/lit/ - Literature

>>21775470
I did read it, and I disagree with his points. He can and has created coherent stories that have characters that one can relate with. Not only that, they have tension over a conflict that the reader has to read through the book to finally get catharsis. Pet Semetary and the Long Walk accomplish these metrics this degreed huckster is meting out.
Pet Semetary: A doctor, his wife and child move across from a Northeastern rural type. It just so happens that they live right beside a cemetery that the local children inter their pets. Further on is an ancient burial ground that causes whatever that gets buried there to be possessed by an ancient forest demon and "revive". The Northeastern Rural type knows what happened out there because of a previous altercation he had in the past, and only reveals the location once the Doctor loses his cat. Real conflict is created halfway in the story when the Doctor loses his son due to him getting hit by the truck. His wife moves out because her father and the Doctor get into an altercation at the funeral. Tension is created through this conflict because the Doctor realizes that he can try "reviving" his son through the ancient burial ground. The audience knows that bad things will happen as a result, And as such the rest of the story plays out with the reader getting conflict, tension, and catharsis at the very end of the book. Bam, mister "burger's and fries of literature" reaches that metric.
> The Long Walk: A boy enters in to a competition with one hundred other young men in who can run the longest. That's it. Whoever get's three strikes for going below the limit on how fast you can walk gets shot till dead. Now make a story out of the psychological implications of that. The conflict's on the tin, and tension is created throughout the book in wondering whether mister MC will survive the ordeal either in one piece/sane. Other characters have reason's why there running, and we get to see how they die throughout the book. Now I will concede that the ending was total trash, but I got my rollercoaster of tension throughout the book.
All this schlock about him being a druggie boomer that rages against Christianity and Americana is nothing more than ad-hominem smears. Maybe if he powered through the books he was trying to destroy he'd be able to write a more coherent argument as to why they were bad.

>>21762274
I do remember reading somewhere that the caterpillar drive Clancy described would actually be louder than a conventional submarine's propulsion system.
>>21762282
>hard scifi
is the cancer killing scifi.

I am reading Trivium and it claims that
>We can say "I am afraid / asleep / unwell / alive" but not "I am an afraid / asleep / unwell / alive person".

Whats wrong with "I am an unwell person"?

>>21060018
It can be, exponentially. In all seriousness there would be no purpose to existence if everything was already predetermined. That includes emotions, beliefs, genetics, actions, etc. If you apply it broadly its a good pathway to mass suicide.

>ACKCHYUALLY EARTH IS AN ELLIPSOID

>>20865542
reminds me of this guy
maybe that's why I took him so seriously
I should just think about this neckbeard meme when I read him

>>20771452
>She died in 1964, m8

>>20303079

>King has a definite connotation.
If I am not mistaken I gave multiple examples of king being used to simply imply the superlative nature of something. As far as titles of supremacy, its one of the least specifc. along with prince (literally first), head (as it sounds), pen (as in penultimate).
>This is goofy it's just might makes right. I declare myself king of the moral sphere. What you gonna do about it?
ok then, you just described the arbitrary nature of words then, and proposed a conception outside that of christianity, you happy? you kinda made a moot point since your premise is different from a christians.

If we give that in the christian conception that morality is the realm of spirituality, refered to as heaven, then it stands to reason the title king of heaven is the one of superlative moral force. Thus it internally makes sense

I draw a fine line between understanding something and believing something. I ant even christian, but within that system of belief that particular clause is consistent. If given x and y (this particular belief) then z is implied.

>>19761884
>The clear light is the essence of your own mind
essences dont exist according to buddhism

Non-fiction is a category, not a genre. Fiction is a category, not a genre. Under non-fiction there is a huge number of topics/genres (biographies, science, politics, philosophy, history, etc.). People read certain genres within non-fiction, but no one reads nonfiction qua nonfiction. If you do, you are most likely a pseud. Certain categories of non-fiction are discussed regularly on /lit/.

>>18751000
>look at this loser sculpting his body, accumulating social capitol, becoming a well-rounded human being, self-advocating himself through modern mediums
>heh, pretty shallow
>I, on the other hand, am a good business boy who focuses purely on academic and productive projects

>>18466455
You aren't buying it from amazon, you're buying it from Book Depository (which is owned by amazon but is not amazon) who are selling it on amazon. As you can see, it is both sold and shipped from Book Depository. Book Depository as slow because the don't charge shipping fees*, so they select the cheapest (slowest) method of delivery possible. You may as well just buy it from them directly rather than through amazon https://www.bookdepository.com/
*it is already accounted for in the price.

>>17993257
I like being pic related

Sextus Empiricus

>>17858056
I would lecture him on the history of the title "doctor" and how medical "doctors" are actually the fake doctors.

>>17843973
neolibs follow neocon foreign policy and there isn't a single neocon alive who isn't economically neoliberal. enough with the labels, it's time we call them what they really are: anglos

Its could of been worse, so what?

>>17605487
lmao

Also, I know these are troll threads, but I still can't fight the urge to go pic related. Too many retards on /lit/ take this shit seriously.

>His fingernails were extremely long, but when it was suggested that this was a sign of eccentricity, he replied, "I haven't got the normal protective whorls, so that touching anything, especially fabric, causes such irritation that I need long nails to protect them."

I'm no doctor, but it still sounds a bit exaggerated.

>>17572577
Its sci-fi fantasy with a hint of mysticism so...

>>17541143
1. It’s Revelation
2. The only people who believe there’s going to be a literal 1000 year reign are backwoods porch-sitters. The metaphorical 1000 year monarchy of Christ is happening as I type this.

>>17495094
>What is "analytic philosophy"?

this guy

>>17298811
Hippo as in Hippo Regius, a town in Roman Africa whose name roughly translates to “The Royal Harbor.”

>>17273359
Good to hear :)
I'm working on two projects actually:
One is a set of mediocre poetry (that rhymes and shit. Pretty easy, maybe I can send this in soon.)
And the other is an actual story that I hope is decent (Not amazing, decent. If I could produce a masterpiece, I probably wouldn't publish it to your magazine kek, no offence)
Also, I'm trying to study mathematics so maybe I could publish some explanations on topics I'm learning? (They say the best way to learn is to teach. I don't know shit though so I might err and pass that on to the reader. Maybe some pic rel reader of the mag could send in a correction? I'll triple-check my explanations anyway, of course.)

>>16998623
ummm, that's 448 pages, not 400...