/lit/ - Literature

shogun james clavell
but if you want europe
ken follet pillars of earth

>>2151223
You F u c ken imbecile this is art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7h87hJSBzE I don't particularly enjoy it but it is poignant and a relevant comment on society life and all that jazz

That god damn puppet show looks like a hobo that went off his meds stole a camera and tried to phone home a message about his phallic shape envy the only relevant thing about the puppet show is that it was on youtube
its a good thing Kalan Sherrard is poor cause the people who figure out how to get paid off youtube work hard at exploitation and this mother fucker just wants a handout a pat on the head cause his parents sat him in front of a tv and he figures that gives him enough life experience to say everyone and everything is dirty and poor and the only interests people have are sex and screwing over the next guy he tries to hide the fact his own work is shallow and without purpose with big words and misleading cues
if you actually like his shit then your lieing to your self and trying to convince your self that your the deep one and that the world is shallow when the reverse is true

>>2151162
here is a critique
Kalan Sherrard "I want to incorporate aesthetic structure/anti-structure into a radical critique"
Wow suck your own dick much?

>>2151025
100% agree
>>2151135
he just isn't taking life as seriously as everyone else
>>2151015
I read the book and suggest it to others
but as a work of literature its weak, as a explanation of the life of the Buddha it is fiction
It did help me address questions that I had previously considered but there are no answers in it
It help me come to terms with the fact i was always looking for a mentor someone to tell me what the answer ways what path i should be following and i figured out the Buddha was a great teacher but since hes not around i better figure out shit on my own like he did
i had a Buddhism professor in college and asked him about the book he told me a bunch of shit and he was a self centered prick that wouldn't help a needy person if they were laying out side the Starbucks he commuted to everyday. So i learned that people can preach and say whatever they want but you got to walk down whatever path it is you can live with because living is all you get till some thing better comes along

I loved god emperor of dune
>>1957845
i dis agree with you its not anti Israel
it just as much anti socialism and planned market as it is anti capitalist
the great revelation i believe this series deals with is spice as the driving resource of innovation like oil has speed up industry and advancement in all field over the last century but also brings religious cultural and historic disputes to the for front
The characters are legendary the intrigue is epic its the first and best space opera i ever read
the movies and mini series were fine

RING WORLD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_world

7. Do you know about South Korea? Yes i know there is a divided Korean peninsula
Have you got any idea what you think? wow that's a loaded question
8. Could you tell me what you know about korea 3things? well i know more then 3 but here are the important ones
Syngman Rhee was a dictator only supported by the US because he opposed communism and he was forced out of Korea by the April revolution.
Koreans i know don't trust the republic of China or Japan possibly because its been invaded by both and japan massacred millions cutting off ears and noses and making a large mound memorial so they would not be resisted in the future
Korea has a matriarchal culture also arraigned marriage is common and a large business
9. If you will be born again, where do you want to be? I wanna be a tree and i don't think any one country treats trees better then another
10. Why do American spend so much leisure time in bars? because they are drunks and its a social myth that the longer you are in the bar the better your chances of finding someone to fuck you

I might move to South Korea one day but I've been told that people have a prejudice that Americans are loud mouth drunks that are inconsiderate and impolite. This prejudice might cause me to have an up hill struggle when i get there so I'm not sure how long i would be willing to stay if i was still unmarried.

5. We recently read article on the increasing number of single parents in America; What do you think about it? I was raised by single parent so i think that its fine i think its an indicator that the social stigma of being a unmarried parent has lessened.
6. How do you feel about adoption from other country like asia, Africa?i don't understand why american children don't fill the needs but as long as a child ends up in a loving family is all good

? for you
where u from?
whats your ideology/philosophy/theology ?
whats your age?
are your parents married?

2. How do you feel about America being the policeman in world?I think its a shitty job that no one wants that people want someone to do it but will hate anyone how picks up the job. i believe hegemony(super power or overseer) is a consequence of people wanting security but not knowing or caring how its enforced much like autocracy of fascism but on a global scale i believe that usa is the world policeman because the league of nations and then the UN was meant to do the job but no peoples are willing to give up sovereignty without a fight so in order for other nations to sneak behind each others backs without rebuke they need to blame the biggest kid in the playground for not setting up perfect rules and enforcing them without stopping the cheating. People want a referee at the game they don't want him to make a call if its against their team
3. What role do sports play in your life?
None i watch them when it feels appropriate i play them when my friends ask but other then the world cup or the Olympics its all a child hood distraction to me
Why are yours important? not sure what u mean but soccer is important because its a good time its easy to understand the rules and its Challenging. also i like sailing because it man against nature and a grand journey but i understand why no one else is as enthralled as me
4. What do you think about American’s enthusiastism in football?No soccer isn't that big here oh u mean retard rugby right!! well violence territory disputes and massive amounts of marketing over decades is it real surprising its a religion here? in NYC basketball and Baseball are bigger because our teams are better and its a quick way to riches for the south the fastest way out the trailer park is football and NASCAR and those that cant pass the bar love to reminisce about all the time they invested into the sport.

>>1910449
someone else can deiced if you are bi sexual? good thing i lock my self in my room away from all men and women

>>1910483
ditto my friend i get that all the time and i feel my foe-pa is the proper way of doing things even when show right in front of me the proper procedure.
Are all clever people stubborn or do stubborn people think they are clever?

clever? maybe
witty? know, i don't think so (chuckle)
well read? well I read

above average intelligence? emphatically no i think the average intelligence is greatly under estimated i think I'm average at best.
I think smart doesn't generally mean smarter. You can have a geek and a nerd sitting at a table and they can both express opinions fluently about computers but when the topic comes to physics the nerd can enthusiastically pontificate on the motions of celestial bodies while the geek is stuck using star trek references to science that doesn't exist. Now add to this group a jock who has stayed quite all this time and decides to vomit all the knowledge he gained on the football field and its correlations to all the famous battles since Hannibal. who at the table will be classified as smart and who not? Each has risen above novice in their own field and is by my recognition smart.
Off topic, the question i pose to you is why are dumb people happier then smart people? is it simply that they cant fathom real insight into the deep and thus are left shallow or are people who are depressed more eager to find distraction through fulfillment and find them selves smarter in the endeavor but still weak to depression when left rudderless adrift in the sea of unanswerable questions?
Are dumb people the smart ones for not questioning things and leaving others to carry the burden of stress?

>>1910388 this is not meant as an insult but
Do you find being a (i assume) public school teacher is like being a babysitter; who is asked to tutor preteens who only wanna txt, jerk off, and make fart jokes? Are you angry that your pay and future prospects are decided by how these animals with short attention spans do on a standardized test? Do you feel that they cant tear themselves away from their petty bullshit because if they really examined their inactive lives they would realize they are going nowhere and have no real futures out side of cannon fodder and ditch digging?
Ditches need to be dug and shit needs to be shoveled and you need to get these morons out the door so you can start shoveling the next batch

i got a friend who wants to be a teacher I'm trying to tell him to stick with personal finance

whos a cute puppy? whos a cute puppy?
*ouch*!!
no no

>>1909934 continued.
main char is a Nobel prizewinning biologist/botanist who tells the story as a captive to a tribe of nomad desert people who take him to the closest naval town (tripoli) so he can explain his world saving idea of Algae paste. The leader there (lets say Libya) doesn't like the taste so he kills him feeds him to the lionesses who have given birth and need to nurse their young

all vegans die fast in government forced hunger strike national policy to lower population
>>1909869

ok got another idea told through the last generation. MC is a baby raised by his older siblings because all parents in the world have become vegetables. A person in the past discovered enlightenment and passed it on to a few people before he meditates who pass it on to a few before they follow him. enlightenment from the outside seems like vegetative state of sitting cross legged in the living room. the only people left "living" are the ones to young to get it and the ones too dumb too get it. so the family struggles learning about the world without their parents. one character still feeds and cares for his mother like she was still present the others pity him but none is willing to stop him. he goes mad in the end when they have to leave because violence breaks out between whats left of the governments and no place is safe from random nuclear attacks which have become the form of modern debate.
the meditation state can be replaced with some form a media (game tv, turn on tune out) and can be a comment on how modern children are left to raise them selves in a world the old generation cant understand and choose to ignore or whatever?

university

>>1909869
ok so a super flu like "the stand"
but only for eatable plant life so kind of like the happening but plants doing it to plants. everything on earth becomes carnivorous and people resort to pack mentalities avoid large cities because they need more food and violence erupts easy over shortages cannibals are actively hunted down cause they have a kind of mad cow disease
that turn animals sick when they eat people and people feed people to animals regularly so they can fatten them up. i got more if this sounds interesting.
also are you the movie guy with a chick group from before?

>>1899474
awesome i love Neil Gaiman and i loved the Constantine movie too bad its only comics i was hoping for a book but ill get it any way thanks /Anon/

Any ideas about the lone-gunman?
he never gets laid but i prefer that to the crap characters who fuck every female in their book
>>1899470 whats that mean?

the show wasn't as good as the books but i wish they kept it

>>1896786
guilty pleasure

>>1899448
troll if u really cared youd tell me why.
Philosophy? fuck the poor attitude? or r u just the kind of guy that hates art and loves industrial complex construction sites?

I think she had a point about how ever professor that grades art is an idiot. and they only way to find out if your any good is to go out and see if you fail
or did i misunderstand every thing if you car u tell me

I was 15 when i started reading them damn that was ten years ago
>>1899424
LOL OMG
they do that all the time its so fuck'n annoying dialog was dry too

Holy shit Towers of Midnight is out i didn't even know Ive only been reading the other Brandon Sanderson's books to tide me over and i totally forgot to check when i came out. imma get it now wow this will tide me over till next week thank you /lit/. god damn school got in the way of my reading

also did anybody else read Elantris and Mistborn? my favorite character is Mat Cauthon too

Reading now :
Poland - James Michener
its good interesting historical fiction im biased cause im polish but i like it
at the same time
Slaughter house five - Kurt Vonnegut
its OK interesting at times but to easy to put down i started it like a year ago and haven't read it 2 days in a row yet

Prospects:
John Dies at the End by David Wong i will prob read this today it makes my mouth water
Dane with Dragons by GRRM i will fuckn read this he has made me a junky and i need my fix and if he makes me wait 6 more years ill make sure he never finishes this series
World War Z by max brooks its sitting on my desk maybe ill pick it up.
Invader by Cherryh, C. J. i really like foreigner
Outliers or The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell