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Anonymous 2016-05-21 03:12:14 Post No.8064906
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>>8064550
Goosebumps are pretty scary scary

Anonymous 2016-05-21 03:13:36 Post No.8064910
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 03:13:36 Post No.8064910 [Report]

For sale: skeleton, never worn.

~~But who was phone?~~

Anonymous 2016-05-21 03:15:19 Post No.8064914
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 03:15:19 Post No.8064914 [Report]

is that the one where the uptight puritanical bro from new england finds out his wife was getting gangbanged by the whole town out in the woods and that he's a fucking spooked cuck missing out on hot bukake action?

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2016-05-21 01:08:45 Post No.8064504
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:08:45 Post No. 8064504 [Report] [View this topic]

> be Britfag
> be trawling competitions
> See Manchester short story contest - £10,000 prize money
> read winners and runners up from last year
> experience mounting dread
> retrieve mother, from living room, with Lit degree from UoB
> confirm: asinine twaddle in derivative sincere / minimalist style ( See alternate reality in which Raymond Carver is named Raymond Tusslewaithe Pankherst )
> Lit was right

Seriously I was fucking shocked. The calibre of the work was dreadful. It's a 10 grand prize!

> inb4 why don't you just win if it's so easy
> imagine a cookery competition where the winning places seem to go to: cheese sandwich; toast; an apple. How does one know what to enter?

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Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:10:28 Post No.8064506
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>>8064504
i know the feels, same goes for poetry for the most part.

Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:13:11 Post No.8064512
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:13:11 Post No.8064512 [Report]

since there is no objective way to judge art, as soon as you pass some quality barrier, winning depends on the personal tastes of the jury

it's true for any art contest from art contest on a game forum to the nobel prize in literature

Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:14:20 Post No.8064515
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>>8064512
no shit

Anonymous
2016-05-21 00:07:11 Post No.8064333
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:07:11 Post No. 8064333 [Report] [View this topic]

I dont meam to start /his/ shitposting but i started reading Candide and im at the part where Candide murders his waifu's brother. While I do understand the irony of Candide's story it's also quite tragic how he lived a virtuous life up until he realized his waifu wasn't dead and started evading justice just because of a women.

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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:07:49 Post No.8064337
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:07:49 Post No.8064337 [Report]

good to know, thanks

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:09:49 Post No.8064344
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:09:49 Post No.8064344 [Report]

>>8064337
What's the point of the story he keeps fucking himself over.

Anonymous 2016-05-21 08:05:03 Post No.8065443
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 08:05:03 Post No.8065443 [Report]

>>8064333
Candide is crap. It's only still around because English professors know that if they tried reading real philosophy they'd get their shit pushed in.

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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:04:35 Post No. 8064325 [Report] [View this topic]

What does /lit/ think of Lotr?

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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:23:59 Post No.8064390
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:23:59 Post No.8064390 [Report]

creative and imaginative children's literature

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:28:07 Post No.8064405
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:28:07 Post No.8064405 [Report]

>>8064325
no discernible talent, clearly a juvenile author.

avoid.

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:28:59 Post No.8064408
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:28:59 Post No.8064408 [Report]

it's good

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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:04:04 Post No. 8064324 [Report] [View this topic]

>finish a book
>all those treasured moments are nothing but paper and ink

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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:13:23 Post No.8064350
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:13:23 Post No.8064350 [Report]

Your other memories only exist in your mind

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:19:02 Post No.8064370
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:19:02 Post No.8064370 [Report]

>>8064324
Reread it
>>8064350
ddamn....

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:21:35 Post No.8064376
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:21:35 Post No.8064376 [Report]

that's like saying that having a good time with friends is invalidated because they're just flesh and blood

the paper and ink is just the medium through which the author reaches out to you

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:53:53 Post No. 8064286 [Report] [View this topic]

What is the best form of art? In my opinion it's either music or mathematics.

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:54:52 Post No.8064290
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:54:52 Post No.8064290 [Report]

Music or architecture

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:02:17 Post No.8064314
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:02:17 Post No.8064314 [Report]

Anime

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:03:19 Post No.8064319
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:03:19 Post No.8064319 [Report]

memes

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:51:56 Post No. 8064276 [Report] [View this topic]

what you seek in vain, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. you seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become it's prey.

what did he mean by this.

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:52:50 Post No.8064279
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:52:50 Post No.8064279 [Report]

try not to get too hung up on the meaning anon

Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:53:17 Post No.8064282
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:53:17 Post No.8064282 [Report]

>>8064276
>what did he mean by this.

don't marry :^)

Anonymous 2016-05-21 05:10:06 Post No.8065156
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>>8064279
is that the meaning?

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The Bard goes bare: The Tempest performed naked in New York 2016-05-20 23:48:09 Post No.8064263
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The Bard goes bare: The Tempest performed naked in New York Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:48:09 Post No. 8064263 [Report] [View this topic]

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/may/20/shakespeare-the-tempest-nude-central-park-new-york-women

:^)

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:51:28 Post No.8064274
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:51:28 Post No.8064274 [Report]

Offensive to me

Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:53:07 Post No.8064280
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:53:07 Post No.8064280 [Report]

>>8064263
not really surprising if you live in nyc desu

naked street performers in body paint is pretty normal

Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:53:22 Post No.8064283
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:53:22 Post No.8064283 [Report]

I'll save you all the time, there isn't a single dick

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:46:45 Post No. 8064258 [Report] [View this topic]

I'm considering reading Atlas Shrugged. Would I be wasting my time?

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:51:13 Post No.8064273
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:51:13 Post No.8064273 [Report]

yes.

Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:51:30 Post No.8064275
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>>8064258
You definitely wasted mine.

Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:51:56 Post No.8064277
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:51:56 Post No.8064277 [Report]

>>8064258
Yes

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:11:04 Post No. 8064142 [Report] [View this topic]

Think of a book you like. Got it? Good.

~~What kind of reviews does it have on Goodreads? Find something funny and bring it back.~~

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Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:50:08 Post No.8064657
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ne1?

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Anonymous 2016-05-21 02:04:21 Post No.8064726
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 02:04:21 Post No.8064726 [Report]

DAE throw the book across the room??? pretentious!!

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 22:49:12 Post No. 8064108 [Report] [View this topic]

>and the baron...baron Harko...oohuhuhuh...the b...Wuhahahaha...okay so baron Harkon... PbfffftbahhaHAHA...baron Har...KCKCKCAHAHAhaha...oh my god heheh...so baron Harkonnen (hmhmhmhmckohohehehe)...baron Harkonnen (huma huma heeheehe) was (chrtlechortle) FAT! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA AHH HAhohehoHAHAHAHA FOUR HUNDRED hehe POUNDS AHH HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHA

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 22:50:29 Post No.8064114
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>>8064108
Fat people are both pathetic and hilarious. If you aren't on board with that, go take a lap, fatty.

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>HAHAHAHAHA hoHAhoHahemdmdmd, wait there's more, okay okay he was so..pffHARHARHARDHADHARhehehahohu...and he was so kffffpt FAT! Ohhohohoho this next parts good hehenghenghenlelen...he was so FAT that he needed SUSPENSORS to MOVE HUUUUUHUUUUHUUUUUUUUE HAAAA HHAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHOOOOOHAHAHAHA HAHAHAhaha...ho hu ho ho...h

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:04:42 Post No.8064326
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>>8064108
>planet full of dyonesians and degenerates
>not gonna have fat people

what are some good scifishit that feature a 4chan style community?

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:52:26 Post No. 8063915 [Report] [View this topic]

How is this not a most authentic and sincere first person description of our Zeitgeist?

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Are there no fictional copies, or were such writings just not taken seriously?

Anonymous 2016-05-21 05:06:02 Post No.8065149
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 05:06:02 Post No.8065149 [Report]

it is

>>8063930
houllebecq

Anonymous 2016-05-21 05:48:44 Post No.8065229
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>>8063915
Only the /r9k/ zeitgeist. That one shitty spammer here is more applicable to the broader 21st Century zeitgeist.

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Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:24:49 Post No. 8063822 [Report] [View this topic]

Should I read the book?

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Anonymous 2016-05-21 02:29:33 Post No.8064799
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 02:29:33 Post No.8064799 [Report]

Howl's movie castele? naa aman. You probably shouldn't.

Anonymous 2016-05-21 02:52:24 Post No.8064853
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>>8063822
I really enjoyed it. She had two sisters in the book who turned out to be interesting characters, her stepmother was a cunt, and the missing prince makes more sense. It was an ok book to pick up if you are looking for something light and fun to read.

Anonymous 2016-05-21 09:04:31 Post No.8065520
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 09:04:31 Post No.8065520 [Report]

>>8063822

No, because after reading it, you'll realise the movie makes no sense, as nice as it is.

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