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>>8709626
First define those genres

>>8709631
I know what are you trying to say, but more specifically without over the top technology or magic

Vonnegut's Thank You, Dr. Kevorkian takes place mostly in heaven. It is in the form of a series of interviews with people in heaven conducted while Vonnegut is repeatedly killed and revived by the doctor. All the figures are historical, some famous, some highly obscure, some who most would consider very "good" people, some who most would consider highly "evil". Good stuff and a quick read.

>>8709625
It only makes sense that the kind of person to make a post like this wouldn't understand a dialectic

I don't even like Marxism or any form of Socialism but it doesn't mean Marx and Engels weren't brilliant men.

>>8709637
yeah, other than being wrong about everything, they were pretty smart.

Get a load of this cuck

where the fuck am I supposed to get my amusing dog pictures from now?

>>8709560
my moms bf at the time was the guy that hit stephen king with his car

>>8709443
Post in the critique thread.

>>8709443
/lit/ likes metric and rhymes desu.

And your message or how it sounds don't really make up for the form.

>>8709443

It's a bland empty cry that barely rises above the level of your average /r9k/ post. Poetry certainly comes from strong feelings, but if you just sloppily spill it out like that you'll get nowhere.

>>8709399
Donald Trump just won the United States presidential election

Should I read this after Ulysses?

>>8709410
No, read JR.

>>8709146
>21st century
>trying to change society through literature

People don't read any more friendo, and the internet has dramatically shortened everyone's attention span, ability to analyse arguments, and tolerance for ideas outside their comfort zone.
That's a big part of everything that's going on in society now. It's the age of cognitive dissonance, any book you write will be loved by people who already agree with what you're trying to say, and dismissed out of hand by those that don't. Nobody's mind would be changed.

>Maybe we could
Maybe we couldn't
In fact
most likely we couldn't.

Society is gay anyway, so whatever.

but i am. i were rather, cause in so doing i got to understand things, the 1st of which is that you cant directly say anything, but only through the imagination. which is art. and that took me back to the start.

anyway if you are saying that you must be likewise using your litizenship usefully. what have you learned?

who is that

>>8708949

Cameron McCarthy

>>8708949
kanye west

>>8708905
1. Pynchon memes are getting stale
2. Barely anyone here has actually read GR thoroughly, so discussion is difficult
3. We're still recovering from his tragic death 3 months ago.

>>8708905
Yes, 4chan is currently too stupid for pynchon.

>>8708919
>Barely anyone here has actually read GR thoroughly, so discussion is difficult
sad if this is true.

>>8708741
why are /lit/fags the biggest pussies on this site?

>>8708751
Go back to your containment board. I voted for the meme too, but it's boring having our board overrun with this shit.

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>>8708741
You my friend are a mad cuck. kek

>>8708636
It's highly illogical.

Beautifully incomprehensible.

>>8708637
How?

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>>8708523
How about something to listen to in german? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpniYfOOwmk

other than that, pic related. a youth book to be sure, but I enjoyed it when I was little. And as a "kids" book it should be good for beginners for obvious reasons.

>>8708631
nah, i generally have a hard time listening to a foreign language until i learn to read it at very decent level. was the same with english.

i'll take your book suggestion though, thanks!

>>8708646
Michael Ending is a pretty famous german author for fantasy and books for children. You might also check out The Neverending Story which might be his best known work.

Fanged Noumeme?

>>8708447
The Republic

Start with the Greeks.

If you have to ask, you're doomed.

Seriously, though, just write about why you are struggling and you should be able to over come your writer's block. Just think about how you want your book to end, or the ultimate message you seek to express.

>>8708322
either write something to entertain yourself and keep working until you're genuinely entertained or write something you need to do research into and then mediate from there. Good books combine the two

Dear book, today i talked about you online. In fact i am doong just that at this moment. This is comfortable, i can see myself doing this in the near future as an enjoyable activity. I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other now. Goodbye for now

Well, I see you have some short story collections there, so dip your toes in with that. But you can't go wrong with the Foundation trilogy.

Ubik is a must read in my opinion. I found Philip K. Dick hard to read in the beginning (and still do sometimes), but that book is great, and probably his best. His work grew on me over time. I would definitely recommend him.

>>8708215
is that all the asimov books there ever was

doh that should be "A provides the main voice /her discovery"

Looks pretty sound, you would have to consider whether killing off the main voice be a transition or something that happens abruptly. You might have to find a balance between not creating such a jarring change and not tipping off your reader about the events to come (don't underestimatehow much people love to predict crime novels).

You could pull it off through multiple viewpoint character 3rd person POV writing. Give us some scenes throughout act 1 with the detective as your viewpoint character and the transition will be seamless.