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>>8272800
The New Testament

Aristotle and Epictetus helped me with that, my man.

>>8272800
Siddhartha helped me.
Heidegger helped me.
I read a different translation of the Tao Te Ching every so often.
I read certain books in the Bible.

>caring about length o er substance

Fucking plebs.

>>8272725
Sounds fake

>>8272768
It's real.

>>8272700
Not really, no. It was a decade or three ago, but these days you're not going to get paid shit for writing under normal circumstances unless you already have years of experience.

>>8272772
>unless you already have years of experience.

not even this.

>>8272700
Depends on where you live. In some eastern european countries with a low cost of living, you could pull it off. Back when I was writing for content mills, I could get $5 or $6/hour if I put some effort in, and that is more than enough to get you through in, say, Slovakia or Hungary.

It lets non-white people seek public approval for texts that traditionally would be ignored by their peers, normalizing poetry production and diffusion.

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It holds some merit in the sense that it encourages people to try to formulate their ideas and thoughts in a semi-empowering environment.

I hate most of slam poetry. Overrated and usually just hyped up shit (think 22 Jump Street). There are definitely some speakers whose 'poems' tend to hit very hard, and they have enough well-written verses to appeal to the minority and majority.

It seems more like a visual performance than one meant to have a huge amount of literary merit.I think it really all depends on the delivery.

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No

>tfw we will never have the original works of the cynics

>thw I will never have access to the varamchara marga tantra

>>8272666
By stop being a pussy and being happy with the brilliant works we have.

>>8272672
he was probably cold, you todger shrivels up when it's cold

Mishima

Here's a famous light novel:

>I Joked About Wanting to Have Sex With My Sister But Now She Thinks I'm Serious and She Won't Stop Mentioning to Other People That There's Nothing Wrong with Incest Even Though They Never Mention Things Like That in Polite Conversation

>>8272659
Wasn't that the title of some video game or another?

>>8272633
Captain Underpants

>>8272633
your/my diary

What about something that'd make me more interesting to be around?

How to Speak and Write Correctly,
Joseph Devlin

Adler's book is mostly about the mechanics of reading, while Bloom's is mostly about literary appreciation

>>8272600
>tfw can't do either
>tfw forever stupid

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>>8272228

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

American Psycho

Solaris

Fight Club

The Shining

>>8272238
if you go home iwth someoen who doenst have any buks

don fuggem :P

I didn't went to films, I went to the book store.

>>8272178
20,000 leagues was pretty great though.

Bloom likes lots of so-called "genre fiction", you aspie, and I doubt he dislikes Verne.

>>whatever they think is good
oh boy get a load of this guy

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>group of girls start making fun of infinite jest near me

reading john green on my Kindle Paperwhite (tm) and gett layed

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>reading in public
>someone comes near to look at the book I am reading and he sneers
The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters

>>8272051
it's not really, people just like saying that - the twist at the end is retarded. however - note the descriptions. gettis is never described, yet you can see him perfectly.

>>8272051
It isn't.

>>8272051
What the fuck made you think that /tv/ would be helpful in any way?

>>8271999
you're not getting enough human-to-human touching in your life

>>8273524
>you're not getting enough human-to-human touching in your life
This is actually true, although you couldn't have come to that conclusion without a lot of chance.

>Reading anywhere but inside
Failed normalfags are still normalfags

>>8271983
If they're really normies they've probably seen more trees and flowers and birds than you have thanks to their frequent social outdoor excursions

you fukkin faggot

>>8271991
>Failed normalfags are still normalfags

nah. Being a failed normalfag is worse than being a dysfunctional faggot because people will still expect a certain degree of sociability from you.

>>8271906
bump

am I being too vague? I also sorta like Dostoevsky (but not that much), I like kafka, dislike Pynchon, "eh" on Camus

>>8271906
Try reading other works by the same authors, I guess.

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Since you like Kafka.