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Is Urth of the New Sun worth 16 bucks? I know it serves more to answer questions left by the original story, but the reviews in amazon make me doubt a bit, even if i shouldn't trust them much.

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>>7952258
First for shilling list

>>7952283
>no Anita Blake the Vampire Slayer
First one is a classic.

Later ones not so much

>>7959954
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Either Ulysses or a collection of poetry so I can know them by heart and use that knowledge to attain pu$$y.

Your mamas titties while she bouncing on my dick

>>7958834
Don't rudepost in my thread please.

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>>7958826
I'm reading Burmese Days by Orwell. I also recently read Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia. AMA

Failed patrician, I haven't liked his stuff since Kafka on the Shore

Read two of his books, both were shit.

>>7957804

Stopped Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore both halfway through. I rarely put down books and flat out don't finish them.

I'm gonna say pleb. Of the Japanese authors I've read, he is easily at the bottom of the list (the others being Akutagawa, Dazai, Soseki, and Ishiguro- if you count him).

Stirner

>>7950689
That's it?

>>7950759
Stirner

>>7938772
Dialogue is unrealistic. Baby line is bad. The simulated accent is jarring. Vapid main character interior dialogue that takes too many words to show too little of character. Still better than most here, keep trying, youll get it soon it looks like.

>>7938772
>>7938792
Also dont ever start with muh routine. Show some action thats actually relevant to the story

>>7938772
>stained with such prominent grease
WTF?

None. Even a few weeks of using that board will imprint it's horrible worldview into your mind.

You're doomed to be that same bitter virgin forever.

Literally all of them. Combine reading with travel and someday soon you may even be a passable human.

Mindfulness in Plain English - Bhante Gunaratanna

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>>7945452

I suck at grammar.

>>7945456
>Grammar
Really? THAT is your concern? That's really fixable anon.

The things that aren't fixable are talent and creativity. I imagine most people give up because they don't put in the effort to churn out something good or just aren't creative enough to write something worth reading.

Grammar doesn't sound something that you should give up over imo.

>>7945452
I've given up on life m8, pulling the plug tonight

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Don Quixote - Man thinks he's a knight and fucks up sheep/windmills.

>>7940542
>muh nymphets
>>7940717
>muh chivalry

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On the Road -- Young writer drops everything and goes traveling with artsy friends.

>>7952340
Certain things are self evident. I think there I am. I intuitively know suffering is bad because the evidence is the phenomenological experience of it. And from such truths you build upon it.

Yes, everything is just bullshit. Bullshit on bullshit on bullshit.

And now what? This line of thinking doesn't lead anywhere, it's a dead end. And if your thoughts can't go anywhere further, they'll take a few steps back and go into a new direction. (That's what happened to me, at least, when I felt like you.)

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Stop beating around the bush and accept Christ.

>her

heterosexuality is not /lit/

LOLA GTFO MY DREAMS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I don't need to write about her, she is writing me.

>>7949713
How are Dost fans annoying? Do they actively talk about him or something? I mean I really like Dost, but I hardly talk about it.

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Rupi Kaur

>>7949731
150 years of endless praise for him and his ideas, as if the man was the groundbreaking philosopher rather than a well spoken journalist.

>Please no college-aged kids or highschoolers.
Why?

Work + College is a tough schedule, so can be highschool, but it's almost summer and lots of highschoolers and College kids are working full time jobs. Just because you're balding you're experiencing more legitimate misery?

I've written plays while working a couple of part time jobs (48 hours total). Fortunately on one of those jobs (night watchman) I could write for about half my shift.

I'm thinking of converting one of my plays to a novel, since no theater wants to hire a cast of 15 for an unknown writing about foul mouthed drunks and drug addicts.

>>7955893
If your wasting that much time at work, just work on your novel at work?

Forgot to mention. Plan to spend most of my summer isolated to introspect and read.

>>7955637
Go hiking for a few days and meditate in nature. Self-help is a meme. There is only your will, your aspirations, your compass, your understanding.

Also, get the fuck off of 4chan and go talk to someone. Now.

>>7955644
20 year old here. Whatever you do, don't spend your summer isolated. Join a book group, at least find someone to share a joint with ffs.

>>7954888
Yes. His style is fucked.

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>McCarthy
>Hard

McCarthy is a pretty entry level writer m8