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Serious question: is he autistic?
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He looks like it.
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Also, I've always thought his glasses don't match his face.
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>>7994667
No. He's always very open, friendly, and sociable in very normal American ways.
He is a huge pleb, though.
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Only /lit/ knows
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>>7994662
That dude was too real and too much for this earth. My role model.
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I am as white as they come but he was undeniably right.
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Where to start with Malcolm's work?
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Who would he be like if he were real?
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who cares?
he's a novelist written by TV writers who don't understand novelists or how to write them.
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>>7994642
>doesn't care
>replies
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A mixture of DFW and john green
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Was this the best Dragonlance book?
Soulforge is excellent. Beginnings of the Heroes of the Lance, the writing is crisp, great atmosphere.
Still fantashit, but good fantashit. Like a comfort meal on a rainy day.
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Chronicles is dope as shit. Tales was good. Skip the rest
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>>7995748
I think my 'must read' is Chronicles for context and archetypes, Legends for a legitimately interesting story and further character development, and then the Soulforge and Brothers in Arms for further background on the Heroes of the Lance.
Everything else is pretty shit.
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>>7994616
Not letting my thread slide into the Abyss quite yet.
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Would /lit/ please tell me whether Sartre's Nausea is usually hard to read? I'm three pages in, and confused as all hell. And I don't mean "This character's motivation's confuse me", or "This plot is hard to follow.", I mean "I understand most of these words, but they don't seem to be combining into any kind of meaningful whole, and I can't visualise what's going on, because I have no idea what is."
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I don't remember it being too difficult, you're only three pages in so just keep reading. Maybe try a secondary source like Wikipedia or sparknotes to get a better grasp on the some of the basics like plot, theme, philosophical background, and so on
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>>7994586
First few pages are slightly disorienting. In all it's not that hard at all.
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>>7994586
It's very easy to read you are just a cretin
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In the few months that I have browsed this board I've seen a fair amount of contempt for Vonnegut.
Why is his work so hated here?
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>>7994567
Because EVERYONE loves Vonnegut, because he's great and accessible.
/lit/ attempts to be better than everyone else, not in HOW they read, but in WHAT they read.
Everyone outside of this little community who reads loves Vonnegut. Therefore, if /lit/ is to maintain its "better than" status, they must reject Vonnegut.
The truth of the matter is that most people on /lit/ have never read much Vonnegut. They claim to have read Pynchon -- the "better Vonnegut" -- but truthfully they only read 25 pages of Gravity's Rainbow and then pretended to understand the writing style while searching the plot elsewhere.
READ VONNEGUT /LIT/. HE IS PYNCHON IF PYNCHON HAD A SOUL AND ACTUALLY TRIED TO BE ENJOYABLE. STOP GIVING IN TO PINECONE'S BS.
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I liked Vonnegut when I was younger. I tried reading Jailbird yesterday but it didn't hold my attention. I think it's one of his shit books, though. His writing style is fun. He's simple and easy.
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So it goes.
Should an artist respect the silence which serves as the foundation of all creativity?
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that one vid of him getting prank called is so sad
but still
NO TALENT NO RESPECT
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For all the shit he gets, its true.
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>>7994559
how so
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What would you say is essential in order to improve your writing? An active voice in the narration? Showing the reader how a character feels rather than telling them? Improve your grammar?
I really want to get into writing, but my writing is a mess. What are some ways to improve myself? I haven't taken any /lit/ related class in five years. What do you do to improve /lit/?
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>>7994538
Sexy vampires and shirtless werewolves.
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>>7994538
vocabulary definitely. i need a thesaurus in my brain.
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>>7994538
>but my writing is a mess. What are some ways to improve myself?
write more
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Say her name.
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anais nin? Why?
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>>7994518
he thinks he's being obscure right now
lol
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>>7994524
I thought it was a sex thing lol
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>want to get into /lit/erature
>read nothing but classics and other big boy /lit/ for a long while
>they're well written, sure, but you aren't really having fun at all
>think you need a break for a bit and go back to reading the pleb /lit/ you enjoyed before
>realize that the prose is messy, the stories are filled with cliches, the characters are one dimensional, and there's no deep ideas at all
>have to go back to reading only /lit/erature
>tfw not even enjoying /lit/erature but you have to read it because everything else sucks in comparison now
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Enjoy your stay
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>>7994479
Read nonfictions that are well written maybe?
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>>7994508
This. There's a ton of great memoirs and interviews out there.
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Is this book any good? I just got it yesterday. 2016-05-03 16:11:00 Post No.7994476
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Is this book any good? I just got it yesterday.
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Thoughts /lit/
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>>7994476
MOOPS IN SPAIN
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>>7994481
What do you mean by this?
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>>7994476
>SMOORS IN PAIN
what happened to them?
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Where Does /lit/ Get Electronic Books From? 2016-05-03 16:08:26 Post No.7994471
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Where Does /lit/ Get Electronic Books From?
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Couldn't find "Stages on Life's Way" by Soren Kierkegaard on Project Gutenberg; is there a place online to get books like this to be aware of?
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gen lib rus ec
(dot dot dot)
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>>7994485
I think it worked. Thanks so much!
> that feel when a smell reminds you of that time when you were reading Proust.
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>that feel when you think you're into smelling girls assholes but you try it and it's gross and just smells dirty but then you don't jerk off for a month and all you want to do is smell dirty assholes
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>try rimming a girl once because it looks really hot in porn videos
>end up getting violently ill
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Hey lit figured this was the best place to ask, I've been googling to no avail, I'm looking for the name of the ethical theory most concerned with the motives or intents behind actions.
The closest I've found is motive utilitarianism but it isn't quite what I'm looking for. I'm embarrassed myself I havnt been able to remember what I'm referring to I consider myself a fan of ethics but even with the internet what I'm precisely thinking of eludes me.
And yes this is for a final paper for university.
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And for those interested I am tracing Dickens ethical values within our mutual friend focusing on the melodramatic tropes used and how they reveal Dickens moral theory.
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Paper is due in 5 hours dear Lord save me Lit I read the book I just need your infinite philosophical knowledge!
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Currently grappling with virtue ethics as the closest thing to what I'm looking for
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trying to get my buddy to read JR with me. then he says this. how would you respond?
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Tell him that Churchill said it
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sorry, more specifically how would you respond to his suffering for enlightenment remark?
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OP you have downs