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>>8796725
>translations
no hope for you my friend.
>how many books have you read this year
50

There's hope for you if you don't come back to /lit/. This board is pathetic.

>>8796725
No hope.
63

2001: A Spae Odyssey

pro masquerading as anti

I am trying to write something like this with a few stories, so bump for inspiration

>>8796731
Make the ai's just sit around and smoke robot crack all day, they just become a huge drain on society

>>8796644
women cant be smart
let her have her john green trash

why don't you grow up and stop hanging out with your fucking mom?

>>8796644
>How do I make my mom more /lit/?

You should be asking this about your gf or wife, my friend. How old are you?

>be recommended a book
>it's actually a tome

>reading a manifesto
>it turns into a polemic halfway through

>>8796617
>>8796664

>>8796664
>cinema
>film
>movie
>flick

>musique
>music
>muzak
>a jam

>____
>____
>book
>____
?

Marx, Capital

Tristram Shandy

>>8796425

Rabelais' work.

Fucking awesome gif, by the way.

>>8796420
Gene Wolfe.

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Vance.

Philly Kindred Dick

Why should anyone, anywhere care about your "power ranking"?

>>8796407

>/lit/
A Little Cloud

>>8796415
hey i just thought maybe we could do that on here, for short stories instead of albums. eh. eh

Dosto was being satirical when he wrote the Underground Man, I hope you understand.

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>>8796384
Notes from Underground is a case study of being irreparably spooked. Dosto was sent to gulag precisely because he was spooked by his Christian morality out of acting in his best interests, i.e keeping his head down and not being sent to gulag. The underground man is spooked by his literary ideals in a similar fashion. The conflict between egoism and subservience to higher ideals is timeless and manifests in infinite ways, but I believe the answer you are looking for is simply "spooks lol"

>>8796386
What's he satirising?

>>8796354
The Bible, which is by God who made Us with His magic several years ago... The Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, David And Goliath, and the Whore Of Babylon among more are all pats of the Bible!

>>8796365
>magic
Get behind me, Satan.

>>8796365
>Whore of Babylon
What a fucking rotten woman, like all women.
>oh, I'm a whore, teehee, I love sex!
>only fornicates with seven kings VIZ. CHADS

:(

It's a 700 page diatribe on collectivism. I like it tho

>>8796351
God it's so bad. There's so much to say about why it's bad, but to focus on just one thing is the constant fucking emphasis on his iconoclastic avant garde style of architecture that the stodgy architectural community won't accept because they dont believe in new ideas, and it's described as nothing more than watered down Frank Lloyd Wright and the book was written decades after he became popular and the architectural community started sucking his dick.
Which is to say the book sucks because it fundamentally misrepresents both artistic and engineering communities and also human nature itself.
Such a piece of shit.

>>8796320
How do you know he doesn't write for Family Guy?

he kinda looks like ole what's his name

You very clearly have not read a single one of his books

I've only read Less Than Zero by him. Was pretty good, liked the style.
>I woke up
>I turned on MTV
>I called my gay fuckboy
>I disregarded my sister
>I did cocaine
>I went to dinner with my gay fuckboy
>It was good
>We talked about MTV
>We went to his house
>We did cocaine
>We did gay stuff
>In the morning I did cocaine
>I drove home
>I called my ex girlfriend
>I did cocaine

>>8797055
Holy... I could happily read a novel of greentext Less Than Zero satire.

>>8796305
But every Bret Easton Ellis novel is his worst.

>>8796283
No, I'll have to force you to suck me off first.

>>8796283
I already am a writer

>>8796283
I became a writer when I was four faggot.

>>8796193
Dude if your shits good then someone'll publish it.

>How hard is it to get a book published?

Very hard, even if you're good.....especially if you're good.

>Is it as easy as writing a novel and sending it to a publisher

Uh...no.

>or is there political hoops I have to jump through

Knowing people in publishing will definitely help.

>initial costs I'll have to pay for first?

Going to writers conferences and hobbnobbing with other writers an agents will greatly increase your chances, but admission to these things are extremely expensive.

>I'd rather not have to pay anything

Really? Wow, I'd never have guessed that about you. Your chances go way down without networking, but it's not impossible....like winning the lottery isn't impossible.

>If my shit's good

Stop thinking in terms of good or not. Think in terms of marketable, or not, from now on.

>will front all the costs of printing and publication, right

Yes, they pay for everything up front, and claim 80% of the profit later.

>Or will they just see a document from an unknown author and immediately throw it in the trash?

Most likely thing to happen, yes. If you're not published, strike one. If your project isn't very similar to something that's already selling, strikes two and three.

>>8796216
Can you only publish a book if you have notoriety nowadays? Do you have to have something published in a literary magazine or newspaper before anyone will even talk to you?

>>8796170
Fuck off, Reddit

>>8796170
You're a retard, and I would definitely put this book very high on a list of must-reads for beginners. It's an excellent example of a person who convinced themselves that they were right by virtue of their own conceit. The reason the book is so reviled is because it's easy for plebs to see why it's basic premise is stupid, and I would suggest this book to any person who is in danger of convincing themselves that they are right, rather than exploring the possibility that they are wrong.

>>8796170
literally among the worst (if not the very worst) literally canon has to offer.

Pure shite on every level, the writing is essentially proto-fanfic writing