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bc he's fat

>>8898862
He looks like he fixes the company servers at night

>>8900649
Top kek

He probably does. He explains how he does it to himself out loud while jerking off while doing it.

>>8898791
I seriously hope this picture is bait

feels like 12 years old

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Most of my books are in the guest room bookshelf at my parent's house but this is what I managed to take with me when I moved. More of my art books, edgy political books, WWII books and all my comics are back home.

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Honestly, VNs have really reignited my love for reading again. I think I got too burned out when I read almost 150 books two years ago.

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Finishing Céline's Exile trilogy. This is on par with Castle to Castle and North, so 8/10.

>>8898676
How does the whole thing compare to the two "main" ones? What about Guignol 's Band, have you read that?

my suicide not desu

The Decline of the West

>>8896667

I remember reading that one too and can't think of any articles (or blog-essays) this year that were as good a lookback to 2017.

Thanks for bringing it back to my attention since it's worth a reread post-election.

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>>8896047
The "we wuz civilized n shieeeet" myth.

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Dunno but posting comfy Bauer

>>8896061
They actually were fairly civilised. Its a classicist meme that they were brain dead savages who destroyed rome for bants

Are the flowcharts the essential without no doubt must read fantasy novels?

>>8893690
thats a great image

What is some fantasy with political intrigue?

I haven't read anything by a woman in 4 years

I didn't start with the Greeks.

The idea for a novel I'm in love with at the moment is literally just Blood Meridian and I know it

me jelly
Some of the stories the boys read on the analog livestream where pretty good
Care to post some?

>>8892733
nice hat

>>8892733
Based on the excerpt that was floating around on here when it came out, I'm going to have to say no.

>>8891085
Noted, thank you.

There's so much shit to read, you won't get to kill yourself.

>>8887764
Dilapidated virgin keeps diary, posts it online, kills himself.

A 2 act novel about a bunch of soldiers of the División Azul in WW2 (Spaniard volunteers fighting for the Nazis) (1st act) and how their acts affected people in different countries (Spain, France and Germany) (2nd act)

A zombie apocalypse overcomes a small Amish community and one Amish man saves the town with his wits, his bible, and his shotgun

>>8880517
>he plays video games

Yikes

>>8880523
But anon, maybe he plays them ironically.

>Meme shit
>Depressing shit
>More meme shit

What a good stack you have there, OP

teset

>>8877504
wut

>>8876431
Generally you've got a few spelling erros and there are some points where you seem to have missed out words. Early drafts and all that, but watch out for those going forward.

Broadly speaking, whenever I read sci-fi I always feel a little lost. This is purely me so I won't call it a problem, but I appreciate when a writer eases me into a sci-fi world a little more gradually. For instance, what does a mag-car looks and/or sound like? The hallway is descrided as just a hallway, but later it is a hallway of light, so establish it first so I have a clearer picture in my head. Introducing me to this world needs to be done step-by-step. Unless you give me a reason to I'm going to base everything off real-world examples, so don't let me go too far off target. Guide me.

The pamphlet feels like it's used too early. I'm going to assume this is going to be a longer piece. Consider either using it later or not letting your protagonist read the whole thing. It drags the pace down a bit. The point of it is that we learn Montern Solutions is interested in consciousness. We can get that info from a lot less.

There are few places where some cuts would be beneficial:
'“Aw, all this for me, you shouldn’t have,” I joked. The guard wasn’t amused.' Cut "I joked." What he says does the job of the tag.
“I sure hope there aren’t any cameras in here.” He says this out loud to himself, or seems to. It seemed odd. I'd cut this line and replace it with the character looking around the room to find cameras.
'We were greeted by a red door against an all white background'. I wouldn't use "background", it shows too much that you're thinking of this like a film in your head. Doing so is fine and helpful, but say "wall" or something else. People don't often think of things they are seeing in person as being a background.

Give Dr Roberts more of an entrance. I'd use the strangeness of the room here, too. You give a good sense of what the room looks like and mention the glass in the middle. The glass is important so elaborate a bit on it. Let the character be intrigued and examine it and then Dr Roberts appears, arresting the character's attention. This might even be an appropriate moment to have Roberts give the speech the pamphlet does earlier, since it's now much more relevent.

On the whole, shows promise. Keep at it.
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This is something in the early stages of drafting. Any and all advice/criticism is welcome and appreciated.

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>scatological
Anon, what trash books are you reading?

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https://youtu.be/PY1XtqmcCbM

Not a quote, but this was just posted and I thought I spend my last day with that talk

https://youtu.be/PY1XtqmcCbM

So study evermore is overshot:
While it doth study to have what it would,
It doth forget to do the thing it should;
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
'Tis won as towns with fire, - so won, so lost.

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Como criticism would be nice. Thank you already if you read it :)

>>8903175
Just post in the critique thread, newfag. Lurk moar

>CRAWLING IN MY SKIN

>I read a boring book
>I watched a good movie
>Golly gee books sure do suck

Good one anon

I tried to slog through The Dark Knight Rises but it's possibly the worst film ever then I read Brothers K and it changed my life. Why are films shit?

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