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>>8688426
No. Living with parents after you're 18 is bad.

>>8688426

better have something to show for it or a justification if you ever plan on returning to the previous lifestyle.

a few months to find yourself wouldnt go over to well in most interviews if questioned about the gap in your work history

>>8688426
Depends on what your parents are like.

Offloading for Mrs Schwartz or whatever it's called is great. I liked his essay Christmas 1984. I think his writing is a little retarded at times ("Oh what youth! Sweaty youth! Turntable youth!") but he's good.

>>8688385
>Offloading for Mrs Schwartz
I get more goosebumps from that ending than just about any other short story other than Good Old Neon's ending...
Such a good payoff.

>>8688394
Doesn't he offload all his own memories or something? Can't remember why he does it.

Edition on the left is known to have pretty egregious printing errors, with whole clauses being occasionally omitted.

>>8688261
fuck, not OP, but I have the left one.

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>>8688266
This is like considered the litmus test. Check if your edition has this issue.

Probably the literal Twin Peaks book Mark Frost wrote

>>8688189
nigga read The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Shit's actually good.

>>8688270
Doubt it.

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>>8688156
>Cathedral

shock off

>>8688156
Lorrie Moore

>>8688168
Don't like this one? Most of his collections are superb- Short Cuts, Will You Please be Quiet, Please? Read 'em!

>>8688126
/thread

All ten Confessions of Georgia Nicolson books by Louise Rennison:
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas
Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
...Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
Startled by His Furry Shorts
Love is a Many Trousered Thing
Stop in the Name of Pants!
Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

Start by saying you have no children, but find the series profound. Then make sure you cheerfully explain the British slang involved in the meaning of each title, in a serious, professorial voice. When you define "snogging," "nunga-nungas," "nuddy-pants," "furry shorts" and "basoomas," make sure you stare meaningfully at her. Good luck.

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>>8688120
If you've actually read this book you would need serious mental help

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DMT by Rick Strassman

my diary

>>8688053
Anything by Emil Cioran
“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.”

I can't belive all the book related trash Minecraft spawned.
I can understand strategy guides and such but story focused books seem like the last thing you would expect from a game with no characters.
And this trash gets translated even to obscure little languages.
And it's not like these books are cheap either.
Sometimes they cost more than a cheaper edition of a classic book.

>>8688079
It's because only autists read.

>>8688114
You know that is just not true.
I read.
The girl who sits next to me reads.
The old lady on the bus reads.
Just because you are an autist it doesn't mean everyone who likes reading is.

Try Infinite Jest, most of it is precisely what you are asking for.

zero is not nothing, it's the potential of becoming something, nothing is inexpressible.

BEE- less than zero

I prefer epub.

Paperback is cheaper and molds to the hand well. So, paperback.

>>8687749
Epub=I want to read the book
Library book HC or SC=I want to read the book but cant find it to pirate
Buy SC=I want to read the book but it is not carried in my Library Network
Buy HC= I go to Church or Library book sale and buy classics I have not read in stately folio editions for my home library.

So he's 25 and has had 2 short stories published. Setting the bar low for a new Joyce...

>>8687724
No he's 25 and has had one prize-winning novella published and has just had his debut collection of short stories, written when he was 20, published to much acclaim.

>>8687742
go to bed Oisin

Read the books from the top 100 chart.

Kindles are pretty good since they have built in dictionaries and I use mine every day.

>>8687380

True neckbeards don't read much. They either subscribe to edgy ideologies or read mainstream works and cling to their own edgy interpretations that justify their awful lifestyle and mentality.
They get into redpill or incel, form pol-like opinions and use literature as a way to explain their hatred and socially incompatible views.

If I'd have to put litnerds in a box, I'd label it as unironical-hipster-normies. Bonus points if you pick up smoking and drink a lot of alcohol and coffee.

>>8687427
Should I wear glasses and smoke and drink black coffee to live the literary lifestyle?

I usually read in the comfort of my own apartment, but I've been thinking of reading in some obscure cafe. Thoughts?

Are we gonna have this thread every day?

He didn't give a fuck about anything, why wouldn't he shoot a smelly sandnigger stalker?

>>8687388
Because black lives matter.

>>8687395
>Arabs
>Black

Reeeetc. fuck off, Negro revisionist.

Longman Annotated tbhwy famalam

Shortwoman Unannotated tbhwy famalam.

I have the penguin version, which is fine and has a pretty cool cover (which is the most important thing lets face it)

>>8687076
I read and corrected a 75 page bibliography
I don't think that counts

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>>8687076
0

>>8687076
a little over a hundred, which is unusually high but I'm trying to make a habit of it