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I'm currently mapping out ideas for an allegorical novel narrated from the perspective of a toilet seat in a gas station bathroom. His life is great because every now and then hot girls sit on him, but also bad because fat truck drivers sit on him. Email me if you're interested in collaborating.

>>9888298
Sounds like a Zappa album concept tbqh

>>9888298
Why you must have there be a love affair with a woman who cleans said stall each day with the delicacy of one who is timid and shy and doesn't get out too often, and who, do to her dainty figure and prissy attitude is unaccustomed to such unseemly work. Each day after she cleans the seat to a shine, she leaves, and each day the bowl wonders when it will be the day she sits. But the days pace into years and the years into a decade. And finally it is the day. Yet she is weeping. And when she pulls her pants down, blood stains her white panties. She sits and passes the miscarriage through his soul, and he can do nothing but be inanimate. He cannot speak. He is in utter joyed and he is in utter pain. He wishes he had never met her, never been cleaned at all. He wishes he had been a stick of wood in a fire place lit on Christmas day.

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the face of innocence

Your brother, your family and you will get over it.

>>9887849
when you're brother laughed, you should of shot him in the face. then when you tried to laugh it off, you should of shot you'reself in the face

I bought Norton Critical Editions of his short stories and plays and they were full of spelling errors, and the critical essays offered poor analysis.

Rothschild's violin got me

I'm really partial to redemption stories

>>9887466
To piggy on this fellars' bad experience; what's a good collection of Chekhovs work?

the future of paperwhite starts............ NOW)))NOW))))NOWWWWW))))))

>>9887368
how do you guys deal with e-book typos?

>>9887501
move on

>>9887281
The one about being /fitlit/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0W7V1riRA

>>9887281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2itAho0oigc

>>9887304
Where can I read Sun and Steel?

I looked on amazon but there are expensive copies

>>9887280
Elaborate?

>>9887280
Read Civilization and its Discontents. Freud is a massive cog in the works for whatever political philosophy you come from

>>9887224
He's more insightful and complex than King. This kills the normie.

I love him, but can't read his stuff. I don't fucking know why. I have, 5 or 6 books of his, but I've only been able to read THUD!! in it's entirety. Maybe I'm only in love with the concept of him.

>>9887224
His stuff is simply more niche than King

blatantly made up a lot of shit. was high as fuck most of the time experiencing and writing said about said experiences. that said, still unbelievable the things he actually did.

>>9887081
I would have a beer with him.

>>9887189
I would drop acid with him.

>>9886738
Someone that doesn't know much about literature. Pick a random Youtuber.

>>9886738
Jordan Peterson.

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>>9886776

Ockham

>>9886707
Theology is interesting.

>>9886707
>Or is it virtually all theological stuff?

Dude everything from Plato all the way up through Hegel is theological, thats how philosophy was and still is in many cases.
You need to learn to be able to be a more nuanced reader if you can't see the vast philosophical implications that speaking of religion has that trascends the secular-theological divide. In the end its still equally about love, life, ethics, power, metaphysics, meaning and the mind

>>9886642
Added to my thread watcher.

>>9886642
Stephen King's Autobiography?

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream?

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>>9886503
>he doesn't learn languages so he can read all his literature in the original language
I got you senpai

My favourite Borges story is The Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden. I like the core idea of it better than the idea of The Circular Ruins, albeit it's not as clever, and the description of Droctulft is some of the most evocative writing anyone has ever accomplished.

Well, there' Damned by Chuck Palahniuk. Personally, I thought it was a big pile of shit, though.

John Niven's Second Coming has a brief, but very neat Hell Scene.

John Green books

>>9886131
this is the worst way to look at it. If you're starting out, what's important isn't getting the "best" books, it's getting books that interest you. You're building a foundation on which to build, not doing homework.

Do you already know what you like? or are you going in completely blind?

>>9886150
I'm going in blind.

The only books I read are books I had to read for class like "Bridge on the Drina", "Crime and Punishment". Those 2 are the only ones I clearly remember.

>>9886162
Did you like crime and punishment?

>>9886107
>hack
>gritty and realistic
>his poems are good
>degenerate
>chick and edgy teens dig him

get out

>>9886107
hack. complete garbage.
>inb4 le he wasn't trying to be good! he's just tryna be an everyday dude!!
then you're just acknowledging that he sucks. get out.

Sam Hyde understands Bukowski
>life hits you hard, man, and you just smoke cigarettes and get drunk man