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>>8940631
His short stories are the only books worth reading with a few exceptions. His novels usually start out good and then turn to shit.

>>8940631
from Maine, please let Stephen King die. Maine is so obsessed with him out of some sort of identity crisis. And from what I've read, he's awful. Though it seems possible to make good movies out of him.

>>8940631
I just read the first 300 pages of It, and I really can't tell if it's better or on-par with The Stand.

>>8940585
>caring this much about meme literature

stop shitting up the board

>>8940598
Epic meme response, my friend. Well said!

>>8940603
stop reading fantasy

>>8940500
You can read most great poetry for free online.

>Shakespeare
>W.B. Yeats
>Alfred, Lord Tennyson
>Basho
>Issa
>Oshikochi no Mitsune
>Kikaku
>Keats
>Milton
>Homer
>J.R.R. Tolkien
>William Blake
>Emily Dickenson
>T.S. Eliot
>Ezra Pound

You can start with these. Unfortunately, I don't know any Hispanic poets to suggest.

Perhaps someone else can make those suggestions.

>>8940500
If you start by going backwards, you'll hate it. Poetry is the verbal music of the epoch. The only reason to go backwards is to accumulate the academic foundation for a degree. I think Keats is great, but my appreciation is academic. So unless you're the kind of reader who thinks it's really exciting to know that his buddy Trelawney plucked his charred heart of his funeral pyre on the beach, you will probably find Keats to be dated and obscure and irrelevant.

Most poetry, in fact, is all three. What academics discover, though, is that they occasionally find one here or there whose work sounds like something they wish they had thought of, and they become fans.

Personally, I dig Marianne Moore and Mark Strand. And Robert Lowell. And Dylan Thomas.

If you search wide enough, you might find two or three you like too.

>>8941727
Nonsense. I can understand why you might have this opinion, but, honestly, it is a shameful stance to take.

For starters,

>Most poetry, in fact, is all three (dated, obscure, and irrelevant)

is just plain hogwash.

Most poetry cannot possibly be irrelevant as it is dealing with themes which will be relevant to man as long as man is man.

Dated, only in language perhaps, and a great deal of poetry does not fit this description.

Also, some of the appeal of past poetry is its language - precisely because it is dated.

Obscure, maybe, though only due to how generally ignorant and unread most of mankind actually is.

>you might find two or three you like too

Or ten or a dozen, or one hundred. You're projecting your own experience as expectation.

>>8940465
>female
>autism
>fuck you
no she wasn't

>>8940465
Because I've suffered severe brain trauma.

>>8940465
the NAP is trash and dissolves morality

my diary desu

independent people by harold laxness

>>8940294
dammit

Richard Dawkins

Johann Kaspar Schmidt

Stefan Molyneux

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What else is necessary?

>not reading in a hot bath with an ereader

D E G E N E R A T E

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is it bad if i use chewing tobacco when i read

Demian

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>>8939505
Readin' some books.

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>>8939505
Read some books.

The Nag Hammadi library. Kurt Rudolph's Gnosis. Jung's Seven Sermons. Campbell's Masks of God series is excellent, go read his Occidental Mythology.

>>8939470
Yes

>>8939478
What am I missing?

>>8939533
a brain

>>8939345
Idk but I heard Father Seraphim Rose is good

>>8939403
Hey thank you my guy.

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The Orthodox Church - Timothy Ware
The Orthodox Way - Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
Bread & Water, Wine & Oil: An Orthodox Christian Experience of God - by Archimandrite Meletios Webber
For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy - Fr. Alexander Schmemann
Living God
Sayings of the Desert Fathers

>>8938912
sure is.

>>8938912
No.

There is a connection between people and creativity.

Crazy fucks exist in every hobby/career.

Grendel, especially upon deeper review, via the portrayal of life as a continuous sequence of philosophical enlightenment and consequential reactionary growths.

Also for many on this board Crime and Punishment went a long way towards actualizing the internal conflict of the ego and its projection onto a society in which one finds themselves ostracized. The ending is ideological cuck bait though and undermines a great point about the inevitable psycho-social reprisal Raskolnikov must face for his transgressions.

>>8938865
it may sound unusual: the völsunga saga

>>8938865
Illuminatus!

What are you waiting for to come out in 2017?

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How do you kill a dragon?

>>8938652

Miles Cameron - The Fall of Dragons
Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
Brian Stavely - Skullsworn
Scott Lynch - Thorn of Camorr
Robert Jackson Bennett - City of Miracles
Peter V. Brett - The Core (passed the point of no return)

A whore

>>8937605
Tell me more

I miss her. Though, I suppose I wouldn't really want her back. Only as to win her back to break her this time. I'm angry at myself, but she takes the brunt of it. She's a manipulator and a liar, she admits it too, but I still stew over this and wish for things to seem as though they once appeared to be. Reality be damned. I just want my dreams. Now it all comes down to this. I blame myself. I blame myself for drinking and laying it all out there, laying it all down in front of her, everything I had known and suspected deep down. It turned out I was right, but I guess it never really feels good to be right. You win an argument, but you lose a piece of yourself, and sometimes someone else in the process. Well, I've been driving myself mad, drinking, though I swore it off. I have no shame. I've been stewing on this, blaming myself. But for what? For being right or finally having the guts and the decency to lay it all out on the line and finally get some honesty from her, and hell even a little honesty to myself about what I was believing to be true. God damn it! I'm done with the truth. I'll never ask another whore for the truth and I'll never lay it all out on the line in front of a whore. I'd rather be naive and ignorant than to be right.

>Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 – March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer

dropped

>>8937777
b-but, he's the next gene wolfe!

>>8937777

He's the best short fiction writer since Borges, easily.

>>8937782

Not even close. Lafferty and Wolfe share only thematic elements tied to Catholicism. Their styles are almost polar opposites. Lafferty is much more of satirist who flirts with absurdist tendencies. Wolfe is a symoblist.