When was the last time you actually read purely for enjoyment rather than to impress people with your catalogue of finished works?
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two days ago. i can't find the book now. you?
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Today
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>>8340735
Today, and most days.
When all your peers read often, no one is really impressed with it. Maybe impressed with the writing I do about the reading.
>Just as the Bradys were getting locked in jail, Lara randomly asked me, “Have you ever gotten a blowjob?”
>“Um, that’s out of the blue,” I said.
>“The blue?”
>“Like, you know, out of left field.”
>“Left field?”
>“Like, in baseball. Like, out of nowhere. I mean, what made you think of that?”
>“I’ve just never geeven one,” she answered, her little voice dripping with seductiveness. It was so brazen. I thought I would explode. I never thought. I mean, from Alaska, hearing that stuff was one thing. But to hear her sweet little Romanian voice go so sexy all of the sudden...
>“No,” I said. “I never have.”
>“Think it would be fun?”
>DO I!?!?!?!?!?!?! “Um. yeah. I mean, you don’t have to.”
>“I think I want to,” she said, and we kissed a little, and then. And then with me sitting watching The Brady Bunch, watching Marcia Marcia Marcia up to her Brady antics, Lara unbuttoned my pants and pulled my boxers down a little and pulled out my penis.
>“Wow,” she said.
>“What?”
>She looked up at me, but didn’t move, her face nanometers away from my penis. “It’s weird.”
>“What do you mean weird?”
>“Just beeg, I guess.”
>I could live with that kind of weird. And then she wrapped her hand around it and put it into her mouth.
>And waited.
>We were both very still. She did not move a muscle in her body, and I did not move a muscle in mine. I knew that at this point something else was supposed to happen, but I wasn’t quite sure what.
>She stayed still. I could feel her nervous breath. For minutes, for as long as it took the Bradys to steal the key and unlock themselves from the ghost-town jail, she lay there, stock-still with my penis in her mouth, and I sat there, waiting.
>And then she took it out of her mouth and looked up at me quizzically.
>“Should I do sometheeng?”
>“Um. I don’t know,” I said. Everything I’d learned from watching porn with Alaska suddenly exited my brain. I thought maybe she should move her head up and down, but wouldn’t that choke her? So I just stayed quiet.
>“Should I, like, bite?”
>“Don’t bite! I mean, I don’t think. I think—I mean, that felt good. That was nice. I don’t know if there’s something else.”
>“I mean, you deedn’t—”
>“Um. Maybe we should ask Alaska.”
>So we went to her room and asked Alaska. She laughed and laughed. Sitting on her bed, she laughed until she cried. She walked into the bathroom, returned with a tube of toothpaste, and showed us. In detail. Never have I so wanted to be Crest Complete.
>Lara and I went back to her room, where she did exactly what Alaska told her to do, and I did exactly what Alaska said I would do, which was die a hundred little ecstatic deaths, my fists clenched, my body shaking. It was my first orgasm with a girl, and afterward, I was embarrassed and nervous, and so, clearly, was Lara, who finally broke the silence by asking, “So, want to do some homework?”
Looking for Alaska broke into the New York Times best seller list at number ten in Children's Paperback.
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Cringeworthy dialog.
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>>8340682
>Randomly
Stopped there. Can we stop memeing about this guy, please?
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>>8340682
Is this all the book is?
A series of wacky misadventures where they become lost and have to try to find Alaska to ask her how to do whatever it is they're trying to do? Is that why it's called looking for Alaska?
Do they try anal?
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What's a book that explains the absurdity of all human interaction?
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ka-moo lé ê-tran-gér
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Mon journal intime, pour être honnête
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Is there a more based character in history than Odysseus?
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The Odyssey is the best road movie ever created.
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>>8340385
Brother Mario
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>>8340413
What if it had been called The Odysseus?
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Is this really the best? Why or why not?
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It's the best novel certainly. All components of a great novel are present while aesthetically it is unmatched.
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>>8340417
Such as?
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>>8340423
It's all there.
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what is his most accessible work?
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The first one you have access to
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ebauches de vertige
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>>8340212
The Trouble With Being Born, very insightful
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>reading Dedalus' sections
WHAT THE FUCK DID HE GET FROM BEING THAT OBTUSE
DID HE JERK OFF OVER HOW INSCRUTABLE HIS WRITINGS WERE?
I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE FUCK HE DID ON THAT BEACH NEXT TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
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He just thought about shit
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>>8340115
Oh so he didn't travel magically to ancient Greece? Thanks a lot!
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you're just stupid. (ENTP here)
>tfw you're writing a fantasy story and the concept of Gods, fate and destiny seriously trigger your atheistic beliefs
What do /lit/? How do I get over my autism? I've been stuck for weeks on writing the mythology behind my story.
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Secular fantasy sounds retarded.
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Nice quads. It's your fantasy world, it doesn't have to be theistic if you don't want it to be.
Or you can just half-ass some vaguely pagan nonsense.
Timely reminder that no story has ever benefitted from having correct prophecies.
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>>8339999
Write something else if it inhibits your writing. If you continue, it's just going to come off as insincere and insulting. Later in your life you may want to revisit the idea
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SHIT wrong picture
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who cares
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>>8339734
cute
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Catholic authors general
I'm feeling inspired, just finished God, Philosophy, Universities by Alastair MacIntyre, having also recently read his After Virtue. He has been an incredibly insightful author and has given a few names I'd like to check out, hoping you guys have some tips, mainly on Peter Geach and Elizabeth Anscombe.
Other than that, recommend authors, discuss shit, etc.
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self bump
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>>8339647
I've recently read François Mauriac's “The Enemy”. It has quite subtle shades if you're interested in Catholic struggles with male homosexuality.
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>>8339835
4chan has an unproportional amount of Catholics with homosexual tendencies, strangely enough.
But, not right now, for me at least.
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Do you know some good novels settled in the prehistoric era?
I'm reading Bernard Cornwell's Stonehenge and it is pretty good!
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You might be interested in Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire. It provides a fictional historical account of Northampton from like 4000 BC to 1996 with each chapter dedicated to a different historical epoch, so only the beginning chapters would really be relevant to your request, but they were pretty cool.
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>>8340430
Oh just keep in mind that the first chapter is basically written from the perspective of a retarded caveman. Imagine Benjy from Sound and the Fury but, you know, from 4000 BC
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>Lovecraft was racist
wtf i hate lovecraft now!
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>tfw your gender studies professor tells you that men used to be allowed to have opinions, and humans used to have enough time away from twitter and their nu-prole job to actually form distinct worldviews
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epic thread
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>When, long ago, the gods created Earth
>In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
>The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
>Yet were they too remote from humankind.
>To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
>Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
>A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
>Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
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can we get together and write a heartfelt apology letter for katie. honestly the world needs her booktube reviews. cliff is a giant faggot and bitches like abookutopia and polandbananabooks only read YA. she never should have shut down her channel. she should have taken pride in the attention. I feel like a few rotten eggs got through to her. so let's all pitch In and get this letter going. I'll post it to her tumblr.
I'll start
dear katie,
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We wish only to sniff a whiff of an outward breath of your anus, and we collectively realized that being mean or crude would not get us closer to this goal. We're sorry.
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We are e/lit/ist from 4chan.
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>>8338804
meh, just a little harmless banter
boys will be boys
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Since Kickass is gone, where do you get your books?
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From kibrary
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Amazon
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IRC
look up the tutorial on reddit if you aren't familiar with it.
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Anyone else excited about the new harry potter book? It was one of the books that got me into reading and it's one of the few ya books that I can still read at my age without making ne want to put a bullet though my head.
What are your hopes for it?
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>>8338518
My hope is that everyone who wants to talk about this piece of shit fucks back off to rbooks or goodreads.
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>Direct to book play script.
Anon...