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Wow didnt know that. So do we know if his alter ego wrote the books or if it was regular him?

>>8913073

good bait.

>>8913034
Not a schizophrenic, he had a schizotypal personality disorder. People with this disorder usually have IQ in ranges of 130-140 though, so it's not all bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypal_personality_disorder

Gene Wolfe

>>8912971
>hard sci-fi, some more philosophical musings or just story-driven novels
hahahah oh shit nigga Blindsight (Peter Watts) will knock your fucking socks off
the sequal, echopraxia, is good too. Also try his Rifters trilogy, although it's first novel Starfish is easily the best. Watt's short stories are excellent too

Check out Ted Chiang. He's the author of "Story of Your Life" (written in 1998), which is the basis for the new movie Arrival.

Also, Greg Egan. This short story, for example: http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/

I think it's from 2009, so it's pretty recent. He also wrote a hard sci-fi novel called Permutation City in the mid-nineties.

he musta been getting paid by the word for that gig

Dickens is lush prose meant to be enjoyed for the tone and chase. There is a joy to be had in pursuing his thought process through a sentence like that in OP, and I don't know how anyone who professes to enjoy literature can see the matter otherwise.

>>8912957
His beard hangs right to balance out his left nut?

>>8912935

Quality > Quantity

Just imagine, living in a time when there was no genre fiction/etc.

Paradise.

Hes plato. When your plato you dont have to read books. You just read your own mind for pleasure.

>>8912947
>Odyssey
>not genre fiction

probably the most overrated american novel
>farmboy from the midwest uses wwi to advance socially
>falls in love with the stacy of stacies, who of course end up marrying chad
>with the help of mr shekelstein, he becomes a rich degenerate
>a bunch of people become roadkill
>gunshot.mp3

Yeah i read it. People say the great gatsby is "great," but I found it "not so great."

>metaphor too heavy handed
>fitzgerald cramming too much detail
>gatsby=cuck
>nick=slightly less beta

yeah its okay

if that's the case use a library, shitlord

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>>8912890
>buy a book
>read it
>throw it away because i already memorized every word in it

>>8912890
>not buying books to add to your library to look pretty instead of reading them

>due to his lack of success with them
why do women always assume that's why they are hated? is it because it makes them feel better about themselves?

>>8912891

They assume by default they're just as intelligent as men but never provide an argument for it.

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>>8912861
Probably influenced by an all male political homosexual power cult.

>>8912860
James Joyce was one of the greatest authors to ever live and he lived for farts. If anything farts make you smart.

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If God, if mankind, as you affirm, have substance enough in themselves to be all in all to themselves, then I feel that I shall still less lack that, and that I shall have no complaint to make of my "smelliness." I do not fart in the sense of smelliness, but I do the creative fart, the fart out of which I myself as gasser gas everything.

Away, then, with every fragrance that is not altogether my fragrance! You think at least the "good aroma" must be my fragrance? What’s good, what’s bad? Why, I myself do my fragrance, and I do neither good nor bad. Neither has meaning for me.

>>8912860
>the absolute state of /lit/ these days
When will kiddies go back to school?

>>8912858
my resolution is to submit more of my shorter shit to various magazines etc
as for reading, not sure. Ian M Banks?

>>8912858
Arkady <3

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HYPE HYPE

>>8912824
The wraith is omniscient and is mind-melding with Gately

There is a skull. Think Hamlet. Most likely, according to the will in an endnote, the Master cartridge was in the skull.

Wraith signalling. The details of each object don;t really matter. Getting to "JOI-possessed Stice versus Hal" at the Whataburger was the Wraith's ultimate goal.

>>8913006
wait, stice is possessed by James/the wraith?

I always thought that stice was simply the epicentre of the wraith's activities.

how does this reconcile with him getting his face stuck to the window?

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DFWs critique of pomo seems faceless to me considering he falls into literally every pomo trope possible besides the overbearing irony.

like, IJ is a mess of symbols, open ends, leaving interpretation essentially pointless. i like IJ, but there is no possible way i could summarize its themes or statement. i doubt anyone really could. which is fine, but when hes the posterboy for "new sincerity", it makes it difficult to rationalize the movement.

lolita

"If All Men are Brothers, would you let one Marry your sister?" By Theodore Sturgeon. It's from Dangerous Visions.

http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Robert-A.-Heinlein-All-You-Zombies.pdf

theres no such thing as artistic movements

Nothing of interest is going to happen till capitalism is destroyed, or capitalism destroys us. Something will be written in the former, nothing more will be written in the latter.

>>8912700
3d VR deprivation tank with burrito and sierra mist iv's and water proof real doll

>>8912635
>judging book by cover
very good

>he got 6 novels on Blooms Western Canon!!
>a jew praising another jew
Hmmmmmmmmm

>>8912717
it usually works
taste in art actually says a lot about a person

the exception is books where the author is already dead and can't choose the cover

How to take mdma is pretty good

>>8912624
MDMA doesn't make you happy, it just messes with ur dopamine and actually results in less happy person when it wears off, stupid. Next.

Not that.

Go for

The Golden Ass - Apuleius
Ethics - Aristotle
In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon - Edited by Bhikku Bodhi
Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli

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Used bookstores like this are such a fucking nightmare.

I just wish I had the time to go into a bookstore and pick up some book that has a 75% of being shit but is the only thing in reach on a massive pile nobody has ever had time to go through. Really they're just for normies that want to cream themselves at giant stacks of books because they only own five or so at home. For the kind of people that walk into a library and say "wow, I can't believe so many books have been written"

About 40

>>8912616
>survives end of the world
>OPs pic
>breaks glasses