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>>7996061
Yes, speak faster.

>>7996061
Do you not enjoy the feeling of the words? Do you not hear their music as you read them out loud in your mind? There should be no other way to read if you wish to do so enjoyably.

>>7996199

Not OP, but no, I don't enjoy the "feeling of the words".

I feel so embarrased when I have to sound out the words, like I'm a child having to sound things out. I feel like it's story time and I still have to have grandpa read to me, doing all the voices and stuff. I just can't help but feel immature when having to do this.

>>7996018

I'm one of the many /lit/ users who have chosen to never read this book, so I can't help you.

I found it entertaining enough not to put dow and enjoyed the modern aspects of it, maybe because its the only novel written by someone young in the 2010s.

Its a strange style he writes in where he basically just says what happens and all the description and creativity is up to you.

>>7996018
Reading Richard Yeats and Shoplifting From American Apparel made me appreciate this book a lot more (though I liked it a lot the first time I read it.)
When compared to these books you can see that his prose isn't as threadbare as you initially might think, and that there is a lot of meaning and intent in the composition.

I like the book, I think it does a good job at capturing "modern malaise" without feeling inauthentic. I can understand why people wouldn't like it though.
Some of the relationship parts (like eating junk food as a "date") were 2real4me.

>>7996002
This is bait, he's married.

Not being a corpulent fat ass for one

Jean paul sartre, that ugly fucker, probably had sex with more women than magic johnson.

Just have a weaker female coerce them into sleeping with you.

Start with the Greeks OP

una ¨paloma¨ rodeó de murallas una ciudad donde ocurre una historia de amor imposible.¿cual es la ciudad y quienes son los protagonistas de la historia?

The Sopranos is splendid if you engage with it.

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>>7995982
my nigga

>mediocrity insulting a genius
Topcuck

>>7995860
>mediocrity
tryhard

>>7995860
>genius insulting an alien*
fix'd

>>7995842
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis I believe.

I don't have an answer.

However, I'm familiar with his name and interested in his work.

Can you recommend a relatively brief selection of Marcuse's writings that I could study in maybe a few weeks?

After reading them I will start responding to marcuse threads with comments.

>>7996106
I've never read him. I'm just shitposting, lad

>>7997368
good man

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>>7995729
>Make a meme.
>It's actually Chad
REEEEEEEEE

Literature is dead.

My novel is actually a sequel to an earlier novel I've already written. It's about a journey through Niflheimr, the northernmost of the Nine Worlds of Norse cosmology. I suppose you'd call it historical fantasy.

The plan is to get them both published. I tried to query and find an agent, but it wasn't taking. Therefore I'm trying a new tactic: I've also written lots of short stories, so I'm trying to get them published and raise my profile as a writer. Hopefully I'll make enough of a name for myself that an agent will pick me up, and then we can go from there.

>>7995718
Suck it Ben.

My space opera series of books makes a much needed upgrade to the tried and true structure of "the heroes journey" and gives it a 21st century overhaul. In stores soon

Rewrite that with a fourth of the words and then I'll consider answering your stupid question.

In the meantime, get over yourself.

>>7995675
You're not smart enough to be a literary scholar. Major in business or something.

>>7995657
what the hell do you do, put the book in a vice grip?

>>7995661
No, I just hold it in my hands. Sometimes my hands get clammy I suppose. It doesn't happen all the time. For instance I read a whole book in one sitting and it didn't happen, but I just read for like ten minutes and this is what happened.

>>7995657
Put it back on the bookshelf and it will heal itself.

>>7995612
Mary Shelley wrote one of the greatest books of all time
It really doesn't matter what genre she went into.

One is good and the other is bad.

>>7995898
Explain how genre fiction is inherently wrong?

>>7995522
nah, to me hes the perfect bridge between traditional poetry about love/autumn/classical imagery and batshit modernist stuff

Late Yeats is where its at bby

>>7995522

>Dude has like six poems about waning love and autumn n shit.

I agree that early Yeats isn't as good as late Yeats, but God damn I wish this meme would die.

Given these assumptions, it is easy to understand how the novel itself is worth a lot more from the sci-fi point of view rather than the erotic one, because buying Blake Lively is much easier than enduring the sillinesses and the needs of the protagonist.
However, I continued to read: being the sex-addict that I am, the idea of reading an erotic story from the female point of view attracted me a lot. I am a person that elevates to absolute dogma the desires of my partner and does everything to satisfy them, and the concept of "being on the other side", although in a figurative way, it was an experience in which I would have gladly immersed.
To this regard I was, in general, quite disappointed.
The writer has the merit of getting script and characters right, as well as the kind of public to target. In this sense, I feel somehow forced to appreciate it because the genius is also "speed of execution", but I can not help but think of how much better could come out of other pens.
About the "erotism", the novel is sometimes weak and vaguely childish, but mostly repetitive (the simple phrase "I moan" is as recurrent as irritant). The fact that I liked some parts leads me to think I would appreciate a novel of the same genre written by some author worthy of his title. The character of Christian Grey is definitely well built in regards of the mystery aura, the secrets (which were the only reasons why I went ahead with the other two books) and the magnetic charm, despite the premises of the story are not credible.
Besides, reading hundreds and hundreds of pages identifying with the absence of linearity typical of female thinking process (for females not introduced to the pleasures of double-digit IQ, of course) is frankly an exhausting experience, and I'll spare you the luciferin, blinding and balls-melting furnace that some passages, totally useless but apparently indispensable to the advancement of the wanna-be-plot, were. A plot that could be defined egregious for small literature niche (as every Nicholas Sparks novel is, for instance, since the target is trisomic girls), but for a novel that has been cited as a 'literary phenomenon' is more or less demeaning.
Fifty Shades is not a phenomenon of any kind but, as mentioned, sci-fi.

It is the embodiment of the desire of all those women who share their beds with a just average looking husband which has not the strength or the will to fuck their brains out properly: to find a wonderful man with few flaws, and be able to change them, with the biggest FUCK YOU to rationality, independence and freedom of will, and putting in between a dozen of cervix-shaking orgasms(an unknown thing for many women, unfortunately) and all those sexual experiences that, given the structure of the society (generally repressive towards women looking for a certain type of relationship and practices) and given their perennial status of dissatisfaction, generally remain forbidden dreams, also considering the fact that they wouldn't have the guts of making them come true even if they had the chance.
In conclusion, a weak novel, with a weak character, for weak readers. A great idea executed with the carelessness of fanfiction and the vague aroma of Twilight, with the remorse of having wasted a great opportunity: think about all those writers out there that may have produced something better that will be ignored because "We have already a Fifty Shades of Grey".

Post Scriptum: to the engaged male anons, if your girlfriend is getting toxic because you practice masturbation (it is a misfortune that can happen), if she read the saga you can bring it up to her and shut her mouth * forever, since the things are equal.

*with your phallus

PS2: Sorry any mistake, English is not my mothertongue