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parents are wealthy and don't care about the child?

parents have many children and can't keep track of them all?

parents are addicts and don't care?

>>8094338
>What sort of youth would be free to roam the streets to his heart's content?
One who dosent give a fuck, parents or no parents, maybe

First we need to figure out what sort of story you're trying to tell, who is this protagonist supposed to be and do?

What's a good place to buy Under the Volcano? Everywhere I go online reviews say that there are typos in the book.

>>8094014
Sauce on pic

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>>8094014


The entire All and Everything series for esotericism that's actually interesting.

Check this list for other dank unscientifically founded memes.

>>8094263
what about the others?

also what do you think of pic related? is it fine or would an older edition be more accurate? since ive heard this one's diagrams are suspect

Everyone reads for pleasure.

Those books have very enjoyable and dramatic moments, but overall are too long (filled with needless details such as the number of e-mails a character has read and the number of e-mails the character labeled as spam) and will trigger you if you have right-wing political views.

the covers are cool

>>8094341
>Everyone reads for pleasure.
Well a surprising number of people here read to achieve some sort of status or purely to gain skills.

Anyway thanks. Seems worthy of a try since people didn't immediately start shitting on it here.

>>8093825
try hesse's other books.

narcissus and goldmund, beneath the wheel, rosshalde, Gertrude etc etc. Maybe Steppenwolf or his fairy tales. Avoid the glass bead game until you've read most of his earlier stuff imo.

Thomas mann was notorious for writing stories with a western theme tied in with eastern philosophy so you could check him out. He and Hesse were friends iirc.

That's all I can remember. I haven't read hesse in over ten years. But I did read just about everything available in English. I recall Demian was my favorite.

But his books always put me in this weirdly romanticized mood. Really cool but EHHHHH it's kind of exhausting to read that kind of thing all the time. Good luck, anon.

>>8093825
what did you like about it?

>>8093825
Probably The Brothers Karamazov.

You're an idiot.

Why would you read about anything else but Greek and Roman myths?

>>8092952
>BlackSands?

Lord of the Flies: boys will be boys.

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He doesn't rape his sister, Phoebe.

Notes from the underground: be nice and friendly torwards others otherwise you'll end up like him

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In all seriousness, though.

Give us a synopsis, fag.

>>8091390
Hack. I'm not even one of those raving feminists that bitches about anything masculine, but Donovan is just ridiculous.

>>8091390
It's total garbage. Not sure why /pol/ added it to the essential Reactionary reading list. I mean, besides /pol/ being full of retards that is.

He just wants to keep the canon from becoming pozzed.

Bloom is basically a condom for the canon. Let's hope he doesn't break/die any time soon.

>>8090892
I was surprised at how highly he valued Freud.

>>8078247
>English is the finest and most refined language
Lol, no. Who the fuck says that?

>>8078256
I had read elsewhere on the internet.

>>8078247
As a non-native speaker I quite like English for its simplicity. It's quite easy to write something half-way decent in your language.

Nonetheless, I can see where you're coming from. I love German for its flexibility.

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>authors

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>americans try to use their distorted use of political terminology as if it applies to the rest of the world or even their own country accurately

>>8096941

more doggo pls

>>8096871
>Ulyssus

Infunoot J'est and Groovity's Ranbeau.

2666.
IJ.
GR.
FW.
The SD.
The R.
The T.

The Recocknishuns and The T'uu'u'u'u'unnnnell.

What's the fucking problem with an antagonist being more interesting than the protagonist?
Just fucking keep going.

>antagonist
You sure you're writing literature there, sport?

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>protagonist
>antagonist

>>8096588

>horror
>2nd book
>main characters are called Snowdenaelikk, Veiko, Dekklis

Literally face-rolled the keyboard for that, but it's the number 1 best seller in low fantasy?

>>8096588

>Literature & Fiction
>3rd book
>almost all of the blurb is made up of reviews
>look-inside gives: chapters starting on indent, written in a weird 1st/2nd person mix, and sentences like "the first time you hit me it was a shock, but not a surprise."

The author is more concerned with a handful of nobodies giving praise than her own book's contents (one even said "[author] has wrote a ...", so how the fuck are they supposed to be taken seriously?). Number 1 in Crime and Psychological, but number 3 out of ALL ebooks. All of them.

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kindle ebooks bestseller, first result I found

>Killian Saint is wild and untamed, gruff and solitary, an arrogant loner from a family that people in West Bend say is no good.

>I should know better. A man like Killian should have no part of my life, not with a kid to raise and a bakery to run.

>Not even if the way his hands feel, rough against my skin, sets every part of my body on fire. Not even if the dirty things he whispers into my ear leave me so on edge I can’t think about anything but his lips on mine.

>Everything about Killian is wrong. The problem is, nothing has ever felt so right.

>Killian

>In life, I make my own rules. Rule #1? No wife and definitely no kids.

>A woman like Lily Grant? Hell, no. She talks too much and has too many damn opinions. And that kid of hers might be more of a smart-mouth than she is.

>I should walk away. But once I taste her sweet lips, I want to possess every inch of her.

W h a t t h e f u c k

>>8096413
t. faggot

>>8096413
What the fuck do you want us to say? Or more accurately, what do you want to hear? That you're above everyone else because of your dedication to literature, or that you completely waste your time in doing things that are irrelevant to virtually everyone else in the entire world?

If you want to know what happened, it's that you wasted your life doing something that you never really cared about, while you left what you cared about to become overgrown and forgotten, eschewed in favor of cultivating what you were told was important in life.

>>8096420
I don't know.

>That you're above everyone else
Uh no