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>>9644164
An abridged totality of X's works.

>>9644171
Simple but still interesting.

I thought maybe "An Old Man in a Dry Month."

Feel free to post memoir titles too.

>>9644164
Unironically, 'My Twisted Universe'

It seems to me the first is continuing and the second has ended.
As in the first one implies you still always buy books, and the second that you used to always buy books.

My understanding is what >>9644127 said.

Neither sounds correct to me desu
>I have always been buying books
>I always used to buy books
t. ESL

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>>9644034
The image says:
>Luke
>Arndt - Critical
>Kaufmann - Accessible

>>9644041

What does "critical" means? As in he interprets the work, or as in he is essential?

curious german reader here; do they keep the translation in rhymes or do they just translate it to prose?

>>9644014
You don't plan literary devices. You write meaningfully then artistically mask your own meaning

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Learn the elements of plot. Use them.

Seriously, the first mistake newbie writers make is forgetting about plot. You don't have to follow some paint0by-numbers bullshit outline. But give your readers a fucking story.

>>9645098
t. insufferable peanut-brained genrepleb

I really liked the first book, which was originally written as a series of short stories, because the ending was open and because it didn't try to answer every single question.

I bought the next three books, which were written straight out as novels, and I fucking hated them. Worse, I later read that SK went back and altered the first book so that it was in line with the later novels.

So the only one I own today if the first book, and it is the version first printed before he revised it.

>Where do I go from here?

Block him on twitter then move on to actual literature.

about 250 pages in an hour

7 trillion

30-50 pages per hour.

Niggardly

>>9643881
They would probably own 19th century philosophers in a debate.

>>9643960
The language barrier would be too great. There would be no debate.

Genres are arbitrary categories, anyway. The only true differences are between the literary forms that distinguish novels, poems, plays, operas, religious texts, anthologies, short stories, scholarly works, etc. If we're going to be this nitpicky about applying this descriptor then we have to be for all others. You're not right. You're autistic and you misunderstand the parameters whereby a class of literature comes into being. A class of literature is not itself a book or groups of books, it is a category into which these books fall. As long as people are thinking of these books in these terms, the category will exist. Lovecraft and Poe get pretty weird; they write fiction; why not apply this adjective to their fiction? It's not like either is a straight up Gothic writer; there's an undeniable strangeness to what they write that is at the heart of their style. The general associations that people make when they hear Lovecraft's name are associations with weird things. Weirdos also tend to like Lovecraft more than normal people. Poe is more normalfag-friendly but he's also an objectively superior writer whose name hasn't been tarnished by the same kinds of nerds as Lovecraft, most of whom think that Cthulu is funny or oh so randumb or something. Once in a blue moon you'll find fiction influenced by Lovecraft that goes beyond the level of the 'weird,' but it rarely happens.
You're wrong, basically. Genres are social constructs moreso than most social constructs.

Yeah 'Weird fiction' is a sort of nebulous category that began with cosmic horror but seems to have extended into stories that are sort of surreal, absurd or even philosophical. I think if Borges was writing now and Magical Realism was never a thing, he'd be categorised as Weird Fiction.

"Supernatural fiction"

but "supernatural" conjures up images of ghosts and werewolfs, which is not always what we're going for. We want to attract post-goths as well as goths.

yes read beyond good and evil next then on the genealogy of morals then the will to power to gain a better grasp of what he was trying to say in thus spoke zarathustra

thus spoke is written completely unlike his other stuff. the 3 texts I mentioned above are al extended essays that allow you to understand him much more easily.

>would you agree with my understanding of the over-man?
I don't think you provided an understanding of that, you just used some of the same words he used. its the meaning behind those words which are important and you can get a better sense of that meaning by reading his other works

>>9643832
the origin of it all eludes me, where the will to power would come from. what's the point, so to speak. from Zarathustra I get the impression that that is *his* heaven, not a generalized heaven. Being a creator is what he values.

do you think Nietzsche was a believer in free will? do you think he thinks there are basic, common evaluations, such as hunger being bad, or is it all created by us at some point? maybe that's part of what the other texts talk about.

>>9643855
>>do you think Nietzsche was a believer in free will?
no, he explicitly rejected it.

>do you think he thinks there are basic, common evaluations, such as hunger being bad, or is it all created by us at some point?
you seem to be confusing practical evaluations with moral evaluations. his focus was on moral evaluations.

>>9643796
You've come to the wrong board froggie.

>>9643796
Grendel is read pretty frequently. On Moral Fiction has its followers but it was much more influential back in the 1980's than it is today. I haven't read Mickelsons Ghosts.

> is Gardner read a lot in the US ?

High Schoolers typically read Beowulf and then Gardner's novel Grendel; beyond that, his works are not read here.

>>9643685

no reading books is the only way

>>9643688
but it causes me pain

It would be very painful>>9643688

Just get a buncha text books

Civilization and its Discontents remains my favorite book on why we can't have nice things, and the shortest introduction to psychoanalysis

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>>9643521

Explain, in a cognitive way, what is the meaning, how it is proceeded and how to manipulate it.

Some knowledge in Peircean and Greimasian semiotics is required.
French language

>>9643510
Because you're 15.

>>9643510
LOL anyone else imagining the cat saying this?

>>9643510
It goes against the norms and got a flair of rebellion about it.

Sophistication of craft has been supplanted by sophistication of theory. Just as there are very few masters of craft there are very few masters of theory. I don't really care about the people who don't 'get it'.

Absolutely. I'm not an anti-intellectual either. I support academic philosophy 100% even if it's not all great.
But lit theory is a cancer filled with delusional frauds and authentic crazies.

Sorry I am new to this board, but are fanatasy novels and sci-fi also included in /lit/?

Also what are the reasons some people like Shakespeare or authors like that that are completely outdated and are incredibly hard to understand? I am genuinely curious.

>>9643443
my diary desu

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>>9643443

COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO