/lit/ - Literature

>>14380871

Do you read collections of essays/short stories/ or anthologies in order or do you skip around to what seems interesting?

>>6064300

the peasant confused with erudition may think it's tryhard.

>>6005574
>I have never read any philosophy

>>5978282
>Gorge r.r. martin

>not starting with the Mesopotamians

>>5903722
Is that harry potter you fucking pleb

>>5864155
Wow you sure are mad.
How are you so sure he wasn't "disciplined" he was being attacked on all sides by the Germans, kept his philosophy unlike most who would have taken to complaining and crying, and still found time to write his book, he was modest, and still won.
What evidence do you have that he wasn't what you described and a true philosopher
Plato's dream of a philosopher king actually happened and this guy is it
Literally think about it a ruler who used philosophy instead of this thinking he knew everything and was taller than all men took the time to study philosophy and put it into use
A king has no use for philosophy, they can do whatever they want (think about how that power can go to ones head) but he didn't
And of you don't think he is based for that you are stupid and a pleb

>Harry potter
>JK Rowling
Pls leave

So I like HP Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti a lot. I think they're style is pretty cool and I'd like to adopt some of it to a degree in my own writing. But my problem is, they really come of as pasty white nerds. Which is fine, but do you guys have any examples of similar writers who don't have that issue?