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>>8189177
>How do I make my mom proud /lit/
i'd start by not being a writer.

>>8189181
Hey, you stole that plan from him!
Give it back!

Write something. If you write enough, eventually something will be, rightly or wrongly, considered good.

>>8189146

it has a pretty significant plot hole since after all the currently existing children were snatched into the united mind, w/e it was named, people clearly could conceive children again and iirc there is no mention if people tried to do it or not, if newly born children were snatched too (it could make quite touching parts of the novel... but it was never written), if humans became sterile or w/e etc, it's only said that they all died out before the earth was destroyed

>>8189153

I thought they all just transcend this plane of existence.

don't remember it that well desu, so probably not that great. whichever movie that's from looks better—i'd rather have just watched it

just remember that you are participating in a rich kid sport and consider the ways entrance fees distance publications from the artistic present

>>8189130
So you're saying these competitions are just for rich fucks to circle jerk each other?

Come on anon, it can't be that bad? Is it?

>>8189131
there's a very specific demographic of gullible, aspiring writer who submit works to contests with an entry fee.

it's not people who are at the level where they can just get published, and the publication is not at the level where they can actually make up their operating expenses by selling copies

just a bit of a racket

disagree on what?

i don't make it a point to look up an author's every opinion before reading them, so i probably do.

I read ride the tiger recently. The first 100 pages were garbage but I quite enjoyed the rest which amounted to old man complaining in the best possible way.

So yes

Evelyn Waugh, one of my favourite authors, was a reactionary aristocracy-wannabe tory racist catholic who disliked anyone who hadn't been to Eton. Just about any opinion he had, I'd probably disagree with it, but he could write, and his novels are fantastic.

>>8189050
To clarify, I am referring to the work itself, and not specifically the title.

>>8189050
From Cambridge Press.

>>8189050
There is literally only one you nonce, you didnt even check.

Hegel already did for me

>"I saw the Emperor - this world-spirit - go out from the city to survey his realm," he wrote on October 13, 1806. "It is a truly wonderful experience to see such an individual, on horseback, concentrating on one point, stretching over the world and dominating it."

myself

any half-assed description of a twinky twinky trap would do

When's her funeral?

>>8188738
Well no self-respecting individual ever conducts business at the same establishment more than once, so rest assured you'll never see her again.

>>8188738
>reading at work
>WHILE WORKING
>WITH PEOPLE THERE

wow, what an attention seekin faggot you are.

/pol/ go home

Infine Jeff

Plutarch

>>8188720
The Communist Manifesto is short. Why don't you just read it?

>>8188801

I didn't even get through adam smiths book since the corn talk was too mundane for me, not the concepts, just the corn comparisons.

I like to do things in order I figure you wouldn't want to read something like that ahead of the others.

>>8188720
but the communist manifesto is seriously one of the worst things marx ever wrote. it doesn't even really say anything about his beliefs except that he dislikes capitalism

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Milkbottle H

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Fanged noumena

>>8188616
start with the greeks.

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>>8185779

fan fiction

>>8188614
the holy bible

>>8188614
Have you read the art of war by confucius is pretty good

be less autistic and allow yourself to experience art

or just read 'on food & cooking' and make women wet with your meals

There is a good reading order online. Start with Pere Goriot

More like BALL SACK HAHAHAHAH

>>8188584
I'll throw in another vote for Pere Goriot/Old Goriot. No prior knowledge needed.

Did you slap her?

>>8188568
Close. I pursed my lips, threw my apple, and kissed her on the cheek. She blushed.

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>mfw i act this autistic
>mfw wait im not remotely this autistic

your mommy's diarrea

(in an affronted tone) You can't tell by the cover? The telltale blue and hints of tennis ball green? How can you even call yourself a human being? This is only the greatest work of genius produced in a billion years. Only the most perfect and scintillating gem of literature the universe has ever seen. Only the highest and final product of all our species' labors and toils, all our dreams and wishes. Only incontrovertible proof of the existence of God, Heaven, and an indescrutible soul. Why, good sir, it is only Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace, published in 1996! The lengthy and complex work takes place in a North American dystopia, centering on a junior tennis academy and a

I can't read. Why did you think I was reading just because I'm holding a book and looking at it. You'r ebeyond bigotry