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>>9394077
I love the way he has multiple worlds connected through this big Cosmere with some characters crossed over. That just does it for me, along with his world-building.

>>9394077
Sanderson's stuff is borderline YA and I hope it doesn't have too much influence on the genre going forward.

>>9395369
>>9395706
I agree with both these points, and I would add that, although he's still very formulaic, the stormlight books have had by far his best characterization and I hope his writing continues to improve.

Thomas Pynchon

Thought it sounded cute and I'm kinda shy

>what's your pen name
I don't want people to know it's a pen name when I get published. :x
>what's the story behind it and why'd I choose to adopt it??
The story's rather uninteresting; I based the core of it off of a song that I enjoyed, mingled it with another name I liked, and then fit it all up with gematria, in a similar theme to the names of the main protagonists of the series I've been in the process of writing.
The reason I chose to adopt one is because I loathe the convention of fame, and I want to be known for the quality of work I produce, not the personality behind the work. Compound this with the fact that many writers I admire used a nom de plume, and you have yourself a pen name.

My initials.

>>9393948
>Shakespeare
>Corneille
>Racine
>Molière
>Plautus
We discuss them often.

If you mean broadway-tier modern playwrights, then perhaps you could check r/books?

>>9393966
Why do you instinctively categorise modern playwrights as /r/books?

I doubt you have ever really read them.

Eugene O'Neill
Harold Pinter
Tennessee Williams
Arthur Miller
Samuel Beckett

To name a few, are critically recognised as creative geniuses.

>>9393979
They're all great. (Not the guy you replied to). I woulda thrown Ionesco in there too.

>>9393947
Don Quixote, of course

Blindness by scaramango

>>9393947
Watch a bunch of Almodovar films, read a bunch of Lorca plays, and read Calderon's secular plays. Once you've done all that start reading his autos sacramentales.

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This. He worked so hard, got so far, then motherfucker fumbles the ball at 1 yard line.

As far as failures go, W&P is still a masterpiece, albeit flawed because he climbed up his own asshole.

This board is so polluted nowadays that you never know if someone is asking a sincere question or if they're just shitposting.

>>9393940
>>9394410
are you guys talking about his thesis on how a divine force is what carried out the entirety of the history and every actor was simply part of a huge mechanism aka God? I thought it was excellent.

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>>9393854
Daily reminder that everything is real.

>>9393854
you seem to be making an ontological commitment of some sort

Daily reminder OP is a faggot

>>9393816
he sure looks like one lol

>>9393816
Of course he is, he just can't say openly or he will be simply banned from the major medias, while being treated as a menace in most of the countries he often visits.
He just implies it every once in a while, the major examples has been his initial endorsement for Trump, which he then cautiously recontextualized in order to keep mantaining his credibility.
He does not think that this system can be fixed, nor he is satisfied by the current state of humanity: obviously he sees a potential immense crisis as a possible push towards a new global project, which hopefully will be less corrupted and fallacious than this one.

>>9393816
>Accelarationist
I don't know, but he's definitely a crypto-fascist.

>Medium
Stop advertising your blog anon.

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>>9393806

From the comments section:

"I suppose this is why you should not let twentysomethings who identify as “goth” write about grown ups."

Hit the nail on the head 2bh

>>9393798
yeh senpai just read textbooks desu

>>9393798
Let me rephrase this question:

Do I have the mental fortitude to learn two dead languages that are equally hard to master in order ot read some really really old books.

The answer is no.

Learn programming or maths, a useful language.

>>9393820
>Do I have the mental fortitude to learn two dead languages that are equally hard to master in order ot read some really really old books.
>The answer is no.
wtf are you talking about, lots of people have done this kys

Don't listen to this guy. Classical languages really aren't that bad. They're significantly easier than modern languages because you don't need to get proficient at speaking fluidly or comprehending spoken words. You'll be fine if you dedicate a bit of time to it. How many hours per week does a class take? Just read desu.

>Trump can't change his mind only I may change my mind

>>9393699
I've always loved this man and now i love him even more

>>9393699
>pseudo-scientist becomes pseudo-philosopher too
>name drops most basic philosophers
>shills his tv show
>bitches about trump for no reason
Yeah thanks OP, really restored my faith in le pop-science man

Does auroral intent mean nothing?

I thought barthes was a meme

>>9393708
Sorry I have a low IQ and have no idea what Auroal intent means or what Barthes means.

When will <political group I agree with> realize that 1984 was meant to be an instruction manual, not a warning!

>>9393509
1. get a job
2. stop playing games
3. stop baiting me
4. Socrates would tell you that stealing is wrong but so is giving money to an entity focused on robbing you of time and production.
5. Giving up the internet and focusing on reading is a great decision.

Ask yourself this question:

If you couldn't download it, would you buy it?
If the answer is yes, then yeah you will be stealing if you pirate it.

>>9393509
He'd probably say something gay like it is a crime but you should commit it as much as possible to stick it to society or some shit

>that that

>character hears a scream
>later realises he was the one screaming

Whats next?Vampire writers?

In the Miso Soup

A Wild Sheep Chase

I've only read four of them so far though

Which one is the best?
Which one should I read?

>>9393405
Fuck off gook

>>9393414
I'm mexi-talian trick. Spic and span.
But good poem
"Fuck off gook"
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Title: fuck off gook...

>>9393437
BTW north korea is best korea...