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Gass Gass Gass
I wish you'd stop posting Gass

>>8756367
sick dude

I don't think everything of his is amazing but I've read every piece of fiction prose he's written. For a quick Gassy handjob you should try the short stories: "Order of Insects" from In the Heart of the Heart of the Country which is 4 pages long and then "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's" which is 40 something pages long but is so good it only felt like 20 to me.

I'm also waiting for that guy who asked for my feet pics to post his Gass rankings like they promised.

>>8756341
he means that white guys don't have the right to fuck multiple women

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Because it just doesn't work, period.

more like de bottom innit lads

>>8756284
>people don't act in self-interest.
Are you saying this is a "spook" and people do act in self interest? Or the reverse?
Either way, that's not a spook. Read Stirner.

>>8756354
the former. they do even if they don't know it themselves, the mentally ill are the exceptions hence the mental illness.
you're asking me to read stirner when you clearly haven't? that's the entire point of the book.

>>8756284
everything is a spook

Rings of Saturn is better, but it's worth reading everything he wrote.

>>8756083
I thought Austerlitz was quite a good book, even with the Holocaust tie-ins it was more about the alienation of a brilliant mind by being an orphan then your typical appeal to sympathy Schindler's List style.

I'll be reading Rings of Saturn in about a week for my postmodern European lit class. I'm excited for it.

>>8756081
>here

>>8756081
Non-English names with English pronunciation
"Wolfgang"

>>8756081
None, because I'm not as short-sighted as you are

>>8756003
I never laugh withthe Quixote, i just felt sorry or what ever for him. I envy you op

>Don Quixote is funny meme.

Do people actually think this book is funny?

>>8756102

Since we're talking about books which we were told were funny but disappointed on I'm going with Catch 22 and anything Vonnegut wrote, I found some of their ideas interesting but they never really made me laugh.

>>>/v/

>>8755975

journey to the end of the night

i think it was called.. DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK YOU LAZY CUNT

>>8755956
>2 day old thread

Then this post doesn't equate to shit. Just because you searched Stephen King doesn't mean anything. That user could've literally been replying to someone else and saying Stephen King is shit.

Damn, you're retarded.

Plus, I'm willing to bet a 2 day old thread, if popular, probably has about over 200 comments and you picked Stephen King of all things to gripe about. Shut your bitch ass up.

>>8755956
>mac

JUST

>>8755970
Actually, you're wrong there. I checked this, and all are separate posts.

Remember next time - don't ASSUME THINGS.

>>8755919
East of Eden made me tear up at a couple parts, even though I knew they were very sappy. After Tom kills himself I had to walk around for a couple hours and think.

Alyosha's speech at the end of TBK. Really nice ending, but also incredibly emotional.

>>8755933
Wow thanks for the spoiler asshole. Use the fucking tags.

>>8755935
>Wow thanks for the spoiler asshole. Use the fucking tags.
You going to cry about it pussy?

>>8755892
Shakespeare's

>>8755892
Modern if you're reading for school since everyone use it, quarto otherwise since it represents initial vision. Folio was most probably modified based on initial public reaction, plus some actor changes. While modern is just a mishmash thrown together by some editor.

>>8756097
>by some editor
>not knowing who Foakes is

I recommend the combined one, since it is an interesting take on the play and Foakes (if by th combined one you mean the Arden edition) does an excellent job as an editor.

There is a pdf in libgen with a parallel text of King Lear, with the Quarto in one side and the Folio in other. You might want to check that.

No

But I'm guessing the idea of the monomyth is derived from comparing hero stories and finding similar elements that cross them and ignoring when some stories lack those elements

However I'm not sure I entirely agree since from what I know about mythological studies only a few ancient cultures are classified as actually having a heroic age and thus a massive wealth of heroes to draw on- most others only have a few heroes- such as Sumeria having Gilgamesh. The majority of these cultures are also Indo-European in origin, so being able to compare the similarities of Cuchulainn and Hercules and Beowulf and see that they have a lot of elements in common isn't really surprising.

Other ancient cultures like Egypt aren't really big on the "mortal goes around doing tons of heroic shit" type of myth but instead have a much stronger religious culture centered around their gods. I'm just speculating but this might be because it didn't really serve the purposes of the god-kings of Egypt to have random half-gods in myth running around doing stuff, since that would undermine the divinity of the pharoah.

Yeah it's an interesting theory and a good read. Best to take it with a pinch of salt, as anyone's ideas though.

>The title is some variation of "The [character] with/who/that ..."

That's a dead giveaway on how shit its going to be.

>>8755529
that pic makes me want to kill myself no joke

>>8755567
Then why don't you?

also dae feel like every time they try to find ways to escape depression and pessimism they have to delude themselves? like I feel like I will never be as successful as normal people because most of the time i don't even want it

>>8755569
because I'm scared to

cool

I read because I find it enjoyable. Plus I learn new things not normally taught in schools and shit.

Also, it's kinda fun to look down on normies that only read popular YA books, and say that they read a lot. :)

I know enough to not seem like a pleb anyway, I don't read because books are expensive

Just write something good, its that simple

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>>8755122
IT IS FUCKING GOOD I'VE BEEN WRITING THIS SHIT FOR 4 FUCKING YEARS

HOW COME LITERAL YA SHIT GETS PUMPED OUT WHEN MY BOOK THAT I POURED MY FUCKING HEART AND SOUL INTO GETS REJECT 6 MILLION FUCKING TIMES?

>screenplay got rejected for the 11th time

>>8755013
Outside of the four threads about that Canadian guy things are pretty much okay.

>>8755013
just hide the threads you dislike. there are a few places to discuss books online but they all have some sort of deficiency. This one is by far the most fun in my opinion though. Honestly I don't even know what people want out of this board, half assed and awkward interpretations of text isn't the most appealing thing in the world

>>8755013
Make a goodreads and friend all the /lit/ folks. It's not a replacement obviously, but you get more reading done and spend a little less time here.