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>>8805785
What philosopher are you relaying? Is it Camus?

>>8805785
Go to /his/ faggot.

>>8805785
wicked

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should I?

>>8805773
It says out of stock right there...

>>8805773

just download the pdf off the internet

>>8805755
i read the loser, it surprised me since i read it effectively at random, i haven't read any since though i am extremely keen on doing so in the future.

>>8805755
>>8805818
The loser is great, that was my first Bernhard novel (read it because I'm a big fan of Gould). Yes and Old Masters are good too.

>>8805908
cool, gotta bernhard buddy, didnn't know about gould until i read the loser, incidentally, but boy what a treat it was listening to his variations with the story still buzzing around in there, it was great.

Think of all of the dipshits out there who aren't reading

>>8805745
Just think: I'll be bored either way, I might as well be bored in a productive way

Start with the really easy to digest and get engaged in stuff, like Stephen King and the Best Sellers or whatever else gets you going from 0 to 100 real quick. Just something that's light and quick and doesn't make you feel like you're suffering to get through. Something that's fun to read, that will make you actively want to read.

Then once you've retrained yourself to sit down and read a novel again, you can start reading challenging material and/or literary works.

Irvine Welsh is my go to. Whenever I've had a dry spell from reading the kind of books I want to read, but find myself yawning after only 30 pages of reading a "literary" work, I pick up an Irvine Welsh novel that I haven't read yet. His material is so easy and fun to slip into that once I'm down (usually two or at most, three days) I can pick up the Dostoevsky I've been putting off.

Not knocking Welsh btw. I love his works and I think he's a solid writer. I only bring him up because, personally, I find his novels as entertaining as watching a great movie or playing a great video game. So picking up a Welsh novel after not reading anything for four months doesn't make me shudder like picking up Gogol would.

>>8805708
Is cannacap natty or is it that bastardized lab shit that's a bit like bath salts?

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>>8805708
>reading on weed

>>8805711
100% natural. I get it from the dispensary.

>>8805610
also credit card and PIN general

>>8805618
What do you think the psychology behind my signature is? Or what kind of writer would I be, is what i mean

>>8805640
Big pretentious start, convoluted middle and a stale fizzle out of a finish. Says a lot about you & your writing style, my dude.

>>8805608
The Monk

>>8805609
go to the lit wiki you fucking pleb

>>8805612
meant for faggot OP
>>8805608

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>>8805601
>tfw simultaneously the underground man and rei ayanami

>>8805607
How many layers of autism are you on, m'dude?

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>>8805611
enough to chaik those fukin dubs

>>8805495
It was Goosebumps and the Hardy boys, although Magic Tree House took a close third.

>>8805495
Mine was Eragon.

>>8805495
Calvin and Hobbes and Goosebumps

>>8805481

Just add in a bunch of cliches and act really self aware about them. Make it post-modern, write about yourself writing the story, and comment on how it's such an "I'm trying to impress my first year writing teacher" thing to do or something.

>>8805481
talk some shit, imagine you're in conversation with a loved one who you make laugh a lot, and try to insert those scenarios organically into your stories. i dunno, just try not to take yourself seriously, and if you notice something that seems like it would be ripe for wit in your natural writing, then you should carefully insert a bit of embellishment without overdoing it. no one likes being beaten over the head with a joke. if you're not naturally funny in your work, it'll be hard to shoehorn that into it, godspeed anon

>>8805489
>Make it post-modern, write about yourself writing the story, and comment on how it's such an "I'm trying to impress my first year writing teacher" thing to do or something.
That's actually a pretty good idea. Thanks.

>>8805492
I've thought about making the plot ridiculous as one can be, just total nonsense (but easy to follow of course). I don't want to take it too seriously, that might ruin the story.

>if you fart in the right direction sometimes you can smell it coming towards you
>fists are chained to our farts, sailing winds blow smelly breezes
>ankles are chained to our farts, the slower we walk the greater the fart
>and lastly our soul is chained to our farts, as we live in them, we die in them

>>8805415
There
cold and abused lay
a lone chip who entered the fray
a collared bone, a loose collar,
a pulsating quiver in the array,
fulsome fistulas prance and flout,
praising cranberries rise and claim their clout,
I breathe with sausage and groan with beef,
a sailor's phrase your wife to queef.
we habit ourselves with mush and quakers
a tribulation for left-handshakers.
I breathe sausage,
and choke on beef,
My soul connives and flees its sheaf.

>>8805415
>first its slant rhyme
>then a full rhyme
FUG YOU :DDDD

>>8805340

Isn't gatsby a great armenian novel it's like 200 pages max

>>8805340
i would unironically read any novel written by allen iverson

>>8805394
just because it's in the title doesn't make it great

>>8805328
Step One: Get smallpox

>>8805328
is that a real statistic? if so....what the FUCK? is that why his country went to shit and he slowly went insane? cuz he was just spending all his time reading shit.

>>8805336
>stalin sir, we're running out of potatoes and vodka
>mhm, lemme finish this chapter, Levin is mowing grass, and call me crazy, but it's more entertaining than anything else in the book thus far
>b-but sir
>to the gulag.

Y E S
E
S

>>8805254
That price is really high, isn't it?

>>8805272
its literally a readable coffee table

>>8805232

there was a decent thread on this not so long ago

https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S8753225#p8767835

>>8805240

ignore the shit about guy debord, start at the top

How do I into Buddhism?