What's a good social networking site for writers? There's always Facebook, Tumblr, etc, but since artfags have Tapastic I'm thinking there has to be some equivalent out there for writers that's actively used.
scribophile
Is this book the real deal?
Yes
RAW liked it
>>7632489
sounds total bullshit, yo
care to explain?
Thoughts?
>>7632448
Absolutely amazing
so I've been reading Garfinkel's ethnomethodology and just got through korzybski's science and sanity.
I like these sorts of works for the way in which they do not simply offer answers or perspectives but question frameworks and beg the questions, "am I asking the right questions in the right way?" "what questions should I be asking?" "is this just like, your opinion, man?"
anyone have any good suggestions for books of a similar vein?
bump to sage cancer?
What English literature from the 1800's isn't boring as all fuck? Please, name one example
>>7632004
>reading for enjoyment
sure is reddit in here
>>7632012
What else would you read for? You don't have to read shit pop lit just to enjoy reading
>>7632004
Shakespeare you git
/lit/, I was wondering if you could help me locate a sci-fi anthology that I read some years ago, but can't recall the name of
The first story was about this man who injected these bacteria into his spine that slowly made him a superior human being (i.e. correcting his eyesight, ex.), eventually the bacteria spread to people he's friends with and the entire world into bacteria themselves
>>7630717
Sounds a bit like Blood Music by Greg Bear, only that's a novel and it's nanobots rather than bacteria.
>"metaphor"
>is actually a simile
it's not hard
What are on about now OP? There is a difference, a big difference, between metaphor and simile. Or are you just on here complaining about people that don't know the difference?
a similie is a type of metaphor, faggot
>>7630635
>a similie is a type of metaphor of a type of metonymy
You are a successful well-known writer.
Would you prefer to be as wealthy as pic related (worth $600 million dollars), or as discussed as James Joyce by /lit/?
>>7629918
neither, I'd rather just be known to a few people, enjoyed by em, and give my books away in e-form for free.
>>7629923
Mate, if people can enjoy your books, you would either be rich or a literary icon.
>>7629925
not if i release it anonymously.
>solicitude
What about it, edgelord?
>ignominy
>checkem
Has anyone here read any Henry James, preferably one of his novels (i.e. not just Turn of the Screw)?
He is a really interesting author and I feel like I rarely see him discussed here.
The inferior brother.
>>7632648
Ah, an excellent meme.
>>7632648
>implying he didn't spend most of his writing career in britain
>implying he didn't become a british subject
>implying americans haven't produced goat literature
>criticising americans whilst simultaneously implementing american double inverted comma usage
>>7632666
>implying he didn't become a british subject
kek do people actually believe this shit? That james was a brit, or auden an american? it's nonsense tbqh
What's the deal with Stephen King being so edgy with how he ends his short stories?
Can't sell cold hotcakes my lad
>>7632525
it stops being interesting or thrilling after the first 2 stories.
>>7632514
its grand formula writing. considering how many he pumps out id be surprised if he's one author and not mills and boons style. I can appreciate it for this. but every book is the same story.
>le creepy monster
>le creepy monster isnt what you expected
>monster dies
>or does it?
>...to be continued
>tfw I'm too busy to read
>>7632493
but not too busy to post?
>>7632493
>he isn't NEET
But apparently not too busy to shitpost on a Bangladesh Money-Laundering Social Network
Can somebody fill me in on the background between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland at the time?
>>7632258
basically irish cathoics were shit tier niggers who didnt bathe and played in pools of mud and their own shit.
protestants were the colonial english or irish race traitors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Roman_Catholicism_in_Ireland
>>7632258
Pretty much English were protestants (there were Irish protestants such as Bram Stoker) and the Irish were Catholics. Their hatred of each other stemmed because of their difference of religion (who the head of each church was), but also because of the ethnicity of each religion's followers. I recommend reading the wiki page or watching a documentary on the troubles or just on the history of Ireland in general to get a better idea on Joyce.
>>7632276
no the religion is not important. it's the power structures that surrounded the religion. protestantism is to catholicism is what existentialism is to christianity. basically the merchant class started to be a thing and money was suddenly important. so suddenly the whole of europes merchants start going, uh, fuck you, im not obligated to do shit for the king, I have money and he should pay me for my services, invisible hand of the market ect. protestants were pro-merchant. catholics were pro-monestary/feudal system way back when. so measures had to be introduced to weaken the catholics by making them dirt poor and into literal niggers. taking their land away, heavy taxation, banning them from public institutions and education. this made them all crazy dirty niggers. and if you ever meet an alcoholic irishman, you will understand that they are basically complete niggers and why that is.
>decide to take phil 101 for the credits even though I could run circles around the typical pleb
>reading list is Hume, william James, and Descartes
Who else /101patrician/ here?
My Phil101 professor recommended Sam Harris to us
I just walked into the boxing class for twelve year olds and I pretty much left nobody alive.
Who else /destroysbeginners/ here?
>This is you
When I took 101 I was commended for "graduate level work" and showered with A's. feels good to be patrician
Does anyone wanna help me make a big chart of reading for the three big political theories? I've added what I presume to be the absolute basics and necessary groundwork, but haven't even touched on the different schools of thought within each. I feel like fiction should also have a place.
I'm doing this because I don't know that much about what these ideologies actually entail, and I want to get a bigger perspective on political thought. I'm sure others on /lit/ could benefit from it, too.
>Fascism
Republic - Plato
Leviathan - Hobbes
The Decline of the West - Spengler
The Doctrine of Fascism - Mussolini
My Autobiography - Mussolini
Mein Kampf - Hitler
The Myth of the 20th Century - Rosenberg
The Greater Britain - Mosley
>Communism
The Social Contract - Rosseau
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism - Lenin
The Communist Manifesto - Marx, Engels
Capital - Marx
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Engels
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin
What is to be done? - Lenin
The Foundations of Leninism - Stalin
>Liberalism
Two Treatises - Locke
Candide - Voltaire
The Rights of Man - Paine
The Wealth of Nations - Smith
On Liberty - J.S. Mill
Utilitarianism - J.S. Mill
Principles of Political Economy - J.S. Mill
Democracy in America - de Tocqueville
If I left something out or put something that you think shouldn't be there, let me know. I haven't read but three or four of these books. Also I'm aware that these lists need subcategories. I don't really know where to start with those, but I figured some of you would.
>Fascism
>Republic - Plato
DROPPED LIKE IT'S HOT
what the fuck is that list
>Fascism
>Republic - Plato
There's no way you actually read it, not all the way through at least.