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disable OP, delete all current posts and archive, remove first half of sticky, leave only wiki. 100% better board.

>>8299101
>no frogposting
>no "what did he mean by this"/"really makes you think" threads
>no "should I read this?", "thoughts on this book?" etc. without starting off the discussion yourself with your own impressions or thoughts
>no shitty identity politics threads like "why can't women understand literature?", "name me one female masterpiece, protip you can't", "what are some great black authors, hard mode nothing about oppression" etc. which is only made to devolve into /pol/ or /r9k/ posting
>no "what is the literary equivalent of [insert non-literary thing]?"
>no screenshot of some idiot on twitter or tumblr voicing an opinion and creating a thread with that as the header without something equivalent of "is she right?"
>no reddit-related threads

>>8299132
Nailed it

http://www.cosmoetica.com/
http://alexsheremet.com/

>>8299070
someone please prune this abortion of a thread asap

>>8299070
Please lets be frank: no one reads fiction published online and those who do just skim read and forget quickly. The internet is not a viable forum for publishing fiction. This millennium is not a viable time to be writing fiction if you seriously want people to read it. Just look at the content of this board, representative of basically every other book "hobbyist" board there is online. The same set of well worn classics read and discussed by all, with zero room for variety or newcomers (or even any work which isn't at least ten years old).

Writing is not a viable option in general. It will make you miserable to attempt to pursue it, specially given that it is all about WHO you know not the quality of the writing. And your quality of writing is, lets be honest, probably mediocre anyway.

because they are shit at poetry

>>8299063
They aren't. You just seem to think a few tumblrinas are representative of "spoken word poets".

But sure, let's have another SJW/woman/liberal hate thread.

>>8299063
they aren't

back to >>>/pol

>>8298951
Honestly just read Homer and whatnot. Stuff like Hamilton's Mythology basically just use those stories as sources and give wikipedia summaries.

>>8298972
So going into the Iliad and the odyssey blind is an ok thing to do?

>>8299089
I srsly hope you see the irony of your post

literally tl;dr but Marx never actually met Stirner he only knew him through Engels so I don't see why he would be afraid of him when Marx was in England and Stirner was in Germany

>>8298890
Not physically but his work and thoughts I assume.

>>8298879
Stirner was and is a non-entity. He still is. No one except this board gives a shit about him

>>8298825
>I work as an editor
how did you get the job?

Breitbart, probably

Right-leaning publications just care about a different identity

>>8298822
Of* this is what I'm talking about.

Read some Gurdjieff or listen to these cool piano songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rasho1zv-co

>>8299284
I listened to that link and now I'm cured! Thanks anon!

Or could someone tell me what is the ideal place to ask for a book summary?

>>8299098
Reading the book.

>>8299112
That would take away the whole objective of not reading it, wouldn't it?
Don't you ever ask for a spoiler before?

yeah

DUDE WEED LMAO

>>8298661
Hey preyed on the wishful thinking of the underground psychedelic users in the 70's-90's. Made friends with two outcasts in their own fields and wrote a few more books about how well they could pontificate aimlessly and recycle scifi memes. His brother is pretty awesome though.

JOSHI: A MYSTICAL POETIC GENIUS

HOUELLEBECQ: HIS PRIMORDIAL FEAR OF NI-- "THE OTHER" MADE HIM GOOD AT DEPICTING IT

GRANT AND OCCULTISTS: HE WAS CHANNELING REAL SHIT AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE

POP CULTURE: LOL CTHULHU FTW XD

ME: WHOA, SPOOKY

Because his name

>A twin fisted existentialist, whose post-Nietzschian sensibilities reject the lantern of the cynic in a quest for a sun that leaves no shadow.
-Harold Bloom on Lovecraft

Now that I'm older
And certainly bolder,
I enforce my will
And, others' will, kill.
But never could I
Nor would I e'er try
My father to trick,
He's got a dad dick.

You caused my disorders but I know you just meant well.

well-versed in song and culture--yes he is!
singing through a strained grey muzzle he is!
after a dram, sunken in wrinkled pores
sings a beast i haven't heard before
prae judicium in bounding octaves
this isn't the man that sang to me before

lame poem about dad that gets racist after a few drinks

bomp

>>8298634
Of course not. Why even post this shit. Is that you?

>>8298759
why is he wrong.

also not me

ghosts are not real

>>8298599
>kek

Also, the value of a merchandise is determined subjectively and not by the hours of work dedicated to produce it. Therefore, the idea of capitalists stealing the surplus value created by the workers is bullshit.

Prove them right

>Pedro Paramo, by Ruolfo
>The Book of Sand, by Borges (if you liked The Aleph)
>Severin's Journey into the Dark, by Leppin
>The Obscene Bird of Night, by Donoso
>short stories by Mark Twain (and if you like them, then The Mysterious Stranger)
>Cat's Cradle, by Vonnegut

>>8298685


I second Pedro Paramo. Rulfo only wrote 2 books. Pedro Paramo and El llano en llamas. Both are generally sold together, at least in my country, and both are very recomendable, and not very long at all.

I am surprised by how highly ranked Dubliners is. I owned it as a kid and found it extremely boring.

>>8298593
Orlando Furioso
Faerie Queene
Ivanhoe
Salammbo
Zorba the Greek
Aeneid
Epic of Gilgamesh

>>8298570
yes sirens of titan

>>8298570
cat's cradle is p good from my memory but it's been a while

Galapagos is way better!