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>>8617460
2666

**have read, damn.

>>8617466
No meme books please.

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>>8617460
This and Dickens
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174374.You_Can_t_Win

>>8617449
>had trouble at the border
>a few days ago
>pirates books
kek spic

Yeah I'm a biblio-smuggling bandito and I've come to America to impregnate as many women as I can to breed healthy, independent, voracious readers like myself, but first I have to share a copy of inherent vice to an anon asking for it earlier because I owe him a life debt.
just kidding I just like sharing books

>>8617449
Dropped this last week. Got 3/4 the way through and couldn't be bothered to finish- didn't care what happened with the plot and the writing wasn't interesting enough to keep me going.

1. having a teacher who could correct you
2. going abroad
I can't see another way

>>8617382
there are probably good books on the grammar, which shouldn't be too hard (its a slightly more complicated version of spanish grammar) and the vocabulary has a huge overlap with english
if youre learning it on your own pronunciation will probably be the hardest because it has an absolutely fucked up spelling system

>>8617382
Duolingo is a good start. Begin there, and after a year or so find a local tutor who can help you to improve conversationally.

>>8617373
>>8617373
please leave and never come back

>>8617373
no

>>8617373
It's about being a state cuck

>>8617366
>Inbreeding and pedophilia LMAO
Because the Union didn't bring out the guillotine after the Civil War and give the Southern aristocrats the French treatment.

>>8617366
I hate that book so much.

>>8617575
you sure sounded your fury

>>8617327

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>>8617327

I'm nearly finished with the first book. It's okay but what really annoys me everyone is witty for the sole purpose of it being witty because it is fantasy and a lot of the chapters don't really feel like they are going anywhere.

Devi best girl tied with Fela

yeah, thats kind of what i feel. But that also makes me kind of axious and i really want to read the next book. I finish the book yesterday.

what i was going for was a kind of anti-climax, where instead of a climax and a good ending that was good, i did it bad.

i wanted the reader to wonder where the ending was, and to reflect like, back on himself, and think: why do i need an ending? what's the point of an ending?

endings are arbitrary, um, constructs, and i was trying to get the reader to think about that, and think, so he could be smarter and get smart like me.

toward the end of the book it sort of all turns into gobbledygook and you cant understand any of it, but that's modern life, is it not? a bunch of gobbledygook you cant understand?

people have been asking me why i wrote a book that's 1,240 pages long and it book has no ending to it. lol. well, look around you. computers. internet. web page. digital marketplace. enron. fox news vs. msnbc. the oculus rift. the dow jones. ..... gettin the picture?

>>8617219
he write fucking bad songs
so yes

Pynchon can have my award any day

>>8617224
I didn't google and I can't remember but the songs he includes in his books are real or he made it up?

HP was ok. It's YA so you can't expect much.

>>8617193

Bit of both, first three books had some legit charm to them then JK decide to focus more on the brand rather than try and make something decent. Worst part is how Slytherin aren't even redeemed a little until the last two books and that's after JK Rowling became incredibly rich.

Nah son, this is basically fanfic

>>8617178
>Evola

when was Evola a standard-bearer for the right in the first place

he was always just an obscurantist that people brought up because A E S T H E T I C S and they don't need to make a real argument after that

When will Land win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

I mean there has to be something genius there because no one knows what the fuck he's talking about

>>8617211
>no one knows

actually it's just you anon

>>8617137
>30 pages a day
m8 I read 30 pages by the time you shit and shower

>>8617137
Pretty weak desu. Unless you mean per book.

>>8617137
Wow! Who's that hot girl?

>>8617032
>When and why did it get phased out?
It couldn't get with modernism after WW2 and had to appeal only to a few elite and scholars.
>Do you think we should bring it back?
Classical education should be a privilege, not a necessity.

>>8617032
People will call me a tinfoil but the dumbing down of the masses for easier control is a very real thing and common core is the latest and most sophisticated way to do so.

When you hear about how easily children can learn fucking calculus (math being a language like any other) and piano (being the easiest inroad for music theory and shown to improve cognitive function) it boggles the mind to think that the vast majority of American children spend their education learning how to draw Turkeys from their hands or make glitter collages about American Indians. Such a collosal waste of potential by focusing the most important formative learning stage on garbage. Don't teach children logic no no let's teach them about George Washington and the Cherry Tree and other shit that never happened.

>>8617053
What prevented it from being grandfathered into modernism, and why do you think it should be only for a select few?

there it is

No.1 fan of The Band.

He's literally singing 'Oh, mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside the mobile with the Memphis Blues again!'

Oh, yeah!

He probably doesn't give a damn. I imagine he's not the type that cares about awards.

>>8616905
>write incredibly edgy stories as a 14 year old
>quote 80's powerballads because I thought it meant I was deep

>Be 82 y/o swedish writer
>Get into nobel prize committee
>Always make nominations
>Talking to committee
>Trying to impress them
>"Yeah, I think we should give the prize to Bob Dylan"

>Be 46 y/o American writer
>Get into depression
>always think about ending it
>talking to myself
>trying to cement my legacy
>"Yeah, I'm going to hang myself"

>>8616892
Who's the one who wrote this and can we throw him in a gas chamber?

>>8616892
Only one enemy remained; two if you counted war.

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Futurism?
What is this? It sounds interesting yet sick.