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what do you think was Yeats' political orientation? I've been getting into his poetry.

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What does your Coronavirus reading list consist of?

I'm finally going to finish For Whom the Bell Tolls, Difficult Loves by Calvino, a couple of books by Denis Johnson, Speak Memory by Nabokov, I might reread House of Leaves if I'm really bored.

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I'm an erotica author who write a lot of taboo stuff, and as I've been seeing success in the erotica market in the past few months I'd like to consider branching out. The stuff I've been putting out there is pretty fringe but within Amazon guidelines; I know that some authors who write stuff like, say, incest, will post their stories to Smashwords, which is more forgiving of extreme content. As of right now it's not really a problem because my stuff is pretty in line with the two big retailershowever, in the past I've written more than a few stories involving underage characters, and I'm sure there's a market for this content somewhere. Nobody mainstream will accept and publish such works however, and when I search for information about the issue Google shames me with a big warninglike, Googling the phrase 'underage characters in erotic fiction' comes up with a big fat whining warning about depictions of child abuse being illegal, yes, of course, obviously. But this is FICTION.

Naturally in the process of this Googling I came across United States v. Fletcher, a 2007 court case where the defendant entered a guilty plea in a ridiculous obscenity charge brought against her for maintaining a website of fictional stories, text only, no pictures. The contents of the stories sound like they were very shocking (more shocking than my stuff, small consolation to me) but obviously that's no excuse for the charges brought against her. She was an old lady at the time, too, which makes it very sad and absurd. It sounds like this prosecutor wanted to make an example and from what I can see it worked because everywhere I look in fiction communities everywhere if you even have the audacity to write about a character who's, I don't know, seventeen having a sexual experience that's depicted as erotic, you'll be banned on site and your work thrown off whatever website you put it on. Never mind that if you write the same scene at a 7th grade reading level and call it YA an agent will snap it up in a heartbeat. Never mind that de Sade's Justine was twelve at the start of the novel and so was Dolores Haze. Never mind THAT IT'S FICTION. FICTION FICTION FICTION. It makes me want to scream.

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I'm going to read the Trivium, what should I add/remove?

I'm spanish so most grammar suggestions I got didn't work, should I just read a general spanish grammar handbook?

Why do Buddhists follow the teachings of a poo?

Is this a good reading list?

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I'm interested in reading odd non-Tolkien fantasy, which is preferably from early 20th, late 19th century sources, what can you guys recommend?

Thus farm I have been reading a decent amount of Lovecraft, and Conan The Barbarian. I just started getting into reading for pleasure I like Lovecrafts narration and general writing style, but I do not like the slowness of the story. My favorite one so far is The Shadow over Innsmouth, since the fish frog men lore was cool, the bit of action, and the twist at the end. When it comes to Conan I like the ease of reading. It so fluid that you automatically keep reading, even if you are not really enjoying it, due to Conan being a boring character. My favorite story is The Tower of the Elephant, since it has black magic, an interesting story, and a fast pace. I just finished Testaments of Athammaus by Clark Ashton Smith, and found it to be weak, but I will give CAS a couple more tries.

Hej anons. I am looking for a dnd type setting in a book. It's kinda hard to describe. Like people travelling to unknown worlds and unknown planets, discovering older than ancient ruins that they have no idea the origins of, ancient lores and similar stuff. If you know about the pathfinder lores you'd know. A lot of ancient mystery, old ruins, descent into unknown and lost civilisations and that kinda thing. Thank you.

Here's how it's going to work;

-You post your story under 3000 words. I recommend that it's an introduction to your story, or a short story. Of course, you can post endings or middle chapters if you want, but you'd be a massive idiot.

-If you use google docs I'm not reading it

-If it's over 3000 words i'm not reading it.

-If you didn't upload to google docs and its under 3000 words I'll read your story.

-If you have shitty grammar and spelling, a terrible prose, or you write your sentences like

"Madamn's chagaron soul window fevered insibiously into the untransited elevate sunset as the moservier sagrated chivalriously in such-"

I'm going to call you out on it and stop reading

-If your story makes it past the previous checkpoints I'll finally give my opinion on what you actually want to hear

(Is the setting interesting?

Are the characters interesting?

Do I want to keep turning the page to read more?

Is your pacing good or bad?

Would I pay for this?)

Come on anon, I know your inner voice is killing your self confidence as a writer and you're secretly begging for validation. You know you want it. Post it.

I am going on a quest to stop being a retard. I've always scored fairly high on IQ tests, but when it comes to actual knowledge I'm pitifully uneducated and I want that to stop. I've amassed a fairly large library so far, and I've sworn off fiction reading until I've finished it all, but I need your help. Textbooks, political science, handbooks, anything you can offer.

Please /lit/ help me help myself