How do I read more?
>>9306745
double your brain
or buy a computer/slave to read for you, so it can read while you read.
>>9306745
drink a coffee and take a bath, every night
>>9306761
>drinking coffee at night
Absolute madman.
Please leave and never return if you agree with any of the following;
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you think fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, young adult fiction or horror are literature
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors)
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
This is a board about literature. You're not welcome here. Please take your plebeian garbage to /b/ or reddit, where you will find both a demographic and a general atmosphere more consistent with your tastes and your culture.
Also, what is the patrician book you are reading right now?
You say The Hunger Games, I say The Sot-Weed Factor
You say Twilight, I say The Recognitions
You say Divergent, I say The Magic Mountain
You say Harry Potter, I say In Search of Lost Time
You say Perks, I say Women & Men
You say John Green, I say shut the fuck up
You say Cassandra Clare, I scream Thomas Pynchon!!
You say Fifty Shades of Grey, I fucken punch you in the face
92% of teenagers have turned to YA and memes. If you are part of the 8% that still reads real literature, copy and paste this message to another 5 threads. DON'T LET THE SPIRIT OF /LIT/ DIE
>now
Stopped reading right there, buddy.
Also why are you making this thread again?
>>9306753
To make this board a better place.
real talk how do i resist ideology?
YOU DON'T
>>9306554
masturbate less, try to listen more to people rather than waiting for your turn to talk, try to excerize somewhat regularly, don't take your own ideas for granted and be ready to contradict them (comedy can help with this)
>>9306554
create yourself moment to moment
Post lit paintings
>>9306013
What is /lit/ currently reading?
they just beheaded the right whale and described it in it's entirety
>>9304898
I'm reading this book. Okay, have a nice day!
:)
>>9304904
honestly, I tried to pay the closest attention to the anatomical sections but I don't fight my eye glazing over anymore
Why is genre fiction frowned upon by literature snobs, yet some genre films are among the most critically acclaimed of all time?
>>9315020
Those movies are not competing with Shakespeare.
Maybe in 1000 years from now we'll get a cinema's Dante, and at that point people will be able to be snobbish about the Godfather too.
> yet some genre films are among the most critically acclaimed of all time?
by who? by /tv/? your mom?
to say godfather is critically acclaimed film is like to say harry potter is critically acclaimed book
my ex pleb girlfriend loves stephen king and godfather, interesting
>>9315020
Becuz movies are for plebs?
>the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.
have you ever experienced "the sublime" in your reading endeavours?
Do tell.....
>>9314600
Lautréamont, Melville, LowryPKD
>>9314615
could you give specific examples of specific parts of specific novels of these writers that you found sublime....otherwise its not condiusive to discussion.
I mean, obviously lowry will relate to under the volcano.....but c'mon.
I bet you pt more thought into wiping your ass than that post.
Step aside.
redpill me on Camus
the cigarette is a metaphor
>>9314545
more of a writer than a philosopher but people insist he's the latter
If you don't die in a car crash you never lived an authentic life
Can we talk about Solzhenitsyn? I've read One Day in the Life Of Ivan Denisovich and Cancer Ward; I enjoyed both of them tremendously but I don't know what to read next. I'm interested in August 1914, but I have a specific recollection of an old professor saying the Red Wheel was an incredibly dry and fatiguing read that he couldn't recommend.
Does anybody have suggestions? My only criterion is that it has to exist in a translated form besides Michael Glenny's. I've been consistently disappointed in his work, not to mention his editions are older and thus frequently drawn from expurgated manuscripts.
>>9314457
I'm reading In The First Circle for a course, it's pretty good though some people are finding it to be too dense and dry. Also the "complete" edition titled "In The First Circle" opposed to just "The First Circle" has only had an English translation for less than a decade so it's hard to find cheap. I'd still recommend it though.
>he still can't speak Russian
>>9314679
>he thinks speaking Russian in today's day and age is at all relevant or useful
honestly if you spend any time learning any language outside of English, Mandarin, or Arabic, you're wasting your time
Genius or talentless hack?
>>9313772
Talentless hack.
>>9313772
Fantasy is for kids. GoT included. So baddly written lmao
>>9313785
Name 1 (one) better fantasy book with deep politcs
Hahaaha yeah man Nietzsche said that there’s no meaning to life and I have ignored the fact that his work meant that with the death of God Christian morality was a redundant, anachronistic safety blanket for the intellectually unclean who would be lost without Christian values giving them a meaning in life and that we should drive to find the meaning of life through what humans can create in terms of art in all its forms wether it be music or literature or science or engineering what he meant is that it’s okay to smoke weed and watch CHILDRENS CARTOONS all day whilst engaging in meaningless casual sex because elevating yourself spiritually, intellectually or artistically would be fucking pointless man just smoke a bowl and pop a Xanax and let me cum on your thigh bby gurl xD
>>9313543
Are we meant to be impressed that by a philosopher who plagiarised or at best was heavily inspired by Stirner?
>>9313552
>Nietzsche likes Stierner
Good
>Nietzsche plagiarised Stirner
No, read nietzsche pls
>>9313543
literally not going to read your text block because you're a fucking idiot
I plan to enter a sci-fi short story contest with a deadline exactly 3 months from today, with a hefty sum of money as the prize.
What should I do? Any pointers on short stories in general, science fiction, cliches to avoid in general. I've read a few famous books such as Frankenstein, 1984, a Connecticut Yankee etc, but I could read more.
It's a question of some 500 dollars, help a brother out.
Here's a passage i wrote today which may serve as the prologue to my story.
"My meditation on the stars is an obligatory duty, as vital to my survival as food and drink. Tonight I stepped out to gaze at those twinkling lights of heaven, illuminating the abyss, once more. It is not hard to meditate under the stars, for there is a peculiar quality of mystery that makes even the slowest dunce thoughtful in the vast chasm above our heads. It makes a man think of his utter insignificance: nothing but a speck in the long, infinite stream of time. But how majestic and wonderful is the fact that this small speck can look at this assortment of lights, and wonder?
R8 the prose too.
>>9313408
The prose, whilst good, feels out of place for sci-fi? In general the genre fits better with minimalistic, brutal and sparse prose than overtly poetic writing.
Read some Phillip K Dick to get a handle on what i mean - he's very much the master of short story sci fi.
>>9313472
I've never written much, so I have some confusion regarding the nature of the prose, and the structure of the plot in general. What do you think a good sci-fi story is like?
I keep hearing about P. Dick, never read him. Must remedy that.
>>9313408
Just read more science fiction, brainlet.
If you're here, you've probably been here long enough to know a thing or two about 4chan culture.
There are differences between boards, but if you had to write a thesis analyzing the culture of 4chan.org as a whole, what would would be your introductory paragraph?
>>9313131
Not doing your homework for you faggot. Do your own job.
Reminder to sage in the options field to prevent this thread from being bumped.
Reminder that saging a thread won't work if you attach an image.
>>9313131
In the beginning there was the Internet, then there was anime, the anime fags needed somewhere to congregate, thus moot made the 4chan.
Now 4chan was desolate and waste, and moots spirit was moving to and fro trying to appease weaboos.
4chan's evergrowing popularity has left it a shell of its previous self.
Someone on /lit/ posed this bleak thought experiment to me a while ago and I've been thinking about it recently so I figured I'd repost it:
You are locked in a room. In the room is every book you could ever want, a pen and an unlimited stack of paper. You know that in 10 years you will die and the contents of the room will be obliterated. You have no contact with the outside world. There is also a revolver with a single bullet on the desk.
What would you do? Be honest.
Die of dehydration
I'd probably just talk to myself, mostly. Tell stories to myself. God would hear them, if no one else would.
>>9312982
Let's assume unlimited food and water are a given. I almost added that to the OP but then I thought "No, nobody on /lit/ would be autistic enough to make that joke". Yet here we are.
alright lads, pleb here who has only ever read a couple of books (age 24)
I want to get into reading more though, so what would you suggest for someone who has only read the epic of gilgamesh, 1984, lovecraft and schopenhauer complaining about women and being alive?
how could you only read a couple of books by age 24
you have to at least read 1-3 every summer during schooling, not counting that which is read during the term.
>>9312821
I didn't read any of my school books and I dropped out
>>9312804
how good is your reading comprehension, no point recommending something you can't understand. and are you reading for fun or to become "wiser" or w/e