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>>7819864
They're not enjoyable after your teens unless you're a retard.

>>7819868
Fuck off

>>7819864
The jokes are hit or miss. But it does sort of beat the same drum in the later books. It's worth one readthrough though since it shouldn't take more than a week. The ending to the fourth book is excellent. And in my opinion the fifth book is totally unnecessary.

>>7819864

The book is overhyped mediocrity.

Not that funny, not that witty. Very fedora tipping sometimes and obtuse to the point of despair some other times.

I bet dogulas fagdams felt intelligent writing it

>>7819613
>I don't read a lot
You should probably fix this if you intend on writing seriously

>>7819648
I have a certain category of what I like, and I'm just starting into writing. I know I should fix that, but I'm not the kind of guy who reads in a excessive way

sounds a bit like joe haldeman's "tool of the trade".

i know i've heard that plot before.

> i don't read a lot
> want to start a novel

why? seriously, why would you want to start a novel if you don't read? that's a little like saying you want to start a high end wine business but you don't drink the stuff yourself.

ugly

flugly

Cro-magnon features, ears too circular, face too wide and short, nose points upwards.

But he's right. That book shouldn't have been written. Anything above 0 words is too wordy for hemmmmmmmingway

>>7818909

that didn't actually happen OP,

>>7818909
>posting banime outside of /a/

>>7818768
What's being read in the Eastern lit reading group?

>>7818781
Conference of Birds followed by something by Rumi is the current choice I believe. The plan is to start in the Middle-East area and move east-ish.

It's ok.

>>7818629
I guess you can start with anything by Augustine and Ambrose.

>>7818629
the god delusion

>>7818629
The bible

>>7818042
>mansplaining
?

>>7818046
Sitting with your legs wideishly open on a tram.

>>7818046
Yeah, it's this opredsive thing men do to women wherein they recognize that a woman has much less knowledge than they do, and so they explain something to her as if that's the case.
Of course this is highly oppressive because men need to realize that women should be treated like genius queens, especially when they aren't: it's just being a good feminist!

You also have to keep in mind that once a woman hears a man say big words she knows that she can't understand, she immediately loses interest and starts to focus on other things, besides the information being communicated, and often zeroes in on the tone you're speaking with, because that's something her lesser intellect can comprehend the nuance of.

>>7817713
no, that would be me

>>7817713
He is pretty good but he is no Joyce

>>7817713
His corncobbish provincialism keeps him far beneath loads of others.

>>7821579
Tao Lin- Tai Pei sounds exactly what you're looking for.

>>7821579
How do you mean '/lit/ male authors'? Male authors of literary fiction? Or male authors on /lit/?

>What am I reading currently?
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Brazil's History

>What's it about?
Clearing some misconceptions taught in school e.g. there were no saint heroes or demon villains in hour history. Some famous cultural idols were nazis and there were a lot of ex-slave slave traffickers. Natives weren't the angels we were taught and most natives died in the hands of other natives that had sided with the europeans;
those natives wanted to expand their territories and were considered friends of the empire/king/whatever.

>>7821546
What is politically incorrect about spotlighting nazi's? That is among the most PC things there are. Bleurgh.

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>>7821433
>What am I reading currently?
Memed, My Hawk

>What's it about?
Winner of Turkey's first literary awards, it follows the life of brigand Ince Memed as he basically acts like Robin Hood, except towards petty Turkish magistrates, often with gruesome and excessive violence. Parts of the plot feel ripped off by Braveheart.

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>>7821407
>Daily reminder that you'll never know what your favorite philosopher really looked like

Think again.

>>7821407
Daily reminder that Stirner was blond.

>implying Stiner didn't come straight from the imagination of Karl Marx
There's a reason he was so butthurt

>In a 2005 interview his wife said that she regarded him and herself as both atheists while he denied being an atheist saying "No, no I'm not an atheist. It's no fun being an atheist."[15]

I have his poem anthology. Hes obviously a smart man but I find myself disagreeing with most of his opinions, and I even think a lot of them are fringe. Like hinting that John Milton was a secret atheist because he made God a less likeable character than Satan. He just injects weird fedora stuff wherever he pleases

I'll be glad when he's finally dead.

Hardmode: no Pinecone

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John Barth is an exceptionally weird looking motherfucker and he's pretty well-regarded.

Reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. He uses the word "inveigled" a lot.

>>7820602
Jane Austen's dialog tags are awful. in P&P, almost every other sentence is "cried" by these people

I know I use proper names too often. I have this autistic instinct to make sure my reader knows exactly who is doing what, even in situations where it's irrelevant (like the character is alone).

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>good
>realist
Just read the names on the picture. It's all unverifiable trash anyway.

>>7820573
Anti realism is equally unverifiable

>>7820577
False.