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>>8263642
>Murakami novel
>"why ... ?"
Oh boy

I don't know, when I was reading it it seemed to evade common interpretations, neither mental illness or somekind of existential dread or grief problem
maybe that's just because the novel isn't that well written

>>8263651
this

murakami doesn't even know the answer so don't work yourself up not being able to figure then out

hell just look at 1Q84, a thousand pages of admitedly nicely written prose, but not all hat much happening for the page count, and then boom, an ending with dozens of unanswered questions

I met someone traveling recently who swore by it.

I figure I should get one myself considering last trip I had an entire backback filled to the brim with books.

i consider myself a kindler, yes

I've had my Kindle Voyage for 1.5 year and next time I will buy a Kobo.

>>8263566
fuckin Yeats or someone i guess

>>8263574
Yeats is good, why do you like him?

Homer.
Milton.
Shakespeare.
Pound.
Eliot.
Yeats.

I use a typewriter like a normal human being.

>>8263106
microsoft wordpad
not sure why I should use something different

What the fuck question is this? Why would I know which Word version my professor uses? Probably Word 2007.

>>8262725
> French

Yes. English is quite a bad language for thinking, philosophy, and community (I mean, it's the only language that capitalizes the first-person pronoun - no wonder they're selfish cultureless swine that can't cook or dance).

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>>8262737

Portuguese is ugly as fuck desu

>>8262699
>there are only six plots
>all six are exactly the same

Not a big deal, since its character that defines a plot.


If you take a "Steady fall" type of plot, but for two instances have a bitter old man as a protagonist, and a happy schoolteacher as another, both stories will be completely different from each other.

>>8262699

>Reading for plot
May as well go and watch movies, that's right movies, not films.

Everytime I research one, I look at their schedule and see it's all YA books, and then I don't want to be part of their book club.

reading is a solitary activity

>>8262313
It's a lot of fun! The book selections aren't always the most top-tier, this is true. But I always look forward to meeting up with everyone, and hearing their thoughts about the selection.

>>8261374
I read them when i was 10 or so and they were fine then. I don't see why an adult would read them, let alone reread them. I suppose thats the point.

>>8261374
>next great writer
When? How? According to whom?

As far as I know she herself has never professed to being a good writer, she just happened to hit a certain market with the exact right commodity at the exact right time.

All of her Harry Potter books are also bad and unmemorable. You only remember them because they were heavily marketed and everyone talked about them

>>8261252
>implying this is dank analytic metaphysics

>>8261320
>implying it isn't

>>8261329
Nah man, this is far from the dankest of analytic metaphysics.

Yes, most people misquote it, don't know the source and don't know the context.

Meme in the sense that it's actually memetic, sure.

>>8260849

Interesting

>>8260853

Go on...

>>8259469
What metaphor, OP?

>>8259473
maybe only i read it like this - the cities as physical representations of mind, or states of mind - a sort of combination between memory palace-type ideas and descriptions of cognitive architecture.

1. Blood Meridian, McCarthy, 8/10
Dense, cerebral, mythical. Definitely meant to be read more than once to fully appreciate. Incredible prose and static characterization.

2. Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky, 7/10
I liked the introductory essay, but the protagonist felt like he lacked the control he made me to believe he had. Very strong resolution.

3. Catcher in the Rye, Salinger, 7/10
I only read it because I never read it as a teenager. Very strong characterization, entertaining narrative, theme was handled skillfully. Last act is super cozy.

4. Siddhartha, Hesse, 9/10
Elegant, eloquent, brief, compelling. Will definitely read again. Something everyone should read.

5. Stoner, Williams, 9/10
Excellent novel, perfect pacing and honest characterization. The only book that made me feel invested in the romance. Sublte, humble, quiet.

>>8258834

Probably because it was shit.

>>>/pol/

>>8258839
there are plenty of shitty threads but when they are about books (this one was) they hardly get deleted

>>8258834
>>8258839
I don't understand why lit is so adverse to discussing multiple forms of literature or philosophy. I thought lit was supposed to be the board that promotes discussion on literature. Why are so many people so emotionally attached to their political superstitions? Why do most of the people on 4chan feel so threatened when anything that enters their echo chamber doesn't ring true to their beliefs?

I thought yall niggahs read Plato so you should know better than to throw mud at those who don't >share your opinions.

This is why 4chan is going into the trash because you are all enabling this dichotomy between left versus right instead of sharing ideas and opinions.

4chan was great because 4chan didn't cuddle anyone who had an opinion nevermind how shitty but conglamerated towards those who had to say something of merit. Now all dialectics on 4chan have been reduced to merely ad hominems and other fallacies without delving the topic that is being discussed you fucking faggets.

id still tap that. hope she has a dik tho

I don't know what this is and I don't care, OP.

>>8257976
How many writers are actually making a living?
52k (median income) a year must be feasible after 3-5 years of writing no?
I'm talking men here.
Women will make money writing no matter what.

huevos

Algún autor decente español contemporaneo?

No deberias limitar el thread a solo textos y crítica, que estupidez. Pocos son los que comparten algo, menos los que dan crítica constructiva y menos aún los que ponen algo bueno.

Y como OP siempre es puto, ahí les va una pregunta: qué opinan de La tregua, de Benedetti? Empecé a leerla por curiosidad y me sorprendió lo melancólico del tono y la prosa. Hace mucho tiempo que no sentía esos feels al leer algo.

>>8252516
He escuchado buenas cosas de Enrique Vila-Matas de gente cuya opinión estimo.

The knowing

>>8267635
>who

Owls are wise animals as they constantly ask who, but have no notion of a cartesian thinking substance. Perhaps it is not one who knows that there is no ego, but many, united in the knowledge that resonates between them as they fight for their time share of the body, giving the illusion of a united single unique ego.

Nothing nothing does everything everything-jumps something_somethingfawns daisy daisies... .. . #themasterofnoonearound