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What are some essential depression-core books?
Popular suggestions:
1. Book of Disquiet
2. Conspiracy Against the Human Race
3. Stoner

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Hello lit

give me daring or subversive books

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2016: We are less free and thought control is intrinsic. A time of self censored artists.

The system has done our minds over. Everyone is competing to write the big money book that doesn't offend anyone. No one cares how corporately crushed we are.

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I read most of my books in English but I find some poetry, and only poetry, to be just a little bit too much for me to handle yet. Please recommend me good accessible poets that could help me improve my vocabulary while still enjoying and learning about poetry.

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Does anyone have a PDF of this? oh please oh please oh please

It's too costly, and I am too broke.

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Equality of outcome or equality of opportunity, /lit/? Or do you disagree with any sort of notion of equality?

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>pynchon's full name is Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.

>Ruggles

Why is this not a meme yet? Why did we take to calling him pinecone?

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Sup faggots, can you guys give me some advice for the book I'm writing in terms of theme and plotting.

Basically it's about an early 20 something nerdy guy who's a college drop out, lives with his parents and works a dead end convenience store job. He's pretty unlucky with women as well. However that all changes when he runs into a mysterious man who shows him how truly hollow and empty modern consumerist society is. Together these two transgressive misfits travel America gathering like minded people into their movement that eschews the modern day feminist-capitalism liberal system in favor of a masculine brotherhood that fights the system that oppresses them. In terms of influence my main ones are Fight Club (Palahniuk) and Atlas Shrugged (Rand)

The themes I want to put across are the hollowness of most peoples lives in the capitalist society, the fact that most Americans are blind sheep that follow the governments every word, and the fact that cultural marxism is pussyfying our society.

How can I most effectively marry these themes with the broader narrative without bogging down the story itself? Also what do you think of my concepts?

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What's the difference? One's $12.50 and the other is $25.72

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So like how did lancelot perform that miracle on that knight. Was it gad?

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When you write something do you use your real name or a pen name? I like to go by the name of Benito Camelo.

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Why are Light Novels so popular when they are so incredibly poorly written?

What I've noticed through basically every LN i've ever read from Spice and Wolf too Haruhi is how much fucking narration is on literally every single action or event, instead of writing a scene and letting it play out naturally letting the reader interpret it in whatever way they wish, LN's handhold the reader too an overbearing extent with narration on what is constantly going down. You will never learn what a character is like from their actions, the novel will always tell you how the character is and why they do what they do.

Which leads onto the biggest point, the Protags just won't shut the fuck up because basically 80% of the book will be just their own monologues on what is happening. This often means the protaganist basically has no real character, if you cut the monologues, there is nothing actually in the book showing you what the protagonist is like beyond their blank slate, they just stare at things, monologue about it internally then just do basic interactions.

What I've sort of realized about LN's is that they are mostly on the level of poorly written fanfiction. You will find most of these issues in bad fanfiction as well and it seems to stem from authors who are not confident in their own writing ability. Instead of allowing the reader to read and interpret scenes, dialogue and characters, everything is described to you in detail and from the perspective of the Protag (and author) because they don't trust their writing enough to carry itself.

This also sadly seems to carry heavily through into anime a lot, notice in western shows how they generally have the confidence to let you interpret scenes, while in anime often at least half the dialogue is internal monologues?

So it comes back too, why are these things so popular when they are not even good by western YA level genre fiction?

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What's your guilty literary pleasure, /lit/?

Pic semi related

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What are some novels that accurately portray pirates? I'm talking about full on scurvy, rape, and man on man butt sex.

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Ok, so I got Catcher from a friend, this edition, and, first, I gotta say, the first pages, "ow the edge" and second, is this edition pic related worth having or is it heavily edited? Also, second pic I post is older, with a much more interesting cover, how much is it worth on good condition?