Thoughts?
pretty woke
>>9304020
Read Keely's review.
>>9304036
>Interests Comic Books, Writing, Theater, Dramaturgy, Atheism, Roleplaying, Western CRPGs
Should i Really?
Active? None.
Probably 75-100 judging from the "there are x number of users in this thread." It's usually a pretty small number.
>>9304051
/fit/lit/ master-race here
>tfw you're unable to fully express with language your inability to express yourself
Honestly the worst feel.
Too much pop culture and internet
>>9303994
I know that feel
>tfw you get excited, you get flustered and stutter and forget words
>tfw you're not stupid, but sometimes the words just aren't there
>tfw you fudged learning your second language, so no matter what you say you're always painfully aware how incompetent you sound because you always fuck up the articles.
>>9303994
aka stupidity
How do I into into Ansipian Philosophy?
>>9303954
How could someone create an image this accurate?
>>9303959
By looking in a mirror.
this image is so fucking on point it can't do anything but make me laugh hysterically
How involved are you with your city's literary scene? Do you associate with other local writers? Are you a member of a book club? Etc., etc.
>>9303935
im on /lit/
i went to a bookstore yesterday here in dc and the fag laughed at me when i asked if they carried travel guides like i was a pleb. he had on those shoes that go around your toes
>>9303935
Mm, fruit rollup.
>>9303960
Why did you want travel guides?
Reading it right now.
It's just a life simulator, isn't it?
I love it
Now you just have to realise that your life will generally be even worse.
Enjoyable novel. Made me even less able to trust women. Beautiful at times and extremely sad at others.
He gets cucked, doesn't he?
The more I understand about Spinoza's thought the more I want to learn about it. Any good secondary/tertiary content about him?
>>9303792
pic related
also Behind the Geometrical Method by Edwin Curley
>>9303794
Thanks, I'll look them up.
The Sage and the Way
The Radical Spinoza
I never got into reading as a kid because all the books I ever saw merely reinforced the zeitgeist of our times. I mean, whats the point in reading stuff like To Kill a Mockingbird when the same story has been rehashed hundreds of times?
However, I recently read a porn game story by an autistic Japanese man and was shocked by how much it resonated with me. In the mediums of TV and conventional games, never did I find a character's story so biting yet life affirming as the story of this loser: http://imgur.com/a/NXETx
I am now interested in reading the true classics of literature, but I am not sure where I should start.
Based on memetic value alone I have heard the following authors to be life-affirming: Friedrich Nietzsche, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ludwig Wittgenstein. What do I need to get started?
Start with the Greeks
my diary desu
>>9303763
>Start with the Greeks
I wish people would stop giving out this horrible advice.
You should start with finding out what ideas interest you the most. However, since you're just getting started you might not have a good sense of what ideas there are out there. A good way to familiarize yourself with prominent ideas is to get an overview of the history of philosophy. Sophie's World would be good for that if you are just getting started, or if you'd rather not have the fluff you could read an intro philosophy textbook. Once you've familiarized yourself with the general history of philosophy you have a good sense of what was on minds of people throughout the ages. It's like being provided a table of context. Once you have that table in mind then you should choose a particular idea to learn the history of. For example, if you read Sophie's World and were particularly interested in the section on Marx you might then decide to read The Main Currents of Marxism to gain a knowledge of the history of those ideas and how they ended up being manifested in Marx. At that point it would then be worth your while to read the classics within that area. Unlike just reading the classics blind like the person I quoted said. That doesn't do you much good, you don't know what you're reading or why it is important. It's just an old book if you don't know the context of them in history.
ITT glorious nippon-core
loved this one
Kazuo is a fucking bong. A fucking token jap. Why can this dingdongbingbong write about japan but a black man gets flack for writing about whites? The "you can't possibly understand crowd". Hate these double standards.
>>9303568
Akutagawa, Mishima, Soseki, Tanizaki, Dazai.
Read this stuff.
What the hell /lit/?
I'm never gonna read all this shit.
You can read that in a year, easy.
read catcher in the rye at least
>>9303517
Why is this shit so expensive?
>>9303416
I can upload a pdf of it to mega if you want.
>>9304210
Not OP, but Ive been interested in it too and that would be fantastic
>>9304216
here you go
https://mega.nz/#!OZBk2SSZ!7bkFEfPCoqKeqORDY3z-uLVFWy02T4BnbMo5IWYB8Sc
The only literature you need is Shakespeare, and The Bible
/thread
>>9303392
/board
A solid amount of Shakespeare's plays blow
Neither of those are novels; they lack heteroglossia so singular and unique to the novel
Anglo scum
>>9303325
If you wrote 200 pages without any planning of structure you're fucked.
If you planned the structure ahead of time, use that to define logical breakpoints.
>>9303442
Will the publishing/editors be mad that I haven't separated it by chapter when I send it in?
>>9303569
Yes. They will kill you.
I want to publish on amazon but im scared absolutely no one will read it, any advice?
I know publishing there is free but ill still be paying for the cover.
>>9303242
What do you write? Is it shit? If so, people probably will not read it.
>>9303244
Fantasy novel. I dont think its excellent at all but i also dont believe is shit.
self publishing on amazon is 99% marketing and 1% writing. the most successful fiction are romance that follow some niche gimmick like tattoos that have easily searchable terms.
I feel that this this a spot I haven't delved into very much.
I really enjoyed Frankenstein, and Poe's works are equally enjoyable.
I've also read Radcliffe's Romance of the Forrest.
I just don't know too much about Gothic literature and don't think I'll have the option to take on in school, so I'd like to find out from y'all if you have any good recommendations.
>>9303133
Its complex Russian doll-like structure inspired Perec's 'Life: an User's Manual'. The movie by Wojciech Has is also GOAT
>>9303147
Awesome, thanks m8. I'll definitely check it out.
Absolutely shameless bump.