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Is there a market for comfy books? No death, no epic adventure, no weird romance, just a comfy story about life in general.
I don't know many books like this but am very interested in writing something that goes into that direction.
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I've heard that magic mountain by T-Mann is comfy.
>Cottage in the alps
I think
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Tequila Mockingbird is the epic tone of what you're describing.
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>>8107892
i started reading it in a barber shop on Adderall at around my 34th hour without sleep. great book so far at around 5 pages in.
and thats saying something, bc its a lot description. it starts with a train ride up through some mountains, and some description of whats going inside the guys head
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Actual genius with great commentary on society or a simple author people give too much credit and respect to?
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simple author with great commentary on society
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>>8107805
Jew. He is published because he is a jew
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under appreciated on /lit/
over appreciated elsewhere
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> a book about a boy in a virtual mmo world
> fight scenes are just a bore to read
> best friend who disappears in the middle of story and shows up at the very end to help the MC
> a book for weebs to jerk themselves with
> hot girl loves him for absolutely no reason
> long scenes depicting their romance which is really just the Authors' fantasies
> the story ends with MC and his gf meeting irl
Why is Ready Player One so shit. Also pic unrelated
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>>8107771
>loves him for absolutely no reason
what reasons for love do you suppose?
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>>8107823
Admiration, matching personality, curiousity, good looks...
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>>8107833
wow its nothing
also which couple are we talking about again? Can't remember cause they're exactly the same
Memorial day got me thinking about the second World War. Anyone got recommendations? Looking for histories and non-fiction critiques specifically. Primary sources and secondary literature are both welcome. Thanks /lit/
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>>8107749
also, reflection journals and good novels written by people who went to war are more than welcome
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>>8107749
Italo Calvino-into the war, is a sort of fictionalised memoir of Calvino's time in the fascist youth in Italy kind of like Catcher in the Rye.
Rommell the desert fox, and Hiroshima i really enjoyed both.
Diary of Anne Frank, surprisingly not memey at all. Really good.
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>>8107783
The Cannibal by John Hawkes
It's fiction but he was an ambulance driver during the war.
What is Shakespeare's best work and why is it obviously Titus Andronicus?
>Here me grave fathers
>I tell my sorrow to the stones
>Die die Lavinia
>Why there they are, both baked in that pie
10/10
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King Lear or Hamlet
nice try, friendo
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Henry 4 Part 1
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Corialanus suckazzz
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If AM has the capacity to create a reality of torture for human beings for all eternity out of existential despair, how come it does not just create a new being for itself? Or perhaps how come AM doesn't just destroy himself?
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Spite.
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>>8107600
well i guess that means that AM is just a fucking fag
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>>8107588
We don't know exactly where AM is broken. It probably has self-preservation as some priority and maybe that's remained despite other priorities running amok. AM may also somehow be physically incapable of hitting some crucial part of itself (for all we know it's exhausted every nuke on the planet trying). Could be some hope of release as well, if hope is something AM experiences.
Hey anon, first time poster on this board.
I'm looking for some more hilarious books. After the most prolific writer left the Simpsons, Swartzwelder started writing absurdist fiction novels mostly about this Frank Burly character. They've been hilarious so far, but I've read 6 of them so far and I'm ready to move on to some other authors.
What are some of the funniest books you can recommend? I'm looking for some good comedic writing.
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>>8107560
I'm an american and I don't know anything about New Orleans. Although I did thoroughly enjoy King of the Hill and I though I knew nothing about Texas. That sounds funny.
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It is, is better if you know something about New Orleans but is pretty enjoyable in it own.
Also this one.
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I thought this was mediocre should I bother with the sequel
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I feel too much ennui to care what you do.
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>>8107533
BEE's a mediocre writer in general. If you've read one of his books you've basically read them all.
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Read the next one in the continuity, pleb. Rules of Attraction. Then American Psycho.
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A book about pedophilia, alright, I get it, you wanted to confuse people and get them pissed off by writing beautifully about taboo, whatever. But Ada or Ardor is about incest? Yeah right, he's just your pervy uncle after all
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>>8107434
that's really dismissive.
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>>8107434
>pedophilia is beautiful writing about a taboo subject
>incest is "pervy"
u wot
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A brilliant man of high spirit. An artist. One would have liked to watch him tickle fight with Vera.
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Racism in classic works of literature
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Can you think of any examples? Pic related, Fagin from Oliver Twist
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>>8107428
lol the Dickensian miniseries made him so much more Jewish than that pic
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>>8107428
why the fuck do you care?
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>>8107490
he's black dude
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>Be a nerdy fucking anon
>Have shit regularly thrown at you as you eat and read alone at lunch in middle school
>High school, other faggots move to district
>Stick together for survival
>One of these semi-autistic smelly redhead girl
>Hormones.jpg
>"Date" for a while
>Hardest thing I've ever done, ask her out
>She says yes
>Not emotionally mature enough to realize how significant this is
>Apex occurs when we go to a carnival together
>Swan boats
>Out in the middle of the water
>Perfect opportunity to steal first kiss
>Wuss out
>Paddle back to shore
>Fast-forward six months later, date frequency decreasing until non-existent
>Hear her say "when we were dating..." realize it's over, don't feel too bad about it
>She's out of school a lot
>Find out she has a blood disease
>Parents sit me down one day
>Say that I should visit her in the hospital
>Do so, her parents are there
>Image haunts me to this day. She's all hooked up to tubes, in a coma
>Her mother says"Hey, anonette, anon is here, why don't you wake up?"
>I don't sleep that night
>Still have her picture, last high school yearbook photo that was taken before she died
>Put it away in a little box I keep on my shelf
>Take it out and look at it sometimes
>Regret. Sadness. Pain.
I have never been emotionally close to a member of the opposite sex since. I am 52 years old, and may very well die alone.
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>>8107398
not sure if stale pasta but you are not 52
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>>8107398
>52
>still this spooked
wew lad
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unless it's an idea of your future novel you mistook lit for r9k
What is /lit/'s thoughts on this?
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>>8107351
It's an okay kid's book.
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>>8107351
I remember really liking them as a kid but I remember literally nothing about them
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>>8107351
Better than Harry Potter for kids.
I thought they were great in third grade.
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Recently read this and really loved it. I plan on getting into his other work, but I can't find any copies near me now. Any other writers that write fiction as compelling as this that are around the same difficulty level? I'm a pretty substantial pleb.
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I'd also be down for recs for fiction that might be able to help be a bridge into more difficult works.
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>>8107344
>a pretty substantial pleb
why are people so hard on themselves?
sure you're entry level af in terms of proper literature
but in terms of general fiction readers you are superior to 95% of readers
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other than some famous examples fiction isn't difficult. Really just a matter of patience and having the correct approach. if you really loved Stoner you are good on the latter
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this is the greatest Sci fi novel of all time.
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It's really great but it's actually shit sci-fi.
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>>8107313
It was just like reading one of my Japanese Animes.
Which was great. Sci-fi was meh. Old ideas.
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The Scientology opus can't be beat.
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How many words do you write a day?
Like working out, I can never stick to writing for longer than a few days before failing miserably and doing nothing.
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