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Ok so I get it, we live in a society where most writers are male for TV, movies, as well as other types of fiction like fantasy, comics. They also are the ones more likely to be popular because of that. With that said, we see things more often form the male prospective and I hard this claimed multiple times that is often extends to things like sexuality. However, the people I have discussions with about it often speak as if men are the ones that usually fail(obviously not all) at this while women usually don't. Obviously since we have more content written by men it seems so. Can't it just be a symptom of men simply not being women(unless they do research) rather than inherent sexism or misogyny? I'm not saying it could never be that but c'mon.
Women writers can be quite one-sided as well in favoring the women's perspective sex over male often too. And I'm not just talking about YA novelist. Now, I don't know how many of you read erotica or any works that feature sex, but I don't agree that this one-sidedness is generally only a male problem unless someone can provide me numerous examples otherwise.
>inb4 /pol/, /r9k/, or any other fedoras.
I just want to have a genuine discussion about this and if you're from any of those boards you can just leave.

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looking for good blurbs

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>mfw just turned 19
>mfw recently I've been buying and reading a lot of books
>mfw been playing vidya less and less
I-is is this the time I finally stop being a meme?

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Does anyone have an epub of pic related to share?
Thank you

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Is this worth reading or is it just hype? Also what are some other books I should look into or that you would suggest? I have some free time off work and need to read something.

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Whats the most avant garde work of literature youve ever seen? Obviously we know Finnegan'sWake is pretty out there, and your diary is equally experimental. But what else is out there?

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>The rudest is always right... for rudeness is better than any argument; it totally, [literally] eclipses intellect.

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lit is it normal that this book would take someone so long to read? It's taken me like 5 days to get 100 pages through this book. I wanted to be able to finish the book in a few days, but it's looking like it's going to take me like a week and a half.

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Art is but a shadow. A man is defined by his actions. Have you not yet realized that words are not enough? You can only be beautiful by turning your life into a poem, or are you a passive creature that watches from a safe distance, a pathetic voyeur, who observes the lifes of those who are carried and posessed by their will?

Wake up

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Sup /lit/,

Just came out of a massive depressive spell, haven't been on this board in a while. Wanted to check in and see how everyone was doing. How are you senpai? And how are those books coming alone?

Focus on the positives.

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>So what's the deal with 'life' anyway? It's always swinging back and forth between pain and boredom, pain and boredom. It's like a pendulum! The pendulum of life!

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>Kafka left his work, both published and unpublished, to his friend and literary executor Max Brod with explicit instructions that it should be destroyed on Kafka's death; Kafka wrote: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread".[158][159] Brod ignored this request and published the novels and collected works between 1925 and 1935.

How... Kafkaesque.

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Are Gravity's Rainbow, Evangelion and Metal Gear Solid set in the same setting.

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What should I read next? Just finished two re-reads (Iliad and Portrait) and I wanna keep up my streak. Here are the following options.

- Lolita (re-read)
- Pale Fire
- My Struggle Book 2 (re-read)
- My Struggle Book 3
- Swann's Way
- Ulysses (Re-Read)
- Hero With A Thousand Faces
- Anna Keranina (Re-Read)

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which person's portrait would /lit/ keep framed on their bedside table?