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What are some books similar to pic related?
pic related
>>7798917
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
>>7799530
This is a much better book. Highly recommended.
Not really similar beyond the counterculture thing, but go for it anyhow.
We have a chatspot where we can talk about books and writing and stuff. Listen to bartok and cetera
at tinychat / 4chanlit
>>7797929
we have some good convos going
I'd go in, but I really can't participate. It induces an accelerated feeling of this place, usually, where if I don't pay full attention, I might miss some profound beautiful moment, and I really can't have that kinda anxiety in my life, so I disregard the whole thing.
The chat has an amazing legacy. Its like a train that keeps moving on through anything
What are some big controversies in literature?
Shakespeare in general has divided many people on many topics. Whether he was a catholic, whether he was gay, etc.
these issues have mostly dissolved into the SJW generation insisting no/yes and the scholars saying yes/no, though. spoiler: the older interpretations have much better grounding
Entertainment v. Aesthetics
Politics v. Aesthetics
>>7797908
I'm looking for some a little more obscure ones than Shakespeare! Any ideas?
This man doesn't want you to enjoy things and in only words you're fucking stupid.
>>7797477
*in other words
Fucking phone
I already can't enjoy anything.
>>7797477
Jazz fan detected
>Joyce said that the ideal reader of the Wake would suffer from "ideal insomnia" and, on completing the book, would turn to page one and start again, and so on in an endless cycle of reading.
Has anyone ever attempted multiple readings of Finnegans Wake in one sitting?
What would you do to survive this 100 hour+ endeavour?
>>7797257
>Has anyone ever attempted multiple readings of Finnegans Wake in one sitting?
Jesus Christ
Is The Entertainment just Finnegans Wake: The Movie?
>>7797257
in that pic you can see the fart spectrum all around his head
I am uncultured and dumb. Which books should I read to slowly start bettering myself ? I've seen /lit/ starting guides, but I think they lack works that would help me get a better general culture before tackling more serious literature.
>>7797201
Scopenhauer's On Women
Mein Kampf
The Culture of Critique Series by Kevin McDonald
SPengler's Decline of the West
The Bell Curve
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (A woman, but exception to the rule)
>>7797215
Actually a really good list.
>DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
>Zadie Smith was 25 when White Teeth was published
>Marek Hlasko was 23 when Eighth Day of the Week was published
>F.S. Fitzgerald was 23 when This Side of Paradise was published
>Carson McCullers was 23 when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
>Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
>Italo...
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wasting it on here
I'm still 19, it's ok
>>7797102
"the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - bertrand russell
How do I become a genius writer and join the canon?
Pls spoonfed me.
Read The Artist's Way and do all the exercises. You'll literally become a vessel of pure creativity, possibly from God.
Shoot lower, you're never going to be a genius
Get a life, then write about said life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/03/08/most-literate-nation-in-the-world-not-the-u-s-new-ranking-says/
How do you feel about this?
I live in the fifth biggest city in Finland (small by most standards), and we have 23 public libraries all over the city.
>>7794780
>fifth biggest city in Finland (small by most standards)
~200 000 people to be exact.
>>7794780
What city is that OP?
>>7794780
Nordic nations seem to be quite literate for some reason. Apparently one out of ten people from Iceland publishes a book in their lifetime.
Dunno, maybe has something to do with it being cold and people staying inside to read books. All we here in Germany notice of the Scandinavian book culture is Astrid Lindgren, Sven Nordqwist, and that endless stream of shitty formulaic thrillers with an ominous object on an otherwise black cover with titles like "Murderer in the Darkness" or "Shadow of Blood"...
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So guys, I've finally finished /lit/'s trilogy
>IJ
Cool book, nothing really amazing about it, really winded on some parts and a lot of boring passages. I found some of the concepts and characters really good tho, also the bizarre bits were really fun to read and have some good memorable moments
>GR
This was the book I've understanded the least of those 3. Still some amazing passages like Pokler storyline, the whole chapter 4 and the vicerous Katje and Gottfried bit. Anyway I've...
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Im getting really sick of these ESL cucks reading translations. You fucks obviously know English so read it in English or gtfo
>>7792532
whats the problem with translations? My english isn't good enough to fully understand Joyce, so I prefer to read in my language a books that was translated by someone that knows the language and the author way better than me
don't you read translations? don't you read Dante? Virgil? Homer? Proust? Tolstoy? Saramago? Kawabata? Rosa?
one day I will understand why translations triggers /lit/ so much
>>7792532
This. If you can shitpost in English don't be a faggot by reading translations of English books. Translations are for people who can't read the original language.
Memes edition
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL
Flowchart: https://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?
>What is your favorite comedic/satirical SFF?
>What's your favorite...
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URTH AINT FREE
>>7796359
My favorite meme is "Gene Wolfe is a good author".
>>7796359
>What are you reading right now?
Rode to Serfdom. Will maybe go for Ghormengast, got sick so I'll have time
>What is your favorite comedic/satirical SFF?
Master and Margarita
>What's your favorite /sffg/ meme?
Meme Wolfe pepe
>be in high school English class
>be reading Nineteen Eighty-Four together
>every kid pauses at the end of the line rather at the end of the sentence
>mfw
What stories do my fellow anons have?
why wojack do dis?
>>7801370
>>be in high school English class
>>be reading Shakespeare together
>>every kid pauses at the end of the line rather at the end of the sentence
Are you talking about the last line. Like, "He... Loved.... Big.... Brother?"
Write what's on your mind.
The sun is setting and with it will come that hazy dreamy feeling of night. I am contemplating whether I should go play bass guitar or read
>
It just wasn't supposed to be like this.
I have recently been exposed to the concept of antinatalism and well, it doesn't sit right with me. But that is about all I have. I cannot find a rational argument against it and on the internet at least it usually seems like the antinatalist is trying to engage other people in thoughtful discussion but they just insist he is depressed and that he should kill himself. If anything that kind of knee-jerk reaction just pushes me further into this philosophy of total cynicism. So I am asking here what are some actual logical moral arguments against antinatalism? Why is it wrong?
read better to have never been or whatever the fuck it's called
then kill yourself lol idk
>>7801720
Anti-natalism denies the creation of its greatest jewels: human beings. That alone BTFO the entire concept of anti-natalism.
>>7801745
>greatest Jewels
this is the kind of shit I am talking about.
What's the most erotic sentence you can write with 6 words or less?
>>7795744
baby shoes never worn
Lips dripping with horse cum, yum.
>>7795744
It pays to be a winner
First time I heard that my dick shot up out of the water so fast it killed the man next to me
