Are cigarettes and coffee /lit/?
>>8692027
cigarettes, yes; coffee, no.
>>8692027
/lit/erally gonna fuck your teeth up
Addiction aside, they're all about signaling faux maturity.
Yes.
Trying to build a E book libarary.
http://ebooklibrary23.blogspot.com/2016_11_01_archive.html
first part is spiritual. anybody know any more authors
Science Fiction E Book Library
http://ebooklibrary23.blogspot.com/2016/11/science-fiction-e-book-library.html
Esoteric E Book Library
http://ebooklibrary23.blogspot.com/2016/11/esoteric-e-book-library-collection-of.html
Thank you Anon that was exactly what I was looking for!
Can't help you tho
Anyone on here doing NaNoWriMo? Any veterans wanna post tips/etc? With enough interest maybe we can get a /general/ going?
>inb4 It's not real writing etc.
Its better than nothing mang
>>8677281
How, exactly, is NaNoWriMo not considered 'real' writing?
Setting a time limit somehow invalidates the concept of writing?
I'm gonna do it, though I'm not gonna sign on to anything. Just gonna do my best to write a book, mostly to improve my craft, not because I'm expecting to create a masterpiece.
>>8677642
convincing people that they should write even if they have nothing to say results in a lot of garbage.
I'm free. Finally.
Have you even been alone and let out the loudest, longest fart ever?
Then just burst out laughing about it?
Then feel really sad that nobody else was around to experience it with you?
The only good thing to come out of Dylan was the movie the joker and that chick from lord of the Rings and batman were in.
i can't be free before i turn off (or better destroy) my computer
Are there any books written about the Trump phenomenon and the culture which made it possible?
I know it's a little early for an in-depth analysis to emerge, but I'm interested in how he was able to control the media so easily.
Possibly this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695425-strangers-in-their-own-land
Hadrian reviewed it well and I haven't been disappointed with his stuff yet: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1754011531?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
>>8698065
Anything about populism and a consumerist anti-intellectual culture
The Decline of the West
This man has some great prose
sage errday
>>8696942
Gustavo Santaloalla?
>>8696942
He seems like a slightly more-respected Dave Eggers. Although I appreciated his Gaddis essay, it didn't leave me particularly excited about anything else he's written.I haven't read either of them.
It's that time of year again. Post what you have read this year. What books did you guys like the most or the least? Any surprises that popped up in the year? Anything you plan on squeezing in the last few weeks of the year? Plans for next year?
This year has been the least culturally diverse for me in a few years. I'm learning French so I have held off from reading French books but asides from that I can't really explain why. I can't say I have a favourite though I did immensely enjoy certain books of poetry by Yeats contained within his collected poems. My least favourite was easily Catch 22, so much so that I dropped only about 20 pages from the end. I've suffered from a bit of a novel fatigue in recent months which is why there is so much non-fiction this year. I think I was most surprised with The Adventure of Tom Sawer. I had not heard great things about it and knowing it was a children's novel I didn't have very high hopes but I ended up really enjoying it. I loved seeing where Faulkner got so much of his style from.
I'm pretty new to poetry but I am planning on reading a lot more of it next year. I want to keep up my reading of Japanese fiction. I think' I'll focus on the Meiji era rather than the postwar era next year. I also want to read more essay collection with Aredt and Weil being high up on my to-read list.
Uh too much to list so I'd just say best was
>Under the Volcano
>Fear and Trembling
>Ulysses
>Keats
>Yeats
>>8696877
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jesus fucking christ how do people like that thing.
I'm not even talking about the homosexuality, even if that annoys me a whole fucking lot, I'm talking about how Basil is pretty much Common Sense+Obsession, Dorian goes from innocence to 2edgy4me to pussy redemption and Henry essentially built an autistic philosophy around paradoxes, so if you ask him "How to a?" he'll answer "Do the opposite of a to do a".
Do any of you guys have experience dealing with sudden lack of motivation to read? I've read a huge amount of books this year and it's pretty normal that at points I take a two or three day (sometimes up to a week) long break and then I'm fine to keep reading, but I've been having trouble reading for almost a month.
What is the most /lit/ race, and why is it the Jews?
>>8696749
Jewish is not a race you b...boob sucker
>>8696760
>Jewish is not a race
I guess Arabs aren't a race either.
>>8696778
They aren't, your point?
I read a fiction book about an unnamed Arab country once. It was about the lives of several women from varying classes of society living under this repressive regime. It was set in this kind of oil boom town. Anybody know what it is?
1001 Arabian Nights
>>8696709
No memes please.
>>8696705
A Tale of Two Cities
seriosly guys, how is this guy so well known
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcHc54Z_b3w&feature=youtu.be
are you aware of the irony that the more critical you are of capitalism, the more you succeed in capitalism
He is literally the Kim Kardashian of philosophy.
his quirky mannerism and coke-energized rants, duh.
>>8696679
He is a philosopher?
I thought he was the writer of Game of Thrones.
What books are best to read to appreciate Belle Epoque Europe?
In Search of Lost Time
>>8696520
Nah, voyage au bout de la nuit is the way to go
Wittgenstein's Vienna. It is an amazing overview of the times.
Theres also another ones, less accessible tho: Fin-de-siecle Vienna.
I'm looking for something easy and comfy that I can read between my serious literature.
>>8696469
John Hawkes - The Beetle Leg
my diary with all honesty, give me your email and I'll send you a copy
Haruki Murakami
IT'S HAPPENING: /n/ VS /lit/
Link to hitbox and all info here:
http://www.implyingrigged.info/wiki/Main_Page
>>8696432
>second lowest in rankings
shiiet
wtf is wrong with our keeper
Start with the greeks with a screamer
How come sometimes names of things appear like this?
I used to have an edition of Les
Mis that did the same thing with the names of towns
>>8696412
It's not difficult.
>>8696412
To make a clear distinction that it is fictional
It's giving you enough info to know what's going on and to use as a point of reference, but not enough that you could actually look up that specific bridge or street and connect the events of the story to that real-life place. It's basically a reminder that this is a work of fiction. `
What do you guys do when you come across a word you don't know?
How do you expand your vocabulary?
I'm asking because I just lost my electronic dictionary, and I'm a little bummed
hey....... that's my dictioanary!!!!!
Step one is getting a good dictionary
http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
>>8696409
I highlight it on my kindle and learn the definition. It sinks in if the word is useful to me. If it isn't I forget about it, lest I become a pseud.