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Are there many good modern authors who didn't study literature or the humanities in general at university? Or even some that didn't go to university?
>tfw stuck doing comp sci when I should have done arts
I'll start off I guess:
>vonnegut
>mccarthy
>>7741244
You should just drop out of uni all together. You need life experiences to write interesting literature and the average CS guy probably is the least likely to have anything interesting to say or write about
>>7741251
Then I will just be a NEET, and that's even worse
Ted Chiang is a CS-guy (his main job is technical writer) and he writes the best SF at the moment.
Lots and lots of great writers didn't study writing, like Conrad, for example.
Studying writing is for American children who can't grow out of their child-like society, or postmodernists who feel forced to navel-gaze more.
>reading fiction
How is this any different than watching mind-numbing television or playing fictional video games?
Depending on the quality of the literature, it is no different.
Same with nonfiction.
>>7736366
>playing fictional video games
but i play real video games.
>Living life
How is this any different from watching mind-numbing television or playing fictional video games?
>And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean
was...
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How many dicks can you dip in your cereal before it stops tasting good?
>>7736145
depends on the color of the dick
>>7736145
The more dicks in your cereal the better it tastes, you misogynist.
who is your:
favorite philosopher?
favorite poet?
favorite novelist?
john green
jack red
>Philosopher
Aristotle
>Poet
Pound
>Novelist
Gass
>For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.
Did you agree?
inb4 semen demon, she's called kittens, there are torrents and galleries of her.
>>7735633
ashley > rose > pupinia > kittens > cracky > boxxy
>>7735633
>her
post em
>Read book
>Its good
>you don't actually want to read that book, you just want to tell people you have read it
>>7733599
lol fucking faggot
What is the best kind of book to read on public transport?
>>7733374
Something small and light.
A book of poems or short stories is ideal.
>>7733374
Someone posted a guide to reading in public once. I remember it talked about how you shouldn't pick books that are known for their difficulty because then you'll seem pretentious, but it should be difficult enough so that you seem like a mature adult reading it. Make sure the cover has something classy, like an old painting, and not a shitty stock photo or some crappy design. And only begin reading it in public if you're a good deal through it, because if you're just at the start, people will...
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Kindle desu
>>7732980
I'm laughing, but this is /b/ tier.
How many books have you read?
Do you alternate between fiction and nonfiction like an autodidact ought?
How often do you write?
What do you write with/on?
Spill the beans, /lit/.
Stay dry, pupper
>>7732073
Stay dry, pupper
>>7732073
stay dry, pupper
yes
yes
no
no
Isn't it possible that some of the time travelling characters have actually read the book?
>>7701721
dude
The hierodules seem to have done fine without necessarily having read Severian's account.
>>7701776
I was thinking about the Green Man. It would explain why he says he knows everything when he meets severian in the second book
Just one more day, my friends.
One more day before a meme gets a new face.
Starting tomorrow, this is the cover of Infinite Jest.
>>7730368
It sucks almost as much as the book itself.
>>7730368
So many great entries to choose from and they picked that bland shit.
>>7730387
Can we see them? Was there a contest?
How do I understand the Iliad /lit/?
>>7731955
>Step one:
Read it.
Read Mythology by Edith Hamilton to get a basic background in Greek mythology.
Then read the Fagles translation.
>>7731970
I got the Ennis Rees translation, am I fucked?
>"[Slam poetry] isn’t even silly; it is the death of art."
-Harold Bloom
Is he right?
Yes.
The only time slam poetry actually works is when it's used in comedy to mock it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnmdu1dSx4U&gl=BE
>>7730266
Art is dead, get over it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQZJJON1m9o
obligatory post
Did I get memed into buying a Kindle? I've downloaded a dozen books from Amazon's own store and half of them aren't even scanned properly or proofread for basic issues. Calibre never creates decent files for me on any setting.
After conversion, the line breaks are everywhere, mostly mid-sentence. The page breaking is even worse. I have spent hours trying to find a decent version of even one single desired book and get it to format correctly.
Money is really not an issue for me, I would pay happily $20-30+ for working ebooks from a reliable source,...
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>>7730521
If money isn't an issue for you, I have no idea why you'd even want an e-reader. People only get them as an alternative print books because they're too poor to afford them.
urgghhh, so sick of these printing house shills
>>7730530
or for mobility
Why did he shoot the fucking arab?
Because he was an autistic 4chan poster
The sun made him upset/He was blinded and afraid he'd get stabbed/#YOLO
>>7736325
Because it was an absurd thing to do.
