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>>8174607
>inb4 Murakami is pleb

I mean, he is, but he's still good.

Just read the Wind Up Bird Chronicle, it's his best novel. Or if you really need something shorter go with Norwegian Wood, it's the only Murakami novel with out any magic alternate worlds or talking cats or anything.

>>8174607
Kafka on the Shore or Wind-up Bird is a good start. If you don't like those try Norwegian Wood, it's different from those.

I like his short story collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Wind Up Bird Chronicle is the only one I'd say is a good novel, but it is rather good.

>>8174592
The first one

Just read it normally, and only pause if punctuation tells you to. Line divisions are usually there just to highlight the rhythm that the poem has when read naturally.

Of course, there are exceptions to this.

depends on the poem, modernist poetry breaks convention and tries to escape the constriction of line breaks, whereas more classical and romantic poetry comfortably exists in the conventions of stanzas, couplets, rhyme schemes, etc.

>>8174559
Who the fuck?

>>8174559
out of everybody in that gang, he'd be the least likely to kill you.
also I imagined him fatter.

no you don't. You read that Bloom said that and you think it's cool to dream about a literary figure.

Fuck off

Only way to live tbqh

>>8174551
what way?

>>8174562
The Max Power way.

Ghastly rigmarole.

>>8174471
Did you really read through 700 pages without forming your own opinion?

Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.

The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.

write as simply as you can, only use words when they are the best, most concise word that can be used that still communicates what you want to express. Don't be afraid of writing long sentences, but avoid stringing polysyllabic words together if you can. Btw where is the bear painting from

>>8174613
Photographer is Marianna Rothen. It's a shot of a stuffed bear at the Smithsonian IIRC. I guess I just need to not edit on the fly as much. My inner monologue is always kind of tripping over itself though, like, I dunno, qualifying things constantly I guess?

>>8174460
Go ahead and write your usual verbose style how it naturally comes out, then trim it down while editing. It's easier to edit what's already there than to put it down the way you want it the first draft.

That's what I do anyways.

>>8174380
spread you ass cheeks

>>8174391
Oh, for one moment I forgot Stirner is a meme on /lit/ and that anything related to him can and will be used against me

Make bad life decisions and fall into a deep depression

better

delillo is top tier

>>8174359
parts are excellent
main protagonist's story left me underwhelmed though
and the 70's artist scene did nothing for me
but the grafitti artist, the Lenny Bruce chapters and the nuns working in the projects of the South Bronx during the AIDS crisis were all excellent

Yet another meme doorstopper circlejerked by /lit/ poseurs who desperately want to feel smarter than the pretty girls who read John Green and reject them. Sad!

>>8174348
no idea what to tell you but thanks for the rare frog

war of art lad

meditations by aurelius lad

just be urself and find ur own meaning - Friedrich Nietzsche

>>8174334
glad you are honest at least


i didnt get the castle. i know its unfinished, but fuck

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>haven't read much poetry aside from Shakespeare and the Odyssey
>pick up complete works of Emily Dickinson
>no idea what the fuck she's saying half the time

How do I get good at poetry?

>>8174304
my diary to be perfectly h

>>8174790
care to post some

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>>8174304
this

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>>8174276
Here you go.

Stick to the Frank books. The later ones are excrement.

>>8174276
First you read messiah, then god emperor, chapterhouse if you want and then the opriginal and children of dune.

Yuo can skip chapterhouse btw but after children of dune you might want to read heretics and sandworms of dune.

>>8174274
>Chronological?
Oh just try reading it in order of God Emperor of Dune, Dune Messiah, Dune, then Chapterhouse, then Children of Dune.

Quite an experience.

First book was ok, got tired real fast of having to love a character and then be force to toss him aside. His robot serie was god tier in comparison.

>>8174268
I liked them although I never got around to reading prelude

>>8174268
The only cool part was Trevize scoring all the alien pussy.

The introduction and first chapters of Between Past and Future.

>>8174248
>reading female """""""""philosophers""""""""""

You are an intellectual insect

>>8174248
The Human Condition.

>>8174170
get laid, loser

Epictetus is good. And not just because his name makes me think "epic taters," every single time.

To paraphrase: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

TL;DR: Don't let it get to you.

>>8174174
>implying that helps