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>>9271050
I exclusively read female protag YA fantasy about spunky nobles dissatisfied with the musty traditional mold their life is being fitted into, with love triangles.

>>9271050
I deal exclusively in level 0

>>9271050
lacks neo-baroque

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>>9271049

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>>9271056

Not too bad, very /lit/-core, but you've got other stuff peppered in there too. And think, once 4chan dies over the next 10 years, it will just become you-core

>>9271010
what. we talk about books here, junkie

get out of /lit/

>>9271025
this 4chan fitwit

(cont.)

>Part IV: he finally has a good income, meets a lot of influencial people, gets his own place, can do whatever he wants, fucks all the girls he wants.
>At the same time, he realizes his paintings are starting to be not as good as before.
>His depression starts to come back slowly.
>tries to find why he is feeling so lonely and empty even though he has everything he always wanted.
>He believes it's because he cant see the blonde girl anymore.
>He starts taking long walks in the mornings and notices certain patterns and parallelisms with his life.
>For example, he sees a couple other young hobos that look like himself, some other pseud kids that look like himself, some old guys that look like himself, etc.
>At the same time he starts feeling like the blue eyed guy that was once his good friend is stalking him.
>he then begins seeing his face in every billboard, every guy he sees in the street, etc.
>He starts to question his own sanity and decides to kill himself.
>He gets a gun and just before he shoots himself, he realizes that maybe the only thing he lacks and the reason he feels like shit is because he thought he had love when in reality he didn't, and when he actually had love, it got away from his life because of his own stupidity.
>He realizes his real love was never his ex gf or the blonde girl, but the blue eyed guy.
>He starts crying about how much he misses him and starts masturbating furiously to him.
>After he cums, he grabs the gun and walks towards his apartment's door and goes out, leaving an open ending.
>The reader doesn't know whether he is going to go search for him to ask for forgiveness, if he's going to kill himself, if he's going to shoot the blue eyed guy or what the fuck he is going to do.

It will be full of homoerotic innuendos and strong discussion on topics like sex, drugs, life, depression, religion, art, etc. After the end, the reader may also realize that our main character also started doing weird shit and having a weird life as he so strongly wished by the start of the book, but without forcing it. It all came eventually, in an unintended, natural and spontaneous way.

This sounds stupid. You sound stupid

>>9270963

I wouldn't make it past the first part. It's so cliched.

Be more creative. Art is a celebration of the imagination.

Jordan Peterson > Joseph Campbell

>>9270809
Naked Lunch, its all just Unknown and nothing is figured out

the hunger games. twilight, harry potter, maze runner...

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>>9270778
>I want to get into metaphysics /lit/
don't

>>9270778
People here will tell you metaphysics is dead. Whatever you do, DO NOT listen to them. Metaphysics is alive and thriving both in the analytic and continental traditions. It's a wonderful time to find yourself interested in first philosophy. Some recommendations:

The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Oxford World's Classics)
Republic - Plato
Physics - Aristotle
Metaphysics - Aristotle
Meditations on First Philosophy - Descartes
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Locke
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Hume
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - Berkeley
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays - Leibniz
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science - Kant
Prologomena to any Future Metaphysics - Kant
Critique of Pure Reason - Kant
Science of Logic - Hegel

This gets you started. Then the split between analytic and continental metaphysics commences. You won't have to worry about that until you finish these though. Good luck

Just read this and be done with it
http://www.umfernandopessoa.com/uploads/1/6/1/3/16136746/gr_eng.pdf

>>9270699
It's not even pop-sci, it's science fiction. How can you take something with Deepak Chopra praise on the cover seriously?

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>>9270699
>taylorposting
spare me

>>9270726
Anything is possible.

Put it online.

put a bit of duct tape on the spine

>>9270674
obviously you take out all the words that offend your pet political ideology

>>9270660
9th
>a personal account of WW1
Start off with something dark and realistic to bring them to reality and take further works seriously.
>intro to philosophy book
Once they're snapped into reality, go over some basic philosophy concepts to prep them for the coming years.
>Lord of the Flies
Take some of that philosophy and show why it is important to maintain order and ethics.
>political primer
Something that explains the core tenets of politics and what the different camps claim as important causes, and why.

>>9270757
10th
>Greek myths
Start with the Greeks
>Beowulf
Intro to Anglo-Saxon lit.
>Chaucer
Evolution from Beowulf.
>Shakespeare
Round out the year with everyone's favorite bard. I want this year to be sort of a "this is where we came from" vibe.

>>9270767
11th
>catcher in the rye
Angsty teens buckle up, you're not the first douchebag to feel like this.
>animal farm
Short and sweet- sometimes even the best sounding ideas can be corrupted.
>1984
Like Animal Farm but reaaaaally driving the point home.
>brave new world
180 reversal on the past two, but showing a world that still sucks. I want this year to inspire questioning of ideas, confidence in oneself, and what calling something "Orwellian" actually means.

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>tfw I do both

>>9270557
I do both. I have a Kindle I use fairly frequently and also own ~1,500 physical books I read.

Readers, why don't you listen to audiobooks?

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>>9270489
surely someone can answer this?

It gets memed enough on here

>neoreactionary

Is this an oxymorn?

>>9270625
no

Have a nice journey.

start again, this time it will be better.

>>9270330
noob

>>9269911
Go to wikitravel and think of horrible places to visit that have something worthwhile, like mexico. They give you huge lists of shit to avoid.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Tijuana

humorous example

>>9269911
Well just buy a ticket to the biggest shithole you can find that has an airport and write the essay about it.

>>9269872
The Colour of Magic.

Lords and Ladies

It's a very nice, very subtle, criticism of aristocracy.

>>9269872
Small Gods is my favorite Discworld novel, and one of my favorite books.

>>9269756
is that harold blewm

>>9269764
yea

>>9269756
>not selling your soul to google and usint their cloud storage option.