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>>9375452
Because you touch yourself at night.

>>9375452

if you don't relate with dedalus what are you even doing here.

>>9375465
Relate to pretentious fedora tipping low-T twat you mean?

Stephen King's On Writing.

All of them

you don't learn to write fiction, you either write it or you don't

>>9375222
>wat is sum novelziz dat deal wid dis issue plox?
>megusta.jpg (meme)
>oldfag
I think it's time to put him to sleep, lads. Somebody get a shotgun, it pains me to see him like this.

>>9375222
Cryptomnesia. Very real concern. The trick is to fill your head with so much stuff that when it happens, it's so mixed together, that no one noticed.

Original ideas are virtually impossible. Free will doesn't exist and so on.

Just finished a novel a few weeks ago. Printed it out before deleting the file. It was terrible, but it still feels good to have written one.

I'm in a slump though. I can't bear to think about working so hard to write something, again, for the second time, only to have it be ignored by publishers, unbought if self-published, and just generally having zero impact on anything existent.

Help me quit writing.

>>9375194
Look within. Why do you want to study this?
What do you know about it already? What are your strengths and weaknesses as a learner?

>>9375194
What The Buddha Taught, Dr Walpola Rahula

After that as an intro it depends on what you're learning for. Do you want to practice Buddhism or just learn about its history?

>>9375194
Find out what is True.

I don't read YA because it's shit, not because it's for children.
Try harder mate. I'll read Alice once a year until I die.

"Slippery wet dog poop" - Mao Zedong

>>9375178
This desu. It's easier to find good children's books than good YA.

SCG is pretty low tier in any comparison to great artists doing similar work.

I saw Sir Richard Bishop in Chicago in 2014 and it kicked ass

>>9375126
but the shit that he wrote was fucking god tier

really great blog. where'd you find it?

>>9374820
>zettal meme
meh, just a long poe and dick joke

>>9374826
I was searching untranslated great books while thinking of picking up a new language

Don't read this shit.

>>9374696
why not?

I have, it's bad. Like a white Murakami.

>>9374526
Das Kapital by Karl Marx

Read the pale King

>>9374526
"...and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence. " - A. Schopenhauer

senpai

Hypersphere calms me down regarding Trump all the time.

Is there like ANYthing pointing to WW3? I just see a bunch of people getting memed and claiming it's close without actually pointing to any signs. Yeah, we pissed Russia off. But the US sure isn't going to initiate war and Russia sure as hell doesn't want to start war with the US.

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>>9374229
Norton is really good at providing a fun, exciting adventure

Honestly, pulp books are like a dollar tops and maybe 300 pages, you just have to risk it to find the good ones. That's how I found Wizard from Earthsea

Unfortunately Lovecraft and Howard are the only writers worth anything

>>9374229

Leigh Brackett's Mars stories. If you like John Carter, read these stories of barbarian tribes, bandit kingdoms, ancient martian cities, bare-breasted princesses, rowdy taverns and fisticuffs.

C.L. Moore's Northwest Smith (he is like Han Solo.) Moore wrote these for Weird Tales, and both Howard and Lovecraft regarded her. She also wrote a series with a yellow-haired redheaded warrior in a Dark Age France with a cosmic horror twist, Jirel Of Joiry.

how about actually reading his books and then reading popular works of sf that followed? did you pick this as your thesis?

>>9374292
I didn't pick the thesis, my professor did. I'm not a big Science Fiction fan so I'm at a loss here.

>>9374142
Wells is easy to read, most books are novella length, and his views and intentions are clear. Just do the reading you mope.

Come on, bump.

You have to go back.

You have to go back.

>>9373919
But anon, the second we believe we are free of ideology is precisely the moment we are deepest in ideology

you can't. ideology, as zizek uses it, is a symptom of living in a mediated society. I guess if you got out of it you'd be an emotionally numb nihilist. doesn't seem like a good place to be in.

>>9373979
That's why I'm questioning whether or not we could leave it. He states that if we were all to have the glasses from They Live it would be the end of ideology but I don't see how.

Finished it a few days ago. I've read everything by him but "Phil," and was hyped as fuck for this one.

I thought it was really creative, like you said, but I kind of wanted more. It felt a bit imcomplete. That said, I still think he's a great writer. Tenth of December and Pastoralia (the collections) did more for me, I'd say.

I loved him riffing on the afterlife in those stories/collections when he had to (somebody dying), but I almost think I've seen too much of that from him after reading Bardo. Does that make sense at all?

>>9374190
Incomplete* on my phone, my b.

>>9373819
>really great read. Very creative in its form, and beautifully sentimental.
I would say it is none of these, I hated it. Especially about being "beautifully sentimental". He fails here the hardest. It was an extremely interesting idea that he didn't even flub spectacularly. It's tepid and unimaginative, and I haven't been so disappointed in so long.
He really should have spent more on this.
Saunders aims far above his ability. What we receive isn't a failure of ambition (because Saunders doesn't even seem to have any, this work seems as perfunctorily written as anything I've ever read) but a failure of effort or even a failure to care.
It's dead, it's boring, it's soulless. Maybe next time, George.