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What could he have possibly been asked that would elicit this kind of response?
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>>9027913
Watch the interview on YouTube.
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>>9027913
he was just in the middle of making a "huh" face
also
>dfwposts without even having watched the damn thing
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>why are you such a bad writer and a fag?
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>Read a book
>Miss all of the metaphors
>Interpret them incorrectly 9/10
How do I get metaphors correctly?
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>>9027874
Well that depends entirely on the book, doesn't it?
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>>9027874
You may be autistic.
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>>9027890
by pure coincidence, this time, this might actually be true.
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what book will give me the same feels as washer by slint?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yEgcb167k4
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>>9027701
my diary desu
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>>9027854
Kek
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Anything by Emil Cioran and Conspiracy against the human race
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What reading would you recommend to overcome my hedonistic existence void of meaning?
Alcoholism looms over me like a thick fog, it has trapped me into Self-deprecation through my drive to achieve, and what I occupy myself with ( e.g. genre fiction)
>Poetry, fiction, non-fiction are all welcome.
Please help me in helping myself
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Books can only take you so far. They can't fix your life for you.
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>>9027658
https://markmanson.net/best-articles
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>>9027658
Welcome to the pit, there's no escape besides deep self-analysis, consistent directed behavior, living up to your word, hard stuff like that. Feel free to stay down here with me though.
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Gentleman, it's Cliff. How can I better my book reviews?
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Actually analyze the books you're reading. Anybody can read Wikipedia summaries, but not everyone can offer genuine insight into the best of literature.
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>>9027645
Actually read them
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>>9027645
Wikipedia reviews are more in-depth though, and I'm not exaggerating.
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>he doesn't write in the style of socialist realism
Why are you a reactionary? Why do you hate the proletariat?
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I was just reading The Noise of Time a minute ago and this is spooky.
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>>9027642
because politicizing and poisoning with ideology makes for shitty literature
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>>9028179
Dialectical materialism is science not ideology.
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Is he right? Are these some of the greatest works known to this generally shitty species?
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>>9027497
Is that you?
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>>9027497
guy is so silly
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>>9027505
I'm almost certain this is you because of the Infinite Jest mention and neurotic aside about the translation of War and Peace he used
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I feel like there's not enough time in life to read. I don't mean like, a busy schedule or something. I've had time off from work or school for a couple years no, and I read every single day, but I've been thinking about tackling a book like infinite jest, and just how much time that book would consume. That's an enormous chunk of your life, it would take at least 2 months to read, if not more. Do you ever just stop and think, life is too short to read stuff that's that huge? I wish they would expand life indefinitely so I wouldn't have to worry about things like this.
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I enjoy reading good books more than anything else so why would i consider it a waste of time?
I like long books especially because they cover a longer period of your life, making it fun to look back on
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>>9027248
>At least two months to read
Is this for reals.
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>>9027248
Assuming you read 100 pages per day, you can finish Infinite Jest in like 1.5 week.
Of course, you can read more than that per day, if you're really hooked for instance.
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Where do I start with Laing?
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>>9027087
schizo bump
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>>9027087
pls
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>>9027087
The Divided Self
Also check out Thomas Szasz too
what was he trying to tell us?
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>hurr return to authenticity is only possible through some pseudoconservative individualist traditionalism
He should have killed himself sooner, we wouldn't have as many insular garabage liberalism.
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>>9027057
>he should have killed himself sooner
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i think he just wanted everyone to chill out and find a balance
and like smope weef dude
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FUCK boring """classics"""
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>give up on mason & Dixon and start reading problems of philosophy
>feel cleansed and have hope in the written word renewed after reading around half of it in first sitting
Oh, so THIS is what it's like reading someone who is utterly unpretentious and doesn't serve half baked shit while smugly safe in their knowledge that the critics and pseudointellectuals will automatically praise him due to marketing reasons! I haven't read something worthwhile in almost a fucking year.
It doesn't matter that it's non fiction. I really feel like cleansed is the right word after experiencing turgid shit for so long.
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You did it dude you cracked the code. Publishers and academia BTFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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>>9026885
>pynchon
>classic
so this is american education
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I can feel the fun coming off Pynchon's fingertips as I read Mason and Dixon. I legitimately imagine him sitting there, head tilted back, yelling "ohhh I'm funning".
And classic? Nigga you off it.
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Are there any literary publications worth subscribing to?
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>>9026881
Laphams Quartely is pretty good
Paris review
London review of books
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>>9026881
not really.
i guess paris review for the author interviews, but those get put up online i think.
the only people who read short stories are writers who want to publish short stories. and even then, they just skim.
yes, i'm projecting.
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>>9026918
You have no idea what you are talking about.
>the only people who read short stories are writers
What are you basing this ridiculous assertion off?
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>tfw you get spaghetti on your book
/lit/ feels?
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>tfw you order a book from hong kong and when you read it a dead bug falls out and you wonder what foreign pestilence you just inadvertently imported into your country
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>>9026835
>open the metamorphosis
>silverfish falls out
kafka was a genius
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>tfw you get book in your spaghetti
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hey /lit/ I wanna get into poetry rec me your favorite poems
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>>9026638
Just find poets whom you like and whose poetry you can relate to and appreciate.
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>>9026638
i like the wasteland. avoid bukowski
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The Crab Feast, by David Malouf
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>Read the book
>20+ hours of boring words
>Watch the movie
>1-2 hours of pure entertainment
>b-but the movie misses parts
Not an argument, it gets all the important parts in
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You haven't even provided an example that an argument could be built around
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>>9026604
Go eat shit.
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>>9026627
Sage this faggot baitshit.