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What shitty book series did you read back in middle school?
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I had a Dickens phase while everyone was reading Artemis Fowl.
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I read the entire Owen Deathstalker and Dark Tower series.
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Post original poetry, receive feedback.
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>There are dreams they left here
>Scattered among my fathers things
>and my mother's dust
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>>8687177
soot-tainted glass —
buried before the logs
burning, yet translucent
in midnight surpass — the
campfire warmth embraces
and audibly applauds
as the fingers I insert
into the flames and
the burning manifestations
straight from my brain
clothe the shelter
the memories,
the porous eyes
externally insane
but dim as the glass
weeping limited the rain
the midnight wind carries the fire,
touching and tame
as I whisper Ebonics in
back-faced refrain...
"here's to valued an emptysome pain"
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>turning 30
>still unpublished
Is there any worse feeling as an aspiring writer?
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>>8684641
posting about it here
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How is this even possible? If you're an aspiring writer shouldn't you have some interesting thoughts that you want to share with the world?
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>>8684830
Publishers need to make money. They can't make money if no one buys your book. It's quality doesn't matter. Your thoughts don't matter. Because if they don't make money off of your book, they lose money. They can't afford to lose money. Literature is a dying business.
How to make money off of a book as a publisher: See 50 shades get hyped, publish copycats. See Coelho get hyped, publish copycats.
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Start with the Ren-ayy Duh-cartuh
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>>8704699
Rainy The Sharts
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>>8704699
Render Cart
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>>8704699
Start with Deese Cart
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So, how's that novel coming along?
It's been almost a year since I last made this thread, so I'm sure you've made a lot of progress, right?
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meme 263,478
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>>8704684
To make a masterpiece novel from scratch you must first invent a universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
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>>8704684
all of my stories aspire to neo-expressionistic portraits of mannequins lounging in a sterile and jazzy mall.
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is stephen king complete trash or one of the best example of literature as entertainment?
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>>8704306
*pop literature
>dichotomy
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>>8704314
you're right, the more popular a book is, the worse it must be. every extra reader reduces the artistic content, and the highest quality literature is... our diaries tbqh.
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>>8704335
exactly. and with that logic in mind, BEHEAD ALL SATANS is the best novel ever written.
SK is the worst author. MNMDR is the best author of all time until something more underground comes around. thank you for clearing that up, anon.
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How will you ever recover fags? not even the author likes you.
http://vulkk.com/2016/08/30/creator-of-the-witcher-books-andrzej-sapkowski-hates-the-witcher-video-games/
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He owes royalties to Michael Moorcock desu.
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>>8704296
An author whose last name is close to my heart
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>>8704319
If that's a reference to the arab insult about fucking someone's ribcage, it's exceedingly clever and I couldn't have imagined anyone would understand it
What are some books that should be read during the winter time?
Sorry for frog, but it fits
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The Sea of Fertility
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A Christmas Carol should be read every December
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Everyone Poops
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Are there books anon could recommend that would help me understand meaning? What is meaning, how and when there is meaning, or not, multiple meanings, etc. A friend told me about speech act theory but I'm not sure it's helping. I'm thinking more about poetry and the like, but not exclusively, or some philosophical essay on meaning in general. Thanks.
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Dictionary
Stirner
google "metaphor"
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>>8704058
Pure meaning -> Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Meaning of Words -> Saussere's Course in General Linguistics
Meaning of expressions -> Lacan's Ecrits
Meaning of Art -> Derrida's On Grammatology
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>>8704077
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First public intellectual to interact with 4chan?
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Pleb/patrician squabbles nonwithstanding, is this a historic moment? I'm a canadafag, and I deeply admire this man's conviction and dignity under fire.
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>>8703881
>there are a generation of grown men who think 'Pepe the meme frog', 'meme magic' and 'praising Lord KEK' is funny
Aren't these the same people who complain about numales?
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'Big Dick' Nick beat him to the punch
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>>8703892
Yes.
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What are some books to read when you have no gf
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Proust - In Search of Lost Time
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It depends if you're looking for a gf.
Read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
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My diary desu.
>tfw a wizard offers you a malkovich ride
Rank the following literary host-skulls by order of preference, /lit/. The wizard allows you to choose from among the following four options:
a) You are the author of the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and the Silmarillion. You are widely acclaimed as the greatest fantasy author of the 20C. You are a world-renowned, beloved figure, and basically a lock for the canon.
b) You are the author of Dune, but you are also why we have W40K and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri as well. Your kids keep shitting up the legacy but it only shows how much you had it going on.
c) You are the author of Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, and many other pulp heroes. True, you occasionally enjoyed posing for photos fighting fake dinosaurs in your underpants or something but that's still okay. You are almost certainly some kind of genius.
d) You are a reclusive and hysterically frightened quasi-astropath who received frequent and periodic visitations from the elder gods distantly dreaming in R'lyeh.
You may suggest alternate skulls if you wish, including e) john green f) fuck you and g) my diary desu but because magic is a thing let's say you have to put the first four in some kind of order.
>correct answer: b, a, d, c
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malkovich malkovich malkovich?
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>>8703564
malkovich
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>>8703563
>R.E.H
>almost certainly some kind of genius.
I keked
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Can sci-fi/fantasy genre be /lit/erature?
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>>8703550
Yes, but Clarke is shit
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Yes, when it goes past being "a sci-fi/fantasy" book and reaches something more.
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Does /lit/ like fantasy?
I can't discuss it on /tg/ because everyone is a pleb and mocks me for trying to say they should treat fantasy in a less technical way.
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If you were to spend more then a minute checking the catalog then you would have your answer.
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We love fantasy! just not the kind you'd find in the in the sci-fi/fantasy section in a bookstore
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>>8703537
you mean shit like borges and garcia marquez? sure, it's neat
I'm the most well-read person I know, but I only read 3-4 books this year
Yet, I've read most of the books discussed in this board (expect the meme ones like Gravity Rainbow)
Is this board a joke or all of us aren't that well-read?
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I thought it has already been established that we're all pseuds here
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>>8703522
Oh great
I can feel better about myself now
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There are like 50 unique spooks on this board who visit regularly, how are we supposed to read the same books?
All the meme threads come from new people just discovering the charts.