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I mostly meant what order to read it in

>>7917045
>How should I approach the bible?
As a skeptic.

>>7917059
because you might accidentally believe some of it? Do you read Homer the same way

>>7915230
Your post is a tour de force

>>7915230
>>semicolons
usually the mark of a pseud, i am guilty

I''ll use dashes all day, though

>and but so
>problematic
>blind loquacious pruriency
>offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan

Epictetus? moar lyk epic titties lmao amirite?

>>7914283

Ανθρώπος νεπιος εσσι.

>>7914282
Yes, you're very clever. Please go away.

>>7921841
Nah, my protagonists are usually women.

Most of the time I can change my characters gender and not need to revise anything, so no.

Yes, because honest representation would be labeled misogynist. Women don't represent themselves very well. Example: guy asks me and a younger girl if he should send a slightly older woman he just started talking to flowers. I say not until you get where you want to be or she will think you are desperate. Young girl says oh yeah that would be sweet, so he does. The woman starts ignoring him, perceiving the neediness in his character. Can't treat a casual woman that nicely at the start or she sees no challenge if you lack wealth or looks, and you can take that to the bank. Girls aren't honest about their socially derived personalities and desires at all.

It's garbage. Masturbatory bullshit for pseudointellectual 18 year olds who want to feel really intelligent because they get inundated with factoids and charts that are completely divorced from context.

He used to have some interesting stuff but his blog has definitely taken a huge nosedive. It's not much more than drivel now.

>>7914527
Butthurt narcissist detected.

>>7914613
>butthurt narcissist

funny you say that cause that's exactly what TLP is

Whole point of loeb is to have them in physical format though.

>>7913120
You know how much that collection would cost in physical format?

>>7913132

Ya I understand, i have one in my room and its tiny, for like $20.

I'll download this anyway to check out some of the novelty stuff, thanks m8

>>7910544
Please do greentext.

As for my experience, nothing too horrorific. Probably Futureless Capitalism by Emanuele Severino, but honestly just because it was written in the inane, incomprehensible way most (Italian, at least) contemporary philosophers use. All hail philosophical fiction.

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> SJW the class
> First day of class the wage gap and white privileged is brought up
> Oh well 8 classes are dedicated to movies so I will suck it up and take it easy this sem
> Fast forward to this book
> Chulito is a closeted youth in the city
> His best friend, Carlos is gay but is open about it
> Carlos is outcast and Chulito is pussy for not being open
>Carlos and Chulito have their gay moment
>Chulito is still closeted and Carlos dumps him

You can guess where it goes from there. The dialogue to really sappy and the story is really uninspired. I do not normally go for audiobooks but I tried looking for one for this novel. I was crushed to find out I had to read 300 pages of homo erotic gansta bullshit.

reddit

>>7907800
this

>>7907797

None.

>>7907800
>>7907803

Look up the term Das Man in Heidegger's philosophy.

>>7919619
>Writers seem to have a higher suicide/depression rate then the average person
Do they really?

>>7919689
I think writers are just behind musicians and dentists w/r/t suicide

>>7919694
It might be something to do with thinking, everything's shit so the more you think about stuff the more shit you fill your head with

Do you ever read in your second language? What about writing?

>>7916996
>>7916998
croatian and english, i read most things in english
>writing
i dont write

>>7918225
Which is your native tongue?

>>7916380
why would you choose to share this

>>7916380
This is b8

>>7916392
why not?

>the book was challenged on the grounds that it is "pornographic" and "disgusting". One parent even went as far as refusing to read the book himself, reportedly saying that "One does not need to have cancer to diagnose cancer".

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>>7915830
>ywn have a little Romanian qt look up at you and call your penis "beeg"

>>7915830

Who is this guy and what does /lit/ have against him? He looks like a youtuber.

>Anything being worse than too cool for school plain anime protagonist that goes to the academy of magic in a world where everyone knows instant transmission and fights with over sized melee weapons despite the universe having guns readily available

>>7912440
>He accidentally gropes or sees the naked body of a princess of the first day and must duel her
I dunno, it's becoming its own genre. We don't watch to see what happens, we watch to see how this bland black-haired Japanese guy makes friends with this tsundere blonde princess.

>>7912440
>Gor

If manga count I can list you half a dozen.
In books only one made me cry, but it wasn't only the book itself, but rather the whole experience around it, my life situation and the relateability to the character. Inb4 edgleord, but it was Catcher in the Rye.

I cried when I read Infinite Jest because it was so shit.

>>7907531
How old were you?

>>7917730
Some combination of Anthony Burgess, Arthur C. Clarke, Nabokov, Stephen King, Thackeray, and some guy who wrote a novel on 'Nam.

Contextually as an American innovator of the 50's and 60's with a technical mastery and detached style who garnered both mainstream and critical praise - John Barth

Tonally ... not John Barth. Tonally some mix of William Blake and Samuel Beckett.

>>7917741
Came here to post this.

Honestly Pinecone for dat research alone.