I haven't seen one of these threads in awhile.
Are any /lit/erati making some income from self-publishing cheap books on amazon?
I've heard the best way to go is to publish either extremely kinky weird erotica, or shitty self-help PUA books.
I'd love to make even $50 bucks a month or something with half a dozen short porn books.
>>8132066
I've only made like 30 bucks total with Tao Lin on a Tricycle.
This guy apparently makes 2000 bongdollars a day by (a) writing the kind of generic stuff people want and (b) marketing it properly. Maybe try that.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/02/adam-croft-self-published-her-last-tomorow-story
I'm trying this right now. I wrote a shitty slut story about an English middle class girl who goes searching for chavs and black guys in a council estate. I wrote it in an hour. Didn't give two shits.
I know I'm not bad at it because I've written gay shit before on Nifty and people have really, really liked it. This is hetero, ofc, but holes are holes when it comes to this shite really, let's be honest.
It's been up for a few days but I haven't made any money. It's only 2000 words long, and I think incorrectly priced. I've bumped it down to $0.99, so we'll see how that goes.
I'm also experimenting with other longer genre fiction. I'm trying to write a shitty romance about a middle class woman whose adulterous husband dies of cancer. She then goes on a shitty holiday and finds a shitty unconventional hairy shit juan who fucks her brains out. You know, writing the most stereotypical middle class British housewife out. We'll see how it goes too. If it doesn't go well I'll write a thriller, then a crime. I'm writing about 2500 words a day (2 hours).
Just do it. What's to lose? Just don't use your real name for fuck's sake. This shit is really, really looked down upon if you ever want to become a real author.
Was Nietzsche just a troll?
>>8132035
nietzsche was a self-righteous anti-troll and huge bigot asshole who did a lot of coke, and I would like to party with but also I would like to not be alive in the 1800's
>>8132035
yes
He was a philosopher trying to look like a troll to dipshits.
>Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.
Classic Tolkien
>>8131973
lol good point
>>8131987
I am now #Nerdfighter.
What children books have you read lately /lit/?
>>8131957
this terrifying piece of modern horror
>>8132184
Klassen is the shit, though. Legit think that he will go down as one of the greats in children's illustrations.
>>8131957
I read a bit of Infinite Jest
Was H.P Lovecraft one of the best writers ever, or just a decent writer?
People I knew were constantly hyping him as a sort of master of literature, but when I decided to read him I found he was... Nice. Not bad, but not engaging in an artistic way. He was engaging as a Mistery writer though.
Also, why is he considered a writer of Horror? I would classify his works as Supernatural Thriller, rather than Horror. And he was not that racist in his writings.
>>8131685
In my opinion he was not even a decent "writer", in the sense that his prose was very bad.
His ideas (or monsters) were interesting though, and the creepy atmosphere is maintained somehow.
He is considered horror in the sense that his descriptions often stick with you for a long time, and he always portrays that there is something "unfathomable" beneath everything we know. IDK, his horror is really his own, hence the term Lovecraftian.
I'm no master on Lovecraft, and that might be obvious. I have read his recommended works and they left me with the above impression.
>>8131685
Literally autistic
>>8131698
Definitely, yet I love some of his stories. I can't remember what it's called, the one with the comet that lands in a well or something? "The Color from space" or so?
"Weak people are incapable of sincerity."
>>8131649
Honestly I've come to believe giving a shit about sincerity either way is nonsense
dfw was compulsively ironic though
he was constant qualifying things if they sounded cliche, and self-effacing if he said something that sounded too smart
he could never just le be himself
Remind me of this mans name.
What's your favorite Tolstoyevski novel? Mine is The Brothers Karenina
>>8131519
Crime and Peace is much better in my opinion.
Poor and Peace
>>8131519
The Idiot Sonata.
Name a useful skill you've learnt from a book and what book it was. Self taught not textbook in class.
>>8131379
define 'skill'
>>8131380
Just loosely as possible. Built a web page. Learnt a language. Made a working shortwave transceiver. What ever
>>8131379
critical thinking
/thread
Hey guys, could anyone suggest some good books on christian esoterics. I'm interested in allegories/symbolic/parabolic texts in general, so feel free to share anything related. Thanks :)
For general esotericism I suggest Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
For early Gnostic Christianity, anything by Elaine Pagels is good.
>>8131249
That picture is not god, by the way, but Urizen, William Blake's Demiurge.
>>8131249
Let's just make this a Urizen thread instead of more Christian faggotry.
Where do I start with Cioran?
Are there any good overviews for his ideas?
>>8131056
The trouble with being born. And it's a good "overview" I think
>>8131058
thank you.
>>8131122
You're welcome, I hope you'll like it.
Is this hard to read? Is it a good starting point into Faulkner?
>>8130724
As I Lay Dying is a more accessible starting point. This is usually considered to be his magnum opus, and has some notoriously confusing sections that become more clear as the book goes along.
Start with his short stories, then AILD, then TSaTF. Somewhere along the line check out his more accessible novels, such as Light in August.
absalom absalom is goat though, but do that after the already suggested order
Faulkner (like Joyce but less so) is only hard if you're going to get too hung up on not knowing exactly what's going on or where you are in time
>'have you read 1984?'
>"oh yeah yeah ive read it, real wake up, big brother, predicted the future pretty much"
>'how about them stupid proles, huh?'
>"oh uh, what? it's been a while since ive read it sorry"
Every fucking time. It's not like 84 is even a remotely difficult read, for the life of me I can't figure out why people would lie about reading lit in the first place
>>8130714
>"to be honest I feel like HUXLEY predicted modern society way more accurately in Brave New World"
>'ah yeah man, loved that book back in high school, what was the main character's name again?'
>"oh umm, it's been a while since ive read it"
>'what was the author's first name again?'
>""
>>8130714
>I can't figure out why people would lie about reading lit in the first place
People like to provide what they perceive as a socially acceptable answer, and when there's a lot of talk about a certain topic or piece of media, you can pick up enough lines of dialogue to pass off as someone who's not only knowledgeable about said topic, but came to the same conclusions as everyone else. Giving a vague, general answer that's in line with the popular consensus means that there's less risk in being prodded to go further, and risk losing the illusion that you're not with the program.
>>8130714
I imagine half this board at least is lying about having read one or all of the meme trilogy
Is this considered high-brow literature?
I was trying to remember the name of this series. Thank you, anon.
Flip-o-rama seemed like an underrated gimmick at the time
Not ever since they retconned a character into being gay.
People who are /lit/ and /fit/, tell me: Why do you work out/exercise?
Also, /fitlit/ thread.
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
>>8130316
And what about a woman? Why should she stay in shape?
>>8130318
Why wouldn't it be the same reason?
>you won't be able to be an author (or any kind of public figure) without people coming forward to air out every piece of dirty laundry about you, and every skeleton in your closet.
I want to be a writer, but this is probably like, up there in biggest fears.
>>8130257
I think of this too. It can also come from what you're writing. The embarrassing thing that gets exposed is your mindset when you're writing something personal. Especially when it's an author insert.
>>8130257
there are plenty of reclusive authors, like greg egan
>>8130257
tbqh of all the public figures it's the easiest for the writer.
(his work containing any honest writing, that is)