>How can one man be literally so right about everything?
>>7377867
Genetics and one of the most traumatic childhoods in Germany were big parts of it.
>>7377867
who is it?
And yes I'm sorry for being Plebian and not knowing.
>>7377884
*Austria
this is probably the best book thats been written in the last 30 years.
>>7377866
Lolno. Not even in the top ten.
>>7377866
This book is excellent but 20 years is a little much. Maybe the best book of this century thus far, but there are much better texts that were published between 1985 and 2000
p.s. I met this man and he's a real piece of shit
>>7377870
It's not the best book of this century either.
Thoughts on Starship Troopers?
>>7377854
Effectively evokes everything good about the military and effectively downplays everything bad.
>>7377854
/lit/ - literature
>>7377854
Fun.
www.ideologylit.com
ONE MONTH UNTIL SUBMISSIONS CLOSE EDITION
Ideology is accepting submissions for #001 Heat until December 15th!
We have a US$500 prize for the best story or poem that features the issue's theme of "Heat." We also accept rolling submissions for general prose and poetry.
>What is this?
Ideology is a new quarterly literary journal that publishes in January, April, July, and October. Check out our proof-of-concept issue, #000 Genesis: www.ideologylit.com/genesis
>How can I submit?
There are two ways to submit. You can e-mail us at [email protected] or you can use the anonymous submissions form on our website. We will respond to all submissions by January 15th, 2016.
>What's accepted?
All unpublished poetry and prose is accepted on a rolling basis. We only accept English submissions and/or translations.
>What about the money?
Each issue also has a sort of "competition" centered around the theme. The submission that is picked to headline the issue will receive a US$50 prize (most likely through PayPal). Submissions for "Heat" will close December 15th. You can read more about the guidelines on our website.
>Is this the first literary journal from /lit/?
No. There's been others in the past, perhaps most notably TAR: The April Reader.
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>I'm not interested / stop spamming / this isn't /lit/-related
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>>7377837
Just some quick feedback: issue #00 was pretentious garbage with zero submissions of even mediocre quality. I'll still stick around to see what garbage you spit out this time for a laugh.
Also, why would you pick "Heat" as a theme for a winter issue? Are you all a bunch of southern hemisphere plebs?
$500 my ass.
>>7377890
If it's $500, I'm sure I can pull something mediocre out of my ass and claim it.
Was PKD just a paranoid schizophrenic, or actually onto something much deeper?
>>7377785
Elaborate, I haven't read any of his work but am interested in it.
What do you think about the book he was last working on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_in_Daylight
>"The owl in daylight" is a phrase Dick heard on television. It means not to understand
What did he mean by this?
How many have you read, /lit/?
sadly, only 5
damn first comment ever on 4chan just to say read all of these except Harry Potter and Illuminatus and I didn't finish Pale King. Jesus Christ of course this is your top 100 lit revealing yourself all to be bastard normies and not even the best mishima either. JESUS FUCK U FUCKS.
What is the most disturbing, fucked up book you've ever read?
>>7377659
Better Angels
>>7377659
Oh boy here we go
>American Psycho
>The Torture Garden
>Story of the Eye
>The 120 Days of Sodom
>most (all?) of Ryu Murakami's books
>my diary to be honest with you family person
>>7377659
Illuminatus
what I don't understand with a lot of misanthropes is that they seem to put themselves at a level above all others
surely true misanthropy should include hatred of one self
What's it called when you don't exactly hate any other human, but more just hate yourself over all others?
>>7377666
pretty sure thats just good old self loathing
>>7377656
“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
/lit/izens
How do you organize your bookcases? I know most of us are too patricianor autisticto organize simply by author's last name.
I normally go for format of work, (novels, short story collections, poetry, plays, and philosophical texts) but I'm looking to do something new.
i sepreate mine by philosophical texts and everything else
I organise mine by colour and format; hardbacks on one shelf, paperbacks on another.
>>7377621
I take it you read primarily philosophy, right?
I've finished editing The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra 3: Tokyo Drift. The Everglades spinoff will be added on to make a double-feature. It will be available in free pdf (later in the thread), b&w paperback/hardcover and colour paperback at printer's costs.
In total it should be about 90,000 words and 450 (420?) pages once finished.
I await. Is there a place to find the others?
>>7377561
These are good for the next 48hrs
#1
http://expirebox.com/download/bfe5bf7f0b5c7252f0c32a6e1a2f174b.html
#2
http://expirebox.com/download/f7ddf75ff58812bf38b2c86b2c0cafe4.html
>>7377543
I thought this died, well done OP.
ITT: Post your most experimental writings, regardless of how bad they are, and lets see if we can understand them:
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COULD LIFE BE A GROOVE THAT THE JIVE OF THOUGHT AND REALITY DANCE ON THE SAME FLOOR OF THE UNIVERSAL MEDIUM? The question stood posed with it's arms crossed of the eternal judge. We stand and ask*infinity, but we cannot not not not not answer this unsiezable partling, and the now I know, contrary to the life of the world around me. Smooth.
>>7377536
2/2
post-punctum, I choose to begin my stor(y) here after giving you a brief synopsis given the summary of the autobiography of The (despite that pre-punctum (putting that point, which from the outside, is already within the inside and put back into the outside of the thought) and thererfore. Now, I say with dreadful pride that crazy, absolutely crazy numbler of sheer sizes have put away our boastful fears away forevermore. Once thought is allowed to roam within the (certainly) bumbling forests of the metaphysical physic of the imagination, constraints are but no more to the more knowing butt of society. Not in a rambling fashion (innnnsssshhhiiiiittt) but o-p-e-n up the misconception misconceptions of them that are held against us your thought might come to the natural conclusion that ties the end about the situation of the mis-percieve-ance of us. However, now let us begin in the beginning of the beginning. Shall we begin? (Yes)
And so, it was a marvelous day, when I had recalled that a switch in my mind had not been pressed on yet. However, given the illogical content of my production, I quickly swayed away from it and moved on, brightly aknowledging fact of having conquested past foe. But as I reached house of the bricks which lay the structure in front of me, I noticed that the post-punctum, I choose to begin my stor(y) here after giving you a brief synopsis given the summary of the autobiography of The (despite that pre-punctum (putting that point, which from the outside, is already within the inside and put back into the outside of the thought) and thererfore. Now, I say with dreadful pride that crazy, absolutely crazy numbler of sheer sizes have put away our boastful fears away forevermore. Once thought is allowed to roam within the (certainly) bumbling forests of the metaphysical physic of the imagination, constraints are but no more to the more knowing butt of society. Not in a rambling fashion (innnnsssshhhiiiiittt) but o-p-e-n up the misconception misconceptions of them that are held against us your thought might come to the natural conclusion that ties the end about the situation of the mis-percieve-ance of us. However, now let us begin in the beginning of the beginning. Shall we begin? (Yes) and realized that in fact the matter was indeed very certainly my switch (oh the switch the switch the switch the switch!) had not been flipped, or turnedenrut to realize the distance of how literary galaxies of and literal galaxies could forge in the flow of the sword-pen.
Turn on the switch! the peasant cried not knowing what lurked behind the metamorphosis of the of the true self which had been defined in a period when it itself had not been realized, and bamboozled the little flick of a switch and wicked. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>7377536
>it's arms
D R O P P E D
Throat singing is pretty great, especially when it's followed up by a lifeless black background and a whole bunch of depressed faggots in mail crying over some shit
So I'm halfway through this and while the acting is stiff and dull as fuck, the source material seems like it would be interesting. Are the actual Dune books good?
>>7377489
Yes. So far I'm halfway through the first book and really enjoying it.
>>7377489
no its anime tier garbage.
First book is god tier
Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune are great
God Emperor is ok
Heretics was piss.
why is making a living of art so fucking BS.
It's like there's no middle ground, you could become ultra rich or simply die poor.
wtf man.
>>7377434
/lit/ - literature
>>7377440
/thread
>>7377440
>implying my post context isn't about writing literature.
Recent purchases thread?
Recent purchases thread.
Pic related -- I snagged these recently at a going out of business sale.
>>7377379
2meta4me
>>7377379
well memed
>>7377379
Christ, didn't even know the guy had written more than the bottom three. Lazy bait thread though, try harder next time
where does he go wrong?
Breaking from Schopenhauer
>>7377314
Nowhere. Nietga btfo out of the church, atomism, and society as a whole.