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The prose police might issue a fine but if you skip town they probably won't chase after you. They're generally more concerned with overdue library books.

>>7974606
Maybe try a Naked Lunch approach?

I think you may end up subconsciously adhering to some semblance of a plot though.

>>7974606
Go back to sleep, Earwicker.

Just read r9k famo

A Confederacy of Dunces

any Louis-Ferdinand Celine

>>7974525
start with the greekos

Lol who told you that?
The Gunslinger is probably the best book in the series. Maybe Wizard and Glass if you have already bought into the characters.
It mostly gets worse as it goes, and some of the books are downright awful.

>>7974460
I've only read the first four, way back when that was all there was. I enjoyed it at the time, but is it worth finishing or should I just preserve the memories of the series that I have?

>>7974454
>Purgatory

Nah, m8. You sure you finished reading it?

>>7974399
I have two at the moment.

>>7974399
Did you mean psuedonyms, OP?

>>7974432
Read more you fucking pseud.

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>>7974393
>girlfriend
>right hand
kek friendo

Highschool junior/10.

>>7974398
first year uni actually

my dick is like an m16
your dick, a broken vending machine

>>7974318
jeez, that's weak. go read a book or something.

nice body

what do the moon runes say on this slut?

>>7974419
free 2 cum inside

Roberts gets a lot of respect around here but I haven't read either.

Chandler is a more specific and advanced text if you want to know more about Napoleon's actual battles, with diagrams, troop counts, etc.

>>7974431
got anything to say about dwyer?

>>7974468
Never read him but I have a buddy who loved his "path to power." Apparently it's a great intro to the non-military aspects of Napoleon, and focuses on his politics and then his propaganda.

>>>/pol/

>dialectical materialism
>science
4/10, made me take the bait. Back to
>>>/trash/

>>7975058
Prove that diamat isn't a science.

I'll wait.

>>7974219
You have to realize that no matter how talented you are, you're not going to amount to anything unless you bust your ass every single day. I'm currently working on a PhD in mathematics and it seems like most people just assume that I made it this far (which is really not that far at all) because I got lucky genetically. But what they don't realize is how much work/sacrifice I put in to get where I'm at (they were at parties, they were having girlfriends, they were getting married, they were having kids, etc.- I was doing math).

Also, a healthy dose of self-hatred can be helpful when you're feeling high on yourself.

>>7974254
Oof, if I came off like a humble-bragging douche, I apologize.

Work hard, hate yourself. That's all it takes.

>>7974254
>>7974261

While I find these comments worthwhile and interesting, I should again say that this is not an advice thread, so perchance the posts that follow might say "I do ...." rather "you ought..."

To the point, my concern specifically, should I ask for advice after all, is with

>There's a very real fear that my life will have substantially less meaning/purpose if I turn out to be not-so-talented.

It is hard for me not to decide that, if literature is valuable, purposeful, meaningful, then so is writing great literature. Then so must a life in ignorance or mediocrity be devoid of exactly this value, purpose and meaning.

>>7974078
when is this nigger gonna die. I wanna know how ASOIF ends

He's doing the fans a mercy. He's hoping they realize genre shit is worthless before the next book comes out.

I don't think an author ever has an obligation to rush themselves because fans are impatient, but he really should have put 100% of his focus on cranking out the main books as soon as he signed his deal with HBO.

It would have been worth your time back then, yes.

>implying your time is worth anything

You could probably read that book in a few hours that you would have spent shitposting and looking at pornography anyway

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>>7974055
Yeah, Richard Adams is a great writer of naturalistic prose, his books are wonderful irrespective of age, though Watership Down is probably best enjoyed young.

It's surprisingly hardcore for a book about rabbits, there's a lot of death and hierarchical brutality.

Shardik is another Richard Adams book, i't's aimed at a more mature audience, I read it semi-recently and loved it do death.

I would like to dispute this

>>7974007
i don't think you can anon

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I'm more of a Crowley man myself.

That's not really cliché, that's something that used to happen. It happened to me.

>>7974008
Me too but it is nevertheless a lazy and absurdly overdone method of representing a character's sexual awakening.

>>7974020
What brought it to mind was that this was recently done on Better Call Saul (a show that typically features excellent writing) in a flashback sequence wherein the main character witnesses his meek, gullible father be conned out of money, after which the conman lectures him about the dog eat dog nature of the world, leading him to despise his father and steal a few dollars out of his wallet. His discovery of the adult magazine took place immediately before all of this, juxtaposing his sexual awakening with his subsequent moral corruption. I had to roll my eyes. It was the first time I really recognized the trope for what it was, despite the fact that it was employed in an otherwise good scene in a good show.

>>7973968
Hero was the girl, OP. Leander's the boy. They both died.

Heroin comes from the German "heroisch" combined with pharmaceutical branding conventions.

Heroine is just a result of Atticizing and Victorian flourish: especially heroḯne, a modern Greek cognate for heroin.

People confuse the three because they're retarded like you. You should write "these sorts" not "this sort".

>>7974037
>Insulting a woman because she points out sexism.

>>7974047
>thinking I'm not a grill
So because I'm a woman I can't be right about your retarded ass? Retarded desu