/lit/ - Literature

Do bad writers gravitate toward science fiction and fantasy or do the genres lend themselves to bad writing?

no great author studied literature in university.

starting to think all the historically prominent writers of liberalism, freedom, humanism, etc. didn't even consider us niggas on the level as whitey.

>>20746335
Here you go OP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0dpfCRYfUQ

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>>20655743
>this mad over a translated quote from Politics
You can remove "masculine" and "feminine" and the book still gives the same message here. Why don't you explain why Greek democracy and republicanism, and even tyranny, is different than our conception of them? If you're just ironic, you'll never convince anyone of anything.

>basically
>literally
>like
>random
>quite
>really
>interesting
>kind of
What are some overused words and phrases that experienced writers shouldn't be using?

>/lit/ getting filtered by Don Quixote of all book
Embarrassing.

>>20392738
Dutch : German :: Ukrainian : Russian

>>20347830
>I met a murder on the way
>He had a mask like Castlereagh

Fact: Non-Indo European literature is inherently inferior to Indo-European lit. Chinese or Japanese could never hope to attain the height of English, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German, Indian or Persian literature. Because they write and speak in a tongue that is inherently inferior.

The minimum requirement (assuming you know English) for being /lit/ should be knowing French, German, Latin, and two other languages of your choice (be it Greek, Classical Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Russian, etc). Most great writers were multilingual and this used to be the standard just over a century ago. No whining. Get to it, fags.

>>20222026
What moral are you trying to convey here

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>Listed writers are bad
Are you going to explain why faggot?

As a reader, I stop reading as soon as metaphors start showing up. Metaphors are a HUGE turn off.

I personally find that authors who rely heavily on metaphors tend to do so because they have little creative ability when it comes to plots, worldbuilding, and fleshing out characters, so they try to cover it up by tossing flowery phrases at the reader, in the hopes that the reader won't notice the lack of plot, lack of worldbuilding, and lack of realistic/believable characters.

Writers who use metaphors are incapable of creating things on their own and feel the need to steal from others.

In case you didn't know, plagiarism is illegal and comes with a $25k fine and up to 50 years in prison. You might want to consider that the next time you write a metaphor.

>explain economics
economics is a social ""science"" there are no objective facts produced from it.
Thats all you need to know.

Why don't zoomers read?

how do I fit in reading when I watch anime, movies, and play video games. then there's time I just want to listen to music. plus browsing here and Youtube. finally all the usual maintenance of living.

I wish I was retarded but I have to try to be a competent adult. i think reading will help but i can't seem to get through any book

>>18668577
I read what I want, fuck you and your opinion.

> creme de la creme
If you say things like this you should kill yourself.

>>18285910
So... Christians aren't allowed to eat figs?

it's baffling how anons like this >>18160401 rely and model their worldview based on ready-made ideas from long ago. It's cool that thinkers from the past were prescient in some of their analysis and predicted that our current paradigm would undergo a crisis, but their adherents never follow up on it. Western civilisation has reached its height and has ossified; what now? Anons are just passively waiting for stuff to happen as if they're inside a theatrical piece.

What are poets like in the year 2021?

>>17799763
This is very troubling

>Yo nunca he sido protestante, por lo tanto no sé lo que es un problema sexual.

Plato, St. Augustine, Descartes, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche were the best prose stylists in philosophy.