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There were times when I was sincerely clapping and cheering on Stoner. I was so happy for him, and his tiny victories. That last chapter made me cry for a good while.

All in all, a really good book.

>>9406701
smoke weed

>>9406701
still haunted by this book

fuck his cunt of a wife. and fuck him for not standing up to her

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I'm about to graduate with a degree in journalism. Got a job lined up, so that's taking a lot of the stress off. I started reading again, because it's been awhile since I've had my head kicked in by a good book. Just finished The Plague by Albert Camus, he's one of my favorites. Something about the sparsity of his prose and the powers he commands as a writer really make me happy.

As I get closer to graduation, and the more I read, the more I remember my best friend who killed himself. He was always trying to get me to read more, even going so far as to giving me books with little notes etched in them. I still cry when I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower, not because it's a particularly great book (though I do like it), but because his handwriting is still beneath the front cover.

I miss him a lot.

>>9406768
the feels man. i just got out of the hospital for suicidal depression (it hasn't been my first admittance). thanks for replying my dude, hope you enjoy the job.

My novel is coming along pretty slowly but I'm really enjoying writing it.

>>9406560
its pretty good for a young adult book

read more

>>9406560
This book was poorly written garbage appealing to only middle schoolers.

>>9406560
I think I read this as a kid
was it about some old cartel dude who would grow clones of himself to harvest for organs, then one of the clone kids runs away?

I remember it being boring trash
I really liked the pendergast series of mystery novels as a kid, mainly because I found Relic to be really cool, they are a bit goofy in retrospect though.

>>9406531
Yeah, I read it.

In some ways it's an ugly book. The prose is blunt, even brutal, the plot is just sort of the outline of a story on which the allegory is hung, characters appear and die on a whim, character dialogue and action can be stilted and bizarre. It's incredibly dense with imagery and allusion to philosophical positions, and generally benefits very slow reading. Some scenes are described that are, by stipulation, impossible to visualize (due to made-up colors, etc.). The ending is cryptic and painful.

OP you should read Peter Pan

it's the story of some little boys who never grew up

It's pretty great -- enigmatic and weird.

It's about WWII. Camus is not even hard, come on.

peoples showing true selfs and trying to make something with life in face of impending doom

>he struggles with camus
>dude kill ourself or drink a cup of coffee lmao is too complicated for his tiny high school brain
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHA

I am a brainlet.
Please explain to me why he would oppose 4chan.

Because 4chan is a negative space.

I'm addicted, unfortunately.

Your wife is a cunt. Dump her and get minimal visitation rights with the little shit.

>>9406368
Tell your wife to STFU and support your dreams. Tell her the sooner she backs off and let's you finish what you're doing the sooner you can be more present with the family. Your vacation anecdote should be adequate proof.

>>9406368
>Complaining about wasting your life pretending to be hemingway
Absolutely Savage. Even your wife know that your writing is very simple and shallow.

Family isn't incompatible with producing novels, but adding that on-top of being a wageslave really drains all of the time that could be spent on studying and practicing.

Read the Upanishads instead

forgot to add: what books about zen should I read?

>>9406356
which version?

will not shall not have not

can not must not may not

>>9406257
you dare not!

In general it seems that in very modern English modal verbs don't require "do" for their negation, while al others do. Just a few hundred years ago it was possible to negate all verbs, just like in German. "listen not to me!" "hör nicht auf mich!"

>post books you haven't read yet
fuck off to /mu/ with your autistic r8/chart obsession you worthless cumstain

>>9406234
Wew laddie calm down

>>9406224
are you left handed op

>>9406182
Please pleb, tell me more about your disinterested contemplation of wiki, and the aesthetic experience it stimulates.

I like to read the articles about Family Matters Characters

Okay.

>>9406149
redpill for whiteness praise lord kek and god emperor trump we simply hate women and nonwihtes

A guy found a fucking statue's head.

>>9406158
>a fucking statue
rhetorical appeal to emotion

>I particularly enjoyed seeing the King’s room from where he would watch ships passing through the narrowest point of the Oresund. They had to lower their topsails as a mark of respect to the King

http://www.silversea.com/expeditions/voyage-journals/7112/2/

>>9406148
Top sails propelled ancient ships with wind power and made them the most powerful and agile vehicles of their day. I'm assuming that lowering your top sails was akin to prostrating yourself in defenseless humbleness before the ruler of the water way. This would have come from the strong naval warfare tradition of the Vikings, whose longboats with lowered sail were nothing more than large row boats.

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>>9406171

Thanks m8, that explains it.

>>9406187

Man I'm really not clued up on sailing terminology. I thought "lowering sail" meant unfurling it rather than the opposite.

>reading Kant in English
There's your mistake OP

That we are metaphysical animals who just can't STFU about metaphysics.

>>9406136
God created the world

>>9406090
;

>>9406126
Serious reply's only please.

>>9406090
Apostrophes are never used to make a world plural:

Apostrophes (correct)
Apostrophe's (incorrect)

Use them if part of a word is missing:

Hello or 'ello
Terrifying or terr'fying
Telephone or 'phone

This is a good way to present accents, and slang.

If an apostrophe comes before an "S" it is representing sigular possession:

The boy's red ball

If an apostrophe comes after an "S" it represents plural possession:

The boys' red ball.

If a name ends with an "S" you may either omit the "S" or keep it, when speaking about the person possessing something. (Most omit the "S"):

Atticus' daughter

Or

Atticus's daughter.