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In the wise words of ME:

Those who live, can.
Those who can't, write.

- BTC

>>7836615
did bitcoins really say that?

>>7836615
So are all books on business horrible, or do some actually have merit. I've noticed it's really hard to wade through the sewage of people who know nothing about the subjects they write about to make money.

>>7836545
hot

>>7836545
Regret because I used to have a body like that and don't anymore.

>>7836545
Uncomfortably pale and uncomfortably fucking unrealistic.

>>7836467
bookzz
libgen
I dont know any good library torrents, and bookzz has a 10 a day limit

gen.lib.rus.ec

>>7836467
Have you tried looking on existing trackers? They usually have books/book packs, though they may be of no use if you're trying to find something obscure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJZLcsAmLbM

>>7836622
definitely more enjoyable than the book

>RAT IN BAGINA

>>7836337
I haven't read it yet but I hear that JR has a lot of dialog.

>>7836356
>i haven't read it
>yet (implying)
>but i'm gonna talk about it anyway

classic /lit/

>>7836337
there's a whole genre about dialogs, it's called theatre

>>7836316
no, fuck off with your cartoons.

>>7836317
It's not even a cartoon dummy.

>>7836316
You should always start your threads with something provoking or with a question. It's no wonder you can't get a thread going if you don't promote discussion.

karl marx
every book the established contrarian canon
le greeks
smashing the patriarchy and assorted works
the bible

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Biographies are fun.

Doubt it will be of any real use though.

Maybe it will help you see how different bands started off and give you ideas of how you can start off?
I don't really know.

>>7836301
I mean something more technical. Maybe something on aesthetics and ethics

>>7836287
Early bird catches the worm

>>7836294
Thanks for replying, it's a 9/10
Do you perhaps know of something similar, which relates to others following?

>>7836319
you snooze you lose

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I'm gonna start working on my second novel in a few months. My last (and first) attempt didn't go over so well. I think I'm more experienced and know what it takes this time around, however.

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>>7836234
>family guy

But actually I did 65k words on my first attempt, scrapped most of it and am back to 19k.

>>7836234
3 pages written. 10 pages of planning. I'm not going to make it am I? I'm trying to do something different so with every bit I add I'm terrified it is going to cave in on itself. And I keep getting cold feet and I think that I should work on something else to warm up to my ambition, but this is the only decent idea I have.

Sounds great! Thanks for the recommendation

>>7836222
Yiz

I'm stuck. It's incredibly boring and the writing drags so much. There are some nice sentences but its in the middle of all the big munch of babbling.

I'm actually putting it aside for a week to reread one I liked.

What more did you think of him? The way he talks about his job?

Yeah this is one of the few times a "hidden classic" has ever let me down. It's not even the unrepentant sadness of the thing, I picked it up for that shit. It's just dull. There's nothing to say about it.

So this is a bait thread to post the best SCP pages right?

Out of the way edgy horror writer plebs.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-50-ae-j

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The Holders is worse than SCP.
At least SCP has variety with its artifacts. Holders is "don't do this thing or you will go irreversibly insane and/or die horribly. Do this thing instead, which will also make you go irreversibly insane and/or die horribly." repeated ad nauseam, with writing that gets stale after the second artifact or whatever the hell they call those things.
SCP at least has the decency to do multiple things badly instead of just one over and over.
That being said, SCP is alright. Not every article is great, but there are some interesting ones and short stories floating around.
And it's definitely scifi horror.

>>7836570
Where can I find more, better stories of a similar nature?

I'm guessing Lovecraft would be a good start but I'm honestly not sure

>>7836136
A different perspective in the zombie genre.

>>7836147
*A "different" perspective askew with shitty pop culture

>>7836136
I always thought it looked like pop culture YA fiction like Ready Player One and therefore ignored it completely.

>>7836078
I was in tears in the first 10 pages. Just give up, it's not for you

does it hit a little too close to home?

cause it does for me. but I still think it's really damn funny.

It's probably not for you. I read up to page 150, didn't really smile or laugh.

Reification comes close.

>>7836070
Meme magic

Lmao 4chan humor is so Great XD

that is the meaning of belief
you would not believe in something that is not true

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Read it when I was 14, was pretty good and I enjoyed the chapter about Captain Ahab's dream the most. I had a dictionary with me though so it was difficult to read straight through comfortably.

>>7835938
I personally expected most of the book to focus on tracking down Moby Dick but they don't set sail until after the first 100 pages and you don't hear about Moby Dick until after the first 200 pages. I'm not complaining, but it was quite a surprise when I first started reading it, but I love the pacing of this book. It won't be for everyone, but I'm even fascinated by the methods and means of how the whalers would strip the whale carcass and the superstitions of the men aboard the ship. the bit where Tastego gets stuck in the whale head and the whale head sinks, Queequeg being the only one able to save him by diving down and cutting him out of the head had me on the edge of my seat; plus when Stubb kills his sperm whale is brutal too, blood spouting from the blow hole. The book is downright brutal and grisly at times which surprised me, although maybe it shouldn't surprise me since it is a book focusing on whaling.

>>7835938
I expected Ahab to be an absolute dire human being who should be disdained and hated, but in fact what you end up getting from him is somebody self-tormented and unable to enjoy anything ever, feeling burdened and constantly troubled. I felt a tad sorry for Ahab.