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Step one: don't write it about that, unless it's a satire or something. The premise sounds dumb and uninteresting.

Step two: try to come up with a different premise. Before you do that, it might be good to think about what you want the overall meaning/theme of the piece to be, then come up with the premise from that.

Step three: don't assume that just because you have another author working on it, it's going to work out great. If you notice something awkward/bad, don't hope that they'll fix it for you in revision. Do your best.

KJV

Why is real food illegal? What caused the original famine? How does the farm stay undetected? What would the punishment be if they were caught? Is this the only illegal farm or do they know others?

What happened to farmers markets :(

All of these questions should prob. make it in so it's believed, cant think of anything else

You should expect to read the book with as few preconceptions as possible and form your own fucking opinion, what the fuck is wrong with you people

Rambling annoying guy

Why would you want people putting opinions in your head before you read? What should you expect? Nothing. Just fucking read it, it's like 80 pages long.

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This one has a watermark on it

>>8004468
This just doesnt make sense to me. What is it?

Reading this was daunting but I consider myself a DFW fanboy for life and if I was going to 100% his oeuvre, I had to do it. I can't claim that I understood it completely, but I got through it and there (cool robot voice) Achievement Unlocked.

could anyone explain to me what he thought the alternative was?

>>8004386
>Irony erodes the soul.
What does this mean?

Why are you guys so obsessed with this bandana-toting sperglord?

>>8004176
samuel beckett novels are kind of like nostalghia

>>8004191
yeah i've heard people say that. Which ones do you recommend?

>>8004200
i've only read molloy and malone dies. need to get to the unnamable soon.

i think both nostalghia and those books are so minimal that they're practically a rorschach test for the reader. you'll get a lot out of just considering what sticks out to you.

Tolstoy, after he became a Christian Anarchist or whatever

Kafka wanted all his shit burned. His brother published it.

>>8003927
That's probably just because it wasn't finished yet,

because his "master-piece" though well written is nothing but a guy whining for 400 pages

>>8003898

Shut up

>>8003898
Not like that's different from half the shit posted here

Sorry for your loss.

>>8003865
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

The Turner Diaries

>>8003807
>redpill

He's a lizard Jew who is trying to breed out whiteness by emasculating the white man and enslaving us all.

Deus vult

>>8003815
Dear Diary, to trigger a libcuck one must use pol vocabulary.

>>8003833
>le /pol/ bogeyman

/pol/ is always right

>>8003788
i remember deciphering the stupid code that ran across the bottom of the book. it was just an ad for the second book. Now I know how Ralphie felt when he got the secret decoder ring in A Christmas Story.

Artemis Fowl is good for what it is (i.e. a YA novel)

>>8003811
"YA"?
Yingling Adonnous?

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I don't get poets.

They are just writers of short texts representing insights into being human, aren't they?

I feel you have to read a lot of peoples to find one to take home with you. To find one worth remembering. Thus it seems perceived quality of poets just directly correlates to how much you agree with the poets personal opinions about things.
Or are there actually insights to be gained from such short texts?

Don't get me wrong, I love witty lines, but it's just that it doesn't feel like more than that. Not really worth a genre.

>>8003640
Poetry is about intense, condensed aesthetic experience. It's about being able to use language to illicit emotions in the most compact way possible. Why read a whole novel when every page of poetry contains just as much?

Nicanor Parra, Homero Aridjis.

>>8003311
The Sun Also Rises

The real answer is to read all of his short fiction.

For Whom the Bell Tolls.

If there's one thing I took away from it, it's that I can clean my bowl with a piece of bread.

>>8003318
You'll get that gem from a lot of the Nick Adams stories, too.

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>>8003215
>(embed)

>>8003222
Shit. That'll teach me to just ctrl+v from the last thread.

>>8003222
>weeb

i wish i knew that feel fampai..

>>8003212
>>8003209
samefag

>>8003214
>3 posters

>Any good ideas for an opening sentence?

There you go.

Why are you so gay, OP?

is this gay erotica