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The Shadow of the Torturer is hands down, the worst fantasy book i read in last 2 years, and i read some crappy stuff
I have never saw a book that has no purpose no point, no structure, no overarching plot no nothing, but here, here i saw an author shit out a, incoherent narrative as he went along.
Shit happens: the book
Fuck who ever told me to check it out.
If rest of Wolfe books are just as bad i will be a happy man if i never have any contact with anything done by him again.
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You've just said that, as a reader of crappy stuff, this did not agree with your tastes and sensibilities?
All right.
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>>9566417
I know this sounds like a terrible cop out answer, but you really do have to read the whole thing just to begin to completely understand the series. But if you really don't want to do that well I guess no ones making you read it all.
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I really liked the start, but it just slowly went downhill with the introduction of that one woman.
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Can someone here who has studied Freud or Jung please analyse this dream I had last night?
> Starts off with me in a Tolkienesque universe, I have some kind of party with me
> We're heading off to find something, I'm not sure what it is but there seems to be a franticness to it
> All of a sudden I'm sitting down at house along side a river at least 100ft below
> I'm talking to some lady, she looked like some girl from my uni class
> she says that I must go alone
> Then I get picked up by some Shadow of the Collosus type thing that rose out of the cliff face.
> I'm riding his back and walking over the river, feel like I'm flying
> Suddenly he drops me at a train station, the dream suddenly becomes more real
> I catch the train to the next stop but feel like I'm forgetting something
>I get out but then I have a feeling that this train is the only one that can take me where I need to go
> I start running after it on the tracks
> I'm sprinting as hard as I can
> dream ends
Any ideas? Feel free to post your own dreams.
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Rate my dream
>I made out with my girlfriend's feet and my dick was smaller when I went to piss
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>>9566236
You seem to think you're inferior than her.
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>>9566170
You're actively avoiding (or avoided something to your regret) something important and you're single. The two may not be exclusive.
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You're a serial killer and leave behind poems on the corpse.
In this thread we write a crazy poems with vague motives.
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>>9566066
"Now where could my pipe be?
Garfield!"
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"Ouchies!" Quoth this guy before he died
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>>9566066
Gimme gimme chicken tendies,
Be they crispy or from Wendys.
Spend my hard-earned good-boy points,
on Kid's Meal ball pit burger joints.
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Thoughts on my B&N haul?
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>>9566059
>plebbit and /lit/ meme books
I call bait.
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>art of war
cringe
>lovecraft
good
>self help voodoo
retard
>infinite jest
good
>dune
ok
>more self help voodoo
easily manipulated retard
>terry pratchett
not good
>hyperion
not good
>gravity's rainbow
good
>maus
badly illustrated whining about persecution the author didn't even experience
>carpet
tacky and full of hair
>socks
look comfy desu
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>>9566059
Great taste, dude! I love all those books, besides Lovecraft, mostly because his racism really turns me off xD
Dune is amazing!
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What are some books that are entire puzzles in their own, on par with Ulysses and Infinite Jest?
I just want a hard piece of literature that I can research every little bit of it. My favorite part of Ulysses was that on every page I could look further into a name or a word and discover a historical figure or event and learn something.
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>>9565983
My Twisted World
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The other one in the meme trilogy
Commedia
Don Quixote
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>>9565983
Lolita had a fuck load of allusions and references that seemed forced at times
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Come listen with me /lit/ fam... 2017-05-28 09:57:23 Post No.9565933
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Come listen with me /lit/ fam...
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https://youtu.be/FkxUY0kxH80
This is my first time listening to this interview.
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>>9565933
>most people on this board have been circulating this interview for years
>We already did newfam
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hahaha why does he make those faces
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>>9565945
I know, he's awkward and lovable.
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What advanced reading techniques are you aware of? Pic related
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>>9565915
There is no such thing as advanced reading techniques.
Skim reading/Speed reading both result in a significant loss of comprehension.
It's genetics, pure and simple.
Harold Bloom for example reads over 16 pages per-minute, with good comprehension. According to a Guardian article, he reads almost 1000 pages per hour.
As a brainlet, I really struggle to read. Adderall helps me, but ultimately my frontal lobe is insufficient for the task of reading fine literature.
'tis a great tragedy.
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>>9565949
you give up on everything in life don't you?
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>>9565962
Yes. Yes I do.
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What have you written? 2017-05-28 09:42:58 Post No.9565868
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Recently wrote a 169 page "book" (if I can even call it that) and got a following of like 5 people, what's your own writings /lit/?
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What was it about?
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>>9565868
>169 page "book"
It's a novella then.
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>>9565875
wrote a sex scene first, people told me to develop the relationship of the two characters in it, went a bit overboard
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ITT: Shakespeare's best lines.
>My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
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>>9565814
>Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
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Hallmark-tier
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>>9565845
post something better.
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What is with the E-Reader hate on /lit/?
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it's modernist technological garbage
if you're not writing with a quill and an ink bottle or reading by candlelight you're a fucking pleb
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I've never seen ereader hate on here but discussion on them belongs on /g/ really.
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Daily reminder that if you're not fluent in at least three languages you are a literary pleb and should consider suicide
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>>9565680
I agree but languages have point values, and English is worth three points, so I'm good.
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>>9565693
You need a total of 7 points though so GG
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>>9565693
This, not all languages are equal
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Please tell me this the Harry Potter franchise will be forgotten in a decade, I can't stand this shit anymore. It is so irrititating how people compare everything, from mundane to political stuff with these books. Even my own sister does it.
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No, but maybe in a decade you'll manage to stop giving a fuck.
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it's a well known story with very archetypal characters so the comparisons are easy to understand
stop being such a sperg
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>>9565112
It's okay. It's already been shown to survive for one generation only. Kids these days don't even give that much of a fuck over the series. They like Star Wars and Marvel films.
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Can someone rate this? Is it too tacky? It's honestly meant to be a part of a charcter's note, but I don't know if it sounds too stupid
I tried /r9k/, but rhey are too busy eating tendies and being dead.
It's Google Translated with some small fixes, so it may sound a little awkward
>I killed myself out of boredom, that's all. Crushing, depressing, overpowering, boring boredom. In the life that I have lived, or did not live, depending on your point of view, never have I done anything remotely interesting. I've never been revoltingly evil, nor impressively good. I never screamed with all the strength of my lungs in the middle of a crowd, just to revel myself with the stares. I never jumped from some very high place, not sure if I would hit the water or the rocks, only to feel that freedom whirring through my ears. I have never made friends with whom I could be honest, people with whom I could laugh at all that I speak now for its pure childishness. I have never believed anyone could hear my prayers. I have never found anything I could like, something that I was really interested in, that encouraged me to get out of bed every day. I have never belonged anywhere, anyplace, with anyone. I have never hated anything or anyone. I have never cried with unfanthomable sadness, nor have I ever felt overwhelming joy. I have never felt the temptation to try to love someone. I have never felt hope about anything that could make me look at the next day and delude myself into believing that perhaps someday everything could be better.
Also, share suicide /lit/ to keep interest up. Or your own note.
I guess.
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>>9564756
>boring boredom
I made it exactly this far
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>>9564780
i swear it makes sense in my language
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fuck I'm wasting my stupid fucking life Jesus fuck
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explain
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pretty brutal book
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>>9564656
Read the book. It's pretty good. What did you guys think of that weird dream?
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Hero or villain?
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>>9564513
He's the hero we need, but don't deserve.
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Author
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>>9564513
Hero if you get your politics from an eighth grader from the suburbs