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/lit/-tier manga? I'd like to wait on reading heavier novels for when I actually have enough time to appreciate them fully, something I lack at the moment. So, give me your recs.
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To-love-ru.
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>>7408455
Berserk and the first half of Death Note are top-tier.
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ping pong
I wanna read a fuckin' book, give me a suggestion.
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Night Train To Lisbon
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The Neverending Chuckle by Duck Francis Wilkins.
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Wampeters, Foma, & Granfalloons
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I have to write a descriptive essay for tomorrow.
I think it turned out well.
Thoughts and criticism welcome
A man I once knew my lord, a name that echoed boldly far after his passing, Alexander. This man like all great kings knew what laid in the hearts of his men for he was regarded as a king like none other. All, each and every one held him at the tip of their thoughts, on a pedestal of heroes, a goal to strive for. The envy of his kingdom, he was a tall and well-built man, he stood the tallest, laughed the hardest and smiled the largest grin from ear to ear spanning the length of his throne, from each hill to every plain, it was the dream and devotion of a leader, that had his people begging hand and knee to dream his dream. He as all men of noble greatness was not adorned for his kindness and care for his people, but instead for he in his sanity and madness knew that a man truly worth the admiration of his subjects was one who embodied the extremes of all things, both good and evil. Longest to rage, fastest to smile, and last to end his laughter. His beard covered all corners of his face but not so much as to hide his large nose and wrinkled masculine features, his hands were never soft but instead ruff to the touch, always firm and never weak demanding respect, for they were the hands of a working man. Yet he did not labor, he ate though was not hungry, he slept though was not tired. His mere existence kindled the flames of aspiration within his people, to be as their king. For who can truly admire the rough and thorny path a martyr must follow in life, who can envy the plainness and mediocrity of a saint. Who truly dreams of such an existence?
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it's adequate enough to get a grade
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>>7408417
C minus. Stop emulating genre fiction writers.
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>>7408438
I'm going to do exactly that for the rest this year and nothing you do can stop me.
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Authors with no bad books.
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Franz Kafka
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Hi /lit/. First time poster. I checked the wiki and couldn't seem to find anything.
Can you recommend which Alan Watts book to buy for my girlfriend? She's not necessarily interested in Buddhism itself, but she is interested in mindfulness, spirituality, happiness and yoga.
The Way Of Zen seems to be one of the definitive Watts books. Would you recommend something different? Thanks in advance.
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>gf is a newage dope
ABANDON RELATIONSHIP
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Haven't actually read it yet (or any Alan Watts for that matter), but you might look at This is It. I would also recommend Gary Snyder, especially if she has a particular interest in nature and it's relationship with spirituality. I would specifically recommend The Practice of the Wild and/or Turtle Island.
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>>7408329
Didn't Taoists eat their own cum?
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What is your favourite book? Mine is Endless Fun by Dane Forster Walden.
Pic related.
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>not posting Potato Foster Wallace
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>>7408218
I like "Curvature of Chromatic Arches" by Tomás Pinecone.
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Infinite Toad by David Frogster Wallace
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Is this book relatable to anyone else? I'm assuming it is because it's one of the most popular books in Japan.
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Only to a point where you realize how much shittier your life could be.
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>>7408208
if you a useless neet.
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Do you think Japanese normies actually appreciate good literature? I've heard Murakami is ridiculously popular over there. I can't imagine any respectable Western author having that level of popularity with the general poupulation.
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Adventure Of A Lifetime
https://youtu.be/QtXby3twMmI
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turn your magic on
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everything you want’s a dream away
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turn your magic on,
to me she’d say
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I've basically only read contemporary literature and modernism. What books should I start with to stop being such a pleb? Keep in mind the only cultured authors I've extensively read are Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and T.S. Eliot?
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shakespeare, dante, some russian romantics, a bit of english romantics. you know, the entry level package.
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Start with the Greeks.
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>>7408084
That chart is alright aside from Pope translations and the horrible philosophy section
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>You be a novice author.
>You write a novel.
>Get published to critical acclaim.
>Be on the best-seller's list for weeks.
>Smash hit with both kids and adults.
>Get to do readings, book signings, etc.
>Publisher wants moar, start typing up moar.
>Discover fanfiction of your series.
How do you react? Pic unrelated.
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What type of fan fiction is it?
Crossover? Shipfic? Something else?
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>roll eyes
>close tab
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>>7408055
Fanfiction in general. So yes, crossovers, shipfics, AUs, BL, you name it. It's probably been written.
I'm writing a short story about an ambiguous unorganized political movement (like occupy Wall St and all that shit) that inspires a beverage company who releases a tv spot vaguely oriented to the demonstrations. Stuff happens and, in order to keep its target, the beverage company ends up becoming a vanguard party.
What does /lit/ think?
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Sounds interesting, the commercialization of ideology is a theme i personally haven't heard a lot being written about (then again, maybe I just read shit books).
Excerpt?
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i would read it if all i had to go on was the blurb and the vague notion that the author isn't complete trash.
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Interesting idea.
It should be a satire on the stupidity of identity politics and how capitalism tricks stupid leftists into thinking they actually changed things by consuming products
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'Ugh, I hate Catcher in the Rye! Holden was so whiny.'
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>>7407713
"1984 literally describes what the future could be like. Orwell was only off by like 40 years."
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>>7407713
>"Pynchon is bad"
>"Postmodernism is bad"
>"Story is all that matters"
>"Literature is useless"
Seriously, fuck people who think any of these.
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>>7407713
"This might not be what you're looking for, but may I recommend A Song of Ice and Fire?"
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Would Judith Butler say there's no difference between breast milk and infant formula? I'm trying to understand...if gender is purely maintained through performance, which is largely linguistic, how could breast milk qualify as breast milk? Judith Butler doesn't think penis and vagina exist outside of language. So how could breast milk exist outside of language?
She seems too radical and I keep assuming it must be some rhetorical device but nope, she's for real.
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>>7407630
>Judith Butler doesn't think penis and vagina exist outside of language.
I'm not familiar with her, and I'm currently lost in the territory of Poe's law.
Is that for real?
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>misreading butler this hard
woah
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>>7407630
Language must arrive from something. It can not perform itself only through itself.
I'm not sure what she would say to this though.
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Is it possible to become an author if you only have a College Education?
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of fiction? yes
of non-fiction? yes
of anything academic or technical, beyond the pop understanding of the field? unlikely
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>>7407600
I make six figures and I dropped out of university.So did Bill Gates.You can do anything if you care enough; if you can find an endless supply of motivation, you'll succeed regardless. Usually this only happens when you find your "true calling". For me, that's writing code. I can never imagine a time when I won't be writing code. I've been doing it for 20 years.
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Unless it's textbooks and medical journals of course.
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Books to become politically educated? 2015-11-30 22:17:59 Post No.7407582
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Books to become politically educated?
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What are some good books for getting educated on political topics? I want to be more intelligent/informed in this area... About the most "political" books I've read are 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, and The Communist Manifesto...
Yeah, pretty pathetic.
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check out "The Moral Landscape" by Sam Harris
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>>7407586
>posting the same bait in multiple threads
get some self respect.
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>>7407582
That's kinda tricky since politics touches a lot of academic subjects (economics, psychology, philosophy, and history off the top of my head).
Since you've read The Communist Manifesto I'd recommend Manufacturing Consent, Understanding Power, and How the World Works by Noam Chomsky.