Did that one dude ever get round to making a Faulkner one of these?
Also chart thread I guess
>>9747649
doesn't seem very comprehensive though
>>9747698
not comprehensive at all. where is go down moses, for example?
>i want a series this time
what kind of moron uses this as a criterion? maybe YA readers but certainly not people reading faulkner...
>>9747491
his politics are horrible, but reading some of these philosophy of mind dudes recently genuinely makes me wish more academics were like him. plus his debate with foucault is awesome
That's a loaded question
>>9747491
Interested question.
Saged and reported.
How do I write better essays? Is there any advice you've come across that has really helped you?
Study essays you admire. I recommend David Hume, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin. But in general be clear and concise. That's it. It's your ideas that make the work compelling and beautiful. A good prose style generally does not draw attention to itself. Though there might be exceptions.
>>9747475
Read Montaigne bruh, all of him.
Write more.
I can't write anything decent. I create whole stories on my mind but as soon as I try to write it down I ruin it. How to get better?
Please spare me of that "read more" faggotry because already I read a lot.
>>9747433
Read more. And if that fails, it's time to pack it up.
#1 Write, write, and write until your fingers bleed and you find your voice.
#2 Stop wasting your time browsing /lit/ and decide if you really want to be an author or just some person wasting time on the internet like me.
#3 Learn the intricacies of the English language, or whatever your language is. Become an expert, learn the "rules," and then forget about them.
#4 Keep reading a lot, but also take time to analyze each book you read, especially books you really liked. Look at the structure of the sentence, of the paragraph, etc.
#5 Avoid pornography until you write your first novel. Fapping is allowed once every two or three weeks.
#6 Stay hydrated but avoid alcohol.
#7 You're a genius all the time.
>>9747433
And I can't play the piano. Cry more faggot
What are some good war novels you guys have read?
>>9747417
The one you posted and War and Peace desu. I intend to read Storms of Steel this summer. What about you, OP?
Any based on US Navy?
>>9747417
C.S. Forester's Hornblower books.
If I'm feeling like trashy historical fiction, Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe books are very light reading.
Is this the logical conclusion to literature?
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxdkz/two-women-hell-bent-on-destroying-infinite-jest-in-bizarre-ways-join-forces
>Broadly, I've been made well aware that the world will remember me as "the girl who smoked weed out of Infinite Jest after turning it into a pipe" when I am old and dead.
She's so deluded she actually thinks people are going to remember her
>>9747326
Eating infinite jest is much healthier than dragging yourself through that slop
>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.
ok sure i'm not reading it either but you probably should if you're making a whole thing about it. on that note, i'm going to stop reading the article
ITT: We make fun of our favorite writers
manchild
We get it man. You did drugs.
>>9747242
Probably just wanted to fuck his dad. Lord knows he wanted to fuck everything else. Yeah, wrap your tongue around those young boys' legs, you sick fucker. Get those little girls to sit on your lap, you infinitely filthy Jew. Twisted BDSM monster, fantasizing about slicing necks open like a goddamn serial killer. Wages for the service of evil is right. Singing his mouse songs in the depths of hell. Perverted ungefweveiser or whatever the hell it is. Deserved an apple to the back. I hereby sentence this devil to drowning. Too bad he died before he could meet up with a certain penal colony. Stuffed into the drawer of a laundry basket with his fellow ritual sacrificers of white Christian virgins. Vampire.I'm having a bad day
Just finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which one of the two should I read next?
Or should I read The Jungle instead?
>>9747221
Read Nine Stories because it's c 0 nn f y
>>9747374
>"He cocked the piece. Then went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple."
Uuuhh... what in the fuck...
Did I just read about a suicidal pedo vet with a foot fetish?
My only experiance with Salinger has been Catcher in the Rye, this was not expected, or very comfy.
What will help me come to terms with it
The Story of Your Incel - An Inconvenient Truth
Whatever - Michel Houellebecq
>>9747172
120 Days of Sodom
Am I the only one who thinks that Borges is the greatest writer since the era of Shakespeare and Cervantes? His stories are astoundingly beautiful and surpass even Joyce in their perfection.
No, someone else thinks as much
>>9746899
>His stories are astoundingly beautiful and surpass even Joyce in their perfection.
Joyce is the epitome of a tryhard middlebrow non-entity.
>>9746918
careful not to cut yourself on that edge bucko
ps how's freshman year going? excited for sophomore year? :)
This is not a racist thread.
But I am genuinely curious as to whether there is or whether you think there is a great deal of Jewish influence in publishing today?
I know many in the industry are from privately educated backgrounds and so on, but there is any Jewish over-representation as there is in mainstream media etc?
Big fan of Kafka btw so I am not anti-semitic.
>>9746897
>This is not a racist thread.
kek this thread is gonna be such a shitfest
>>9746897
probably, but less so than in mainstream media
perhaps 1.5x representation rather than 4x
>>9746909
Lululuulululululu ah ha ha
I don't like nihilism anymore. It kills my desire to improve myself. What should I do /lit/?
>>9746825
Ride the Tiger
>>9746825
>I don't like nihilism anymore. It kills my desire to improve myself.
Read Nietzsche, the sentence you posted basically sums up his whole philosophy.
>>9746825
Accept Christ.
Is there a more patrician beverage to accompany your reading endeavours than a fine red wine?
>>9746808
Not red wine, for one
>>9746813
yes red wine you underage faggot
I think energy drink
With some pizza of course ;)
>>9746153
>Don Quixote. A cruel and crude old book.
>Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
>Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
>Plato. Not particularly fond of him.
Seriously, what the fuck was his problem?
high standards
A study should be done to see if paedophilia and good taste are related.
>>9746840
Oooohhh believe me. They are positively correlated. ; )
Why is English so bad at conveying ideas in philosophy?
>>9746674
I dunno.
>>9746674
Give us an example
I know what you mean, unfortunately I cannot explain it because English simply doesn't allow me to