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Having read George RR Martin's collection of short stories he wrote prior to A Song of Ice and Fire, I've come to like them about as much if not more than the fantasy series. I'd recommend The Fortress, The Hero, The Second Kind of Loneliness, With Morning Comes Mistfall, A Song for Lya, This Tower of Ashes, And Seven Times Never Kill Man, Bitterblooms, The Way of Cross and Dragon, The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr, The Ice Dragon, Remembering Melody, SANDKINGS, Nightflyers, The Monkey Treatment, most of his Tuf shorts, The Skin Trade, The Hedge Knight, and Portraits of His Children. A good chunk of the short story volumes are gold.
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>>8142717
Okay, George.
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>>8142717
Just finish your book so the kids can stop complaining on social media, you fat fuck.
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>>8142717
Fuck off
What if I told you guys that I know who Evan Dara is?
In my opinion, the best, least-known American author today.
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>>8142403
Who is Evan Dara?
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The dude's books are unbelievable
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>>8142403
I've read both them books and have started Fleeeeeee
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You will wake up one morning to realize you have the prose of your favorite author.But only in the style of their worst book.
What do you do?
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>implying sinclair lewis ever changed his prose style
time to win a nobel prize and write increasingly mediocre satires for the rest of my life
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Borges worst book?
Don't know what it is but pretty sure is still insanely good.
Will get the nobel for him.
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>>8142344
actually nvm i'm flannery o'connor
and her worst book actually has my favorite passage from her so i'm in top form
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Books that make you want to kick the owner's face while ripping its pages.
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really, it sucks.
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Anything by Palahniukexcept Haunted. I have a fondness for the premise. Pretty brilliant imo
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>>8142201
Yeah but the father one is even worse.
>um... dad... please don't hit me... I mean you don't but uh... you know what I mean...
>100 pages later
>so yeah... you feel me... dad?
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What does /lit/ think of pic related?
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>>8142163
I wouldn't read this.
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>>8142163
who the fuck is this old ass man
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>>8142163
What's it about?
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Dear /lit/
Will forcing myself to read eventually make me smarter? I can only read 2 and 1 half paragraphs before I get bored as hell. I feel myself getting dumber and dumber as the months go by. I can barely form 2 full sentences during an attempted conversation. It's either a one word reply or half a sentence before the person gets sick of my shit and leaves.
pls halp
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Nah, you're just a woman.
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Find something that you like so reading won't necessarily be a chore
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>>8142114
>Will forcing myself to read eve
Stopped there. Leave.
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What's a book that will bring some warmth to the jaded and cynical eyes, of a young man who is just tired of the world and doesn't really want to do anything? I mean like a story. Idk what kind of story, but something for me personally. I've grown so tired of everything, I don't really feel like doing anything. I don't feel like going out and making friends, I don't feel like creating anything artistic, I don't feel like trying to pursue a job, oh hell I don't feel like trying to pursue a job. I'm just tired and fed up with the world, I wish that I knew some writers who feel the same, or something that will bring some warmth to my jaded and cynical mind. I feel unamused by just about everything, but I feel like I've been robbed and I'm still owed my due. I'm waiting to wake up in a utopian society 1000 years in the future, where they've saved my brain, and all the hardships and prejudice and stupidity and ignorance of the past is behind me. I don't necessarily want that in the story, but that's really all that I think would make me happy in this life. So what's it gonna be familia?
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It shows the tragic suffering of the human condition and society's indifference to that suffering, and ends by revealing that, in spite of all the badness in the world, there is yet value in our lives.
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>>8141901
metamorphosis by franz kafka
the bell jar by sylvia plath
the jungle by upton sinclair
hard times by charles dickens
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>>8141901
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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I got some old paperbacks and I'm moving and I don't have room to take them with me.
What do you think I should do with them? I don't really want to just throw them away.
They're mostly just sci-fi/fantasy and a couple science (layman) books.
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>>8141881
Donate them if they're in okay condition.
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Take them to the closest library so others would have a chance to enjoy them too.
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>>8141888
thats why i want to do, but my local library doesn't accept donations. Any good ideas where to donate them to?
i was thinking if all else fails just to throw them up on freecycle, or craigslist free.
though id prefer to get them into the hands of someone who would enjoy them.
What's your favorite emotion /lit/?
Mines paranoia
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melancholy. it is by far the most /lit/ feel.
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>>8141867
Anxiety.
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rapture
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What comes to your mind when you see this image?
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>>8141855
people who crease books in bookshops deserve to die
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There's already a thread on McCarthy. Great author, by the way.
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>>8141855
Faded blue jeans, it's disgusting
I want to act like a machine. What should i read?
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Computational, Complexity, and Automata Theory.
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barcodes
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Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
Not even joking
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Where do I start with him?
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>>8141375
anywhere
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>>8141375
Romeo & Juliet > Hamlet > Macbeth > Othello
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>>8141375
Troilus and Cressida, obviously.
His best comedy by far. He is practically trolling the classical hero by reversing the characters. Akhilleus is a bastard. Hektor is chasing a fool night that makes fun of him. And as a bonus conversation topic, you can argue that by the slow reveal of the female character, it may have been written for female actor.
Board specific words
Ex. /r9k/
Reeee
Normie
U know.
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/lit/
tortilla
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>>8141205
/lit/ doesn't seem as juvenile as most of the 4chan boards, does it even have meme words or sentences?
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>>8141223
Does spook count?
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Just watched the movie and it was amazing. Is the book as good? Thoughts on people who watched both? I'm thinking of buying it but if it's not that much better I don't want to buy it since it might be pretty redundant.
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>>8141181
>watched both
One does not watch a book bro. The film was better.
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>>8141193
Most linear narrative structure books with their focus on the spatiotemporal play out like plays in one's head, I think that's an acceptable word to use there.
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Is that cover based on Piss Christ?
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Who else here spend more time thinking about books and about having to read than reading? I do, and i hate it. But i can't stop procrastinating
Help
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>>8140651
Juan that's why you don't actually like to read. You're just a pretender. You just read because you want to appeal intelligent. Cut off that ego man.>mfw u are not even a writer
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>>8140669
But I do enjoy it while I'm reading, it's the act of actually picking the book what's hard for me.
I spend a lot of time reading about my favourite authors or their work instead of actually going throughmy backlog...
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>>8140651
Fuck off and read a book faggot.