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>>8816415
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J R
smugglers bible
mason and Dixon
the virgin suicides
vurt

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Grapes of Wrath
Catch-22
Dharma Bums
Franny & Zooey
Crying of Lot 49

>>8816428
your age is showing. didn't even have to list it tbqhwy

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>>8815655
>this picture

You found a picture with pancakes and a golden retriever in itt and all you could think to do with it was post it with the full quote? Really, OP? A little subtlety goes a long way.

>>8815655
BOOM BOOM CRASH

BOOM BOOM CRASH

I woke up this morning

Mamam made pancakes. She also adopted a dog, a Golden Retriever.

>>8812623
"REEEEEEEEE!!!!!" the cuckold screeched upon learning that his wife had tricked him into raising someone else's kids for the past 16 years.

At a time that swells antefore any old time we can think to, in a place that’s two away from any one fingerbreadth, within and without, was a loud and awful vastness that had no ends; no, nothing could be there for to be there there would need to be a there and there was not, not there.

>>8812623
"Only one novelist remained; two if you counted God."

Captain Underpants definitely played a role, but Harry Potter was what really got me into novels. My dorky elementary school self loved the idea of a misfit in glasses suddenly finding out he's the chosen one

>>8810895
Deltora Quest, Horrible Histories and Thomas Holtz's Dinosaurs.

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>>8810895
Also this

http://www.salon.com/1999/04/12/wallace/

Off that list I’ve read Omensetter’s Luck and Wittgenstein’s Mistress and both fit your need perfectly.

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force it in her butt. she'll thank you later.

>>8827668
>girl I want to impress?
Recommend her your dick.

What is your thread about, op?

>>8827575
It's about a charlatan who read a charlatan and copy-pasted a quote from his wikipedia page with a reference to his shitty concept in order to give the appearance to strangers on the internet that he is an intellectual.

>>8827582
you have some serious fucking problems

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>>8827262
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>>8827262
IRL is a postcyberpunk pomo disaster narrative that's way better than anything on TV. You got NEET nazis, demented tech oligarchs, messianic transhumanism, Deep state infighting, conspiracies galore, Jihadists, recursive simulacra, Paranoia, those wacky Russians, technokapital wrecking the human, impending ecological collapse, pharmacological mass control, and lots of other Cool Shit.

>>8827262
Has reading the news ever made you better? Has it ever taught you virtue? Has it ever made you happy?
I stopped reading the news because I felt it was making me unhappy, it was wasting my time and on top of it all, I felt like it was actually making me worse.
Do what's right for you - don't fall for the "you have to read the news to be an informed citizen" nonsense. Nobody else is looking out for your health, especially not that of your inner being, which means (in my opinion) that you owe it to yourself to take care of it before anything else, be that politics, local or even world affairs.

>>8827249
Just read the navidson parts. Believe me, itll be much more enjoyable.

>>8827249
Skip everything that involves Johnny asides from the intro. I'm not kidding. It doesn't add a single fucking iota of quality or meaning to the book, it's just shitty forced-postmodern garbage.

The main body of the text is pretty great though

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>>8827283
>>8827359
Don't listen to these idiots OP.
Buying it's the best choice. Any copy you might manage to find at a library will look like it's been dragged to hell and back.

has old cob-corned corncob mccobthy finally kicked the bucket?

will we finally be rid of this hack's corncob chronicles?

if only

>>8827003
could this year get any worse. RIP

>>8826952
i also want to know

guys

do you think we'll ever find out if this book is good

i hope we do

The opening letter is the best part, would recommend. Otherwise, it's a decent read. All the advice you'd get in it is common these days (although labeled as cynical) so that's not really a reason to read it. If you like books like the book of five rings then you'd like the prince

Virginia Woolf or James Joyce. Even Nabokov and John Williams for some more contemporary but still stylish prose. A default answer would be Henry James but most if not all of his books are awful.

>>8826802
My diary desu

>>8826848
Post an entry, then

>>8826578
discernible talent.

>>8826584
i don't see it.

>>8826588
Exactly.

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Slobo mi te volimo

Both great fantasy picks, keep it up

Milosevic did nothing wrong

John Keats was technically proficient but ultimately unoriginal and a minor poet at best.

/lit/ is the worst board on 4chan

Scifi is degenerate

I despise speech-giving characters in fiction. It seems so lazy and sloppy to just have the character open their mouth and say what the author wants to get across.

Not only that, but it seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of the novel, depending on the purpose. You're not writing an essay. You're not out to prove a thesis.

>>8826147
That's fair. I'm doing this in some short stories for the record. I don't think I'd be able to stomach too many monologues in a full-length novel.

My intention with them is not to explain what I want to get across, but to open up something more oblique and buried-down that would come from a character rambling. I'm looking to expose more uncertainty rather than offer a "To Be or Not To Be"-type-conclusion.

>>8826176
but I also don't want to just use them to fill up space. Hence the question about finding guides for techniques, or just other prominent examples in fiction.