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>>8200263
fuck off fantano

at least we have a interesting theme to write about

>>8200224
Your mother does though, every night.

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Did someone say Yellow King?

>>8200224
What don't you get?

When you get to the limericks

Marathon the next three.
Then pace around the room for a good 15 minutes.
If you don't feel the urge to drop your old life away start reading from the beginning.

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Just marathoned op's post. When does it get good?

>>8200122
A goodreads model won't work. The reason the opinions are mostly shit is because no one is paid to write those reviews. Just people shouting opinions on the internet.

If you want high quality writing, you have to pay for it.

>>8200233
>>8200122

You can pay me for my opinions OP

>>8200122
>Mostly because goodreads is fucking awful and falls victim to populist bias.

This happened to Pitchfork as well.

It stopped being good when they started intellectualizing Nicki Minaj albums and pedestalizing normie shit like Kanye. They were fine when they focused on pop, electronic, alternative, and rock music.

Point being, this endeavour is doomed to failure but maybe if you get a comitted handful of intelligent people you'll have a couple of good years and bring something decent to light.

Reported.

>>8200114
I-I'm sorry anon

>>8200114
Reported.

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>>8200072
What, you don't think thoughts have matter?

>>8200227

Thoughts do have "matter", in an electrical sense.

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>>8200247
Damn right!

>>8200038
because writing is not a science, it's an art

>>8200038

Now you edit every day, hour per day for a year, and you end up with a 270 page book. And then you suck a different literary agent's dick every day, an hour per day for a year and you maybe get published.

Takes a lot longer than that to learn rocket science buddy boy

>>8200030
It's a massive shame she was blacked, now she's ruined forever.

>>8200039
name?

>>8200039
The problem is you're a beta faggot and don't self insert as the black dude. There's literally nothing wrong with interracial porn.

>>8200042
Remy LaCroix.

none. as little or as much as you want there are no (legal) obligations

Just don't slander anyone and it's fine.

>>8200009
>>8200011
Oh alright, cool. Would you even recommend using a real city? In the unlikely event that my shit is published or even finished, the last thing I would want is a small town becoming some sort of tourist trap.

You need Kierkegaard and God in your life

>>8199914
Have you considered just going on vacation to Bangkok/Manilla and getting off your tits on MDMA?

Highly recommended for those annoying bouts of ennui and existential fuckupery.

>>8199918
I'm a man of strong scientific convictions
>>8199930
I don't do drugs ever, I have wanted to try it, although I had an extremely embarrassing and highly anxiety filled reaction to weed. I have no money or job either and I just don't know what to do with my life, so I don't think I could go on vacation if I wanted to. Really the only thing that interests me is the ladyboys in Thailand and ancient ruins deep within some inaccessible forests. Idk why I would wanna do the same thing I'm doing right now half way around the world somewhere else. I guess I'd wanna go to japan to see if they have a better selection of the type of hentai I like, but I'd have to learn japanese and I think I'd need to be alive for another 100 years or so if I wanted to have time and patience to try pursuing something like that.

>>8199866
post your face, I want a good laugh

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>>8199889

look at the top of his head! HAHAHHAHAHAH
LOOK AT HIS LIPS

>>8199850
Marlow definitely is not a racist. Throughout the novel, he equates Africans with Europeans, both directly and indirectly.

Readers get confused for two main- and understandable- reasons. First, his language often does "look down upon" the native Africans. BUT the important point to remember is that he has an equally bad opinion of the Europeans. It's a pretty cynical novel. Also, Marlow is telling the story to normal, racist Europeans, so his storytelling method bends a little bit to make his listeners more comfortable with the facts he's asserting.

>>8199850
Odd, i just finished this book a few seconds ago.
Joseph Conrad was not a racist, nor was Marlow.
If Kurtz was racist it wasnt explicit.
His plans were to colonize and expand the ivory trade within Africa

>>8199975
But, the idea that Kurtz (once-magnanimous) was broken down to depravity by living in the primeval heart of Africa suggests that the Congo and its inhabitants were less. Yes, he is saying that both Africans and Europeans can be equally sordid, but he also portrays that the nature of Africa is more conducive to savagery. No?

>>8199989
>His plans were to colonize and expand the ivory trade within Africa

obviously, I meant his plans that he alludes to towards the end. The "plans" that make Marlow so visibly shaken

A book.

The Last Day of Summer by Jock Sturges.

>>8199605
Finnegans Wake

>>8199579
pop culture circle jerk, except for when he actually tried to be original (see: the stacks). then it kind of works.

>>8199579

Reads like one really long bad Family Guy reference to pop culture

It's the Snow Crash of contemporary literature. It's just really bad. The humour is bad, the "twists" are predictable (Co-Founder dude lurking in their private server). I mean as something we're supposed to take seriously it's not any good at all, though entertainment-wise it's at least "tight" in terms of plot and tempo etc. It's essentially a non-reader's novel.

>>8199577
>http://archive.is/I4wLP

Not clicking that friendo

>>8199585
The point of archive links is not to give traffic to clickbait sites you fucking retard.

>>8199642
right lmao sure