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/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but ideally those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.

Check the wiki, the catalog, and the archive before asking for advice or recommendations, and please refrain from starting new threads for questions that can be answered by a search engine.

/lit/ is a slow board! Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.

Looking for books online? Check here:
Guide to #bookz
http://www.ak3d.net/help.htm
Bookzz
http://bookzz.org/
Recommended Literature
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

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Why is /lit/ just full of memes and shit now?

Usually when /pol/ raids, they at least try to make intelligent arguments against marx, using graphs etc. Even if it is just pseudo-science.

But this shit recently is just garbage
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>>7786518

Do a 180, that's it

Back you go

>>>/reddit/
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>>7786520
I'll eat the bait. I'll do another 180, and stay for maximum cozy and shitposting. I have never used reddit though. Would I like it there? I usually browse other boards of 4chan.
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>>7786430
>How the FUCK can genre fiction threads possibly be the problem,
Imurites and redditors love genre-fiction, so genre-fiction threads attract them.
>>7786484
Fuck off back to imgur with your shit taste.
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>>7786518
/r9k/ has been raiding for a while.
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>>7785980

Lit has been devoid of good posters since /his/ was added. This is basically Marxism and memes now

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I saw some of this guys books in the return bin at my university.

It's just word vomit right?
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>>7786568
no that's part of the 90% trash. sure, it might be entertaining, but you forget them in five minutes.
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>>7785982
i think ideals are not created by us in our heads, but created by our subjectivities interacting with systems of references/symbols/simulations, and that is how we become objects ourselves.

next, since ideology is false consciousness, which is impossible b/c everything is defined by its other, and there is no consciousness, only simulacrum/constructed simulations based on referents, copies of things that never exist and all that, we cannot have ideology at all, and there is nothing to flush.
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>>7787428
thank you, jean baudrillard
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I've only read some of his articles, because his books at a glance look perilously close to being that one overly academic hufflepuff ivory tower bullshit.

His articles probably distill his reasoning in the best way, since they seem to have a point his hyper abstract books lack. He has written a bunch for The Guardian. Recommended reading. His take on the Syrian refugee situation is also interesting.

One of his articles, for example, was I guess what you might call a "deconstruction" of ISIS. The way he did if sure seemed clever, and I thought he made a good point. Something about it was counterintuitive and edgy though, as most of his statements are.
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>>7787433
well what are you possibly going to flush and what are you possible going to keep, that exists within your 'self' that is still from the Real? the only Real is that there isn't any, and that is all there is to keep, and how could you go back from that?

So, how does your day look like?

When do you read?
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wake up at noon, browse internet, sleep around 3am. i take the last class that i need to graduate on tuesdays and thursday, that's literally the only thing i do other than browse internet and sleep all week. i quit my job a month ago because i hated it even though i'll have no money left by the middle of april. i wish i could kill myself.
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>all these students

A-am I really getting too old for 4chan? My day is I get up at eight, play video games, shower and write until 1, when I go into work and teach until 9 (I read on my breaks, or sometimes in-lesson if it's a writing one). Then I get back, crack open a beer or two and contemplate women/do some more writing before bed. I guess it's kind of a literary life.
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>>7778895

ayy let's high five while we piss our lives away and our families off.. together!
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>>7787321
Where do you teach? Tutoring or college?
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I can only read at like 10 PM to 3 AM

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I don't usually post on this board, but I'm feeling a feel that I think only some of you guys might understand.... I really miss Kurt Vonnegut, even though he's dead.... I think I kinda have a crush on him. Can anyone relate? Have you ever been in love with a dead author?
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>>7787431
upboated.
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>>7787431
>Have you ever been in love with a dead author?
so it goes.

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Do you respect audiobook listeners /lit/?
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>>7785913
>>7786047
>>7787014
This -->>7786065. What you're thinking of are dissociatives and deliriants, like ketamine and inhalants. LSD doesn't impare you're judgement like alcohol, but your decisions are based on your perceptions of the real world, since the part of your brain that would say "I kmow I am hallucinating, and I know I shouldn't overreact to these distortions and hallucinations" is turned off. You're not going to shit your pants, but your body will produce a lot of nasal mucus, which can be annoying.
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>>7787330
Wait so LSD doesn't effect the brain the same way that marijuana does? So for example if weed makes me paranoid, LSD may not necessarily make me paranoid? Also what are the differences between acid and LSD
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>>7787363
It really all depends. For marijuana, experiencing paranoia varies between strain as each one has differing ratios of indica to sativa. As for LSD, it all depends on Set and Setting (your current state of mind, and your surrounding environment).

>acid
>LSD
They're the same fucking thing. Acid is slang for LSD. Are you twelve?
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I listen to books for over 8 hours a day while I work full time. What takes you fucks weeks or months to read, I devour in days. Come at me.
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>>7787380
I thought LSD was a more pure form of Acid.

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>>7787186
can you help out.
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>MIRA G might come over and make you lick her stinky feet
>con
I think you fail to understand this board.
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>>7787076
>Mira G might make you lick her stinky feet

Tao sounded pretty fun until that
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>>7787254
>implying that is a con
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Pynchon sounds like a bro

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So I just found about this book, what can you tell me about it /lit/?? Should I buy it?
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>>7785927
TLoTiaT but so, so much worse.
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>>7785943
this

I did contribute to tlotiat, but that's a better trainreck.
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I had a lot of fun writing the story of Luger Foucault.
I read most of the book online after it was published and enjoyed a good amount of it. Some of it I thought - all memes aside - really was pretty funny.
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>>7786815
Is that the one about the guy that can never fuck
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just fucking buy it and come back with a exegesis worth reading faggot

was it rape?
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was what rape
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Clearly.
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>>7787170
Trigger warning pls
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>>7787397
trigger warning: rape

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this was great. i wish DFW developed as a smug ironist and magical realist comedian instead of becoming an oprah book club self help guru obsessed with banality and conservative american virtues

anyways, wasted potentials aside, broom is a flawed but fantastic read. if you were on the fence about it i'm here to shove your overboard
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How banal of you to say what you really think
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>>7787347
It's sad, really.
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he wrote this as a undergrad too

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This anthology is a pretty good mix of horror stories posted on reddit.

I don't necessarily agree with these as the best around, but there's some good stories here.

Weird that there is a link to Gentry's 'Anchorhead' in the middle, as this is completely unrelated to it's 'best of reddit' claim.

Still for a free, public anthology -- it's worth the read.

The artwork is good but I don't know about the concept, seems too classical or something to be scary. What do you think /lit/?

http://setvasai.deviantart.com/art/Tales-From-The-Gnyar-Giants-Pen-595307136
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>>7787373
>>>r/incest
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>>7787373
>This anthology is a pretty good mix of horror stories posted on reddit.

how to troll /lit/ : the post
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>posted on reddit

Fucking dropped.
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>>7787388
snob
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>>7787410
redditors getting triggered

So, about a year ago, I decided to step into writing. I loved reading, albeit I'm not very cultured in literature. Especially English, since I've only used it as a second language. Still don't know why I picked English to start writing, but who cares?

Recently, I found this site: iwl.me, which analyzes your text and tells you to whose writing your writing they found similar. I took some excerpts from my book I'm currently still in the process of writing, and got lots of results, but mainly Dan Brown.

Now, from what I can gather, people hate the ever-living fuck out of Dan Brown. Please, elaborate, /lit/, why? I'd love to be a writer and release my own book, and I need your help to see where Dan Brown falls short to avoid these pitfalls. Thanks in advance.
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I put in three different pieces and got DFW each time.
Then I put in Gogol's The Overcoat and it said he wrote like DFW too
Then some Sound and the Fury excerpts came up as Oscar Wilde
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>>7785809
Two separate Proust excerpts came up as Daniel Defoe and Mary Shelley
DFW excerpt is DFW
Joyce's The Dead is Joyce and so is a Finnegans Wake excerpt
Poe's The Raven is Shakespeare
Whitman's Learn'd Astronomer is Arthur Clarke
Gass' Tunnel is James Joyce
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#include <stdio.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv) {
printf("Hello World!\n");
return 0;
}
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I put in 81 lines of Polish code that I found on pastebin and it says that's how Dan Brown writes.
http://pastebin.com/4KvLM3Lf

You guys realise that this thing is completely pointless, right? Even if you put in a named author's work it'll come up as a different one as >>7785830 and >>7785809 have noticed.
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>>7785195
>reading only catcher, his worst

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I'm losing interest in my biggest project only one chapter in. It's taking too long to write but I don't want to give up all the hard work I put in, but if I stop now I'll probably never finish it.

what do I do?
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>>7786255
I RECOGNIZE THAT IMAGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMVfnIhtWD0
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>>7786717
Well fuck, looks like I'm going to need to change my wallpaper
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>>7786255
Work on a different chapter.

Successful writing is mostly about a work ethic to just fucking keep going
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Story themselves are alive, from the mind to the physical, it would be regrettable to die so early
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>>7786717
>>i had it saved too
can i get paid to record stuff like this? trynna make that $$$

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What are your addictions lit? From the banal to the life threatening. Also to keep it lit related, what book do you plan on reading next? Mine is pic related.
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>>7787143
cheap alcohol in all shapes and forms

yann martel's new novel
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>>7787143
Hair pulling. trichotillomaniac here.
Next book I plan on reading is Sophie's World.
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>>7787159
i think most of us have the same problem, my dude.
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>>7787239
No doubt about that. Though I think I'm the only one here who's come up with an explanation for its origins.
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>>7787143
Coffee and porn.

Hard to say. Reading Suttree now after reading Blood Meridian. Maybe I'll give Ulysses a shot? I've been missing Joyce's prose since I read Portrait.

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What song / album / artist pairs well with certain books? I don't listen to music while I read, but for some reason I associate some books with certain albums.
Pic related is what I'm reading and Fleet Foxes' S/T has been in my head most of the time.
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>>7786851
>Fleet Foxes
>not Close to the Edge
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Infinite Jest works quite well with vaporwave, especially vektroid stuff like Floral Shoppe or Initiation Tape.
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https://youtu.be/L33XI7ZnNjQ
Black Earth by Bohren & der Club of Gore is a great album to listen to when reading Raymond Chandler.
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>>7787382
god I hate you a lot
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>>7787382
I think IDM like Aphex might be a better fit, no? :^)


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