Best places to read literary criticism of the books I read?
>>9829714
www.youtube.com/user/abookutopia
>>9829801
Thanks. Time to go put a gun in my mouth.
>>9829714
i find that there is no one best place cor literary criticism. it's hard to find a critic that has something worthwhile to say about 19th century Russian lit as well as 21st century American lit. Just work on an individual basis. You took the time to read the book, so you can take the time to find good critics for them.
Should I self publish my novel?
I mean I didn't write it to make money, I wrote it to show that I can accomplish something
>>9829703
Hey dipshit, your bike tire is going to fall on your bed and stain your sheets shit brown.
give it away for free on here
gain a popular following because it's good and we make threads about it everyday
make us pay for your second novel (a sequel to the first which we loved)
>>9829719
I think the bike is just for show
>have what seems like a decent idea
>the more I think about it, the stupider it seems
>>9829694
>Words ruin one's thoughts, paper makes them ridiculous, and even while one is still glad to get something ruined and something ridiculous down on paper, one's memory manages to lose hold of even this ruined and ridiculous something. Paper can turn an enormity into a triviality, an absurdity. If you look at it this way, then whatever appears in the world, by way of the spiritual world so to speak, is always a ruined thing, a ridiculous thing, which means that everything in this world is ridiculous and ruined. Words were made to demean thought, I would even go so far as to state that words exist in order to abolish thought, and one day they will succeed one hundred percent in so doing. In any case, words (are) bringing everything down. Depression derives from words, nothing else.
>>9829694
That makes you smarter than all the idiots who don't realize how stupid their ideas are. It means you can actually tell when you have a good idea.
>>have what seems like a decent idea
>the more I think about it, the more I realize that it's just a ripoff of an already famous novel
>I would like to see equal attention given to the sexism in popular work by men, from Nicholas Sparks to for instance J. D. Salinger. Catcher in the Rye—although I like it very much—is profoundly and disturbingly misogynistic and yet seems to get a critical pass both online and off. This happens a lot, I think, with books by men, and I don't want male writers (including me!) to get that pass.
Is he right?
THE AGE OF THE MANGINA IS OVER
*writes bj scene between minors*
>>9829684
ever notice how only men in the unemployable majors care about this shit? they cannot attract a woman with their social status, they have none, so they are forced to do this SJW shit to attract pussy.
the sad part is that it wont fucking work either. no woman with let you fuck her because of how hard you fight imaginary misogyny in books. you fucking cuck
It's a niche subject, but I was wondering if anyone here would be able to provide me with the titles of any books relating to real life scams. Not necessarily things like "The greatest scam ever pulled". I just love reading about little scams people manage to pull off, the consequences of getting caught in them, and potential ways to avoid them (or even pull them off).
my diary desu
>>9829640
Infinite jest is a fucking scam for psueds if you count that!
>>9829640
the recognitions by william gaddis
What do you use for a bookmark? I usually just use whatever happens to be near when I first start reading a book. Pic related is what I'm using right now
Panties from the many women assbang.
>>9829423
Liar
I'm going to a pretty large bookstore soon and I need to have a ready-made list of books I know I'm going to buy.
It's because I'm going on vacation with my family but they promised they would stop buy a bookstore and let me buy some books before we got to the beach. I need to know which books I'm going to buy.
Any recommendations?
>>9829415
What do you like to read? That would probably aid in getting yourself some good recommendations.
>>9829415
Post pics of your sisters bathing suit
>>9829442
Anything, really. But the stuff I normally read is:
>Fiction
Literary Fiction
Fantasy Fiction / Sci-Fi
OR
>Non-Fiction
Historical
Political (often Marxist)
Biographical
Religious texts
I need a book about a man who is hopelessly impotent. Or just anything about the torture of a man who is insatiably in love. A book with the anguish of pic related
The Sun Also Rises kind of.
>>9829263
The Sun Also Rises.
DH Lawrence "Lady Chatterly's Lover". Late stage TB causes incredible feverish lust, but also impotence. DH couldn't get it up unless his wife did anal. In a letter he called her "my little shitbag"; the dude was absolutely overwrought with lust and love. One of the most under appreciated writers in the language.
Thoughts on stephen king?
Is he an overrated author for horror plebs?
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
>>9829279
This has been the 1,000,000 stephen king thread on /lit!!!!
Well Done Sir!
>>9829261
I will never read his books again because of how much of a faggot he is on twitter about Trump. I'm fine with people shitting on Trump, but when a grown man is so completely obsessed and whiny about him I can't take them seriously as a person.
Is it worth reading, regarding I want to read Plato and Aristotle in the near future?
Yes, its fantastic
i almost ordered that off amazon for 15 bucks, glad i didn't cuz it's almost definitely stupid shit, and also i wouldn't really read it anyways
Its decent. cool reads.
Recommendations on Westerns to read? I'm writing a Western story and would like some inspiration. I'm already aware of Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian, anything else worth reading?
warlock
butchers crossing
there is a series of 'man with no name' books by Joe Millard. i've never read them though so i cannot reccomend
>>9829241
Keep pushing into McCarthy's catalogue
Try churning through the series starting with All the Pretty Horses
Is this roastie a meme or what?
>tfw no witty writer gf
>>9829195
Austen has the bantz. Stop being a retarded /r9k/-tier frogman
Y'know for ages Jane Austen was hyped up to me and I just never got around to reading her. Probably I saw it as too girly.
When I finally did I was surprised by two things:
>Austen writes in a pretty uncomplicated, accessible way. This isn't high tier prose.
>Austen's characters are often genuinely funny as fuck.
I blew through all her stuff really quickly once I got started, I enjoyed it a lot. I have to say the more active, more 'bad girl' protagonists (like Emma) are much more fun to read about than the really nice ones (I wanted Persuasion to have a bad end).
I think in terms of character dynamics and insight into the time period her books are great but not really in any other respect.
Reading The Bible. Thinking after I finish the Pentateuch I'll skip to the Gospels.
What do you think? Enough context? Otherwise, I'll forge ahead into the Histories.
>>9829153
>virgin detected
>>9829153
dont skip parts
>>9829160
I don't mean permanently. I mean I'll read the rest after the Gospels.
Can you recommend me a book on the rise and fall of Christianity?
And an book on icon paintings?
>>9829149
>and fall
>>9829149
>Redemption based religion
>fall
Mate....
>>9829149
"The Meaning of Icons" by Vladimir Lossky and ..cant remember the other guy.. is THE definitive book on Byzantine and Orthodox iconography. Accept no substitute.
How do I live without working?
sucking?
>>9829095
it's easier to work without living
>>9829098
Of course, it is. Why doesn't this dude release a manual on this shit?