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I am uncultured and dumb. Which books should I read to slowly start bettering myself ? I've seen /lit/ starting guides, but I think they lack works that would help me get a better general culture before tackling more serious literature.
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Scopenhauer's On Women
Mein Kampf
The Culture of Critique Series by Kevin McDonald
SPengler's Decline of the West
The Bell Curve
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (A woman, but exception to the rule)
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Actually a really good list.
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>DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
>Zadie Smith was 25 when White Teeth was published
>Marek Hlasko was 23 when Eighth Day of the Week was published
>F.S. Fitzgerald was 23 when This Side of Paradise was published
>Carson McCullers was 23 when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
>Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
>Italo Calvino was 23 when The Path to the Nest of the Spiders was published
>Kerouac was 20 when The Sea is My Brother was published
>Goethe was 25 when The Sorrows of Young Werther was published
>Musil was 25 when The Confusions of Young Torless was published
>Hemingway was 25 when In Our Time was published
>Tatsuhiko Takimoto was 24 when Welcome to the NHK was published
>Ryu Murakami was 24 when Almost Transparent Blue was published
>Garcia Marquez was 20 when Eyes of a Blue Dog was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Napoleon III as a President" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Fate and History" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when Free Will and Fate was published
>Nietzsche was 19 when "Can the Envious Ever Truly Be Happy?" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "On Tendencies" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "My Life" was published
>Saramago was 25 years old when Land of Sun was published
>Dickens was 24 when Sketches by Boz was published
>Dickens was 25 when The Pickwick Papers was published
>Huxley was 25 when Limbo was published
>James Joyce was 25 when Chamber Music was published
What are you doing with your life, /lit/?
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wasting it on here
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I'm still 19, it's ok
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>>7797102
"the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - bertrand russell
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How do I become a genius writer and join the canon?
Pls spoonfed me.
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Read The Artist's Way and do all the exercises. You'll literally become a vessel of pure creativity, possibly from God.
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Shoot lower, you're never going to be a genius
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Get a life, then write about said life.
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Finland is the most literate nation in the world 2016-03-10 10:45:33 Post No.7794780
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Finland is the most literate nation in the world
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/03/08/most-literate-nation-in-the-world-not-the-u-s-new-ranking-says/
How do you feel about this?
I live in the fifth biggest city in Finland (small by most standards), and we have 23 public libraries all over the city.
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>fifth biggest city in Finland (small by most standards)
~200 000 people to be exact.
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>>7794780
What city is that OP?
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>>7794780
Nordic nations seem to be quite literate for some reason. Apparently one out of ten people from Iceland publishes a book in their lifetime.
Dunno, maybe has something to do with it being cold and people staying inside to read books. All we here in Germany notice of the Scandinavian book culture is Astrid Lindgren, Sven Nordqwist, and that endless stream of shitty formulaic thrillers with an ominous object on an otherwise black cover with titles like "Murderer in the Darkness" or "Shadow of Blood" or "Knife Lady" that are written by all those people that are named Adler Johannson or something similar. I know, not exactly finish, but that's all I had to add to this thread.
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So guys, I've finally finished /lit/'s trilogy
>IJ
Cool book, nothing really amazing about it, really winded on some parts and a lot of boring passages. I found some of the concepts and characters really good tho, also the bizarre bits were really fun to read and have some good memorable moments
>GR
This was the book I've understanded the least of those 3. Still some amazing passages like Pokler storyline, the whole chapter 4 and the vicerous Katje and Gottfried bit. Anyway I've found Mason & Dixon to be way better than this, probably because it was easier for me, maybe on my second read this will change.
>Ulysses
Easily the best of the three for me, most of the chapters were very interesting, beautiful, moving, luxurious, engaging, sometimes it was very boring but the best parts easily overcome this "problem". Sadly most of the beauty of the chapter oxen of the sun is lost in translation
thanks for reading my blog
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Im getting really sick of these ESL cucks reading translations. You fucks obviously know English so read it in English or gtfo
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>>7792532
whats the problem with translations? My english isn't good enough to fully understand Joyce, so I prefer to read in my language a books that was translated by someone that knows the language and the author way better than me
don't you read translations? don't you read Dante? Virgil? Homer? Proust? Tolstoy? Saramago? Kawabata? Rosa?
one day I will understand why translations triggers /lit/ so much
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>>7792532
This. If you can shitpost in English don't be a faggot by reading translations of English books. Translations are for people who can't read the original language.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Genral - /sffg/ 2016-03-10 20:27:48 Post No.7796359
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Genral - /sffg/
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Memes edition
Recommendation Charts:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL
Flowchart: https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>What are you reading right now?
>What is your favorite comedic/satirical SFF?
>What's your favorite /sffg/ meme?
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URTH AINT FREE
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>>7796359
My favorite meme is "Gene Wolfe is a good author".
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>>7796359
>What are you reading right now?
Rode to Serfdom. Will maybe go for Ghormengast, got sick so I'll have time
>What is your favorite comedic/satirical SFF?
Master and Margarita
>What's your favorite /sffg/ meme?
Meme Wolfe pepe
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ITT: tales from high school English class 2016-03-12 03:02:07 Post No.7801370
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ITT: tales from high school English class
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>be in high school English class
>be reading Nineteen Eighty-Four together
>every kid pauses at the end of the line rather at the end of the sentence
>mfw
What stories do my fellow anons have?
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why wojack do dis?
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>>7801370
>>be in high school English class
>>be reading Shakespeare together
>>every kid pauses at the end of the line rather at the end of the sentence
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Are you talking about the last line. Like, "He... Loved.... Big.... Brother?"
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Write what's on your mind.
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The sun is setting and with it will come that hazy dreamy feeling of night. I am contemplating whether I should go play bass guitar or read
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It just wasn't supposed to be like this.
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I have recently been exposed to the concept of antinatalism and well, it doesn't sit right with me. But that is about all I have. I cannot find a rational argument against it and on the internet at least it usually seems like the antinatalist is trying to engage other people in thoughtful discussion but they just insist he is depressed and that he should kill himself. If anything that kind of knee-jerk reaction just pushes me further into this philosophy of total cynicism. So I am asking here what are some actual logical moral arguments against antinatalism? Why is it wrong?
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read better to have never been or whatever the fuck it's called
then kill yourself lol idk
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>>7801720
Anti-natalism denies the creation of its greatest jewels: human beings. That alone BTFO the entire concept of anti-natalism.
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>>7801745
>greatest Jewels
this is the kind of shit I am talking about.
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What's the most erotic sentence you can write with 6 words or less?
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baby shoes never worn
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Lips dripping with horse cum, yum.
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>>7795744
It pays to be a winner
First time I heard that my dick shot up out of the water so fast it killed the man next to me
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No thread in catalog.
pic related is mine. Yes; I bought the meme book. I hope it is good.
So far I've read Mao II and All the Pretty Horses
Post 'em!
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but how much did you pay for all them
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>>7785981
>Yes; I bought the meme book
you mean, meme books
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All on the discount shelf, 50% off.
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Objetivism or relativism?
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Ayn Rand was an idiot.
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I chose subjectivism.
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Objetivism is a joke.
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Are critique threads worth it? 2016-03-12 00:03:18 Post No.7800800
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Are critique threads worth it?
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Hey /lit/, have the critique threads improved your writing?
I get that there's a lot of talk about how the writing posted is shit and the critique is even worse. However, do you think there's something to be gained from analyzing poor-quality writing or poorly-constructed critique for the sake of improving your own writing?
Sometimes I feel like I learn how to write better from seeing what doesn't work than what does (i.e. reading canonical literature).
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No critique threads are terrible. Most of the "critics" are themselves awful writers and, much of the time, the dumbest anons on this board. I've posted various sections from Ulysses, The Recognitions, and poems by Pound and Crane, and they call it pretentious or nonsensical.
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everyone knows they're all shit, but i still post in them from time to time
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I just use them because it's the only place I can post my English writings and hope to get some kind of feedback - and every once in a while you stumble on something amazing, like that Portuguese dude who was translating his (already published) poem-ish thing. He was incredible.
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Is Emperor Palpatine the end goal a Nietzsche's philosophy?
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>>7800337
people need to stop with all the pop-philosophy cultural referencing crap.
anyways, most of stars wars was based on jungian archetypes.
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Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Pelagious the Wise?
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>>7800337
>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books
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Who are some good black authors who don’t talk about muh racism
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the fresh prince of bel-air novelisation
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Who are some good /lit/ posters who don't post about muh
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>Who are some good black authors