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pic related is mine. Yes; I bought the meme book. I hope it is good.
So far I've read Mao II and All the Pretty Horses
Post 'em!
>>7785981
but how much did you pay for all them
>>7785981
>Yes; I bought the meme book
you mean, meme books
All on the discount shelf, 50% off.
Objetivism or relativism?
Ayn Rand was an idiot.
I chose subjectivism.
Objetivism is a joke.
Hey /lit/, have the critique threads improved your writing?
I get that there's a lot of talk about how the writing posted is shit and the critique is even worse. However, do you think there's something to be gained from analyzing poor-quality writing or poorly-constructed critique for the sake of improving your own writing?
Sometimes I feel like I learn how to write better from seeing what doesn't work than what does (i.e. reading canonical literature).
>>7800800
No critique threads are terrible. Most of the "critics" are themselves awful writers and, much of the time, the dumbest anons on this board. I've posted various sections from Ulysses, The Recognitions, and poems by Pound and Crane, and they call it pretentious or nonsensical.
everyone knows they're all shit, but i still post in them from time to time
I just use them because it's the only place I can post my English writings and hope to get some kind of feedback - and every once in a while you stumble on something amazing, like that Portuguese dude who was translating his (already published) poem-ish thing. He was incredible.
Is Emperor Palpatine the end goal a Nietzsche's philosophy?
>>7800337
people need to stop with all the pop-philosophy cultural referencing crap.
anyways, most of stars wars was based on jungian archetypes.
Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Pelagious the Wise?
>>7800337
>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books
Who are some good black authors who don’t talk about muh racism
the fresh prince of bel-air novelisation
Who are some good /lit/ posters who don't post about muh
>>7799550
>Who are some good black authors
I hate this book. I don't want to hate it - in fact I'm making this thread so someone here can shed light on it, and maybe encourage me to reconsider my opinion on it.
But it just seemed to me like someone who really wanted to branch out from their regular pulp and so skimmed some Pynchon, got inspired by what they construed through the LSD blear, and jetted this out in one go. Completely missing, of course, the essential structure of the style they found themselves aping.
I thought this before I learned Gibson was a Pynchon fan, and it's only obvious to me now - in fact, notice the involvement of Devo in the video-game adaptation (Devo also a TP fan, their most famous song an attempt to mimic the lyrics in GR).
Neuromancer is words upon words - high vocab words and made-up jargon - but nothing is said with them, they convolute without expressing, they clash against each other and sink into geeky torpor.
The characters are one-dimensional, it veers from genre-fiction camp to desperate attempts to seem literary and loaded with portents, but Gibson (self-admittedly) knows nothing of the finer workings of the technology he's musing about. He never touched a computer until five years later.
This work is described as important historically, but it seemed to me to be a forerunner not to any real predicted phenomenon in our society, but to the laziness of video-games. The whole book is nothing but a walk through a world where 'neat' things are existing and being 'neat.'
Please, fans, tell me what you got out of it.
>>7799547
I read it by the pool in the summer. I didn't "get" anything out of it except for a brief escapist fantasy, and a need to fuck a neo-punk razor girl.
>>7799600
>p-plug into me anon-chan
>>7799547
As a somewhat older anon, I feel bad for you guys who had so much academic shit poured in your ears in college that you havent figured out how to read for pleasure. Neuromancer is definitely not complex enough to put any sort of analysis into.
Why does twain get no love here? His writing is terrific.
never cared for him. subject matter doesn't particularly interest me and his prose was...unmemorable?
I've only read Huck Finn but I loved it. I heard Tom Sawyer was completely different and more of a real kids story so I've avoided it for a while
>>7799261
his essays are are pretty insightful. read any one of your choice online and tell me what you think
Well im finishing this and i did not enjoyed it, why the fuck do you guys praise this? Ok, its quite funny at times but thats all.
The first third was good, the second was mediocre and the third was fucking terrible.
>>7798870
Perhaps English isn't his first language?
>>7798873
If he doesn't even comprehend the language, then he shouldn't share his shite opinions
Has anyone got any good book recommendation about fascism that isn't a blatant "Nazis are evulz!!!" ?
I find it an interesting topic and I think it is a shame that there is such a huge taboo about it.
Madrid 1940 by Francisco Umbral. The life of a young fascist in post-civil war Madrid who sees how the Spanish fascist movement (Falange) is taken over by the traditional ruling class (nobility, priests, etc).
>>7798821
desu, arguing in favor of Fascism is like arguing for a monarchy without a religious basis. Even without the trappings of secret police, militarism, and nationalization of culture and industry, having an ideology based on Nationalism is stupidsince nationalism is a spook.
Related genre fiction makes the best arguments for it, in the sense of a one world government where those with merit gained in service become members of the ruling elite.
>>7798821
LOL YOUR PIC LOOKS LIKE A JEWS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BIG NOSE
xDD
Why is this board so terrible I have to hide most of the threads anymore to get anything near the quality of threads I saw six years ago?
>>7798793
Its not
The problem is that human memory filters out the mediocre and only leaves the very negative and the very positive. So /lit/ was probably very similar 6 years ago but you are just remembering the highlights.
>>7798793
gawker shills ruin every thread they don't like
and they don't read so they can never make a thread they like interesting
If you have a problem with the content of the board you can start making thought provoking and insightful threads to steer discussion where you want it to go.
Do you know some good cyberpunk books? I need megacities ruled by megacorporations, neon signs, noir and hard boiled atmosphere, etc.
I have read "Neuromancer"and... I did not like it. It's nice, okay, but I hate the Gibson's style. Snow Crash is funny, but I LOVED "Altered Carbon", "Player One" (don't hate me), and the "Marid Audran series".
I need something like "Johnny Mnemonic" (the movie), "Matrix", "Nirvana" and the "Deux Ex Series".
>>7798513
>Tfw I'm considering writing an 80s-style cyberpunk work once I'm finished with my current work
>>7798513
Why don't you read an actual good book?
Who do you write like, /lit/?
http://iwl.me/
Copy and paste a writing sample of yours into here and post your results.
>tfw submitting multiple samples and keep getting James Joyce
>write something get author
>delete word, get completely different author
>delete another word, get another completely different author
>write gibberish, get joyce
>>7798348
>write gibberish, get joyce
lol, probably perfectly describes my writing tbqh
SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THIS SITE
IT MEANS NOTHING
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S908466
LOOK AT THAT
2010
FUCK
So I've made up my mind to start with the Greeks.(all in the pic related). Please suggest me patrician tire translation for each. Also, for Homer, I'm going with Robert Fitzgerald.
>>7798222
where's heraclitus and diogenes? you need heraclitus and diogenes.
>>7798222
Read the fucking chart faggot
>all these fucking greek wannabes spending more time planning how they want to read the greeks rather than just fucking reading them
What does /lit/ think about /v/ in general? I haven't played in years but apparently these next-gen games have hollywood-esque budgets and such. It seems as once movies became based off books, /v/ are becoming as such.
>>7798055
dont play american shit is bad.
>>7798055
we all think it's shit
but when they try to do things only games can do, i respect that
that's the only way forward, otherwise bread and circuses
>>7798055
this image terrifies me
Do you read more than one book at a time?
>>7797945
I haven't read a single book this semester and I'm in 3 literature classes. I've had 2 papers in each and I've gotten an A on all 6.
>>7797947
Poser
>>7797947
whats your secret
