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How do we Make Fantasy Great Again /lit/?
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>>7886367
Why did Patrick Rothcuck think anyone wanted to hear him talk? The audiobook is terrible and I tried reading it but it was very lame coming off the heels of Wise Man's Fear.
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>>7886413
whats the audiobook like? like what are the specifics of its awfulness?
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>>7886367
By reading and discussing the great works of William Gass.
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What are some works AGAINST ABSTRACTION
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why not understand it first before criticizing it? or do you need your arguments spoon fed to you instead
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJz-u8RJRhg
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/827.Most_Difficult_Novels
Do you agree with this list?
>8. Crime and Punishment
>10. Infinite Jest
>13. The Brothers Karamazov
>49. Jane Eyre
>50. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
How the fuck is Dostoyevsky so high up? Why are Jane Eyre and Tess even on there?
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>>7885713
They're long and don't have dragons.
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>>7886248
Dostojewski is so high up because he's one of the greatest novelists of all time desu
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Tess is relatively hard for the genre. Also a fucking masterpiece.
But no, obviously noone here agrees with this. I wonder why you even have to post it.
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this book was just terrible
as a jew, i say don't waste your time
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This is the Roth novel I almost always see at half price books
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>>7886220
whatever kike
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a friend of mine recommended it to me a few days ago
he said it's good
why should i listen to you over him, jewboy?
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"The idea of leaving the familiarity of Washington to go live in Chiang Mai is crazy"
"is crazy" doesn't seem to fit into the sentence, or am I stressing over nothing
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tl;dr:
I feel like my writing is clunky, how can I make it more fluid
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bump you fucking memelords
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I couldn't believe my ears. Chiang Mai? I didn't even know what country it was in, let alone anything more specific. I doubted he could point it out on a map. I had grown accustomed to Washington, it was my home, my safety net, my playground.
Idk f a m there's my 30 second take on it
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What are some poststructural works that focus on the constitution of identity?
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>>7886133
Maybe Butler
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>>7886133
poststructuralism doesn't constitute anything. least of all identity. it deconstructs the concept.
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orientalism by said
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Let's have a screenwriting thread.
>tfw full of ideas but amateurish
>tfw will never film this even if I end up with something good
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>tfw your pot dealers produce and film your script but delete the footage by accident because they're incompetent stoners
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>Entire script in Portuguese
>write sluglines in English
>doesn't matter because you have no industry ties in your country
dat feel *hug*
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>>7886299
kek
>tfw i'm brazilian too
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What are your favorite books that have self-mastery/discipline as a major theme?
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>>7885896
Thanks, but I'm mainly interested in fiction
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>>7885889
a book about samurai training or something similar would be really interesting if anyone has any recs
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Are there any authors similar to Michel Houellebecq and his books Atomised and Whatever?
Something that has to take place in modern society albeit dissaproving of it.
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you want a writer to tell you how to disapprove of something you already disagree with in a clever way? nice brain you got there bub
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>>7885860
he's like a bluepill reddit celine 2bh. Also check out Eduard Limonov's It's Me, Eddie
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>>7885864
no hurt pls am frendly
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instant classic
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>>7885830
instant classic
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Isn't it just one long episode of Vinyl?
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>>7885830
I heard it was shite by some mfag who knew nothing about nyc, especially not the nyc of the time period he was writing about. Sounds embarrassingly pseudish, tbhfampire.
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Where can i get a physical copy of Sex and Culture by J D Unwin ?
(preferably UK/EU)
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I'm afraid those are two things you're just never gonna have
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>>7885804
Hella
Fukin
Epic
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Buuuump
I have a digital copy but the formatting is fucked
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=papiCP6GSt0
>David Foster Wallace on the Porn Biz.
surely familiar but replete with tragi-humor. well worth a listen
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>>7885789
Very interesting, thanks for posting.
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played this when I was cleaning house and had run out of podcasts a few weeks ago. I was surprised with hearty keks (and some feels).
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does he name the jew?
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scientists then
>Nichopedes of Euripides measured the circumfrence of Neptune using a leaf, a rock, his severed finger, and shadows.
>Augustus Aquintosh was an 18th century English priest known for his contributions to mathematics, logic, theology, physics, the cataloguing of ladybugs, and the theory of aesthetics.
Scientists now
>Chaim Herschelstein is a New York born Harvard Neuro-Neurologist-Psychologist who is known for his theory that brain scans and experimental psychology can give fundamental information about free will, the big bang, the existence of God, and the identicalness of all races and genders.
>Tae Sun Woo is an American mathematician who skipped 15 grades and university years from the age of 1 and who has made fundamental contributions in Delta-Sigma-Banach-Triploski Onomatoepoeaic Implosion theory.
Is specialisation / modernity cancer?
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>>7885698
>Nichopedes of Euripides
nice meme
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i googled this post and it came up as a sci copypasta
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>>7885714
Ya did good kid
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Lovecraft - Where to start?
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I'm really interested in the whole universe of the Great Old Ones Lovecraft created, but I really don't know where to start. He has a lot of (short) stories and supposedly a lot of them aren't all that great, either.
Do anyone have experience with pic related or general tips for a newbie?
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Here you go, old boy!
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I have that edition and it's great.
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>>7885647
Oh, I guess this is what I was looking for. My google search was more than lacking, it seems. Thanks a lot!
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Any tips on abandoning your ego whilst reading? Being able to read and absorb literature semi-objectively, not thinking of things in relation to yourself.
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>>7885602
>abandoning your ego
>Stirner.jpg
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>>7885602
Abandon all hope of objetivity. Everything else is also tainted by your perception, reality itself is not safe from your ego. Even what doesn't exist goes through your lens.
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Why would you want to abandon me :(