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>>8351998
>frogposter
>having a friend

0/10

>>>/r9k/

>receive present
>it's always clothing
It was already too late when I realized that buying books, or some reading material, was dead as far as gifts go, and how absolutely terrible this is.

>>8352087
They give you clothes not because books are dead as gifts go, they give you clothes because you obviously dress like shit and they want to help you.

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1/2

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>>8351952
2/2

Haha. Shoot me.

Someone just made one.

>>8351920
I supose.
Felt like a Latin American 'The Stranger' to me.
The whole concept of the cynic making this unrelenting last attempt at some kind of redemption through love and then ultimately destroying it as he realizes it is flawed because it is human is worth memeing over.

Also : super fucking quick read.

>>8352065
there is another Tunnel, written by William H. Gass

>>8352106
this one is the one we were really memeing about, the spic tunnel is a half-meme

>>8351910
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tJWM5FmZyqU

I dunno, Stirner or some shit.

>>8351910
OCD is pretty rough OP.

>vaporwave wallpaper
yea, i'm not helping a 16 year old suburban kid

>What's some gud contemporary philosophical lit that will confirm and reinforce my beliefs

Difficult considering most of the best stuff comes under those categories. A couple of interesting titles which may/ may not interest you are these:

>'Why The World Does Not Exist' by Markus Gabriel (New Realism, but rejects existence of totality- i.e. the world + argues that perceptions are within the thing itself.)

>'Deja Vu And The End of History' (Temporality. A new theory of historical temporality through the phenomena of deja vu)

>>8351860
I don't have any beliefs I'm just tired of the typical conmen

>>8351874
Thanks friend

>>8351764
Flannery O'Connor is one of the greatest American writers.
A Good Man is Hard to Find is very good. It's funny and yet incredibly dark.

Her Complete Stories is the way to go, her collection Everything that Rises Must Converge is GOAT, and her novel Wise Blood is great Southern Gothic, although not in our southern goth trilogy

>>8351764

Flan Flan is /lit/'s queen mom. This has been established for many years.

>>8351764
>I thought about picking up "The Complete Stories" off of Amazon.

just do it. she's one of the best short story writers ever.

>>8351805
I think wise blood is the best thing she's ever done...and this includes her short stories. it's her masterpiece.

I'd throw that book out desu

throw out the book

kill your dog

>>8351697
you have to poop on your dog now to establish dominance. i'm a dog expert.

7/10

overall i like him even though his opinion on the Japaneses is racist as hell.

Interesting as fuck.

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>>8351578
>uses youtube as his book review platform
>doesn't think he's part of the problem

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>>8351587

What is an isolation bro?

Go outside anon

>>8351561
it's when you're incel and you hate your purposeless failure of a life but you have a fat dude who understands your soul and who griefs CS with you every night so you don't even care

>>8351538
Like every book ever

>>8351538

The Communist Manifesto

every foucault

My girlfriend just bought it but hasn't started it yet.

>>8351716
wow ty anon are you going to tell her to hit me up when she starts it or what

>>8351528
go back to r/books

How did you choose to ask that question? How does anyone choose anything?

>>8351497
I thought about the subject and it made me curious.

If you don't know what to write about, then why do you want to write? That for you it's not about writing, but about being a writer? Atleast your stupid question gives this impression

>>8351433
>fantasy
Edgy

>>8351433
Of course it has. Have you read the original King James Version?
> http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-Chapter-62/
Look at that English. It was polished, poetic, and easily accessible to every English speaker from the 17th Century onwards.

It's prose and stories kept children captivated when Pa would read a chapter after playing his fiddle in the evening as the fire in the hearth died down in their small, sod house out on the prairie.

The memories continued down the line and nearly everyone bought a copy at sometime in their life - what other book has been like that?

It definitely has an Infinite Jest-tier read/purchased ratio

> younger brother, about 18-19 years old, wants to become a writer
> buy him some accessible classics to help him out
> he never reads more than one book a year
> most of the time he screams at people on F2P console shooters (he's spent £100 on Warframe and spent £200 on GTA Online)
> often hear him on the headset saying "woof, woof, haha, lol, hyyyaaaaa, nyan" etc in an annoying high pitched voice
> his writing is full of typos, over-use of hyphens and semi-colons, cliche similes and metaphors (you'll see "white as snow" on almost all the pages) and tangents that don't lend themselves to the theme, building of the world, character development, subtext, etc.
> he says he never uses outlines to write stories because "i can't be limited like that, I don't want my stuff to be put into boxes"
> he literally cried when I told him calmly he took too much trifle for dessert one day and screamed at me to "quit bitching, get fucked"
> he literally identifies as "otherkin" and says he's sexually a dragon

I wish I was kidding but he's like a walking parody of himself.

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> tfw someone who reads casually - romance, YA fiction, mainstream bestsellers - tries to strike a conversation with you about reading and because you don't read what they read they instantly think you're trying to impress them/that you're pretentious

S-sorry, guys... I just like reading sometimes, OK....

>>8351430

>go to bookstore
>ask if they have Ivanhoe
>clerk: "how is it spelled?"
>annoyed, explain how it's spelled
>clerk: "do you know the author's name?"

I'm sure that in the future, if we do have a future, this age will be called the great regression