/lit/ - Literature

>>11606983
>imaginative writing
Read that for a class. It was shit. Return it unless you're also reading it for a class, in which case you'd better get ready for some fucking obvious """advice."""
>dude plots have to have conflict
>woah if your characters have personalities people will give more of a shit
>like, ever think about editing more than once?
The worst part is that the author is a mediocre novelist, and it shows in her prose. You'd unironically learn more from Steven King's "On Writing," which points out just as many obvious things, but makes room for some legitimately good insights now and then, and is written in a utilitarian way that actually demystifies writing instead of making it out to be voodoo witchcraft.

>>11018690
Start and finish with the Fountainhead. Everything before it is weak, and everything after it is both weak and bloated.

>>11019536
>she blew all preceeding philosophic systems the fuck out
Source? I've read 4 of her books (Ideal, Fountainhead, Shrugged, Intro to Objectivist Epistemology), and she basically ignores everyone but Kant and Aristotle. She has nothing to say about Nietzsche or Hume, both of whom are giants, and she barely even touches on Plato. Russel and Wittgenstein go completely neglected, even though their work could actually be made to contribute to her project. She's a discount empiricist with a sprinkling of social contract theory.

>>11019799
His speech has more assumptions than reasoning, any one of which can be easily questioned. The same applies to Rand's philosophical work. She has this habit of saying "I dislike the consequences of all the alternatives, therefore my position is right."

>>11023178
>The left is fine with you reading Hitler but generally want you to forget Ayn Rand ever existed.
You're overgeneralizing. My gay latino ethics professor had us read one of her papers (forget the title). He corrected students when they misunderstood her and defended her positions when the class tried to refute them. Towards the end of the course he told us that he was a utilitarian and thought Rand was silly, but in the moment he made the most compelling case for her (and everyone else that we read) that he could.

>>10222901
(((/pol/)))

>>9864875
Sage goes in all fields.

This book is poorly-sourced, too short, incorrect on many fronts, and overlooks vast portions of the websites and subcultures it discusses. The author shows a great deal of disdain for the people she's writing about. Her ultimate conclusion is essentially that we need to return to milquetoast liberalism.

Delet this.

>>9786234
>It's a novel by Hesse

>>9757176
I kind of lied. About 50 of them are comics. Which means its really only 99, which is alot more reasonable. (22-30 page comics can be read in literally 10 minutes.)