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>>8492801

>>8492607


Schismatrix Plus
All Tomorrow's Parties

The Atrocity Archives was smarter than I expected, not sure if it qualifies as cyberpunk though

Bleeding Edge by Pynchon takes the time surrounding the major event of our current postcyberpunk zeitgeist and explores it on a more memorable level, if you get the same crushing devestation of nostalgia and time past that I do, its worth a read

really can't beat audiovisual masterpieces like Blade Runner or Ghost in the Shell though, there's a lot of good 90s anime as well,

>>8492607
obv neuromancer & burning chrome
ribofunk
software

and play snatcher

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>>8492607
Bump

>>8492413

Comes up with good premises, but shit at writing them.

If I were an author, I'd be him.

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>DOWN
>THE
>FUCKING

>>8492535
>Comes up with good premises, has other people write them

Fixed.

>>8492401
Sounds like the boy is a faggot. No human would ever tell something like that into the nothingness. Try again, faggot

>>8492472
>implying that 90% of things that characters do in fiction aren't autistic

I'm not proud of it (yet), but it's brief enough that I'd like a critique:

The flesh has rotted away or been eaten, piecemeal, by scavengers. Leathery skin, too tough to rot, cloaks bone in grey, remaining almost wholly undamaged. Far easier to tear a single hole in the carcass and make an entrance than shred the skin. To worm into it through the open mouth, or slackened anus. From between the front legs a jackal emerges with her pups in tow. Their heads tilt to the side as he mimes shooting them.

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>>8492373
>tfw too smart for literature

>>8492373
>too smart to spell too correctly

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>>8492373
DELETE THIS

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>getting closer to the end of a book with conflicts that match your own

Life as a whole doesn't make sense to me. All aspects apear to be truthfull, even when they're contradicting one another. I see this patern in everything related to human behavior.
The more I try to understand, the more I'm sent to the dark.
I tanke the stance of not caring that much and just doing my thing as a confident person with self interrest and it seems to be working just fine, but this still messes me up a bit
I seem to be trying to reach a never ending peace, help me with this

>>8492752
Try reading Lacanian theory

Ideology Rules Everything Around Me

>>8492237
>because it makes them feel inferior

L M A O
nice typo

>>8492237
I greatly respect academics. I do not respect 18 year olds who don't know what the fuck they are talking about when they think going to college for an English degree is a good idea on any level.

>>8492194
Egger's "A History of the Muslim World" is a good undergrad primer
The Venture of Islam by Hodgson and Lapidus' "A History of Islamic Societies" are for the serious student
The Great Arab Conquests by Kennedy covers the great Jihads
The Truth About Muhammad by Robert Spencer is a highly (virulently) critical hit piece on Muhammed, but very well researched.

>>8492235
how many of these are biased though? I'm just looking for an objective telling of middle eastern history. Just a bit weary of reading anything written by westerners

>>8492244
You will never find an objective history book. Ever. If you think you can you need to go back to historiography 101. Also, Muslims are notorious for whitewashing their history. If you want a good fiction book in this regard, try Season of Migration to the North by Salih. There is nothing wrong with any of the books I listed except for Spencer, which I put in as a spin from the detached academic work of the previous authors.

>>8492172
Seconding this request.
I'm reading American Psycho and some of the things Bateman does are disgusting as shit, the movie doesn't even come close to it.

Also planning on reading Cows too, someone on /x/ told me it was really sick so i'll read it online after american psycho.

>>8492172
chuck palahnuik's entire career was predicated on this

that's why chuck palahnuik is now a memory. shock literature has no actual value.

>>8492303
Guts disgusted me, but didn't really disturb
Did he write anything more disturbing?

Wasting valuable time that could be spent on reading better stuff.

>>8492170
Yep. Most authors are only worth reading for their best works. You only really dive into one if they either don't have many books, or you're really interested.

>>8492170
prob you suffer from asperger
check your doctor

Bible
Meditations
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Grapes of Wrath
Brothers K

Homer, Shakespeare and the King James Bible. Everything after that is subjective.

Moby-Dick
Gravitys Rainbow
Lolita
Ulysses
Finegans Wake

jk, this is my life long 'to read' list

>>8492146

I don't see the justification for an Arts degree anymore. You're saddling yourself with debt that you can't service because there's 25 of you for each job and you have what, your Spanish literature grade, to set you apart.

STEM or the trades: those are the economically feasible options now. Arts degrees are transferring your parents' wealth to a pension program for academics with little tangible return.

>>8492146
We're all chasing a steady supply of pussy, they are both grade A cock blockers. I don't mind fucking people's girlfriends knowing that this is how some of those hipster pseuds think, that new and unique thoughts are the only valuable ones, that putting people down is the only way they feel superior... well it's nice to know that new and unique penises are also sort after.

Sure you can autodidact well at a university library. The public libraries are usually dog shit with dog shit people providing distractions in them. If you were to do it realise that you would be benefiting from the uni reading lists and their library which others pay for. And you would need to be conversing with people who have absorbed different perspectives to get the most out of the text.

>>8492173
>STEM or the trades: those are the economically feasible options now. Arts degrees are transferring your parents' wealth to a pension program for academics with little tangible return.

This is what I told my cousin. She's at college now. Get a professional/STEM degree or at least a teaching credential. I did philosophy and literature. Now I have a blue color job. The job's not bad and I don't have to exploit anyone,but still, as worth while as the humanities are, they're dead as anything but an academic subject.

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>>8492090
Pic related. Arguably, The Hobbit could fall into your category too.

Jane Yolen's Pit Dragon Chronicles
it's a shame people don't remember she wrote anything other than kids' picture books

I like reading novelizations of 90's movies to my daughter. It's not high quality but I do it for the nostalgia and some time to cuddle up with my kid

>>8492041
>adjective
something that describes a noun. the word "nice" in "a nice dick"
>noun
anything. literally. any person, place, thing, idea, etc.
>pronoun
a word that takes the place of nouns like "I", "he", "us", etc. Words like "who" and "what" are also sometimes pronouns
>adverb
a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

it would probably be useful to either find a high-level english-language workbook or watch videos online for foreigners wanting to learn english

>>8492041
I too knew absolutely nothing about grammar after finishing high school (we were not taught it). I did an online course on it and it was surprisingly intense.

https://www.edx.org/course/english-grammar-style-uqx-write101x-2

>>8492061
is there really anything I need to know besides those 4 things?
because I can just save this post and read it whenever I feel confused, nice dick btw

not a mary sue
his one weakness was pussy

He died lmao

>>8492039
Made me kek don't know why but n1