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2016-07-16 06:11:50 Post No.8283689
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 06:11:50 Post No. 8283689 [Report] [View this topic]

What is literary fiction?

Why would I read a story which sacrifices characterization and interesting conflicts for the sake of themes?

If I were interested in the ideas of identity, collectivism, or any other subjects; why would I not just read scholarly articles?

I see literary fiction as someone just trying to force persuasive essays into a good story. They are lessening the storytelling for the sake of shoehorning in their themes.

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 12:20:10 Post No.8284410
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Literary fiction is a made up story, now back to /b/ with you

Anonymous 2016-07-16 12:44:06 Post No.8284471
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 12:44:06 Post No.8284471 [Report]

I just wonder why people think a story having minimal plot is somekind of virtue

Anonymous 2016-07-16 12:47:44 Post No.8284478
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>>8283689
>sacrifices characterization and interesting conflicts

Who says literary fiction don't have these things?

Anonymous
2016-07-16 05:39:11 Post No.8283609
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:39:11 Post No. 8283609 [Report] [View this topic]

>Go to Barnes and Noble
>Romance section is right next to sci-fi section
>All of the covers are one of a woman in a fancy dress, a shirtless dude, or a man and woman kissing

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:45:46 Post No.8283625
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>>8283609
Why would you go to Barnes and Noble?

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How about Smart Art Know Brow romance with a cyberpunky tendancy ?

Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:53:43 Post No.8283642
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>>8283609
>admits jealousy directed at Chad

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2016-07-16 05:01:55 Post No.8283549
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:01:55 Post No. 8283549 [Report] [View this topic]

the weird frontier between post irony and new sincerity is this geriatric the saviour of literature?

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:49:48 Post No.8283634
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>>8283549
>>/mu/

Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:57:08 Post No.8283650
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>>8283549
ye

Anonymous 2016-07-16 06:24:29 Post No.8283722
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>>8283634
What? Get off this board if you don't appreciate the Gass

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:55:08 Post No. 8283522 [Report] [View this topic]

I've finally been reading novels again after I don't know how many years. I'm studying nearly every waking hour for an exam at the end of summer for my grad program and have been reading a chapter of a novel when I need to take a break.

Pic related is the first book I finished recently and I really liked it. It reminded me of some of the classic dystopian things I liked in my childhood like Brave New World. I'm currently about 1/3 of the way through 120 Days of Sodom, which I'm also enjoying although it's really different from Radio Free Albemuth.

Anyone have ideas of what I might like based on this?

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:59:09 Post No.8283540
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:59:09 Post No.8283540 [Report]

Yeah.

Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:00:39 Post No.8283544
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>>8283522
men

Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:02:49 Post No.8283551
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>>8283544
lol true. I meant novels though.

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2016-07-16 04:49:51 Post No.8283502
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:49:51 Post No. 8283502 [Report] [View this topic]

What do you nerds think of Colin Wilson?

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:51:14 Post No.8283508
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>>8283502
The Outsiders was p good. Stay gold, Ponyboy ;)

Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:03:10 Post No.8283553
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>>8283508
Wrong book, dude!

Anonymous 2016-07-16 06:51:03 Post No.8283792
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>>8283553
oh yeah is that the one where the arab is shot because the sun was too bright?

its a good one too

Anonymous
Finding books. 2016-07-16 04:46:07 Post No.8283487
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Finding books. Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:46:07 Post No. 8283487 [Report] [View this topic]

Any discussion on the best web place to find books and download 'em?
Not necessarily bought ;) no money. Please?

Plus any book you recommend?

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:47:50 Post No.8283492
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>>8283487
Hello, newfriend! There's a sticky. It answers the questions you're asking.

Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:47:51 Post No.8283493
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>>8283487
check the sticky

Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:49:24 Post No.8283501
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Newfriend is the right nickname for me.

What is that, where?

Anonymous
2016-07-16 04:39:22 Post No.8283473
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:39:22 Post No. 8283473 [Report] [View this topic]

what makes a story worth telling?

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:45:29 Post No.8283484
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>>8283473
The impact it has on a reader.

Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:50:28 Post No.8283635
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>>8283484
but doesn't shitty literature have impact on shitty readers?

Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:55:10 Post No.8283646
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>>8283473
Absolutely nothing.

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2016-07-16 04:24:13 Post No.8283419
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:24:13 Post No. 8283419 [Report] [View this topic]

Is this a good list? Are there other books worth getting?

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:29:14 Post No.8283433
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>>8283419
Yes a Thesaurus.

Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:29:47 Post No.8283435
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>>8283419
The Stephen King book was surprisingly good. Not sure about anything else though. Strunk and White is more for formal essays and reports than anything else.

Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:38:34 Post No.8283470
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>"how to write a novel"
>author hasn't written a good novel

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2016-07-16 04:13:31 Post No.8283387
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:13:31 Post No. 8283387 [Report] [View this topic]

Was he secretly the GOAT?

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:15:02 Post No.8283390
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>>8283387
Yes

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>>8283387
No

Anonymous 2016-07-16 04:17:27 Post No.8283399
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>>8283390
>>8283396
/thread

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2016-07-16 03:48:47 Post No.8283335
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:48:47 Post No. 8283335 [Report] [View this topic]

Is Infinite Summer kill?

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:50:24 Post No.8283340
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obviously. I'll ruin the end for all of you. the first chapter hal is fucked off the DMZ his dad's ghost got put on his toothbrush. he can feel now. the end.

Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:52:23 Post No.8283343
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>>8283340

This is my second time reading it so you ruined nothing for me, internet miscreant. If you tried to pull this sort of shit to my face I'd demap you so fucking hard, kiddo.

Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:55:16 Post No.8283351
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I read like 30 pages and then quit. Moby-Dick was more interesting.

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2016-07-16 03:34:33 Post No.8283306
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:34:33 Post No. 8283306 [Report] [View this topic]

Tell me about this man

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:35:49 Post No.8283309
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charlatan

deaf chords; dead en 2016-07-16 03:41:32 Post No.8283321
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>>8283306
it was tragic a heavy book got closed on his face once and now he is like that

Anonymous 2016-07-16 05:39:17 Post No.8283610
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>>8283306
Go to the right through the front door with Scruton, Burke, Bonald, Maistre, Weaver, etc. Don't go to the right through the weird ancap back way

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2016-07-16 03:34:33 Post No.8283305
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:34:33 Post No. 8283305 [Report] [View this topic]

What do you know about Narrative Networks ?

Defining what constitutes a relationship depends on the specific research questions formulated for the study of the narrative

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Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:38:17 Post No.8283313
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Story Exchanges in the Imagination Economy of the Quantum Age ?

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Imagination Age as a philosophical tenet heralding a new wave

Michael Cox argues that the skills can be viewed as a “hierarchy of human talents”

...higher level skills that create more value...

...millions of people are creating new virtual identities and meaningful relationships with others who would have remained strangers, each isolated within their respective realities...

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What do you know of leylines and songlines ?

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2016-07-16 03:29:16 Post No.8283291
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Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:29:16 Post No. 8283291 [Report] [View this topic]

We /Trans/ now

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/oct/24/transrealism-first-major-literary-movement-21st-century?CMP=share_btn_fb

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>>8283291
Is this Transreal?

Anonymous 2016-07-16 03:34:09 Post No.8283304
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>>8283291
Genrewhoring.
>Hurry we need a new genre!
>We are at a loss without a literary movement to unceremoniously drive into the ground with overuse!
>Hurry I don't understand our current era without the hindsight we have for previous eras!
>Everyone in this generation has /different opinions/!
>Everyone isn't doing the same thing like in the good ol' days!
>This is awful!!!!