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Ignore the top book

>>8885521
>potatoniggers in charge of not being delusional

>>8885360
so called classics were the pop novels of the time.

how the fuck do people find classics 'boring'?

>>8885388
This! Stuff like Dickens and Tolstoy aren't fun but the Greek epics? Milton? Melville? Dante? Joyce? Come on

>>8885093
cucking is the basis of western culture, deal with it

Are there any un-cucked writers?

This thread is Kafkaesque

How are esslemonts malazan? I know like Erikson he isn't a trained writer so I'm not expecting much but how terrible out of 10 is his writing?

Good adult 1person fantasy? I'm a noob here.

Anyone here read Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay? I would like some recommendations for other books where the characters are written as good as Brandin.

Went from writing fanfic to being commissioned to fix other people's fanfics. 20 bucks a chapter is nice, more depending on how much I change.

I'm not a eugenic literature phenomenon, or a breakout author, but I never have to worry about money.

>>8883801
why do people spend money to have someone fix their fanfics?

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>>8883792
Because of both personal reasons and yet-undiagnosed paranoia (which is personal too, I guess), I won't provide answers but, instead, words of "encouragement":

>I will travel around the world and live the sustainable, successful NEET lifestyle.

It doesn't happen often but, I, kind of, understand the feeling. I really wish you manage to live the "lazy" life, that in itself is a great achievement. Maybe, if you're interested in the topic, you could read a little on the lives of both Bolaño and Cioran, the former because, for a while, he survived solely because of his talent by constantly winning (small) prizes, though, like that, he didn't live particularly well. The latter because he considered his greatest achievement to do "nothing"*.

* "You know, I’ve written very little, I never assumed it as a profession. I’m not a writer. I write these little books, that’s nothing at all, it’s not an oeuvre. I haven’t done anything in my life. I only practiced a trade for a year, I was a high-school teacher in Romania. But since, I’ve never practiced a trade. I lived just like that, like a sort of student and such. And that, I consider the greatest success of my life. My life hasn’t been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing." http://www.itinerariesofahummingbird.com/e-m-cioran.html

>>8892323
Just read some overviews of the mythology (taking everything that's said with a grain of salt) then read the primary texts. For the funerary texts- Pyramid, Coffin, Book of the Dead- be sure to get Faulkner's translations, not the really outdated ones of Budge.

Lubicz & Naydler

>>8892331
Thanks for the heads up.
It has seemed so far that literature of Egypt isn't as large or reffered-to of a bibliography compared to the other Mediterranean civilizations

>he didn't start with the greeks
everything is water, dude.

>>>/b/
>>>/mlp/
>>>/trash/

b-but, memes have points?

>>8891905
funny

Twhen Atlas doth naught shruggeth

>>8891837
The pre-Socratics.

Heraclitus and Parminedes

>>8891837
you already have

>>8891837
By shooting yourself for even being interested in such a hack.

You can start

>>8891810
no u negro

i read basically nothing this time around

why? cos reading for numbers or experience is stupid. what you ought to do is read a handful of extremely important non-fiction works and study them closely

>>8891769
holy fuck this makes Pepe fucking nervous and anxious and sweaty lol

we must find a way to make Pepe less perturbed

>>8891782
he should probably put the book down lmao

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>>8891789
lol i just imagined what Pepe the /r9k/ frog of virginity and anti-normiedom would look like if he were to put the book down

here is the closest representation (he's relieved because he doesnt have to read anymore)

>>8891622
I AM REDPILLED AND AGAINST ALL LEFTIST THOUGHT

>>8891622
Brecht (stage works)

The Good Person of Szechwan
Mother Courage and Her Children

Shalamov's short stories (conservatives like Solzenytsyn tried hijack them, though):
http://shalamov.ru/en/library/

Must read: Isaak Babel, Andrei Platonov, Ghassan Kanafani, etc.

Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano

If you want a sensitive, historical/poetic vision of the world.

DON'T FORCE YOURSELF

READ AT A TIME WHICH SUITS YOU

>>8891600
REEEEEEEE

>>8891597
no I don't.

>>8891559
nah i aint a fag

during gravitys rainbow i began to zone out, then i realised the main character was inside a toilet and was dodging massive turds and networks of ass hair connected by dingleberries, that was enough for one day

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>>8891559
I had it the first time I really the refrain from "The Stolen Child" --

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

You do know those books are for children with attention spans that aren't long enough for reading the Bible yet?

The Horse and His Boy and the Silver Chair are as comfy as fuck and can even be read without having read any of the other novels.

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>>8891492