Why do people not like TS Eliot? He writes some of my favorite poetry. Every opinion I read about him on here though is somehow incendiary, but nobody ever explains it. Why he bad?
>>7311918
niggers don't bother to read him
some niggers are probably buttfrustrated due to his conversion
i love him
yic,
thaddeus
plenty of people here like him
he's easy to hate because most people here don't read, and he's a reader's poet.
His book of cats is good, but he's not high in OC.
Are they good, as far as genre fiction goes?
kys
my man
>>7311234
thanks family
First three are good if you like fantasy. They probably suck more if you've seen the television show.
What is the best literature on incest, specifically with supernatural or fantasy tropes? Writing a story that includes incestual siblings.
Volsunga saga.
Melvin Burgess did a kids' series reworking of it into the future called Bloodtide if you're looking at that market.
Is that Cupid a girl? Unusual
Catcher in the Rye is a good start. Some recommendations from an old thread on the same subject;
>Ada or Ardor
>Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
>The Cement Garden
>The Feet of Juan Bacnang
>Middlesex
>ASOIAF
>The Secret History
My friends followed their dreams. They studied journalism, english and architecture while i went to engineering. Now their are all living meaningful lives, doing their art while i am lost and filled with regret.
A friend of mine said i could write science fiction. The problem is that i don't like science fiction. I like literature. I missed the opportunity to learn to do what i wanted. I was so sure i could become a good writer and i was really insecure about engineering, now i am never going to make it.
I just wanted to say to everybody here who wish to make it as an author, go fucking do it. Don't be afraid of not having money and don't be insecure of your intellect if you don't pursue a STEM degree.
>>7310668
You gambled at life and lost. It happens. Off to the slaughterhouse then?
kill yourself
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky?
ΠΕΛΕΒИΗ
Tolstoy is a better, more heartfelt, more sincere writer than Dostoevsky ever was even at his best. Dostoevsky's novels are childish compared to Tolstoy's masterworks.
Tolstoy for short stories, The Duster for novels
I just made a book cover for my book. What do you think about it? I've deleted the title and my pen name because I don't want to this post look like an ad.
>>7309214
The triangle looks like it was done in MS Paint. You need to round out the edges
Its bold and geometric design makes it look like a manifesto.
Terrible. Generally graphic designers don't make good authors and vice versa.
What was the last interesting article you read /lit/?
For me it was this piece about Adam Lanza's father: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/17/the-reckoning
Came out last year, but only read it a while ago. Offers a good insight into Lanza's past without pushing for any contrived answers or reasons for his shooting.
But Sandy hook was a false flag???
>>7309019
Hey anon, thanks for the great article.
This article was published about a year ago. It's by GQ but a surprising good read.
http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/15/roger-scruton-notes-on-nonsense-richard-dawkins-original-sin-islamism-and-more
>NaNo thread on /tg/
>NaNo thread on /v/
>NaNo thread on /r9k/
>No NaNo thread on /lit/
Gotta rectify that. What are we writing?
I will just write the same schizophrenic ass diarrhea w/ a loose narrative that I always wind up writing, but I guess now I will write it w/ greater frequency. my main character's name is Cola Guy.
So you need a lame arse month with a stupid acronym to write a book?
What I love about NaNo is all of these horrible Fantasy/Action/Teen writers who come out of the woodwork and prove how poor the competition really is.
You'll find vloggers who talk about writing 14,000 words per day. Let me tel you: If you are writing 14,000 words per day, you are not writing quality prose. You are simply spewing out brain-farts from the magical fantasy land in your head that you have created to escape reality. Invariably these kind of writers "wear" their writing, so to speak. They become too immersed and it shows in the finished product.
Incidentally, I started writing my first novel a week ago and will use the above as motivation.
What's a good, inspiring book for a young man with no direction or masculine role models in his life to read?
>>7308617
reddit.com/r/theredpill
I've read a few of their suggested readings, the relationship/women thing is whatever but aside from that their suggestions generally deal with getting your shit together and not being a faggot.
>>7308659
>The Red Pill: Discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.
Incel means involuntary celibate.
I take it that your idea of getting your shit together is fucking as many women as possible? You must be one of these modern faggots sweating over being Alpha and Beta.
Literally fuck off back to Reddit.
unplug your computer for a couple of weeks and never come back to this website
who's the best Shakespeare character ?it's obviously Iago you faggot
>>7308376
Feste.
>>7308376
Edgar...
purely because that's the sexiest actor I ever saw in a Shakespeare play.
>>7308376
Macbeth
is there anything good in this genre
I really liked The Iliad, Beowulf was a bit too mundane though.
>>7308245
>too mundane
no such thing senpai
>>7308251
did you delete your comment and reply again you sneaky chap
So I'm in graduate school and read a fuck ton for classes and as such unfortunately don't have too much time to read for leisure. Due to this lack of time I have been reading short stories as opposed to novels so lets have a short story thread; post your favorites, rate others, discuss, what have you.
I'll begin with my favorite (it's a pretty vanilla choice admittedly): Flowers for Algernon
Pic unrelated
Anyone read the stories of Breece D'J Pancake? One of my favourite writers, not discussed much on lit
>tfw can't find a damn trilobite
>Good Old Neon
>Paul's Case
>Perfect Day For Bananafish
Also like every O'Connor short story is good.
>>7308160
short stories are for people who can't handle the rigor of poetry and who don't have enough to say for a novel. The idea that it's a tight form of literature is disgusting. It's the weakest in spirit and in manifest. Can you name a short story as aesthetically or metaphysically powerful as a great novel or poem of the same eminence?
Why does Nietzsche strawman the Gnostic perspective of the material as the Christian perspective of the material?
>>7307804
Gnosticism was not well researched in his time most written stuff was heresiology
The Nag Hammadi was discovered in like 1945
>>7307826
That doesn't really answer my question, though, concerning Nietzsche's strawman of Christianity's perception of the material. That is, his idea of Christianity's perception of the material is foreign to Christianity, save in Gnosticism which really isn't Christianity.
He didn't. Nietzsche understood Christianity better than you do.
Settling down with a glass of wine and a few Sartre plays. How do you guys like to settle in for a night of reading?
>>7307644
Go to the library and spend the whole night reading
Is that a hotpocket?
>>7307658
yeah. Ham and cheese. Paired nicely with the wine.
Last one hit the bump limit.
>>7306889
An emotion of the most profound repugnance flickered for a moment in the young man's features. But soon he appeared to fall into a deep brooding, which might more correctly have been described as a king of oblivion.
thoughts??
>>7307940
He made a face of repulsion, but eased into a thoughtful blank stare.