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I demand an answer!

try one of the 50 billion Ligotti threads in the archive.

The stuff I've read has been good, not great. Cool, never creepy or scary. That said the fucker knows how to create an atmosphere. I remember Purity being one of my favorites.

Anyone? I really want to read more Latin American Boom and Post-Boom writers, but don't know who to read. I would've thought there are lots of good and okay Latin American writers out there, possibly household names in some countries.

Check out The Art of Flight by Sergio Pitol and Between Parentheses by Bolano. These two books will have you swimming in great authors

Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes, The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso, Fado Alexandrino by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector

Of course it is, it literally contains the entire word of read

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>>8638943
Cats are bigger than dogs. Some cats, depending on both's size

>>8639009
I don't understand.

>>8638928
I admit it.
The line about the birds did it.

Fuck.

>>8638928
Didn't cry but still admit it's the best

>>8638928
haven't read it.

I'll buy it.

>>8638959
>>8638959
Me too. I bought The Children of Hurin despite having read the Silmarilion, and enjoyed it. I just hope the family keep Peter Jackson away from this stuff forever.

>>8638991
Children of Hurin was really great, imo the best work published under the name of J. R. R. Tolkien

If you're asking, you've already failed

>>8638913
wrong, this might be true for profound literature, but not for "a good book that will sell", defined by "convincing" and "immersive" or "engaging" and "interesting".

In the past, I'd have argued that this was an almost Herculean undertaking, requiring hours upon hours of painstaking research and thought. LOTR, for example, is not merely a great story, but a testament to JRR's extraordinary expertise surrounding myth, myth-making, and storytelling itself.

In light of recent years, though, I'd say just start now and toss off any old shit. At this point, fantasy is just about lazily recycling tropes and regularly peppering in perverse sex/violence set pieces to titillate your idiotic readership and thus maintain their attention.

>>8638862
"War is hell."

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"If it's any help, he's in the ground now. Sure, it's bad news for him. But on the other hand, it's party time for all those little worms."

We really wouldn't mourn his death.

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>>8638848
Intelligent people have ideologies.
Theories over facts anyday.

>>8638848
You mean redpilled?

You see whites being genocided everywhere and women being inferior at everything

It ain't pretty kid

>>8638876
No, I mean intelligent people

>>8638829
Riveting insights there, compadre!

ive never watched one and I know that. Why would you waste your time on it? How old are you?

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my wife regan its perfect

you dont say

I'll get this one out of the way first...
Frank Zappa

>immensely talented, wastes his talent on shit jokes

pynchon, we've been over this

Bob Dylan

>>8638798
Robert Frost- Birches

>>8638798
She'll be turned off by your fedora. Thou, ripening breast, swoon

Go for the safe route. Memorize it

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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>>8638798
>I'm making a CD for a girl I like

The mirror.
And the fuzzy shit on either side of her head.
Are fun to look at.
is her butt cold

>>8638752
>implying there's any emotion in that picture at all

Completely flat. Horribly stylized. Babby's first photoshop. How can a picture of a model inexplicably in her underwear outside by a car have any emotional resonance whatsoever? Do you look at this picture with pleasure, OP? Do you find it "interesting"? If so, you are not of my kind. You are part of the mob, that motley tribe whose taste is not simply bad, but absent. This picture, it's shameless. The kind of pretentious trash designed to clog up Pinterest to manufacture traffic. I pray to whatever Gods still waste time on this rock that I never have to see another bootleg Smirnoff Ice ad for as long as I live.

>>8638752

Mornings were cool there in the desert foothills. She had given up hopping around for warmth just before posing for the photograph, her bare footprints littering the unseen foreground. She stared at me in disbelief, an expression of dislike beginning to form around her lips. I chuckled.

"I'm not a photographer," I repeated.

Everything (we think) we know about Socrates is by way of Plato and a few others. Read Plato's dialogues.

Last days of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)

he didnt write anything

Get pic related.

>>8638745
>>8638745
what is the build of the books like

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No idea, but they're definitely the most aesthetic of what is available. The Penguin ones have decled edges.

I went to school with Sam Neill.

>>8638727
It was a good book. Very different from the movie. Same thing with the sequel. I love how Crichton uses Ian occasionally to insert his own monologues. One of the better monologues is in the sequel where he predicts in a sad tone that the Internet will culturally homogenize the globe because culture, like biology, requires relative isolation to diverge.

>>8638727
i read it several times as a kid but i remember jack shit. i remember there being illustrations of computer interfaces which excited me at the time, and that ian malcolm had various monologues about science and nature that seemed incredibly profound when i was 10 but i suspect i would find them silly now. oh and i remember that the rival corporation genetically engineered cat-sized pet elephants but they never saw a commercial release because the prototypes were mean and violent. or am i thinking of a different book?

i have rewatched the movie recently and it's a legit masterpiece. i might read the book again to see how much of that is spielberg and how much comes from crichton but the movie is so tightly constructed and thematically rich that i doubt the book could be better.