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I know J Peterson gets a lot of airtime over on /pol/ but what does /lit/ think of his books or his Self-Authoring program?
Am thinking of the latter to boot my procrastinating ass into gear in a more positive writing direction (already do a lot of journalling and random note-taking).
The 2-for-1 deal seems OK pricewise, but do we have any informed opinions about this? Cheers!
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>>9607622
Please go back to /pol/
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>>9607639
unironically sincere question.
don't mean to step on anyone's toes like
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>>9607651
Please go back to /pol/
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How the hell did this nigga write so much?
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He was a very hardworking person. If you spend every day writing, you might be able to write that much too.
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A lot of it is trash. Not exaggerating, either. Half his novels are genre fiction tier.
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>>9607502
So what's worth reading?
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is all art spectacle? is getting pleasure from reading a bad thing?
what might living authentically even include?
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>>9605672
Fuck off with this leftist nonsense. Were redpilled here
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daily reminder that according to marxism art is just a mean to obtain material conditions
what an awful pleb ideology
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What's the worst thing you've ever read in your life? Not being ironic, but seriously. I read some NYT article about how you should read a book you think you are going to hate, and I powered through this whole bad boy gritting my teeth after page 100. There is some validity to the idea of doing that though, as I was kind of in a reading rut and this was so terrible, I was clamoring for my copy of The Recognitions at the end.
I can't even believe people consider this airport fun. I have never read something less fun in my life.
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>>9604681
I'm confused about King's success too. When it comes to pulpy pop-/lit/, I at least expect there to be a nice fast paced plot to get into, but too many of his books are just long and slow. They're filled with useless overlong scenes. As a prose stylist or a creator of characters, he's probably not much better than J.K. Rowling, but at least things happen in a Harry Potter book.
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>>9604896
People with very simple minds find King's horror (read: trashcan pulp-horror) scary.
I don't fucking understand it
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>>9604927
Read 'I am the Doorway'
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Name a more intellectually rich novel than this one.
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>>9603365
fuck german authors.
"oh i'm going to write fiction, but in reality it's a philosophical treatise! tee hee"
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>>9603392
And that's bad how?
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Who else got memed? The beginning started out great but seriously I think this book is only popular because English majors were going broke and needed a new way to make money. Done by attaching meaning to the whale. SAD!
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did you just call me a whale
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But Moby Dick is great.
Yeah, I can see why people think the few short chapters about different whales etc. are boring, but that still leaves like 130 good chapters.
And some of it ends up being important. The chapter called The Line seemed boring when I read it but it made sense later.
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what is your favorite character archetype in literature? personally my favorite kinds of characters are the the morally grey guilt ridden characters who force themselves to carry and endure a heavy burden
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>>9602013
Would-be uber mensch who can't handle the ramifications of their actions like Macbeth or Raskolnikov.
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>>9602044
I like the way you phrased this.
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>>9602013
paladins or picaros.
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Has anyone read the Pale king ?
what does /lit/ think about it?
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>>9598647
Better than IJ tbqhfam
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I'm 100 pages in and loving it so far.
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>>9598741
in which way?
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better than Infinite Jest
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>>9597803
bait
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I came here wanting to ask if this was any good actually.
Is it?
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so are most books. what's your point?
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What are you currently writing about /lit/?
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>>9593987
trying to get my sci fi short story on asteroid miners to make sense
haven't got past the intro
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I'm not really sure. Some sort of lengthy existentialist whine.
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>>9593987
Super-soldier goes to Uganda on a solo mission to take down Joseph Kony, ends up siding in an all out war against the revitalised Lords resistance army by joining the arrow boy's militia.
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Cop or not
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>>9611783
Nah DFW is a dead meme now
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>>9611783
il tuo pollice ha qualcosa che non va
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DFW is mind poison. Affirm life and reproduce instead.
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There's this one feeling Dostoevsky captures really perfectly, and I think it's what makes him a step above the average meme classics writer. He perfectly gets this feeling that humans get, this ecstatic response we get when we fantasize about doing good things. We don't have to do anything with our life. We don't have to help others. We get the same rush either way just my thinking about doing something with our lives, and just by thinking about helping that guy on the side of the road, as we would if we actually did it. Dostoevsky gets this, and it helps explain to us why seemingly mad characters do what they do. That's why Dostoevsky isn't a meme.
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>>9611436
thanks for reading
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>>9611432
>tfw you were a pseudo teenager and literally read every Dosty novel but years later you realise you understood none of it and now youve ruined one of hte greatest writers of all tim for yourself and have to reread thousands of pages of dry prose to recover the things you missed
I'm about 1/3 of the way through this. What do I think of it?
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>>9611291
You've eaten 1/3 of a sperm whale??
Holy shit!
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>>9611291
You love it.
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One time I saw two men kissing in a park, and that was the gayest thing I've ever seen until this book
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I have an idea for a novel but have no talent for writing a narrative, does anyone who does have some talent want to help me write it?
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>>9611040
Greentext your idea and I'll let you know
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>>9611069
>Boy named Nestor is born into a liberal family but becomes a crazy religious fanatic
>really hates evolution
>learns about sexual selection and it's role in evolution and decides to castrate self in an attempt to defy evolution
>becomes even more crazy fanatical afterwords but later starts finding contradictions in his religion and loses his faith
>becomes extremely depressed and Nihilistic and tries to kill self but pussies out
>years later walking along and his held up by two black muggers but kills them with his CCW
>turns out the muggers were kids with realistic looking BB guns and the Media crucifies Nestor like they did to Zimmerman and a bunch of people start calling for his death
>disgusted with how he was treated for defending himself from a legitimate threat, Nestor starts to overcome his nihilism and develops his own belief in justice and morality independent of God, on his path to becoming a Nietzchen Overman
>the local black community chimps out like they did in Ferguson and Baltimore
>Nestor decides to confront the rioters with the help of people sympathetic to his cause and tells them to go fuck themselves and explains why they're all a bunch of sacks of shit
>rioters back down
>Nestor feels on top of the world, like a true Overman
>but a few days later a drive by shooter nearly kills him and scares him shitless
>Nestor starts backsliding from being an overman to being an animal afraid to die
>flees to Japan and starts crossdressing to hide his identity
>gets into enjo kosai to pay bills
>one of his clients falls deeply in love with Nestor despite learning Nestor being a crossdresser
>Client confesses love for Nestor, kisses him, Nestor's first kiss, which shocks Nestor deeply and makes him realize how far he's fallen from his ideals
>Nestor tries to kill self again but pusses out again
>Ends up marrying Client, feels superficial happiness but realizes he's died in spirit and has fallen into the abyss
>The end
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>>9611111
Quads confirm new best seller
>Any mammal hooks the bio-survival circuit to the fi
rst
imprinted bio-survival object: the teat. Bio-surviv
al and
orality are deeply blended in all mammals, includin
g
domesticated primates (humans). This is why, despit
e the
Cancer Terror, an estimated 30,000,000 Americans st
ill
smoke cigarettes... Others chew gum (spearmint, jui
cy
fruit, even sugar-free: something for every taste),
bite their
fingernails, gnaw their knuckles, scrunch pencil st
ubs, eat
more than they need (Potato chips, anyone? a Mars b
ar
maybe? pretzels, peanuts, cashews, do you want the
cheese and crackers with your beer, Mac? And do try
the
canapes, Mrs. Miller). Some chew their lips, gobble
tranks
and uppers, even munch their mustaches. What goes o
n in
the bedroom is known to the Kinsey Institute and an
yone
who has seen a porn film.
How important is this oral imprinting? We read of a
baby
giraffe whose mother was accidentally killed by a j
eep
immediately after birth. The neonate, following har
d-wired
genetic programs, "imprinted" the first object that
roughly
fit the giraffe archetype—the jeep itself. He follo
wed the
machine around, vocalized to it, attempted to suckl
e from
it, and, when adult, tried to mate with it.
Similarly, Konrad Lorenz tells of a gosling who acc
identally
imprinted a ping-pong ball and spent his adult life
,
indifferent to female geese, attempting to sexually
mount
ping-pong balls.
As Charles Darwin noted:
In our maturer years, when an object of vision is p
resented
to us which bears any similitude to the form of the
female
bosom...we feel a general glow of delight which see
ms to
influence all of our senses...
The ancients pictured the great mother goddess Dian
a of
Ephesus with literally dozens of breasts and St. Pa
ul reports
hearing her worshippers chanting rapturously "Great
is
Diana!"
There is virtually no great artist who has not left
us a
portrait, or many portraits, of the nude female for
m,
especially the breasts; and even in non-human scene
s,
curves are introduced wherever possible. Architects
break
the Euclidean straight line to introduce such curve
s at the
slightest pretext—arches, Moorish domes, etc.
this book is literally Freudian pseudoscience
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damn, could have pasted that better
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- rupi kaur
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Are you suggesting that Freudian psuedoscience is a bad thing?