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>>10027731
"How to win friends and influence people" is often being recommended. I haven't read it though.

>>10027731
Go outside and get a couple of drinks. Then try talking to a woman. You'll get embarrassed. Eventually you'll get better at it.

>>10027731

Harry Potter

Welcome to Extremistan

genre fiction is profitable. I know normie dudes who write garbage and make money off of self-publishing. What the hell.

>>10028123
Why aren't you?

I think the distinction you're proposing is not wholly valid and never really has been. Classical Greek prose, The KJV Bible, Dante, Milton, Journey to the West and some parts of Shakespeare were rife with the supernatural. Sci fi elements are present in most literary dystopian fiction.

I recommend Riddley Walker. A stylistically experimental post-apocalyptic novella set in a reforested England around 2000-3000 years in the future. It's written in a very Chaucerian future English and narrated by a local nomad boy who takes on his the role of local "shaman" after his father dies at age 12. He has supernatural visions, creation myths are replaced by destruction myths, and the whole book has very pagan and christian syncretic undertones to it. There is also a protopolitical element regarding violent conflicts between nomads and farmers, and commentary on propaganda and the separation (or lack thereof) between church and state.

>>10027768
Pilgermann by the same author might also be up your alley. It's about a castrated European Jew that has a vision of Jesus and goes on a journey to seek Sophia in Jerusalem. The landscape is grotesque and there's imagery strongly inspired by Hieronymous Bosch.

Self-hatred?
I found his book in the library by the way, but too spooked to borrow it - and I don't think I'm even that interested

Jewish self-loathing and self-perception as a deracinated tragic nomad race is very common, and racial science was common sense in Weininger's day

He went looking for the qualities of modern man that were decadent and sickly, in a world that universally had anxiety bordering on mania that modern man had become decadent and sickly, and he found them in the streak of Jewishness running through his nature and through much of the European intelligentsia, and he attributed that to a more essential characteristic, primeval femininity, at the same time that Freudian psychoanalysis was coming up with similar ideas and various theories of ancient matriarchy were popular in intellectual circles

Those theories, of human nature as situated between two poles of masculine and feminine essence, and of deracination, are very interesting and actually presage Heidegger's sentiments on the Jews

>>10027682
I wrote above you
I shit on Freud, but vaguely (emphasis) human nature might indeed be situated around two poles of masculine and feminine. See imprinted brain theory

>>10027648
you're a fucking fag, dude.

No, it's terrible. See the other, current thread about this book.

>>10027611
Good ol' Horny Hölder is definitely worth reading.

Reclam is for patricians.

Where do I go after Hyperion?

What is Holderlin most known for?

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

>>10027614
Perfect first entry for the grand prize: recognition from yournpeers

>>10027614
>t. H.P Lovecraft

>>10027596
start another book immediately.

>>10027596
do what you're already doing and ideally have a discussion about it.

>>10027596
I stay put reflecting about it for a while, then read a summary and look for some info that was in the book that was new for me. After this I start another book.

"It was a dark and stormy night."

"Things would never be the same again."

>The clock struck half past two.
>Well, once again things were happening in the Comstock family.

>>10027577
>And but so the did even until who does came
>They it all them be cry
Infinite Jest, DFW

don't you ever get tired of regurgitating the same old boring arguments on a theme? your life must be deeply depressing.
This is not literature.

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>>10027561
Uh... Well done?

>>10027561
Social justice warriors are not real outside some niches of the internet, you fucking moron. Now go back to /pol/ to complain about your boogeyman. There's no place for nazis here.

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>fiction

>buying fanfiction

>>10027500
>James Bond novel
>written by someone other than Flemming
>Sherlock novel
>written by someone other than Doyle
>Dune
>written by two people other than Herbert
>now this

This needs to stop.

Dumb frogposter

>>10027444
You do realize most appealing translation jobs involve translating technical documents / legal jargon? It's hardly a very interesting career unless you're autistic and autistically interested in whatever jargon you're translating. If you want to translate something popular, you have to have an established status/name to get paid or you translate for peanuts. If you translate obscure literature, you translate for peanuts. If you translate foreign films, you translate for peanuts. If you translate websites, you translate for peanuts.

Interpreting is more lucrative.

>>10027444
No, unless you have a decent grasp on a shit ton of other languages nope.

Shameless self bump.

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>>10027440
I'm going to assume you mean, 'niggas so black they purple'.

Wait, wait, wait, there was also 1 white male, 1 gay white male, and 1 asian man.

>>10027400
not my diary desu

>>10028041
this