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>>7876432
Irony is like onions

It has layers

>>7876460
It's funny because i watched finding fiona today.

rain on your wedding day

Check this David

>>7876408
Kelvin Yates would be a good pseudonym.

>can we have some fun

I'm reading Gogol right now, and that's pretty fun.

read some wuxia and skip the rest

chinese lit is shit

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Magic Mountain

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian.

In terms of tone, it's similar as experimental, absurdist work like Samuel Beckett.

If you want something more concrete, try Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, who resembles Kafka.

>>7876286
He curled his hair while he slept to achieve luscious locks

Byron here

AMA

>>7876295
fuck off cockroach

>no Trump
Discarded

>>7876273
only read "how to win freinds and influence people" from whats compiled here but i would reccomend that its a very nice read, so if any of those are on par with that, cant be a terrible list although some titles are sort of "click bait" example, "i will teach you to be rich" write a book on how to get rich to get rich

Kahneman is great. Malkiel is pretty good. Taleb is okay but kind of a blowhard and I'm not really sure there's much in there you could use as investment advice. Sowell, Hazlitt and Schiff are hacks, avoid at all costs. Marx is...interesting. I will avoid passing judgment either way but I do not think you'll get any useful investment advice out of Capital.

Haven't read the rest.

I don't get it

cause like the pen is just learning how to express itself. it's all like symbolic ya know. dumb nigger :p

>>7876293
thanks for sharing your deepful thoughts

>>7876155
Be a nicer person, Lauren.

have you read his short stories? the reason i don't enjoy them is because they're too satirical. not enough humanity. probably the reason he worshiped George Saunders.

Incorporate it into your work. Make it subtle. Read some more serious fiction and get a good mix between (subtle) satire and the rest going.
Would read if done right.

My Twisted World by Elliott Rodger

>>7875995
i wouldn't recommend watching the gif

>>7876016
shit
I just chose a random image, looked safe

>>7875758
The epic of your nation.
The history of your nation.
And ethnographic maps.

Fuck off, Nazi scum.

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>>7875758

>>7875752
Why would you want to do this? If the literature in question makes a large impact on me I will inevitably write something about it as I read it, or reference it in the things I'm writing at the time, otherwise what on earth is the point

>>7875752
I usually just use my brain

Goodreads, basic memory

>>7875693
>I feel like a truly good author shouldn't need a guide to help the reader understand their book
Well he's not wrong

> ex-friend claims i just read the same books everyone else into literature does, the same gaggle of classics
> says i'll never develop a distinct taste and spirit of my own, that i will be like a 'cultured machine'
> he mostly reads weird french comic books and mangas by taiyo matsumoto
> im so furious i almost scream at him

>walk downstairs after reading in my room for 3 hours this morning
>mom says, "have you been looking for a job?"
>I tell her she has some nerve bringing up such a subject- i'm visibly shaking in anger
>"if all you do is read you will never leave the house"
>im becoming more angry and ignore her
>"plus all those books are changing you into a person I don't like"
>cant hold back anger any more
>"fuck off mom, you dont understand how much of a fucking pleb you sound like"
>threatens to kick me out
>scurry over to the fridge, grab 2 of my little sisters lunchables
>mom- "dont eat those they are for your sisters school lunches
>ignore her, rush up to my room, lock the door
>continue reading

>>7875679
I have la sobre del viento in my bookcase, unread. Should I give it a try? Is it good?

>>7875707
It's not high literature but it's a page turner and a fun read, I'd recommend.

>>7875679
Invisible Cities. It may not be /lit/-patrician-tier but boy, did my puckered little brain go pfoooshhhhh!, like in that "mind-blown.gif", you know the one.

Whatever, nerd.

What is the best Discworld print for collection purposes? I want to one day own them all but I imagine, the series consisting of 40,000 million books, they're going to look like a fucking mess on my shelf. I just want them to all be the same height at least, preferably with consistent covers too. Also, RIP in RIP, Terry.

>>7876863
I find the black books with the single grey-ish item on the front covers are tasteful and consistently sized, but I don't know if they've done all the books that way.
Otherwise it might just be best to grab the original cover designs. They are usually the same size.

>>7877740
>I don't know if they've done all the books that way
That's the problem, really. I bought the Colour of Magic the day he died, and I picked the best cover I could see, but now I realise that I have no idea if they went through the entire collection or not. Or if they just did a few of them in that style/size.

okay

But your name is Georgia

>>7875568
>georgia fuller
fuller shit aint she lads

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>>7875501
>writing in pen

Get a lamy and some sailor ink

>>7875501
If you want a ballpoint, anything from Uni-balls alpha gel grip series
Or literally any fountain pen and an ink bottle, they are the comfiest fucking pens. If you are a poorfag Jinhao X750 if not Lamy Safari or whatever your budget can get you.