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Whom even implied that bitch

There's a great cspan talk about that guy. Still haven't read the book though.

>>9230274
>is it the story or the simplicity?
It's both. People like things that are easy to understand and keep them entertained.

We live in an era where if the average person has to reread something to understand it, you've probably lost them.

People with mediocre prose can certainly make it big, but it's more of a dice throw than mastering writing and having your skill be self-evident to people.

Just because you have simple prose does not make your work objectively inferior to someone who uses complex prose.

Flaubert is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential writers of all time, and he was the pioneer of simple prose.

There seems to be a misconception that just because you have simple prose, that means you cannot be experimental. That is a falsity.

Prose doesn't sell books.

They really make me

>>9230186
think?

>>9230180
There is some great stuff occasionally but its smothered under a sea or the usual Ted Talk trite

For you to pay for the spoon

The Letters of Seneca are good if you liked Aurelius. Other philosophies I like are Leibniz and Descartes.

why don't you read some actual self-help books instead of crusty bullshit from 2000 years ago

my original lyrics are simple
i talk about the day by day
my future is not grey
because i got the biggest hope

it's a matter of faith
u have to believe only
thus i live my life
with a lot of problems and strife

God doesn't exist
You're a fag
For making this thread
Christian scum

>>9230148
This is way less interesting than Marlowe's Mephistopheles saying hell is with him wherever he goes, viz.

>Faust. How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
>Meph. Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
>Think’st thou that I who saw the face of God,
>And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,
>Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
>In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?

Praise & love makes for a good afternoon, but not a good poem. Focus on terror, doubt, and longing, please, or your Xtian poetry will be insufferable to all except for fellow Xtians.

>>9230097
The Road

>>9230097

If you want it to remind you of Fallout I'd recommend A Canticle for Leibowitz.

>>9230102
>>9230135
Funnily enough, both of these are on my to-read list... Too bad I suck at making decisions

it doesn't have six-shooters

>>9230067
>implying anyone here would be stupid enough to disagree

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Molloy

Read his novella trilogy.

Krapp's Last Tape is my favourite play of his.

>>9230056
Watt is fucking hilarious. It is also absurdly touching at parts. I also liked Molloy a lot. I disliked the other parts of the trilogy.

Watt is my favorite novel of his, I don't think you can go wrong with reading it, it's beautiful and very funny and very unique and more captivating and less dull than his other works.

>>9230038
bretty good m8, but is the book goanna have naughty bits?

>>9230041
Maybe, but no swearing.

There's nothing to critique, you clearly don't have a firm grasp of the English language.

I'd say go back to 5th grade and work your way up from there.

God is not a human. Not anymore, anyway.

>>9230037
No mysticism.

>>/pol/116390342 you are correct OP, check out the vid in this thread. Everything in the Bible is too perfect, and things are coming true left and right.

>>9229972
the limits of my language are the limits of my world - wittgenstein

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>>9229985

>>9229972
Seek out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Im still reading, but have enjoyed what i've read so far, you've got a nice voice.

where you make the connection to Joseph Stalin and allude to the effects of "unbound and unchecked free thought" I was not convinced. I'm no expert on Stalin or really the evolution of communist philosophies for that matter but it feels that all this bad stuff is the inevitable consequence of abuse of certain ideologies. the point is you could either reinvent your conclusion or do a better job building up to it.

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>but there are further layers
>mfw

>>9229947

just curious op but what viral marketing firm do u work for? i'm going to need to hire one when i bring my app to market, and your work is more tasteful than most forced meme marketing

>>9229940
Read whatever you want to read.There is no order you should follow.

>>9229940
pick up whatever interests you. you've already read some important things after finishing that chart. ill admit ive only read like 6 from that chart. i read infinite jest recently though and didnt feel like i needed any better overall understanding of literature before tackling it.

what im trying to say is just read what you want at this point

>>9229940

Shakespeare is pleasant and rewarding, read everything he wrote at least three or four times.

>>9229861
tao te ching

Wikipedia.

I'm guessing you just want to namedrop philosophers in an effort to appear cool and educated. This is your best resource.

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Poorly. Understanding philosophy takes time. If you're going to read voraciously then read critiques and responses to one work for a while before moving on to the next big meme.

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>I type my stories on a computer in english, then I dictate them to a Spanish scribe that barely understands English and writes them down on paper in spanish, than I use my limited understanding of Spanish to take what he wrote and dictate it to another scribe who can barely read or write in Spanish or English who types it up on an Apple laptop from 2006

before i became a bitter, cynical husk of a human being, i found i could manage a pretty decent workflow by typing out a draft, taking it to the local caffeine hole, correcting it and scrawling notes on where it should go next.

shame nobody was interested in publishing it.

>>9229848
based Gertrude