/lit/ - Literature

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The only female author in my collection is Mary Shelley and she might not of even written all of Frankenstein. I thought Lewis Carrol was a girl’s name turns out it’s not.

Long story short, my life is worthless. Earlier this year, my wife secretly ended the tenancy on our house, moved my son into a different school, then announced she was leaving, giving me one days notice. I have lost everything. I have no job, home or purpose anymore.

I'm looking for some books that deal with real people or characters that are dealing with the same issues, depression and misery. Books that ponder whether or not to give up and die. But not ones that ultimately lead to redemption. I don't want to wallow, but I am in no place for optimism right now.

Which Dostoevsky book do lesbians like the most?

What are some of the best Romance Novels you have personally read?

What if, instead of NaNoWriMo, it were NaNiWriMo?

I'll start.

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"No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive."
I think this is a great quote that emphasizes the importance of remaining content and optimistic about building back up, while still acknowledging the imperfect and broken present you find yourself in. That part is important. The reality. I need more of it.
I need some hopeful shit like that to read, a la Disco Elysium's Volition, to keep me out of my winter funk or else I'm going to spiral and it won't stop until the sun comes back.

What is your opinion on the work of jk Rowling?

>take three day break from /lit/
>immediately begin reading, researching, learning
>write a moving poem out of the blue
>radiate with novel ideas and a stronger, more vital voice

when did you realize that you were poison, /lit/?

to any of you struggling, crumbling, going dark,
flee from this place. do it now.

What books do you know that have a similar subject matter to Pynchon's Bleeding Edge?

I've already read most of his works, I'm talking about specifically COINTELPRO/War on Terror conspiracy type novels, excluding the usual spy fiction types like Le Carré.
I've heard about Don DeLillo's Mao II so far, is that one any good?

if profound intellectual activity burns calories, then why is GRRM a fat fuck?

Thoughts? Are any of the Chinese Big 4 readable?

I live in eastern europe and my only way to get more obscure by usual the usual standards books (which means Dan Brown shit) is through the german amazon/abebooks. And yeah, most of what I look for is there, but damn me to hell if I could find the fucking Tunnel anywhere. My only bet was delivery from the US and 100$ at that for a book, or to wait for Dalkey to rerelease it in April with the zero effort cover they've planned for it (if I collect, it matters to me).


So today I learn that my university has a special American-British library on the roof (it's an old building, awkward to get around) and I go there and head to the American fiction section. Pick up The Recognitions, yeah they have it, but I've seen it twice before and have read it, so... And as I put it back picrel's spine blasts my eyes, it was right next to it and my knees got weak. I picked it up and it's mint condition, never been taken home by anyone, a fresh virgin FIRST EDITION that I'll get to experience Gass' genius with.

>Amerikan viktory

Have you had similar experiences?

Post your recent cops or anything else you're reading.

Finishing this book in one week was very wrong idea, It really is very destructive even though i know his whole premise

It's just the arguments in it are extremely true

I read to escape from myself.

More like picrel? Books that show the complexity and depth of human experience and intellectual life before modernity, actually takes them seriously, revives what has been lost or forgotten, etc.

Also, anyone ever utilized the mind palace methodology described herein? I experimented last night and just permanently memorized a list of ingredients on a box lol. Seems extremely potent.

I don't get it.
So Ezra Pound's works are something only a genius could make, but the only reason why he isn't labeled as a genius by academia, experts and readers is because he had the wrong opinion?
That makes no sense all.

Do you lock-in when reading? or is your focus elsewhere?

Was snoozing my way through this mess and I think this may be just genuinely evil. Go, commit war because you were born for war crimes. If you don’t murder children you’ll actually be punished for not fixing the “balance” of the universe. Man I bet himmler would love to get his hands on something like this. As long as you’re doing what you’re born into, you’ll always be in the right. Even the Nazis had to justify their mass scale war with some vague notion of saving their race. In this it’s just that you were born for war so go on killing kiddo. 2deep4u

The lockdowns (2020) combined with discovering /pol/ as well as other alternative outlets and learning the truth has crippled me.

Always was an outcast but when I finished high school and went down the self-improvement road I had a plan and hope for the future. I spent 2 days in college before the lockdowns began and both men and women swarmed to me.
Weight loss, strenuous exercise, grunt jobs, martial arts, cold showers and austerity beyond normal, all self-imposed for years combined with surrogate and academic education on all practical subjects was my path to becoming what can only be referred to as Nietzsche's Overman.

But my will has been exhausted. The veil has been lifted. Reached the conclusion that I am a tax-cattle serf in prison nation where everything human and masculine is either illegal or prohibitely expensive. I can't hunt, I can't own firearms, I can't drive a motorcycle at full speed. Can't be a man. My only options are to drink, smoke, do drugs and gamble. If you keep up on global events you can see everything and everyone has gradually become gayer and more retarded and insane. Consequently I have become more alienated and ostracized.

I'm fine with being alone. Fine with nobody remembering or caring about any important conversation. I'm fine with life being cruel and unfair. I'm fine with at 24 never having had a social circle, a woman, real friendship, or any other milestone. I said it'd get better. It's fine. Life doesn't guarantee "Happiness".

This is the only genre that makes money and the money train isn't stopping any time soon. Short of a puritanical John Carpenter style government, there will always be demand for this shit.

The question is, can a dude write successful girlporn? This is the literary question.
I'm going to read this milking farm thing and see if I can't get a knack for how women write. I'm suspecting it's a bit like this:

>Minimal attention to details and the world, emphasis on personal impressions and feelings; the world as a set of things that make you feel different ways.
>Braindead, 12-15 year old brain simplicity.
Imagine a Middle School girl trying to "speed download" social gossip updates to a friend.
>Vanity, ego, zero accountability, petty delusions, cliches.
This will require a bit of research and marketing savvy just to collect up what today's cliches are. Fortunately, women are dead simple and just go on TikTok/Twitter and see what buzzwords come up a lot.
>Sultry language.
This one's tough. From what I understand explicit, gross language is what sells this shit and is the female equivalent of visually seeing porn. On the other hand, I have a feeling that I could write porn that is vastly more detailed and explicit than what women read and would alienate them. I have a feeling it's just stuff like, "sweaty" "bulge" "heaving" "cock!" "pulsing". Words that sound distinctly naughty but remain vague. It's not about visualizing, even through text, sexual mechanics. It's about breaking social taboos so women feel "naughty" and liberated from their neurotic sexual restraints.
>Female attraction
This is tough. How far do you go with "big muscles, ripped body"? How much do women want to read that, and when is it too much? Women like being dominated but they like to feel it was their choice to be dominated. As a man who understands women very well, I don't want to tap into their sexual triggers too accurately because that might lead to a sense of "revealing too much" about female sexuality which women don't like. They like most of it to remain implicit and simple.

That said, after I nuke my brain with Morning Glory Milking Farm, I'm going to try a couple more to see if my sense of the format is correct.

It should be utterly trivially to right one of these things after that. They're poorly written and short. I can easily embellish the sexual acts to be ten times as spicy as long as I'm aware of the boundaries, men visualize way better than women do. Secondly, as long as I pander to women, I could probably produce a plot a thousand times more compelling.

I literally need like $50k in my life right now for a couple things and I have a feeling I could just pump out 10 of these fuckers in a series and get there.

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I am regretting shilling Cioran. God these fucking beasts ruin everything. Why do these dumb fucking subhumans ruin everything? Fuck! These normalfaggot pieces of shite who read his meme aphorism on instagram and then go around boasting bullshit about how they "love" reading Cioran and how he is their favorite """philosopher""" in their friends circles make me want to puke. Fucking barbaric. After reading goodreads reviews of Ciroan's books I want to blow my brains out. Whole shitagram, fagbook and jewtube is filled with coated bullshit like le heckin dark writings of le heckin darkest most buck broker philosopher of all of the heckin time.

I am so fucking angry. Fucking norman's and their bestially minds reading the words of my beloved writers. I can't stand this, it's too much. It is true that Cioran didn't kill himself but he would have surely killed himself if he knew what kind of subhumans would be reading him and how he will get famous and how roasites will be getting tattoos of his quotes and how faggots will be printing his quotes on t-shirts and hoodies to make money. I want to see this universe drown in an eternal flood.

>"I beleive in the salvation of humanity in the future of cyanide..."

All Gall is Divided

>One might wonder why we do not simply declare all individuals to be nothing more than persons, thereby sparing ourselves the repeated invocation of “man” or “woman.” And since “person” is a universal taken universally, whereas “man” (or “woman”) is strictly and specifically particular, to say “this is a person” is to define a thing by its most singular species, implying that each person differs from every other only numerically—by haecceity alone.

Shall we then assert that persons differ from one another solely in number? We might, for sure. Some people do, of course the question properly belongs to biology.They say that universals taken universally cannot serve as objects of knowledge for any subject. To know what a man or a woman is remains utterly arbitrary. Such things mark the boundary of any whole: never dissimilar, ever the same. Incapable of harboring difference, they are indifferent. And what is indifferent cannot be seized by the intellect.
It is, at the very least, arduous to define a thing while attempting to hold it simultaneously as subject and as object. This is why logic undertakes to discern the impenetrable rules that govern knowledge in general within the subject itself. About the object, nothing can be said without grave difficulty.

Consider, for instance, two individuals asked to behold a man, one of whom is his son. Logic inquires: what, in that instant, is held in common between the knowledge of these two subjects—for all subjects and for all knowledge?

I've been exposed to a wide-enough breadth and sufficient-enough depth of philosophy to know that the lessons of life and existence it provides pale in comparison to that of good literature.

Is there any point in reading philosophy? Or should you just read the literary greats?

do we like this guy?

Why are there no hater youtubers in the /lit/osphere there aren’t enough harsh critics there’s so much slop content out there to proffesionally hate.
If you want your get rich quick scheme with writing why not write out negative reviews.

Tropical Beach Edition

FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.

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Is this a good book to read to impress goth and alt hoes?

Is Stephen King a good author?

>wife status?
buckbroken

Any fans here? I feel like Miller is slept on a lot.

This was a big letdown and a waste of time.
I'll never take advice from you guys ever again.

what is the best place to request feed back on a story/fanfiction (SFW) on is working on. Paid/and unpaid. I'de like to get constrcutive feedback, its harder to come by than i thought it would be.

In lieu of eridatic “niggers,” there developed a theory, half sermon, half derangement, that the moral disease of the century was not vice itself, but the corruption of the very words that named it. The age, they said, had grown linguistically gangrenous. Speech festered in the throats of men until it crawled from their mouths like spoiled wine. The pamphleteers, those pale anatomists of rhetoric, scribbled their theses in attics, binding them in soot and vinegar. They traced the degeneration of expression from the swampy utterances of the primordial tribesman to the delicate euphemisms of the telegraph clerk, whose every dot and dash concealed an unspeakable desire. And somewhere among the detritus of their labors, a boy, barefoot, blistered, and slightly phosphorescent from the city fog, began to write his own heretical volume: On the Metaphysics of Spittle and Other Semiotic Fluids.

I'm 60 pages in, when does it get good? So far it's a book about a woman being a woman. Please tell me it changes, I hate women.

I need some recs for "Misogynistic", anti-women, anti-feminist, etc. FICTION, but non fiction can also pass. Novels and novellas that explore female behaviour and the extent of their evil and stupidity and critique them

Post interesting and obscure books you learned about from /lit/.

Also on a related note I came up with something called /lit/‘s law. That being that, if a book exists that is worth reading, it has almost definitely already been mentioned by someone on /lit/ at some point.

pretentious

How did nobody surpass classical Japanese /lil/ yet?

What books should I read if I want to develop Dark Triad traits? I've already read 48 Laws of Power and How to Win Friends and Influence People

Be real with me /lit/, isn't Camp of the Saints ultimately an existential horror novel?

In my literary analysis homework our professor asked us what our thoughts are on JK Rowling's comments about trannies. What kind of question is that?

Why didn't it take off like Harry Potter and Twilight?