i'll start
Harry Potter
Earthsea
Lord of the Rings
Riftwar
>>9948229
found the /lgbt/tard, back to your containment board homo
ITT: Post your most contrarian literary opinions
>>9946841
You don't need to be well read to write well.
>>9946841
Reading is only immersion, emersion is essential in order to become a Hero
Camus and Orwell suck as fiction writers. Their essays are awesome though.
ITT: Times you acted like Mephistopheles
>went to the store with mum
>help her find things from the aisles
>grocery cart is full of items
>sneak a candy bar in the bottom of the cart
>get a treat from my mum for being a good boy while helping her
>now I have two candy bars
LOCK ME UP
As /lit/ people, what are your thoughts on the attention economy?
According to digital culture expert Kevin Kelly, the modern attention economy is increasingly one where the consumer product costs nothing to reproduce and the problem facing the supplier of the product lies in adding valuable intangibles that cannot be reproduced at any cost. He identifies these intangibles as:
Immediacy - priority access, immediate delivery
Personalization - tailored just for you
Interpretation - support and guidance
Authenticity - how can you be sure it is the real thing?
Accessibility - wherever, whenever
Embodiment - books, live music
Patronage - "paying simply because it feels good",
Findability - "When there are millions of books, millions of songs, millions of films, millions of applications, millions of everything requesting our attention — and most of it free — being found is valuable."
yeah i think that's totally a thing but i thought we were going to be talking about instagram sluts
What are some good books how to become a more positive person?
Anybody read anything that made you more positive?
The Bible
But honestly anon a book isn't going to flip a switch for you and make you view life in a different way. Only you can do that for yourself. Be honest and list out your flaws and weaknesses and your problems and what you're going to do about it all. You sound like you need to get your mind straightened up. Books will help you, certainly, but nothing is going to do all the work for you. And you'll never know what it is that you're going to read that will help you along; I read Suttree (by Cormac McCarthy) in its entirety and by the end found myself being much more appreciative of everyday events and all the beauty that surrounds us. So on and so forth.
Mindfulness in Plain English
Flow
The Conquest of Happiness
>>9972970
Notes from underground. The idea is that his logic while not technically wrong maybe is pragmatically inefficient. There are many true perspectives in life so why would you choose to be a rat?
I don't really know about philosophy.
Which general ideas by the 3 philosophers is this referring to?
Also, who is right?
>>9972936
Plato: idealistic thinking
Aristotle: Categorical thinking
Diogenes: dismissivness and minimalism
This isn't a case where people are "right" or "wrong". They are just different modes of thinking.
Rene Guenon esotericism occult weird fiction post-critical metaphysics am I a brahmin? process theology Gabriel Marcel Bernard Lonergan where is God and why has he abandoned us
bump not know why
I haven't read a book in more than a month
All the books in my library are too long or complex to get into right now. I'm looking for a short, good stories that would keep me hooked.
Any recommenations?
>>9972804
Check out:
Raymond Carver's Cathedral
Ann Beattie's "Weekend" (not a collection)
Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find
Bernard Malamud's The Magic Barrel
>>9972804
borges is the greatest short story writer of all time
>>9972841
this
Are you ever aware of how every new idea and connection, despite its legitimacy, subtly changes the overall ambiance of your awareness as if the borders of your empirically verified perspective were pushed a little further apart, and how by forcefully embracing any idea as a hypotethically true one it is possible to perceive the substance of the reality in different forms and ratios, as if the experimental perspective was already an innate part of your conscious experience?
Have you learned to respect the presence of infinite abundance? Are you the willful lover of your own ideals, or has the vastness of all possibility elevated you to a permanent state of self-righteous greed where everything you can touch is yours and therefore meaningless?
>he doesn't wrote a generic fantasy novel in pure sonnets
>literally only have to write one sonnet per page, around 200 sonnets, every sonnet being a chapter or some shit
>he wont write next to such poems instructions on how to play the sonnets, as in a screenplay
>he wont write the plot following a generic hollywood formula
>he wont be regarded as Shakesperare 2.0 electric boogaloo
Any good charts on Irish lit?
Reccomend me some books on oratory?
Rhetoric by Aristotle
rhetorica ad herrenium by not Cicero
de oratore by Cicero
institutio oratoria by Quintilian
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward Corbett
Heuristic Strategies in the speeches of Cicero by Gabor Tahin
Much of the list is rhetoric but the two subjects are near inseparable.
>>9972582
Thanks, I did think about rhetoric, it's just that I saw the word oratory first when looking
I don't have much time on my hands, but I want to read something on capitalism, individualism and egoism.
I've read Stirner and other nihilists, but I want to hear the other side.
Read Nietzsche baka
How are they done? Planned out from the start or worked in later? Who does them the best? How and when are they most effective?
Is there a word for the concept of "giving something a perfect name?" That is, naming something, the perfect name that 100% objectively fits and totally encapsulates it? Like, is there a concept that everything has a perfect name - and we just have to find what it is?
no there isn't, no one was silly enough to think that would be the case so there's no name for it