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Just finished reading Frankenstein. Thought it was alright. Any thoughts on the book?

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Hey guys, I need some help with my reading schedule.

I read 40 pages a day, as well as reading two issues of a comic a day (inb4) and watching two episodes of a television show a day.
I also watch three movies weekly.
While this worked for a couple weeks, I found myself unable to keep with it. How would you recommend finding the time to do all this?

I want to read a lot, but I definitely don't want to give up my other hobbies.

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What is truly your favorite book that's not a meme?
Basically if you say any book from this list or god forbid reddit's list your taste sucks and you have no individuality.

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Yes, yes, we all know Shakespeare's penchant for naming plays after minor characters, but did he ever write a play in which the main character was the reader himself? That's what David Foster Wallace achieved in his masterpiece Infinite Jest, my friend. Have you read it? I don't believe you have if you're still talking about Shakespeare. Of course you'll say, "But Wallace named his masterpiece AFTER a line from Hamlet! He's indebted to Shakespeare!" That's what it may seem like, but let's look closer. Infinite Jest is of course a novel, but it's also a parody of novels. By naming the novel Infinite Jest, he was mocking the novelistic convention of cribbing from Shakespeare for a fancy title. The Sound and the Fury. Brave New World. Pale Fire. Etc. Etc. Infinite Jest is simultaneously, therefore, the culmination of novel-writing, novel-writing brought to its conclusion, and also a parody of it and every genre except one: the posthumous novel. That Wallace achieved with The Pale King, which is of course a hilarious send-up of posthumously published work. No one's ever done that before, and most likely we won't see a writer attempt it again. As for Shakespeare, he was Wallace's plaything. In Infinite Jest he surpasses him in all things: intelligence, imagination, compassion, observation, wit, and so on. Of course, Wallace at five years old was enchanted with Shakespeare but outgrew him by age eight. It was at that age that he began to compose his own sonnets, lost today, but in the opinion of his parents (professors) and their co-academics they undoubtedly rivaled Shakespeare's and in a few instances he'd even surpassed the old bard. Of course, as we know from D.T. Max's biography (who will go down in history for being the first to write the Sorrowful Jester's life), Wallace at nine years destroyed all the poetry and prose he'd produced until that time in a temper tantrum that later on he admitted to be a parody of literary temper tantrums in which the writer destroys all his work. In this regard, the temper tantrum and its parodistic function is still being analyzed by scholars who are baffled by the complexity of its critique.

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Can anyone explain why this guy is put into the top tier echelon of fiction?

I absolutely love Kafka, but I seriously don't understand why he's put so high up there. If anything you would think his sense of humor would fly over the heads of intelligentsia and art critics. In fact you would think Kafka would go over the heads of most people. Does it have to do with the prose? I read the Neugroshnel translations but I understand any translation you are missing a lot of sly use of German wording and grammar.

On the other hand some people say Kafka is overrated, but I don't think that's the case either. I know the term "kafkaesque" makes me cringe like fuck, and I get the feeling his literature is heralded by normies who don't really understand Kafka's permavirgin status or his paranoid outlook on life. But I don't think automatically makes him overrated.

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i wish i could go back to the good old days when e-books weren't as popular and trollface was still cool

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>start reading 5 or more books at the same time
>finish none

how do i overcome this?

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I need recs on anti-roastwhore literature.

I've already read Schopenhauer's 'On Women' and it changed my whole worldview.

Looking for something like American Psycho or Marquis de Sade where women are treated as objects to be manipulated and exploited, i.e. as mere instruments to man's pleasure, as indistinguishable masturbatory props to man's immediate self-gratification, but without the liberal apologism.

Thanks

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Just finished this masterpiece. Easily enters my top five fiction novels. The intermingling of historical events and commentary with the narrative was masterfully done.
I just read that there's a sequel, how does it compare? Is it worth reading?
Does Ken Follett have any other books worth mentioning?

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Recommendation on some horror books? I know i probably might be asking this on /x/, but i just want a scary long book to read.

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I haven't read any books for a while since I got really busy with school and work.

Just picked up this bad boy a few months ago and it reignited my love for casual reading.
I still think about this fucking book everyday, it just feels so well thought out and engaging in ways I forgot possible.

The sequel was good but definitely not in the same tier, although the dialog with Ummon was fantastic.

I have since dived into a lot of other science fiction but few really hit the spot. I tried fantasy too but it's too speculative with all of the magic and shit.

Can someone recommend me some great awe-inspiring and exciting science fiction? Preferably not from the biggest and well known authors (Clark, Asimov, etc).
I'm thinking player of games or red rising.

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Can we all agree that Dracula is the worst gothic/fantasy/science fiction novel of the 1800s? The first third or so is good, but it goes completely downhill after that.

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What books deal with male sexual frustration and desire as a core theme; challenging these ideas and realities?

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how can i force myself to start reading a book instead of shitposting?

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I dont want to write some stupid stories, i want to write about my life and mind and thoughts, like a proust or miller, or many more, but i feel like special snowflake. Why should i think that anyone could be interested in my life?