File: images (96).jpg (15KB, 431x341px) Image search:
[Google]
15KB, 431x341px
ITT
List masculine writers with masculine prose and themes
None of this liberal whiny bs
88 Posts / 24 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9920052
Norman Mailer sounds like he's right up your alley but /lit/ in general hates him
Nearly everyone here adores Cormac McCarthy so start with him (Blood Meridian and Suttree being the first two you should start with)
>>
Recommend me good posts now in the archive because of this trash.
>>
Yukio Mishima obviously
File: animatrix program.webm (2MB, 1280x528px) Image search:
[Google]
2MB, 1280x528px
How would you describe the woman's hair from this clip? I am trying to write a story and I like the style, but I just can't seem to get the description right without going into way too much detail...
25 Posts / 7 Images
View this topic
>>
File: the-animatrix-program.jpg (300KB, 1920x1080px) Image search:
[Google]
300KB, 1920x1080px
here is a still shot it that helps
>>
Bushy.
>>
Like the fur of a snow fox.
File: williamburrroughs.jpg (20KB, 460x276px) Image search:
[Google]
20KB, 460x276px
what does /lit/ think of the best beat writer?
27 Posts / 11 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9919674
burroughs wasn't really a beat writer. some of the group generally accepted as the beats hung out with him when he was living in Paris, but Burroughs was doing his own thing and was blithely unconcerned with jazz, playing the bongos, wearing sunglasses and beret and reciting free-form poetry to hipsters in cafes while saying "maaaaaaan" every third word.
>>
File: burpump.jpg (103KB, 500x695px) Image search:
[Google]
103KB, 500x695px
>>9919674
>>
talentless hack
File: great writer.png (46KB, 689x357px) Image search:
[Google]
46KB, 689x357px
Who do you think he's talking about, /lit/?
150 Posts / 17 Images
View this topic
>>
a ghost of DFW told him to kill himself and meet him on the other side
>>
Either Pinecone or McCarthy, I highly doubt Tommy would give a shit about him
>>
Me
File: jordan-smaller-1024x683.jpg (102KB, 1024x683px) Image search:
[Google]
102KB, 1024x683px
Is this guy a pseudo intellectual? Also, has anyone tried the self authoring suite? I feel like its probably a scam, has anyone tried it?
143 Posts / 15 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9918220
While on the topic of this guy, has anyone read Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief?
>>
I read the paper on the future authoring program. I think probably the biggest thing is that it includes goal setting. I don't think there's any published research on the other two programs.
>>
>>9918305
I feel like there is a bit of placebo effect going on here in his program.
Anonymous
HOLY SH*T. Just realised that 'prayer' is a massive contradiction to religion. 2017-08-20 09:24:16 Post No.9917281
[Report] Image search: [Google]
HOLY SH*T. Just realised that 'prayer' is a massive contradiction to religion. 2017-08-20 09:24:16 Post No.9917281
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: 1498250776182.jpg (303KB, 598x714px) Image search:
[Google]
303KB, 598x714px
HOLY SH*T. Just realised that 'prayer' is a massive contradiction to religion.
Anonymous
2017-08-20 09:24:16
Post No. 9917281
[Report]
[View this topic]
>The underlying premises that God is absolutely perfect, omnipresent, omnipotent etc must be true. God has to be perfect for God to be God.
>People who pray for God to make their situation better, help poor people, those starving, to end conflicts, improve health etc implies that God is not perfect because he has allowed such things to occur in the first place.
>The only things God has created are those that are perfect. I'm not fully research in this area, but from my knowledge they are things such as; the laws of the universe, freedom of will, our consciousness or the life that powers our consciousness, etc. Such things you can't make more perfect.
>Asking for for help from God therefore is hypocritical and contradictory; both in the sense that it is implied he is not perfect and that to grant your prayers at the expense of others would be preferential treatment - which is not an attribute of a perfect God.
>Also: as an additional point. Jesus expressly condemned man to call other men their master; to engage in meaningless incantations and rituals; worship in churches and services, but rather in spirit and in private; and violence, imprisonment, judgement etc.
This isn't to do with proving that God exists or doesn't exist. The way God is conceptualised through religion is wrong. This is why JBP's often laughed at interpretation of the Bible is the best way to analyse the texts.
280 Posts / 24 Images
View this topic
>>
File: 1489103489583.png (490KB, 449x401px) Image search:
[Google]
490KB, 449x401px
>>9917281
>he's a determinist
>he can't into the interaction between divine intervention and free will
>>
>>9917281
so this is the power...of an undergrad's philosophy degree. woah.
>>
>>9917291
>He can no longer use suffering as a proof that God doesn't exist because he didn't realise that God is perfect and suffering is not God's doing.
Road's closed faithlet, find another way home.
File: 2390d58b5dfa1ac5f36ab251d5bdbb31.jpg (235KB, 792x573px) Image search:
[Google]
235KB, 792x573px
Well, /lit/? Which one?
49 Posts / 4 Images
View this topic
>>
:(
>>
Start with the Gr- ...oh, wait... Iliad. Hector did nothing wrong.
>>
Iliad
>boring ass section about achilles shield
Odyssey
>boring ass section when Odysseus comes back that's longer than the boring section in the iliad
The iliad is better.
I like grey eyed pallas athena! though she is my waifu.
My eye's started twitching and my heart beat went high when I read a stupid christian writer from ancient rome, insulted athena that's how much I love her.
File: SamuelTaylorColeridge.jpg (240KB, 1200x1491px) Image search:
[Google]
240KB, 1200x1491px
What do ya'll think of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
33 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9916833
He should be the King of /lit/ because
The Biographia Literaria is the shit!
>>
I think his ascot is a bit overstated
>>
laud(anum)able
File: Screenshot_20170819-160443.png (982KB, 961x1237px) Image search:
[Google]
982KB, 961x1237px
What was your goal for your year?
What is your current tally?
How does it compare to other years?
>Bonus: Age, location
Goal: 20
Current: 15
Actually not too happy with my progress so far.
Age 21, current location Ibiza.
148 Posts / 41 Images
View this topic
>>
>grrre martin
Bruh
>>
>>9913820
I try to read a book a week to keep myself honest.
>>
File: Screenshot_20170819-073045.jpg (316KB, 996x860px) Image search:
[Google]
316KB, 996x860px
Tfw 20 books behind
Anonymous
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General 2017-08-19 12:37:58 Post No.9913628
[Report] Image search: [Google]
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General 2017-08-19 12:37:58 Post No.9913628
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: RAHRshack xD.jpg (225KB, 999x561px) Image search:
[Google]
225KB, 999x561px
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
Anonymous
2017-08-19 12:37:58
Post No. 9913628
[Report]
[View this topic]
Ol' Petey What edition
FANTASY
Selected:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21329.jpg
General:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21328.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21327.jpg
SCIENCE FICTION
Selected:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21326.jpg
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21331.jpg
General:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21332.jpg
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21330.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21333.jpg
Previous Threads:
>>9904008
>>9895758
>>9886926
>>9878678
>>9869681
>>9864270
>>9858262
358 Posts / 50 Images
View this topic
>>
first for the eternal GOAT, /sffg/ is a Wolfeman thread now and forever
>>
What do I read after Dune? I loved it and I kind of want more.
>>
>>9914214
Hyperion and Foundation
Anonymous
What the fuck is his problem? 2017-08-18 06:23:16 Post No.9910593
[Report] Image search: [Google]
What the fuck is his problem? 2017-08-18 06:23:16 Post No.9910593
[Report] Image search: [Google]
What the fuck is his problem?
Anonymous
2017-08-18 06:23:16
Post No. 9910593
[Report]
[View this topic]
and where is his piece on the coming neo-feudalism of elites in walled megacities while the plebs toil in the wasteland. I can't find it
114 Posts / 30 Images
View this topic
>>
he wants to watch robots fuck his wife and then pay them for it.
>>
>>9910593
His face is too long. I'm intimidated.
>>
File: 1499960283993.jpg (84KB, 600x570px) Image search:
[Google]
84KB, 600x570px
>>9910593
Anonymous
hiro-approved meta thread 2017-08-21 10:36:55 Post No.9923015
[Report] Image search: [Google]
hiro-approved meta thread 2017-08-21 10:36:55 Post No.9923015
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: 1498868279747[1].jpg (198KB, 768x768px) Image search:
[Google]
![1498868279747[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xHXAWl4.jpg "1498868279747[1]")
198KB, 768x768px
how do we make /lit/ a better board?
68 Posts / 4 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9923015
We beg some of the older posters on Goodreads to come back.
>>
delet
>>
virgin death camps
File: 1503238489096.jpg (313KB, 1280x1178px) Image search:
[Google]
313KB, 1280x1178px
Can someone refer me to some work that's critical of modern humanities/university/theory? Also some good stuff against continental philosophy would be apreciated. The ones I know so far are:
- Socal, Bricmont, Impostures Intellectuelles
- Michaels, Knapp, Against Theory
- Other stuff by Michaels
????
32 Posts / 3 Images
View this topic
>>
Lukacs, Destruction of Reason is also on my list. Please no obvious shit like Scruton.
>>
>>9921822
>Chad continental philosophy has real world applications, used by Israeli military, inspires art, cinema, literature
>Virgin anglo philosophy is just old men circlejerking each other in universities, no one besides them even read it
>>
>>9921822
Thanks OP.
what does /lit/ think of Slavoj Žižek?
55 Posts / 7 Images
View this topic
>>
Literally who?
>>
File: 1503077198664.png (231KB, 684x536px) Image search:
[Google]
231KB, 684x536px
>>9921633
He's officially /are guy/ but butthurt leftists from reddit will try to disagree
>>
>>9921633
Crazy fuck that calls himself a philosopher, pretty much /lit/ incarnate (socialism is dumb though)
File: Screenshot (17).png (2MB, 3024x972px) Image search:
[Google]
2MB, 3024x972px
How did i do ?
i dont buy books ,
this is 1st time in years, im gonna buy more
26 Posts / 7 Images
View this topic
>>
dictionary cos current one is published 93'
>>
>shadowrun returns
>lovecraft
underage bait please fuck off.Also you really ought to look for used books if you live in the UK, you can get those books for far cheaper on abebooks/ebay
>>
maybe i should have got 2 books and 1 graphic novel instead