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>>8053277
There, A Best Friend Coming Out of Darkness by Randy Lenz

>17th grade
that nigga dumb

>>8053277
Stop worrying about age. It literally doesn't matter.

>>8053252
That's why you start with the Greeks you dip

i hope you're reading kant solely for academic purposes

if not, you're really dumb and should kill yourself right now

>>8053252
just read the prologema (Idk what I'm talking about)

>>8053240
2nd

>>8053240
1st is UKE; 2nd AmE.

he was almost killed

Eragon

How much Tolkien have you read

If it's just Lord of the Rings you still have The Hobbit (which is the fun fantasy adventure people who haven't read LoTR think LoTR is like) and the Silmarillion (which is where most of the actually interesting stuff about Tolkien comes from, including the so called world building).

Otherwise, I don't think there are many authors like Tolkien. His main draws were being a great storyteller and extremely dedicated worldbuilder (if not a exceptionally good writer strictly speaking), and since both of those came from his very particular education, upbringing and life experiences (a lot of LoTR is directly inspired by his experiences on WWI, e.g the Dead Marshes) it's very hard for that to be repeated.

>>8053120
Eragon literally ripped the plot from the Star Wars wholecloth and changed it slightly to make it fit into a fantasy setting

>>8053156
>2003
>reading for the plot
i'll shiggy if you'll diggy

>>8052952
If you haven't read Joyce's previous stuff don't both. Especially Ulysses. If you aren't a huge fanboy by that point, I would also not bother. It's the kind of thing you have to be convinced that what the person has to say is important to have the stamina to go through it. Even then, without an annotated guide you won't get much from it.

>>8052952

You won't make it passed page 10 because you're a huge fucking pleb faggot.

Good luck.

>>8052952
If you're asking whether you should, the answer is no. I loved it myself, but I never doubted Joyce for a second after Ulysses.

It's not actually worth reading, but if you're committed to doing so, I'd say once you hit the B2-C1 range.

>>8052739
After Gravity's Rainbow but before Ulysses.

>>8052739
Penguin books have classifications for different levels. I think they number their levels (1-10) and you should just go on their website.

neet would have thought he's pleb shit

>>8052686
Ulysses alone contains more vocabulary words (30,030) than the entire Shakespearean canon of thirty-eight plays and 150 sonnets (29,168).

fun fact

>>8052686
IIRC Joyce considered Nietzsche a very minor thinker and was mostly dismissive.

>>8052599
Has Denis Johnson ever even done heroin lmao

>>8052599
>No one's life is this pathetic.
may I refer you to >>>/r9k/

>>8052599
>no one's life is this pathetic
>>8053046

Ellipses!

>>8052548
semi-colon

my diary tbqh

>>8052426
Oh yeah, also what specific books do you think I should go for (They don't have W&M, obv because it's a shitty high school library), and how many do you think I can get away with?

dont steal from a school you fucking lowlife

end your life homie

>>8052424
not OP but what about sci-fi? just started what I hope will become a sci-fi novel

>>8052424
not OP but what about erotica?

>>8052424
I think it's probably harder than you would think. There are so many shitty fantasy writers that just get swept under the rug every year, because you have to come up with something really original in order to truly succeed. You have to make a world at least with the originality of the likes of GRRM, or make really interesting characters, which is much easier said than done. /lit likes to shit on fantasy a lot, because the prose sucks ass and the literary quality is null, but there is something kind of difficult about actually making a really good story and world that not many people have a talent for. You can't just shit out a story about dwarves and elves in this day and age and expect to do well: you have to come up with something of your own to bring to the table.

Dumb frogposter

Cute anecdote: when Gertrude Stein sent her first book "Three Lives" (written in English) to publishers in Paris, an envoy from one of the publishing houses was surprised to find out she was an American and that English was her native tongue.

>>8052470
she writes like a retard so i'm not surprised. she was too influenced by shitty painters she collected and their paint like a retard motto/modernism trend.

Drinking is dope

>>8052342
>how could a charlatan have a vice

>>8052342
Self medicating the repressed crippling anxiety that fueled his work

I'll know I'm a genius

when did i say i was

>implying

Thinking about setting aside enough funds so that I can ensure a decent sized statue of myself is built before I die. I'll put it on private land and allow it to become a library or some shit after death. I won't do it when I'm 30 of course, probably more like 80, or whatever my health dictates. Anyway, that's how I'll ensure I have some kind of relevance after death. Also, of course, I intend on doing getting myself frozen, a normal human lifespan isn't enough time to think about things.

>>8052186
The Silmarillion

>>8052186
>The Bible

>>8052594

(you)