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>>9657250
Post a sample. I'm interested.

>>9657250
I honestly still need to edit it at least once before I'm confident enough to share it on 4chan (excluding the revision by an independent editor). What I'm about to finish is the first draft, so it's still quite rough around the edges.

I'm more or less just daydreaming here, as it's at least 6 months before it's ready to ship. So I'm sorry to disappoint in that regard.

>>9657332
Sorry, for some reason I quoted the OP instead of your post>

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>>9656897
Him, Ibsen, or Tennessee Williams

>>9656897
It's hard to judge him by contemporary standards because he wrote in verse. He combined poetry and playwriting in ways that modern playwrights don't, so it's hard to compare the aesthetic beauty of his writings to people like Miller and Ibsen,

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>>9656647
Tolstoy is the most disappointing of the "Best Writers of all Time"

the salvation of your soul
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>>9656647
World-denying monasticism mainly. Orwell's criticism of late-Tolstoy is pretty spot on. That Tolstoy averted suicide by becoming a self-righteous prick

Hardcover if available, trade otherwise, mass market never. Mass market just feels/looks too cheap and is difficult to keep the spine pristine, plus I can't read with one hand as the book is too small to stay open on its own.

I loath mass market paperbacks.

>>9656679
>>9656685
Dang, I didn't know there was so much dislike for MMPB here

>>9656425
>major works (Godot)
Godot isn't Beckett's major work, the "Trilogy" is. He translated the novels himself and they can be profitably read in either language.

>>9656454
What should Godot be read in?

>>9656459
He also translated it. If intent matters to you in that way, using French first had deliberately become part of his writing process, so you can read it in either language, or in both if you want to look for what revisions he made.

>>9655986
https://www.youtube.com/user/theblackponderer/videos

/pol/ will try and dispute this

>>9655993
I actually like this guy desu

>>9655986
Gregory Sadler
https://www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler

What do you mean by 'in a similar style to Misery'? It reads like you're talking about presentation/structure, but I'm assuming you're talking about the whole "captive protag, single location, maniac captor" thing?

>>9656167
If so, from the top of my mind there's Gerard's Game (also by King, with a similar premise). I'd be far more likely to recommend The Collector by John Fowles, which is my least favourite novel by my all-time favourite writer. A emotionally and sexually stilted young man kidnaps his local crush and holds her captive in the most polite way possible, hoping she may come to love him. The novel's told from both perspectives: the first half is focalised on the kidnapper, and the second half takes the form of the secret diary kept by the captive.

>>9656182
Both, the whole internalized horror is good but I also got hooked into the book because of the whole being held against your will thing

I want any suggestions, gonna check them out online and probably buy them tomorrow

The young man who held his crush I remember seeing a movie about that and it sucked but I'm gonna check the other one

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>>9655784

uncensored? physical? raw? like wilde intended?

>>9655784
Raw, physical and Wilde. What could go wrong?

didnt wilde stuff little kids? i think i saw it in a letter someone posted here

>>9655782
I'm not going to touch contemporary plebbit books until I finish the classics

>>9655802
You can read the classics and simultaneously read the
>contemporary plebbit books

You do know that, right?

>>9655782

I read it a while ago. All I remember is that the main narrator had this really obnoxious "dude bro" style and I hated those parts.

content example of one of which right novel

My name is Ichiro Takaji.
Eight years have passed since that Kimoi Man disturbance, now I am doing a special effects lighter in Tokyo. Even though it is said that the bite is a lifeline as it can not be eaten by itself.
But someday I will write a screenplay of super fun special effects that everyone admits and will create a historical hero like "Ultraman" and "Masked Rider".

One day, Holy will come to Tokyo to enter university.
The girls in the fourth grade of elementary school who had been watching Kimoi man with the eyes of yearning are now female college students.
She had grown into a ridiculous girl as she expected. It is the special effects nerd as it is.
This cute little boy is walking next to me.
Even now it does not change, I have a pleasant expectation to the Holy Father who calls me "Famous for Ichiro." I wonder if she will be my girlfriend. I was walking through the streets of night and night while being delusive, and I happened to encounter "eye" by chance.

Their name is Ba · Gross.
It appeared in the evening night city to defeat the evil, it was a mysterious hero who is making the world a noisy.
That life - sized hero is back! Weakest hero is back!

wakarimasen

>>9655659
Isekai is the John Green of anime.

>>9655666
Google translate makes anything bad.

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You've got your work cut out for you. Here's a useful post:

>read MARX. capital is very concisely and repeatedly described as following circuits. then read ADORNO to get a sense for how political economy inscribed itself into thought, and especially philosophical thought. finally read FREUD to understand how he situates the unconscious, NIETZSCHE to break any last romances you have with metaphysics, and then you can read DELEUZE AND GUATTARI to put it all together in the machinic wonderland continental theory was always heading for. after that LAND is almost legible; you should know about SPECULATIVE REALISM as well.

Heidegger should be in there as well somewhere along the way. And Foucault. And Baudrillard. And -

/lit/ isn't entirely wrong though when they say Start With the Greeks. Stoics, Plato, Aristotle. It takes a while to catch up with the 21st.

Fun tour, there. For starting out, Tarnas' Passion of the Western Mind and Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence are worthwhile reads.

I've surely made this sound harder rather than easier but I basically have devoted myself to wasting my life on this stuff. The books are great, you will become old and crusty, you will have nightmares, you will have a wonderful time, om shantih shantih.

t. clusterfucked humanoid

>>9655645
Thank you for the recs and the advice.

Will Land make sense when I finally get to him? I looked through meltdown and I like the cyberpunk aesthetic but it made 0 sense to me.

Also isn't Freud controversial/wrong in most ways?

>>9655629
You can only escape being a pleb when you realize continental philosophy is almost worthless and start diving into analytic metaphysics.

>>9655569

I bet you give really great blowjobs, Anon, you sure know how to worship a cock.

>>9655564
He wrote the novel that he wanted to write and did his best. He didn't placate to any particular audience (especially established, traditional or classical literary academics).
It was just another novel, it had some merits and it had some weaknesses just as every work does.
No need to freak out

>>9655569
Wallace, is that you?
You know that "reverse engineered the novel" doesn't mean "going in reverse".
I think the word you looking for is "undo all progress".

>>9655516
Yeah, there's nothing really wrong with this post. Not everyone on reddit is a complete liberal pseud, but most of them are.

>>9655516
cringe

>>9655516
Fuck off reddit cancer
KYS your self

>>9655108
Say lavee

>>9655108
advertisement and luck.
you're neither genius, lucky, nor notorious. three strikes, kiddo.

>>9655108
Because of stupid fucking memesters like you.

and there's something terribly sad and banal about that

t. Good Old Neon

>>9655084
BEE get your salty ass tf out of here