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lol why are you reading a book for girls?

>>9827337
it wasn't written for girls, it was written for murakami
the main character is a self insert if there ever was one
>he's a writer
>a good writer
>attractive
>in very good shape
>big cock
>gets to fuck borderline underage girls (this is a big plus for japanese men)
it's sort of pathetic when you think about it

>>9827355
>author writes about a writer
thats when you know you shouldnt read a book

>>9827322
The Savage Detectives :^)

>>9827322

The Hound Of Baskerville

In the Name of the Rose

>>9827179
>Is it that American society (and possibly a big part of western society) is so obscene and violent that the only way out is addiction and violent behaviours in general?

I recommend you read his tv essay.

It's about art and postmodern listlessness. DFW is too knowledgeable to put America on a pedestal and attack it like you claim

Damn, in this picture he looks kind of happy, or really a mix between happy and smug of sorts. The other pictures I've seen of him. Well... they seem more angrier, or disgusted. And then I remember how he would talk about irony and how it is destroying culture. Maybe that's why he is never so happy and usually disgusted or angry, or something in between. I don't know it seems as if in this picture he isn't thinking about the destructive power of irony. I like to imagine here he thinks: yes, I finally did it, I killed everyone last of that ironic scum, no longer can irony persist, and now finally, after all this bloodshed we can enter the new age of New Sincerity.
Well, that's what I think anyway.

>>9827179
> trying to analyze a poorly edited sci-fi novel
Looks like the jest is on you, boyo.

>>9827075
emotional problems

fred flintstone got to them

>>9827075
DFW chewed.

Kindly Ones


its not really a subtext...its pretty overt.

Maybe im missing the historical context here, but what does transforming into a bug overnight is supposed to mean? And why is he treated in thia weird ignore/hate way by his family

>>9826767
They could not read at all...

>>9826845

might as well be

>>9826767
Better than comic books.

>>9826699
Palahniuk has good twist endings.
Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Rant.

>kike casting

Nope

>>9826727
casting sucks but i love the mind fuck twist endings and story enough to get by... literally every fucking relationship in this show is interracial

>>9826679
>Ils n'ont pas un mot comme "donc"

lel

>>9826687
Yes we do dumb frog.

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>>9826679
"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."

>>9826675
That's tough. Hate to say it but like Kafka or Nabokov he strikes me as a little to specialized, or niche. No Proust. No Tolstoy.

>>9826675
i think he was a megalomaniac in a way, and he was the best writer ever

>>9826675
He seemed scared of his own writings. He reached his peak relatively early in his carreer (after getting over a gauchesque phase) and after that he spent the rest of his career distancing himself from his greatest works as much as possible, backpedaling on his avantgarde tendencies so much he became a champion of sorts for anything written between the XVIth and XVIIIth century.

He was too much of a reader to be as good a writer as he could have been. He became convinced that there was no point in trying to innovate or try new things, since everything that was worth being written had already been written. So he proceeded to shit out books of bland poetry for 40 years and promptly died.

Still, probably my favourite writer.

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>>9826556

Is he the best modern author? Murakami and him are definitely above all others.

>>9827332

Yes, indeed. I don't know of Murakami, but I do believe that GRRM is the best writer alive at this moment.

I just started reading A Song of Ice and Fire.

What about that guy you mentioned, how is M? Any good work?

>>9826488
The Brothers K
Moby Dick
Hamlet
Illiad &Oddyssey
Don Quixote

The Holy Bible (Knox Version)
Anna Karenina
Democracy: The God That Failed
The Gulag Archipelago (All 3 volumes if you have the time, Abridged version if you are a pleb)
Doing The Philippines (By: Matt Forney)

>>9826546
go to bed jordan

>>9826332
The Greeks.

Homer (Iliad and Odyssey)
Hesiod
Herodotus
Euripides / Sophocles / Aeschylus
Thucydides
Plato
Aristotle

>>9826369
Do you mean all their works or can you specify?

>>9826385
Yes

>>9826156
I can relate so much.

>>9826156
Insufferable loser who is right about some things. He'll fit in fine here.

>>9826156
>people who work out in gyms can't lift a stone
Where do you see this? This is not true
>people who work out a lot would get beat up in a fight
They're not training in fighting they're training in picking things up with certain muscles. A better example would be martial arts training versus street fighting but that's not true for martial arts that do actual sparring.
>try taking people away from what they study and they aren't as good
Wow, someone isn't good at someone they don't practice, so profound
>when I debate an expert on a certain topic and then talk about so,thing he isn't an expert in it's just like when someone whose an expert in something meets someone who is an experts im a different thing
Wow you're so smart omg here's $100k write a book

>>9826103
They are annoying. I don't see why it's bad for literature though lol.

I'd argue that it's the worst thing that has ever happened to literature.

are hp books still popular in america?
here in poland barely anyone remembers them

>>9825946
David Foster Wallace

>>9825946
Henry James.

>>9825946
>pursuit of craft
Is that an euphemism for autism?