop class as a freshman in college
>tfw people say its good and you wonder if they're bullshitting you or not
Thats when I learned to always be my best critique partner. People will almost always just sugarcoat because A) They want to be nice or B) They lack the knowledge themselves.
>>7803828
yeah that's the point fucktard
you don't wake up and suddenly start writing good shit, you have to wade through an ocean of your bullshit first
>>7804040
My stuff wasn't just shit though, it was extremely immature and embarassing while some of the other 18 years old had some actual good stuff.
Half way through this...
It's beautifully written but the hardest thing to read... It's so terribly depressing. Every time he finds happiness in something it's taken away from him. The very first chapter of this book even left me with watered eyes... Will I end up crushed by the end?
The despair is just getting started, anon. Keep reading.
>>7803806
> Half way through this...
get the fuck out of here before you get this perfect novel spoiled for you
the ride has just began,i'm surprised it's even possible to stop at the middle of reading it
I just finished this today, I fucking loved it but it's super emotionalespecially when Stoner picked up his book in the last moments before his death
how many words a day do you write, /lit/? does having a daily goal even help?
>>7803745
A few hundred.
I make a goal of recording at least some coherent thoughts each day to keep in shape. It helps me stay in shape.
As for fiction, I'm in a rut right now.
So I'd say, on average, 500 words a day. 2000 on an exceptional day, which I haven't had in a while. 300 on a bad day.
>>7803745
you should read more than you write imo
>>7803753
if you read a book a month you still read more than you write
What does /lit/ think of this?
>My imaginary friends from Tibet told me the secret of everything.
Does anyone REALLY believe this crap?
>>7803705
Supposedly Tesla was given information by ayys. I want to believe.
>>7803709
Yeah...it's all based on events/encounters that can't be verified. It's no different than Joseph Smith looking into his hat at the 'seer stones' but not allowing anybody else to look at them.
What did you believe in when you were 16? What did you read?
I believed that I needed to get laid.
>>7803677
That I knew everything.
I was an edgy faggot and read the Anarchists cookbook
>>7803690
>I was an edgy faggot
Same. It causes me immense pain every day knowing this. Did you ever rationalize it or does it haunt you?
>tfw you're too mentaly unstable to properly function in society
>tfw you're not mentaly unstable enough to create fantastic works of art
>>7803591
Contrary to what you may think, having a shitty life doesn't automatically make you talented. It's not like the third world kids working in sweat shops are writing the greatest works of the century or anything.
>>7803631
>>talent meme
OP just write shit. Lots of it. Look at authors you connect with and understand why they work for you. Don't be afraid to copy ideas or styles. Read Epictetus.
Man, I had an entire series of epic harbinger dreams for my psychosis that I patched into a novel via automatic writing and they're the shittiest shit shit shit that ever shat shit. At the time they felt religiously significant though. In addition to that being shit, the story of how I went psychotic is also considered shitty, apparently being "elementary school level fiction". My own life makes for a bad story. And I'm psychotic.
Really, any kind of psychotic-spectrum condition will just mean a jumbled hodgepodge of symbolism. The odds of it being...
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>2016
>people believe that its possible to differentiate between sympathy and empathy
>the audacity to assume theirs contrast between the two
Can we please stop this
I wonder why you made this thread. It seems stupid to be angry over what meanings people give common words.
>2016
>people still believe it’s impossible to differentiate between "its" and "it’s" or – God forbid – "theirs" and "there’s"
>the audicity to assume there is no contrast
…
>>7803561
when you hear the words being used everyday, it becomes annoying.
To be clear, there IS no actual contrast between the two. To the person receiving your emotion, sympathy and empathy will feel the same.
People say they empathize with some so they can get closer to them, but in reality, the process of "feeling" sympathy/empathy are the exact same and displayed the exact same.
what's the point of reading if you're going to forget everything
>>7803524
Hello teenager
With that attitude you might as well go sit in the corner and wait till you die.
>>7803535
it's not so tragic if you play music
Who will write his biography?
And we all agree he is by the far the most intersting political figure for a biography in our modern day?
>>7803498
>interesting
short man with a bit of a power fetish and nostalgia for when his country ruled over smaller, weaker ones
leaders like him are a diamond dozen :^)
some guy
no
>>7803498
There'll probably a few dozen being thrown around once he's dead. I think he'll probably write an autobiography like Yeltsin and Gorby.
>And we all agree he is by the far the most intersting political figure for a biography in our modern day?
He's certainly one of the most interesting political figures of our modern day, but unless his biography includes enough information about his political decisions, it could end being pretty boring.
Hi /lit/, are you smart enough to join MENSA, the international society of geniuses? Find out by answering the pictured riddle! No cheating, now!
>>7803397
Rutabaga :^)
Achewood thread?
Gabataru?
I don't think I'm fit for MENSA, I don't have a clue.
Have you all gotten your copies of The Secret in the Basement yet? It's the new book from the author of The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters.
>>7803396
ulillillia has a book? whats it about?
>>7803396
>Mira Gonzalez
reported
>>7803402
He has two books. Elemental Masters is about a battle to save the Earth from elemental destruction. The Secret in the Basement moves to a more ordinary story wherein a young man having dreams about weird symbols ends up on a quest fighting monsters. Both are written in a script-like format attempting to replicate the experience of playing an RPG.
Post a book that you think no one else on /lit/ has read before. If somebody has read your book, you have to read the book he posted.
>inb4 /lit/ memes
pic unrelated
>>7803379
Infinite Jest
Is the Michael Glenny's translation of Master and Margarita accurate and superior compared to other translators?
>>7803235
These fucks like it better when its difficult to understand lol
also i disagree with u necessarily stating that one canon of literature can be necessarily superior to another "superiortiy" and "Inferiorty" are just mental constructs and cant actualy be realoverthrow the capitalists#voteberniesanders
>>7803297
>Using hashtag on an image board
Kill yourself.
>>7803350
>using any form of social media where a hashtag is acceptable
kill yourself
What does /lit/ think of Inner Game of Tennis?
I am an actor and everyone I know is completely obsessed with this book. Any time someone has trouble on stage they bring it up. I read it and I thought it was all fucking bullshit.
I noticed the actors who have the most trouble tend to be the ones who read this book and take it seriously.
>>7803199
yes, you're better than everyone OP, congrats.
>>7803199
Not entirely related, but what made tennis the popular sport in the upper-middle class crowd?
>>7803207
I know I am.
>>7803212
Well tennis is a very old sport that was originally played by the upper-class. In Henry V, the French king sent him tennis balls as an insult (or perhaps because the king was a lunatic at the time).
I bet they like it now because its a good social sport that you can somewhat leisurely play.
