https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_novel
do you even?
inb4 Bolano 2666
>>9068843
that like just the first chapter
>>9068871
you only got through the first chapter, you meant
Stoner
Pnin
Darconville's Cat
White Noise
Are all top tier
Are there any good erotic novels out there that you guys could recommend? Because apart from the one in a million chance of finding something half-way decent on Literotica or Hentai-Foundry, most published works seem to either be full-on smut with barely functional prose, or romance novels peddled as erotica because they happen to have one prosaic and rushed sex scene every hundred page or so.
But I'm talking about something that legitimately focuses on sex (or even ecchi tier descriptions) without falling into the realm of senseless smut or being subordinated by the romance.
>inb4 Marquis de Sade
>>9068768
Edith Templeton
>>9068768
Fanfiction.
>tfw can only fap to hentai any more
ITT: books for reading on a snowy day
Snow country
>>9068722
Some comfy russian /lit/
>>9068722
War and Peace
So, this reading ability system has got my 13 year old reading Walden.
While I appreciates that he reads so well, I can't help but feel that a lot of it will go way over his head.
He would have preferred to read A Study in Scarlet, but apparently the score of the book is not "challenging" enough. I thought maybe David Copperfield, but no, THAT isn't challenging enough.
The only book he could find at his level that interested him was Walden.
Personally, I think comprehension and content are really, really important for a kid, and it just feels too soon for Walden. I don't understand this system at all.
Do you know anything about it?
How does it work?
What are your thoughts?
>he's worried his 13 year could be smarter than him
Just realized I didn't write the name of the system: lexile.
>>9068519
Haha: not exactly.
I'm worried that this score is ONLY about reading ability, not content or age appropriate material, and my kid will spend hours joylessly reading a book that hhe isn't old enough to appreciate, when he could be voyaging with Long John Silver, or adventuring in India with Kim.
Enjoyment is extremely important!
>cultural marxists aren't so bad
>mfw American education
>cultural marxism
>alt-right buzzwords
>>>/pol/
>>9068452
Song of Solomon is a genuinely great work, though.
Lay off the /pol/ coolaid.
So l accidentally agreed to write a play that my rich friend is going to finance (he's already put a some money down) and I've never published anything longer than a short story before. Am I fucked?
Also general playwriting tips?
Just nut up and give it a shot.
who's going to watch this play?
if its a handfull of undergrads that you barely know, who cares?
you could probably embezzle some of the money and buy a nice pair of shoes
what will it be about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLUIXWnrC0
How accurate is this video on a scale of 1 - 10?
Karl Marx and Theodor Adorno, the inventors of postmodernism, created pop culture in order to undermine Western values and usher in the nihilistic, atheistic age of brutal communism.
>>9068409
I genuinely can't fathom this style of thinking. How can you have such strong opinions on the Frankfurt School and have literally zero idea what they wrote about or even supported.
It genuinely leaves me dumbstruck. If it's straight up dishonesty for the purposes of propaganda I can get that, fine, dick move but I get it. A lot of these people actually seem to believe it though.
Fucking terrifying.
>Galatians 5:2
>Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Burgers BTFO
>>9068403
Well just cut off my dick-skin and call me a goyim!
My favourite is when Americans justify their torture of infants and the destruction of their own sexual pleasure and sensitivity by saying "women prefer it."
You do everything women tell you to do?
Books that give the same feelings as this film? And other Satoshi Miki films.
up
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“In literary fiction, I would say it is more normal for advances to be in the hundreds rather than the thousands of euro. Royalty rates in Ireland are often based on net receipts rather than list price, so if you’re looking at a book that sells for a tenner, the author might expect to get something between 50c and €1.20 for it.
“If you look at the top 1,000 books sold in Ireland last year, you are doing well to sell somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 books, so if you multiply that by – for simplicity’s sake – a euro, you’re making between €1,000-€2,000 for your book. If you make that, you’ve done well, and that is more normal than the great big advances.” - Donal Ryan (winner the Guardian First Book Award and Dublin Book Festival’s Irish Book of the Decade as well as making the shortlist for the Booker prize) on returning to his day job
You still want to become a professional writer?
>implying people become writers for the big bux
>>9068363
yeah.....but half of /lit/ and students in literature degrees are under the false impression that they can make a frugal living from it.
it would be easier to become a rockstar....and i don't think many people even listen to rock music anymore
If you're writing to make shekels, odds are your shit isn't gonna sell anyway.
Unless it's one of those dumb ass novelty books about "how to make a million dollars" or finding happines or whatever, and even then they become succesful only through sheer luck and a little marketing push that'll end up costing you.
Anyone in a local writers group?
Would you share a half finished novel with these people?
Would you share your finished manuscript with these people?
>>9068285
i am and i do
especially considering one of the writer's is leagues better than me, and has helped me get over more than a few stumbling blocks in my own writering
>tfw no writers group QT
>>9068285
>especially considering one of the writer's is leagues better than me
Are you sure just one?
Post in this thread if you're reading Gravity's Rainbow.
>Current Page
505
>when you started
Mid January.
>how many pages you read of it per day
15-20
>how you like it so far.
It's pretty interesting but I'm still waiting for it all to come together.
>what you plan to read next.
JR by William Gaddis
751 out of 861 in my EPUB
December
Been reading it on and off. Nothing on most days because I'm busy.
It will probably be my favorite book when I'm done. I've pretty much read it twice, either because the writing was too good or a little confusing. I don't think I get the book on a 'deep' level but I understand enough for it to be my favorite book.
Infinite Jest
>206
>december
>5-10, some days I don't read
>it gets better right?
>I don't know. this seems like it will never end
I got to about there anon when I gave up :) maybe I'll attempt it again some time soon.
>greeks
Chek
>evola
Chek
>don quixote
Chek
>random fiction
Chek
Am I one of you guys now?
That's a nice stack OP. Keep in mind, though that Hamilton is a good source of background info for reading actual Greek works, and doesn't take the place of actually reading the Greeks.
Master & Commander is top-tier fun/comfy fiction.
>spending money on the books of reactionary larpers
disgusting
>>9068286
Seemed like a good intro
Post some words you recently learned.
Or ask questions relating to vocabulary.
The last word I googled was rubrication, which is like highlighting for medeval monks.
Recently learned the word "bucolic." As an adjective, it means "relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside or country life." As a noun, it refers to a pastoral poem.
I'm writing a short story about city life vs rural life, which is why I came across the word. Some sentences I jotted down:
"Cityfolk will never understand the joys of bucolic simplicity."
"The tumultuous city was devoid of the bucolic simplicity of rural living."
Any other words you would recommend I should consider using for such a story? Are there any adjectives which relate to the bad aspects of rural life, or the good or bad aspects of city life?
>>9068065
The word sounds unpleasant.
Is sociopathy just an applied mental state?
>>9068030
It's an outdated generalization of certain behavioral themes to the entirety of someone's character. Don't worry, you aren't one. Just a lonely loser searching desperately for a way to be special without doing anything.
>>9068090
nice projecting
>>9068030
Imagine being raised in a hostile environment with no safe harbor whatsoever.
Attributes and characteristics of people merely add up to strengths and weaknesses, anything else is irrelevant, people are a collection of vulnerabilities, whatever they value is where they are vulnerable. All that matters is control and being controlled.
To answer your question, it can be but it's a matter of 'you can't teach experience'.