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>>9324058
Hi /leftypol/!

>>9324058
What is this, a collection of encyclopedia dramatica articles without the edgy jokes?

This looks interesting actually. But it ain't out though famm?!

>>9324013

This fiction may be good if you write it in better prose, this does not sound like someone spending their life in the gym at all.

Sex isn't a basic need you filthy biocuck. The third option is contentment brought by chastity, restraint and piety, but it's too late for you.

start with the greeks.

they were all /fit/ and were hit with the same wave of nihilism as you. Learn from them.

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I ended up buying dat. Rate pls

not fash enough

>>9323905
Kawabata is bretty gud. Only seen Abe's movies, but I'm definitely planning on reading Woman in the Dunes, etc.

In Praise of Shadows gets brought up around here every so often.

If you think that question can be answered you probably didn't fully understand any of the Greek philosophy you read.

>some 60 pages total describing various human character traits and their extremes, middles and their lack.

jesus what the fuck was this nig smoking back then eyy lmao

>>9323780
>finally pick it, expecting something hard to process and understand
>tfw it's a extremely easy read (although dense)
>tfw anyone can pick the Nicomachean Ethics and have a good insight about how much thought it is required to think about ethics


Everyone should read it at least once.

>>9323754
drop the trip, you have shit taste.

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>>9323761
>Not understanding the obvious bait

Fuck you, Divine Comedy is probably my favorite work.
Bet you read Longfellow you fucking pseud shitposter.

>
We had stayed up all night — my friends and I — beneath mosque lamps hanging from the ceiling. Their brass domes were filigreed, starred like our souls; just as, again like our souls, they were illuminated by the imprisoned brilliance of an electric heart. On the opulent oriental rugs, we had crushed our ancestral lethargy, arguing all the way to the final frontiers of logic and blackening reams of paper with delirious writings.

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>When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.

Dudes involved were horrible people and literal fascists but they knew how to write compelling literature.

Their art was pretty alright, but they didn't do enough mixed media/Dada shit because of politics which hurt them in the end (although no real sympathy because see above).

They stand as an example of how masculinity can be romanticized to a soul-stirring extreme and yet must be balanced with actually decent real-world politics. Fascists should be killed.

>>9323393
>great
>not discussed on /lit/
pick one.

>>9323400
Second this and The Dwarf by the same guy.

>>9323365
if i keep going to the gym around the same time as this hot redhead chick maybe she'll strike up a conversation with me and give me her number. then i'll ask her out for dinner and she'll agree. the date will go off perfectly. all of my jokes will be funny and sexy at the same time. on the drive back home she will confess to me that everytime she saw me at the gym she started getting her wet. blood starts pumping towards my penis and i stop the car at a parking lot. force my hands down her pants feeling that hairy ginger snatch

i once wondered what i would look like if you would take one of my holes and turn me inside out.

>>9323380
Why is her snatch hairy in your fantasy?

Machete Season

Looking for Alaska

my diary desu, it's intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor

King was doing a lot of drugs and was seeing shit
Dick was doing a lot of drugs and it made him /pol/-tier paranoid
Orwell was involved in political life
Hemingway went through war, go figure
Dickens wrote for money and entertainment, also he was a schizophrenic

>>9323312
To be more precise, Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War. He fought for the minor communist Trotskyist branch (may misremember) while the bigger communist branch was Stalinist. Orwell saw how these guys declared untruths to be truths, how the newspaper at 'home' were reporting on battles that never happened while leaving out battles that did happen - how important players were imprisoned away and purged from historical records so that almost nobody remembers them nowadays, etc. So when he came back he wrote about what he saw in Spain.

Read Homage to Catalonia, 1984 and Animal Farm is contained therein.

>>9323302
For literally years I wanted to write a realistic and nitty-gritty zombie novel with lots of real elements of survivalism, and firearm handling in which proper terminology is used along. Also the firearms would be handled in a realistic manner and the way in which they are used would be very descriptive so that the reader could hopefully visualize everything. I wrote that book and self-published it last October.

I like sex, I wanted to explore a bit of a messed-up relationship that involved a rape fetish and perhaps PSAS/PGAD (Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome/Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder), so I wrote that book too and self-published it last November.

After several months of editing the first book because I had some issues with my grammar as well as exploring different ideas on what to write next, I decided to try an action book. In short, gun porn, and I LOVE me some gun porn. That one was self-published in early March.

Then I took a basic idea I had cooked up around December, just started writing to see where it would take me, and it took me to a drama with a very fucked up marriage and an ending that isn't particularly good. Not in the sense that I think it's bad, certainly not, but it doesn't quite seem like a particularly happy ending to me. Still, I like it, and in this book I also had an interesting scene that was both comedic and tragic at the same time, mostly tragic but still a little bit of both. That one was self-published around mid-March.

Now after writing the first book in August, before doing ANY editing, I went STRAIGHT into writing a sequel. Stopped after around 64,000 words or so because I had to get around to editing the first book for self-publishing which would come about in later October. After hearing some great stuff about my first book I decided to dust off that sequel, edited it in about a week (I hate editing...), and the day I finished editing I pumped out several thousand words which ultimately came about in an ending that I wasn't anticipating. Self-published in late March, and it's making me a respectable bit of money.

Wanting to keep up my momentum, I am working on the third in the series and have written over 6500 words thus far over the span of around 4 days. Sadly I've been sick and haven't been able to dedicate myself to my writing as much as I'd like, because I can write that much in a single day without much trouble when I'm healthy and determined. After this sixth book? I honestly don't know, maybe I'll make this budding trilogy a quadrilogy, or maybe I'll tackle another book. Writing is an adventure, and I'm fucking loving it. The fact people are buying my books and reading them on Kindle Unlimited is absolute Heaven. I've gotten six ratings thus far; three 5-stars, then one 4, 3, and 2. No 1-star reviews yet thankfully, and the 2-star is from someone who hasn't even read the entirety of the book they rated.

tl;dr

Just write whatever you want! Have fun!

Did this help, OP?

Dysentery 101 and how to avoid it

Hello there, thank you for taking an interest.
Have you read the mythological tales too? I'd recommend you read that, if you plan on visiting the good religous sites.
I also recommend J Krishnamurthy and Rabindranath Tagore, off the top of my head.
Ruskin Bond if you're into the post colonial India vibe. But keep in mind that Mr. Bond usually writes children's books, but they're enjoyable to adults as well.
That said, I recently came here from /fit/ so I would say take my suggestions with a grain of salt. I am by no means an intellectual giant and don't want to ruin your literary quest.

>>9323149
I reccomend the Ramayana if you enjoy religious epics; The Mahabharata seems to be out of scope;

Nah.

Kafka on the Shore is next on my reading list
But if /lit/ says it's bad, I better throw it in the trash, I don't want anyone here thinking I'm a pleb

Close call

>>9323170
You think I won't look in your trash, anon?

Look [it] up.

Pretty sure you can't.

Well, here in Italy there is a school called Liceo Classico, where we study classical Latin and Greek, which I attend to. Not literally attic Greek, but the nearest thing you can find to it. Pretty sure there is something like that in your country.

>>9323012
I pretty much do the opposite of what feminists tell me to do. I mostly read white men with the occasional Jap or Irishmen thrown in.

>>9323012
I don't read much recent stuff anyway. I'm mostly interested in early/mid 20th century fiction, and that's when most notable writers were white guys. Lots of them were gay, though, and overall they had a wide variety of political, social and cultural beliefs - something that's usually ignored by the diversity police when they criticise white male writers of the past and treat them as if they're some kind of straight-white-guy conglomerate.

>>9323012
The heart of the matter is the impetus.

If you by nature are a person who always strives to be in the "in" crowd, then it's natural for you to write books that are totally in tune with contemporary society.

So if your book is a murder mystery and it was written in the 90s, internet could be what made it "relevant". The 00s terrorism and so on...

But if you by nature prefer to create more organical stories where nothing is shoehorned in, then you could write a story set in the 80s that still has something to say us.

So to sum it up. Synthetic stories are more prone to make short-term profits and legacies. Organic stories are more prone to make long-term profits and legacies.

>>9322993
Nah I don't think so

>>9322993
No, it wasn't. If you weren't screaming with indignation at the waste by the end, something is wrong with you

>>9322995
>>9323035
I really think you guys didnt get it.
Are you guys americans? Serious question

No, serious talk, I get why would you get that kind of feeling from this book, but I really think that wasnt the author's (absolute) intention.

There's a kind of tenderness which permeate both the writing and the story of Stoner's life that makes it worth it. He loved, he teached, he shouldered his sorrows, he created something and the he "lived" his death.
There's some good in that and you can read it. There is the light of the sun trough the windows.