/lit/ - Literature

Look on the bright side, you'll feel good when you finish it because you'll never have to read it again

>am born

>its meh

>have to finish it because autism

>>14634

Could you maybe provide a magnet link? Thanks in advance.

>Read book

>It's shit

>Has to burn it because autism

Libernull & Psychonaut and chaos magick is shit, just a thing for edgy teenagers, only Austin Osman Spare has actual content.

The Technological Society and The Myth of Progress

>>14606

Ellul is good, but do you mean Sorel's Illusion of Progress or the recent book by Wessels?

>>14587

Just arrived. Weighing in at 171pp, should be a fun diversion. Not quite sure where he's going with all this cultural class struggle, or who shall win, but my money's on The Four Tuxedos (of the apocalypse?).

There was a thread on /tv/ with some literally who, I think his name was Sam Hyde, together with the guy from Dagger. He said that something cool is coming soon and it will be good. I got the impression that he's a faggot overall and he won't finish editing the holiday issue ever.

It's too bad that the ponyfags formed that board with /pol/ and not with /lit/. We could try bringing some OC makers here again. /bane/ has less than 20 UIDs, but it's better than when it was fast; I'd add them on the tea plan this time.

I don't think there will be anything very good or very bad that will come out of any particular linking or invitation.

>>14468

Insofar as MLP is popular it could have added some activity. Fanfiction discussion would be the most probable result, and would not be out of line with the level on which image-boards operate. However, while such discussion exists and can be both lively and surprisingly nuanced, it all takes place on non image-board websites devoted to fanfiction.

I agree nothing much, good or bad, will come from linking /pdfs/. Mostly just more of 8Chan.

One change needed is a dedicated request thread. A thread collecting together "Can't remember the title," "Help find ebook version," and similar.

>>14532

>Perfect health

>Camus

The faggot had emphysema

>>12994

Hunters in the Snow?

>>13061

I agree fam. Shame the author commited sudoku otherwise he might have made more funnies

>>13061

I agree that it's very funny, though it has a largely pointless story. That's the reason why it was so hard for the author to publish it, which is what made him catch the bus in the end.

Do you guys know of any more comical books?

Not really but it's written by The Robot King by Brian Selznick and I've read The Invention of Hugo Cabret before so judging by the cover something something robot and making assumptions, something something character study? Or something of the sort.

>>11692

>>11711

I desperately want to see the rest of Slayers, Lost Universe, Black Blood Brothers, Spice and Wolf, and Full Metal Panic. Plus maybe Twelve Kingdoms.

Tell it to me straight, are any of the English translations, whether official or (*gulp*) fanlation coherent enough to be worthwhile? It doesn't have to be perfect prose, just something good enough where I can understand what's happening and enjoy the original intent instead of struggling not to hunt down and mailbomb the weaboo translator.

I've read many normal books translated from a variety of languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese…) with slightly stiff at worst results, but the quality of anime/manga translation (for which I can lean on the visuals to clarify things sufficiently) leaves me leery for the prospects of LNs.

I've heard good things about Youjo Senki. The only problem is that because the author wrote it in high-level Japanese, the translation is coming along at a snail's pace. Been holding off on reading it so I can binge read it when enough chapters get translated.

>>11801

How transgendered is it? I know the anime is coming soon, and I've enjoyed the Mahou Shoujos Keikaku anime, but probably not enough to read the LNs.

>>11692

"Overlord" is the best thing ever, all of it (including drama CDs) is fan-translated into English with some unbelievable quality too.

In turn, I, too, 'd like to ask a question. Is there a web site like anidb and vndb for LNs? I want to scratch precisely at my fetishes and that's hard to do without a search engine over tags.

>>14598

Check novelupdates.com

>>14575

by the way, I'll probably upload them all to a dropbox or something,

>Give me an idea you're working on, and I'll write a brief piece on it.

Link is to another thread:

>>14507

Book reviews. Book reviews never change. Nor end.

>>14577

If I can find copies of the books, I'll give it a go.

>>14578

You could also try reading a few essays from whatever favorite author. Try to approach the subject in a new light from your own perspective. Another idea: attempt a short story using some literary technique you've not used before.

There's always Vidal's advise. Write … something. Mumble, mumble, assa note.

>>14580

I was thinking more of someone having an idea they're struggling on so I write a quick thing, explore some ideas and give them a basis to work on

So I do a prompt in which I write a prompt for someone else. Simple duh.

Thanks for the advice though!

>>12261

>I don't see the point of fictional characters, stories, or wars. I won't feel about them as much as real ones, if at all, nor do they teach anything, like the real ones do.

I suppose that's fair..

>>11406

what is 8chan i don't know what i'm doing

not a book but a movie idea I dreamed up one day a few months ago

OK, I thought up of this movie idea I had.

Set in the early 1980s, a man who has run out of luck in relationships with women, because of massive cheating on their part, his life is a nihilistic black void, so he hunts his exes down and kills every last one of them using whatever he can get his hands on, be it a knife, an axe, a sword or various handguns, rifles shotguns etc, sometimes torturing them for hours on end before dealing the final blow. This would be chronicaled in a third person passive mode, single or double camera at most using lo-fi camcorder tech, home video tech, scanlines, somewhat reel to reel home video footage and with the popularity of stuff like Hotline Miami, vaporwave-esque glitching, TV static but keeping it as realistic as possible, soundtracked by late 70s/80s industrial/noise/synth music.

I want to make the main character as unlikeable as possible, throw in some national socialist stuff, Islamic jihad connections, KKK rally footage.

I want to make the ultimate below z grade slasher flick. And make people throw up

>>12226

Not so keen on the killing of a supporting character purely as a mechanic to incite change, kinda devalues previously established characters as a result.

It's not uncommon for people to share their last name with their father.

>>14549

Yes, it does. It's just Armstrong being sportive.

Don't read that old poop, OP. Religion is a sedative, a conspiracy against humanity.

>>13321

t. Al Jazeera

>>13328

no, it really is. that book is probably the pinnacle of bullshitting on that subject.

he even cherrypicks stuff from his own zionist sources.

>>13288

You just reminded me that I actually bought this book and still haven't read it. I got through the first chapter for free online and I had to buy it.

bump for interest and recs

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