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>>9748611
had my doubts about the author and the contents like you, but it was actually pretty good and helpful (at least to me)

sounds like something reddit would recommend

>self-help

>>9748379
Mickey

But don't think too much about it, its simply not worth it

>>9748379
everyone who posts this image is a confirmed pseud

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>>9748397
>>9748450
This, and this.

Read more, lurk more, eat more mushrooms, go out, explore

Fuck a girl, for christ's sake

you can't forge your own path
give up

>>9748140
This can't be. The universe isnt deterministic

>>9748129

People on the well trodden path will throw stones at you. But forging your own way can lead you to riches, both material and spiritual.

Some anime fanfictions are good though.

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>>9748124
.....anon...I.....

>>9748124
It's a good first step.

>>9748093
He didn't want competition in the market. More poets means less sales for him.
But really, its a self-deprecating nod to his own misery. Poetry isn't bringing him satisfaction, so he advises young men to do harmful things or gives generally bad advice to cap it off with "well, writing poetry is even worse than these things."

LMAO so randumb!!! XDXD Liquor and whores amirite?

Bukowski is the ultimate hack. Do not try to understand or interpret his nonsense.

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I jack off 6 times a day, drink a bottle of wine, smoke about 1/2 a gram of weed, eat 10mg of valium.

Its going well.

6 months ago i had a short story published in my local paper. the editor took 400 words out of it without asking.

I just got over the realization that i'm simply not intelligent enough to be a good writer. Everything I write - no matter how good the concept seems in my head, turns to absolute shit on paper. I can't write a fucking short story, much less the grand novel I envision on the ever-brink of tomorrow.

I'm going to spend the rest of my life rotting away as a sad English teacher; constantly reminded of my own inability. I've fantasized quite a bit lately about abandoning civilized life and just escaping into the far reaches of the wild, off the grid, becoming something akin to a feral man who lives on my own terms: making it as king-beast or dying as is just, in nature. I think i'll either end up doing that or just killing myself, i'm not really sure yet.

>>9748508
>English teacher
I'm sorry.

It is good, isn't it?

I need to re-read it, definitely, but it was a very heavy read, so I want to let it sit longer, even though I finished it two months ago. I loved Theroux's subtle characterization of Isabel from the beginning as somewhat of a bland, mediocre personality not good enough for Darconville. I thought I was misguided somehow or that Theroux had made an artistic fumble, because from the beginning Isabel seemed to me a very boring and uninteresting character compared to Darconville, but the reveal of the cheating blew me away. It's a highly underrated and not-much-talked-about book. I wish more modern fiction was like it, as in, willing to pay attention to beauty of style and form, even to experimentation, but also having genuine concern for the characters, ideas, and plot.

The ending, however, was actually a great disappointment to me. I thought Darconville's suddenly deciding not to kill Isabel was very sentimentally and poorly handled compared to the half-hilarious half-incredibly-dark build-up to it; also, his sudden obsession with writing his work and decline into sickness, I thought to be rushed, sentimental and emotionally out-of-keeping with the book; finally, that his last words were about his cat, leading to the title --- I found that gimmicky and hard to find a reason for.

Damn, I really need to re-read it. If anything, the prose style is also some of the best I've ever read. Also, Crucifer is probably one of the greatest and most ridiculous villains I've ever encountered in a piece of literature.

>>9747938
But you've never read it

>>9748100
I'm not going to read your spoilers until I finish it this weekend, but i agree it's a difficult read. I've had a blast noting down all of the words I don't know and researching the references. I feel like this one will overshadow anything I pick next.

>>9748131
I'm sorry it was too hard for you. Try to remember not everyone is scared of hard books, ok pal?

to subtell 4 me(me)

i fux

dat bonestructure is immaculate

>>9747886
Wolves are based.
Go fuck your self.

>>9748155
wolves are the rats of the woods

>>9747886
yeah I've always disliked wolves

>>9747841
You may want to start with Harry Potter

>>9747841
None.
Just read the book you fucking pleb. It's written in a style that's very easy to read so it will take no time at all.

>Skipping pages.
Oh boy, I was told underage people weren't allowed on 4chan.

Reading books may delude you even further.
Try talking with people who you have known for a while or a psychologist.
Write down what they say and when you're feeling very sober and unbiased (like after sleeping) read it and observe how you feel about what they say about you.

Be radically honest. Though, don't mistake pessimism for honesty. You can be radically honest and say that you've learned nothing on 4chan over the past two years, and that you're not very skilled at reading literature, but this doesn't have to translate into thinking that you'll never be capable of understanding literature, since all it requires is a break from the internet and dedicated practice.

I think when you let the little lies you tell yourself grow to a critical mass, that you're going to handle something in the future, that you will magically have the capacity when you need it, that you don't need to rise to the challenge, etc., you stop growing as a person. You become another line of detached and delusional people whose spirit has been broken. Carry on that attitude for a long period of time, and you won't be able to repair the damage.

take some psychoactive drugs and meditate. i recently had a profound realization that i have been a compulsive liar and self deceiver for the whole of my life. i didn't just believe my lies, i never even realized i was telling them.

It didn't work for me.

>>9747775
what are you trying to fix, anon?

Meme book. Try to read this instead.

>Essentials
Improve Your Social Skills - Daniel Wendler
<go outside and talk to people>

>Advanced
What Every BODY Is Saying - Joe Navarro
The Games People Play - Eric Berne
Pre-Suasion - Robert Cialdini
<go outside and talk to people>

>Troubleshooting
No More Mr. Nice Guy - Robert Glover
Be Your Own CBT Therapist - Windy Dryden
Improvise - Mick Napier
<go outside and talk to people>

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>>9747704
"How Music Got Free". Great nonfiction account of the mp3 revolution and how albums were pirated at the beginning of the free music age. Follows a record exec, the inventor of the mp3, and a dude who worked at the Sony plant who was responsible for sneaking out cds and putting them online two weeks before release. Super entertaining, more about the business of music than actual music though.

Charles Rosen in general is pretty GOAT

>>9747704
That one about miles Davis.

>>9747697
High quality gibberish

genius
>which will eventually have to be abandoned

read the heidegger SEP article and it makes it dramatically easier

>>9747666
A Confederacy of Dunces

>>9747689
why? what about it keeps you thinking?

>>9747716
I have a masters degree in English, I'm unemployed, I live with my mom in the South, and I just applied to be a hotdog vendor. It's hard to not think about it.