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>>9084011
A lot of russian lit has 100+ page expositions tbqh senpai

>>9084011
Post reading remorse.

"It was shit but it was worth it, otherwise I have wasted my time haha"

>>9084011
Infinite Jest takes like 300 pages to get going.

>>9083998
I need complete silence and no distractions
otherwise my mind starts wandering off
and I don't focus 100% on what I am actually reading.

>>9083998
Chopin.

>>9084108
Wood?

Joyce

Nietzsche

>30
>Notts UK
>short stories, kitchen sink realism

>21
>australia
>little story about an emotionally unsound man as he stumbles about the city and life trying to make sense of things in the days following an emotional breakdown after finding out his fiance had been cheating regularly on him for years and only using him as an outlet for security and money

>19
>Spain
>I actually dont want to share it cause I believe is pretty good and am afraid of anyone stealing it

If you didn't like the beginning just quit, it doesn't get more engrossing

>>9083806
Just keep reading it, it does keep in the same style, the fever dream period is a bit tedious but the themes get explored more later on.

Ignore this anon, he probably misunderstood you.

Put it down and read The Brothers Karamazov.

>>9083759
Venus im Pelz

CHANCE

http://www.masjidtucson.org/submission/

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Is he the most misunderstood politician ever?

>muh führer

>>9083677
>Knut Hamsun
>nothing about ejaculation in his books

Hack much?

>>9083677
Misunderstood in what sense?
In what of his works would his political affiliation be relevant or interesting?

He died of alcoholism and peddled a cheap Watts Brand Buddhism that razzles, dazzles and never points you in the right direction ("but the fact that we're looking for a right direction is the whole problem! GULP.").

He was, easily, more Tim Leary than he was Thomas Merton.

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>>9083663
>("but the fact that we're looking for a right direction is the whole problem! GULP.").
But that's the hoax
>He died of alcoholism
yolo

>>9083663
He was an entertainer, and called himself such. Why do people think he thought of himself as any more than that?

I mean, if you want to learn about intricate Buddhism, go somewhere else, that doesn't mean everyone who has ever touched on the subject is immediately a con artist.

>>9083596
It depends really - whatever is most accesible. If I see a book I want to read in a bookstore that's in my own language, I'll read it in my own language, but considering that most literature is translated in English I end up reading it more often in English.

english translations are typically better and easier to find for works that are less than very well-known

>>9083596
i read it in my own language or in english if it isnt translated to my language

The Four Lords Of The Diamond, Jack Chalker

Meirnik Dossier, Last Supper, The Secret Lovers, Old Boys, Charles McCarry

Deathbed Playboy, Phillip Dacey

Lulu In Marrakech, Diane Johnson

I Was Amelia Earhart, Jane Mendelson

Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, Edward Trelawney

Children of the Thunder, John Brunner

>>9083630
ok those are pretty good thanks

>>9083630
Are these all manga?

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>>9083454
The Story of Fart - William H. Gass

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The Fart of Fart - William H. Gass

>>9083410
Read the eddas not this shit

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>>9083426
this and then the Sagas everything else is just a meme

I assume it's a Gaiman-y, Norse-flavored version of Edith Hamilton's Mythology?

>>9083150
More like Homeland didn't he?

FIRE YOUR WEAPON BLYTHE

POUR IT AT EM BLYTHE

I bought Fanged Noumenea recently and I've been attempting to work my way through that but, honestly, it's fucking impenetrable. If you are going to try him I would recommend doing it on an e-reader so you can quickly look up terms he uses because you'll be doing it quite often.

Cover to cover. Go big or go home, nerd.

You'll hate the last three books of the tanakh, but if you can read that front to back, the rest is a nice, enjoyable breeze.

The whole thing

>>9082966
Not OP, but I've just started the Bible and it's unironically triggering me. Isn't this supposed to be life affirming?

>>9082749
I got into a small press magazine once. It was the only time I wrote anything specifically tailored to an editor's tastes.

I think that's the only way to get published, t.b.h. Find out what editors/publishers want, and provide it for them, on a plate.

(If you think that's worthwhile. I don't anymore.)

>>9082790
>I think that's the only way to get published, t.b.h. Find out what editors/publishers want, and provide it for them, on a plate.

Just recently I was looking into how the submission process works for magazines and literary journals, and this also seemed to me like the best way to get published.

I've gotten three short stories published. All three of them came last year. Trying to get my first story of the new year done.

>>9082790
>>9082804
How do you find out what a magazine's editor wants? Just basic research?