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>>8009997
>B-but people trust fatherly advice.
Patriarchial scum, gtfo out of my mainstream page-turners.

Doesn't The Great Gatsby do this?

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>opening paragraph reminisces on something her/his mother did/said

I dunno, but I know who the looser is.

>omnipotent nature spirit vs some capeshit reddit man
gee i wonder

Who the fuck is tom bombadil. Wh the fuck is Doctor ManHattan.

Get this hsit out of here.

>>8009792
Great question.

>>8009792
Some things just are.

People on /lit/ like to pretend there's some problem with amazon.

>inb4 obvious list

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There's a paragraph in particular, right before Pechorin's duel, that still haunts me and which I think sums up the Romantic-Byronic spirit of poets like Lermontov himself or Pushkin.

I read it in a Spanish translation, but he paragraph in English it this:

And, maybe, I will die tomorrow! . . . And not one being on this earth will have ever understood me totally. Some thought of me as worse, some as better, than I actually am . . . Some will say “he was a good fellow,” others will say I was a swine. Both one and the other would be wrong.
Given this, does it seem worth the effort to live? And yet, you live, out of curiosity, always wanting something new . . . Amusing and vexing!

And in Russian, in case anyone actually knows how to read it (I don't):

И, мoжeт быть, я зaвтpa yмpy!.. и нe ocтaнeтcя нa зeмлe ни oднoгo cyщecтвa, кoтopoe бы пoнялo мeня coвepшeннo. Oдни пoчитaют мeня хyжe, дpyгиe лyчшe, чeм я в caмoм дeлe... Oдни cкaжyт: oн был дoбpый мaлый, дpyгиe — мepзaвeц. И тo и дpyгoe бyдeт лoжнo. Пocлe этoгo cтoит ли тpyдa жить? a вce живeшь — из любoпытcтвa: oжидaeшь чeгo-тo нoвoгo... Cмeшнo и дocaднo!

read the sticky

why do marxists take historical materialism as a religion? why do marxists think that it's "scientific"? why do marxists always whine about revisionism/no true marxist when discussing the failures of communist regimes? why do marxists try to downplay mass atrocities committed?

nice bait

Because tankies are retarded. They can't accept that the leftist experiments of the 20th century were deeply flawed (not complete failures mind), because they aren't prepared to do the difficult work required to move socialist thought forward.

>>8009740
well why don't you roll around on the ground and cry or stamp your feet or something you special snowflake

>>8009740
Just stop socializing except for with people legitimately as or more intelligent than you.

>>8009754
I wish i could man. I'm searching for like minded people but they haven't showed up thus far in my experience and i don't really understand why.

It's not that kind of book, brother.

Don't be looking for cohesive narratives in meme books.

You're actually reading it? Lmao. Thought I'd seen everything.

>>8009650
idk, I really enjoy the depression shown in the book and I like the characters and the discussion around them etc.

>>8009645
It's just not a book that I am struggling to put down.

"fun" is a children's way of describing books so it seems your level.

>>8009624
It kept me entertained and I generally felt happiness while reading it.

I know "fun" became a meaningless expression.

Do I need to know the events of its current time for me to understand and enjoy this book?

>>8009540
El Caca :3

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I just ordered this. I want to read magical realism.

>>8010468
That's not magical realism it's a language textbook

Not really, unless you want to understand Adolf Hitler the person better.

The actual content of the book is not that interesting or enlightened, and Hitler is an awful writer who could have benefited from an editor.

Read The Art of the Deal too, you fascist dick.

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>>8009481
back to tumblr with you, faggot

>>8009309
Stop hallucinating that you're still alive Joyce

>>8009309
The latter choice would make for better fiction IMO.

its up to you

psychological illness within stories is not a new concept

we don't know your writing style so i think you should do what feels natural. give it time. i can imagine that this is a personal story. what resonates with you?

I like reading.

I used to practice autofellation

This dude messaged me on kik last week and said he'd give me money and buy me clothes if I modelled then for him (I'm a guy and he's a closet gay). Then I convinced him to buy me a quarter ounce of marijuana wax (which is a pretty considerable amount of money) up front so I could "sell" it for him and split the profits with him, but I'm actually just going to take the wax, delete my kik and never talk to him again.

This is my most recent sin but I do a lot of weird stuff like this for money.

What was the deal with Lomax and Walker? I feel stupid because I didn't get the reason for why Walker was essentially an idiot when not fed by Lomax's questions.

>>8009103
walker was good at talking out of his ass without really giving an answer to anything because hes a dumb faggot cripple, the only reason lomax gave a shit about him.

>>8009103
he was an inept student. However, he was physically crippled, much like Lomax, and Lomax identified with that.

stop what your doing and read the once and future king. speed through the sword and the stone the second book is fucking hilarious. Pretty shit stack though.

What this guy said >>8008967, then Siddharthha and Steppenwolf. The rest of it is trash.

>>8008991
>Neverending Story
>trash

fight me IRL

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>>8008642

Wew

I Am Legend