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>got an article published in an online travel magazine
>got paid $10
I feel important.
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Congratulations, anon!
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>>9284620
neat, I enjoy travel writing despite the flak it gets
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i make 10,000 times that in a year
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ITT: Classics that are actually hot dogshit
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LotF is too tame to be dogshit.
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>>9284541
you're not kidding, I feel like I've read Babby's First Big Book of Extended Metaphors.
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>>9284528
The author was an actual pedo i read like 50 pages and had to stop
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have you ever refuse to read some author because of his ideology? i'm a black man, from latino-america, and i recently discovered that many authors that i already read and liked were racists. well, basically, all the relevant authors before the twenty-first century, especially the americans, were racists. it's a historical context thing, i know.
anyway.
at first, it's a bit uncomfortable to deal with it. but i don't think i would refuse to read a novel because of that, unless it was something really done to offend me. however, in any case, i feel a bit uncomfortable, for example, to say i enjoyed reading lovecraft or faulkner. it's hard to explain. maybe, this is clearer for someone born and raised in usa, amdist a latent and frequent racial tension, because of the reminiscences of the recent segregationist past.
another example, i've already seen many people refuse to read gabriel garcia marquez and pablo neruda because they were leftists.
how do you deal with it? it's something you just try to ignore?
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It's a matter of separating the artist from the art. I hate muslims with a burning passion but I think Cat Stevens made some fantastic music back in the day. There's nothing to deal with, really. You either let the artist's beliefs interfere with your appreciation of their art or you don't.
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>>9284480
>because of his ideology
You mean because of your ideology you fuck
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Faulkner was the opposite of a racist...
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Where can I find an overview of Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin?
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Skip the utopianism and liberalism and just read Marx instead
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>>9284479
There is a really good compilation of Anarchist Essays that has all of them and Goldman. I read it about 7 years ago but I cannot remember the name.
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>>9284496
I'm actually planning on reading bookchin but want to get some background first
if a bisexual writer doesnt write about lgbt characters does that still mean they're a lgbt author? just wondering for submitting manuscripts for places that call for "lgbt" authors, im unsure if they mean the author theirself, or the content of their work.
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Bi isn't even much of an orientation. It just means you're a decadent perv
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>People of colour.
>Black people.
>Coons.
>Niggers.
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Bisexual here
I'd gladly read a book by a gay or lesbian or bisexual or whatever
You couldn't pay me to read a book by an "LGBT author"
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To shitpost, or not to shitpost, that is the question.
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Dude I love Robert Shakespeare https://youtube.com/watch?v=-kzvQtNZ82Y
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>>9284306
>loves a nigger
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>"to be or not to be" on google images
>pictures of Hamlet holding Yorick's skull
THAT'S NOT THE FUCKING SCENE WHERE HE SAYS THAT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES
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Redpill me on sci-fi, /lit/.
> Either wondrous with a sense of adventure.
Or
> Boring and depressing.
Or
> Has anyone found the middle ground?
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>>9284321
Hahajajhajajja that's a fun y cove rhajahahah
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>>9284321
I choose the former. Doc Smith and ERB.
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>>9284321
What about new wave? Like J.G. Ballard?
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Best novel?
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>>9284275
Avoid the Dark Tower series
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Faggotball AIDS: The Butt Butt Book of Creepy Nutsacks
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>>9284275
Literally who?
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Has anyone else grown out of literature? I have become smarter than most every author and they have nothing left to teach me. I cannot partake in the imagination of people so clearly below one What happens next when one ascends to this level of grand master?
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boring
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>>9284259
You've ascended beyond all literature? Then you're finally ready to read my diary, desu
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>>9284268
Yep. I have a 150 IQ so it did not take long.
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Books that got significantly better as you aged?
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I wouldn't know. I'm not a nerd who reads books more the once lol
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The Harry Potter series
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all of them, i go back to books from high school and realise i was a naive fuckhead
serious question: who is the yoko ono of literature?
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Mary Shelley.
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ayn rand
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>>9284254
Simone de Beauvoir
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Books that got better as you got older?
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>>9284249
Sort of related: over the last couple of years I have noticed that I am able to get a lot more out of books, music, movies, etc. Even stuff that isn't really difficult to comprehend, I find that I am picking up things I would never have noticed before.
I am not sure whether it is a result of reading more or just growing older in general
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>>9284342
me too. feels good man :)
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What are some books dealing with time and memory?
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My diary desu
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>>9284200
Phillip K Dick might be a decent start for your search.
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Well for starters, In Search of Lost Time is a must, and a complete masterpiece. Though it's purely slow and drawn out "reading to enjoy reading" lit imo. Translated and untranslated are both great. Purists will obviously say the original is better, but it isn't worth learning French for, the translation by that young dead military man is still 10/10
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Is Tolstory overrated?
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>>9284167
i thought tolstory 3 was, the first two were pretty good though. that purple bear guy wasn't a very convincing antagonist
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>>9284169
Tolstoy 3 made me cry desu. So did Tolstoy's Master and Man.
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>>9284167
Not at all. What makes you say that?
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What are books about sexism that explain how pervasive it is, how both sexes are guilty of it and how it harms everyone?
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my diary desu
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Faggot.
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>>9284158
I'm not even memeing: my diary