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>tfw you forgot /lit/ doesnt actually read

The other pages are mostly posthumously found stuff, there's less structure and refinement.

There is no book like it. Have you read Radetzky March? The setting is similar.

What did you like about it specifically OP?

Ya

Nice fin

>>7851883
You like sharkgirls' fins? :3

Oh, forgot to mention, does anyone know the best places to buy jumbo condoms at Yale or Stanford? Great big jumbo condoms?

Oh and also does anyone know a good place to take my 10/10 girl for some fine dining before i use those jumbo condoms? Money is not an object.

>>7851517
I didn't go to Stanford or Yale, but the one piece of relevant info I can offer you is that the number of students majoring in the humanities fields has shrunk rapidly as tech became the trendy field for yuppies, and that may be less than 10% of tee student body now. Not just English: all humanities. People have taken to calling it the Stanford Institute of Technology.

That said, I'd rather live in Palo Alto than New Haven, but the whole New England/Ivy thing is fun too.

MY DIARY

Anything by Hack Green
Anything by Cormhack McFraudthy
Anything by Kurt Frauddagut
Anything by George Fraudwell
Anything by Neil Hackman
Anything by Terry Hackshit
That about covers it

anything by pynchon

>>7843603
I hate the word "pampered"

>>7843603
fuck off back to /r9k/, frog homo

egregious

I haven't read it

>>7854482
why did you post this

I read it

IMMANUEL KANT THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

I would say that Nietzsche is the greatest philosophy, if only he had lived long enough to build something to replace all that he tore down

>>7853145
>it's been 300 years
You can't contract "It has" to "it's" you fuck.

Here is mine

>read orally stories as a kid in school, learn about the Greeks this way
>read Harry Potter, Tolkien, Le Guin, Series of Unfortunate Events as an pre-teen young teen
>Standard North American high school literature mixed in with lame local Canadian stories
>mostly just read non-fiction and internet philosophy after high school
>decide to check out /lit/ and pick out what I thought were the popular books here at the time, The Stranger, Picture of Dorian Grey, Divine Comedy and called it a day after that
>couple years later at 22 decide to check out /lit/ again since I realize its also the philosophy board and read No Longer Human
>another two years later and I've already burnt through around 150 books

>primary school
>think books are for nerds
>middleschool
>think books are for fags
>highschool
>think books are cool
>post-highschool
>study english

>Redwall
>fantasy
>fantasy sucks - Sci-fi
>sci-fi sucks - Hor...
>no, horror is unbelievably awful
>cherry-pick anything that looks like genre-fiction from the classics
>enlightenment lit, but it gets repetitive
>take a look at what adults read now
>fuuuuuuuck, they have shit taste
>stop reading
cut to 10 years later
>pynchon
>surrealism
>medieval literature <<< now
>???

Momni po dyed it at fading

>you'll never finish any of your backlogs

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>>7853572

>have plenty of free time to read
>choose to spend 95% of it shitposting on 4chan

>>7853980
Confession of a Mask.
And probably like 90% of autobiographical books.

>>7853987
>And probably like 90% of autobiographical books.
Any in particular you would recommend?

East of Eden
Under the Volcano

I think he was German

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No, Crowley did.

>Implying Kierkegaard hadn't already finished it

wew lad

sent out my 40th query letter the other day.

Have got nothing in return besides form rejection and 0 feedback.

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>>7849118
I know that feel, Anon. Fuck, I know that feel.

>tfw friends and family and even random strangers love the book
>tfw every agent says it's "not quite right for me"

>>7849127
I get the same thing. Everybody likes the book, a few online communities say they love the idea, think my query is strong, all that.

Then you get nothing at all from the agents, besides the same shit they send everyone. It'd be nice to know, well do you think it's a dumb idea for a book? Did you hate the query? Did you not like the writing sample? Do you just not work with books in this genre? Was your pussy just bleeding that day? I mean what? What didn't you like?

I realize they're not obligated to tell you shit, but it's still infuriating. Not really to the point of giving up, hell i'd never do that. If you read any published author, they'll all tell the same story of getting rejected maybe hundreds of times before they landed an agent or publisher. So I always think of that.

Also, one thing I learned, be very skeptical of anything you read online about getting published. Most of it is written by unpublished morons, or total hacks who just got lucky but think they're method is golden.

>>7847330
>inb4 My Twisted Life

>>7847330
can you explain what you mean more? works only published online?

>>7847330

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/

obligatory

>>7837233
Sometimes you will, without realizing it, read a word without actually understand what it means. When you see a word that you don't use often, ask yourself, "what is the definition of this word?" If you can't answer confidently, look it up in the dictionary. As you're reading, do this for every word that you don't use in commonplace vernacular. As you do this you will likely realize that your vocabulary isn't quite as strong as you thought.

>>7837248
This is damn good advice actually anon, thank you. I do that with words I flat out haven't come across before but I should absolutely start doing as you've said. Thanks again anon.

>>7837248
Not Op, but looking at the extract I don't think this has much to do with vocabulary.

I'm a pleb but is that extract referring to some absurdist notion?

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>>7849077
>fantasy is a real gender
Thanks for singlehandedly confirming exactly how retarded you genreplebs are.

>>7849100
This is the most retarded meme on this board,. Some read for entertainment you autistic faggot, not just for pretending being an intellectual

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>>7849112
>finding dime a dozen generic sword&cocksuckery shit """""entertaining"""""
Kill yourself tbhfam.