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how the hell can normies stand to read genre fiction?
you can read a tight, thought provoking 150-300 pages of literary fiction where every word feels important
or you can read a 10 book series of 700 page tiny print tomes where everything is exposition or dialogue where two of the thousands of characters argue and play mind games with each other described in excruciating detail as if the reader is too stupid to infer what's going on in a dialogue
i am genuinely impressed anyone has the attention span for this stuff, i simply cannot do it
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Thought-numbing escapism will always be popular.
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>>8210852
i'd rather stare at a wall
genre fiction requires a constant struggle against boredom
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When you don't realize sf can be literary
This... This fucking thing!
Oh. My. God. I finally found something worth reading on amazon that dosen't suck the dry shit out of a dead donkey's rotten asshole for once,
it's like The Catcher in the Rye except good, because it isn't fucking boring. and the protag is a even bigger cunt (in a good way)
seems to be free as well, for now, so read it...
or you will have to cuck as I slap/fuck your mothers!
Fuck it, if any of you can legit stop reading past chapter 5, I'll probably post my moms address! but dad don't cuck... and he's registered NRA and owns a SHITLOAD of guns so whatevs.
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>>8210445
>ITT: a book shill attempts to pander to the notorious 4chan /lit/erature board by cussing a lot and being arbitrarily vulgar
we do appreciate honesty and literary merit, you know. If your book is truly great you don't have to make a weak attempt at "meeting us halfway" or winning us over by fitting in with the guys.
I fuckin hate it when shills try to fondle my balls instead of just selling their shit
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>>8210445
worst shill
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Chringiest shill attempt I've ever seen on lit tbb
Around page 104, Zizek claims that to quell descent in the 1980s, those in power pushed transcendental meditation, along with drugs and pornography, so rebels would give up.
I poked around online to try and find examples of eastern physiology being mobilized in Poland to crush dissent, to no avail.
Is he just talking out of his ass again? It'd be seriously interesting if he isn't. But given his track record on these subjects, is he just lying to me m8 ????
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>>8210411
sounds like paranoid bullshit
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>>8210411
>reading zizek looking for facts
wew lad
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>>8210411
I know for a fact that transcendental meditation was repressed in Romania in the 80s, not in the least promoted. I dint think Slavboy is paranoid though, just full of shit.
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Why are novels which are deemed as "classics" always written in a pretentious poetry-like prose? Trying to read Lolita but can barely understand the first page
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Because you are a retarded frogfaggot
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Lolita suks, don't read that bullcrap
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go away baiting frogman
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>Start to read Schopenhauer
>"First Aspect: The idea subordinated to the principle of sufficient reason: The object of experience and science"
u wot m8
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Plato and Aristotle -> Descartes -> Hume -> Kant -> Schopenhauer
Start with the Greeks as always.
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>>8210084
u thought you where a focken genius m8?
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Schopenhauer is a big boy philosopher, not entirely sure where the "he hates big words" meme comes from.
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Are any of you actually any good at writing?
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>>8208507
is anyone on /o/ good at designed and manufacturing cars?
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>>8208507
Define "good" and "writing".
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>>8208507
No, but it doesn't take an engineer to appreciate a well designed machine.
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When will the world recognize the genius of Nick Land?
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What, you're still blogging? Jesus Christ.
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>>8207225
>implying Nick Land would promote on such a lowbrow board.
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>>8207240
>implying Land hasn't accented to the pinnacle of his intellectual acumen to not post on such board
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>your hometown/region/state
>best writer who was born there
>recommendations
I’ll start
>Belluno, northeastern Italy
>Dino Buzzati
>The Tartar Steppe and Il colombre, a short stories collection (pic related)
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>Madrid, Spain
Cervantes
Calderón de la Barca
Leandro Fernández de MoratÃn
Lope de Vega
Quevedo
Francisco Umbral
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>>8203063
>noMateo Alemán
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>>8202884
>Australia
>theres fucking nothing
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Most badass names in literature
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Dostoyevsky
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László Krasznahorkai.
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>>8195287
David DTF Wallace
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>>8195291
Dunno man. It makes me want to go join the gestapo and to do a shakedown on his entire family, and then to send them to the camps despite not finding anything.
>Vladislav the Gorgeous Hillock
I mean: what the fuck?
>>8195287
Theodor von Dostow sounds much better imho. Why did he not like the Germans so much? Can you think of one single German character of his who is not an asshat and a jerk?
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>medieval fantasy
>one character occasionally makes modern references
Does this ruin or enhance a story?
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depends
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TH White's Merlin did it well
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>>8214933
Merlin or a time traveler are the only ones who can do this. Sanderson's Hoid might well do it in books yet to be published.
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ITT: Explain meta-referintial self-referece in a meta-referintial self-referecing way by referring to you self-referecing meta-reference.
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>>8214875
i am posting about meta-referintial self-referece in a meta-referintial self-referecing way by referring to you self-referecing meta-reference.
also fuck you
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>>8214894
2/10 you referenced me instead of your self-referential meta-reference
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>>8214875
>I operate in a sphere of sincerity wherein I'm capable of being "meta"
Git gud senpai. I'm so deep in ironic meta-incrementalism that the concept simply eludes me. I have no idea anymore. It's actually terrifying.
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Why did so many notable women writers die single or childless?
Was it because women with children traditionally had less time for leisurely pursuits?
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>>8214872
They were dikes.
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read a room of one's own or something
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They're all fuck ugly.
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If this book was filled with references to the Bible and Greek myths instead of 80s pop culture, it would be deemed the highest work of lit ever. That's how much of a fucking scam literature is.
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it generally takes more effort to research classic myths than to just recall from memory a culture you've already lived through
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if it wasn't written in such a cringeworthy way where it is literally just a giant list then maybe it would be better
the book also hilariously tries to shit on commercialism while masturbating over pop culture, it's the perfect book for a 15 year old fedora tipper
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>>8214839
Then it's called the Percy Jackson series
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Writing tips for a total beginner
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Hey /lit/, I want to write stuff, probably short stories, but who knows what I want to write in the future.
That said, I never wrote anything in my life, except stuff that was required in school. Also, you can laugh at me, I understand, I haven't read that many books in my life, maybe about...5? It really is embarassing, I know. But sometimes, mostly late in the night, I get the urge to write something. Till now I haven't written anything, though, because I never wrote anything before and I'm afraid that it turns out to be total bullshit. I'm not an english native speaker either, and I don't know if I want to write in english or my native language.
So my question is, how do I start? Do I just start to write and let it flow from there, or do I plan it out beforehand? Are there any tips for someone who never wrote anything before, except for "read more books lol"?
Help a pleb out!
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How old are you? What's your first language?
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>>8214500
26, german. I believe I know more english words than german words, though. I don't quite know how that happened but yeah.
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>>8214512
I am you.
I decided to simply write a lot first. I read some smut with the sole purpose of recreating smut under 100 pages and just grind a bit through it until writing doesn't feel much like a burden. Then I'd move on to real literature.
What does /lit/ think of the Wall Street Journal?
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/lit/, pls
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>>8214425
main news source for me along with the FT
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I read it everyday.