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How do I become the highest grossing author? 2017-07-13 05:11:23 Post No.9751363
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How do I become the highest grossing author?
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What should I write to make millions?
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>>9751363
gay wizards + fast cars with a big moral at the end
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just write your own money
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Prepping the bull
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>O well I suppose its because they were so plump and tempting in my short petticoat he couldnt resist they excite myself sometimes its well for men all the amount of pleasure they get off a womans body were so round and white for them always I wished I was one myself for a change just to try with that thing they have swelling up on you so hard and at the same time so soft when you touch it
Haha. So this is what women think about all day?
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>>9751282
Kinda cringey out of context, really. Joyce was weird.
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Those tits look like they're fucking horrid. Bathtub lady from The Shining horrid.
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>>9751282
>Text written by man
You just played yourself OP.
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Is this the best Novella ever written? 2017-07-13 04:24:29 Post No.9751208
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Is this the best Novella ever written?
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>horacian 5 Akt structure
>contast reference to ancient greek poetry in style and content
>beautiful meditations on loneliness and beauty (with reference to Plato's Phaidros)
>stunning prose
>masterful symbolism
I'm honestly blown away
has any1 read it?
thoughts?
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It's a masterpiece, sure. Don't expect the American peasants on this board to care though.
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>>9751208
I should look into it
Here take this bump
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anyone else got the gay vibes from Porfiry Petrovich?
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his laughter is incessantly eerily for raskolnikov.
I feel like he's been comical all the time because he knew it was him. By his critical analysis of rodion's body language, it was quite clear he believed he was right on track.
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Anyone else get a raging hardon from Dunya's shootout with the fat guy?
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what did Mira mean by this? 2017-07-13 01:20:51 Post No.9750644
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what did Mira mean by this?
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https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxdkz/two-women-hell-bent-on-destroying-infinite-jest-in-bizarre-ways-join-forces
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Narcissism
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>>9750644
She's still hurt by /lit/ and trying to get back, unfortunately no one told her this board's days of worshipping le water man have passed, at least for now.
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>>9750644
She's one of the most boring authors I've ever read
>What I will say is this: David Foster Wallace seems fine, but I will not take time out of my only life to read a footnoted book that is 1,079 pages long. I refuse.
Do you think she actually likes reading or books at all
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Read it, and her one of the alchemist, and he work on Mishima too, which I mentioned earlier.
Pus her Chinesey short stories.
Like her quite a bit, for a woman. (yeah, I know).
PS: She was also a connaisseur of Evola and other assorted nutters.
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>PS: She was also a connaisseur of Evola and other assorted nutters.
now i understand why i liked her
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But I already have
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Move over Leigh Brackett, Joanna Russ, Ursula K. LeGuin, Lois McMaster Bujold, Connie Willis!
THESE are the FEMALE authors who RULE science fiction & fantasy
>http://ew.com/books/27-female-authors-sci-fi-fantasy/split292
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>ten of the authors are described as YA authors or having won YA awards
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Some are good, some are less good.
It's a shame that the sequel to Hild isn't out yet.
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>>9750290
griffith wasn't in the list either
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So what other authors should I check out if I like Dostoevsky, Kafka, Hamsun?
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Bernanos
Broch
Krasznahorkai
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Buzzati
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Gogol
Krasznahorkai
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Books about social outcasts or troubled white males withdrawn from society? 2017-07-13 09:27:33 Post No.9750141
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Books about social outcasts or troubled white males withdrawn from society?
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Is 'Novel With Cocaine' relevant? It sounds cool.
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Brave new world
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My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger
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My Twisted World - Elliot Rodger
Since there are thread about /lit/ pictures, how about a thread with /lit/ songs?
Share your favourite songs inspired by literature.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJaNOrG__6A
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this is fucking boring
what isnt inspired by _? go read a book
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Book is good but the song is a masterpiece.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QruPDs9i24I
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What book captures the beauty of a fleeting moment? The indescribable feeling of those lost emotions that come from a bittersweet nostalgia. English is not my first language but please tell me if a work you know captures this feeling
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Gatsby
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the poem Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
also,
AE Housman's LIV. With rue my heart is laden
WITH rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
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That bastard Proust's oeuvre.
But I much prefer the Chinese Tang poets.
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Hello /lit/, would you please recommend me some literature on this subject:
>people who do not fit in, ostracized in their own towns/cities/countries and finding peace and fulfillment elsewhere?
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The Outsider, by Colin Wilson
The Rebel, by Albert Camus
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Harry potter
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The trial of Socrates of course
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ITT: books women will never understand
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tfw you h8 women so much the thought of having sex with them repulses you
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Confession Time, /lit/
So, when I'm not reading the Greeks, other assorted ancients or wild metaphysical ramblings, and drunken Irish novelists, I sometimes take a sneaky peek at some cultish pulp fiction.
My Top Three:
1. Shibumi (pic related). This guy Trevanian was a literary meme unto himself: he literally couldn't get a proper work of literary fiction published so he just shoved every meme possible into a trash thriller and hammed it up. Absolutely classic stuff. Everyone on this forum owes it to himself to read this book at least once in his miserable life.
2. Rat Man of Paris, Paul West. Found this in a shit bookshop in a shit city abroad, and it was so outrageous that I went back and bought the handful of remaining copies for some friends, who couldn't believe this shit either. Imagine if some orphan autist has only a pet rat for company and a magical way with said rodents, seeking romance and revenge on evil Nazi occupiers of wartime Paris. Then it goes full retard...
I'd never heard of Paul West before, despite being reasonably well-read, and this made me sort of want to read more of his stuff but I never got round to it.
3. Martin Booth: A Very Private Gentleman/The American. Picked this up after being somewhat pleasantly surprised by the film, and enjoyed the book even more - the chatty tone is completely different to the film's noir and silent atmosphere. Literary fiction? No. Genre pulp? No, not that either. But bloody well written and entertaining at that.
Honourable mentions: James Clavell's slabs (Shogun, Taipan, Noble House, etc); John Le Carré; can't think of a third to be honest.
What are your sneaky pleasures, /lit/?
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Huh. I'll check em out.
I don't think Shogun should be an honorable mention, since it's more like an honorary classic at this point.
I can't really read really bad books, because I get itchy if it's too bad, but I do enjoy pulp on occasion. I once read a book called Vampire$ (the dollar sign is not a typo) and a few books by Simon R. Green, which, mmm. They are not good.
I do like Tanya Huff a lot, and Book of Tongues by Gemma Files isn't even bad- it's fucking amazing, and I can't believe no one in SFFG has said anything about it:
An old west magical preacher and his lover, a bloodthirsty gunslinger go around killing people and robbing trains and shit goes fucking down, I tell you. It's amazing. I love it. Also the prose is strangely engaging.
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Thanks for those recommendations, hadn't heard of them. I can't stand bad books either, but the above listed are ones that wouldn't usually fall on my radar but that surprised me nonetheless.
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>>9749696
i like shibumi too anon those go metaphors
Where should I start studying Buddhism? I've got a book, half-read, called Buddhist Scriptures that's interesting but not as comprehensive as I'd hoped. Do translations matter, should I study the Vedas first? (spoonfeed me)
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continue reading the Buddhist Scriptures, anon. Presumably it's the old Penguin edition edited by Conze? Either that or the modern update would be a pretty decent selection. Gethin's Foundations is also good, as is Harvey's Introduction, then you zoom in on what you'd like to know more of: doctrine, practice, meditation, history, etc.
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>>9749704
>Presumably it's the old Penguin edition edited by Conze? Eith
It's the Lopez one, but yeah. Planning on reading the Upanishads as well, as I'm trying to prepare for a reread of The World as Will, any tips on translations/editions there?
regards,
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tibetan book of death. only book youll ever need to read in regards to buddhism