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>>9306414
just an academic department thing

because it is difficult to produce

Why in every other genre of music a median is known as a musician.......except in "grime"...they're "grime artists" apparently.

I'd rather be a writer then an artist..... but first and foremost i am a reader.

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>he hasn't read thee books so far today
Just pack it up, son.

>>9306410
Thats a symptom of ADHD buddo.

>>9306410
I have the same issue OP, I'm also seeking answer to this now, it might be normal or some mental illness

probably snow or some such shite like that

my diary desu

>>9306352
I didn't want to fuck my mum anyway.

Some self-help stuff.
A few books about learning to pick-up girls.
De Sade's works.
48 Laws of Power and 33 Strategies of War.

>>9306340

You asked for cringe, so cringe you will get.

Tantalize by Cynthai Leitich Smith - a YA book about vampires running a restaurant. While it's not an amazing work of literature or anything, I actually thought it was better than Twilight.

Legacy of the Drow - R.A. Salvatore went full fan fiction mode with a character of his own creation. If you thought Dark Elf or Icewind Dale were bad, this is worse by a huge margin.

Last on Earth trilogy - An extremely mediocre post-apocalyptic YA story that ends up being "dude aliens lmao" at the end.

Tomorrow, When the War Began - A post-apocalyptic YA series I liked a lot better than Last on Earth. I read this as a young adult and reading through the sex scenes gave me awkward boners at school.

>>9306364
Same on pua shit. Read models by mark manson. What are your thoughts on them?

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Lords of the Starship, by Mark S Geston.

it's a strange little novel that you used to find in every second-hand book store. the basic plot is pretty cool; post-nuclear civilization tries to climb out of the ashes by re-starting a pre-war project to build a starship, to escape the ruined earth.

some of these are memes but whatever

A Book of Disquiet is a book i like a lot especially considering what sort of dude pessoa was, for a dude who pretty much knew everything about everything he demonstrates this restraint that gets me wet every time I open to the book

Miss Macintosh My Darling: beautiful beautiful beautiful book, some of the richest language I've seen and imo on par with prose from the bible/moby dick/the recognitions. It can be a little much at times but it holds a special place in my heart

I personally also really enjoy Rabbit Run by updike. It's got some great American stuff in there and is leagues beyond anything Kerohack does despite his weird american appeal. the book also has one of the best endings for any novel I've ever read

Beckett's endgame is a little less well known than waiting for godot but has a little more to say at times, there are also some great productions online so you don't really have to do any reading persay your first time around

among more recent stuff that I think is worth reading is "seven ways of looking" by I think McCann which is a lot of fun if you like New York and jews and mysteries and wallace stevens

hmm people really shat on City on fire but I didn't hate it, actually liked the characters and the coziness of the setting. there were times where it did feel like underworld but there were also times where it did things that Dellilo doesn't do and performs them well

hmmm Jesus' Dream is a great little collection of short stories I end up reccomending to my friends who like gristlier stuff (that and nog by wurlitzer)

and the makings of americans by stein can't be understated in how important and amazing it is

Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
The Son by Philipp Meyer

And I never see Richard Brautigan mentioned around here, but he ought to be.

Start with the Greeks

>Virgil >Aeneid
>Ovid >Metamorphoses
>Catullus >poems
>don't bother with Cicero and Plautus
>don't bother without having started with the Greeks
>don't bother without having studied the history of Rome

>>9306337
Same question then for Greek literature

>>9306308
No, people who use pretentious as a criticism have their own pretensions of being humble.

>>9306322
not necessarily

>>9306308
Any criticism such as boring, thrilling, pretentious, base, etc. is useless. The critic should be able to describe things in such a way that another person can decide if they'd find a work boring, thrilling, etc. That being said, professional critics are easily the most useless people on the planet.

>kike-bitch.jpg

Aristocracy has theory.

>>9306292
no

>https://www.amazon.com/Bucky-F-cking-Dent-Novel-ebook/dp/B015CKNXZG/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1

Yes.

who cares

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>>9306291
>One morning last month, I called Professor Harold Bloom at his home in New Haven to ask him, among other things, whether he recognized the name David Duchovny.
>Bloom needed no further prompting to say that he did. ``He was one of my graduate students,'' Bloom said. ``I remember him as a pleasant young man.''
>Bloom couldn't volunteer much more than that. He was aware Duchovny is now the star of television's ``The X-Files,'' but said he'd never bothered to watch the show.
>I told Bloom that Duchovny, in one of those long ``Playboy'' magazine interviews to which the sexually charismatic are entitled, had talked about being in Bloom's graduate seminar on the Romantic poets when he was at Yale University in the mid-1980s.
>In the interview, Duchovny recalled that an annoyingly brilliant undergraduate named Naomi Wolf (who herself went on to achieve modest celebrity as a feminist writer, and more recently as advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore) had been the only student daring enough to speak up in class.
>Duchovny continued: ``Bloom was always bemoaning something in his lilting, sad voice, asking about what something would be like, and we'd all be silent, afraid to be exposed. But Naomi Wolf would raise her hand and respond, `It would be a world without adjectives.' And he'd say, `Exactly, my dear.' And I was like, I'm in the wrong place. Not only did I not know the answer. I did not even understand the question. A world without adjectives? I just didn't get it.''
>It was about that time that Duchovny, who was deep into the notoriously bleak playwright Samuel Beckett, abandoned his pursuit of a doctorate in favor of acting.

>>9306286
A general understanding of the history of phil.
Possibly some Heidegger

Why do people these guys? Need honest answers.

Autism

amazing

>We learn from this post that Thomas Pynchon was his favorite writer. Note that he adds "for sure," leaving no room for doubt.

b...b...but I'm an any moose

Czemu w każdym polskim threadzie na \lit\cie musi być wzmianka o Witkiewiczu? Jeden poster? Wszyscy anoni przeglądający chany są w liceum?

>>9306185
Pewnie dlatego, że pisał o narkotykach.

>>9306147
The Doll by Boleslaw (sorry, can't type the proper l's) Prus was great. Do his other books compare?

>>9306119
K

>dude sex lmao

hedonism, not even once.

>>9306119
i'm not usually the kind of person who says this but this is a very white guy book

Read the /lit/ wiki, choose a genre that interests you, find a book in the sub genre that interests you, read a book. If you want more entry level stuff check out /sffg/.

Just stay here forever, being patrician as fuck
Why read when you can be shitposting?!

: )

>>9305966
page by page little buddy. try to set goals and achieve them. if a book doesn't grab you, put it down, but always give it another chance down the line.

>>9305952
Well it certainly doesn't have more suffering

>>9305952
Pleb tier opinion

>>9306056
Purgatory is suffering, so it shouldn't be all that different. It's just that Hell is way more varied. You have the city, the nine circles, prehell, destruction caused by Crist, and all that Purgatory has is that mountain.