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Black Jewels Trilogy

>>7953697
The latest issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

>>7953697
the hell out of there.

>>7933923
>Nick Land

Was it autism?

>>7933926

I have autism ergo maybe.

>>7933923
not even nick land takes nick land seriously

Scott Sigler, Palahniuk, King. Started reading Herodotus in first year of college & haven't looked back since.

I read nothing but genre fic (Pratchett, other stuff I can't remember) in lower years levels of HS because that's what my friends read, I realised I didn't like it and gave up on reading, read random shit between then and Year 11.

Then, I read Blood Meridian on a whim and realised what I'd been missing out on. After that, in my last 2 years I read more McCarthy, Faulkner, Kafka and Borges' short stories, Pynchon's and Joyce's easier stuff, and lots of Hesse.

>>7951190
Highschool was the most pretentious time in life. I was really influenced by the elitists on here. Dostoevsky, Sartre, Tolstoy, Kafka.

Five years ago.

First time I read C&P was at Saturday school.

Vollmann is wonderful. I just picked up The Ice-Shirt today.

Will read him when I finish my massive backlog. 3000 page book about violence anyone?

No one ever tells me anything about his books other than they're long, and po-mo.

>>7950014
brownie points

>>7950014
>hy is Marxism so attractive to the academic class

once maybe

>>7950033
>implying most career academics in the western humanities aren't openly marxist

Kipling's poetry will outlive those who call it misogynistic or racist, and it will outlive these concepts.

Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.

Sound and the Fury t b h

neil gayman lol

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>>7947315

>>7949077
>Shit tier posts
>Shit tier taste

>>7949077

>shit tier people
>shit tier elitism

>>7949103
First post, best post.

The same way that people shitpost.

>>7945175

For the exact same reason that people here posture and nurse an illusion of superiority.

It's a way for dumb nerds to feel important even though they're not getting any likes.

>>7945175

-a lot of people don't read books, so it's harder to find people to connect with about reading- putting your interest out on the internet helps you find likeminded people

-people think reading books makes you intellectual or interesting

Read Deleuze. Cinema 1 & 2. You're extra lucky that you get to read it in its original language

>>7944796
b-but it looks really fucking hard, I don't know that much about philosophy & I think Deleuze makes a lot of references to psychoanalysis and semiotics.

Anyway I didn't consider that, I'll take a look at these. Thanks anon.

Read Bresson's Notes on the Cinematographer
Read Tolstoy's What is Art

Someone on /lit/ once posted an infuriating story about his younger brother telling him books are boring because "it's all been done before" and that "he could write better himself." Anyone have it screencapped?

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> my little brother wants to write YA fiction
> I think it's kinda cool because, although I don't like YA fiction and I'm not part of its primary audience, as a writer myself I would like to talk to somebody within my family who is interested in writing and reading
> he asks for "big books" because he likes his shelf to "look nice" - this means that he will also take my Pynchon and my copy of Don Quixote just because they're chunky books and fill up his shelf more
> he wants to write sci-fi so for his birthday I buy him popular sci-fi works like Dune, A Scanner Darkly, Ubik and I Have No Mouth
> he doesn't read any of them
> he tells me his favourite book is Eragon
> he's 18
> he says he wants to write for a living but that he doesn't want somebody to edit his work/he doesn't want to edit his work; that he doesn't see any point to re-drafting work; he doesn't want to publish or promote work online; etc.
> finally read some of his first novel - a sci-fi about aliens who are discriminated against by humans (meant to reflect small town mentality regarding homosexuals) - and it reads like The Martian [i.e. "100 pirate-ninjas (yay) but I'm fucked (boo)" or something along those lines]

>>7941071
I wish to see this.

>>7950927
>>>/his/

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Plato offers a powerful refutation of Nietzsche.

The trick with Nietzsche is that his greatest opponents are in the past. People try to find the person who 'opposed' Nietzsche, but none of them came after him.

Nietzsche's two greatest opponents came before him. His two greatest refuters are Plato and Jesus. They are both powerfully opposed to Nietzsche and everything he stands for. Both of them make compelling arguments against Nietzsche's view of the world.

Naturally, Jesus is a special case, and one might take the thinkers who follow in his stead as being additional refuters of Nietzsche. I speak of Origen, Paul, Athanasius, Basil, Augustine, etc..

Nietzsche is a mofucker nazi that could never get proper erection. That's why he hated the world and kept braging about being Clark Kent and that everyone was shit except himself. In truth, he can't. He was just like Lex Luthor with hair and no intelligence.

At least Plato made sense.

>two 300 word responses to questions on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
>about to smoke a joint instead
as if i give a shit about this baby time bullshit. i'll pump it out in an hour, tops.

Chin up lad

>>7949337
How long does it take you to write one page double spaced

nothing at all?

''Show, don't tell''

Hemingway nothing. Faulkner so much. I haven't read Melville.

0/10

>>7939842
I feel like looking up Off the Road now

>>7939844
>Ernest Hemingway
> Brave New World
> 0/10
Try harder faggot.