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Write what's on your mind 2017-08-27 03:23:43 Post No.9943694
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Write what's on your mind
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>>9943694
Fuck civilization
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>>9943751
Anne Frank was one of the most unbearable reads I needed to endure.
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Boxing is boring
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Why can't we have a friendly thread about this book?
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Where's that guy who says Witz isn't shit?
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Went from 8/10 to 6/10 the instant he namedropped DeLillo and McCarthy for no reason
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>>9943060
because it's trash
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Can we get a Song of Ice and Fire thread going? Favorite theories? Will GRRM live to finish the series? Can he wrap it up in two more books?
A few points:
>we know it's genre fiction
>we know it's fantasy schlock
>we know it's not in the same tier as Joyce/Twain/Tolstoy/Nabokov/et al
>we know GRRM is a fat hack with shit prose
>we just want to discuss the books somewhere the showfags might not appear to shit the thread up
>inb4 sunset found her squatting in the grass
>inb4 her cunt became the world
>inb4 fat pink mast or constipated fat man
Will bump a few times with images related to the series.
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>>9938526
OP bump
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>>9938534
Another OP bump.
Theories that just have to be true:
>Southron Ambitions
>Grand Northern Conspiracy
>The Others mistook Waymar for a Stark in AGOT prologue
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I honestly don't see how GRRM will finish it. I think TWOW might come out in the next 2 years, but there's no way he'll finish ADOS.
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I want to be scared by reading a book
Give me your best horror books, i want to explore "unknown" writers, but i would like to see some king, Barker, Poe books
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>>9922010
I love Robert E. Howard
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Bump, please recommend a book that has the same atmosphere as pic related. Want a book like that to read for early October.
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Reading lists in relation to boards 2017-08-21 08:31:41 Post No.9920984
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Reading lists in relation to boards
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Post reading list infographics specific to the boards similar to pic related Looking for /k/ /pol/ /lit/ /his/ /fit/ and /out/. Thanks anons
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>writing a 1000-page novel
Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?
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>>9961030
>deciding the number of pages before starting the book
Is there anything more plebeian, more idiotic?
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>>9961030
thats a fat rabbit lol
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>>9961030
Bugs....
why did he never get accepted into any publication? dude was one of us and they all just wanted chad writers?
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>>9960495
pretty much, the component why his work is powerful made it repulsive for the german literary establishment who wished to exterminate Jews for that sort of deranged thinking
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He was published in a bunch of magazines in his 20s and 30s. His first published story was when he was 25 I think, called "Preparations for a Wedding in the Country" in which a man leaves a party and gets a piggyback along a river or something.
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Except he did. Kafka was moderately successful. One of his most importang works, The Metamorphosis, was published while he was alive. A lot of stuff published after his death is worse. The fragments of The Trial, The Castle (not sure if correct, Das Schloss) and Amerika were not ready to be published
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500 million copies sold 2017-08-31 01:06:33 Post No.9959452
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>don quixote
>500 million copies sold
>best selling book of all time
>a story about a loser and his loser friend roaming the country side
Why is this allowed?
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it's 4chan tier
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>Loser
>Not a knight and his squire
Someone's been reading too many realist novels
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>>9959452
Have you even read it faggot?
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I'm trying to ID the book she's reading. Anyone have an idea?
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>>9959106
The Perfect Neighbors.
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I should get a job at the NSA
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>>9959117
thanks anon!
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General 2017-08-30 10:44:58 Post No.9958946
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General 2017-08-30 10:44:58 Post No.9958946
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
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2017-08-30 10:44:58
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Behind every Great SFF there is a Wolfe Edition.
>/SFFG/ Recommendations:
FANTASY
Selected:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21329.jpg
General:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21328.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21327.jpg
SCIENCE FICTION
Selected:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21326.jpg
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21331.jpg
General:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21332.jpg
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21330.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21333.jpg
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When is A Sea of Skulls getting into print?
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>>9958964
Right now.
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reading kassad's fight on hyperion again
I'm reminded of Faora in MoS
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Prerequisite readings to better understand Ezra Pound's writings?
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>>9958269
The entire Western canon.
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>>9958269
Why did Ezra Pound look like he was at a autistic anime cosplay expo?
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Learn Chinese.
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This is Joshua Cohen, author of Witz and Book of Numbers as well as the recently published Moving Kings. Say something nice about him.
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>>9957952
i expected him to look a lot more jewish desu
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>>9957952
>jew
dropped
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Overrated mediocre "wunderkind"
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Daily reminder that publishing without a nom de plume is LITERALLY being a tripfag IRL.
Why do you want to be an acknowledged writer? What's the end goal, making your high school bullies jealous (you think they'll even care or not just find you to be even more of a dork?), getting women (you think they'll truly like YOU more then, and not just enjoy your fame/money?), making money (to spend it on more hot pockets and video games?)?
You're lost. Seeking fame is shameful. Have some pride and integrity you wanker.
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>>9957878
Poetry Foundation pays 10$ a line with 300$ minimum. Plus there's difference between being recognized here and IRL. I'll let you guess which one is better.
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>>9957889
Whore.
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LISTING THE LUMINARIES. 2017-08-30 02:41:14 Post No.9957358
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Okay, pay attention.
I am an autistic bastard obsessed with making lists. For the last 2 years I have been compiling a massive list of the Great Writers of the world. I note down all the writers included in the multifarious lists of great writers (in books, articles, surveys,websites, etc.) placing a little mark beside each writer every time they reappear in other lists, thus discovering the most prominent/celebrated writers. If a writer has more words devoted to them in a book, or if their article is accompanied by a picture, I give them extra "points".
Naturally Shakespeare and the Bible are way in front - but there are many surprises I've encountered in my laborious endeavor, which has seen me scour libraries, the internet, my own collection of volumes (e.g. 501 Great Writers, 1001 Books You Must Read; The A-Z of Great Writers; and innumerable Encyclopedias of writers) and book stores. (I have purchased several books simply because they include sections on writers, where great writers are listed or ranked).
NOW THEN. I'm almost done. But I want to give points based on "popular opinion" (ranker.com) and "informed but informal opinion" (/lit/). I've lurked on this board for a long time and have confidence in the literary taste of its frequenters.
So please. Post ITT writers you consider the absolute greatest you have ever encountered.
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>Naturally Shakespeare and the Bible are way in front
Stopped reading there
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>>9957358
>but are many surprises I've encountered in my laborious endeavor, which has seen me scour libraries
Stopped reading there.
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>>9957358
>I am an autistic bastard
Stopped reading there.
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>tfw you realise this board is 99% intellectual posturing and but a tiny fraction of the userbase actually feel an iota of emotion from the literature they apparently really like
What went wrong?
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That 1% makes it all worthwhile
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>>9957040
>feeling emotions
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>>9957040
> tfw you're part of the tiny fraction
It feels good to read a book that resonates with you personally and emotionally, especially when you don't expect it to. E.g. The Iliad.