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maybe reading dusty old mid 20th century histories by nazis and commies isnt the best place to start

same problem. I'll be watching this thread as well if answer pops up

>>9621166
Someone I always advise in threads like this is try not to go for something too "heady." I get it, you come on /lit/ and you see nothing but Pynchon, DFW and dense old Russian literature and you want to dive right in. But just like everything in life, you ultimately have to work your way up to those things.

Pick up an easy to read, mass market paperback, something that looks half way entertaining that you can breeze through. It's not about the book so to speak it's to get you used to the "mechanics" of reading.

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I do but I have too many fines to use it.

>>9621153
Libraries are full of genreshit and homeless niggers looking up porn on the public computers.

>>9621153
>he doesn't have his own private library

wew

you rack disciprine

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>>9621147
I don't. I sacrificed my teenage years embracing loneliness and delving into my deepest nightmares to create something meaningful to me. Every day has been consumed by creation and now I suddenly stopped producing anything at all

why you rant be writer anyway

why you no want be engineer or doctor, those good jobs

hm? why you always thinking

>>9621092
>More like meme pickups thread.

What is the point of these threads

>>9621102
I needed some new doorstops

>>9620998
Not the worst way I've heard it put.

to be a great philosopher is to answer the question on your own, not based on someone else. that's how you write a great book, and not just another commentary

>>9621028
Nice reading comprehension

>>9620852
I love Fascism too, and Hitler is my hero as well.

Fuck the bluepilled drones who can't appreciate this.

>>9620852
>Hitler, who starting out totally disenfranchised rose to total power while scorning wealth (aristocracy) plutocracy to the end.
Yeah, tell Rohm and Strasser that.

>>9620856
Wrong sir, you take the red(communist) pill in order to understand the hero cult of Trotsky. Dumb /pol/tards can't appreciate this.

>>9620783
It can because it is.

>>9620783
Hey, I have that edition. It's really nice.

>>9620783
Tolkien fell victim to the same fate that befell Lovecraft, where all higher meaning behind their works have become buried under a fixation on their aesthetics.

>>9620775
I'd rather do something else

>>9620786
I said, but my sister Catherine was having none of it, she was insisting that we go to Jack's party...

>>9620801
Jack, pulling out of the crying girl, noticed his father burst into the room.

Adorno the Terrible, "Gas All Jazzmen"

>>9620722
ask /classical/

>>9620743
I don't just want to focus on classical music

Orlando

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>had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog

>>9620500
The Bible

find your pants

>>9620428
no reason to

>>9620433
do u have lots of money

if you have money you don't need pants

but you need pants to make money

also your eggbag will be cold in the winter, pants are a good scene

bill maher and anne coulter are actually friends

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>>9620329
I indeed thought it was an interesting book and I plan on reading it again sometime. Yeah some of the stuff is weird and cliche, I even remember that scrawny hikinomimi (or whatever it's called) otaku guy finding a short katana (tanto?) or something like that, and it's just... dumb. The feral children thing is also incredibly stupid; people deciding to live like zombies even though they're technically alive? Then there's the whole 'fake cure' thing that gets a guy super duper rich even though it does nothing. Can't remember the Israel stuff, but the thing with the guys with the sub (Chinese) hooking up their ship's engines to some kind of archipelago community to give them power is pretty cool, then they chill there and are treated extremely well for providing power to them.

This is the most important part, though... it's this book that introduced me to the song 'I was Only 19' by, what was it, the Rumjacks? Anyways, absolutely Godly song, didn't even know Australia had a part in the Vietnam War, and for having introduced me to that song I will always be grateful to some degree of World War Z.

I also found the Zombie Survival Guide to be very entertaining in my early-mid teen years. I recall at the back of the book where it has historical fiction short stories of encounters with the undead, there's one scenario in Canada, specifically BC I think, where this one woman with an M1 Carbine ends up cornered but with slow and careful aim and no small amount of self-discipline, she dispatches... what... 13 of them with her 15-round mag? Something like that. Pretty cool read.

>OP writes zombie book
>Gets rejected by publishers
>Sees success of WWZ
>Rages about it on /lit/

Shouldn't you be on /soc/?

You're a fucking woman aren't you?

>>9620238
Fuck, you're a skinny girl with above average intelligence.
>Tits or gtfo

>eating nutritionless tasteless shit

Chess Story is always a good place to start. Surprised Zweig is on top.

>>9620218
beware of pity is my favorite...zweig is wonderful.

This from a man who enjoys Mann, Joyce, Borges, and Musil.

>>9620255
>>9620260
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>>9620170
i'm still in awe that pic related happened. people are so stupid

>>9620236
This is exactly what I had in mind.