So what does /lit/ recommend for writing drama and wich cliches should i avoid?
>>8993942
>drama
>avoiding cliches
well... i don't think there are any cliches you can avoid.
>>8993942
First, you should learn to spell.
>>8993957
my english is bad, but since I'll not write in english...
What are /lit/s thoughts on the Halo novels?
They're not very good and we'd probably laugh at you for reading them
High brow literature for serious intellectuals such as my self, muh lady.
>>8993543
Oh, god yes!
[splurging nerd-gasim]
But on a serious note, however much I love the universe, I wouldn't consider it any more than a personal enjoyment. Defiantly not one of the higher brow literary collections, and certainly not on levels of works like Infinite Jest or whatever /lit/ reads these days. Although a wider variety of authors do lend it more flexibility in terms of quality and style, I would say that the books are defiantly OKAY, but not really anything more than that. They get the job done, that's enough.
Although, I would defiantly recommend (if you are a sci-fi reader interested in philosophy and don't want to read the actual works, you sperg) the first two books. When I was in high school (god I was such a nerd), it introduced me to utilitarianism, it's applications, and it's ultimate implications and consequences. It was what brought me eventually to my eventual refutation of utilitarianism as a whole, leading me to Kantian ethics. So I suppose it does have some philosophical implications.
Other than that, I'd say that it's alright, and an adequate choice if you read for fun. Greg Bear is a little dry, and Karen Travis is frustrating, but tolerable.
But that's just a nerdy tripfag speaking. I'm sure others will have their own pieces to add too.
>tfw dead pixels on my ereader
>tfw dead pixels on my paper book
>tfw dead
>tfw my pixels on dead ereader
opinions on this novel?
>>8993423
boring and shitty and the i ching wrote it
>>8993447
who's i ching? I thought High As Fuck Hugo wrote it
>>8993452
It's a form of Chinese divination. Also the memes about whose dick is this or the high man in the castle are better than the book itself.
I bought one of these.
How do I streamline my reading experience between this, my iPhone, and the physical copy I may have?
>>8993336
fuck man, what happened to reading? now people have stats and shit, it's not a fucking rpg.
>>8993340
I didn't mean to be controversial with my choice of eReader. I never owned one before and I am trying to get back into reading.
>>8993349
oh, no no, nothing you did wrong. you enjoy yourself, i'm just complaining.
Right lads
I'll be straightforward. I know that for all the layers of irony and disaffection you cake yourselves in, what you want more than pretty much anything else, when it comes to your art, is recognition, feedback, validation, etc.
And that's fine. That's normal. That's expected.
From my perspective especially, that's good -- because some of you are actually quite bright.
The reason I'm making this post is because I've just started a lil' literary publication on Medium and want content for it. The link that explains submissions is here: https://medium.com/the-forvm/write-for-us-2f37e2b2a832#.q8rdypwpv
To be as blunt as possible we have a non-existent fanbase and can not pay you. I can promise, though, that you will get at least some extra traffic for having published in the magazine, and I will do my darnedest to market your stuff wherever I can.
So, give it a shot. Unsure if this abides by board rules; will gladly accept whatever administrative kick in the teeth may come from posting this. About time browsing /lit/ actually provided you with some kind of opportunity though amirite haha -- but no, really, have a wonderful night and thank you for your consideration
how is it pronounced?
>>8993370
I have only had two people try since founding it -- one said 'For-um,' the other said 'For-vum,' -- have no preference at this point.
What do you think?
>>8993394
For V.M. (Virtual Machines)
Is critiquing and editing female/feminine texts an aggressive attempt at psychological warfare by males to reshape and pervert female self-recognition, via acting as the "insider" and the base authors of womanhood?
how do you even come up with this bullshit
>>8992946
Planetary. Feminine. Energy.
>>8992922
spot on.
My father works for (Nintendo) our state board of education and he's pretty high up in the chain of command. Since I see these books are the most popular here, I figured I would ask this question, and maybe get some discussion about how this implementation might affect/effect the growing minds of my States population.
http://www.strawpoll.me/12143814
Also, feel free to give suggestions (the classics) of what the public school English reading list curriculum should contain.
Your father is a faggot
This is stupid for too many reasons for me to bother articulating them all.
>>8992916
>Also, feel free to give suggestions
inb4 Mein Kampf
What hardcovers and first editions do you have? These are the few I own.
>>8992888
#cringe
>>8992888
Are the requirements both hardcover and first edition? I have this first edition of the uk release of make room make room!. I have a bunch other firsts that aren't really interesting and aren't nearly as meme as your shelf there. Also own a bunch of hardcovers.
Now that i think about it, what the fuck is the point of this thread?
>>8993230
no either or
Which of his works are crucial for understanding Kierkegaard?
>inb4: all of them
>>8992635
all you have to get is that Hegel had a big bad system that everyone said was irrefutable and the end of philosophy and couldn't be beat
Hegel thought that humanity had a teleology that basically ended in us all attaining cosmic consciousness no matter what happened. War, strife, poverty, etc., Hegel was positive we'd all reach that level regardless of our choices or anything like that.
Smack Daddy K didn't like that
>>8992644
>Hegel thought that humanity had a teleology that basically ended in us all attaining cosmic consciousness no matter what happened. War, strife, poverty, etc., Hegel was positive we'd all reach that level regardless of our choices or anything like that.
What was his fucking problem?
>>8992644
Interesting. I'd like to read his works more now.
What, to him, was cosmic consciousness?
Death of the author.
Yay or nay?
If the author is dead who's gonna write books
>>8992615
Looking both ways is how you cross a street
what a stupid thread
How come all the prose masterpieces all have substandard plots?
When your objective is stringing together pretty sounding sentences they tend not to add up to much as a whole.
What is your idea of great plotting?
plot is literally irrelevant and for YA booktubers
>>8992607
How many books/tv shows/movies have great/good/decent/ok plots already (how many libraries filled with books with plots)? Do you really need more?
A bunch of books I ordered has just arrived and I'm not sure where to start.
They include The Corrections, White Noise, Name of The Wind, Dracula, The Broom of The System, As I lay dying and a confederacy of dunces.
Start by not ruining this board.
>>8992375
you know urself better than me, my nigga
u should be able to decide for you'reselve
>>8992375
confederacy of dunces will have you lol'ing. Top tier humor. It's like an American Don Quixote.
I'm just some guy on the internet and all, but I'd recommend you read that one first.
Peace.
fav conspiracy theory books?
>>8992336
Anything Pynchon tbqhwyrndf
>>8992336
The Illuminatus and The Historical Illuminatus.
Anything by Peter Dale Scott
What is the importance of fiction?
What is its relation to reality? Do they reflect and inform each other?
What makes something important anon?
You've just opened up a rabbit hole you can't get out of.
>>8992334
Humans cannot live without assumptions. Everyday when you wake up and get ready for work you assume that your bus is going to come today, you assume society is still intact and you are going to get paid, you assume that you are going to be in need of money. But that assumptions are just too linear and automated after a point, it doesnt reflect your brain's whole capacity to make assumptions. So you start to tingle your assumption mechanism by either moving parameters of life to your liking in your mind or simply consume pre-made assumptions. This action feeds from reality and based on reality.
>>8992353
Well that's what I'm trying to figure out.
So as not to detour, let us define 'important' as beneficiary to either yourself or society in a form that goes beyond simply being entertaining. Does fiction give any insight into reality, a reflective surface, after all it is completely a product of reality and as Cervantes would stress (and I don't have an exact quote but something along the lines of)
>fiction has to be rooted in reality, being true in its logic to stimulate the reader rather than cheapen it in fantasy.
Plato would disagree stating that in Ion
>the theatre is not sufficient in conveying the truth (540c)
Huxley on the other hand,
>I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas. My goodness, Dostoyevsky is six times as profound as Kierkegaard, because he writes fiction. In Kierkegaard you have this Abstract Man going on and on—like Coleridge—why, it’s nothing compared with the really profound Fictional Man, who has always to keep these tremendous ideas alive in a concrete form. In fiction you have the reconciliation of the absolute and the relative, so to speak, the expression of the general in the particular. And this, it seems to me, is the exciting thing—both in life and in art
So which would you agree with? Is fiction a lie, An approximation of the truth or vehicle for life?