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Is there a character who feels desperately alienated and isolated from the world around them, even though the world around them would be at a conventional standard of "peaceful". I'm not looking for a dystopian book (unless of course-) I'm looking for a book that's just like the world we live in today (which the narrator sees as an awful place). That's how I see the world, I want someone I can relate to, I just loathe every waking day I have to wake up and exist in this fucking place, it seems like everywhere you look there's flaws and oppression, I just wish I could immerse myself in my own dreams to escape this fucking nightmare.
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>Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Superfluous men of real feeling in a world of self-satisfied conventional bourgeois nihilism. Failure to live up to those standards makes the character a fuckup.
>Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
Sorta the same, nihilistic misanthrope, but character less of a fuckup.
>Houellebecq, anything
Try Atomised and Whatever. You can read them in an afternoon.
Try the Houellebecq first actually dude.
Maybe Huysmans, but he's probably not miserabilist enough.
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What are some goo books that cover the topic of being at a dead end for a lifestyle?
>love literature/music/art/film but all are useless majors
>doctors are too stressed
>law is too saturated
>I dont want to work in an office forever
stuck in the middle of nowhere in the middle of fucking delaware
I'm not depressed, just unfulfilled.
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sounds like you've got a case of the pseuds
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>>8462737
Naive Super? Walden? Shoplifting from American Apparel?
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You need to work for a couple of years before you go to college or else you'll just develop a drug habit and end up dropping out anyway.
You already smoke weed fairly regularly.
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was DFW the most brilliant writer of the second half 2016-09-01 23:02:35 Post No.8462727
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was DFW the most brilliant writer of the second half
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of the 20th century
the only one that comes close is Sam Delany
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>>8462727
yeah, he was the last american writer that was actually good
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Calvino, Carver, Houellebecq, and Gaddis all blew him the fuck out.
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>>8462727
Roth and Delillo are better.
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>good at writing, decide to write articles for an eSports scene I'm interested in
>pretty big scene, not as big as LoL or Dota but decent following
>good at writing normal articles, but kinda not enjoying it as much as normal writing, can't really express myself
>pitch EoC a new idea, satire
>follows through
>post my first satire article, at this point normal articles are amassing around 2-3k views
>mine gets 10k and is praised by many
>post second, blows up even more, 14k and more good feedback
>really good at it but want to get better, realize that this kind of style is what a lot of people wanna see
>questioning how I can adapt this satire style to normal writing because up to this point my short stories have been pretty mundane
How do I create an interesting, funny novel? It seems so rare especially on lit. Can it be done correctly?
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>>8462686
Most very serious depressing novels are actually funny satires. Like Kundera, Kafka etc. It's being done all the time.
Hell even the Pynchmeister is all about the funnies.
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>>8462686
Melee hell?
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Just read humorists and satirists. They used to be popular when people still read books. Check out Wodehouse or Kingsley or something.
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Would you say Aquinas was "smart" 2016-09-01 22:43:50 Post No.8462677
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Would you say Aquinas was "smart"
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would you say he was intelligent?
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>>8462677
sure why not
other than >muh relijn
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>>8462679
this
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yes he was brilliant
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What is /lit/s take on Hunter S. Thompson? Do you think that the events of the Fear and Loathing stories actually happened as he said?
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>>8462620
pretty good and no
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>>8462620
He's the only English language writer I can think of that writes in first person present and makes it work. Recommended.
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>>8462620
>dude Nixon sucks, lmao, now let me tell you about how much cocaine and alcohol I do, it's really edgy!
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What is /lit/'s consensus on Brian Herbert?
Did he follow in the footsteps of his father, or was he just autist that tried to turn Dune into Star Wars?
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His father was at least a visionary.
He on the other hand is a complete and utter hack
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>>8462613
Garbage. Does he even write any of it, or is he just drinking buddies with KJA (who churns out like five books a year)
Also >>>/sffg/
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Should I learn learn French or Dutch? I want to learn a nice, easy language.
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>>8462607
Dutch is like English speakers who didn't learn German well. French is poncy pretentious English. Whichever your heart feels closer to.
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>>8462619
Which is more useful
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>>8462721
Who can say?
Neither is all that useful until you can use it.
Would you like to discuss Bartleby the Scrivener, /lit/?
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>>8462603
The poor little weirdo. What is his deal?
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He's the American Akaky Akakievich, just wants to make copies and be left alone.
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Read it in freeman lit. My professor did everything he could to trash it, but I liked it.
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How did he do it, /lit/?
How is it possible for one man?
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>one man
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weed
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>>8462566
Sorry,
*one black woman
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What's the best way to get introduced to Arthurian legend?
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Historia Regum Britanniae
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>>8462523
game of thrones
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The death-a artie
What do you think is the best book in the Bible from a literary perspective? I'm reading the Book of Job at the moment. It's beautiful.
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Ecclesiastes
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Not in standardized bibles, but the Gospel of Thomas by and far for me.
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Probably not the best but Jonah is wonderful, it has the conciseness of the best bible stories while being nicely self-contained, it's like a great piece of short fiction
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ITT: books where every character is unlikable
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your diary desu
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I wanna say Loving by Henry Green, but by the end you end up missing everyone in it anyhow, so I'm conflicted.
Great book, though, strangely unforgettable once you've read it.
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>>8462454
Retard heathcliff is my favorite character of any novel.
>gets fucked over by situations out of control
>bitch cucks him
>runs away to get fuckin jacked and loaded and cultured
>comes back and fuckin makes them all die from sheer force of hatred
I also named my cat after him :3 rate cat
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Is LOTR an anti-communist book? 2016-09-01 21:47:25 Post No.8462452
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Is LOTR an anti-communist book?
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>The veiling shadow that glowers in the East takes shape.
Was J.R.R. Tolkien referring to the Soviet Union? Is Mordor an allegory for communism?
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Communism, industrialization, atheism
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Tolkien clearly stated that his works are not allegories
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>>8462452
He formulated Middle Earth before 1917, right?
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Why is the most celebrated English writer of the 20th century 2016-09-01 21:44:39 Post No.8462440
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Why is the most celebrated English writer of the 20th century
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a fucking fraud....
His greatest work, Ulysses, was a COMPLETE rip off of the Odyssey...yet lit fans give him a pass
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Finally, a lad with some brains
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>>8462456
thank you
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>>8462440
he's Scottish, you twat.