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Sounds fun lad. I wanna go to Puerto Rico to eat burgers and drink rum like HS Thompson in Rum Diary.

>>9608383
>the fishing really was unreal
elaborate.
>at least novella length please.

>>9608383
Hey OP
Went there with a friend in midmay,had a great time
Super cheap,beautiful girls,very friendly people,super historic


Did you go to cojimar? Or hemmingways house? I didnt get a chance to see either but took a bus from Havana to Trinidad and i dont regret it for a second

do you think he fucked dogs

>>9608112
Nah that would be needless effort he probably just got them to lick his balls

>>9608142
that's actually quite smart

>>9607933
imagine actually thinking like this, what a sad way to be

I disagree. It's not exactly "straight-forward" (at the very least not chronologically) but it's also not endlessly deep and referential like Ulysses is.

>>9607933
Explain what the book is about as succinctly as you can OP.

>>9607823
the new testament?

>>9607823
Ode to a Nightingale by Keats

>>9607823
Ode to a Nightingale by Keats

The opening paragraph and the title should be the very last thing you write. A captivating first sentence is hard to come up with on the spot, don't hold yourself up with that, start with something generic like "it was a cold day in April" or some shit and go from there, then go back to revise everything and see if you find a better thing to start with.

>>9607752
eh fuck it man, sometimes the first sentence is just a vehicle.

Just start in medias res

>>9607746
>accord way too much importance
isn't this redundant?

fuck you a. p. go to sleep drunk

>>9607746

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>>9607665
Tolstoy

I'd recommend an inspirational self-help book.

>>9607665
The Myth Of Sisyphus

to the extend of

>the whole meaning and poetic value is distorted, but if it creates something new that's still beautiful, who gives a fuck

>>9607612
what a horrible looking white nigger

>>9607623
i'd fuck him

Who am I to judge really but I think it's cliche.

>What happened then with John is mere speculation.
>John? Who knows?

>>9607524
That's okay I just need to know if it's grammatically correct
The book is not fiction, I would never write fiction like this

David Wong please go

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>The Guns of August
It's a bit dated now. I would recommend The Sleepwalkers from Christopher Clark instead, but bear in mind this is a book about events before WW1 and it contains a shitton of details. As for a good general overview of the war, A World Undone by G.J. Meyer worked for me. Then go for specific books addressing fronts and battles that interest you the most.

>>9607399
Thanks for the recommendations, Anon. Probably gonna read them in this order: Sleepwalkers > Guns of August > World Undone. Got some comfy nights ahead for me!

dunno about the actual war years but i recommend paris 1919 for the aftermath

the caterpillar exists only to consume the Jewish media and destroys himself, Eric is very redpilled and it really makes me think that while the holocaust never happened, it certainly should have.

That desire is a productive and insatiable force, far greater than any need like mere bodily hunger. The caterpillar realizes that when his needs for food, water, sex, etc. are all fulfilled, his need for that which is absolutely Other will never be satisfied. Not even the "metamorphosis" of his body can cure him of the unappeasable lust for alterity.

>On Friday he ate through 5 oranges, but he was still hungry

Such a pleb. It took me less than 2 months to get through Ferdinand and that was a more difficult read. Step it up son.

He's gonna sort out the western canon? Fuck this guy.

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Adler's list is classic. Be interesting to see how much Peterson differs from this. Obvious inclusions are going to be Jung, Piaget... what gets cut out though?

https://thinkingasleverage.wordpress.com/book-lists/mortimer-adlers-reading-list/

>>9607068
This list looks alright but it's very lacking in poetry

>>9606831
the status of genre fiction is a distance problem in the dimension of time, you see. one gets a tad myopic from staring at things too close to themselves.

>>9606860
I thought that, too, until I started reading The Expanse.

Yes, you should go to the source rather than paltry imitations

>>9605985
Because /lit/ is filled with unemployed philosophy grads and entry to philosophy students that feel extra angsty

>>9605985
they fell for the meme

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>>9606011
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Discuss.

>>9605908
I want to read it so bad, but the Cátedra edition is so expensive.

>>9605972
Steal it from the web like everyone in latinamerica. Also what do you guys think about octavio paz?