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are there any epic fantasy/scifi series that don't suck dick?
pick unrelated, just finished book 3 and put it down. fuck robert jordan.
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>>6234364
Well, it's not exactly epic but I guess the Night Lords series by Dembski-Bowden is pretty cool. The Soul Drinker series is more conventionally epic, albeit falling a bit short on writing. Now, they aren't the best thing ever to be written, but if you like the genre (and are game for some pulpy, grimdark writing) you can give them a go.
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>>6234364
I began the 4th book, and but dropped it after an hour or so.
Fuck the Waste of Time. Even if it gets good, no book should take SEVEN fucking books to do so. That's how long I've heard it takes, and there's, what, FOURTEEN total?
Anyway OP, Book of the New Sun is bretty gud. The writing is actually interesting, and there's more to it than just "I wanted badly to take off my boots and rest, and to have a warm mean"
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Give me your email and I'll send you something.
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How's it going so far? I'm trying to focus on more longer books, read 100 in 2014.
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>>6276327
>everything by HP Lovecraft
I like him, but why would you want to do that?.
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American Psycho
Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnameable
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Member of the Wedding
Ballad of the Sad Cafe & Other Stories
Billy Budd
Intruder in the Dust
The Big Sleep
Dead Souls
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Typee
White Teeth
The Hours
A Tale of Two Cities
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Wild Palms
The Way We Live Now
Between the Acts
The Confidence Man
The Reivers
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>>6276332
I know, many of the stories were kind of crap, but the best ones are good. I used to be a big fan some years ago, so I wanted to see if he still holds up (kind of didn't).
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>My name shall be never forgotten. The people shall read and recite my words. Throughout all ages, if poets have vision to prophesy truth, I shall continue to live in my fame. -- Kanye West
Do you think there's some truth in his words or he's just being delusional?
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>>6283059
why are you posting rhetorical questions?
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>>6283059
This isn't /lit/.
But that man is an egoistical untallented idiot with shit songs.
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>>6283059
He is deluded.
He's a terrible musician, and even worse poet.
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Did it blow you away?
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the youtube celeb world is scary
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this is first year creative writing class tier
>lol enter MY world
>im pretty weriiddrrd!!1!! lol
>man do I have PROBLEMS HA hahaahh
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>>6279663
It annoys me that americans can get drugs so easily from their doctor. I go to mine and try to get adderall and vicodin and percocet and diazepam and all those good things, and then I get sent away with some Viagra and a flea in my ear.
Fucking shit I call it.
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What does /lit/ think of Slavoj Žižek?
I'm tired of reading old ass philosophers from the 19th century and want to into someone alive today.
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>>6266507
Go watch his EGS lectures, always EGS with contemporary philosophy.
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>>6266507
>inb4 memeposts that try to mimic Zizek's idiosyncrasies
>inb4 one sentence Nietzscheesque "summaries" of Zizek
>inb4 that one /pol/tard says dumb shit and is ignored by everyone but one baiter who argue for 20 posts
>posters complain that nobody "gets" Zizek and try to seriously argue his views but offer nothing that matters
You already know how this thread will go
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just read badiou
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ITT we discuss non-fiction books we're reading or have read - this can include philosophy i guess.
I'm gonna start with this one that i recently purchased, and it's probably one of the most depressing books i've read. It just reminds you that all of our motivation in life revolves around satisfying the most primitive part of our brain - the limbic system.
We're all essentially just drug fiends without being aware of it.
Without these chemicals being bombarded throughout our neural pathways in order for us to chase whatever the fuck we make out as an ideal - we would not exist. The only reason a scientist endeavors to cure whatever illness or invent whatever new technology - is all in order to feel a steady rush of serotonin that arises once he's reached a point where he's comfortable with his status within society, to feel accepted, respected.
Whats the difference between that scientist and a junkie on the street chasing the next dose of heroin to shoot up his cock?
The scientists reward is a more steady, long lasting drug release, whereas the heroin lasts for a shorter period of time, but while it does; it's so much better than the steady flow of serotonin.
Depressing right? Life has no meaning.
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There is absolutely nothing depressing about life having no meaning. That simply means we can give life whatever meaning we want.
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>all phenomenal experience is chemical interaction
fuck off moron
take your popcult book with you
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>>6256915
But it is, and because this book isn't some technical, detailed textbook, doesn't mean it's invalid. It gives you a decent overview of how the brain works.
The only reason you're against 'pop'this or that is because of a deeply routed neural pathway that immediately activates in your brain because it's such a common consensus on the internet.
'The supposed smart people say that pop-science books are dumb and plebeian, therefore i'm going to adapt that view to make me look smart!'
See, i learned something. Go take your pills and up your serotonin because clearly you're quite the miserable creature.
I wrote and published this piece of shit book in less than 1 hour. It is riddled with mistakes, grammar problems, and it's like 10 pages long. Yet somehow it (along with other shitty self pubbed books) has made me decent money. This is the state of the world folks. This is the future of literature right here. Fuck your Tolstoys and Moby Dicks, Leprechaun's getting they dicks sucked is /lit/
AMA
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>>6244574
Roughly how much money have you made so far from the book, and how long has it been since 'publication'?
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>>6244617
From just this one ~1k which is about 500 books sold since May. Not a lot but I wrote it in 1 hour and never advertised it.
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It's time.
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>>6223121
>>/lit/
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>>6223129
>Zizek and Zeno of Citium
Should of put Alain Badiou you silly fucker
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It begins
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Can we get another art thread going?
The stuff posted in those is usually pretty nice.
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I'll post some of what I have saved.
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What's so great about him?
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He invented modern linguistics
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He has asperger's you know? There are many fundamentals that Chomsky doesn't understand in regards to society, politics, economics and history.
Mainly, the difference between social democrats and classical liberals when it comes to elites.
Here is a video on David Horowitz's book, The Anti-Chomsky Reader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1tCXDvK7U
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>>6159354
thanks Horowitz
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>be me
>about to finish 6th Form (I'm 17, at the time)
>total virgin, with a love of all things Gothic, 2edgy4u, and Genre
>writing my very first novel - a kind of "Southwest" (Britain) Gothic affair
>actually pretty proud of it - decaying seaside resorts and pronounced class sensibilities all up in this bitch
>show it to a couple of my friends at school, who pull that whole "you're the best writer ever" shit that friends do
>somehow, a copy finds its way to the hands of a girl I vaguely know
>she's a friend of my ex, and I suspect one of the reasons for a breakup I'm still bitter about
>initially considering being a dick about it, but when I get the hardcopy back, she's scribbled notes all over this bitch
>she hates the protagonist
>the protagonist being a carbon copy of me, of course (just try to tell me you were not the protagonist of your first real attempted novel, you fucking liar)
>holdthefuckingphone.png
>not sure how to feel about this
>meet with her for coffee after school, and she tells me why my character sucks
>she patiently edits everything I give her
>one day, after school, she kisses me
>plenty more happens - mainly her rooting out every self-injection in my story, and helping me improve my writing, intercut with stupid teenagers-in-love shit
>we even read to one-another
>she's got a taste for the classics, and I've never read Dante, so I buy a dog-eared copy from a bookshop I will later work at, and we read it together
>she was my first classic
>she finds her way into my writing - not her, so much as characters with her traits (a stoner-tier-chilled girl with wild, out-of-control hair here; a strait-talking, punslinging intellectual with heterochromia there)
>one day, she tells me she's moving to Berlin
>hold the fucking phone
>"I-I'm coming with you."
>"What?"
>I cancel my University application and use my saved money to buy a plane ticket to Berlin
>I fly out a few months after she's moved there
>things are really weird between us, and she confesses she's hooked up with a British expat a few times. He reads her Dante.
>I'm absolutely heartbroken - all I wanted was to live in Berlin with her, write, and laugh, and somebody took that from me
>I lock myself in the bathroom of her apartment and consider the quick way down
>sit and mull it over, and eventually just ring my dad and borrow money to fly back home early
>she writes to me and asks to see me - says she wants to explain why
>burn the letter, delete the novel
Even now - long after I've moved on - she finds her way into my writing. Even now, I can't read the opening lines of Inferno without feeling really melancholic.
Et tu, /lit/?
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omg what a faggot
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>>6152139
Gay
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>>6152139
you fucked up when you changed your own life to chase after somebody else
never do that
i've only ever seen friends get stranded when it inevitably fails
What lines by Shakespeare have you memorized to quote in front of insolent multitudes to appear intellectuozy.
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>>6141694
The to be or not to be one, honestly.
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My favorite is the "And measure still for measure" speech
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remember back in the days when niggas had ways etc etc
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What's a Honey Badger?
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guess his grandkids showed him an elderly meme
old fucking faggots die
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>>6142678
a meme animal created by memevolution
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Share all of your Booklists.
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list of books by david foster wallace that are good:
I've come to a point where I feel my grasp of political theory is tenuous at best, and highly warped by American news media. Does /lit/ have any books to recommend for a history of political theory and or books about specific ideologies? By biggest confusion is the difference between the American left and the rest of the world's left. I ask here instead of /ppl/ because I know I'll at least get a better discussion that doesn't devolve into a Mein Kampf discussion thread.
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You've read Leviathan, right?
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>>6114415
>by should be my
>/ppl/ should be /pol/
Sorry for my phones autocorrect
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you know what to do next, friend