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Anonymous
2016-01-01 09:51:51 Post No.7527262
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 09:51:51 Post No. 7527262 [Report] [View this topic]

Any slow readers here that managed somehow ro overcome that problem without taking medicine to help their concentration problems?

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 10:09:20 Post No.7527284
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Pomodoro apps
3 minutes per page
Used to take ritalin 3 months ago, now I read at least 50 pages a day, depends onhow much I wanT. Yesterday i've read 75 so I could finish Ancient Celts. Back then it'd take me an hour to read 10 pages.

Anonymous 2016-01-01 18:38:45 Post No.7528172
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>>7527284
Have the pills negatively effected you or your thinking in any way?
How much do you take? How much do you pay?

Anonymous 2016-01-01 18:46:51 Post No.7528195
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>>7527262
Just kill yourself, you retarded frog posting idiot

Anonymous
Canadian Literature? 2016-01-01 08:11:41 Post No.7527114
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Canadian Literature? Anonymous 2016-01-01 08:11:41 Post No. 7527114 [Report] [View this topic]

Canadians of /lit/, how do we save the culture of our country's literature? Besides Margaret Atwood and Alice "Our Chekhov" Munro, the rest of the world literally gives zero fucks about what Canadians have written since the confederation, even when we hold the most land area of any country after Russia. The emergence of great Canadian literature would be the final step to finally establishing ourselves as a GOAT nation.

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 08:14:54 Post No.7527120
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dude weed lmao

Anonymous 2016-01-01 08:15:41 Post No.7527124
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 08:15:41 Post No.7527124 [Report]

if those are the only 2 canadian writers you know, you should consider reading more.

Anonymous 2016-01-01 08:15:56 Post No.7527125
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>>7527114
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_writers

Anonymous
2016-01-01 06:15:56 Post No.7526816
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:15:56 Post No. 7526816 [Report] [View this topic]

Want to submit my short story to as many literary magazines/journals as possible, list the ones I don't have to pay to submit that you'd recommend. I think this could be my magnum opus.

Have you ever been published in a literary magazine or journal, /lit/?

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:16:45 Post No.7526818
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:16:45 Post No.7526818 [Report]

What kind of story is it?

Perhaps you should try duotrope, also.

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http://www.pw.org/literary_magazines
fuck off

Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:31:23 Post No.7526853
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>>7526818

Sorry, that's actually a pretty good question and I should have specified that duotrope isn't exactly helping. I suppose I'd consider it experimental or metafiction based on its style but thematically or storytelling-wise it might creep into surrealism. The sort of thing someone writes after spending a year or two devouring postmodernism and then rebelling against it. I can envision lots of fiction editors appreciating its merits but saying it's not for them.

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2016-01-01 06:06:09 Post No.7526797
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:06:09 Post No. 7526797 [Report] [View this topic]

You are condemned to read one book for the rest of your life, name it /lit/?

>protip: don't think about it, just the first one that pops into your head

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:07:00 Post No.7526798
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:07:00 Post No.7526798 [Report]

the bible

that was easy

Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:09:04 Post No.7526801
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:09:04 Post No.7526801 [Report]

war and peace

Anonymous 2016-01-01 06:17:04 Post No.7526819
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>>7526797
Don Quixote

Anonymous
2016-01-01 05:28:11 Post No.7526712
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 05:28:11 Post No. 7526712 [Report] [View this topic]

What books accurately portray the thoughts, emotions, and struggles of women? Books that help you empathize with women?

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 05:28:46 Post No.7526713
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 05:28:46 Post No.7526713 [Report]

The game by neil strauss

Anonymous 2016-01-01 05:35:35 Post No.7526730
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 05:35:35 Post No.7526730 [Report]

Ready Player One

Anonymous 2016-01-01 05:39:11 Post No.7526738
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 05:39:11 Post No.7526738 [Report]

>>7526712

Anna Kavan

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2016-01-01 03:45:33 Post No.7526469
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 03:45:33 Post No. 7526469 [Report] [View this topic]

>be reading book
>enjoying it
>browse /lit/
>book gets shat on
>quit reading book

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 03:51:33 Post No.7526488
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 03:51:33 Post No.7526488 [Report]

What book

Anonymous 2016-01-01 03:54:01 Post No.7526498
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 03:54:01 Post No.7526498 [Report]

>enjoy books
>start browsing /lit/
>do not enjoy books anymore
>keep reading anyway in order to be able to argue about them

Anonymous 2016-01-01 04:11:54 Post No.7526544
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 04:11:54 Post No.7526544 [Report]

What book

Anonymous
2016-01-01 03:08:46 Post No.7526339
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 03:08:46 Post No. 7526339 [Report] [View this topic]

How's your novel, everybody?

Also accepted
>chapbook
>short stories collection
>blog

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 03:11:38 Post No.7526350
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>tfw have lots of ideas but don't have the discipline or experience to execute any of them properly

Anonymous 2016-01-01 03:13:44 Post No.7526360
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I'm still blogging, and have a few readers, but there's no sign it's going anywhere. Posting shit to reddit gets me a few thousand hits when I do, but again, I don't see how this is ever going to get bigger than it is. If I don't change, I've peaked.

>>7526350
Have you tried adderall?

Anonymous 2016-01-01 08:41:23 Post No.7527165
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>>7526360
Not that guy, but I've seriously considered it. I have a pretty big portfolio of commissioned work, but when it comes to sitting down and really writing something I can't focus for shit. I was always afraid it'd impair my creativity, though.

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2016-01-01 02:32:09 Post No.7526217
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:32:09 Post No. 7526217 [Report] [View this topic]

What do you do while listen to audio books?

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:35:34 Post No.7526229
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:35:34 Post No.7526229 [Report]

go qt-watching on the subway

Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:38:01 Post No.7526241
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:38:01 Post No.7526241 [Report]

>>7526229
at subway*

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>>7526241
False

On the subway

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2016-01-01 01:57:10 Post No.7526121
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 01:57:10 Post No. 7526121 [Report] [View this topic]

Why is philosophy such a pain to read ? I'm a curious mind and I've read about anything from scientific books to ordinary novels, yet I can't bear philosophy books and it actually makes me cringe. I feel like I'm reading a purged version of a novel with only definition of a subjective point of view. However I really have difficulty understanding why I feel this way and how to correct my point of view.

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:00:44 Post No.7526131
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:00:44 Post No.7526131 [Report]

What books specifically? Some philosophical texts are easier to digest than others

Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:11:16 Post No.7526154
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:11:16 Post No.7526154 [Report]

Because you're reading obscurantist pseudo-philosophy from pretentious continentals.

Anonymous 2016-01-01 02:25:51 Post No.7526201
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>>7526131
I've been trying Antechrist from Nietzche, the Capitol from Marx and I remember reading Kant.

It feels like I'm just mindlessly reading a chain of ideas meaninglessly, and there's a sense of the work being incomplete as if I was just reading a skeleton. It also often seems pretentious and unilateral. I've also however read fictions from Platon and they felt like any ordinary novel.

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:43:49 Post No. 7525923 [Report] [View this topic]

How is it possible that the best novel of the 21st century is a largely unfinished work about tax law and middle America in the 70s/80s?

Is the state of literature really this dire?

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Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:44:26 Post No.7525925
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:44:26 Post No.7525925 [Report]

*pushes you over*

What'd you say, BITCH?

Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:51:10 Post No.7525938
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>>7525923

Its not possible, because the best novel of the 21st century yet written is actually about literature professors, the life of an author and murders in a city in Mexico.

Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:52:26 Post No.7525941
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>>7525923
That garbage wouldn't even make a top 100

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2016-01-01 00:09:14 Post No.7525851
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:09:14 Post No. 7525851 [Report] [View this topic]

My New Year's resolution is to properly start with the greeks.
What's yours /lit/?

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not to shill so much.

Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:11:58 Post No.7525856
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:11:58 Post No.7525856 [Report]

party more
start learning to dance (in a normal way not some faggy thing like ballroom dancing)

Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:12:10 Post No.7525857
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>>7525851
to stay NEET and read all day

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Anonymous 2015-12-31 23:48:09 Post No. 7525804 [Report] [View this topic]

What is /lit/'s opinion on this work? I regard it as my most enjoyable novel.

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Anonymous 2015-12-31 23:49:05 Post No.7525806
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Anonymous 2015-12-31 23:49:05 Post No.7525806 [Report]

did you write it?

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>>7525806
By my i refer to my collection of novels, please.

Anonymous 2016-01-01 00:04:53 Post No.7525840
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>>7525804
I'm in the middle of it right now.
I can't stop laughing, I was not expecting it to be so funny or am I missing something?

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Anonymous 2015-12-31 23:04:10 Post No. 7525675 [Report] [View this topic]

How does scientism not lead to existential depression?

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Anonymous 2015-12-31 23:04:47 Post No.7525683
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>>7525675

Because you have your reddit friends there by your side to cheer you up.

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>>7525683
/thread

Anonymous 2015-12-31 23:06:46 Post No.7525694
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>>7525675
Because you're always grinding through some online RPG.

Anonymous
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Anonymous 2015-12-31 23:03:55 Post No. 7525671 [Report] [View this topic]

My NY Resolution is to stop subvocalizing (except by choice)

How can this be best accomplished?

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Anonymous 2015-12-31 23:12:56 Post No.7525706
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Anonymous 2015-12-31 23:12:56 Post No.7525706 [Report]

a shock collar

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>>7525671
fuck, I read this in Zizek's voice and imagined a massive sniff right before the "except by choice" part.

Anyway, I want to do the same thing but have no idea how to start

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