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Read a book you enjoy

>>8322963
>people will respond seriously to this

Sage

A butcher boy who gets dragged up in an epic war eventually gets hired to torture sorceresses from the opposing army.

It'd basically be like the Citadel parts of Shadow of the Torturer but made into a full novella/novel.

>>8322920
>>8322958
>genre fiction

>>8322974
Everything is genre fiction if it's fiction, my lad. You name it, I can put it on a particular shelf at Barnes & Noble.

>>8322862
>This is the new standard of bait for /lit/

>>8322865
>In its most distilled sense, M.M. is acceptance of every facet of life for what it IS, and I will cast myself upon it to test my mettle. S.M. is an attempt to mold every facet of life into what "it SHOULD be" so I don't have to continually test my mettle.

Maybe this dude's interpretation is wrong?

How are his ideas different than the ones presented by the stoic philosophers? He just copy pasted it all.

>>8322851
>cares enough to get warned about an X translation of Beowulf
>what about Tolkien's?

In short, it's unfinished maymay shit for people who like to shove the One Ring replicas into their ani

>>8322855
Only the second meme arrow was required, friend. What's your recommendation?

>>8322859
"dunno lol"
"just read the original lol"

to be honest, I'm not really an expert on Beowulf, I just heard stuff along the lines that Tolkien's sucks balls big and that it's no wonder that he didn't want to publish it

The best book i have ever read.

a very amazing author.

God damn that's a sexy picture of hitler. I want to feel his mustache tickle my balls as he eats my boipussy.

Noone? I thought lit liked plays. Plays are patrician.

Thanks OP you just reminded me to rewatch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Patrick Hamilton and Tennessee Williams and all those from when theatre was viable against cinema are a great hunting ground, but for most classics you're going to get things like Branagh's Shakespeare etc.

bampalamp

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>tfw you loved the Dune series when you were a kid but can't enjoy it now since you realize the protags are basically Space-Muslims

>>8322806
They're literally based on muslims so...

Don't knot but I recently finished Hyperion and I thought it was cool. Is the sequel worth it?

>>8323808
I couldn't finish it. I think the Keats clone was a very dull character

>>8323808
If say yes, it's a bit more daffy but I found it very satisfying. I'd say skip the Endymion duo though. I really enjoyed reading them but ultimately I think they detract from the ending and universe.

Lame.

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>>8322794
I'm going to put "curl bro" but I think he does a lot of pull ups and chin ups.

Do loser nerds really think roids make them look less pathetic?

>>8322793
lmao
joke's on you
I'm Mexican

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>get one shot at life
>get born female

Thank you Jesus

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>>8322793
Lol

Depression has nothing to do w ego

Sounds like this guy is projecting p hard

Dunno, but my criteria would be as follows;

>Ironic Name
>Consistently declining quality since series midway point
>Significantly more effort put into presentation than plotting
>Protagonist is inevitably the least interesting member of an ensemble cast

>>8322771
Probably something by Beckett.

The Deepgate Codex. Anachronistic adventure story with protagonists battling weird monsters.

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>>8322747
They'd still know him as "that dude who wrote about a cruel dictator" and wouldn't need to ignore his prolific, much superior body of work like they currently do. And my and his compatriots would still say they're proud of him, while having never read anything he did (not that they could take the surrealism).

>>8322747
which authors barring guys like homer would not get absolutely destroyed by this? i can't really think of anyone desu...

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>>8322823
One hit wonders like Salinger. Salinger is still pretty baka, desu sempai

Ryan,

I knew you very briefly. You warmed up to me, and because you trusted me, you died. I'm sorry.

>"Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast food?"
>"Hazel, eat."
>"But why?" I asked. "I mean, seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck in with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has eggs, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."
>Dad answered with his mouth full. "When you come back, we'll have breakfast for dinner. Deal?"
>"I don't want to have 'breakfast for dinner,'" I answered, crossing knife and fork over my mostly full plate. "I want to have scrambled eggs for dinner without this ridiculous construction that a scrambled eggs-inclusive meal is breakfast even when it occurs at dinnertime."
>"You've gotta pick your battles in this world, Hazel," my mom said. "But if this is the issue you want to champion, we stand behind you."
>"Quite a bit behind you," my dad added, and Mom laughed.
>Anyway, I knew it was stupid, but I felt kind of bad for scrambled eggs.

>>8322736
'Women are insects to me. You are nothing but a roastwhore who lusts for Chad cock. Let's face it: your simply inferior. Go home, filthy whore, I have anime to watch'

2D > 3D

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>tfw no /lit/ bf to take me to violin concerts

>>8322713
If i stuck with it, would I become a better writer if I read the thesaurus?

18, discovered /lit/, bought the meme trilogy and taipei in an attempt to become patrician

>>8322734
How did it go? Also since when did Tao Lin become patrician and not a hipster degenerate?