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You're what I like to call, an insecure "loser".

probably because your gay

you know they're gnomes trying to steal your stories. never lend them books; they will come back with all the words removed. very few can see this.

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Nothing but pessimism, regret, and her.

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>>9035941
>Shit, what am I going to make for dinner?
>I hope that giant cockroach in my bathroom doesn't peep on me again.
>If I keep my window open will that let out dried up cum aroma?

Kind of want to just get it over with and fuck a prostitute but I'm afraid the experience will irrevocably corrupt me

>>9035786
my bulky cock did when I read Ulysses

>>9035786
depends on the books I guess, especially when it comes to hardcovers. while my hard cover KJV is pretty comfy to read/hold, my hard cover ulysses is pretty uncomfortable to read/hold

but for me bulky paperbacks are usually more comfortable in general though to hold, read, transport, etc

Yes. I often read holding the book in my hands. Impossible for textbooks, near impossible for thick hardbacks, and difficult for thick paperbacks.

>>9035768

my diary. im here all week.

nah senpai

Nope. None at all.

No I wish, I live at the ends of the earth. Come back tonight or tomorrow and tell me about it please anon-kun, I will be reading the book in my desolate wintry hovel

Auster is one of those authors like Richard Yates that I've never been able to get into. His stories feel trivial to me.

>>9035979
What do you mean by trivial?

>>9035667
Braille

>>9035667
The original Italian one. It's poetry, so don't bother with translations.

>>9035667
best edition? for me banes & noble.
best translation? there is a whole chart discussing this

>>9035659
Is this bait? It's gotta be, right? I don't what's more superficial, your knowledge of literature or films.

You don't need our permission to try out a book on your own, anon. Palahniuk generally isn't considered "literary", but who cares? Most of us read pulp every now and then.

>>9035738
I know I don't need anyone's permission but I got a gift card for a bookstore and I want to use it to kickstart my reading habit by getting a physical copy of something I'll really enjoy. I want to try the Karamazov Brothers but think it might just end up in my shelf and I would also use all the money from the giftcard on it.

Just post it in a critique thread you fucking idiot

>>9035428
The only one up is intended for poetry.

>only to impose their will through force or manipulations

stopped reading here,,

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'no'

>>9035380
Oh my gawd, Romantism is like sooo "Gothic" - it's too ugly and outdated.

We are not exactly having a renaissance right now, and I think I know why....

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>>9035380

no
merit? hahahaha

>>9035357

His manifesto touches on some really coherent points, but fuck me he bombed some really irrelevant people

>>9035357
He was right but power hypothesis was taken straight from Neechee

>>9035283
Good work, Anon - and fine thread, too.

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>>9035283
>tfw too /lit/ to be male

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>tfw too straight to be /lit/

humor is the lowest form of entertainment

>>9035122
>Ayoade on Ayoade
That being said, you'd have to be an Ayoade fan to enjoy it

>>9035016
Events Ambassador.

>>9035016
He should be deciding how much credit to give you.

>>9035223
this

>>9034961
Infinite Jest

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>>9034961
Also Jude the Obscure

I think he's talking about /lit/ here.

>>9034913
yes, but i think "classics" will only be seen in retrospect as defining the culture of a decade from the POV of 2070 or something
prior to the digital era media didn't circulate as quickly or become as dissected as quickly, and less of it was produced with less speed

Anon, you haven't learned anything. This monologue of "books to remember", this single narrative of history, whether in politics or in art or in anything, that thing is over and it won't ever come back not anywhere near us anyway. There won't be canons or consensual list of classics anymore, success itself is debatable and never conclusive. Andy Warhol was talking about 5 minutes of fame 60 years ago and you still don't get it. In 20 years, about ten thousand books will have a fanbase of their own that love them and think they are the best books ever, while not even conscious of most of the others. Everyone will be a writer and everyone will be a reader, there will be niches of different stuff, no university will agree with each other, each city with a taste, each group within a city with a taste, each social segment, each perspective. Everyone's taste will be a cult underground taste next to the taste of the next person, but at the same time it will be super mainstream and obvious within your own circle. You'll post books that are published today on a taiwanese mahjong discussion board (but now in 4D) and other anons will shit at each other discussing whether it is a classic or pure shit and guess what, they'll all have a point and they'll all hold onto what they get. Liquid times and all that shit. Get over it. There won't be any new "classics" or "masterpieces", not because they'll be crap, but because we will never settle the discussion on whether they are crap or masterpieces, like people from the long gone 20th century might have thought of someone like Shakespeare or Homer.

>>9034944
>Get over it.
But if it's at all aesthetically objectionable then it's also feasibly resistable.