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Virginia Woolf in my eyes.

Stream of consciousness is fucking retarded

That picture burns

hujiz horhe borhez

there's a homoerotic fascism nazi bromance thing on here. check the catalog

>>8877515
I don't want homo shit, I want friends going through though stuff and making it

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>>8877499
Nothing Gold Can Stay

>"if it has a movie/tv show, why should I read the book?"

The kid is genuinely smarter than you.

>>8877448
I have a 6 year old. I've read to her every night of her life. I read in front of her. And I even say things like "there are two kinds of people, those who read and those who don't. And you can tell who is who". I tell her our professional and personal success comes from reading. I don't allow screentime during the week or on schoolnights. I go to the library with them twice a week. I find out what her interests are and try to get award winners that suit them. Its basically full court parenting, and if that hasnt been done by the time he is seven, time to try something new, like programming or legos or some shit.

Tell him to start with the greeks

read the sticky

>>8877444
I have, friend. But I want a more in-depth answer.

>>8877427
Akutagawa, Dazai, Souseki are like the most essential

The beautiful and grotesque have a ton of little stories from akutagawa and is really cheap
I am a Cat or Daisuke by Souseki are good options (second is my favorite book is about a neet)
Run Melos, Schoolgirl and No longer human are the most popular works of dazai.

Cien años de soledad and La ciudad y los perros are better.

>>8877412
It was too surreal for me, I prefer stuff like Llosa's Feast of the Goat or War at the End of the World, or if we have to be surrealist, Carpentier.

Also >>8877437. Just because Solitude is meme tier in the general populace doesnt mean it isnt a work of Brilliance. Also, Borges' Aleph.

>>8877440
>>8877437
I think the overall build up of Solitude is brilliant, feels like a modern epic, is one of those things whose popularity is well deserved, even tho I enjoy more the narrative of chronicle of a death foretold. But the way Rulfo uses the language is unmatched in my opinion.

they provide a powerful insight into humanity; our culture, our history, our psychology. They're invaluable tools for navigating the world and living a good life.

I have nothing else to read. Any potentially interesting, or even "very good" contemporary novel is taking time i could spend on reading classic, that i may regret not reading on my death bed. Also i want to be highly cultured subversive individual, and quoting latin in appropriate daily situations fits perfectly to my imagined identity

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They never go out of style

Show us some of your work OP

BTW, you could partner up with a writer if you get stuck in the middle of a story. That must certainly help at the beginning.

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Here's my last painting.

>>8877538
Is that Sao Paulo at the back?

>>8877347
>(IPH)
>tfw the phenomenology of W suddenly becoming H

>>8877347
prefaces are always 90% padding

>>8877347
>idea per words
Wouldn't it be words per idea?

Read some R.A.W. (Illuminatus!, Prometheus Rising).
There are no real positive messages but it's an alternative that's easier to swallow than some Oprah tier life affirming bullshit.

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>>8877330

>>8877342
what is bullshit about something "life affirming" and faulkner is oprah tier as well.

I just post on reddit and get praised almost no matter what I put down

>>8877255

The "innate" talents of writing, the parts that can't be learned unlike grammar, editing and plot construction, are usually the result of your actual personality. Writers, even the most bitter depressed ones, had a great curiosity about the world and took the time to observe it and its people. They were introspective, but not closed off like an autistic. They read a lot, and took the time to learn from great authors not just practical aspects of writing, but actual life philosophies.

This is why I guarantee that those who spend most of their time of 4chan will never become great writers. 4chan just offers such a narrow view on the world, and many of us lack the emotional intelligence to create compelling characters.

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I just want to write shitty Warhammer 30/40k novels, but I know I'd never be able to get employed at Black Library because it's a nepotistic shithole. Also I'm a shitty amateur dilettante.

>>8877157
delete this shit

>>8877173
You aren't smarter because you read long books.

You force yourself to read these door-stopper snore-fests only for your own vanity.

You absorb less and less the longer the book is.

Do you even remember anything from the 'books' you read?

I do that. A LOT of the books I read are <300, even <200, short story collections, poetry, plays, etc. because I value my time.
I choose my doorstoppers very carefully always after reading another of the author's smaller books to see if I like their style. Read Tolstoy's short stories before trying AK. Not bothering with Wallace/Pynchon after reading their shorter stuff, no matter how much hype there is here.

literary theory is a bunch of retarded crap made up so that english profs can feel like their field is as specialized and inscrutable to outsiders as the sciences.

>>8877065
dont get me wrong i hate my professor / advisor as much as anyone else and think he's kinda fulla crap. but derrida was entertaining for a while. so were frye and trilling and sometimes barthes

Whoa...so this the power of the Playstation 4...

>>8877056
THANK YOU.
forgot about that book.

also
>The Waves
>Virginia Woolf

>>8877056
>Dostoyevsky
>The Brothers Karamazov.

>>8877106
"No!"

yeah, gass is a genius, its really good when he uses word-that-begins-with-letter next to word-that-begins-with-same-letter. how does he think of so many words that begin with the same letter? anyway it triggers my word asmr like nothing else.

>>8876961
Alliteration

One word:
Fart.

>>8876944
Kek

>>8876944
From what I've heard it doesn't follow the book at all.

>>8877015

Only loosely.