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bump. do you people not read?

Haven't read any Hawkes. Was thinking about picking up The Blood Oranges about two months ago but I got The Ice-Shirt instead.

>>8308791
I wasn't all that into the book.
Except the kinky bits about dads interest in daughters sex life. And the fact that he gonna kill his daughter and the guy who cucked him.

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>>8308733
The Iliad

Stephen Fry's first autobiography.

>>8308733

The Confusions of Young Törless - Musil
Confessions of a Mask - Mishima

>>8308726
Pacing is strange in no small part to your overuse of adjectives.

>>8308726
Blood Meridian/10.

Biblical. Majestic. Awe-inspiring. Terse, yet compelling. The imagery. The adjectives. The local colour. The authenticity. The all-conquering evil. The everlasting cosmic forces. The parables. The morals. The appropriate application of obscure Mexican colloquialisms.

The first two times I had to put it down. I couldn't make it. I put the phone face down on the table and thought about something else for a while (should I do the dishes now or should I just skip town?). The third time I only made it to "friscalating". Only now I powered on through to "dusklight".

Dusklight. Dusk light. The light of dusk. I...it's just...

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>friscalating

>>8308724
With traditional publishing, yes. Amazon gives you a 35-70% cut depending on your book's price, whether it's public domain or not and what country it's sold in, but then you'll have to figure out how to advertise it on your own.

>>8308724
Paperback 8%, hardback 15% I think.

When you look at this >>8308739 you can see why self-publishing isn't always the last resort anymore.

>>8308724
Yes, but people who complain about this also tend to assume that the publisher gets a humongous cut when in reality all parties involved from printer to store get roughly the same cut as the author.

I just read it and was pretty confused by a lot of the things he said.

I think they are supposed to be ambiguous though.

They seem to imply he is actually a supernatural being at some points unless I am misreading completely.

What monologue?
Post it and we'll tell you if you're stupid.

>>8308722
Yes because you're dumb enough to think there's anything to understand in bloodmeme.

>>8308714
The country in which you had your formative years.

>>8308714
Israel

>claiming authors
Nobody fucking cares

>>8308697
Stop being a pussy . its the summer go outside and get some bitches

>>8308705
This. And you must not have read Nietzsche right, or you literally glossed over the Antichrist or some shit. Go back to BGE or the Gay Science. You operate off of hundreds of thousands of dogma. Stop acting like you are a nonentity, ya fedor tipping pleb.

>>8308705
>>8308730
How banal.

His Baudolino is similarly excellent, more of a comfy romp, or Foucault's Pendulum if you like conspiracy theories

>tfw you'll never have a debut novel like this

Possibly similar books from other authors:

- Laurus
- The Glass Bead Game
- Cryptonomicon
- The Magus

That's all I can think of right now.

Wolfe
Borges
Calvino
Aristotle
Aquinas

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Don't worry OP, that's what we're here for

>>8308552
Even if you weren't reading entirely too much into this and it even slightly mattered what your librarian thinks, and even if it weren't by default true that you are a fucking idiot simply because you're like 20, who gives a shit?

Anyway you are young. And every year she gets further away from that age and the new generation of college freshman look younger.

>>8308552
>Was she failing at being friendly?
I get the feeling that happens in most situations for you.

>>8308552
She was complementing you for looking young, my young autistic friend. Do not perceive others as failing to be friendly because your own insecurities have taken hold. Not everything another person says is an attack on you. Pay attention to their eyes, the way they say things, and the connotation they give to their words.

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bumpity bump

>>8308557
Did you really just fucking bump after two minutes? Fuck off.
>>>/tv/

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>>8308560
>3 ip's
I can't bump thread i am interested in because some faggot said so?
anyway
>thread about books and not about some movie
>tv

>>8308527

You have entry level drone written all over you.

>>8308534

What does that even mean?

>>8308542

My advice is to get to the point first, and then justify it. You meander and talk in vague generalities, like a woman.

Why are you writing me?
What do you know?
What can you do?

the thin red line
the naked and the dead

>>8308490
pat barker's regeneration trilogy explored this excellently. definitely recommend it

>>8308490
I'll be the first to mention Storm of Steel.

>>8308483
>Having a facebook page

>>8308499
>Actually living and breathing

>>8308511
Jokes on you, I'm a skeleton.

help a brother out, about to leave on a long trip

>>8308480

Check out the 'Greatest AudioBooks' channel on youtube and pick something you always wanted to read.

libravox

>>8308429
0%

>>8308429
Maybe ~50%. I own 1,300, own about the same number of ebooks. But there is overlap, especially since some of the ebooks are ones I scanned myself.

i used to download shit all the time. i must have thousands of ebooks i'll never read. my physical collection is only a couple hundred books.

if we're going by books actually read, i'd say it's more like 70/30 obtained through legal means / pirated.