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rate your purchases thread.
top is moon and six pence
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8/10 not pleb
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>>8238657
It's exactly the /lit/ definition of pleb. That's not even an insult.
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>>8238635
lol
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Ok so im definitely a huge faggot because one of my favorite stories is A Song of Ice and Fire. Everyone gives the writing a ton of shit for being bad apparently, but i still feel like its a good story regardless of the writing, like the show. Why is it so heavily shit upon?
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>>>/got/
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>>8238538
>Why is it so heavily shit upon?
>Everyone gives the writing a ton of shit for being bad apparently
you answered it yourself. how good a story is entirely irrelevant.
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But the show is the product of the writing and the show is one of the most popular shows out there
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can the best female writers compete againts the best male writers?
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Yes. In some ways they are much better. In some ways they are much worse.
Female authors, especially great ones, appear less because statistically, not as many brilliant women are born as brilliant men. That, coupled with societal conflicts, both real imagined and often perpetuated by other women, often deters women from such things as literature. Most women invest themselves in things like childcare, teaching, and the arts not related to literature. Most men invest in stem fields.
There are plenty of decent and even good writers of either gender in every corner of the world. The rare amazing writer will most often come from a first world location and most likely from affluence where they have the time, energy, and proper direction to write. Even more rare, a person whose brilliance is brought about because they are intellectualls living in poverty or abuse.
Most great writers have some kind of character deferential that allows them to become great writers. This last is my opinion, the rest is true.
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anime is real. also no
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>>8238566
Oh christ. You should have stopped at "yes".
Poor Penmanship
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Thoughts/Tips welcome
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Click. BANG' The tin can tremored in place, as if to spite your marksmanship, and settled steadfast.
In retrospect, I like to imagine you were thinking about how unwarranted your words were. "Are we still friends?" My utterance was feeble in light of your hostile body language. You glanced at me and stared down the can once more. Maybe I was the tin can, for some reason.
You checked to see if there were more pellets loaded in to the chamber, and were not disappointed. "What the hell are you talking about?" You were somewhere in between feigned ignorance of the argument from earlier and fermenting its animosity. 'Click. BANG.'
"You yelled at me and stormed off after I agreed with Ryan and I just wanted to make sure we were still friends."
How pathetic did I sound? I identified so heavily with someone so hateful. Someone so raw and misunderstanding.
"The other day you asked me if I considered you my best friend, and I said yes." Looking back, maybe you just fed off my naïveté and latent mental illness. "I have to hold myself to that."
I can see you start to cry and I hoped you were fulfilled with a compassion far too mature and adult for either of us. 'Click. BANG' The can gyrates and falls with a dull thud, muffled by the autumn leaves. The neighbors complained about us shooting the other day, and my eyes wandered anxiously for their appearance. You seemed focused on your conflicting thoughts.
"Sometimes I have trouble dealing with my anger. Or other people. I misinterpret others and I lash out. You need to understand." I didn't understand.
"Okay."
Several pauses of silence with near interruptions passed but hesitance muted them. "Let's go inside."
'Click. BANG.' You checked the chambed and it was empty.
"Okay."
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>>8238524
DELETE THIS
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>>8238530
Please be constructive.
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>DUDE EVIL TENTACLES AND ALIENS AND SHIT AND MADDENING HORRORS THAT CANT BE DESCRIBED BECAUSE INCOMPRIHENSIBLE SHIT
Was he a hack?
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>>8238440
He was a hack if you interpret his work in the most reductive way imaginable.
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>>8238442
he was also a hack if you read his shitty prose
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He was the equivalent of his time's above average 4chan user and as racist
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Opinion or thoughts on Esperanto?
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I've dabbled in it. As a subject, it fascinates me, but I don't think it's particularly well-suited for literature. It's a good shorthand for communication between people of different languages, but it would be a bad idea to raise people to speak Esperanto as a primary language, even more so if they're raised to only speak Esperanto.
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>>8238396
con-langs are the exclusive domain of meganerds
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Here, let us have another poll! 2016-07-04 02:53:25 Post No.8238365
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Here, let us have another poll!
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What kind of performances would you, elite, pay for to watch in a theatre?
http://www.strawpoll.me/10660096
Remember: Bump this thread to get more anons to reply.
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Start with the Greeks.
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Mary, I would have expected results like this, but I would not have expected from them the purported patricians on /lit/.
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>>8238365
couldnt select 0 options
also, your style is fucking terrible, please stop
What are some good romance books for guys?
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>>8238329
the torrents of spring
by ivan turgenev
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>>8238329
Sense of Sin- S@yr
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>>8238329
120 Days of Sodom
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I'm going to start writing a book. I'm not very smart or talented but I am a pretty fast typer.
Wish me luck bros.
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not before i kill you for being a pleb
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The one book plebs tout when they feel like blaming the world for their shortcomings.
Regardless of that, however, what's /lit's opinion on Atlas Shrugged? Is it Gold or Turd? Cast your vote and elaborate. Or not.
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>>8238234
My cult thought that this book was the Illuminati's blueprint for taking over the world.
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The best thing to come from Atlas Shrugged are those attempts by assorted libertarian nerds to try and create their own Galt's Gulches. It's hilarious watching them fail.
Right now some Czech ancap is trying to make his own. He's attempting to seize some shitty marshland on the Danube that's disputed between Serbia and Croatia. And every time he and his followers try to set up there the police arrest their asses. It's brilliant.
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>>8238234
Objectifag here, better philosophizing, worse narrative than Fountainhead. She basically gave up and went full nonfiction mode thereafter
We the Living and Fountainhead are the best reads, Atlas is the most important
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Is this a good adaptation?
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as good as you're going to get
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>>8238227
better than the book
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Great soundtrack.
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How do I bluepill myself on the society of the spectacle?
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>>8238173
The what now son? Can you please speak English?
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Come again?
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>>8238173
Watch Game of Thrones, remark on how the characters are 'badass'
Looking for a book on the rise of cocaine/crack, preferably in NY.
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My diary desu
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>>8238037
Dark Alliance by Gary Webb. he literally wrote the book on crack. But it's all in LA, because that's where it was first marketed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Alliance
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/13/investigative_reporter_gary_webb_who_linked
http://www.laweekly.com/news/ex-la-times-writer-apologizes-for-tawdry-attacks-2614004
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Freakonomics
what does /lit/ think about the Beats?
I can`t get a real understanding of them besides "counter-culture"
I just picked up On the Road and i`m going into it blind
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>>8238025
what is there to think about beyond what is blindingly obvious about them.
kerouac, ginsberg, bukowski, and the others are exactly what you'd expect them to be
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Can I write? Yeah!
We lack the motion to meme to the new beats
We lack the motion to meme to the new beats
It's here for us to admire if we can afford the beauty of it
Can afford the luxury of turning our pages
Adjust that thousand dollars smile and behold the creation of man
Great actions won't cover ugly words - good pic relateds won't save bad shitposts
We lack the motion to meme to the new beats. Yeah!
We lack... motion
When the day is over - Hey! - the doors are locked on us
Cultural capital buys the access - and we can't pay the cost
And how can we expect anyone to listen if we are using the same old voice?
We need new Joyce - new farts for the real people
We scan all the wrong poems
We enjoy all the wrong memes
We scan all the wrong poems
We're not reading
We scan all the wrong poems
We enjoy all the wrong memes
We scan all the wrong poems
We're not, we're not, we're not, we're not, we're not, we're not...
Reading
We scan - all the wrong poems
We enjoy - all the wrong memes
We scan - all the wrong poems
We scan - all the wrong poems
We enjoy - all the wrong memes
We scan - all the wrong poems
Here we go!
We scan all the wrong poems
We enjoy all the wrong memes
We scan all the wrong poems
We're not reading. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
The new beats! The new beats! The new beats! The new beats!
The new beats! The new beats! The new beats! The new beats!
The new beats! The new beats! The new beats! The new beats!
The new beats! The new beats! The new beats! The new beats!
Thank you.
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Who here is familiar with the writings of Breece DJ Pancake?
If you're not familiar with him, he was a short story writer writer from West Virginia. He was good, really good. I've only been able to find 4 of his stories online (he was published in the Atlantic) and I was absolutely blown away each time. His characters, his imagery, his prose, i cannot honestly say there is a better post WWII short story writer.
Seriously, this guy is good. Bookmark a story, set aside an hour, and read one. His writing is short, concise and a little confusing with all the flashbacks.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1977/12/trilobites/376288/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1978/08/in-the-dry/376290/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/10/hollow/376308/
https://biblioklept.org/2012/12/24/read-the-honored-dead-a-story-by-breece-dj-pancake/
The last one is my favorite, but i recommend you read them all if you have the time.
Little more about him, while at the University of Virginia, he basically made himself out to be an uneducated hillbilly to everyone around him. He was extremely anti-social and an alcoholic. He died at 27 by suicide. I've heard that his death was somewhat mysterious, but i can't find anything on it. Does anyone know anything about it?
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>>8237986
I've only ever read Trilobites, but I definitely was impressed with his writing.
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>>8238032
Yeah.
The guy actually had a deal for a novel at the time of his death.
He could've written what could've been a great American novel had he lived longer.
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I'd read him but I just can't take his name seriously