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>>7982719
Call of Cthulu is his most famous story. In the Walls of Eryx is my personal favorite. Also good are Horror in the Museum and the Music of Erich Zann. Actually everything is good desu senpai.

>>7982719
Yes. Read Colour out of Space. You'll have a blast.

The Call Of Cthulu
The Whisperer In Darkness
Dagon
The Outsider
At The Mountains Of Madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Color Out Of Space
The Rats In The Wall
Dreams In The Witch House

Here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymtnUDAOEWc

>>7982619
just read Pinecone's essay <<Is it OK to be a Luddite?>>

https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html

>>7982660
>https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html

Goddammit Pynch, you use too many commas. And you didn't answer the damn question.

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>>7982561
Just pick one that looks interesting. In its existence literature has covered so
many ideas, wroting styles, ideologies, etc.

Some people love the oldest stuff, very quick paced usually

Some like the 1700-1800 neoclassical slow, hoity toity

Some like the "what le fuck" of the surrealists and stream of consciousness

You just gotta jump in and see what tickles your fancy

abebooks.com

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>>7982597
That won't do.

It’s in the sticky… http://www.ak3d.net/help.htm

my

>>7982559
My? My what?

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I'm about to finish. Short stories (spanning no more than 3-4 pages), with some dramatic outcome and a quiet progress. Lots of children, prostitutes, bandits, and also stories from the greco-roman/medieval age.

If you can read French
https://archive.org/details/viesimaginaires00schwuoft
If you can't read French, they have a translation of Mimes
https://archive.org/details/mimeswithprologv00schw

This thread will be nice until the stemlords flock in telling you how worthless you are, then it will just devolve into a "debate" about who is more of a faggot.

>>7982504
All I want is psychology recs :^)

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>>7982504
Are you pre-emptively crying about the STEM boogeyman?
Jesus you liblords are huge fucking saddos

>>7982445
how about this? fuck you.

>>7982445
Women ruin everything
Just look at Star Wars, Mad Max and True Detective.

James Joyce.

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Truthfulness, accuracy of metaphor... There's a lot that goes into it. There's not really one good answer. If you are interested in the question Borges has some Harvard lectures called "This Craft of Verse" and Tolstoy, a book called "What Is Art". Everybody has their pet aesthetic theory, but try not to get caught up in these.
Go read Homer, Whitman, Virgil, Crane, Dante, The Bible, and any religious text which has existed/persisted. All of these share in genuineness and truth in expression. I don't think that the traits of a good author are wholly discernable, and you should read some more to understand why if you haven't already. Best answer I can give you bb :- ).

This is such a hard question...Depends what sort of writer you want to be though. Do you want to be James Joyce or do you want to write the next 50 shades of grey?
They require different approaches to writing. There are many techniques and word plays and word usage and techniques specific to the particular experience of reading a book.
When you want to create something truly unique you have to start thinking about art and what makes something a work of art and of course the relations between kitsch, art and mass media...
Today because of the massive amounts of available media and creative works even if you create something complex and unique it might go unnoticed.
You have ot give an immediate reason for others to spend time thinking about your work.
One might say that you have to include within your work kitsch on purpose to grab audiance and also make it in a way that would attract interpretations.
Through kitsch which is sort of a language on its own you navigate and force people to become invested in your work.
When we talk of cinema many of the most appreciated films(although i dont agree with such assesments) are works that are appreciated because of the massive amount of interpretative scholership. Take hitchcock, some of his movies, like vertigo are considered so amazing simply because of the wave of his movies that hit france all at once allowing them to suddenly be noticed and interpreted all at once.

>>7982510
I don't aim to be a 50 shades of grey writer, for I write light-philosophical adventure story. Also, I don't aim to become some one to be remembered for eternity. I aim to be a good, industry-standard adventure story writer whose stories are easy to read, epic, and contain a decent amount of moral.

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A bunch of clever guys with some free time regularly met in a bar to talk about their favorite author (thus: Young (Left-)Hegelians), banter and invite impressible chicks to live the /lit/ life.

Contrary to their idol (who was concerned with self, competition/enslavement, among other things) they didn't view the current sociology-political situation as finished and desirable, and thus they competed against each other about how to destroy, using coherent arguments. It was kind of illegal to do so, so they focused on critiquing religion, though. Texts on how the bible stories are made up or even how Jesus himself was a made up person resulted.

They eventually got kicked out for running out of money and continued on the street, where they ironically begged people for money to buy more alc.

Oh, and there was a smug face with a large forehead who regularly dropped by and socialize with this intellectual circle, and in the end he wrote a book making fun of their views. He was playing their game though, of being more radical -than the others.

He wrote about self and competion, and so did Marx later (all of that applied to social classes as "individuals"). He then attacked Stirner for his ideas, naturally. But Stirner was forgotten in the end, and Marx and other guys weren't.

>>7982417
I'm really more concerned about stirnerposting than what a bunch of degenerate leftists did 100 years ago.

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>>7982426
More like 170 years ago.

So what's your question? Have you read the book?

So second try:
>Explain shitty meme Engels cartoon.
It's a meme because it argues why a lot of things important in peoples lives are shitty memes.
Great tool. And it's then applied to existentialist questions. And it's a philosophy book that's funny, which is rare.

>>7982381
You mean Baitmen

>>7982381
Bateman is modern man. One must utterly hide their personality and true self, and replace it with an eternally concerned, empathetic character to fit in enough with the herd to gain power.

Not Bateman, more like BasedMan if you ask me.

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>>7982488
Nazi dubs of truth, lad.

Fear and Trembling
Kierkegaard

>>7982355
white noise

>>7982355
the metamorphosis

>>7982206

John Green
Twilight
Harry Potter

>>7982206
What notable books did the Nazis burn?

>>7982255
Hugo
Joyce
Hemingway
Conrad
Huxley
Wells
Dostoyevsky
Lenin
Nabokov
Trotsky
Tolstoy
Kafka
Marx

Plenty more

Dude, what? Wear and tear is a necessity. It shows you've read the book.

>>7982176
just buy two copes of each book - one for the booskhelf and one for reading

Don't hyperextend it you twat. Don't fold it back on itself and don't push it down on a flat surface. If you don't do those then only the cheapest books will get creased on their own.

nope

yes

>>7982149
Sure. My bookshelf is a conversation piece, I'm not even ashamed to say it, either.