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Moustaches are so uncomfortable. Dunno why anyone dies it

I honestly didn't think his rendition of The Sound and The Fury was too bad. I'd never want him to do a Blood Meridian adaptation, but I don't feel he's as bad as people think

>>8662730
The few times I've done just a mustache I've gotten a lot of compliments about it. I really don't know why.

>>8662703

isnt that one quality that makes it worth exploring though?

i dont know my man
i just know that brothers karamazov is really much better than harry potter

>>8662780
Empirical sales data suggests Harry Potter is a priori superior in my objective, rational, reductionist world.

>>8662695
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley Fish is a decent exploration of style.

>>8662695
Jesus Christ pic is good and i'm not remotely near left

>>8662713
Ikr. It really inspired me.

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"I became an avid reader in just..."

are you going to fucking tell me about the dragontales or are you going to keep being a fucking cunt?

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I prefer this Dragon Tales

>>8662560
His writing is unremarkable. His ideas are fantastic, albeit dated and forever frozen in a cold war mentality. Start with a short story compilation to get a feel for him; decide for yourself.

>>8662560
Did you start a thread to discuss Philip K. Dick without ever reading him yourself?
Please fuck off and read Ubik

>>8662569

I have it in my hands right now.

>>8662555
No.

>>8662555
Why would that even make sense in your head

>>8662555
My diary has not been made desu

>>8662520
stoner by john williams

just track down that /lit/ top 100 and see which ones are interesting to you.

>>8662520
>average difficult
>depth
So, like, books with clear prose or books that are "easy and relaxing to read but hard to fully understand so you can spend nights exploring it in your head"?

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>>8662522
Seconding stoner, great book, easy read.

I call bullshit, you can't truly have so many friends that you execute them whenever they disappoint

Some people find it interesting and fun to read.

>>8662495

lel

Picking a random direction and running is more likely to lead you somewhere than doing nothing.

>>8662423
Just bee your self :)

>>8662423
life is like a box of chocolates.

except a lot of the chocolates are turds.

You are not your job.

>>8662400
Profundity won't buy me a Ferrari

>>8662396
As someone who went to law school, don't go. Just find a job doing something for more than min. wage. It doesn't matter what your undergrad degree was in, just apply to anything and everything. Emphasize work experience, time management experience, work ethic, just put yourself out there.

You want out of academia, especially in the current SJW thought police climate. Seriously, get a job, work, read, develop your freedom. Don't get suckered into more and more class, I wish I hadn't.

Well yeah that probably would be a slightly traumatic experience for both people involved

The review is a baseless adhom. I disagree on principal.

tries too hard to be funny. probably pasta

My diary desu

>>8662479
Can confirm, my diary has a chapter plagiarized from his desu.

Translators.

if there were one i would have found it by now anon

some bookshops have entire sections for LGBT fiction

>>8662319
b-but anon, there could be.

>>8662239
>about him
I meant by him, not about him. I'm not sure why I used the wrong word there.

Not that book. Either Supposedly Fun Thing or Consider the Lobster. Both are great.

>>8662245
But which of the two is better ?

>>8662223
Most of the critical interpretations of Joyce's works are based on things that Joyce himself said about them.

To your second question.
"Meaning" is always the creation of the reader. It is impossible to completely reconstruct the authors intentions from the book alone, and furthermore why would you want to? Literature is not a discipline in search of single answers, books are the soil for our ideas. From the loam of a book you can extract and evince an infinite number of interpretations, the only thing that matters is that your analysis is compelling and thoroughly substantiated. It is all just a big game. The same goes for criticism, people like Harold Bloom know that objective quality doesn't exist in any perceivable form within literature. But he seeks it out anyways as an exercise, because it's fun. That is why you read, because it's fun to consider possibilities, to explore foreign ideas, and experience fictional narratives.

>>8662223
Sometimes the author doesn't know why he writes what he writes. That's the lit-crit line, at least. It's like interpreting a dream, sometimes somebody other than the dreamer is the better interpreter. Sure, very often artists have programs and say things deliberately, but they also say things not deliberately, without knowing they're saying them. That's what it means to interpret the work and not the author's intentions.