/lit/ - Literature

>>3528379
Most adult citizens of western civilization are precisely ignorant and childish.
Is quite impressive the amount of people who suffer a Peter Pan syndrome these days.

>>3528002
Fabian?

Social democrat here.
I must admit I never dare to get into the texts of Lenin after reading this:
http://www.akal.com/libros/La-Comuna-de-ParIs/9788446031833

The articles of Marx and Engels where nice but those of Lening...ugh...

>>3527945
You are already aware this is basically Ayn Rand necon country, mate?
Just say Eric Hobsbawm and you clearly can hear how the amerifags hulk out.

>>3514760
He is still under depression after the death of his wife by cancer, guys.
He is never going to come back.
Accept it, the 80s aren't going to come back.
Is over.

When you end reading The Name of the Rose, read Baudolino.

Start with Alexis de Tocqueville's The Old Regime and The Revolution.

Fuck you, Martin!
You should burst like Mr. Creosote, you bastard. Your War of the Roses fanfiction almost fucked up dark fantasy forever like Twilight fucked up vampires and werewolves in literature.
I am glad your series is starting to sink like the Titanic.

Great Spanish Novel: La Colmena de Camilo Jose Cela.

Bradbury is dead, Clark is dead, Heinlein is dead, Asimov is dead, Dick is dead... My world doesn't exist anymore.

Hello there /lit/erates
I need your advice for know which are those essays dealing with science fiction studies which are worthy of acquisition.
I need to read some articles about the topic for an essay I am working on for college.

>>2059895
How many fantasy titles had you read?
Which authors are your favorite ones?

>>1820441
Because I am not a pseudo human chimpanzee which pretty much doesn't do anything a part of work out and smoke grass because my parents died in a car accident and leave me a millionaire insurance or be a Kurdish origin Aussie with neglecting and sometimes abusive parents which after discovering wasting his life with WoW decided to fuck up his metabolism with charging it with steroids for become a man whore and a stripper?

Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona.

Major in Humanities.

>>1723500
They respected the Babel and lain lines in the movie adaptation. If a screenwriter can do that, sure a translator can.

>>1720270
Oscar is solipsist or nieztchenian?

>>1718097
I must confess I prefer science fiction over fantasy.
And also I must say I cannot stand the rabid fanboys who dwell into those genres but somehow I manage to withstand them.
What I consider not fair is a Mod banning someone because he doesn't like the writer what he loves, and this is one of the points of this thread.
I want to gather all the opinions (goo and bad) about Tolkien, as well as arguments why someone who should be banned for say he thinks this or that writer is bad or doesn't know how to write certain types of stories.

>>1718090
But there are Gods and supernatural skills, and sometimes monsters.
I am confused now.

>>1718079
Including Greek classics?

Hello there, /lit/erates.

I want to share with you something really funny what happened to me in /tg/. An Anon posted a thread about Tolkien being a GM which I replied with my opinion about him, saying he was a bad writer and he wasn't that influential to the development of Dungeons and Dragons as Jack Vance, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber or Poul Anderson where.

I want to know how many of you, good /lit/erates, share my same opinion about Tolkien not being that good as some fanboys think.

>>1679201
>Dragon tits instead of solid argument.

For be the product of a bouncer's mind, is not bad.
Compared to other fantasy literature works, like the Dying Earth, Elric of Melnibone or Fafhrd and the Grey mouser series is a bit mediocre and poorly executed.

>4th edition fiction

Morning bump

Hello there, /lit/erate people.
I have an existential question concerning to the pleasure of reading.
Let's say for X reasons you suffer a lesion on your head which damages certain areas of your brain. That brain damage made you unable to learn and understand abstract concepts with the consequence of not being able to read anything what is not non fiction.
How you will face this problem?
Just think about it, being able to enjoy The Simposium or Also spoke Zarathustra one day and the another almost unable to understand what the author is trying to say.