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Bukowski desu

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>Watch Californication
>Hanks creeping through some pictures of a girl
>He sees a picture of her with a stack of Vonnegut books
>He says, "Vonnegut, hmm, great taste, she's perfect."
>Think Californication is well written so far
>Convinced good writers must look up to Vonnegut
>Stop watching Californication half way through
>Lie to people that Vonnegut is my favorite writer for over a year to convince them I have good taste
>year later
>Read Vonnegut
>It's shit
>Finish Californication
>It's shit
The embarassment

>>8235132
Dan Brown

CORNCOBBERS GET OFF MY BOARD

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The sound and the fury?

Anything Taoist.

kek.

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>>8235115
I take screenshots of whatever makes me chuckle
1/3

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>>8235141
2/3

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say no more senpai

Rendezvous with Rama

>>8235116
>hard sci-fi for a pleb

>>8235013
/lit/ - literature

Nein.

On a sidenote, that painting always reminds me of The Waves for some reason.

>>8235025
Philosophy?

>>8235428
discussing philosophical literature is /lit/. asking a vague question and claiming it's 'philosophising' is /his/

at an emotional level, yes.

literally, obviously not.

>>8235005
Like /lit/ would know, kek

>>8235005
i don't understand the question

>>8235002
Read Dan Fox's Pretentiousness: Why It Matters.

>>8235002
because people like to feel important and intelligent, when deep down they know they are not.

>>8235002
>thing
How appropriate.

what?

It's a brain exercise

>>8234953
>being this utilitarian
degrading the time spent enjoying yourself to "I was entertained" is weak.
if anything, you're degrading yourself moreso than the activity you're engaged in.

Depends. Some days i get 10, some 50. Sometimes i sit down and read shit in one sit down before work like The Tempest

i have a minimum of writing a page a day on a project, but i usually end up writing more than that or additionally write poems or edit.

i track myself with a calendar where i put an x on every day i write the page. after a few weeks it's harder to not get to mark the x than writing a page.

I read while preparing and eating each of my meals, and then for several hours before I fall asleep.

I fail to see how this information creates discussion or provides you with anything, though. Are you looking to feel inferior so as to motivate you to read more?

no but on days off, when I set an entire day for writing aside, I take adderall.

no, it makes me too content with life. i drink instead.

It gives makes me think dumb thoughts that end up noiding me every time
>dude what if i actually took acid and just forgot
>no
>but what if

I've got a love hate relationship with it

After reading the first sentence, no.

>>8234799
I'll give you that, the first sentence is shit.

lost interest at 'One day I was', skimmed the rest. you have a beginning and ending joined by nothing and a ton of cliched language to clean up, but without any dialogue i can't see it being anything more than an entertaining but awkwardly long summary. also don't refer to people as 4chan boards, please, it's cringey.

all in all, there is potential, needs a lot of polish and a better sense of structure and pacing. that said, almost everything has potential.

I read via epubs. I highlight useful passages. On passages that are vague but meaningful I highlight in a different colour and add a note over it that appears when the highlight is clicked.

I don't note near as much as I highlight however. Just note whatever requires addition thought beyond the material presented.

>>8234645
What app do you use

>>8234634
I jot down general summaries in a separate notebook, while more liberally bracketing/underlining passages in the book itself. After finishing the book I'll re-read my separate summary, then flip back through the text looking at only the sections I marked. If they're relevant on the broader scale of the whole work, I make notes of them; if not I just pass by them, or save them IF they're at least curious/interesting.

cardboard boxes senpai duh

trash bags if you must

>>8234629
just burn 'em
nothing of value will be lost

>tfw I threw all my books into the recycler bin

Freedom!

One Hundred Years of Solitude is pretty similar in a lot of ways

>>8234619
Cool, I'll definitely put it in my list.

You might be interested the novels of Henry James

Because they know it's false.

>>8234609
who cares?

I suppose hypothetically the insinuation that water will boil in a kettle when you put it on the stove for long enough could also trigger some people

>>8234609
Because he's a

F*CKING

WHITE

MALE