Our guy, I dare say
>>9499311
Woah another cohen poster that isn't me. I liked witz.
Dropped 200 pages in. Are you implying it gets good?
>>9499319
I hear online if you can't finish it you are stupid. It gas terrible reviews. All of his books do. I wonder if he will give up. Reminds me of tao lin.
What do you think about Voltaire?
Kind of spelled like Voltron
Candide is pretty funny.
>>9499259
from what I gather he was a smug, cheeky kunt
Who would you guys recommend to start with, specifically more towards the introspective side.
damn..
really made me think
Start with Donne. Read everything.
>>9499252
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>>9499213
Brother Nathanael isn't even a pseud, he's clinically insane
Kek is that Gore Vidal up there on the left? I hope so, fuck Vidal.
>>9499213
This is not literature.
Reported.
Post a quote along with a picture of an artist or author and other anons try to guess if it's real or not.
I'll start with an easy one:
>Sure. Instead of reading Yeats or Tolstoy; The Bible or Aristotle, or any given playwright, you should read this broad's play. Yeah. We need more of this in the world right now.
>Woman's contribution to literature? 90% of the western canon is by women. Women invented toasters, streetlights, computers. Hell, a woman invented the airplane.
>post a picture of an artist or an author
>posts a pic of a d-grade, edgy yootoober
suck my manky, uncircumcised, minuscule schlong.
sage
Hey Sam, you look like shit
>>9499147
If he is d-grade and edgy it is only a dark reflection of the quality of man our society produces
>had a lonely existence
>was a virgin until he was 34
>wrote, but didn't make shit
>inheritance money was almost completely spent by the time he was 47
>even then he was a recluse who could only do what he loved best, reading
>every so often he would write his stories
>pale, thin frame due to mother's encouragement for him to stay inside
>he was grotesque, his mother told him
>this lead to him only going out at midnight because he would "frighten the neighbors"
Was Lovecraft the outsider he wrote about?
>>9499107
I'm 100% sure he had Aspergers. He had way too many traits.
>>9499107
No, he had a recluse phase in his teens and 20s but he mostly came out of it later in life. He had lots of friends and traveled fairly frequently. "The Outsider" is one of his earlier pieces, so it reflects the reclusiveness of his younger years and his love of Poe, which dominated his earlier fiction writing.
>>9499167
I see, but how do you explain the fact that he studied about sexual intercourse profusely before he consummated his first marriage? Was that just autism?
When you realize that popular writers are literally just a giant circle-jerk of cock stroking and pandering.
>>9499059
Actually it's a Jew club. Saying it's an old boys club implies that WASP males are allowed nepotism and the freedom to assert their group interests over others. The publishing world is controlled by Jews (often Jewish women) and their favored grievance classes
>>9499059
pretty much all popular media (popular being the key word and the reason why i feel a mix of disdain and pity for your bitter perspective) has included pandering in one way or another.
Circle-jerking is just a meeting of the minds.
We get it, you suck and still want people to like you for it.
Not how it works.
>publishing overwhelming dominated by women
>contemporary fiction overwhelmingly dominated by women
>majority of readers are women
What you mean is your experience of literature is a boy's club because you don't go near the enormous girl's club literature scene because it's trash. You try and spin it as we're a bunch of sexists but you're a sexist right along with us because to even formulate this opinion you must possess male taste and a preference for male literature.
You say Guns, Germs and Steel-I say The Bell Curve
You say Karl Marx-I say Adam Smith
You say Giovanni's Room-I say The Camp of the Saints
You say Jacobin-I say?? New Criterion
You say Noam Chomsky-I say Nick Land
You? say post-structuralism-i say? shut the ---- up
You say racism-I scream population genetics!!
You say? Jacques Derrida-i ------- punch you in the face
92% of /lit/ have turned to leftist pseuds.If you are part of the 8% that read real literature,copy? and paste this message to another 5? threads. DON'T? LET? THE? SPIRIT OF RIGHTISM DIE
you know too much too much too much too much
you know too much too much too much too much
>[...] i say Nick land
>You? say post-structuralism-i say? shut the ---- up
lmao little brainlet, you don't even understand Land
>>9499073
trolled epically
Alright /lit/, gun to your head, what is your favourite book?
Growth of the Soil desu
>>9498877
Cuckolding: Questions & Answers: Revealing the most primal and intimate of lifestyles
Jeremy Commonforth - The Urine Tapes
So,was Orin the mastermind all along?
IJ is shit. Your kind is not wanted here.
>>9498779
the IJ hate on this board is mostly unwarranted.
It's a flawed novel but to deny his genius is kinda foolish.
You have to realize that he wrote this in his late 20s.
Broom he wrote at 22/23, if you've read that it's hard to deny his talents.
>>9498748
I don't know, I started it but didn't finish it.
Meanwhile, I just got this for eight bucks, and I didn't look at it too closely beforehand, I just assumed it did not contain IJ. But then it does contain IJ...but no, really just a portion of IJ, but I don't know which portion. And they don't say it's abridged in the table of contents, so IDK. Does anyone know what I just bought? I thought it would have complete works that are not IJ. Now I know that it as a fraction of IJ in it, so now I'm worried that all the other works in it are fractional too. Does anyone know how abridged the stuff in this volume is?
Ohh yeah, epic haul from a coworker who was going to trash all of it.
>>9498570
Say what you will about his writing, but 80s Stephen King paperbacks make me feel /comfy/
>>9498570
>bunch of Stephen King
it's not really an epic haul when you can find dozens of his paperbacks at pretty much every thrift store ever
Akright /lit/, what's the least worst book in OP's pic?
I'll go with Grapes of Wrath.
Suggest me some quality, unbiased books on Communism.
>unbiased books on politics
Read one sentence of Grover Furr and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in turns.
>on
just read stuff on the internet
Where do I start with reading Warhammer fantasy? Don't say at the beginning.
At the beginning.
>>9498220
Start with the greeks.
>Neckbeardhammer
You don't.
What is style and how can it be cultivated? What is your writing style and how is it unique? Is it something that can be worked at, or does it develop naturally with more reading and experience?
I call my style "Post-modern Tyrannosaurus Rex" because it reads very heady, but doesn't actually hold any ideas.
wow op posting a page from an undergrad intro to computational linguistics textbook makes u totally not look like a pseud!
>>9498172
compling and all the other spawn of generative grammar are pseudoscience
read quine
where should the commas go here, or what are my options? is this at least grammatically correct?
Then I checked to see if anyone else might have seen him, but the only living one of my aunt’s husbands was blind, and neither the bartender from that day, nor the priest from the funeral, had seen anything.
>>9497655
Full stop after him. remove comma after blind.
It's up to you though punctuation is just a vehicle bro.
It's a run on.