Since this place has gone to shit anyway let's talk about the most interesting literary trend in recent years: fanfiction. It's like a series written by a thousand authors! Genre fic taken to a whole new extreme! The perfect shit to read while you pinch off a loaf, so you don't have any transcendental epiphanies ruined by the stank of your own offal!
What fandoms do you read, Anon?
Favorite fics?
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>>7567424
actually kill yourself if you read fan fiction
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>>7567429
But great books like twilight, 50 shades of grey and the martian couldn't have been written without fan fiction.
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The only fandom I remember was a mesh of 40k and NGE. It was well crafted but the mixing of settings ruins the emotional chaos that is NGE.
It is not exactly its own world but there is something to take away from it and shows some structural insight that you may not have encountered before reading the fandom
It is a study of sorts in its own right/
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Recommend essays on mankind's search for meaning and ultimate goal. A Judeo-Christian theological scope is fine, and Eastern philosophy is also welcomed.
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Either/Or
Best thing ole Graveyard ever wrote
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I'm looking for something particular.
Something to do with hitmen, operators, lone wolf types.
Nothing too Rainbow Six-ish or Clancyesque. Hopefully something that wasn't designed to be one-of-a-series, although I'm not opposed if it's well done/reviewed.
How about it? Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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watch Sicario
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>>7567370
Also Robert Ludlum and Alistair McClain are pretty acceptable stuff for the genre of "thriller".
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What is literature?
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>But a miserable pile of secrets!
>But enough talk. HAVE AT YOU
Symphony of the Night is the most lit video game there is.
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Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
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>>7567354
What's a "country"? Who are "the
people"? What are "politicians"? Who knows. I just wanted to become a
president. All I need is to hear the empty click of this gun and my
dreams will come true!
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Solipsism is stupid; just as one soul came from nothing, the same process could have created everyone around you. Get your head out of your solipsism books and LIVE!
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While I am at it; metaphysical woo-woo is stupid too. The same process that created the metaphysical soul from nothing could be capable of creating physical matter. Get your head out of your buddhism books and LIVE!
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Good contemporary italian literature 2016-01-10 15:17:39 Post No.7567255
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Good contemporary italian literature
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Post some of your favorite contemporary italian books
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Based Gillo
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Carlo Cipolla
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Stefano Benni
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can't find #Bookz on IRC, ED is down.
toast some info this way pls
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>>7567228
D/L Hex chat. Use Undernet. Channel #bookz. @search [author or book]
Accept the rar/zip. Look through txt file for what you want. Make sure that user is online. Copy paste the line into the chat. Accept download. Ta da.
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why not @find
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>>7567637
>why not @find
Hahaha nigaa is u serious?
What are other good forums for talking about literature?
>no reddit plz
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>>7567194
reddit just released their new book pictures of dfw you should check it out.
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>>7567198
I hate 4chan
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>>7567221
ilx but its slow and ugly layout, 420 chan /lit/ is decent
Can anybody recognize the titles of these books?
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The best photo i have
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>>7567191
Hunky man study biblè
Goos plait
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The book on the right is God's Rule by Patricia Crone. The left...
how do i encourage myself to read more?
i used to do nothing but sit, read and sleep when i was in my dorm room and now i don't even bother to read since my psychiatrist gave me antidepressants. should i look for music and films for a while hoping my urge to read kicks in again? i feel kind of empty and guilty.
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drugs
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Stop frogposting and you'll be fine
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>>7567165
How bad was the depression?
If at all tolerable, kick the drugs. Doing powerful psychotropics every day is a good and efficient way at fucking yourself permanently.
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Are, the birth of a tragedy and The Gay Science good starting points for Nietzsche?
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>>7567139
The Greeks are a good starting point for Nietzsche. After that Schopenhauer at the very least. Did you that yet?
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>>7567155
>Did you that yet?
no, but i will. I just found a cheap compilation of nietzsche's works , its not like i wanted to read him specifically.
Thank you for the advice.
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If you want to get into philosophy, you have to be an organized thinker. Everything in its correct category; everything in its right place. So the place you should start with Friedrich Nietzsche is the garbage, actually, because that's where he belongs.
>churning out essays by night
>living in a third-world shithole
>failing an English class (you fucking read that right, English, as in "Hello how are you" "I'm fine thank you" shit, not Literature) because the teacher is up my ass and can't do anything about it
>parents wonder I suck so hard
If only they know that I've got a bunch of books on Amazon for sale. Fuck. This just makes me so fucking insecure.
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You've written books, OP?
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>writing a book
>doing essays on Medium
>livestreaming on Twitch in English for 5 hours straight every day for a whole summer
>all the relatives ask how good my English is all the fucking time 'cause I go to English school
I also got a C in my proficiency test and failed it the first time I sat for it. I must've come across some really uptight speaking examinators cause all of my teachers praise the shit out of my English and most of my classmates got it first try.
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Post famous citation.
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So I want to read The New Yorker but don't live in the USA. Nor do I possess a CC.
Who was a reliable source at hand that delivers current and recent issues of The New Yorker in commonly used digital formats?
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>>7567099
It's usually on public torrent trackers along with all the other major mags.
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>>7567099
I love that cover.
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>DFW
top kek
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Why would you think this post is worth making
Sage
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>>7567053
sage uugh
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Atmospheric novels: University edition 2016-01-10 13:56:58 Post No.7567036
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Atmospheric novels: University edition
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Saw a thread about that, but it is gone. Would like to discuss the topic further
Tartt's 'Secret History' included a very nice New-Englang-University feeling. As I am a sucker for atmospheric books in general (that's why I like Kafka), can you recommend similar books? Maybe something that's a tad closer to real literature than TSR.
Someone suggested Malamud, can you recommend?
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I remember some Bret Easton Ellis book (rules of attraction i think) having that same vibe, but from the people who werent as smart or narrowly focussed as the secret history crowd.. thats what got me interested in the secret history.
also, if you like kaka check out hermann ungar and his book the class
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Bret Easton Ellis is noted, Hermann Ungar seems to lack university feeling
Are other Tartt books worth reading?
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>>7567036
white noise