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Who the fuck is Shirley Jackson?

Sage this shit if you have to say anything. And don't follow the link - Wired is a garbage site.

Nobody cares. Stop feeding the outrage industry.

>>8427001
>Call of Cthulhu published in 1981
>"Its a trend, and five years from now we'll be done with Lovecraft"
Kekarooni

need opinion pls

0 imo

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>>8426994
tens of thousands

>>8426958
As an experience of literature, it's a little middle of the road for me –– BUT, as a philosophical text, quite strong and always relevant. Cool book.

>>8426958
personally I thought it was the worst book I've ever read and dropped it.
There's just no literature in the book. It's artless. The characters are rigidly symbolic and embody tropey characterization like a cartoon. The MC is a bitch and obviously as malleable as Huxley needed him to be to drive his philosophy forward. The world-building was completely underwhelming.
It's has nothing to offer besides a vehicle for Huxley's ideals.

>>8426958
Read Thomas Moore's Utopia first. In fact you should read Utopia regardless

- Youth
- Naivete
- Mild mental retardation
- Gullibility and being told it's good from someone you trust
- An unfamiliarity with good prose
- A misunderstanding of the term 'prose'
- A misunderstanding of the term 'good'
- Double X chromosomes
- An additional chromosome
- Being stuck in a locked room for a long period of time with only one book for company, and it's by her

>>8426881
>>>/r9k/

Because you know she was crazy enough to suck dick like a champion.

Dickens.

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David Foster "Bandana" Wallace

>>8426736

Hitchens isn't even close, he's polarizing, sure - but overrated? Nah

>>8426731
Your mother.

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Epicurus.

>>8426731
F. "Daveeey" Wallace

>my struggle
>45 pages in and struggling
Really makes you think...

I just read them for the 6th one about Hitler, but the series was actually quite good. Keep on trucking, if you don't like it after 100-150 pages the maybe give up though

>>8426600
Yeah it's going back to the library tomorrow

>>8426478
never was able to read, write under LSD. My mind was just going too fast. But the next day im always full of creativity. Dosage?

i wrote this on 100ug

observing others can bring about feelings of complete _gracelovecompassionsufferringjoygloryabandonAHAHAHHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH_

lol

>>8426478
How much did you take?

MAGNUM
ITS BEAUTIFUL

>>8426403
Why would you want to be like Ben Stiller or that one fag who looks like him?

>>8426403
biopic when?
>The Freethinker

>>8426370
gosh i love that pillow

Whats up, Christopher?

>>8426375
thanks bro, it's my favourite.

>>8426380
>le you must be the writer of the series meme
debate me faggot, debate me right now

start with Finnegan's Wake, then work backwards.

dick to butt

Look up the "scat" story tag on literotica. Read the most popular stories. Work your way from there.

You sound like Will Self. You sound like a lanky, bespectacled accountant with blonde hair and a giant adam's apple. The story is boring as fuck, I mean get to the point. Normie shit.

>>8426401
what is Normie? and what do you mean by getting to the point?

>>8426484
You obviously don't browse /lit/ my man. There's an unspoken rule on here that you first have to lurk here and contribute to the community or at least understand it before you start asking for money or attention or anything else.

Normie is a derogative term meaning that you are normal, in the sense that you do not suffer from any mental illness or personality disorder, you have no extreme views, you do not suffer immensely for existential and / or mental health reasons, and your opinions and tastes are those of a well-adjusted civilian content to live according to the rules and social mores of our society.

By getting to the point I mean don't expect anybody to be interested in listening to five minutes of some guy dryly narrating some dude walking into a cafe and ordering coffee. You presume too much about how much I have going on in my life if you think I care to know about this dude's preferred methods of making tea. I have transexual porn to watch, I have a yellow stained pillow to hump, I have several hours of daily suicide ideation that I do not intend to miss. Assume nobody wants to hear you say anything and your word will tighten up almost instantly. At the moment you write like a dude who has been told all his life that everything he says and writes is just fascinating darling.

try

>>8426335
You can try to do Zarathustra but chances are you will give up around book 2 having only kind of understood what he was saying, or if you have the Kauffman translation, you'll understand his interpretation but be unable to really come up with or justify your own. Even all of Nietzsche is often insufficient to really get Zarathustra.

Nietzsche + cursory knowledge of Kant + solid understanding of Plato + solid understanding of the Bible in particular and Christian theology in general + good understanding of enlightenment thought + good knowledge of the history and culture of 19th century Germany in particular and Europe in general.

It's just so dense, there's so much going on in every scene. It's really best described as the German Ulysses at least in terms of obscure literary and cultural memes per page. I'm usually the kind of guy who shits on the 'you need X for Y' simplifications, but a work like Zarathustra actually does justify it.

I can't even imagine the number of people who went into that book and got hopelessly lost and memed on, it was, according to the N-God himself, not written to be easily understood. He did it intentionally, throughout his work, so that readers who weren't very careful wouldn't get him. He said that he wanted his readers to be like cattle and ruminate his works. A proper reading of Zarathustra requires more than any of his other works.

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>In The Western Canon (1994), Harold Bloom criticized Thus Spoke Zarathustra, calling the book "a gorgeous disaster" and "unreadable".

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I listen to audio books while reading.
Usually Harry Potter audio unless I'm reading something challenging, then i'll listen to some novelizations of DC comics read aloud while I read.

>>8425835
this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjWp4MKE9I

Give it a go, youll like it

>>8425835
Robbie Basho, usually

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>>8425787
Obviously ASoIaF too, but that's low hanging as fuck.

Aren't these kids books?

>>8425799
No. Only CS Lewis. Which people parade around as the best shit ever.

Sherlock Holmes was the airport novel of the late Victorian period.