How would the theoretical "worst novel ever" be written?
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Like this
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>>9937462
This book is actually really bad, I don't know how some people here liked it. It's reddit the book.
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find this kind of letter in Pynchon's, Gaddis's, Barth's or Wallace's book.
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and what did you think about it ?
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>>9937387
that's pretty shallow tbqh
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>>9937438
But maybe that's just cause I wouldnt like people like me
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What do you guys think about Nietzsche's critique of Christianity. As I understood it, he claimed that St. Paul hijacked early Christianity for his worldy purposes and that core of Christian values like compassion and charity weaken us because they are not part of our animal nature.
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isnt this a strokes album
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>>9937362
what book is this discussed in?
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>>9937362
nietzsche's prodigy is aleister crowley, and he ate a woman's shit... so.
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is it useful a portfolio of fiction writing?
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when the portfolio is the writing then that and best the for it
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ITT: post the course you have and the books you were assigned in it then other anons rate the list.
I'll start:
>Comedy
The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Bald Soprano and Fun Home.
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> The hitchhiker's guide to cringe humor
> Comedy
Beside that, who actually needs courses and teachers to read those basic books?
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Hi. I want to share my works online but... how?
and where?
if i have no influential friends is it useless?
please help
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>>9937262
I'm in the same boat. I'd suggest joining the Writer's Block discord channel. There are a lot of people there with varying experience that can help you out.
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Why haven't you read The Tunnel yet?
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>>9937249
But I have.
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>>9937249
it's long and hard, and i have a job and stuff
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>>9937249
no electronic copy on ligben
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Is the Iliad actually a good story, or was it just the best shit around for a couple thousand years? I recently listened to it on audiobook, and it seemed like 90% of it was fight scenes between people I didn't know or care about, and the history/genealogy of those randos who were killed by the characters that actually mattered.
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>audiobook
pretty good bait
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>>9937234
To some extent I think the Iliad is similar to Dragon Ball Z where a dozen characters with rather exotic names are built up for ages and fight eachother in the most extravagant way with their godlike superpowers (in the Iliad they tossed the kind of rocks on their own which nowadays takes four just to carry) for twelve episodes all while their friends are watching and cheering, and it's all leading up to some ultimate drama to conclude the season or episode
The Iliad is a good story though
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>>9937263
Not bait. It was the one read by George Guidall.
>>9937264
I disliked almost every single character. Ajax and Odysseus were OK, the rest were whiny, petty, and outrageously egotistical. I guess there's some humor to be found in the fact that these people prayed to gods who were pettier than them and viewed them as playthings.
>plagiarizes known autist Kierkegaard
>claims to have solved philosophy
>spergs out because he didn't like his fans' personality
>claims to break off from his early work
>still sperging and plagiarizing Kierkegaard
>claims to have solved philosophy (again)
> ends up saying some butch Thomist woman understands him best
most overrated philosopher of the 20th century after Heidegger (who also plagiarized Kierkegaard, known autist)
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>egger
>agaar
I see it now!
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>>9937242
Forget everything else. This alone has prompted me to be a Witgenstein scholar.
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Well???
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Sounds amazing t b h, I love a book with absolutely sweeping scope like this.
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Can a woman really fall in love with a man whose name is an anagram for Cunt?
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Imagine actually writing this blurb,
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just finished reading The Brothers Karamazov and i'm in shock. How do i become more like Aliocha? is it truly impossible to genuinely love humanity without religion?
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>>9937045
Join a monastery, learn humility
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>>9937045
That's a melon and not a pineapple
Those are two different fruits
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>>9937113
Not an argument.
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Any Milo fans out there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcRSNp285vc
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I just lost nearly four minutes of my life watching that dog trash video, and some more time writing this comment. Fuck you, and fuck that video
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>>9937008
i bet you never read a real book in your life
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>>9937008
>reading Milo
>making a review of his book
>shilling this video on /lit/
This is a step by step process of what you did wrong.
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This novel was not nearly as gay as I was lead to believe.
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>>9936979
The book maybe, but the author is just as gay as you have been led to believe.
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I started this last night but only got to page 15 before I had to sleep due to it being 1 am. I can already tell why you and all the people irl like you hate it.
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Am I not a person IRL?
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>>9936956
Go ahead OP
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TL:DR
Books about love/homosexuality in Ancient Greece?
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Primary or secondary?
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>>9936889
both desu. I'm probably more inclined to read secondary at this point, but if there's anything other than the sumposium that deals with homosexuality in particular i'd love to hear about it
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Thegonis Elegies