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So I've "read" a lot of Infinite Jest, but mostly through a voice reader app, and I often picked up at random points. I don't want to read it front to back but I want to know what the best parts are in terms of DFWs writing, so would others please tell me what those parts are and approximately where they are in the book? I want to see the magic.
Strange thing to ask I know, anyone want to guide me in the right directions here?
Example: I remember listening to a part about future face to face telephone communication and about how people wore masks and I thought it was brilliant. I loved it. I have no idea where it is in the book though.
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>>9720534
Wow she's soooo cute
>tfw you'll never have a submissive housewife girlfriend like her
>feels bad
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>>9720534
I want to pearl necklace her so bad, she's perfect.
>that fucking clavicle
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Here's the reading list for Junot Diaz's course at MIT. What do you think? Could you keep up with the elite students at this top school?
>Prerequisites: “You will need to have seen Star Wars (episode four: A New Hope) and read The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien.”
>Reading List:
“A Princess of Mars” by ER Burroughs
“Dracula” by Bram Stoker
“Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” by Frank Miller
“Sunshine” by Robin McKinley
“V for Vendetta” by Alan Moore
“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
“The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms” by NK Jemisin
“Lilith’s Brood” by Octavia Butler
“Perdido Street Station” by China Miéville
“Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson (Recommended)
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>>9719410
puto pelon cara de mierda
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>>9719410
He's obsessed with trashy sci-fi novels, I don't know why.
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Pure dreck.
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Who is the angriest writer you can think of?
I struggle to find writers who capture the feeling of "rage" accurately. So who do you think done it well?
It has to be a certain kind of rage though, not "angry" like the feeling of a burst of anger... but more a long lasting burn of it? A lifelong anger?
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>>9715718
The very first word of the Iliad is “RAGE.” The “RAGE” of Achilles when his honor is violated and his rightful prize and love is taken from him by his very own commander.
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Yeah but I've read that already, and it wasn't quite what I had in mind.
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I originally started reading him because I was hoping for some anti enlightenment values, arguments for monarchy and aristocracy. But instead he just seems to be an edgy libertarian.
Also he goes off on rants relating everything to catholics. I understand he is writing a blog and not a research paper but does he have to have so much filler?
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What pieces have you read?
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>Also he goes off on rants relating everything to catholics.
I'm a little confused by this wording. Is he pro- or anti-Catholic?
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>>9715189
He's neither, OP is just being retarded.
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"You will never represent, Raphael, a young girl's erotic dream. You have to resign yourself to the inevitable; such things are not for you.
The sexual failure you have known since your adolescence, Raphael, the frustration that has followed you since the age of thirteen, will leave their inedible mark.
Even supposing that you might have women in the future - which in all frankness I doubt - this will not be enough.
You will always be an orphan to those adolescent loves you never knew. In you the wound is already deep; it will get deeper and deeper.
An atrocious, unremitting bitterness will end up gripping your heart. For you there will be no neither redemption or deliverance"
How do I live a life without romance? I was able to ride the absurdist wave for about 6
months after reading The Stranger, but now depression and desperation caused by the desire for romance is overwhelming again.
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Either you join a monastery
Or how about actually getting in control of your life and finding romance. That quote from Houellebecq is quite wrong, you know. You can still find love after "missing out" on the adolescent love. And it will still be sweet. The more so, if you can get over all that's in your head.
Read "The Magic Mountain".
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>>9713815
Thought forms.
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>>9713815
Stop being depressed and desperate over a lack of romance (at the very least, try to be less outwardly with this feeling), it will erode any form of attraction anyone has towards you.
Romance is born through slow interactions that grow more meaningful over time. If you enter every situation with a lust or desperation it reeks of ill aims.
Learn to be comfortable with yourself as yourself, and others will feel comfortable around you.
It's clichéd as fuck, but really. Learn to be happy alone before you want someone else to take on your shittiness.
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What's so funny about this book?
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le 42 xDDDDDD
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>>9725648
its fun to recommend this piece of garbage to people and see they embarrassed enough to say its not funny
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Douglas Adams was a huge P.G. Wodehouse fan so the humour comes from applying that writing style to a wacky sci-fi setting. It sometimes doesn't land, but it works overall.
Its devout fans are annoying because they think it actually has something deep and insightful to say.
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I am a noob reading and am going to a bookstore in a hipster location
What books should I look out for
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the ones thrown at your head
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>I am a noob reading
what did he mean by this?
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>>9725645
>Noob at reading
>Hipster bookstore
>Tell me what I should get
Too many brainlets use this site FFS
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No.1 "the nightmare lord"
a boy starting high school begins heading down the path to being a bad seed and his dreams begin to affect this. One night he has a dream about an incomprehensible being whose very name cannot be replicated or even understood. This being seeks to enter the world by banishing his consciousness into the void and replacing it.
In order to avoid certain death he must travel through a twisted war torn version of his mind, assisted by personifications of aspects of himself.
the nightmare lord himself is a mass of flesh with one human eye and tentacles, who can change form by cocooning himself with his tentacles, melting himself, and reforming in any shape he desires.
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RE4 is fucking awesome.
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>>9725325
I know I finished it yesterday (on the wii lmao)
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>>9725298
Sounds like some navel gazing bullshit, so it could become pretty popular in the West.
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STOP
ENJOYING
LIFE
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>>9725247
He predicted me.
>one day someone will be born who's totality of being is nothing but the collective doom of humanity together
Or was that Zapffe? Either way, I can't read text.
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>>9725258
Doesn't sound like Ligotti, but Zappfe said something similar in Last Messiah
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What should I buy? What would you get?
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>>9724942
Of the books on the pic, I would get "Hologram for a king" because Dave Eggers is probably an all right author. Out of the selection at my airport, I would get an Orwell book.
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I'd go with the sellout, the noise o time, and then maybe sleeping giants.
that said, a lot of shit.
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alice munro is good too.
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I've never read a book twice until now. I usually get bored somewhere in the middle but this one I couldn't put down.
After finishing book six earlier this year I decided to read the first book just so read about Kellhus' origin again. Only wanted to read the first couple of chapters and realised that the lack of knowledge of the Dunyain regarding magic was already mentioned. the thousand thousand halls were also mentioned right in the beginning lol. also I didn't know how much doubt and difficulty Kellhus had in the beginning, while in the second trilogy he is basically god.
but man this story is so fucking good. the whole build up, the in depth characters, the fascinating relationships, the insights. especially Cnaiür has to be one of the best written characters. I've started book 2 again. will also probably read book 3 but not the others since they fall off in quality imo. it gets stretched too much while the first 3 books are very tight.
is this one of the most underrated fantasy stories?
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Speaking of which, the final book just dropped. Holy shit.
also is this accurate?
tekne>aporos>metagnosis>gnosis>daimos>psûkhe>anagogis
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Should have posted this in /sffg/, nobody in outer /lit/ will care. I once read the opening to the first book and thought that it was okay but I could see the series becoming bloated and bogged down in lore so I decided against continuing. Bakker seems to be a moderately respected /sffg/ author, I'd say the series is about reasonably rated. I didn't hate what little I read, but he doesn't seem to be one of the genre's greats either.
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>>9724949
The whole existential schtick behind the series is why he stands out. His prose isn't bad but he's no Gene Wolfe. Better than GRRM, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss and Joe Abercrombie combined though.
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so who else thinks the best part of reading of a book is going online afterwards and reading discussions about it.
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to me the best part of reading a book is then when you read other books that reference that book u know what they meant
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>>9724677
I like to lie on the ground at school and read.
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>>9724677
>read a book
>go online to talk about it
>people say you misunderstood the whole point
>actually they're just delusional and fantasized half of what they thought they read
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Where do I start with Foucault and what background do i need?
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depends, he wrote a lot of shit
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Start with gay buttsex and aids.
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>>9724632
You start by realizing his whole philosophy implies that you shouldn't read his books and you fuckin' laugh
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>Thirty – the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
I can't refute this.
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Houllebeq needs to grow the fuck up
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>>9724323
That's Virginia Woolf not Hollequck
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>>9724319
Except thats my 20s going on right now
im hoping my 30s is when i find my true self.
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First off, I don't come to this board often. I don't see anything in the sticky about this so I figured I'd start up a thread to answer my question.
I'd imagine there's the occasional writer here. I want to start up as a hobby (not really looking for professional work just to see if I like it).
My question is: what word processor is good for writing that isn't Microsoft Word or Google Docs? (I'd rather avoid the two of them for various reasons.) I'm on a PC.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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>>9724318
lmfao
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>>9724325
Don't hurt my feelings please. :(
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>>9724318
OpenOffice