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Another.

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And another.

>>8474182
Photoshop cannot deblur pics bro. Your best bet is to google image search Chris Hitchens library with search tools at image size large

>>8474180
It's very easy to read -- Pynchon lite. You should know nothing going in.

>>8474188
Anon, you said just the right words ;)

>>8474188

It's definitely not Pynchon "lite" holy christ.

OP it's a trash book but easy read.

>>8474169
oops that beforehand was not necessary

>>8474169
No, not really. Perhaps read some of his plays, godot, endgame, happy days, etc., just to get in touch with his style.
As for the trilogy,maybe start with the second one, Malone meurt. I found it more entertaining and not so tiring, in lack of a better word.

>>8474186
thanks!

OP here still, it's 4 am but I'll do my best to stay awake if you guys want to ask any questions.

wut

It took you four years to hop on the decade dead post apocalyptic train?

>>8474123

It can be any of them.

IMO characters, aesthetics, and themes.

I don't really think it can be any of them because a great plot can be completely ruined by sucky everything else, whereas a book with great characters or themes is probably going to stand as a good book without good plot or descriptions(maybe, trying to think of an example this). It's kind of difficult to disentangle these because good examples of each aspect tend to have the others on point as well.

>>8474142

good characters necessitates a good plot.

So, characters and plot.

Aesthetics/themes are secondarily important but good themes are necessitated by a good plot usually.

no what the fuck

>>8474083
I am just soooo like this omg. Debra's gonna love it.

>>8474083

Why did you just stop there without actually explaining why you had that reaction?

>>8474051

thanks to ops post im about to commit suicide.

>>8474061
this isn't too hard to defend. you could have seen the image and the whole exercise and felt like there was no point

OP is a faggot

kek seriously?

>>8474320
I mean I knew about this book didn't think it would be pickbaited as
>(the unspeakable) FAILURES OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

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>>8474028

say it to me when I'm alive not when i'm dead then see what happens

>>8474008
Longwinded trash. Don't bother.

>>8474008
It's genre fiction, which is fiction mixed with trash.

>>8474008
It's a little pulpy but not as bad as these >>8474077
>>8474097
dorknados are making it out to be. It's entertaining, if you find a decent collection of his work I'm sure you'll fine some short stories you'll enjoy.

Better to have someone who's read it help you with that; unless your interest is less in accurately representing your work in a positive light and more in making the sales pitch work irrespective of relation to content.

>>8473976
I've never published anything. So I just want to get it out there.

>>8474038

Self publish it. It's incredibly difficult to get a book of short stories published by an unknown. You're better off submitting them separately to lit mags.

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>>8473916
Emily Dickinson is good. Here's a place where you can read her love poems: http://users.telenet.be/gaston.d.haese/dickinson_love.html

If you like those, check out the rest of her work. hands down one of my top three poets.

Also good is Edgar Allen Poe, ironically. A few of his poems were about a love he lost. Here's one of those: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/50462

E.E. Cumming wrote about love a lot, but mostly about how it was beautiful. Here's his best known piece: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/49493

That's all I've got off the top of my head. I know what its like to lose a love anon. I used to share my own poetry with my girlfriend.

Cheer up soon, ok?

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I'm just gonna wait here with you, OP.

>"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as ifshe were thesun, yet he saw her,like the sun, even without looking." Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

>>8473939
Good man

You should man the fuck up.

First of all, literary poetry isn't sappy bullshit. What you refer to comes from a time when literally anyone who could rhyme two words thought they were poets.

It's not always the case, but many people either like poems or novels/stories, or neither.

If you find something you like to read, you'll forget about this very insignificant and probably minor breakup, with a high schooler or college student probably.

Feeling unwanted sucks. Get a book and some music and get out of it.

>>8473896
>1984 is a literary piece of art
what a great statement

>>8473901
Thanks OP

>>8473896
Its good. Not art though.

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Sadness envelopes my soul

>>8473748
>In witches he fostered fear. Ushering stakes from cobblestone like ominous weeds. And witches he brought to burn. Oh they did burn witches.
lad

>>8473748
The writing is pretty bad, honestly. Even though you said what you were going for, your writing is pretty unclear.
>In witches he fostered fear. Ushering stakes from cobblestone like ominous weeds. And witches he brought to burn. Oh they did burn witches.
First sentence is fine. What is the second sentence supposed to mean? What stakes? What cobblestone? Is there context we're missing here? Third sentence is mediocre. Just delete the fourth sentence, awful.

Shutins, midwives and young girls as scapegoats for sour relations and nature’s ill will. And like twigs from trees these dischevaled women turned to ash at the slightest spark. So easy, so bright but for so short do they hold flame.
Again first sentence is fine unless you're an oxford comma autist. Twigs is a bad simile here, go for something else flammable that fits your imagery better of "slightest spark" (and as a sidenote people don't turn to ash when burned just FYI). "Twigs from trees" is redundant anyway. Also "dischevaled" isn't a word. Last sentence is awkward, you're trying to describe the witches being on fire but "easy", "bright", and "short" don't really go together well in the way you've written it. It also feels kind of redundant again describing how quickly the witches burn.

>After the fire clears therein lies the true horror. Bitter crumbling husks and cindered bone. She grows tired of man’s invasions with their scraping irons and trumpeting ignorance horns . She grows frustrated in their actions to wake the foul beast. Her hideous brother and she, it’s wretched sister.
This whole part is bad, you're right. Who is "she"? "ignorance horns" is awful. Also "It's Wretched Sister" is grammatically incorrect, you might want to fix that.

On a sidenote your illustration is really fucking good.

I hope so. I need another doorstopper to complement the other doorstoppers that I haven't read

It will probably be a mess, if it's the Pynchon kinda of mess or the DFW kind of mess we can only guess.

9/10 hype, he already did this on a smaller scale

>>8473692

https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search&ghost=yes&search_text=where+to+start+with+mishima

>>8473692
I'm reading snow spring as my first mishima and it's good

>>8473692
Extensively in English and a little bit in Japanese.

If you want your jimmies rustled by an MC like never before go with Spring Snow. You could read the whole tetralogy if you like, but Spring Snow can be read stand alone.

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is far more read among western readers of Mishima than in Japan. Considered a very minor work but still good.