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Why do you cry? Was it a good book? Did pinecone make you feel?

>>8272412
yes he did. I thought it was good but not great, until the last transit. then he hit it out of the park. now I can't stop thinking about those lovable idiots.

>>8272407
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

No luck so far, is his body of work the Holy Grail of our times?

Yes.

You can probably blame Dean Learner for this. Remember how he treated Randolph Caer?

>>8270373
The only man whose written more books than he's read.

Woolf had been writing here and there about and around the coming of this sort of literature years before, then fulfilled her own prophecy

>>8269251
It was also her favourite novel she wrote, no?

>>8269215

Please, tell me how you did it. I found it, though interesting, extremely boring.

>and that Greece was originally black
What? That's not what Black Athena is about it isn't some Afrocentrist garbage. The thesis is just that the Egyptian and western Asian influences on classical Greece were much greater than was previously thought.

>>8267874
It says that Africans were the original colonists of Greece, and the idea that Indo-Europeans were is a dated 19th Century thesis.

WE

>>8261902
because he's not 'literary'.

>>8261920
elaborate

>>8261902

Because he's a hypocritical, arrogant, repetitive douchebag. Anyone that puts out as many shitty books as him, all with his name as the largest text on the cover, is someone worth hating.

That, and he coincidentally looks just like the head of department that kicked me out of university for not attending his lectures.

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Also, here's my story.

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Should I even try

Kill yourself.

>>8278699
blood on the tracks

>>8278725
>>8278729
come on im serious here

Is this experience with actual editors or some Wattpad wankers?

>>8278702
that is what you should expect dealing with editors in publishing

>>8278739
I beleive that entitely depends on the editor. You wont deliver a solid peoce pf speculative fiction to whoever the fuck published The Hunger Games. Know our scene.

I prefer Zizek if you want to talk about "fake" beliefs desu

Its a great record of Scientology. Last third of the book was just piling so many terrible things upon terrible things that I couldn't finish.
I think what's interesting is how few Scientologists there probably actually are, which makes me less concerned.

>>8278435
I have no clue but Gold Base is a fucking horror story, the way they go after anyone who says a word against their religion is...... spooky

>>8278361
*less relevant

>>8278361
Catalan has some. Josep Pla and Mercè Rodoreda are two I've enjoyed.

>>8278361
Väinö Linna. Täällä pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star) trilogy and Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) are the best Finnish novels I've read.

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> Tomás Pichote vuelve a hacerlo.

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>>8278358
if you say so, pal

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>Default-windows-7-grade font
>Cover image looks like a stock photo altered by a 9th grader in photoshop
>Trademarked corporate logos in the picture
>Embarassingly similar to the Bleeding Edge cover, only shittier
please.

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>>8278311
>>the pseudo intellectuals

that's you, that is

>sullying David Starkey's good name with this tosh

>>8278454
did you see him on the telly getting interupted by some cuntlady calling him a white male? ill try and find it.

Why label yourself as a follower of a certain philosophic school ? Just take from Stoicism what you find useful and ditch whatever doesnt work for you.

Yah if you don't give a frick

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>>8278306
>asking others what you can or cannot be
Sounds like there's still more residue of moralfaggotry left than you realize

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1459299

he sucks
hes shit
hes bad
hes old
hes a hack
hes white
hes male
hes cis
hes rich
he uses an old computer

>>8278203
>immediately refuted by comments below
Next.

>>8278208
>without resorting to memes.
You've certainly failed there

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>>8278126

>Caring about the rabble enough to give them the time of day

>>8278134
My impotent nerd rage needs a healthy outlet

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>Alex Burnet was in the middle of the most difficult trial of her career, a rape case involving the sexual assault of a two-year-old boy in Malibu. The defendant, thirty-year-old Mick Crowley, was a Washington-based political columnist who was visiting his sister-in-law when he experienced an overwhelming urge to have anal sex with her young son, still in diapers.