/lit/ - Literature

>>20231215
>>20231234
I don't really find fascism or third positionism all that hard to understand and don't see the need to mystify it. It attempts to crib elements of both capitalism and communism without truly becoming one or the other. So it has elements like social welfare, but also extreme nationalism, and also the support of both the worker and the owner in service to the State. And, for that matter, it attempts to be a kind of atheistic stand-in for God, because the State itself becomes worshipped, and the ruler as the physical embodiment of the State.

There. That's fascism. Easy enough. It took me less than five sentences. I don't see this need by left-wingers to turn fascism into this woo-woo thing.

Why is "jungle" and "banana" a negative term now? Is it because these words are mostly associated with third world countries?

What's the point of believing in atheism? Every religion seems to offer some kind of point, but with atheism, is it just an obsession with "proving" things?

I heard someone say his book was dogshit. Then I heard other people say that the first chapter is bad on purpose. And then I heard OTHER people say that even the chapters past the first chapter are dogshit.

So which is it? Is his book any good or not?

I have a somewhat decent social media following. I have several thousand followers between all three platforms, and some of my mutuals have thousands of followers themselves. Is this a good thing, where self-publishing is concerned?

I've been batting this idea around: what if we brought back serialized fiction? Releasing novels in segments, a chapter or a section at a time? Since everybody seems to absorb fiction this way now. Not just episodes of a television show, but think about fanfics, or volumes of manga. It's all serialized. Serialized fiction could almost describe the bulk of popular fiction being released right now, across all media. Maybe written fiction, novels and short story collections, need to follow this route? Maybe if people got a chapter a week, or a chapter every couple of days, they'd stay committed to the larger work over time as it was released. And maybe you could build up hype from one chapter to the next, to attract a larger reader base over the course of releasing the pieces of the story.

>>18503330
Well if we go by the rule that maybe 10% of people who read a book review it, that means... maybe 30,000 readers, or so?

Isn't Updike usually derided for being a "popular" writer, who wasn't interested in exploring ideas and themes in a deeper way? That's why he's always slotted below DeLillo and Roth.

Are there books about not being fat yourself, but wanting your partner to be fat and actively enjoying her increasing in size and girth?

It occurs to me: wouldn't the modern day equivalent of this be the way most fanfics are published?

The vast majority of fanfics are released a chapter at a time, every couple of days or weeks. Sometimes, the author doesn't even start writing the new chapter until the old chapter has been released. In the time between chapter releases, fans comment and speculate on where the fic is going to go, what is going to happen to the characters. They comment their approval or disapproval of what the previous chapter and chapters have done. There is open discussion of the direction the story is going to go, and speculation about what will occur. Then the next chapter is released, the hype spikes, and the cycle repeats.

How is that any different from books where each chapter is a letter and they're sent one at a time?

>>17742055
>scientifically

Do you happen to have any examples of a truly scientific personality classification system?

Isn't this kind of a converse to the perennial 4chan debate of whether traps are gay?

If a man gets so fat that he starts to take on feminine features, what should the reaction of a straight man be to such a person?

I grew up with three sisters and the primary parent to raise me was my mother, so perhaps my perspective is somewhat different than some Anons in this thread. But I've never found women particularly alien or difficult to understand, or especially to get along with. Are they different than men? Yes. But I've never found them especially inscrutable or hard to decipher. They're not some grand enigma. They'll also usually be pretty honest with you if you bother to be frank with them and not put on a front yourself.

I still don't understand how you logically refute the Unmoved Mover proof.

Maybe I'm a retard, but to refute the Unmoved Mover, the universe would have to be infinite, right? To ensure that there's no chain of causality, and hence no need for Someone to set that chain in motion, then there would have to be infinite time and infinite space, with no beginning and no end. But science itself has proved that the universe does indeed have a definite beginning. So doesn't that kind of imply the truth of the Unmoved Mover, the one who set everything in motion at the dawn of space and time?

What non-Tolkien fantasy is worth reading?

What is it with people coming to /lit/ telling us how much they hate reading and hate books? If you hate books, why do you come here in the first place?

Does this happen on other boards dedicated to interests? Do people go to /mu/ and make threads about how they hate music? Do people go to /sp/ and make threads about how they hate sports?

What books from the 2010s are worth reading?

My ongoing story over multiple books has, as its protagonists, a group of four teenagers who are extremely close friends, and for each of them, the other three are the people they trust most in the entire world.

I've begun to debate what to do between them erotically. I want to write a great story, good literature, not schlock and definitely not straight-up porn. But I also want to be as realistic as possible in my depiction of these characters. If I'm writing fourteen year olds, fifteen year olds, sixteen year olds, I can't escape the conclusion that they'd all be extremely horny a lot of the time, and the temptation to fool around within the group would be extremely high. I feel like, purely in the interest of depicting teenage boys and teenage girls realistically, I am going to have to be a bit erotic at times. Perhaps MORE than a bit, sometimes.

why do people think Eastern Orthodox is more "authentic" than Catholic? didn't they start at the same time?

>>15279443
>Basically it was some sort of puzzle-kabbalah-box that gave "true answers" to things past & present

If gnosticism is true, why is there not a single non-cringe gnostic currently spreading the word?

Are there some ancient philosophers which wouldn't have off'd deformed people like me right away?

Any good YouTube lectures on Advaita?

>>14540456
>I don't recognize the Jewish prophets
>Adam was
>recognizes Adam, a Jewish prophet
>I believe in Christ.
>recognizes Jesus, someone claiming to be a Jewish prophet