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Excelsior!

Sister site: [Fan-fiction]

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 No.16603 [Open thread]

Let's discuss the reading habits of great authors.

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 No.16927

>>16603

please tell me that this is a shop. I wonder if that's my future. kinda sad

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 No.16991

>>16645

but did they read wattled and manga?

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 No.16992

>>16991

probably not or they would be gay faggots

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 No.17086

bump

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 No.17087

Great writers don't have time for such nonsense. They have enough worries. I can't imagine how much effort it takes to write a whole book. I can’t just write an article at the university, but they have been doing it for years. Recently wrote at university about costco, used https://graduateway.com/essay-examples/costco/ for this. I just wouldn't be able to do everything myself. Well, in general, they read manga anyway, I'm joking.

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 No.17072 [Open thread]

Axial Age

Schizophrenia

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 No.17073

I dont know precisely but it's like Gutenberg Galaxy?

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 No.17085

interesring

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 No.16836 [Open thread]

Could be Japanese or anything but has a good English translation

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 No.16880

>>16878

Thanks I love you

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 No.16919

I just published today weird wacky wild shite

amazon dot com/dp/B08J2R4LD8

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 No.17082

It must be a strange book, I don't know

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 No.17083

I would also like to read such a book. But everyone advises not exactly those books that interest me. And there is not enough time for reading. Recently wrote at university about costco, used https://graduateway.com/essay-examples/costco/ for this. I don't like to write about this. When I wasn't in college, I had a lot of free time. Now everything has changed.

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 No.17084

I would also like to read such a book. But everyone advises not exactly those books that interest me. And there is not enough time for reading. Recently wrote at university about costco, used https://graduateway.com/essay-examples/costco/ for this. I don't like to do this. When I wasn't in college, I had a lot of free time. Now everything has changed.

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 No.17081 [Open thread]

Thinking about it, Kings have relation from old time.

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 No.14399 [Open thread]

I just graduated high school, waiting to go to college. Recommend me something you wish you had read when you were my age?

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 No.16643

>Ayn Rand

Anthem: short dose

Fountainhead: long dose

Atlas Shrugged: overly long dose

One flew over the Cuckoos nest

Foundation Trilogy

meh that's it i don't want to get overly long.

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 No.16644

>>14399

More Kipling.

>>16643

Rand was important landmark of the noosphere, so maybe for historical context. But other than this… unless you want edgy "lone wolf" philosophy, reading Taleb is infinitely more useful. And quite interesting.

>>14412

Moldbug gives some good explanations on economics. And a few other things. Sometimes he goes into flights of fancy, though. That's why I'd recommend Skin in the Game before reading Moldbug.

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 No.16663

>>16644

That post was meant for the high school dropout thread i think it makes more sense as a rec there. I figured he'd see it either way.

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 No.16685

Lowen's "Betrayal of the Body" could have saved me years of suffering.

Wish I had read through the New Testament and the works of Plato around that age, as well. More to the point, I wish I'd just zeroed in on the subject that I excelled at more than others did, to the exclusion of all others (for the time), majored in it, and then never had to work an unskilled position or live in a moldy apartment for even a day. Being in my early 30's, I could have excelled in my field by now to where a career change would have meant a lateral move, and not starting over on the bottom rung.

You might want to take Cal Newport's first or second book with you to college and live by it until you're through it.

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 No.17079

I also recommend the book by Harold Bloom - "The Western Canon" since it is a 1994 book about western literature written by one of the best critics. In the edition, the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 mostly English language writers whom he sees as central to the canon. I found on the EssayReviewExpert site a review about the EduBirdie service on which I found an essay for my literature homework in which Harold admires Shakespeare as a personality inauguration. I recommend https://essayreviewexpert.com/review/edubirdie/ to discover on the expert review service how helpful EduBirdie is and, therefore, find more essays and books for your college years because I am a student and I get a lot of help and college materials, essays.

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 No.15079 [Open thread]

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 No.15081

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 No.15093

Stop spamming this washed up comedian

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 No.15096

I'm about two-thirds of the way through and I'm entertained so far. It's kind of what I'd expect from a book from MDE.

Overall though, I'm not really sure what to think of it. The jokes are all laid out within the first 60 or so pages and the rest is a strange narrative with a slowly evolving plot that's leading to an unpredictable resolution.

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 No.17069

thanks for that, I have wanted to read it for a long time

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 No.17076

It's great that there are people who share such materials in the public domain. It's just that I recently needed to write about an "inspector calls" book, I used https://writix.co.uk/essay-examples/an-inspector-calls for this since I couldn't find the book in stores to read. To be honest, I even liked this variant. I didn’t really bother and didn’t read the whole book in its entirety, I learned only all the most important things.

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 No.13435 [Open thread]

How should I work to improve my prose? I'm writing nearly every day, but I'm looking to accelerate my work. My prose is pretty mediocre right now, but I want to polish it into something marvelous.

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 No.13456

If you post a sample I can give you feedback. Otherwise my only advice is to try to practice imitating a variety of authors with styles you enjoy until you find what fits you best.

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 No.16997

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 No.17023

>>13456

Not OP, but can you review mine?

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 No.17024

>>17023

>09/09/17

bruh

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 No.17056

This is a rather rhetorical question from you. Everyone knows the answer to your question. You just need to read more. The last one I read was an essay about comparison different perspective international issue climate change, I used https://envrexperts.com/free-essays/essay-about-comparison-different-perspective-international-issue-climate-change for that. I read a lot of essays. Since I consider them more informative than taking the same books. This is a short version, which outlines the most important.

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 No.17051 [Open thread]

Hey fellow readers,

We have officially moved onto our two bunkers: https://8chan.moe/lit/ and https://tvch.moe/lit/

Please do bookmark them and come join us if you want to have a good time!

Other useful links:

https://smuglo.li/fanfic/

https://8chan.moe/pdfs/

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 No.11999 [Open thread]

It's the 444th day of a Trump presidency. All day every day, members of the Trump Youth League in their khaki uniforms knock on doors, looking for illegal aliens. Armed with assault weapons and wearing red armbands emblazoned with a black "T" in a white circle, non-whites cower away in fear whenever they approach. After dark, roving bands of less official but even angrier white supremacists patrol the streets, enforcing the curfew for anyone who looks "un-American". People of color hide fearfully in their homes, their neighborhoods destroyed by white racist violence. Art deco-style statues of Donald Trump have been erected in every town square, with a live ticker screen beneath each one that reads off his tweets.

Everyone but Trump's rabid supporters fears "The Knock," when in the middle of the night people are taken from their homes and sent away to "#MakeAmericaGreatAgain Re-Education Camps", never to be heard from again.

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 No.15477

>>12768

oh yakub, you B IG BO I jew

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 No.15777

>>12000

Over two years later and this is still pure gold

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 No.15934

>>15777

check'd

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 No.17049

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>>15934

>Posting

Let me see if this fixes the broken link.

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 No.17050

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 No.16838 [Open thread]

Could be Japanese or anything but has a genuine English translation

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 No.16839

File: 09add81d2f10348⋯.jpeg (202.47 KB,710x1136,5:8,E4E210E0_BA23_405C_BF61_9….jpeg)

This is a funny one

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 No.16846

>>16839

Didn't ask for a funny one, anon

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 No.16973

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>>16846

Should it matter if someone suggests a funny book if it meets your other criteria? I can't think of a lot of serious stories that can be described as "randomly weird". All that comes to mind for me are satirical books by authors like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett.

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 No.17046

This should be Kafka on the Shore by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It is not just a random book, I'd say. It's one of my favourites now. However, I came across with it indeed randomly, when I was working with https://letsgradeit.com/review-category/essay-writing/ guys. They mentioned this book in the bibliography to the writing assignment we worked on together. I decided to read it and it was the right decision. This book widens your imagination. It's really good!

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 No.17044 [Open thread]

By the way, I've already discovered that finding decent telegram channels on how to enhance trade is far less difficult than I had anticipated. All that is required is for you to interpret the cryptocurrency signals https://safetrading.today/bots/cornix/ before advancing. I learnt a lot here, and I strongly advise everyone to familiarize themselves with it; your efforts will not be in useless. So, good luck, and I hope I've been of assistance.

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 No.17027 [Open thread]

It's free to read on Kindle Unlimited, plus I posted an early draft of about 40% of it, so hopefully that satisfies your sense of ethics.

Plus, it's got a heavy anarcho-libertarian bent to it, which is probably more appreciated here than anywhere else on the Net.

More details at https://reddit.com/user/ulatekh/comments/pluf8q/hello/ .

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 No.16858 [Open thread]

Treatment resistant schizophrenic here (trauma-induced, and not what Twitter calls "trauma"), with a 143 IQ (since for we've all lost our minds here & decided to start IQ-posting in a recent thread even though IQ is literally a nonsense metric) who is currently in a precarious housing situation w/ my family that has been abusive in the past, but my best friend is getting me up to his state to live with him and rebuild my life. I've been hospitalized 20+ times, countless meds, even got electroshock 16 times. I wrote a book of poetry about my mythologized history, and I got it accepted for publication. It comes out in July. I say all this to prove, maybe just to myself, that there is hope for me.

It is my goal to become a PhD. Clinical Psychologist (which I've had since before my illness, and every doctor & clinician I've had highly encouraged me to do so), and get postdoctoral training in Lacanian psychoanalysis. I am currently undergoing Lacanian psychoanalysis for an extremely reduced fee as part of a scholarship with a postdoctoral psychoanalytic school. (But right now I have never even completed a semester of university.) The analysis is, very slowly, transforming myself and my life.

Despite my capacities, I am unable to sleep or eat really. I take meds, minimally & as needed at the lowest dose, but I am finding it very difficult to literally just SLEEP or EAT because of my overactive mind. It's like I'm naturally high on methamphetamine.

Besides establishing a safe living situation in an apartment with my best friend, WHAT BOOKS can I read—fiction, non-fiction, or poetry—to guide me in my journey toward that second chance, the Gestalt??? Mainstream behavioral indoctrinating industrial complex, and family, has terribly failed me (and I sort of failed myself) — so /lit/ you truly are my only hope.

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 No.16895

I remember reading in a youtube comment a big blogpost from a guy that finally managed to help his brother's schizophrenia. It turns out it was copper toxicity. The copper would literally get into the brain and short-circuit by "unwanted conductance". To chelate it he mega-dosed his brother on Zinc and I think Selenium, but I recall the Zinc being the chelating vitamin. Healthy fats in your diet should help re-sheath the neuron axons. It took a month or less for progress, a year to get him to a normal level, and IIRC 2 years for all the problems to disappear.

So you should take perhaps 3x the recommended dose of Zinc, Selenium, and avoid all copper in your diet. Meditate so you learn how to reduce brain activity; focus on the breath at the nostrils until the discipline finally works.

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 No.16905

>>16895

That's interesting. I've heard of cases where a person's schizophrenia was actually cured by going on the Ketogenic diet. Turns out the guy's brain was just hypersensitive to sugar.

It's interesting to see that another case of Schizophrenia was cured by realising that the brain was hypersensitive to something else. I wonder if there's more to this pattern or if these are simply two coincidences.

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 No.16906

>>16858

OP, I want you to know that you'll be in my prayers.

I believe, in some cases, mental illness is in fact due to diabolic oppression. The Lord allows you to suffer at the hands of demons because he wishes, through your suffering, to extract reparations either for sins committed by you or to you (e.g. child molestation/rape in the "to you" case) or for sins committed by or to a forefather of yours. Such demons are termed "Generational Spirits" and Exorcist Fr. Ripperger has an excellent series of videos talking about them on the Sensus Fidelium YouTube Channel.

I strongly suspect that in some cases, Schizophrenia is in fact a diabolic oppression.

You will be included in my Rosaries. I will be offering them for you to be cured and in reparation for the sins committed by and to the members of your family tree.

I want to thank you as well. I've been praying for my schizophrenic relative for some time now and what I realised is that I never explicitly requested for his mental health issues to be cured, only for it to improve. I would've never realised this had I not tried to talk to you. Your conversion will be in my prayers.

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 No.16907

>>16858

>trauma-induced, and not what Twitter calls "trauma"

You mean like MK ultra type shit? I hate how people act like trauma-based mind control doesn't exist.

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 No.17021

File: a419af8705b7ac9⋯.jpg (42.81 KB,777x768,259:256,219120215_340318347519738_….jpg)

You still seem to have it easy compared to me, I'm partially institutionalized and never went to college and I'm about to hit 40. I'm an autodidact.

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 No.17000 [Open thread]

Any thoughts on T.S. Eliot?

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 No.17020

Good Christian writer, looks a bit like Genesis P-Orridge

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 No.17018 [Open thread]

lets say i am writing a fiction and i planned the ending ahead (cuz i believe it s good by research) but somehow now my content is now locked to the ending so it has to be within its "logical" realm

kinda like fight club, which has ending defined in the beginning of the movie and the rest follows…

so…how do i,say, " infer" the content

from that ending, moment to moment, character by character and so on,…. so that my story can follow the end cohesively into a logical story and maybe also satisfying?

are there sort of tools, formats, that has been used to solve this since time beginning cuz .. idk literature is old?

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