/lit/ - Literature

>>23471615
>.i'm

>American author
>Book is about the corruption of the American dream

>>22339292
>A ride at Disney land for people with master's degrees

Bro thought he ate

>>22265890

>>22189897
>you don't even speak French, check fucking mate

>had had

>>21990084
>Tao Te Ching

>>21900802
Chuds rage and cry about women running the publishing industry and ruining "serious" literature.

Do you know why women run the publishing industry?

Any guesses?

WOMEN BUY BOOKS. MEN DON'T.

It's capitalism baby - most readers are women and it isn't even close!

>B-but women only read YA and shitty romance stuff!
Doesn't matter - they read something so the industry caters to their tastes. Men just play video games and jack off so why the fuck should publishers cater to them?

When you convince all your dudebro friends to buy the latest postmodern masterpice from Dick Whiteman rather than the next Call of Duty game maybe then male taste will be reflected in publishing.

Until then - sorry, but the INVISIBLE HAND of the free market will give women the literature they want.

>>21881727
>Mentions Hemingway and doesn't mention The Old Man and the Sea

>>21749536
the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men

They had supposed their formula was fixed.
They had obeyed instructions to devise
A type of cold, a type of hooded gaze.
But when the Negroes came they were perplexed.
These Negroes looked like men. Besides, it taxed
Time and the temper to remember those
Congenital iniquities that cause
Disfavor of the darkness. Such as boxed
Their feelings properly, complete to tags—
A box for dark men and a box for Other—
Would often find the contents had been scrambled.
Or even switched. Who really gave two figs?
Neither the earth nor heaven ever trembled.
And there was nothing startling in the weather.

>>4903816
I once wrote a science fiction short story about a war between transhumanists and bio-purists set in a future where Earth had been totally devastated by this war. The Transhumanist faction were simply better at fighting, but they had the critical weakness of requiring a ton of infrastructure in order to function. Silicon, aluminum, lithium, advanced chip manufacturing, these things all have really long supply chains that span multiple continents. So the Bio-Purists, realizing that in direct fighting they would lose, simply started blowing these things up and sabotaging the system. Some guy whose 12% remaining flesh is plugged into a flying death robot can kill a hundred Bios if he finds them--but he can't do shit if there's no electricity to recharge his battery, no replacement parts on hand, and the Swedish-produced immunosuppressants he relies on are at the bottom of the ocean because some guys in a speedboat suicide bombed the tanker transporting them across the Atlantic.

So things turn very asymmetrical, with the remaining Cogs desperately trying to cobble together enough of a functional supply system to avoid being wiped out, and the Bios systematically destroying everything that would make it possible. The story followed a joint-consciousness that is dispassionately (at first) trying to work out how this can be fixed, and slowly realizing that the Bios had argued that the entire transhumanist cause was inherently suicidal specifically because it relied on technology which in turn relied on a fragile ecosystem of production and industry and resources that was inherently unsustainable--and that once you go Cog you can't go back. This entire event wasn't so much a war as an illustration that they were right.

Near the end Pyrrhus (the Gestalt Consciousness) decides that though the Bios were idiots, they had actually intuited correctly that society was not and may not ever be ready for this, and self-destructs to spare itself the Hell-Program tortures that the renegades always used on captives.

And then I lost the fucking draft. Gonna try re-writing it.

>>21396351
>My beloved "canon" of dead White Male authors is more importanter and betterer than the books you like! Why? Because... because it just is ok! Don't you trust the old White Males like me who told everyone these books were the best???

>>21227884
>he just didnt want to admit it to himself because he joined them.

>Finwe
>Fingolfin
>Fingon
>Finrod
>Finduilas

>>20884928
You know if you fucking losers spent as much time on literally anything else in your life as much as you spend obsessing about trannies you'd all probably be confident and successful men in your day to day

>>20839736
> Joyce, Beckett and Rooney

>>20656506
Just because something isn't describable in definite terms, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, or that it's a trick.
/thread

Why do we only namedrop books here and never discuss the ideas explored in them and their merits? For example, a lot of people namedrop Houellebecq, yet no one ever discusses the ideas in his books besides vague allusions to muh incels.

>>20272580
>Can I get the same benefit by reading the abridged version? I hear the full version is full of unnecessary details.
>Also thoughts on Blinkist? If I can get 99% of a books' ideas in 15min, why would I not do this?

>>20159729
>post book recommendation and summary
>people criticise the book's viewpoint based on the summary you gave
>"fuck you guys far right racist bla bla paragraph"

>>20136860
>Animal Farm (allegory to the Russian revolution)

>>20078813
>Brave New World
>Animal Farm

>>20047151
>Themeans of productionis a concept that encompasses the social use andownershipof theland,labor, andcapitalneeded to producegoods,services, and theirlogisticaldistribution and delivery.
Infrastructure is a mean of production you deficient contrarian nigger

>>20004251
>sapiens