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is there actually any bearable job for an english major?

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>have no intention of teaching
>tell people it's a possibility
feels good

Yes, Lieutenant Colonel

It's mostly a slog. 30% eldritch horror adventure AT BEST. The rest is
>muh rations
>muh sore feet
>muh sleep
>muh babyslave
>muh spankings
>muh foot massages
ad nauseum

To answer your actual question, the prose isn't difficult, it's just annoying. You'll probably see right through it after the first chapter or so.

Read Awake in the Night Land instead. Basically a modern improvement while still staying true to the original.

>>9866040
It isn't. He' a hack, his themes are essentially those of an 18-year-old navel gazing pothead, and for this reason he's celebrated in dumb dumb America.

I don't care for any of DFWs work, but can you imagine being such an insecure twat that you tear into someone on twitter after they're dead? How jealous. Usually I adhere to "the author is not the work," but his irredeemable character nullifies anything he's contributed to the craft.

>>9866040
It's famous for being edgy, kind of like 'Catcher in the Rye'.

I used to think books were better than the movies.

This is the counter example I use now

>>9866040
Damn I love this book.

>guns, germs, and steel

isn't it interesting how jewish historians always say that whoever ends up with all the money just got that way by luck, as if they were just "chosen", and not through specific strategies

classics my dude.
there is a reason why they are classics.
everyone will get something from anything he reads, there is no particular road map for them.
search them by themes which you think you might be into.

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>>9865939
Try this.

no advice, wave of the future, no attention span, big tech, put men on mars, synthetic vaginas, fifty pounds of pussy and ass, VR, can't fight history

>>9865947
Go to bed Nick, it's late in Hong Kong

>>9865938
I'm the opposite, around 24-25 was when I started reading again. Read non-stop as a kid then neglected it for nearly a decade because of teenage shenanigans.

Try spending less time on the internet. I've tried to weed out all non-essential use. I know I'm shitposting right now but I'm quite literally on the shitter and will go back to reading once I'm finished.

>>9865889
>A multitude of things.

Brilliant, in a 2 a.m. Trump tweet sort of way.

>>9865889
Pynchon

If you are so smart, then why are you not working on your nobel prize? 4chan is not exactly the place where someone so smart would be wandering around, id believe you if you said you were slightly above the average, which most part of us are.

Water Margin
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Journey to the West

What's the 4th?

>>9865762
I am sick and tired of this. Every day I come to /lit/, and every day there is at least one thread up with an OP image of an attractive woman dressed scantily and posing seductively. It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly. Let me tell you something, you faggot pieces of shit who are doing this: you are the poster child for everything that is wrong in literature, art, and society as a whole today. You are incapable of coming up with anything creative, thought provoking, or of substance, and you lack even the smallest modicum of intelligence, so you use "style" and "flash" and pizazz in place of it and to draw attention to yourself, because that's the only way your SHIT "creation" and ideas would ever get seen by anyone. And before you say anything, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. Anyway, I will be petitioning the owner of this website to ban your asses, so enjoy being able to post here while it lasts, because it's not going to last long, just like you that one time you convinced an obese girl to let you fuck her..

>>9865766
Dream of the red chamber

True

Childhood is idolizing Plato
Adulthood is realizing Nietzsche was right all along

>>9865548
Nabakov is a bad joke.

>>9865528
Pynchon's son? Hiya.

>>9865532
Hello. How's the weather where you are?

>>9865532
or was it "not bill murray"? i get all that stuff confused. had to look through the records. clearly a mind far more worth a look than the typical that floats through. shame i don't have the education to stand toe to toe with that guy, i have a touch of the synthesis, though. MM for mind metallurgy

from 20 to 200

>>9865490
I usually read once every 2 or 3 days but when I do I read like 100 pages or more

>>9865490
depends, i can knock down anywhere from 20-150 pages in a day, more if it's a very simple text and i'm enjoying myself a lot.

Tolstoy is a hack. He never wrote anything of substance. It's all petty bourgeoisie melodrama.
Don't bother.

>>9865448
I read his short stories sometimes, finished War and Peace, never finished Anna Karenina.

Check out The Kingdom of God is Within You and the Gospel in Brief. Wittgenstein was a huge fan of GIB.

>>9865455
this. fuck tolstoy. francofag slave rapist. set back slavs hundreds of years with his hypocritical and wrong religious texts. should be avoided if you want to be a serious literary scholar.

yo wtf is this, bump my thread!!

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South America has lots of neat shit, they've got a really strong literary tradition that kicks off in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Read Borges, Bolano, Bioy Casares, Marquez, and everyone from that circle of writers. They're all great. I can't help you much for Africa and China.

>they're just white men who happen to be communist.
If I had a dollar for every inane /lit/ posts I'd be a millionaire.

>>9865171
jordan who?

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>>9865177
Beeperson

>>9865183
sorry bud, dont ring a bell.
is that the dude who fucked a snake and got his dick bitten?

I only write in Cambria. Preferred font to read in is Bookerly, Bookman, Cambria

>>9865165
On there, times new roman.

>>9865165
I write in consolas because I used to write in notepad. I'll read in whatever font the author chose. I'm sure they picked the best font to fit the book.

You fool, you meant the German language, not the country, as it was fractured centuries before the unification. I'll give you one chance to correct yourself...

>>9865107
*contributes nothing of value to cinema for the past century*

>>9865143
the country and the language