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You should take his advice.

>>9294231
fpbp /thread

I don't know if this is a weak bait or not

>>9294146
>>9294146
Michel Tournier
Lermontov
Llosa
BEE
Ligotti
Marlon James
Coetzee
Ryu Murakami
Mishima
Foucault
VS Naipaul

>>9294163
terrible taste

Yes it's shit

yeah it's ogre

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>>9294056
The entire first page is just smashmouth lyrics
what the fuck

no i am

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ur like a babby

...so just walk up to her and say Hi, I'm Will. Trust me buddy, you'll be drowning in puss.
Later: Hey girls, Will I am BRAAAAAAP

truly, there's little else

>>9293968
For the prose

>>9293968
reading novels for virtue-signalling purposes

>>9293933

Couldn't even get past the author's name

>>9293933
With covers like that? idontbelieveyou.gif

>>9293933
>My literary accesory of choice
>Literary accesory
Beautiful.

I am halfway through the plague right now. Good stuff.

Not a book but check out lars von trier's film "Epidemic". Really underrated

>>9293915
Read the beginning of the Iliad, it features a plague. Then read the rest as well because it's pretty damn good.

>>9293915
Journal of the Plague Year

>>9293899
I'm not really into magic realism myself, but I think Murakami does it better.
Its pretty genre fiction tier

>>9293899
I do. Midnight's Children is by common agreement his best, and I enjoyed Shalimar the Clown. Haven't got around to the Satanic Verses yet.

I think Gunther Grass does a similar kind of magic realism better, though. The Tin Drum is magnificent.

Also there's those wacky South Americans, obviously.

I like him. Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses, and The Moor's Last Sigh are excellent. Not too enthused about his latest stuff though.

>>9293760
Gender is a social construct.

Assume a feminine nom de plume, and profit

>>9293760
This explain alot(degrading quality of modern literature for example)

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nuff said

>>9293719
used to, but then realized I can even highlight any interesting part of book and I end up with nothing.
Also audible is fucking DRM hell.

No, I hate hearing the human voice.

>>9293742
Interesting. What is it about other human voices you dislike compared to your own?

>>9293538
Hui Neng based as fuck.

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>>9293547
Yeah because he was black

>>9293559
It is your mind that is black

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The Fellowship Of The Ring

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>>9293394
The dead Father

After some self-deliberation he’d decided to rest. He could barely stand the thought of stopping, and knew full well he’d hardly sleep, but night was encroaching on the mountain side, and he couldn’t risk losing his horse or injuring himself. His goal was far too important to let himself behave so carelessly. He couldn’t make a fire, and so he just huddled up beside his horse against the mountainside, covered in all the clothing and blankets he’d had with him.

He emerged from his cocoon, and to his surprise, came face to face with the sun. The birds sang pristine and practiced notes that set his anxious heart to rest, and allowed him to contemplate his goal at least somewhat calmly for the first time in a long while. He knew he was close now. He knew that, if his friend were truthful, he was finally headed toward closure, and that he could finally live again, free of his obsession.

>>9293382
The prose seemed quite fragmented. If a stylistic choice, than good on you. But if it is not intentional i'd add some more filler.

7/10

Also, please critique a previous post if you post.

>>9293336
>the faint note of the cathedral’s bells suffused
through my ears; the beautiful ding-dong being sent off from the bells heard only by myself
Don't say "suffused through," the word "suffuse" itself has the connotation of something being borne "throughout" something else. Also, the semicolon is grammatically incorrect. A semicolon separates independent clauses; the phrase "the beautiful ding-dong being sent off from the bells heard only by myself" is dependent because the main subject is "the beautiful ding-dong," so the thought does not complete.

>The plebeians surrounding me unaware of the dazzling sound
"Faint" and "dazzling" are rather antonymic.

>Too often are they absorbed by their own trivialities, therefore they fail to notice the events occurring outside their purportless world
If they are absorbed in "trivialities," their world is by definition without "purport," i.e. they lay emphasis on the trivial. Further, the meaning of this sentence is expressed in the proceeding "Looking around myself..." Cut this.

>The looming skyscrapers above me instilled an odd sense of dread; their imposing silhouete imposing a certain minuteness in my stature
You call the dread "odd," then go on to describe exactly what causes it. Get rid of the "odd."

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>write something
>make a 2 hours drone song using feedback, ctrl+c, ctrl+v and audacity
>???
>profit

>>9293327
HEATHCLIIIFF
IT'S ME IT'S KA-THY I'VE COME HOME NOW
IT'S SO CO-HO-HO-HOLD LET ME INTO YOUR WINDOW

ive written many songs about you op

Any John Green book

>>9293224
The Bible

>>9293224

You cannot transcend humanity you dunce. You can, however, attempt to descend towards a more primal state, though the very nature of language will stop you from fully becoming animal-like.