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Is literature dead /lit/? Is there a single good author that came to prominence since the turn of the century?
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>>9617351
Read more, you dumb fucking frogshitter
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>>9617351
I cant be the only one who sees when there is such a void in great talent as now in music, literature, film and general art that someone absolutely inmpecable msut come along soon?
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>>9617351
Adichie
Comfy early Christian literature?
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The Little Flowers
Bede's History
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Desert Fathers
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>>9617298
On the Holy SpiritI thought it was going to be about Christian spirituality, but really it was just a bunch of bantz that btfo'd a bunch of heretics who believed that Jesus and the Father were God but the Holy Spirit wasn't.
PEL thread
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Is this actually good or just a meme?
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I only listened to a couple. I like that these guys aren't pretentious, like at all, but probably because of that it's not really that helpful.
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>>9617243
Meme
Entry level observations, lots of "I only read two chapters of my translation" and a ton of episodes locked behind a paywall
It's shit
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Anyone else ready this absolute gem of a series?
I'm on the 11th book and it keeps getting better.
Sad that it's only had 1 film so far.
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Huh, didn't know the movie came from a book
Are the books as comfy as the movie?
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>>9617096
They're phenominal, the accuracy is fantastic and the characters are very human.
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how much buggery is involved?
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>buy hardcover book
>go home
>toss the dust jacket into the bin
>book instantly looks and feels ten times better
Why do they even make those damn things?
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to protect the book
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>>9617068
Marketing, you idiot. Do you live under a rock?
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>>9617068
To protect the book from dust
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I'm going to take a basic Spanish text comprehension test in a week. Whats a simple, short, and enjoyable book to read in Spanish just to get me going?
I thought of Borge's "Ficciones" but perhaps he will use too many complicated words. Perhaps "Dectetives Salvages" by Bolaño? It might be too long.
No Garcia Marques, por favor.
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>>9616980
el estrangerito
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>>9616998
good one
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pedro paramo
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I have always been curious but not enough to actually do it. Is it worth it?
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Yes now read it faggot
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>>9616875
no you should stop reading. I was way smarter and insightful before I started filling my head with these incoherent obscurantists
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I've only read A Country Doctor and Amerika and they were both pretty good.
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Are there really no great men of history? (excluding artists, saints, philosophers, scientists) do you buy Tolstoy's theory?
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I disagree.
Read my noel to find out why.
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I find it statistically unlikely that a single individual could influence a complex system in a significant way.
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>>9616870
>excluding artists, saints, philosophers, scientists
Why?
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>Reading the Bible
>mfw Daniel chapters 10-12
Guess we Christianity now
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what kind of Christianity tho?
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>>9616857
what do you recommend?
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>>9616874
The Pope is a living meme, and Baptists are all little memelings. I'm not sure myself which church is right. I'm not the guy posting above though.
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Expain in one sentence why I should start with the Greeks.
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Alcibiades did nothing wrong.
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>>9616701
Because all subsequent Western literature was influenced heavily by it
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>>9616724
/thread
Kantbot vs. Stefan Molyneux...Who is the superior intellect? There can only be one philosopher king. Pick one.
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listening to molyneux makes your brain smaller and also your testicles contract
it is known
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>>9616700
Jesus Crist, enough of these fucking threads. Although, if I had to choose, it would certainly be Molyneux.
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Scraping the bottom of the barrel, are we?
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Can we talk about death? Why do people get scared of it? also I'm unironically asking, what is death? what is it? why do some people seek it and why do others would do anything to avoid it?
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It doesn't exist.
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>Death is the most terrible thing there is and to uphold the work of death is the task that demands the greatest strength.
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Two helpful works:
The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker.
Death, Geoffrey Scarre
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>Being this afraid
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Was pic related the peak of american intelligentsia?
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what an embarrassing era
glad I suckled titty through most of it
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How do you guys think DFW managed to control his power level around all those brainlets?
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>>9616592
I had never even heard of the fourth guy before desu
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Does making the protagonist ""immortal"" remove reader suspense? 2017-06-09 05:35:49 Post No.9616575
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(pic is only immortal hero i can think of right now) I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, it is literature related but forgive me if its not the right board. I'm writing a magic involved fantasy novel in which the 5 main protagonist are essentially "immortal" to an extent. They can still be "killed" but will come back to life after a few hours or so.
The 1st reason I decided to give them this power was because this story (like many others) follows the classical "good struggles and eventually triumphs over the forces of evil" formula and in many stories like that the protagonist who may come in life threatening danger from time to time always survives anyway because they are the one carrying the story forward. Whether it be through dumb luck, plot armour, plot convenience or the antagonist's own incompetency, the hero will get out the situation and live no matter how bad things may seem. Protagonists like Harry potter, Luke Skywalker, Eragon and the master chief are few examples that come to mind. They may get gravely wounded in a fight but even if the moment is full of dread and suspense you KNOW they'll come out alive because they have to keep the story going.
Unless the writer plans on a secondary character taking up the roll of main protagonist (which I don't plan on doing) then hero(s) are never truly in danger. I thought that well since main protagonists are hardly ever at risk of actually dying in the middle of the story then there's no problem in making my protagonists partially immortal.
The second and perhaps main reason I'm thinking of making them immortal is so that the Antagonists don't look weak or incompetent. By giving the heroes a sort of "respawn" ability I can avoid moments where if the antagonist had simply just done this the hero would've been dead, the hero would "die" (but not really) the antagonist wins the fight. This is so I can show the difference in skill, power and experience between them because I never liked the idea of villians with years more training and experience losing to the heroes with much less.
While it may seem like a good idea to me, I'm not sure how the reader might feel about it. If they won't feel any sense of suspense in action parts or desperation for the protagonists knowing that they'll come back to life anyway, even though the reader his/herself KNOWS the protagonist isn't going to die anyway because the story must continue with them. Should I keep the idea or scrap it? what do you think?
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Fuck off with your genre fiction shit
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>>9616575
i didn't read all that shit but the answer is no, if you're a good writer you can write around anything
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>>9616585
this isn't an adequate explanation, as the author of conan the barbarian did just this, and is firmly sub-literary garbage, its historical flavoring aside. your statement would enable deus ex machina and asspulls abound. it's a very stupid statement. you would probably benefit more from reading and giving the thinking thing a try for once.
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Is he correct? How should someone who is only interested in reading the bible for the literature it influences go about a first reading of the NKJV?
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Reading the Bible while only looking at it as literature will remove all the literary value it had.
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>no Job
Shit list
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>>9616518
elaborate