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How do I read more?

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Please leave and never return if you agree with any of the following;

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you think fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, young adult fiction or horror are literature
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors)
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

This is a board about literature. You're not welcome here. Please take your plebeian garbage to /b/ or reddit, where you will find both a demographic and a general atmosphere more consistent with your tastes and your culture.

Also, what is the patrician book you are reading right now?

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real talk how do i resist ideology?

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Post lit paintings

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What is /lit/ currently reading?

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Why is genre fiction frowned upon by literature snobs, yet some genre films are among the most critically acclaimed of all time?

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>the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.

have you ever experienced "the sublime" in your reading endeavours?
Do tell.....

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redpill me on Camus

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Can we talk about Solzhenitsyn? I've read One Day in the Life Of Ivan Denisovich and Cancer Ward; I enjoyed both of them tremendously but I don't know what to read next. I'm interested in August 1914, but I have a specific recollection of an old professor saying the Red Wheel was an incredibly dry and fatiguing read that he couldn't recommend.

Does anybody have suggestions? My only criterion is that it has to exist in a translated form besides Michael Glenny's. I've been consistently disappointed in his work, not to mention his editions are older and thus frequently drawn from expurgated manuscripts.

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Genius or talentless hack?

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Hahaaha yeah man Nietzsche said that there’s no meaning to life and I have ignored the fact that his work meant that with the death of God Christian morality was a redundant, anachronistic safety blanket for the intellectually unclean who would be lost without Christian values giving them a meaning in life and that we should drive to find the meaning of life through what humans can create in terms of art in all its forms wether it be music or literature or science or engineering what he meant is that it’s okay to smoke weed and watch CHILDRENS CARTOONS all day whilst engaging in meaningless casual sex because elevating yourself spiritually, intellectually or artistically would be fucking pointless man just smoke a bowl and pop a Xanax and let me cum on your thigh bby gurl xD

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I plan to enter a sci-fi short story contest with a deadline exactly 3 months from today, with a hefty sum of money as the prize.

What should I do? Any pointers on short stories in general, science fiction, cliches to avoid in general. I've read a few famous books such as Frankenstein, 1984, a Connecticut Yankee etc, but I could read more.

It's a question of some 500 dollars, help a brother out.

Here's a passage i wrote today which may serve as the prologue to my story.

"My meditation on the stars is an obligatory duty, as vital to my survival as food and drink. Tonight I stepped out to gaze at those twinkling lights of heaven, illuminating the abyss, once more. It is not hard to meditate under the stars, for there is a peculiar quality of mystery that makes even the slowest dunce thoughtful in the vast chasm above our heads. It makes a man think of his utter insignificance: nothing but a speck in the long, infinite stream of time. But how majestic and wonderful is the fact that this small speck can look at this assortment of lights, and wonder?

R8 the prose too.

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If you're here, you've probably been here long enough to know a thing or two about 4chan culture.
There are differences between boards, but if you had to write a thesis analyzing the culture of 4chan.org as a whole, what would would be your introductory paragraph?

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Someone on /lit/ posed this bleak thought experiment to me a while ago and I've been thinking about it recently so I figured I'd repost it:

You are locked in a room. In the room is every book you could ever want, a pen and an unlimited stack of paper. You know that in 10 years you will die and the contents of the room will be obliterated. You have no contact with the outside world. There is also a revolver with a single bullet on the desk.

What would you do? Be honest.

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alright lads, pleb here who has only ever read a couple of books (age 24)

I want to get into reading more though, so what would you suggest for someone who has only read the epic of gilgamesh, 1984, lovecraft and schopenhauer complaining about women and being alive?