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>>8095448
Roberto Bolaño, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral son los primeros escritores que se me ocurren

Recomiendo especialmente a Bolaño.

Es uno de mis escritores favoritos.

Empieza con Los Detectives Salvajes, o con cualquiera de sus libros de relatos, son maravillosos.

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2016-05-29 01:40:32 Post No.8095382
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Anonymous 2016-05-29 01:40:32 Post No. 8095382 [Report] [View this topic]

Did Internet bring anything good to quality of books? Is the all pervading connectedness good for writers?

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Anonymous 2016-05-29 01:42:15 Post No.8095390
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>>8095382
>reading books written in the last twenty years

wew

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>>8095390
Pynchon is still outstanding

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>>8095382
>connectedness

I don't feel all that connected desu

Anonymous
2016-05-29 01:24:58 Post No.8095336
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Anonymous 2016-05-29 01:24:58 Post No. 8095336 [Report] [View this topic]

>The only thing that really counts in a man is his get-up-and-go. If he's got get-up-and-go he's a real man, and those are the kind of men we need here on Uta-jima. Family and money are all secondary.

w-what did he mean by this

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Anonymous 2016-05-29 02:00:23 Post No.8095464
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>>8095336
it means youre not a man

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>>8095336
I didn't really like "Sound of Waves".
A bit too pat/saccharine/cutesy. Of all the full-length stuff I've read by him, it felt the least like Kimitake-kun.
~~>tfw no weeb gf~~

Anonymous 2016-05-29 02:44:20 Post No.8095641
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>>8095628
>gf
nu-male
I've got about 4 inches of hot, hard get-up-and-go and I'm not wasting it on some female.

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2016-05-29 00:51:30 Post No.8095244
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Anonymous 2016-05-29 00:51:30 Post No. 8095244 [Report] [View this topic]

Hi /lit/

Can I get in legal trouble if I submitted a story to a competition and won first prize but under a false name and identity?

They are asking for a photograph and short bio and I'm panicking a lot, but I could use the money also.

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Anonymous 2016-05-29 01:03:56 Post No.8095264
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>>8095244
uh, no

Anonymous 2016-05-29 01:26:46 Post No.8095345
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>>8095244
Mate have you ever heard of pseudonyms, are you memeing or did you really win a contest?

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>>8095244
Was it a minority/woman only contest or something?

Worst they can do is just give the prize to the next in line, don't worry.

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Murakami Recomendations 2016-05-29 00:35:01 Post No.8095212
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Murakami Recomendations Anonymous 2016-05-29 00:35:01 Post No. 8095212 [Report] [View this topic]

Looking for recommendations for a Murakami fan.

With few exceptions I've found myself reading only Murakami novels for the past couple years (I'm an incredibly slow reader). Now that I'm reaching the bottom of the barrel, I'm looking for other magical realism novels that can help fill the void.

I fear that I'll never find another author that moves me quite like Murakami.

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Anonymous 2016-05-29 00:38:11 Post No.8095223
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>>8095212
cuckholding.com
blacked.com
hotwife.com

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>>8095212
>murakami
>fan
This isn't the place for you friendo

Anonymous 2016-05-29 00:39:19 Post No.8095226
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>>8095212
>reading non-whites

please leave immediately, cuck

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Some Stuff. Anonymous. 2016-05-29 00:27:48 Post No. 8095195 [Report] [View this topic]

I did my best, but I want honest and tough, constructive criticism.

I'm not well-crafted yet in my prose and tone, I think, but I would like as much feedback as possible to improve.

If Anonymous demands it, I can improvise where needed and try to build off of this.

I don't want to go into details, but I need to improve a lot before the year is over. I have the drive and time needed to improve even if this isn't my strong suit. I know this might not be the best place to go, but it's a start for the time being.

https://www.docdroid.net/7e91KDs/test-sample.pdf.html

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Anonymous. 2016-05-29 00:29:43 Post No.8095201
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>>8095195
Oh, forgot.

31 pages, but the pages should be short enough.

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>>8095195
4/10 prose
0/10 plot - that was the most bland and uneventful scene I've ever read (the first one). Didn't make it to the second.

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>>8095207
>reading for plot

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2016-05-28 23:39:36 Post No.8095028
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Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:39:36 Post No. 8095028 [Report] [View this topic]

>tfw you long for death's sweet embrace but your disgusting animal body isn't ready yet

Are there any books /lit/ can recommend on this topic?

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Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:41:28 Post No.8095034
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>>8095028
mind is a myth by u.g. krishamurti will help you stop taking memes too seriously.

why would you kill yourself over memes?

Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:48:23 Post No.8095049
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Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable
by Beckett

I stopped really liking Nirvana after middle school but I maintained that Cobain had patrician tastes and it was my gateway into slightly more substantial pop music, Cobain apparently read the books or so I read in some footnote of an article and the details of his death have some interesting parallels with those in said books. Molloy's wandering through the forest, Cobain's perpetual kidney problems, etc.

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>>8095034
What is the meme in this case?

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2016-05-28 23:33:39 Post No.8095006
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Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:33:39 Post No. 8095006 [Report] [View this topic]

Is it okay to just read Ecclesiastes and not the rest of the bible? I am of course talking about a secular reading of it as a piece of literature.

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Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:35:19 Post No.8095012
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Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:35:19 Post No.8095012 [Report]

No!

Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:35:38 Post No.8095013
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Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:35:38 Post No.8095013 [Report]

Well Ecclesiastes is good for secular reading, but Romans is just as good.

Romans 5:1-5 basically talks about how suffering leads to endurance, character, hope and hope does not disappoint us. How we rejoice therefore in our sufferings. It can get pretty philosophical.

You don't need to read most of the OT. NT is pretty important though.

Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:37:13 Post No.8095019
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>>8095006
Niggra most of the bible might as well have been written by a Neolithic autist, just read Ecclesiastes and dump that trash

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Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:26:46 Post No. 8094982 [Report] [View this topic]

>hear about Thomas Ligotti on /lit/
>his Wikipedia page portrays him as Lovecraft mixed with Cioran, ten notches above Stephen King
>his life story is humble and unpretentious
>has rave reviews from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Book Review, among others
>think, "Wow, the guy must be good. Well-written genre fiction with depth, that's just what I'm looking for"
>get his Penguin Classics-approved collection of short stories from the library
>read some of the most flowery, inauthentic, thesaurus-abusing fiction I've ever read in my life
Is...is it all a joke or something? One of his characters, a psychiatrist working on a Wednesday, just referred to an unfortunate patient of his by saying (without a trace of irony), "Oh, woe is this Wednesday's child!"

"Oh, woe is this Wednesday's child!"

I sat rereading this line for about a full minute.

"Oh, woe is this Wednesday's child!"

Like, who are we trying to kid here? This is awful! This is BENEATH Stephen King. It's a community college student from Detroit posturing as a stuffy 19th century English aristocrat. What the fuck?!

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Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:31:33 Post No.8094997
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So what you're saying is... the person who suggested him is an idiot? I feel like 9 out of every 10 suggestions I see here are terrible.

Anonymous 2016-05-28 23:53:15 Post No.8095071
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Ligotti is great.

https://youtu.be/lxZpEFJhO6k

Spoken word track with lyrics by Ligotti. The words crawl under your skin and stay there. Even without understanding the semantic meaning of what is being conveyed, they produce a powerful effect. Sign of a genius writer IMO.

Anonymous 2016-05-29 00:01:11 Post No.8095098
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Anonymous 2016-05-29 00:01:11 Post No.8095098 [Report]

Its a reference to the nursery rhyme dumbfuck

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Anonymous 2016-05-28 22:54:22 Post No. 8094831 [Report] [View this topic]

I was wondering what the best writing application was. I'm mostly looking for a good UI and smooth writing and perhaps some nice little features , mainly a typo indicator as my keyboard is "vintage" and those tend to happen , so a heads up is always nice. perhaps a not-so clunky saving feature and a smooth running speed so it doesn't get fucked up when I'm going back and editing.

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Anonymous 2016-05-28 22:55:14 Post No.8094839
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notebook, pen

Anonymous 2016-05-28 22:56:37 Post No.8094844
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>>8094831
Focuswriter

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>>8094831
Heard good things about Microsoft Word

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Anonymous 2016-05-28 22:19:53 Post No. 8094655 [Report] [View this topic]

What are some good books about the benefits of multiculturalism?

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Anonymous 2016-05-28 22:21:24 Post No.8094662
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>>8094655
It only benefits the rich people in power.

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>>8094655
Anything on the current state of South America

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>>8094655
What does multiculturalism even mean? Multiple 'cultures' cannot coexist as equals within the modern state system while preserving their individual identity. Though it was the norm in premodern times before centralized state authority, see for example the conflicts associated with the rise of modern, ethnic statehood in Eastern Europe, post-colonial Africa and the Middle East. The /pol/ usage is often an euphemism for multiracialism.