Do you find your writing limited to certain feelings or archetypes?
For instance, I only seem to think of 'tragic' stories. On the walk to work I thought of the events around a schoolkid accidentally slashing his own artery. Stories of people being trapped, uncomfortable, paranoid, killed etc. Never anything happy and always 'edgy'.
Tell me about your writing.
I can only write like a terrible Pynchon knockoff. My writing teacher gave me a lot of shit for this and made me read Jane Austen novels to try and change my style, but it didn't work.
I can't help but be humorous in my writing. If it's not at least a little bit funny then none of the other emotions work.
>>8222752
you mean to tell me that your prose fiction has traits which would make it identifiable as having been written by you personally? that's terrible!
>>8222546
Follow her home and then put them on after she goes to sleep
>>8222546
you'll stop liking her after a while don't worry
read pop fiction with some sense of alcoholism or something though
>>8222556
kek
I'm back with an updated list.
Can we create the ultimate /lit/ list?
>Orwell and Twain good-tier
>Kafka and Borges mid-tier
It's like you don't read at all
>>8222574
No matter where i put kafka, there will always be someone who bothers about his position, either if i put him high or low on the list.
>>8222720
This is why we'll never make an "ultimate" /lit/ list.
The most objective we can achieve was the vote for our favourite books and authors a while back, but even then people are mad and want to redo it.
>The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
>contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality
What the fuck did this guy even mean?
he was good at conveying imagery with precision wording combinations
an art and a science, to be sure
>>8222443
Explain what he meant then.
>>8223802
basically, the quality in the air during a jew orgy. should be pretty obvious
What popcorn fiction do you guys enjoy when you wanna just distract yourself? I'm talking Rowling, GRRM, Tolkien, Gay-man levels of complexity, not necessarily quality
Tolkein isn't popcorn fiction you fucking retard.
And to answer you question, Six of Crows and the Cinder series are great.
Children's books honestly.
Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret,
Little house in the Big Woods,
etc
also cute and comfy family/ coming of age novels written by women.
A Song of Ice and Fire, senpai. It really does have great characters.
Basically a hugely ambitious masterpiece about the isolation and alienation that capitalism creates
>>8222355
I think you already know, OP
>>8222355
You should very easily be able to answer this question
American Psycho
How could anyone ever argue against causality and determinism?
I don't know or care.
>>8222255
Go ahead and prove causality, I dare ya
Why did they always change sides?
>>8222222
Why did you waste a get?
>>8222222
holy digits
>>8222222
Holy digits demand for an answer from BB.
Is meditation a meme?
Books on mediation?
And motivation to maintain things?
>>8222154
Maybe it is. It still works. Try researching mindfulness and MBSR on google, and more particularly on NCBI and pubmed. It's pretty effective against a host of modern malaises, especially shitty attention span.
Mindfulness in Plain English is a good intro, and available for free online.
Motivation is the real meme here.
>>8222179
How is motivation a meme? Without motivation there is nothing else. Motivation is life.
>>8222154
It's proven to be more than a meme, in the sense that it physically alters the practitioners in lasting ways when practised regularly.
reminder that if given a choice between telling a lie and letting your newborn son die, you should sacrifice the kid
>>8222152
reminder that i will never do the deed necessary to have a son
>>8222152
Reminder that empiricism is dead and that modern 'science' is a laughing stock due to its love afair with positivism.
>>8222168
scientists have made dozens of amazing discoveries this week alone
what have your ""philosophers"" done this week besides burning private/public funds with cocaine and masturbating to futanari?
How hard is to win the nobel prize of literature?
>>8222080
10/10 stupidest question I have seen on /lit/
>>8222080
Quite.
>>8222080
the fact that you even ask this question tells me you're not gonna make it
yay or nay?
Are the novels worth checking out?
nay
nay
It's 'yea', for the love of Allah
Just finished Kafka on the Shore. Which Murakami book do I read next? I read Wind Up Bird Chronicle a few years ago and remember being thoroughly underwhelmed. But this was beautiful and rich. Should I give WUBC another try, or move on to some other work?
kafka and hardboiled wonderland are my favorites
so i would reccomend hardboiled wonderland
or maybe one of the more realism or love story based books like norweigan wood. my favorite style of his is the kind of fantasy style he used in kafka.
1q84 is also very good
i read the wind up bird once and remember liking it but its hard to dredge up much of what i got from it whereas with kafka the story is so colourful and amusing that i can remember a lot more of that book. i tried rereading wind up and couldnt get very far. the great and bad thing about wind up is that it expresses very well the feelings of stillness or mundanity that come with not having a job or not too much to do.
>>8222687
>1q84 is also very good
Shit taste
>>8223321
What made IQ84 bad?
/lit/ is particularly shit right now. Is it the Americans or the Euros?
obviously the Americans. I for one am Canadian. we're pretty cool eh.
As an American it probably is the Americans.
>>8222003
this board is just lacking quality topics and discussions, all I see is the same bullshit
Is lyric poetry at all worth reading in translation?
no you're only allowed to read literature in its purest form and only once.
>>8221822
It can be.
>>8221822
French to English isn't that huge a leap, so it can be with a competent enough translator who specializes in poetry. Baudelaire himself translated Poe into French so I don't think he'd necessarily disapprove of being translated into English.