>mfw learned mandarin and can now understand all the shitty conversations chinese people have in public
old fat women complaining about their children, dumb gook teen girls talking about guys in their vicinity and facebook and dorky chinese boys talking about weird sub-culture stuff that i dont get
Did you learn orange too?
AhA AHA AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHA OH MY GOID I HAVENT LAUGHED SO HARD HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>9110410
2/10 laugh tbqh
>>9110410
lmao
Are masterful prose and marketable prose mutually exclusive?
>writing
>marketable
>>9110210
no, absolutely not. Lolita and Underworld come to mind immediately, two best sellers
>>9110351
Would they have been published today?
That feel when you are beginning to realise your hope & aspiration of being a successful writer is becoming less & less likely with each passing day
That feel when I can sense it in my bones that I will be working a full time wageslave job in 5 years and do no writing and barely read
>>9110310
this
Have you considered just getting off the internet for a few weeks (as much as possible)?
>>9110181
>That feel when you are beginning to realise your hope & aspiration of being a successful writer is becoming less & less likely with each passing day
You would only be thinking this way if you weren't pushing yourself with your reading.
You need to put more years of reading in. Read and read and read and read.
You're not as naturally brilliant as you think you are, kid. You'll have to actually work for this.
Have you finished Capital by Karl Marx?
No one has, it's an unfinished work. Funny joke, Slavoj.
>>9109994
It isn't slavoj.
>>9109977
Clearly, just getting through volume one doesn't count. For a scholar such as Zizek, getting through the three proper volumes probably doesn't even count. For Zizek and Marxist scholars, the project probably entails going through a significant subset of the collected works of M&E, including the Grundrisse and so on. I wouldn't be surprised if something along these lines was what Zizek had in mind. I'm going to take a wild guess that Zizek has in fact read Capital Volume One all the way through, at least one time in his life, and has also read at least large chunks of the two sequel-volumes.
I'm no Marxist but I kinda like how dutifully Engels edited together the other two volumes. It was literally the last thing that he did on this earth - shortly after completing III for publication, a few months later, Engels dropped dead. I guess he'd finished his collaborator's life's work, and felt that he was done, with nothing left to do, and no strength to do it with.
>Harry Potter would have voted for Nick Clegg
At what point did you realise she was a hack?
Chapter one
>>9109769
Like page one. Didn't like the prose. Didn't like the pure plot-energy. Even as a kid that just couldn't draw me.
You are a giant fagot who can't think of anything to write on his own. Certain of your mediocre doom you find this wacky website with a board where you can ask for help. You post, asking for writing prompts, and are expecting good advice but are instead met with insults, misinformation, and zero insight from where you began. Suicide is not far off.
>>9109709
holy...................... i want more.
>>9109709
is this a writing prompt about a retard who doesn't understand this thread?
I usually do not read works by women. But am thinking of giving it a try. Who should I start with?
I am thinking of one of the following:
Christina Sommers, Lauren Southern, Ann Coulter or Ayn Rand
Which should I start with? If there are better alternatives please do share
>>9109600
Have you considered killing yourself?
Start with Frankenstein.
If you need /pol/shit to get through a book, start with Esther Vilar
Give a book the title it would get if it was written in our age
>4chan: the novel
>4chan: the novel
>4chan: the ebin poem :DDD
>>9109495
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Search your feelings, /lit/, you know it to be true.
>>9109459
I stopped at the end of the first book since I thought it was too similar to Fellowship of the Ring. Worth giving it another attempt?
>>9109459
How retarded do you have to be to read such drivel unironically?
What am I looking at?
Rate my work. Rate my writing.
www.charliechitty.com
Sounds like a porn site not going there
>>9109432
It isn't.
More like Charlie's Shitty am I right my dudes hahaha hahaha
Really though I didn't read anything
>TFW can't be bothered reading lately.
>TFW already two books behind my yearly goal of 30.
Why read when you can just give up and watch TV?
>set a goal of 100 books this year
>only read 15 so far
>tfw i just started a new full time and I have read only 6 books and feel too tired after and before work
Would you kindly recommend me some shitposters of old times? Any ancient or old authors who just shitposted and trolled their surroundings, the regime around them, the popular beliefs and ideas etc? I'm fairly certain some Greeks ofcourse fall under that category, but I need concrete works and names. Omar Khayyam also falls under this category, just to give you an idea of something I want.
I dont want it to be soo symbolic, like critique through the eyes of a character of some story, I want it to be as straightforward and mocking to the people as possible.
Thank you very much in advance.
>>9109219
dyonises lol
>>9109219
Here come dat Socrates lol
>>9109222
yeah he was the one i immediately thought of, could you perhaps direct me to some particular works? I mean I will anyways look into him myself, but if you oculd direct me that would be nice
Are there any books which might help improve one's rhetorics and oratory?
>>9109151
Everything that isn't fantasy. Not even jesting.
Aristotle's Rhetoric
>>9109151
Listen to Trump's speeches
Could someone give me a quick rundown on this guy? I want to get into Kierkegaard's writings but I heard that a lot of what he wrote was in response to Hegel. I don't really care much for this guy, so I just want to know what his main ideas were.
>>9109084
>hasn't read Hegel
>what is even German Idealism
You're cutting in line, bud.
>>9109084
>but I heard that a lot of what he wrote was in response to Hegel
not really, K responds to Hegel but not extensively.
Most of his most famous works don't touch on Hegel at all
>>9109090
The beginning of Sickness Unto Death is a satirically blatant jab at Hegel's obscurity, and is pretty hilar, tho.
ITT: books that change style from chapter/section to chapter/section. It can be within narrators too.
Other that I remember is, obviously, Ulysses.
The sound and the fury.
Benjy's opening section is one of the toughest pieces of literature I've read so far.
>>9108985
gonna check this up, thanks
So lots of Oulipo, then?
I'd argue that Musil's the Man Without Qualities counts, but only due to the total lack of a perspective (in some sense, as in the title). Sections of the Mahabharata and Pound's Cantos would also qualify, since they're fucking crazy. Arguably, most Zen literature is comprised of constant perspective shifting (including stylistically). Check out Bassho for sure.
There are also certain ways to structure ideas (like Ibn al-Arabi's "ringstones") that are quite related, but usually this is done philosophically and not stylistically.