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is l'etranger the worst book that has found its way into worldwide recognition? i just read it and its just a pathetic screed the main idea of which would have a warm reception on reddit
this smug edgy piece of shit just writes a book where he's the main character slowly and methodically jerking himself off
>oh death haha I dont give a fuck domestic violence who gives a shit feels < reals im so cool stay mad sheeple
this isn't philosophy, its just sad bathroom musings
>l'etranger
>im so cool stay mad sheeple
There's something tragically wrong with your brain.
>>7788569
>I'm so APATHETIC don't JUDGE me sheeple
Nihilism feels great, embrace it.
So was his wife in on the Witches' plan or was she just really fucking ruthless and greedy and rolled with it?
I always felt like the way she just jumps on the bandwagon felt suspicious.
>>7788459
She saw her chance and took it. If she'd known anything more than she let on, she wouldn't have gone loopy later.
She called on the spirits. I think initially she was just ambitious, but by letting the demons "unsex her", she allowed the witches and spirits to control her.
She knows. Women weren't allowed to participate in any spirtual matters. So she says 'unsex me here, spirits', to this effect. And she derails away from her sex. Gotta' remembe', It isn't necessarily away from old puppettheatres or fairytales in those linear suspenses.
Holy shit. This book is fucking awesome. I just read it for my six year old nephew and it's fucking GOAT.
>dat beatle paddle battle rhyme
>dat surprise ending with where Mr. Knox rekt Fox
>dat alliteration
Children's book thread I guess?
GOAT coming through
>>7788437
>>7788427
>>7788440
Its like you guys dont want your kids to be patrician.
Hi /lit/, I apologise in advance for shitting up your board as I have never posted here. However I am desperate for help. I have an English essay for college and as someone who hasn't studied English for five years I am really struggling. Would anyone be willing to offer some tips, as it could be the difference between passing and failing the module
Start sentences with "Obviously" a lot since it makes you sound smart and your professor wouldn't dare question you.
Don't use any punctuation, make it a stream-of-consciousness essay. If you tell your professor the essay has an unreliable narrator you can just be blatantly wrong about everything too.
Which living authors under 40 are likely to have biographies written about them when they die?
Are literary biographies irrelevant in the age of social media?
It depends on who is the author of said biography. The success of a book will result of a book's cover in front of the reader's eyes, seen from a distance. People would buy everything.
Authors? Maybe Eleanor Catton?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLDQVLuBbiw
How are you celebrating women today?
watched Kickstarter TV
>>7788161
Happy roastie's day to you too, OP
>wearin a dress
>miring my own ankles
>travelling thru history
>sending men to their deaths
the usual, really
>decide to read a book which I really wanted to
>10 pages of introduction
>hmm..okay
>1st page
>the title of the introduction is "Life and DEATH of the %main character%"
FUCK THIS SHIT
FUCK
WHY WOULD YOU FUCKING PUT IT ON THE 1ST FUCKING PAGE?
NEVER FALL FOR THIS INTRODUCTION MEME AGAIN
FUCKING HELL
>>7788110
>two editions of the same book
>the blurb for one: "will the characters save the Emperor in time?"
>the blurb for the other: "The Emperor is Dead."
It was a children's historical novel, but God damn was it annoying.
>people die
Cry me a river fag
>>7788110
the introduction to anna karenina spoiled the ending for me. i dont give a shit if the book is 150 years old why you do dis to me dimmy?
>Life teaches you to be a cynic.
>Bitterness is self taught.
Just came up with it. Pretty nifty huh?
I know I'm not the first person to have thought that. But at the same time, I am litilliterate.
Which philosophers/thinkers have come up with such a sentiment before I did this morning?
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oh boy
>>7788086
you're completely 100% absolutely wrong
>>7788086
lot of trolls bombarding /lit/ today.
saged
Is it acceptable to have a LOTR/Tolkien-style introduction where you establish a few of the basics regarding races/setting/etc beforehand, or is too overdone and/or identifiably Tolkien?
Asking mainly in reference to large works, whose worldbuilding would otherwise take up huge parts of the actual story.
These days its more in fashion to simply display the different races in action rather than front-loading a huge tutorial.
No one likes infodumps, unless they're amazingly written.
Don't think in terms of originality. If you're writing fantasy there's going to be an assumed degree of derivativeness, so tell your story and present it however way you best see fit. You're not writing experimental literature here, I don't think.
If you want the reader to feel they are reading an academic history of a fictional world an introduction like that might help, if you want them to feel at first alienated by the fantastical world and slowly come to an understanding maybe not.
So I just finished reading this. I thought it was good. Nothing mind-blowing, but enjoyable. Felt like it drew a lot on Gatsby (yellow and the death of the american dream), Catcher (the bildungsroman-with-shit-parents bit), and in a way Lolita (not necessarily the sexual perversion, but the author trying to make us empathize with a very morally gray-going-on-black character.)
Am I a pleb for liking it? If so, tell me why.
You're a pleb for using TV Tropes so much it has saturated your vocabulary. Execrable.
>>7788066
Sorry, never really used it =/
>>7788060
fucking highschool kids
Trying to remember this book I read. The cover was just a close-up of the head of a penis, so the color of the meatus filled the entire thing. The urethra was slightly open? Thanks
Sorry, I meant glans, not meatus. Thank you
Is this it?
Hey /lit/,
Where do I start with Jung?
>inb4 wawawa psychoanalysis
shut up I want to read his works and decide for myself
Start by reading some introductory stuff about Freud.
Man and His Symbols is a great start seeing how it's basically Jung himself describing the fundamentals of his analytical psychology to the layman reader.
>>7788030
>>inb4 wawawa psychoanalysis
we aren't /sci/ pal
How do I into Zarathustra? A while ago remember someone advised some earlier Nietzsche works to read before starting with this.
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You need a pretty strong philosophic background in general, but if it's just Nietzsche we are talking about, Just reac chronologically. You can skip Birth of a Tragedy (it's a great read but not essential).
>>7788289
Noted, I think I'll manage that. But then I have only really read Notes from the Underground as far as strictly philosophy is concerned.
>>7788000
Dostoyevsky had a big influence on Nietzsche from what I understand - so that's good. But try getting a feel for Kant and Schopenhauer - they should come before Nietzsche too.
>>7788289
I disagree, skipping birth of tragedy is not a good idea, introducing Apollonian and Dionysian ...concepts(?)... especially important to reading beyond good and evil
what is his best book? i want to read one of them
I read eeeeeeeee eeee eeeeeeeeee or whatever its called last year and it was kind of cool, just an extreme deadpan surreal story.
taipei or shoplifting or eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
it's funny that he was pretty much the best writer that was in the 'alt-lit' group and then got booted out, or something. is it even still a thing anymore?
Taipei is ok. He seems like a fad, but I guess everyone important did at one point. Whatever.
Why do millennials hate kierkegaard and spiritual literature so much?
>>7787943
Cause they're into edgy shit. Don't get too into it. They'll grow out of it. It's just like the "emo" phase of 2006.
show us her other pics lad
>>7787943
>Neo-Maoists
Fucking retards.
