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>>8499458
nope, it's old and dumb.

No it' le so randomb madman lol

I am reading it right now. It has already been worth it for the funny aspects, its relation to Dostoyevsky, and the Cardenio subplot alone.

>>8499450

book mark. it can be anything.

I used to fold the page.

I turn off my ereader and then turn it back on when I want to read again

>>8499457
even mayonnaise?

Daria

>>8499428
Protagonists are not young, but The Stranger and Notes from Underground are very similar to your pic.

any random tumblr page

I respectfully disagree.

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Death implies a lack of quality, no?

Write a book, gayone.

>>8499419
No. People who think this refuse to admit that a great amount of what is written in any given time period is mediocre. The good and great stuff is the only thing remembered.

Long live the King

c/moooon

>dude it's either existing or not existing i guess lmao

overrated cunt

Fucking gay

Who cares? 9/11 happens in the dindu countries every other day. Kinda racist to be all affected by muh calamity on national soil

9/11 is a piss in the ocean of people dying every day

You must've been really sheltered to have it alter your worldview.

Set goals you can realistically do and then actually do them. Actually doing 10 pages of reading and half a page of writing every day is fine if it gets you in the habit. And if that starts to feel good and constructive you'll naturally spend more time on it.

Cutting out distractions helps. Seperate yourself from your computer and phone while reading.

read for 12 hours a day then write for 12 hours a day.

If you can't even do that much then you're not dedicated enough.

Stephen King said 4 and 4.

>>8499394
This does genuinely upset me. I think it had the potential to be better than Infinite Jest. But we'll never know now

>>8499394
Should I bother reading it or will I get through it just to feel sad that its not the final version? I've always loved the title. Mainly because I can relate.

>>8499453
It has some very interesting parts, but it feels like it ends just right when the main narrative arch was about to begin

>>8499374
life sucks

>>8499399
What makes you say that?

>>8499374
pisses me off that mccarthy thought of the "nothing can exist without my consent" villain motivation 30yrs before i did

my last name is mccarthy too some sort of ancestral magical fuckery going on here

>>8499360
this happened to me with my favorite book too, OP. Suttree, I powered through the first time when I was a dumbass and didn't understand shit, then reread it and alas, it is my favorite.

>>8499360
hey bud, i like you, all those books, same problem, currently on 150 of g&p, and just finished my 100th of JR a few weeks ago. i'll come back to em, just like every other god damn thing.

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>>8499361
Weird i had the same experience with suttree and it is also my favorite book

>>8499290
Goethe's Faust

>>8499290
>if you had 20 minutes between classes, do you read?

Yes...what else would you be doing in between classes? Playing magic the gathering with those fags that always take up the good tables on campus, and are somehow always there?

definitely, it's a bit harder to keep up with what you read and remembering all the details because you consistently get interrupted and don't have enough time to contemplate what you read, but if you'll keep what you read in your mind and think about the plot line characters, ideas etc while doing other things it makes up for it.

tl;dr

Go see a doctor because you probably have ADHD.

>>8499300
lol

>>8499199
Do you filling the social role of what we perceive to be a writer, or about how to get a book published?

You need to have read a lot of books about a wide range of things. Suffer for a few years even if you grew up rich, push that old life away and burn away the safety net. Delillo says something along the lines of the idea that the novelist needs to stand apart, he needs to remove himself from all preconceived notions and reexamine them, he needs to watch society without judging it. Basically some eastern type dissociation. You don't need to agree with him but it's a good start.

>>8499221
Oh and this also means giving up your tv and computer and reddit privileges

desu, i took latin classes through my school. they were really hard because my teacher made us vocalize it. if you can find any local latin teachers or community college classes, i would try signing up for those because latin is much easier with an instructor.

>>8499191
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata by Hans Orberg

>>8499191
In high school, like any other educated man living in a first world country.

>>8499156
what is the evangelion of literature you fucking mong

>>8499156
How hard was it for you to write Infinite Jest while snuffling cocaine?

>>8499167
I'm going on be honest I haven't watched that series before. The only semi recent anime I've seen was attack on titan.