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>>8164212
Sorry I forgot books are not literature. I always report recent purchases and bookshelf threads since they're about books and not literature. I'm a hypocrite, I cower in shame.

Just walk there, that will help you consolidate your love of literature

1. You come across as incredibly vain and shallow, and I hope you die.
2. By all means finish it and suffer the torture.
3. No, it's shit.

>allowing yourself to read a book a female told you to.

>reading fantasy
>recommended by a girl

kys

>>8164000
>things that are more current
No, s'all bad.
>practical to us
I'm sorry, are we still talking fiction here?

>>8164006
>I'm sorry, are we still talking fiction here?
nope. Let's say you spent your time learning of modern terrorism and fear, or the Syrian conflict and consequences of it, or the environment issues and their urgency/non-urgency.

>>8164011
>nope
Well then sure, I'll be reading a modern manual or two and perhaps a DIY magazine instead of Hero of Alexandria's Mecanica.

>>8163990
hehe chilian and african are inferior to the white man's intellect, they wouldnt have created anything anyways. Maybe Harry Potter tier trash lol that women write

take the redpill

DEUS VULT

>>8163990
>have great ideas for novels
1. they don't
2. I don't care about novels. you people and your unquestioned belief that novels are the be-all and end-all of literature is sickening
3. >reading for plot . an idea for a novel doesn't even make a good novel

>>8163990

Lost potential is near infinite, crying about it is faggy and dumb.

just read books and quit being a fag about it

Notes of things you notice. Be it structural things, passages you like, characterization, whatever. Do it at your own pace. Study what you want to. Just don't think too hard about it.

>>8163799
Study what you deem relevant to the extent that satisfies you.
Underline what you think is memorable.
Write down what you think is noteworthy.
Read what interests you.

wish it was 1,000 pages like the stories about it a year or two ago said

>>8163775
you tell me

you wrote it, emma

>>8165024
op here
i resent the implication

>>8163694
This post is so stupid and strange that I honestly can't tell if it's a shitpost or not.

>>8163694
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense "

- Franz Kafka

>>8163406
Nabokov is a jealous, autistic hack who's sad he can't write a story as heart-wrenching as brothers karamazov

>>8163406
Language has failed, and the whole of humanity is doomed because of it.

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YA is fine
Genre Fiction is fine
Translations are fine
Women authors are fine
Jew authors are fine
Black authors are fine
Vonnegut is fine
Salinger is fine
Toni Morrison is fine
John Green is fine
Trump is fine
Buying physical copies is fine
Comic books are fine
Feminism is average
alcohol/drugs/coffee don't make you a better writer
Pynchon isn't that good
Personal experience doesn't matter
99% of Po-Mo is boring
If all you've read from Orwell is 1984/Animal Farm your opinions don't count
If all you've read from Huxley is BNW/Doors of Perception your opinions don't count
If all you've read from Fitzgerald is Gatsby your opinions don't count
If you've only read one Hemingway meme book your opinions don't count
Obsessing about the "references" in Joyce makes you look like an autist
I liked slam poetry when it was called spoken word
The ideal length for a novel is 250 pages
Thomism in 2016 is retarded
"Start with the Greeks" is good advice but a stupid way of putting it.
Reading the entire KJV is pointless
Pirating books is wrong

When I first read this I did not know the Jewish guy was a villain and that the cross-dressing woman was.

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>>8163297
You and 99.99% of human history. There was a time when tolerance was considered edgy.

>>8163297
Is the point of the play to make you hate Venetians? They seem like such bastards.

>>8163131
Marquez it is, thanks guys.

Fuck love in the time of cholera

>>8163131
>1: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
>2: The Brothers Karamazov
>3: The Remains of the Day
>4: The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
>5: The Prone Gunman
>6: I Am a Cat
>7: Titus Groan
>8: The Light Fantastic
>9: The Book of Monelle
>0: Njal's Saga

it's official; she's (he's?) doing hormone replacement therapy

Shit I was just writing a poem about the Orlando thing! Who is this bitch?

>>8163020
Not even funny.

>>8163027
Cut the misogynistic language please.

Savannah Brown. Youtube poet. Very popular and very talented.

Fairly difficult since it's not just in Spanish, it's also in OLD Spanish. Imagine if it was the opposite and you were a native Spanish speaker trying to read The Canterbury Tales. If you're good enough with Spanish that you can read a modern book, you'll probably be able to handle it.

>>8162879
It's even hard for native Spanish speakers to red Don Quixote

Try reading this
En un lugar de la Mancha2, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme3, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor4. Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches5, duelos y quebrantos los sábados6, lantejas los viernes7, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos8, consumían las tres partes de su hacienda9. El resto della concluían sayo de velarte10, calzas de velludo para las fiestas, con sus pantuflos de lo mesmo11, y los días de entresemana se honraba con su vellorí de lo más fino12. Tenía en su casa una ama que pasaba de los cuarenta y una sobrina que no llegaba a los veinte, y un mozo de campo y plaza que así ensillaba el rocín como tomaba la podadera13. Frisaba la edad de nuestro hidalgo con los cincuenta años14. Era de complexión recia, seco de carnes, enjuto de rostro15, gran madrugador y amigo de la caza. Quieren decir que tenía el sobrenombre de «Quijada», o «Quesada», que en esto hay alguna diferencia en los autores que deste caso escriben, aunque por conjeturas verisímilesII se deja entender que se llamaba «Quijana»III, 16. Pero esto importa poco a nuestro cuento: basta que en la narración dél no se salga un punto de la verdad.

>>8162793
That making a moral decision on a case to case basis is impractical and prone to human error.
So ‚rule utilitarianism'

>>8162793
I want to sniff her asshole and lick it

>>8162813
>impractical

how? just make decisions when the need arises.

>prone to human error.

unlike setting strict rules for every action you take?

my notebooks to be sincere brethren

>>8162674
That doesn't even work in this setting...

I started with 13 Stories and 13 Epigraphs. I'd start with Rainbow Stories, though. While the good stories in 13 Stories are fucking GOOD, there are some that aren't great and that could turn you off to him.

>best work

debatable. you can make a strong case for it.

>best place to start

yes

>>8162008
>reading liberal trash

>>8162008
Best place to start yeah. Then read Foucault's Pendulum which is his best work.