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LIterally always either racism or tokenism

Don't care.

robinson crusoe is good

>>8580773
literally who

>>8580773
To love trash

Shit on a page does not a book make.

That's stupid, just get something short like Notes From Underground.

>>8580752
listen to this guy op, notes from underground is a good choice

>>8580740
>I need help with an assignment for high school
>>>/hm/ Homework Help

Harry Potter desu

>>8580655
I felt like taipei did even though i don't act like that, nor do any of my friends. i guess it felt like a slight exaggeration of how people seem to act

Millennials aren't real, and are basically just the same shittiness of every other generation, but with smartphones.

Deep water is actually pretty scary

>>8580527
My diary tbqh

>>8580547
By who there are a few.

>>8580456
You'd have better luck finding someone who read Finnegans Wake from cover to cover.

I think it's unfair on logical positivists to associate them with the smorgasbord of autism that is this book.

>>8580538
perhaps anon

>>8580543
have you read it? i think its pretty fair.

>>8580437
Ultimate Pleb Filter is George Eliot
she kills the traditionalists and the modernist pseuds in one book.

I'm a lot smarter than you and I find Donny D pretty underwhelming. I've read a few of his books and it's like I'm trapped in a terrible universe where Thomas Pynchon let Ernest Hemingway influence him too much. Of all the major American postmodern novelists Don Delillo is milquetoast and I find him useful for filtering pseuds like OP.

>>8580437
I've never heard of this guy, so he can't be that big of a deal.

>>8580447
Silar Marner was the only thing she wrote worth reading, and it isn't that special.

>>8580449
Well said.

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dickhead

>>8580332
No

>>8580332
Thinking that follows from this book is the basis of our modern dilemma. Read the original Consolations of Philosophy, mongoloid.

He found succes in writing despite just doing it to support his family, will always remain an unsuccessful poet, with an even more unsuccessful liver.

>>8580193
>Implying his liver was unsuccessful.

Just finished the savage detectives, what should i read next?

The book was incredible, even though it got boring in some parts. Maybe it helped that i lived in mexico city around 2011.

Read one poem a day. Read it several times and think and feel about it.
Doesn't matter if you go start to end or skip around, unless you want to see how they develop over time. Probably easier to go front to back though.
I think Keats' odes are in a specific order.

>>8580164
That really depends how the editors have ordered them. But yes reading them with pauses between them is important o they don't just flow in to one long work.

I have that exact same copy (inherited from grandfather) and I'd say that you need to avoid doing a cover-to-cover reading.

I'd pick one to start with and focus on (personally I'd say Shelley because Keats' oeuvre is bunk).

A helpful essay is Harold Bloom's "The Unpastured Sea: An Introduction to Shelley". It provides a fairly vague explanation of Shelley's major works and their chronology.

First poem to start with: Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind". Sets the standard for the late English Romantics.

>>8580049
Wish there were a nice picture of him suitable for a computer wallpaper

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>>8580106
She's pretty hot, what has she written?

>>8579817
Fucking Ellroy so based

>There were also less formal engagements. He talked to women—on the phone, in restaurants, in his apartment. Late one night he drove to the house of his girlfriend. The lights were on: the woman, her husband, and their children were inside. Ellroy opened the window of the car and proceeded to bay like a dog. He drove around the block and howled again. Then he did it a third time. The girlfriend called him the next day, laughing. Apparently he bayed at her several times a month. They had a unique arrangement.

what

>>8580051
I used to know a guy who bayed at women. It's a wacky 60s/70s thing.

>>8579781
Sales positions at Microsoft, Apple, etc are looking for English majors, apparently. Personally, I intend to get a consulting position somewhere before law school.

>>8579781
I'm an editor at a publishing house, and I also do freelance and legal editing on the side. The pay isn't fantastic, but I've only been at it a year or so. I'm working my way up and building a list of clients.

>>8579781
hedge fund

major literally doesn't matter don't fall for the memes.

NO.
do not quit, anon. get that first draft out, then walk away from it for a little bit. come back and start rewriting/editing. you'll be amazed/disappointed/reinvigorated all at the same time. start developing/expanding on whatever is really working...

you'll find the uniqueness/novelty in the book on the second pass.

you can do it. just don't ever quit.

>>8579753
If you're already halfway through you should finish it.

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>>8579982
You really think so? Thanks anon. I never thought about it that way, that it might develop into something much different than how it started during the editing process.

OK I'll keep at it. Thanks again guys, holding yous accounable.

hang in there jordan

the roasties are on the retreat

He probably has enough money, not far off retirement age and gets slots on TV. He's fine eBen if he loses hus job. To the extent he can be

>>8580357
Wait, what happened with him?