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HAH!


HAH!


Good luck idiot!

You couldn't read all the English language books published last year in the rest of your life.

Number of books are increasing exponantially just like the world is advancing. If you could read 100 faster I bet you wouldn't be able to read all of them.

>>8267281
>book

Fuck me, never mind. As far as storytelling goes, Homer's epics. After that, Paradise Lost.

>>8267281
Tbh I'll get hate for this, but LOTR

Pretty much all fantasy following Tolkein has been influenced by him in some way.

Probably Don Quixote or Moby Dick

learn to analyze literature better*

yeah but you need a youtube video to teach you how to read it

>>8267229
Derrida's Of Grammatology

>>8267015
They go on about diversity but never have any Arabs, Persians, indians, native Americans or Asians. Not even a bloody aboriginal just blacks.
Only blacks and whites.
It's not fucking diverse

>>8267273
Confirmed for having never read capefag rags.

>>8267279
This

>>8267015
what is empathy?

Very little is life-like in fiction, which is why we call it fiction. A good character will be a good character regardless if they are anything like their creator. If authors can create authentic hard AIs and aliens as characters, then they can write characters of different backgrounds than their own. Of course an author that can relate to their creation personally will have a somewhat easier time writing them well. Yet a willingness to learn and to think hard on who the character really is, easily makes up for any major differences between the creator and their fictional counterpart. Humans are predisposed towards empathy. It takes very little for us to find connections between ourselves and others as both the writer as well as the reader.

>>8267005
What exactly did you not like about V.

I saw V for what it was which was a dumping ground for his short stories. I thought it was enjoyable.

Maybe you're a pretentious faggot who hates fun. In that case you still have the hope of enjoying GR a lot more

they are

>>8266949
>New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.
>Nantucket, an island about 30 miles south of Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, USA.
I hope you're a troll.

>>8266949
there's a big battle in chapter 5 just hang in there

>>8266949
Is it really a marathon if it's one chapter? do people run short marathons? At what point does a run start becoming a marathon? Is there a specific distance?

>>8266774
Yeah, Oblivion is mine. I have to reread GWCH soon. It is probably my least favorite of everything he wrote (Both Flesh and Not is close though). I didn't hate it. And some stories were better than others. If you can get over his showboating (and to enjoy Wallace you kind of have to) Westward is awesome. It just didn't hit me as hard as his other stuff. Broom was less "profound" or whatever, but it was comfy and hilarious throughout.

>>8266748

Perform the scene from Infinity Jest where they play the nuclear tennis game, no idea how easy it'd be.

that sounds torturous wtf. quit

just go up there and smoke weed out of infinite jest.

>>>/pol/
>>>/b/

>>8266690
My diary desu

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>>8266690
try reading a magazine

>>8266639
I really believe in THAT plot, in my personal opinion it's magnificent, even if I tend to understimate myself due to my major depression, I think that the idea behind my main character* (see the typo in the previous post, english isn't my mothertongue btw) is very well constructed. In spite of this in a "book pre-reading" the audience didn't like him, but they apparently like my weak sloppy sockpuppet characters much more. And they thought the story has to be much more love-oriented. I thought I nailed it, but apparently I didn't...

>>8266659
Do NOT listen to mediocre people.

Do NOT ask for mediocre people's opinion.

Do NOT hang with mediocre people: they're contagious.

(Take any great book and I guarantee you that 95% of them wouldn't like it one bit. They would prefer any train station romance or thriller or shit like that.)

>>8266659
Listen only to the opinion of people that you know to have talent. Only people that have written something really good. If they haven't, assume they're retarded.

If you don't know anyone like that, trust only your judgement.

I read The Nigger of the Narcissus a while ago. Very nice prose.

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He's a very fine writer, and the fact that it was something he started later in life after so many careers is impressive. I have arguably his best works: Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Victory, and of course, Heart of Darkness

I read Heart of Darkness and thought it was extremely boring.

>>8266581
based joanna newsom

Haha, I’m from Germany and didn’t even know that book or its author. The first thing I found when looking on the internet was a rather slating review from Der Spiegel from 1981.

>>8266594
The first hit on google is the German wikipedia page

I wish I had the time to read new shit but I don't even have the time to read a tiny percentage of the books that I have a 90% confidence that I'll love.
If I worked in the field I would, but I got a job mate. I gotta focus on Moby Dick and shit.

I think The Vegetarian was released this year? I could be wrong. It's great though.

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>>8266525

>>8266508
THEY REPRESENT THE WAY OF LIFE CAN YOU NOT PARSE A SENTENCE YOU FUCKING ESL MONG
GTFO

>>8266508
The columns represent academia and the university. He's not the god, learning is.

Truly the greatest martyr parable.

Stoner died for our sins lads.

for example i have a couple sources directly to the bible. cool?

>>8266507
homework board is here, friend
>>>/hm/

>>8266528
the question is regarding of whether this is conventional analysis, idiot. that's absolutely to do with literature you fucking low iq minority subhuman piece of dehydrated foreign trash.