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meme

>>8999246
Rebel, polymath, libertine, philosopher, mountaineer, chess player, poet and a monstrous narcissist.

Still, it's irrelevant to dwell on his personal qualities when he was such a good writer. As we know, all the best writers were bastards, and he was hardly the worst.

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>tfw to intellgent too be limited by dimenisons

Start with Bayan Shiryanov.

>>8999002
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5027034.Bayan_SHiryanov

You yanking my chain, friend?

You could start with a smaller book like One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch or A hero of our time.

I am now just picking whatever stories I want instead of following the book. I must warn you that I am a fan of speculative fiction so my choices may reflect that.

Suggestions are welcome.

Future stories I thought of:
>The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (7,204 words)
>The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
>The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury (4,426 words)
>Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury (2,436 words)
>The Looking Glass by Anton Chekhov (1,605 words)
>The Bet by Anton Chekhov (2,706 words)
>The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol (12,196 words)
>The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin (9,946 words)
>A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf (692 words)
>Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell (3,283 words)
>Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood (7,128 words)
>The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway (9,165 words)
>A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2,848 words)
>Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

Authors I need to pick stories from:
>Vladimir Nabokov
>Stephen King
>Lovecraft
>Asimov

>>8998932
>Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin
>Stephen King
Reddit
>Lovecraft
Reddit
>Asimov
Reddit

>>8998943
Pnin is a novel, so probably going to have to pass on it. Any short story of his to recommend?

His head is fucked.

>>8998908
He sometimes writes good work, and sometimes writes trash. I wish he'd stop talking politics though.

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>>8999009
another speeding car to the head and he'll be just fine.

>>8998891
I read a bit of HOWL in the library out of curiosity.
The emotional content seemed legit, at least

Pedophiles do not feel anything. they're like zombies, or fish. they cannot be good poets.

Ginsberg was a pedo

Ginsberg was not a good poet

>>8998939
Shut up faggot

>>8998692
To Autumn by Keats

It's pretty easy to memorize

>>8998692
Do not go gentle into that good night,
et caetera

ozymandias

the second coming

look up readings of them on youtube to get thee strseses right

>>8998536
The Misanthrope

Gulliver's Travels

>>8998536
Just study history and current events

>>8998523
>now

what took you so long?

Why did Kirillov bite Peter's finger?

>>8998523
how is this about liberals, how does it portray liberals badly? Liberal just means Free +the theft of taxation spent undesirably ,you dont hate Freedom do you anon?

Who is this demon demon?

>>8998476
Some raspy cunt whose whoring herself out for the alt-right. I do like her lit stuff that her channel used to be about though but apparently she's a bigot.

>>8998458
>3 months ago she randomly began posting exclusively alt-right content

really makes u think

nobody cares fag

>7/8/12: People generally have an aversion to abstract complex problems. This is why problems are often simplified and presented in narrative format [in modern media] so that it can hold the public's interest. The problem for the presenter is that if and when more people look into the problem is more complex than originally presented and interest inevitably fades.

>9/16/12: Liberalism is most prevalent among college students because after growing up believing in the validity of judeo-christian morality, they discover that the world does not operate according to those principles but instead of accepting this, they attempt to reform the world to act by those principles.

>>8998451
desu it's not that cringy. You're probably only embarrassed because at the time you thought you were deep as fuck lol. Seems like shit Joe Rogan would say if he was a little more elegant

>>8998352
Race doesnt exist, its a social construct, I dont see color

legally colorblind, coincidentally

>>8998352
Criticism's of it is that race has been scientifically proven. Groups of humans will have genetic similarity and thus have similar biological, physical and mental traits. You can even simply tell by observing people of different races. Different races obviously have distinct facial features, heights etc.
>inb4 where does one race end and another begin, checkmate
Yes the edges are blurry but its the same with colours, when does red end and orange begin? cant tell? Well then colour is a social construct.

>>8999135
agreed.

What are some novels in which the protagonists overcome great obstacles and fail?

>>8998312
most cormac mccarthy books

>>8998287
>>8998312
What are some novels in which the protagonists overcome great obstacles and pre-fail?

pmub

boipussy

I'm reading this book at the moment, the first 50% or so, which is still about 350 pages, are probably my favourite pages in any book. I'm about 75% in, and the next 25% are still good, though it does slow down, but a big event just occurred so I'm hopeful it'll pick up until the end.

The style is fun. Some characters are so goddamned pompous it's hilarious, and most of the main ones are really well fleshed out, Settembrini is great

Ibsen and Hamsun, m8.

Strindberg too, but he is Swedish. Still, isn't Norwegian very close to Swedish as a language? I remember one of my Norwegian friends tell me that they could understand Swedish almost perfectly.

>>8998173
This book is based

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_(Hamsun_novel)

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Great book.

“Wasn’t Pan sitting in a tree watching to see how I would comport myself? Wasn’t his belly open, and wasn’t he hunched over so that he seemed to be drinking from his own belly? But all this he did only so he could cock his eye and watch me, and the whole tree shook from his silent laughter when he saw that my thoughts were running away with me.”
― Knut Hamsun, Pan

>At last I have truly become... The Stranger

Call me Moby-Dick.

>After a tragic car accident, the salesman died

Literally shaking