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go eat my dick and balls and manybe you can write with a hint of my talent

>>9191921
One needs the stuff lit provides in one's head if the desire is to experience life as a writer. There's plenty of down time in even the most adventurous life for both reading and writing.. Does a painter who doesn't study (and love) painting paint well? Or is there such a thing as a musician who doesn't listen to music? Of course not. Writing, without reading, but expecting to be read (necessarily), is writing in bad faith. That said, Trump's 'written' two books, and will no doubt sign an enormous book deal whenever (if ever) he leaves office. So what do I know....

>>9191921
I agree, but /lit/ surely won't. Oh well

>>9191911
god I wish I was

>>9191911
It takes a bit more effort.

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>tfw not gay

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>>9191902
Hope you read the classics first.

>>9191902
I don't seek cheap physical thrills. This is the only work of art that truly balances the carnal desperation and soul-wrenching desire for emotional connection in such a nuanced way since Bataille's Story of the Eye. It made me shed tears.

>>9191902
>chink sade

No, you can't simply recycle what's been done before

There are works that recycle old space operas and lotr - they're shit.

You need to learn to write. You can recontextualise past concepts and ideas, but you ain't simply repeat.

>>9191861

>No, you can't simply recycle what's been done before

many millionaire hacks the world over would laugh at you for saying this. of course you can. if you care more about money more than your art, that is.

>>9191821
>>9191861
>>9191905
I must say I appreciate your efforts. Very meta.

work those glasses anon

>>9191782
lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc.

>>9191782
look into relex-smile
research the best surgeons, results DO vary

theres a contingent of people holding out for better alternatives - there are a lot of sides such as poor night vision, floaters, dry eyes....

I'd get RELEX smile, but I want to be able to ride my bike at night + not be millions of people who missed out on some miracle cure all that is now off limits

>>9191704
I don't particularly like Kundera, but that's a great metaphor-- PARTICULARLY because one can't help but wonder, odd, what kind of ship would that be? ... It's a puzzle, and not a difficult one: relief, elation- but a manic episode doomed to fail like the escapees are doomed to fail, sooner rather than later. When reading one makes these notations quickly, wordlessly.... This said, a minimal writer who nonetheless splashes his books with amazing color is Philip Roth. Or he's the first that comes to mind. The first female is Penelope Fitzgerald. If economy's sought, one could begin to seek it there.

>>9191704
Sure, but don't exect to be blown away. It's good but not amazing.
I read it to my girlffriend during a camping trip. Was quite comfy.
>>9191906
>doomed to fail
How so?

>>9191704

I dropped this book about 100 pages in. If I am meant to return eternally to the point in my lifetime where I open up this book, it ought to be as short as possible.

E Unibus Pluram is good

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI

Amusing Ourselves To Death.

The ending made me cry.

>>9191605
He had a good life. He experienced love and safety.
Most people have bad lives. Worse than Stoner had I'd say.
This is pretty sad. Nothing can be done to change this.

AYY WEED LMFAOOOOO

>>9191497
He is underread and overposted.

Only read In the Heart of the Heart of the Country which was excellent. The Pederson Kid is a 10/10 short story. He manages to pull visual beauty out of a landscape that is entirely snow, plot tension out of a 50 page story, and literary eloquence with in the linguistics confines of a narrator who is a young uneducated boy.

The Tunnel is the best English language novel since Gravity's Rainbow. Extremely powerful, absolutely worth drowning in for a few days or a lifetime.

Also >>9191503

>>9191486
how does it feel to be in the spectrum
you remove them while reading and put it back.
is for dust you candy ass

>>9191486
hahahaha

It's a marketing thing. They exist because it's much cheaper to print a colorful jacket than to manufacture an intricate hardcover. If you want some actual dust protection get a slipcase.

>>9191470
>genre
excuse me sir, this is a literature board not pleb central.

>>9191470
Nowhere near as bad as sci-fi. People never shut the fuck up about the hitchikers guide to the galaxy. That bloated piece of convoluted trash.

>>9191470
Fuck off. Romance is an amazing genre, where authors can focus in on the minutiae of the human mind and their characters without having to divert themselves with other things like fight scenes or making up technologies that don't make sense, or flashy magic and dragons and crap. When all an author has to worry about is the details of their characters and how they would and do interact, superior results are produced. Fact. Spreading yourself across multiple areas gives shitter results than exclusively paying attention to one idea. Fact. Go back to your macho-fantasy action novels filled with explosions and meaningless filler for characters.

Start with the Greeks.

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>>9191454
Start with the Canadian.

>>9191301
>i am a monolingual pleb

>>9191305
>he isnt fluent in, at least, 6 different languages

they have their place, although some people tend to <i>over-use</i> them. Frank Herbert, i'm looking at <i>you</i>.

You first OP.

i'm on #bookz and wondering if i should say fuck it and download this piece of shit :*( god help me

i can't... that would be betraying the years of adolescence spent on literotica and fanfiction.net

I wrote my own sexy fanfic off of the universe in Pronetheus. That's being written with the premise of android/robots acquiring the function of sexual pleasure and with an unlimited capacity for physical pleasure. how would an artificial person treat humans, which are considered beneath them? (would it be bestiality in their case? lol)

It's not fifty shades of grey, but it's got anal.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12304678/1/Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electric-Caress

>>9191221
it doesn't matter, it's a very simple book, not much can be lost in a shitty translation

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>er kann kein Deutsch in aktuellem Jahr

>>9191221
>not knowing German
Cuckold