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DAVID IMPOSTER MALLACE 2017-08-01 02:06:22 Post No.9834902
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I watched three of the longer interviews with him and he had a really concise, impressive thought process going on there.
I decided to actually read him. What about starting with The Broom of the System and then IJ and then The Pale King? Is his debut novel worth reading?
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>>9834902
Just read Broom. It's his most honest attempt at a novel.
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Just read pic related. What did i think?
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>>9834794
you thought it was a waste of time and everything before My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky was really boring indus-rock wank.
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Let's all stop pretending and admit that the prose in this book is god tier. The man has a way with words.
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>>9834794
Nothing because you don't think
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Anyone recommend any good eBooks in .pdf format that I can download into my nifty Google Drive folder?
I'm open to anything desu
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>>9834749
bamp
>tfw you're not reading GR listening to pic related on a rainy winter day
>tfw im comfy and enlightened
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are you kenosha kidding me
Dont fingerpointsman
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>>9834747
um great fucking album holy shit
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ITT: Books Men will never Understand 2017-08-01 12:32:33 Post No.9834679
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ITT: Books Men will never Understand
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1 year lurker here, been an avid reader of literature for 6 years. I mostly read in my native tongue but I also enjoy English literature from time to time.
I wanna start writing. I have no false hopes of being published, I just want to be a fluent/cursive writer so to speak. I have this idea that writing will help me enjoy literature even more and really understand what the writer went through. I think I'm more interested in developing the technical side. Should I study grammar?
Give me all your advices and tips and share your experience.
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lurk another 8 years
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>>9836186
Kill yourself
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Once you start picking apart the pieces that make a form tick, you start enjoying it differently. I do stand-up comedy, it no longer makes me laugh and instead it I'm focused on the devices the comedian uses. After a while, you identify more with the performer and begin to understand why they made a certain choice when they made it. Participation in the craft changes your relationship to it and you may wish that you could go back to a time when you could just enjoy a piece on the surface.
How can one word have such completely disconnected, different meanings?
To me, this is a way to frequent occurance in the English language and always creates the feeling in me that I will never fully master it because I can be surprised by the usage of even a word that I thought I already knew.
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look at the etymology. They're not different at all. Comes from oblique--slanted, indirect, at an angle. by adding "-ity", conveys state of being. In 1., the infant is in the process of coming out at an angle. In 2., a person is not being straight in their dealings, they are moving at an angle against you. It's simply two applications of the same concept.
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>>9834667
i'm not sure if i should be annoyed or appreciative toward words.
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please recommend some comfy books like this
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>they can't accept that a multipolar world will revolve around culture
>they can't accept that religion and geography make up most of culture
>they dickride Fukumeme because he gets Hegel in the business
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Civilizational historiography is as big a meme as Fukuyama
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Are these books any good?
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The movie is better
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Are short novels more marketable today? Or do people just expect a book to be long?
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>>9834309
mate some of us here are trying to improve ourselves
get those tits outta here
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>>9834414
And how are you doing that anon?
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>>9834420
falling out of computer love
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>Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
How is this syntactically correct or coherent?
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>Decide to read the Bible
>I'm an atheist but it's surprisingly good
>Develop some theological ideas about god
>No one to discuss them with, so just think about them on my own
>Couple of weeks after I'm done reading it
>Walking to McDonald's to get myself some sweet burgers
>See Jehovah's Witness preaching and trying to recruit people
>Think nothing about it
>Go to McDonald's
>It's fucking closed for another 30 minutes
>Decide "fuck it" I'll go talk to him, at least I'll have someone to discuss theology with
>Talk a bit, mention some of my ideas, ask some questions
>He wants meet up later and talk
>Say sure, hopefully I won't get indoctrinated
>Meet up with him in a café some days later
>Be prepared
>Talk to him about the Bible, back up my ideas
>He is impressed, says in all his years he has never met anyone with the same views as me
>I think he's bullshitting just to seem friendly
>Keep talking anyway
>We go way past time
>Find out a couple of weeks later that he left his church, and is now banned from Jehovah's Witness meetings since he "denounced" his faith and adopted my ideas
>mfw I basically converted a Jehovah's Witness
>they now hate me
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>>9834160
Was it a she and was she pretty if it was a she?
Only old ladies to the preaching stuff were I live.
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>>9834160
hey it's me, the jehovah's witness from the mcdonalds. all your ideas about the bible were retarded, i just pretended to like them because i wanted to fuck your sweet little ass. you looked like the type and you were sending all the right signals. and yeah they kicked me out but that's just because they looked at my phone and found all the pics of me nailing dudes instead of preaching to them.
ps. wanna hook up?
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>>9834160
I'm pretty sure I've seen this post before.
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How does this guy read so many books? Even when I was NEET I could not keep up.
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i dont know
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statues don't read dumbfuck
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>tfw believe perfect punctuation will make me sound smart
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>>9834013
So far that statement has been made vacously true.
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How smart can you truly be if you have extra time to perfect your spelling and punctuation each time
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>>9834013
How does having perfect punctuation relate to being smart? I'm genuinely curious. I understand this for egregious errors, but for smaller ones in good writing? Not as much.