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>>9187146
>wants the sex without the foreplay
don't be surprised when you don't orgasm.

You're after the minimalists, friend. There's plenty of them. Start with Hemingway and Carver.

>>9187154
to stay with that analogy: i want a book that's like sex on an animalistic level.

hot headed, intense, fast paced, hard, greedy and satisafcting

i can only stand in for the german version...

>>9186963

Thats even better,
Das ist sehr gut!

>>9186974
i'm female though... i might not have the appropriate voice to deliver adolfs ideas authentically

>>9186950
Ha ha

>>9186950
>tfw you think you're going to settle down to an awesome book during the beginning Harker chapters
>tfw it switches to Lucy and Mina and becomes shit for the entire rest of the book

>>9186977

this

the first third or so of Dracula is some of the best horror ever written, then it falls apart in the last two thirds

Too late, I already found it

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the purpose is (YOU) of course

About a decade ahead of you. Aside from the rare paralyzing terror, I'm enjoying it so far.

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way ahead of you bud

>>9186853
is suicide The Last Logical Step?

>>9186859
Suicide begets suicide. You solve problems by not encouraging suffering in others.

>>9186848
>>9183613

>>9186848
Then the faggot tried to steal a child.
Before he could rape it he was set upon by a gang of Latinos.
He was stabbed to death with a sharpened bed spring and the child was returned to it's parents, who happen to be cousins.
Six months later the child was killed by the family pit bull terrier.

>>9186848
Andre was one of the world's most talented coders. He was the only one who could keep the AI in its sandbox.. until the machine created a small, two legged explosive device.. shaped like his dead daughter. He didn't stand a chance.

>Wanting stricter moderation.
>Banning things.

Fuck off back to Redit.

>>9186819
I agree

>>9186819
>not using the catalog
you deserve all the suffering you get and more

What the hell is Twine?

>>9186829
It's what you use to make nooses.

>>9186787
i have used it

i think it had/has potential but has some unfortunate self-indulgent/confessional/narcissistic conventions

the best thing about it is that it lowers the barrier to entry into interactive fiction, but that is also the worst thing about it...

it is far better than previous forms of 'interactive fiction', which invariably seemed niche, inaccessible, dependent on mostly disappointing parser-based "play", and dominated by small insular communities resistant to growth and change

>>9186744
Am I in the minority for thinking this looks dumb?
Like, she's hot, sure, but the silly costume and awkward spine twist just ruin it. It's like putting a big red circle around Christ in The Last Supper. Let the art (ass) speak for itself, don't force it.

>>9186746
I just find women being vain personally disgusting. They say they do it for themselves but if that were true it wouldn't end up on the internet

>>9186753
I find vanity in women really hot. It's such a turn off when a girl or woman is anxious about her body. I fucking love it when a woman knows she's hot.

>>9186666
What was your favorite scene?

No response, not ever for quads?

I finished. It's done.

Some of the major themes I identified were the pairing of compliments, Pavlovian conditioning, and I think the duality of man which is a subset of the other pairing.

I'm not sure what exactly to make of the light bulb, astrology/tarot (though I think this may lend itself to Pynchon's more general theme of man implying order to chaos when it's unclear if any such order exists.), and the sea (though I suppose it could be peace and tie into Venus, a theme from V).

The artificial enhancements done to the Russian echo the plastic surgery of V as well.

I'll probably need more time to process and I also should probably read it again.

>>9186756
Hard choice.

I like these a lot:
Slothrop as the Pig Hero
When Marvy gets castrated
Slothrop and tantivy fight the octopus on that kidnaps Katje.
Slothrop's pie fight with Marvy's platoon in a hot air baloon.
Prentice and Katje dance and think about the inevitability of the war's end.

There are probably more I can't remember too.

I'm enjoying it and I'm not autistic.

>>9186659
>not realizing fiction is just distilled non-fiction
sort yourself out

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>recognizing a difference between fiction and non-fiction

bible
iliad
odyssey
hamlet
ego and its own

Bible, Iliad, Divine Comedy, Hamlet, Paradise Lost

>>9186431
Nice little joke at the end there

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>>9186316
>tfw reading Crime and Punishment after not murdering any hags today

>>9186316
>after eating over 10 thousand calories
kys

>tfw reading nothing after shitposting on lit for weeks

>>9186283
Whats wrong with communism? (for sake of argument, and really this stipulation should be change if its the massive back breaking straw; lets say private property still existed, your land and your home was your property, objects and materials were your property (I already know that the whole concept of property is muddled and confused in these discussions and what exactly was and was not the focal point of mention therein))

>>9186475
>whats wrong with communism if it's capitalism

>>9186283
>>9186475
What is each individuals ultimate goals in life?
What is each collective of individuals goals in life?
What is each nations goal?
What is "mankind"/"humankind" (the collective of all collectives) ultimate goal/s?

Speaking of Stoicism, I gave reading meditations because every chapter I read through was a thank you letter to his mentors. Why is this often recommended as the intro to stoicism? Would anyone recommend something else other than Meditations? Sorry for hijacking your topic somewhat.

>>9186293

What the fuck do you mean every chapter? Only the first "chapter" is his gratefulness toward his mentors, and that unto itself is a strong sign of his character.

Back to the basics with you, child!

Cicero has a book on old age.