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Best Postmodern book

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When does non fiction become more entertaining and bizarre than fiction? How does fiction compete?

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What are the most important non-fiction books from the last 30 years?

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>want to write something fucked up like a book from a murderers perspective or something
>worried about my parents finding it and being ashamed of me

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Have you ever written stream of consciousness for days on end just to see what you come up with?

I'm considering getting up at 4am every day next week and seeing whatever I can spew out for an entire week. I have a strange compulsion to do this and I don't know why.

Is this is a genuinely good way to come up with ideas when you are a budding writer with no concrete ideas?

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I've never read anything from Franzen. I hear this is his most famous book. Is it any good? What should I expect?

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say something nice about him

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Why don't we talk more about this?

It's a masterpiece

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Hello /lit/, i have come here with a request.

I'm a student of political science and frankly i'm getting sick of all the libertarian stuff they're teaching us to philosophize, as well as the general philosophy of the left, with freedom, a minimal state, no state at all, and so on. It's a very middle class individual-based philosophy that i simply do not identify with.

So i know that on the opposite pole of the spectrum is the Orient, with a focus on the group rather than the individual, with the family, society, and so on. I was wondering if anyone can recommend me the core philosophy (doesn't matter if it partakes in politics or not, but it would be a great bonus if it would be about the philosophy of politics) from India, China and Japan?

Like, what's the major historical intellectual reference point(s) for each of those countries, when it comes to managing (in their case) the self, the family, society and politics?

Also are there any philosophic authors who critic western philosophy?

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Why not make some fresh ones on this sedate Saturday?

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Can people please review this for me?

ie is it shit is it good what do you think, what should I edit blah blah blah


It was 5am on a mid-Decembers morning.
For me it was still night time and I was cycling home from a job at Victoria House in Holborn.

As I cycled across Waterloo Bridge in the darkness, I saw a shabby man cutting a lonely and solemn figure as he stood at the bridges side, looking out over the dark gushing water below.

The man was sick.
He felt nothing but a wrenching awfulness in his gut. Sobered with several cans of his daily super strength lager, he felt nothing but a deep and uncountable need to end his existence.

If all had played out like it was supposed to, I would have jovially called out “don’t do it!” as I flittered past this man at 5am on a mid-Decembers morning.
It would have been enough to make him think – remove him from his despair - just for a moment and consider that he was not alone.

Instead, I cycled past and said nothing.
The thought had come to me, and I was going to jokingly shout the remark, when it occurred to me that the man might actually be contemplating suicide, rather than simply standing on a bridge.

The seriousness of the realisation silenced me and so I sped past the man into the night, frozen with a sudden awareness.

I reached the other side of the bridge and hoped to myself that the man wasn’t doing what I possibly thought he was doing.
I cycled onto the roundabout as I came off the bridge. As I did a car drove out in front of me and slammed on its breaks.

I struck the vehicle and in that exact moment in time that I was flung over my handle bars, the man on the bridge flung him self over the railings.

The precise second that the mans fate was sealed, I was caught in a commotion – distracted – I forgot about the man and never thought of him again.

It was Gods plan that I save a man from killing himself.
But Gods plan failed, at 5am on a mid-Decembers mourning.

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This has probably been posted before but I haven't seen it mentioned. Whats the best translation of the Bible? I want to read it for understanding western theology/philosophy that bit better. Also I think it's essential reading before Dantes divine comedy.

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So this is getting a lot of praise, apparently. I hear people using the words 'magnus opus'.
Has anyone read it?
I remember enjoying his New York trilogy quite a bit some years back and was wondering if this is worth my time.

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FIRST BOOK YOU EVER READ THREAD.
>itt: post the first book you ever read by yourself.
I still have it to.

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>tfw submitting for publication again