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Alright, I have to ask because this is bugging the hell out of me. Would this be considered a good story from a literary standpoint?
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>asian cartoons
no
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>>8215826
Well ya gotta read it. It should evoke some emotion from you.
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>>8215824
no, it's just edgy.
but i jerked off to it
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One of these threads, please
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>>8215378
Candle in the Dark was surprisingly good at checkmating atheists on shit they believed that was goofy, instead of just wanking to the choir that god wasn't real for 200 pages.
I have a challenge for you.
Can you figure out the meaning of this EE Cummings poem?
When I first read it I was confused, but the language enticed me. I kept reading and suddenly I cracked the code. I was amazed.
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it's about fran
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>>8215242
not quite...
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Poems aren't ABOUT anything.
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Serious question, is Lolita worth your time if you have no interest in little girls?
I'm about 2 chapters in and the writing is fantastic but I'm not sure if I can stick with the subject matter for the whole book.
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>>8215062
Stop being a little bitch and read the fucking book
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>>8215062
bruv its just a book, no one thinks your a pedo for reading it, its a fanstastic book, if you cant handle a little unorthadox content you should stick to reading comic books or news paper articles, if you like it read it
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>>8215062
yes
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What does /lit/s collection look like
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And what does /lit/ think of my collection? Post yours
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Are these all the books you own, little man?
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>>8214985
All mine.
>"little man"
18, not little: small.
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Mine looks like a bookshelf. Are those seriously the only books you own? You must be a tedious person to talk to.
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What books would have this effect on me
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a book that dramatically improved photographic technology in the span of a few years? idk go ask canon
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>>8214776
The Recognitions
Women and Men
The Public Burning
Milkbottle H
The Tunnel
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>>8214776
Why don't people look like this anymore?
Did they get fatter or what?
Really weird face structure.
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When did it become so cool to hate on Ayn Rand? No memes, please.
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since her very birth
now go away
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>>8214576
It's been cool to hate on Ayn Rand since you turned about 18 or so.
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About a year ago when Tumblr got into her.
It waxes and wanes though.
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Shattered Planes edition.
Recommendations
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
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>Book 5
>we should really move against Sammael, man I'm sick of this guy he needs to fucking die already
>Book 7
>Sammael is not only still alive but very much a thorn in Rand's side with his constant scheming and shit
Why the fuck is he even still alive, I mean COME ON RAND
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>>8213031
Real question is, does your autism run so deep you can't spare yourself of that crap by simply picking up something good for a change?
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>>8212924
Why is shallan such a shitter?
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What books should I read if I wanna acquire a cute gf?
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the ego and its own
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my diary desu
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I did it with Spinoza, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.
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Have video games finally surpassed literature?
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>>8212724
yep. now leave us to our inferiority.
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I am going to make video games that will be studied for generations; either by critics, or psychologists.
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is this bait?
how could video games (an industry plagued with rushed production and an emphasis on sales not content)
surpass literature?
I feel stupid for taking the bait....
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>HB: I spend a good part of my life in bookstores – I give readings there when a new book of mine has come out, I go there to read or simply to browse. But the question is what do these immense mountains of books consist of? You know, child, my electronic mailbox overflowing with daily mesages from Potterites who still cannot forgive me for the article I published in Wall Street Journal more than a year ago, entitled "Can 35 Million Harry Potter Fans Be Wrong? – Yes!" These people claim that Harry Potter does great things for their children. I think they are deceiving themselves. I read the first book in the Potter series, the one that's supposed to be the best. I was shocked. Every sentence there is a string of cliches, there are no characters – any one of them could be anyone else, they speak in each other's voice, so one gets confused as to who is who.
>IL: Yet the defenders of Harry Potter claim that these books get their children to read.
>HB: But they don't! Their eyes simply scan the page. Then they turn to the next page. Their minds are deadened by cliches. Nothing is required of them, absolutely nothing. Nothing happens to them. They are invited to avoid reality, to avoid the world and they are not invited to look inward, into themselves. But of course it is an exercise in futility to try to oppose Harry Potter.
>Byatt - Ms. Rowling's magic world has no place for the numinous. It is written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons, and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip. Its values, and everything in it, are, as Gatsby said of his own world when the light had gone out of his dream, ''only personal.'' Nobody is trying to save or destroy anything beyond Harry Potter and his friends and family.
Your hatred (and love of course) for the series, fans, the people being quoted and Rowling
Are Bloom and Byatt correct?
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Yay it's time for one of my favorite kind of /lit/ threads!!!!!!!!!
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of course they're right. the thing is, people think they're standing on a treestump screaming these things, trying to stop people from reading Harry Potter. no, reporters ask them their opinion and they give the obvious answer: Harry Potter isn't great literature. what do you want well-read people to say? I think McDonald's hamburgers taste great, but I would expect a food critic to be more discerning than I am.
the problem is that people think opinions are all equal, when really how much you know about a field gives your opinion more or less weight. if you've read only twelve books in your entire life, you may think your favorite one is extraordinarily powerful, innovative, thoughtful, until you read two hundred more and realize your old favorite is actually, in the grand scheme of things, mediocre. Bloom and Byatt are experts of literature. you don't have to agree with them, but make sure you're not overestimating your own expertise when you disagree.
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If this is something /lit/ does I'd like to have this story critiqued, and maybe I could critique others.
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>the lot
What lot? A parking lot?
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like the lot of them. Is that an antiquated expression or just stupid shit?
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>read ligotti it's fun
thanks faggots, forever a puppet now
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Who pulled that cruel prank on you?
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>>8204999
probably stirnerfags or something
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Anyone who's reading this thread and hasn't read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, do it. You won't regret it.
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Does anyone have any books that can help me not give a fuck about anything ever again?
I have always been shy and anxious since I had a speech impediment until I was in high school, and it basically stunted my communication skills and made me never talk to anyone ever. Recently I am okay at talking to people, but I still get scared and anxious.
I am literally so tired of the feeling of anxiety in my stomach, I am just constantly worried about my future and about what people think of me. I have tried moodgym and it helps, but the anxiety comes back. I have gone to music festivals to get it out of my system, but even when I am there and drunk as fuck I still think about what other people think of me.
Is there a book that can cure me being a pussy and also putting everything in life off to mindlessly watch youtube videos? Like at night time I write myself notes because I become super motivated at night, but in the morning I wake up and just watch youtube videos for hours. Also I am heavily addicted to a "legal" opiate for 2 years and it fucked up my bodies reward system, but too hard to quit :\
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>>8204869
>Does anyone have any books that can help me not give a fuck about anything ever again?
Choose between:
Stoic/Epicurean texts.
Rational-emotive therapy texts.
"The Ego and It's Own"
>I have always been shy and anxious since I had a speech impediment until I was in high school, and it basically stunted my communication skills and made me never talk to anyone ever. Recently I am okay at talking to people, but I still get scared and anxious.
>I am literally so tired of the feeling of anxiety in my stomach, I am just constantly worried about my future and about what people think of me. I have tried moodgym and it helps, but the anxiety comes back. I have gone to music festivals to get it out of my system, but even when I am there and drunk as fuck I still think about what other people think of me.
Have you ever considered anxiolytics?
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>>8204869
>pic related
Persian detected
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>>8204883
>not knowing who chestbrah is
i wish i was persian desu, from what I've seen the men are essentially the most attractive a man can be imo.
>>8204875
will look at all of those, I started epictetus discourses, and also the ego and it's own but I will try to finish them
also I don't really have proper medical coverage to get anxiolytics, but thanks for the advice
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>Ideas are grades of objectivity of the will
What did he mean by that?
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were his eyes erally that color?
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>>8201811
Yes
Schopenhauer was pure aryan master race