You guys check out his new video on Mike Brown's poetry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlT3fTXFmW0
>>8552549
>who is this fago
some pleb
>why should i care
you shouldn't but he's our guy
>>8552547
Stop shilling your vlog loser
CAN WE RAID THIS GUY'S COMMENT SECTION AND CALL HIM OUT ON HIS PSEUD BULLSHIT
>adverbs
>>8552350
stephen king pls go
>>8552350
if you use maybe more than 2 adverbs a page you're a guaranteed hack.
Is philosophy worth studying?
No it will ruin your life
>>8551263
on your own time: yes
in school: you need to love it enough to withstand all the annoying people you'll meet in classes and in the department and in texts.
lol no
So I'm just going to lay it all out like a total sperg:
>Extremely anxious about everything
>In a seemingly endless existential crisis
>Only drugs, irony, and sarcasm bring me joy. Dedication and sincerity are revolting and banal to me.
Okay, so what literature and/or philosophy can cure me?
>>8551045
A psychiatrist
>>8551045
Accomplishing something.
Christianity, not even memeing.
Post your favorite
book
film
album
Others judge.
Malleus Maleficarum
Witchfinder General
De Stijl
One Hundrex Years of Solitude
Godfather 2
On the Beach
Frankenstein
Contact
_
I am writing my first short story to try to get it published. Can you tell me if this opener is bad?
>A fog rolled into downtown Portland as the long-awaited end of Patrick’s shift arrived. The sun had set, and the soft light of gas lanterns scattered into the mist, dueling with the pixelated glow of the food trucks’ neon signs.
>>8547653
You have a heavy relience on metaphors and they all contrived and lack any sort of cohesion towards giving a hint of a mind or vision behind them.
This is nothing but regurgitation. Use words
>>8547677
Where is even one metaphor?
>>8547677
duly noted. I will change some stuff
Let's discuss Orthodox works.
Laurus
Nihilism (by Father Seraphim)
Dostoevsky's works
The Way of the Pilgrim
The Philokalia
Quotes welcome
"The soul’s distress is the result of sensual pleasure. For it is sensual pleasure that produces distress of soul. Similarly, distress in the flesh is the result of the soul’s pleasure. For the soul’s felicity is the flesh’s distress."
-Saint Maximos the Confessor
I've recommended these books on here before: The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware and On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ, which is a collection of works by St. Maximus the Confessor.
I loved reading St. Maximus.
I got a lot of suggestions yesterday that i saved in a text file. I'd like to hear what people thought of them. Not all are Orthodox.
St. Ephrem the Syrian
Didache
St. Justin Martyr
Mystical Theology / Divine Names - St. Dionysius the Areopagite
St. Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses
St. Palamas
St. Basil
More Seraphim Rose
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov - The Arena
The Orthodox Church - Kallistos Ware
Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux
The Philokalia
The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Summa Theologiae
The Didache
The Desert Fathers
The Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
City of God
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Newman
The Spirit of Catholicism
Against Heresies
Dialogues by St. Catherine of Sienna
Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius
CATHOLICISM by Robert Barron
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Last Superstition
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Etienne Gilson
Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict the XVI)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Silence by Shusaku Endo
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.
Faust
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Canterbury Tales
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
>>8547390
Good shit mun thanks
>>8547390
Thanks
>ITT: Worst /lit/ film/tv adaptations
I'll start
>>8547431
Fucking hands down.
The book was about the mystery of the why and the how, the movie was a generic whodunit.
https://youtu.be/4ov1lHKeukg?t=2m20s
2:20 + read the top comment of this video.
>Follows Trump on Twitter.
>Follows Breitbart.
>Has right wing political views.
>Hates Islam.
He's not our guy unless he's either a militant atheist or a traditionalist Catholic.
>>8547171
Anyone who follows that shit is not our guy
>>8547171
>hates
not nihilistic enough to abandon hate
The Future Is Bright Edition
>Some links you won't click:
>Fantasy
>Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
>General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
>Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Science Fiction
>Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
>http://imgur.com/a/90laS
>General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ >http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
Near-Future Dystopias are passe...will optimism make a comeback?
What is your favorite SF future? Fantasy?
Just let it die.
>Sanderson is published and you aren't
>>8547111
You don't write 10,000 pages a year. Work harder, faggot.
P.S. I dislike his books too, but it's obvious why he's successful.
can we get an /easybutgreat/
thread going? I need some easy reads, ones with insanely accessible prose, clearly presented plots and characters, yet still maintain some sense of uniqueness and quality. So no Hunger Games type stuff
I'll start with this. It's short, simple, funny, and still moving in a way that ends with thematic catharsis
>>8546963
Bukowski. Post Office in particular.
Siddhartha.
>>8546963
This book opened my you g mind to the endless possibilities of literature.
so pretty much high school-core
Great Gatsby is really good IMO. Lord of the Flies too
As a medium of cultural conveyance, poetry has run its course. There will be no great poet of the 21st century, because poetry can no longer be great.
Our time is that of the novel. It is inescapable. Not the short story, not the play, but the novel. Nobody will be remembered within the context of literature who wrote anything other than an immensely popular and well-received novel. When considering what were the works of "high culture" from this period of time, nobody will point to any poem or play.
When you write poetry, it is not socially necessary. It is forced. None of the poetry I read from anyone sounds like anything other than the grossest pretension, because you are not a poet. Nobody can be a poet anymore. Poetry is dead.
art is dead in general
>>8546661
poetry was never live
prose is lit
Every time I go into a book store there's an entire table dedicated to this series, but i've yet to see it mentioned anywhere. All the signs say BEST SELLING NEW BOOK SERIES OF ALL TIME but wtf even is it? I'm tempted to get an epub of it and check it out.
It's about a Scandinavian man's father not being Hitler enough so he's considering becoming Hitler
It's like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but slightly less offensive
>>8545702
It's mentioned all the time here. First two parts are alright, the rest apparently not so much.
>>8545702
it's mentioned here like every day, and you posed this question instead of literally reading a blurb about it on amazon-- stop being such an incompetent loser.
here's the gist:
>6 parts
>"proustian"
>autobiographical
>it details his entire life in a manner that's like "opening someone else's diary and finding your own entries"
>takes his time describing things to minute details
>plain and easily digestible writing style
>raises many questions re: the autobiography/memoir in modern times
>no plot
>even the life of a self-proclaimed idiot and failure and bad man can be moving and profound
I am reading this mans essays because /lit/ loves him and I cant help but feel he is a fraud. All it amounts to is 'look hiw smart I am and youre so smart for reading this'. He is missing any kind of an inner core that would make his work matter and I'm afraid thats exactly why he killed himself.
>>8542247
Read his short story "Good Old Neon". Responds to that exact accusation in a very satisfying way. Probably my favorite thing of his. It's in Oblivion. The ending is fucking beautiful.
>>8542266
Good Old Neon just took the themes of the book Brief Interviews and made them super obvious, that story did little for me when I read it.
>>8542247
you're right OP But you're gonna get flamed by pseuds soon.
ITT: Really shitty book covers
This.