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>>9336887
No, but he's good, and Catcher in the Rye strikes a very specific chord to many people, and it is one of the best books in American literature. Too small an output to call him the greatest

>>9336887
Why was he so mistrusting and reclusive? He had a fit over some high school interviewing him then it being published in major papers, which made him go full on recluse.

My father actually met Salinger a few times as a child since he stopped for gas at the place he worked at as an attendant. He said he was a tall and imposing figure who would barely talk to you. Had at least two dogs in his car most times that yapped like crazy. Also said his manager specifically told him not to bother him or bring up his work in any way. My aunt also continued to live in that town and would see Salinger as an old man with his wife (caretaker?) in the grocery store up until he died. Said he became a cranky and decrepit old man who scowled and complained to his wife. I have always been interested in him since due to this connection, but I still can't quite figure him out as a person.

>>9336887
Damn right he is, OP.

>>9337034
>My father actually met Salinger a few times as a child since he stopped for gas at the place he worked at as an attendant. He said he was a tall and imposing figure who would barely talk to you. Had at least two dogs in his car most times that yapped like crazy. Also said his manager specifically told him not to bother him or bring up his work in any way. My aunt also continued to live in that town and would see Salinger as an old man with his wife (caretaker?) in the grocery store up until he died. Said he became a cranky and decrepit old man who scowled and complained to his wife. I have always been interested in him since due to this connection, but I still can't quite figure him out as a person.

I don't believe your story, anon. I'm sorry.

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Gravity's Painbow: How a Reclusive Writer Did His Best Work After Grizzly Murders

How fucking cool would that be?

>>9336873
>Everyone, who wants to be a good writer, should give it a try
- Thomas Pynchon

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>>9336821
>STUNNINGLY racist

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-camp-of-the-saints-immigration_us_58b75206e4b0284854b3dc03

>>9336821
I've been curious about this book but am unsure if I only know of it because it is racist or if it is actually well written

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>>9336857
I've read passages. It seems like both

Medea?

Anything by Solanas/Dworkin.

>>9336787
Isn't having no internet a perfect excuse to read, well, books?

Why would you ever listen to audiobooks in any situation other than driving and sports? Are you illiterate?

>>9336807
Not OP, but I'll venture an answer...
1) Audiobooks let you get into the text in a different way
2) They are cozy
3) They can activate a certain ancient "storyteller by a campfire" mood that is very immersive
4) I tend to read very rapidly. The slower pace of a book read aloud helps me to focus more deeply on each aspect of the text.
Etc...

Yeah

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To me, she's cute in a homely sort of way. Not beautiful, but with proper lighting, such as in pic-related, she's moderately attractive.

>>9336799
she still look like some weird man

i think it's pretty straightforward

>>9336706
I wish someone would make a laboriously cited comic of Lovecraft's Childhood and marriage. Yukio Mishima as well.

>>9336706

>Teleports behind you

>"queer"

the greeks

>>9336666

Are those digits evidence of Allah?

>>9336666
Nice digits, seems like you were predestined to receive those.
Start with the old testament.

>>9336663
Yeah it's pretty fucking awesome. Just don't get addicted.

start with the pharmaceutical opioids

>>9336663
That book made me gay lmao. Read his other stuff he says that heroin(opioids) is the drug that fucks you off the most. Don't do it.

So play videogames all day, you insecure cunt, nobody cares.

>>9336588
>Be a good person/don't be an asshole
If there is a God but will only judge you well if you worshipped him, then He is unjust and you should not care.

If there is a God and He will judge you purely base on how you lived then you will be judged well and thus have a good afterlife.

If there is no God and no Heaven/Hell, then at least those left behind will remember you fondly.

>Worried about society perceiving you as important or not
There's your problem. Fuck society and do your own thing. Be based. I write genre fiction. /lit/ seems to hate it, but I don't care. I've gotten a couple low-scoring reviews, and that's a shame, I truly wish they'd have enjoyed the book as much as I enjoyed writing it, but ultimately I don't care. It's just unfortunate that I had the opportunity to bring joy to someone however because their views/interests did not coincide with what was in the book, it was a missed opportunity.

Still I will continue to write what I enjoy, because I find it fun, and it just so happens to be making me a bit of money. I anticipate that as time goes on and I continue to self-publish that I will continue to make more money until my 'bit of money' becomes 'a lot of money' and simply for doing something that I enjoy just about as much as...

>>9336704
playing videogames. Making money by writing, for me, is like making money by playing videogames. In a sort of roundabout way, I am kinda doing what I dreamed of doing as a child in the 90s; making money by playing videogames and fantasizing about having a room FILLED with N64 cartridges. N64 was the shit.

If there is meaning, then there exist actions that are right regardless of what that meaning actually is, and there are actions that are wrong regardless of what that meaning actually is.

>>9336568

I live in my parent's comfy isolated basement where it's peaceful and quiet and not a shithole urban hell.

You'd be surprised at what you can get used to.

>>9336568
My outside is quite, but if yours is loud you could stay inside when you want to read.

Practice is the only way to greatness.

>>9336502
If youre mediocre you will always be, deep down. If youre not, you cant be.
But your definition of the word is probably different than mine, so...
>READ MORE XDDDDD THAT WILL CHANGE YOU LMAO etc etc

>>9336502
>No cringy American self-help bullshit
>posts pic related, who has only become popular today via people selling the 'stoic mindset'/self help marketing.

You're obviously a newfag. Leave.

yeah, I know the feeling

I have a large pile of books spanning different topics and languages that I recently picked up from the library, but I keep refreshing this shit hole of a board instead of reading them.

lets log off and go read for a few hours and come back and be holier than our peers

>>9336373
Cool blog faggot

If you were really leaving you wouldnt make a thread

You're here forever.

>>9336453
Suck my boyclit, loser

>>9336303
First light books with many reps.
Then heavy books with few reps.

>>9336303
Read everyday classics until you start getting them. Everyday, no exception.
Literally treat it as you treat your workout program.
After 2-3 months reading will be effortless,mfrom there you can start your education in whatever field you're interested it.

>>9336319
What is an every day classic?

>>9336300
I can't prove that. But the best proof I can give that it is just an unnecessary meme is that collector fag's thread & the fact that most people who recommend you read through the history of philosophy as if it's a skill tree haven't read the books themselves and are newbies/dilettantes.

>>9336300
desu the best way is just read whatever you want, understand nothing cause no backgroud, start getting the background until you understand
so basically either you will find people which require no background (La Rochefoucauld, and Plato basically), or people which require a shitton of background (pretty much most of modern western, desu, just read Apology, Republic, Nic Ethics, and you will be pretty much versed in the most important stuff).
It is a total meme to force yourself to read all this stuff, reminder that scholastics had much less of it back then and probably were much less pseud than anyone who shouts 'START WITH THE GREEKS; READ ALL PLATONIC DIALOGUES AND ALL WORKS ON ARISTOTLE'.

tl;dr just fucking read whatever you want, if you don't understand stuff, just read secondary stuff, and if you want to learn more - background

>>9336348
This, you can tell dilettantes by seeing their bookshelves in the bookshelf threads where they have an entire pantheon of the 'canon' to schlick their prostate to but 0% is read.