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>Stopping everything to write a bit of inspiration for your story on the back of a receipt.
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>finally getting past the obligatory slog of densely cited background information, to the part where you can just inhale coffee and extemporize in your metier
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>Have a shitty week. Finally write that sad part you've been stuck on. Feel great afterwards.
Cathartic.
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So, now that the dust has settled which one is better?
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>>8013235
If I have to choose between the two I'd go for BNW, but if you won't a better novel about authoritarianism read Demons by Dostoevsky
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I think the world as a whole is approaching an Orwellian dystopia while the USA is more Huxlean.
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>>8013248
>Demons
>authoritarianism
Care to elaborate?
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why is this book so hard to get? fucking 120 dollars on amazon, not even available on my national bookwebsite?
any way to get my hands on a hard cover of this?
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>>8012734
sure just give a seller money and you'll get your very own hard cover copy of women and men.
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B8 m8
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>>8012734
>why is this book so hard to get?
Why do you think? Guess.
>any way to get my hands on a hard cover of this?
Yes.
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Liquid Evil - Zygmunt Bauman 2016-05-08 13:40:44 Post No.8012657
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Liquid Evil - Zygmunt Bauman
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Has anyone read this and if so, thoughts? And does anybody have a pdf of it?
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sounds as some anti-alcohol book
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>>8012658
No, it supposedly deals with the transmutation from classical "concrete" evil to a more subtle and post-modern form, liquid evil as Bauman calls it
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What do you do during the day, /lit/?
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wake up
browse 4chan
go to bed
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wake up
browse 4chan
go to bed
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wake up
browse 4chan
go to bed
rate my backlog, /lit/.
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stunted worldview/10
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>>8011944
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendevouz With Rama,
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World,
Phillip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle,
Phillip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,
William Gibson - Neuromancer,
Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun,
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash,
Robert A. Heinlein - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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what
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>>8011944
2/10, wouldn't cum in
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What was your favorite story by him?
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>>8011538
Is this guy really that good?
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>>8011538
none
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>>8011542
How good?
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I'm designing a classic work much like the primary works.
By this I mean Vern, Wells, etc.
I have the perfect outline and since I'm no juggernaut, a co-author would be great.
Its not just another novel penned in the modern fool hardy style.
No sir, I use large portions of clarity, quick progression, expansive content, details as needed (no excess).
Keeping the reader by mirroring the classic styles even going into some Fitzgerald examinations.
Its a real amalgamation about someone no one has tackled yet.
Indiana Jones meets Dan Brown drinking with Issac Asimov while reading Robert Anton Wilson.
My aim with this thread is to get in contact with a cool open minded writer who will sign a NDA and work with me on the completion of this amazing classical work.
Skype and telecommute while working on the same manuscript. A true grit co-op mission with big money at the finish line.
Currently I've been working with WriteItNow for character, events, locations, ideas, outline, etc contents.
Obviously writing it in Atlantis word processor in *.doc format just because it has type writer sound schemes when you type.
I'm not trolling and I wont give away too much about my story line as its OC in a modern classical way that all of you would appreciate.
Before anyone asks I've thrown together around 18 books in my day under 3 pen names so this isn't my first back cover page race.
I've been working on finding an illustrator who will drop 10 b/w etchings along with a cover concept and do it for royalties.
Looking for team players essentially is what I'm doing here and I know how brilliant some of you fuckos are...
I just hope the right (You) makes it ITT...
>I've always worked pretty much alone this is a big step for me and I'm serious as a heart attack.
>And No, I'm not still writing "The Pattern" about the tile lover of /v/ anymore.
>get at meh: 34 32 61 6c 70 65 6e 67 65 69 73 74 73 40 67 6d 61 69 6c 2e 63 6f 6d
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>>8010765
>Issac Asimov
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were those 18 books any good? receive any critical attention? do you write under a pen name because you're a big fat pussy?
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>>8010765
I guess
post a throwaway email and I'll send you my contact info
For those of you who have actually read it, is it really THAT bad?
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>>8008806
yes of course it fucking is
shitty style, shitty content
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>>8008806
care to post more than just a cover?
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>>8008806
i dunno what your caps is meant to signify
it's more coherent than the OT/NT but of course, one guy wrote it
it's not as pretty, but maybe in arabic it's awesome
if you're talking politically, yes, it's quite bad. not because the things in it are any worse than the OT, but rather because it combines 8/10 of the shit in the OT with coherence, so it's actually believable that one could adhere to it. the OT has a lot of things that are irrelevant without the temple or even somewhat contradictory, so that kind of saves it as you're looking for metaphor.
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Hey guys check my new bookshelf tour!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7HkqrqvC4
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What is this garbage?
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>>8008695
i have hardly ever heard of any of these books apart from game of thrones
are these the sort of books that vacuous american teenagers usually read?
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/fg/ - Fantasy General 2016-05-06 17:02:22 Post No.8005960
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J. R. R. Tolkien vs George R. R. Martin edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAAp_luluo0
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>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
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>>8005960
>J. R. R. Tolkien vs George R. R. Martin edition.
As disgustingly offensive as a "Christianity vs Dianetics" thread would be. Only a diseased American mind can be this degenerate.
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>>8005960
Tolkien won.
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Tell me about unrequited love, anons
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>be me
>fall for qt
>qt seems interested
>act aloof and disinterested
>qt moves on
>be sad
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I took a leap of faith and carried on loving her, hoping she would come back, till I died.
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>be ugly
thats it
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Has anyone started or already read this book?
I, myself, just heard about it recently. I love these type of books, going into it knowing it could be all fiction or just mere misinformation from the CIA, which it could be, but it tells of an authentic officer experience (from my ignorant perspective).
Half the book is pretty much redacted by the CIA. However you can still follow the story pretty well. It's pretty interesting mainly since you don't see too much media delve into the actual lives & conduct of a "spy", so there is sort of an alluring quality to it all. The tip of the spear situation the protagonist is in also makes it quite exciting.
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Seems like they're calling them Targeting Officers now.
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This is what you can expect in ways of redaction typically.
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This is occasional.
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Best Style of Reading Chair 2016-05-09 14:48:59 Post No.8016635
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Best Style of Reading Chair
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I'm in the market for a reading chair and while normally frugal I'm willing to shell out for this, probably up to the $500-$1000 range. So what have you found is the most comfortable type of chair to read in for long hours?
My friend recommended the Aeron chair which is an office chair classic (pic related) but I'm not really looking for an office chair. More a comfy armchair or reclining chair that is perfect for reading. I mostly care about comfort but elegance would be nice also.
I guess this can be a reading space general as well, some of you have posted cozy spaces in the past. I'm finally at a point in my life where I can really focus on reading, I think I just passed my last actuarial exam.
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I'd recommend just going to a nicer, upscale secondhand furniture store or imports store and sitting on all the armchairs you think would look good in your space and picking the comfiest one. Buying furniture online usually isn't as good as doing so in person, in my experience.
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>>8016673
Ugly.
Just go to a nice antique store and but a comfy overstuffed leather chair
Hello /lit/, I come here with a question.
Does this make sense?
>However, I tell you this: no man will prosper without the proper tools needed to survive. Though unbeknownst to some, education is actually the most vital tool we possess that must be sharpened from time to time. It is the instrument we need to tread the perilous journey known as life.
Any inputs and corrections?
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Yea it makes sense but it medicore,
>though unbeknownst to some, educations is ACTUALLYA
Remove the actually it isnt needed andit sounds as if you are trying to write in a voice other than your own, do not try and sound smart, sound like youself, constantly edit and sometimes less is more...
In terms of subect its been touched on so many times and you are making vauge and extremely obvioua statments.. is this a personal project or an assignment
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>>8016454
Nope, not an assignment. A submission for a paper.
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pfft, gay