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>medium
Why is that platform so shit?
I was so excited when I heard about the concept of the site, but when I browsed the actual content, I felt like I had to bleach my eyes.

>>8623855
>clickbait central

I'm sure there are some diamonds in the rough.

>>8623853
It's probably not what someone posting here is looking for, for all sorts of reasons, but on Medium a few publications/blogs/whatever that don't just publish clickbait are Poets Unlimited, Crossing Genres, and The Coffeelicious.

Again, these things are all far removed from anything that'd be /lit/ or 4chan approved and you might hate all of them, but they meet the basic criteria of not being entirely comprised of clickbait.

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>>8623634
A word describing literature.

>>8623634
It's a simple question but the answer is less so

>>8623638
so can you answer?

>>8623564
consider to read nabokov's "the enchanter" :3

Muh analytical

love jung, love hegel, also think they have written some shit as well

anyway love em all :3

>megalomanic language of schizophrenics, who use terrific spellbinding words to reduce the transcendent to subjective form, to give banalities the charm of novelty, or pass off commonplaces as searching wisdom. So bombastic a terminology is a symptom of weakness, ineptitude, and lack of substance

Huh, that's pretty much why literature annoys me. Not 'real' enough. But Jung had his time, psychologists today know that just by labeling something very nicely you can actually increase it's appeal. So Jung is actually wrong, for the exact same reason as he was right.

>>8622826
Is this a 'bash women' thread?

>>8622826
slam poetry isn't for the like of us

My favorite slam poet is "poet" from the emmy winning HBO series "OZ"

>>8621513
First you turn to the first page and look at the words with your eyes, when you reach the end of a page you turn to the next. Rinse and repeat.
Just because you don't agree with some description doesn't mean a books dull. If anything it should be more exciting that you find it dull because it gives you more of a reason to think than if you simply agreed with the author.

>>8621513
>And the opening description he gives of the woods is inaccurate and made me feel like the man had never been in the woods in his lifetime.
lol, i hope you are being sincere because that's funny.

i mean, if its boring ok, drop it. but i like that overly simple opinion

>I began but it is too dull.

I'd just kill myself at this point.

I SAID WHAT DO WE THINK OF IT?

>>8621097
I think it's great, but I may be biased as I am the author.

Where can I read it? I remember when this was being written

>1. joyce - ulysses
kys fags
stupid meme board

>>8621015

>Bottom's Dream

Why is this board such irredeemable trash lads?

>>8621018
it's literally the Bible of literature

Infinite Dicks.

>>8620753
moby dick. obviously.

Will lib dot gen get me in trouble?

>>8620429
just read something else, homo

>>8620429
Allegedly Milton saw Satan as the forerunner of monarchs and idolators, while a free man would be a republican, recognizing no king but God

>>8620429
Satan is pretty anti-heroic. You can understand why he is motivated to do what he does, but in the end you see he's villainous because he cannot succeed in his goals and refuses to change them.

Milton only opposes government because he believes that a human cannot have the knowledge and kindness to govern over humanity like God does. God gives humanity freedom, and they commit the worst sin ever. But even so, that was part of his plan, and only leads to even further happiness through their redemption.

>>8620308
You need both luck and a good idea

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In a way, she updated The Chronicles of Narnia for her present day audience: school age escapism.

Find a similar work that is a generation or three out of date and refresh it. Just don't try to reach the same market segment yet; the time isn't ripe like it was for her.

>>8620312
I think more than a good idea you need to be fundamentally entertaining. Your stories need to have that page turner feeling where there is little to no wasted space. Near perfect tempo in the interesting parts that keep the reader constantly stimulated. And to do that you have to predict what your readership will find interesting to a pretty impressive degree.

Also tapping into the aesthetic spirit of the times would be cool. There is something near universally comfy about Hogwarts, and Rowling knew and harvested that. The masses were secretly hungry for that particularly brand light fantasy and, again, Rowling was one of the first to serve something up.

>>8618900
She can't write for shit. Would be more productive on her knees desu.

>>8618900
She's got the right idea

>>8618900
Is there a JK Rowling who isn't?

Listen to it told. The way it it was meant to be.

It sounds like you don't understand the context of the Trojan War nor understand the Greek culture.

>>8617455
Perhaps I don't. Any suggestions on how to rectify that?

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Don't care if they're not lit. Just care of they're good.

>>8616288
The best of Dylan is better than the best of any other literal who writer the contrarians of /lit/ can name

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If it weren't for this angsty teenage faggot shit we'd still have 3/4 of The Beatles

I take an eternal shit on JD Salinger's dumbass head

>>8616599
Blame Lennon for thinking songs about peace was a good substitute for a bulletproof vest

At least the world's got one less wife beater

>>8616599
>If it weren't for this angsty teenage faggot shit we'd still have 3/4 of The Beatles
That's a bad thing?