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why should someone read this book
why should we have been aware of it before now

don't just post the cover of a book and expect us all to swoon

>>8798421
the girl i love gifted me this book. i read until the 50th page or so, but it just doesn't entertain me. and not just this, dystopian/utopian (or other sci-fi, fantastic, "un-personal") books do no longer entertain me.
does it get "insightful" and/or personal in later chapters?

>>8798427
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6kbU88wu0
>>8798436
oh well it gets interesting in the end
also it depends on the translation I just read it in Russian cause I am bad at English

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/195547/we-by-yevgeny-zamyatin/9780812974621/

Meteores don't have genders though

>>8798380
Exactly the kind of ignorant filth someone who's never fucked one would say.

>>8798378
Tournier is good fun... wtf are you on about ?

Rip to him.

Also, for those familiar with the Sandberg, would someone who has finished it still be classed as a beginner in general or an intermediate?

i'm thinking of doing sandberg too

how confidently can you read stuff like newspapers after doing it? how long did it take you?

>learning a dying language
Good luck pham

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Nature is not our enemy

Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored

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...Nature provides a platform...

Art should be what civilization is

The design process needs to flood the world with its intent which means more artists and more art than ever before

>>8798278
>Nature loves
how many levels of ideology are you on?

>>8798250
must be a spoken dialect thing. in my own people sometimes start sentences with "aye, naw, ah know" (yes, no, i know)

>>8798507
Have you read IJ? It doesn't read that way at all, and things like this only happen in narration. There are several examples within the first pages alone:

>and but so
>and so but
>and but even then

This kind of thing happens throughout the novel, why?

>>8798250

In addition to what >>8798507 said, I've heard Wallace justify this usage as what he called a 'compound conjunction', in other words the connective, concessive, and logical functions are all intentional

>>8798249
post the first paragraph/page of your piece

>>8798259
It was a poem.

>>8798274
post it

>>8798231

Those are shit topics senpai
Metamorphosis is a novella anyway so
I'd go with The old man and the sea with the topic Victory and defeat

Heart of a Dog

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01JKQ1QU2

Male sadism is fucking boring. It had better not be more LE SUBVERSIVE male sadism.

If you're getting your morals from books then there is probably something wrong with you already

inb4 a million "haha that includes the bible" comments, keep your fedoras sheathed

>>8798270
Many people get their worldview from reddit, that's arguably worse (and these people then consider themselves better informed than the rest)

>>8798133
Bad enough this board is heavily colonized by redditors without turning it into a literal subreddit. Just go to /r/books if you want a circlejerk so bad.

This community could not exist without anonymity. There are other places to discuss you writing with out anonymity, not least of which are IRL writing clubs.

>>8798152
This. I troll philosophy threads. I'm an all-star in my craft. A couple of days ago some fucker got so mad at my trashing Deleuze's "obscurantist prose" he gave me a 3 or 4 post long dissertation in defense. I haven't even read Deleuze.

Removing anonymity would crush those magic moments we all love.

No matter what interpretation you believe, the fact that a detective contacts him about it and is investigating the case undermines it.

It's just a poorly written book. That's it.

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>>8798059

I thought it was meant to be a bit of an erractic read, like the start where its so boring with all the materialist listings and a slow deterioration...

...Mind you, i havent read any other books by Bret Easton Ellis, is he a bit of a hack?

>>8798067
Ellis went on record as saying the murders were real and that the point of the book was that the characters were so self-absorbed they just didn't care.

This interpretation isn't really flush with the book, for many reasons, one of which I already said.

(Yeah, he's a hack, btw.)

>>8798047

what the fuck is this and how did it get published?

>>8798258

Pretty sure that's the translation I read, it's actually not bad.

>>8798047
The vermin translations are the better ones you twonk.

>>8797919
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e1t3jUXmQQ

yes

>>8797927
actually this song inspired me to ask you guys this question ... I love sun kill moon

Without you I'd not have much to live for
When I come home from these long trips and set my shit down on the floor
I'd have a number from some girl from Singapore or Shanghai
And when I'd call her she'd ask if I had Twitter or Skype and I'd lay down on my bed and I'd wanna fucking die

>>8797918
Writes like a fucking teenage girl

>>8797918
Solid 8/10

Bigger boobs and she'd be a 10

>>8797918
my mom read it and said she din like it bru

dont read it yo

>>8797866
Just browse /k/, you don't need books for that shit.

>>8797866
day of the triffids

tho desu it might just be furbies or some shit not triffids, but i would totally keep a triffid in my back yard if those were growing which is how i know i'm gonna die

>>8797871
This guy gets it

>>8797696
Not at all. Check out the Success Principles. One of the most powerful books I've ever read.

>>8797696
yes

>>8797696
If they worked there'd be a lot more happy millionaires in the world.