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I haven't read at least half of all the books I take part in discussing on /lit/.

Probably more, but at least half.

When reading a book, if I see a word not properly printed (maybe a fleck of ink is missing to make the word incomplete) or if I see the paper is a little blotchy, I need to run my finger over it. I assume it's something I need to check - whether the blotch can be rubbed away or if the ink is so bad it comes off from a little rub. It rarely makes a difference but I need to do this everytime I notice it.

>>9890811
You know, most of us can tell people like you haven't read the book you're trying to discuss.

>reading this random shit instead of Dante, Leopardi, Mann, Mallarmé, Marinetti, Balzac, etc.

>>9890534
>Not realising Wolfe is superior to half of these

>>9890534
Non english writers are irrelevant.
Please kindly fuck off.
>>9890531
Have you read any of wolfe's writing before?

Solzhenitsyn was a nazi collaborator (he openly admits it) and was sent to the gulag (in the british army you'd be executed) for 7 years
most of his claims are unsourced, and he fails to mention how it were mostly communists who became the victims of stalin's regime
read ernest mandel's review of the gulag archipelago

>>9890557
This.
It's entirely bullshit. Don't read it.

>>9890565
>>9890557
commies? in my /lit/?

The Forest-Walker, Junger

Eumeswil, Junger

Kierkegaard

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Try Ayn Rand's Fountainhead.

I've personally been living a life of recluse. It just seems appropriate that I generally do not socialize.

>>9890211
Are you religious? Religion's quite good for this stuff. If it could see the poorest misers of all of human history through plagues, wars, famines and every other kind of disaster you can think of it probably stands a good chance at also being an effective treatment for '21st century bullshit fatigue' (we really need an officially recognized name for these feelings, it's getting entirely too common).

I hate everyone and everything most of the time but reading my favourite Catholic authors tends to make me feel a bit better for a little while. Chesterton, O'Connor and Wolfe I think are particularly good for this.

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>>9890077
>australian
>great

Ok ok I get it, but whats the punchline?

>>9890077
Geoffrey Roberts, Robert Hughes, Nevil Shute, Manning Clark, Xavier Herbert, Michael Leunig, Bruce Dawes.

>>9890077
There isn't any, Richard Flanagan is okay and so is Tim Winton. Not great though. Also some Clarke guy, for the term of his natural life. But if you have no interest in convicts and stuff there isn't much on offer.

Skip

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>>9890041
why do i find pic related funny then big guy?

>>9890046
Because you're a sick fuck

Distance = Humor - Tragedy

All distance, all space, is the difference between something that's funny and something that's sad. If something is far away, that is because it is more funny than it is sad. If something is close, that is because sadness and funniness are nearly equal, you neither laugh or cry. That's why distant stars are hilarious, but your nipple is almost neutral.

Don't know of a better place to ask this, but did anyone else have a serious change of heart about him after the end of his last video?

>>9889137
NEVER CROSS THE MEMES

>>9889155
Which video? The one where he attacks the journalist who called him "far right"?

>>9889060
is that painting the perfect cover for every book or something?

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>>9889060
>The perfect book cover doesn't exi-
Yeah, it's called simple clothbound with a gilded etched title

Cool is so last year, most interesting things are hot now.

>>9888940
No, i woke up at 8 am today and still haven't left the bed 12 and a half hours later

>>9888947
That's cool.
I mean, err...

I was completely lost after about 50 pages

One of the greatest books in spanish language. 10/10. Masterful.

>>9888579
I loved it

amiable.

sleuth is a fucking great word

>>9888681
Hey
shut the fuck up

>>9888322
Burroughs

> Sentence fragments on a page.

>>9888322
>He spat.

>When I was introduced to him (in the sense that I was given the permission to witness his presence, by a man who is now dead and buried somewhere near Toledo, Spain) for the first time, the first thing I noticed was the elongated nature of his brindled face, and the yellow landscape I had seen many times in my other lifetimes.

>>9888205
no

its the overcoming of the human, the all too human

>>9888205
Yes, read Stirner to get a coherent critique of putting things above yourself,

>>9888210
Beautifully said

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Am I a writer?

I dunno.

Do I like to write?

Yeah.

>>9887934
This.

>Am I writing short stories or a novel?
Yeah.

more than a dozen published short stories in both paper and digital formats, novel well on its way and I'm confident it'll be something worthwhile as I know what i'm doing.

The Jaunt is his best work and it's like 2 pages long.

>>9887734
I think that Misery is best, or one of bests. This ending, for me 10/10

>>9887727
The man is a legend. He creates some of the most authentic characters I've encountered in literature.

Pet Semetary made me want to have children, oddly.