Hey, /lit/. Newly qualified English teacher here.
I've accepted a post at a high school and, incredibly, they've allowed me to pick my own texts for the students to study.
I can pick 3 books, one for each term (semester). Which should I pick?
The Recognitions
Men and Women
The Tunnel
>>7997600
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
>>7997600
Make sure you get 1984 in there so we can stop these socialism is good meme
Post them
Have you no shame, OP?
I want people to post works to critique.
There is a current poetry crit thread, this is for fiction and nonfiction
No story fragments.
The first post will not be mine, and I'm going to critique every story under 3,000 words in this threadformatting stuff
put your story in a paste bin with a 2 week deletion time to preserve first publication rights.
Don't post story fragments or erotic fiction. Use of sexuality in stories is good. There is literally nothing I can do to stop you from doing either, just a suggestion because I hate experiencing story fragments
Post the title, the link, and a short about the author or about the piece. Use spoiler tags if it's about the piece. We can have conversations outside of just posting things, crit threads unfortunately become people just posting their work. Talk a little bit as you post.
>>7994243
Augury
http://pastebin.com/qsshzDgx
I stopped writing during my psychotic break. This is the first thing I've written since. I'm kindaproud of it
ok, i'll bite. It's 5k words though.
"Toy Soldiers"
http://pastebin.com/ZWCMpcuh
It's just a juxtaposistion of determinism/fatalism and war. I thought that was an interesting/scary way to look at destiny, so to speak.
short story excerpt
http://pastebin.com/WKPAfunu
if *everything* you have to say is negative, i probably don't want to hear it
Spinozo
>Proved the existence of God, defined as an infinite predetermined substance machine called the universe
>BTFO Plato's logic
>instead based his philosophy off of the Jewish ideal of God being beyond comprehension and following the eternal.
>Axiom 7 in the Ethics literally destroys the Hegelian dialectic
How can one man be so based?
>>7994206
>Spinozo
Everything I write is more or less connected to this guy's writings.Can't wait to read what Deleuze has to say about him
>>7994206
Spinoza was an atheist.
I haven't been here in a while, is Nick Land a meme?
Yes, there are threads about him every once in a while.
>>7983883
Do you think he gets lonely sometimes?
>>7983984
He's probably on the level of Autism that he only need to shitpost for a minutes each day to get al the social interaction he needs.
Post your latest pickups, /lit/!
>>7978555
I forgot to add that I bought this shirt today, can't wait for it to be delivered!
https://readingfury.com/products/do-you-even-read-bro
Us readers, huh?
Why did they change the name of the first Harry Potter book for the US market?
Questions that don't deserve their own thread
And
Casual Literature discussion
Any good books on writing novels? I read a lot of books but I just need something on the craft to help me.
What's the best book you have read this year, anon?
I'm curious.
>>7975430
Made this thread hoping that the huge number of questions that are asked be invaders from other boards without reading the sticky can be contained here. Since by this point, it's quite obvious that the number of people from other boards coming in are increasing, a QTDDTOT thread might help in keeping the catalog slightly cleaner.
Also, it seems as if the number of "beginner-questions" (that can be answered by the sticky) have sort of increased:
>where to begin with x?
>anything like x?
>books like this album x?
>books for this feel?
Not to mention increased frogposting and shitposting.
do people actually ENJOY reading fiction?
jesus christ LMAo
>frogposters
excellent thread
not much more I can say, 10/10
>He reads to find out what happens next
Daily reminder to learn a new language
Tutti i giorni finché ti piace
Fotti fuori dai
Italiano esto por faggottinis desu
So what do you think it'll be about /lit/?
Will this be the novel that defines our generation?
It's going to be a shitty wannabe Bukowski confessional
>>8005586
No haters pls
It's funny when you realize Tao Lin is the one grooming these. He has like four other Miras and they're all the same person.
Mira probably literally sucked Tao Lin's dick.
Why is this a classic? what is the point of this book? what message is it trying to deliver?
>>8005385
It's a spook book.
>>8005385
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>>8005385
It's not a classic. It's a children's book.
/lit/ long forgotten, Ling Ling trotted up the stairs, two at a time, to the second floor, where /fit/ was waiting for her with open arms. /fit/ noticed that Ling Ling’s thighs were glistening from her pussy juices, that had begun to flow down from her pleasure pit and passed by her short shorts, that were the kind of short short where her ass cheeks hung out for the world to see. Meanwhile, below, /lit/ was still planning, in his imagination, what he and Ling Ling would be doing that night. “First I will ask her out to a dinner at that new fancy restaurant I saw in the student times. Then I will ask her to go to the museum. Then afterwards we shall stop for an ice cream. Then I will make my move. I will place her hand in mine!” His penis erected itself, rebelling against his tighty wihiteys, at the thought of finally touching a smooth and slippery slit.
To be continued
>>8005254
slippery slippery slit
on my face please sit
move up and down move all around
yes moan and groan I love that sound
slippery slippery slit.
>>8005345
If you were going for a limerick, you need to delete the 4th line
>>8005254
this actually made me want to vomit.
There are two types of smart people. Those that realise the implications of relativism / Stirner / Munchhausen trilemma and admit it, and those who realise it and ignore it (those who don't realise it are dumb).
People who ignore it are usually navel gazing, house of card building, obscurantist, pretentious charlatans / academics. Most people who admit it aren't even involved in philosophy. A few people who admit it, such as myself, point out how all talk of ethics, metaphysics, etc is based on feelings and has nothing non-trivial to tell us.
Of course religionfags and philosophyfags try their hard to associate themselves with things of people who are seen as respectable or intelligent or other things. So they will lie and dissemble, all out of self interest.
I was 19 once too.
dude shut the fuck up read the collapse of the fact value dichotomy you fucking logical positivist neckbeard
>>8005218
You're a knob. Metaphysics is the admission that humans cannot directly observe every phenomena in the universe yet attempt to figure out how it works anyway using conjecture and logic. Atoms come from Epicurean metaphysics. Wittgenstein in his non-metaphysics metaphysics may have figured out the reason for language, which has stumped AI scientists as long as they've existed.
I've read too much nihilist and eastern shit. My desires and cares about the world have gone to shit. I don't even shitpost anymore, I just sit around and watch the grass grow or watch shitty netflix shows.
I don't really even care about opinions, whether it's the views of others or myself. It's really just a burden to hold opinions and invest yourself in anything. I just exist.
Reading suggestions to light that fire again? I tried some drugs, which was pretty cool, and I'm gonna go gamble this weekend. I wish I had the fire of an immigrant asian student or businessman who wants to crush the living shit out of the competition, to give you an idea of a role model. I just want something real.
>>8005145
SWTG
>>8005145
you need to be older than 18 to post on this site summerfriend
>>8005166
I'm 25
Veteran shitposter actually.
>Be republican, though not neccessarily a democrat
>Oppose monarchies, aristrocacies and other social structures that place birth over merit
>Believe that there is such a thing as inherrent and inalienable rights a just state should intervene with as little as possible
but
>Reject the Lockesian and Rousseauvian views of the natural state of man as utopic folly
>Support the Hobbesian view of the natural state as being a war of all against all, which civilization ends through enforcing order
>Logically speaking, this should make me a monarchist, or at least a "whatever works" pragmatist
It appears my beliefs don't make logical sense. Wat do?
>>8005147
sarry four de toppos
>>8005144
read de Tocqueville