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>>7804304

No. All the crap with God and Jesus is boring. I wanted more Satan.

Does anyone have a download link to a Paradise Lost copy with commentary? Thanks in advance.

>>7804354
http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/ParadiseLostIn10Bks1667.pdf
This is a copy of the book alone. Commentaries should be pretty easy to find online, but I don't know any particularly good ones.

They're trash.

A tabletop campaign setting turned into an overly long set books. Appeals to Asperger spectrum readers.

>>7804301
This
It also manages to lack the only good thing about fantasy; easy digestable entertainment.

>>7804227
shut up fag

>>7804276
plebs get out

>>7804400
you're the pleb, so you get out.

Bump for interest.

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>>7804226
Mein kampf

I wept when Holden made tender love to Phoebe, finally consumating their love, at the end of the book.

Sometimes a Great Notion is over-written and way too long but still his next best book.

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>>7804247
Yup.

>>7804225
Graduate high school, kiddo.

>>7804224
Including this thread?

>>7804239
Including us two, Anon.

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>>7804224
DELETE THIS

>>7804214
You just revealed your own ignorance. Its horror, not literature, and its pretty good for horror

>>7804221
>Its horror
It's a thinly-veiled commentary on theory and the concept of representation. I hesitate even to say "thinly-veiled" because I'm not sure if it's veiled at all.

A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent —it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, Stephen King, and David Foster Wallace bowing at Danielewski's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter, awe.

>>7804188

Im actually trying to write for a short story contest by university association
maximum is 2500 words but I feel like 650 words isn't enough

This sounds very Kafka-esque

>>7804188
>forces the reader to interpret
But how will I ever be able to understand such a complex masterpiece? What could it mean?

Go with the other idea. Or here's a thought. There's a wolf, it's described in a factual manner as part of the interior. Maybe it starts eating people but no one reacts appropriately until it has consumed them all.

Okay. Here's my question that doesn't deserve its own thread. What are some cool hobbies/skills that you can learn which don't require spending a lot of money, and what books do you recommend for beginners to those skills?

For instance, the Royal Road to Card Magic and a pack or two of cards, and you're on your way to being a magician. You could also pick up the book You Can Have an Amazing Memory and learn some really useful memory tricks, which can be used for both practical and entertainment purposes. Juggling for the Complete Klutz, and a few bean bags or tennis balls (though you'll be chasing after those), and a couple hours later you'll be doing basics, and a few hours after that and you'll be doing some tricks. Or if you feel like you're not very charismatic, check out The Charisma Myth.

What other books like this can you recommend for me? I love expanding my repertoire.

>>7804440
Ricky Jay's Cards as Weapons will turn you into Gambit from XMen they're not actual weapons, but card throwing is neat and handy for magicians
>>7804150
Confirmation bias, I think. Check the wikipedia page to see if that lines up with what you're trying to say.

>>7804479
Thanks for the book recommendation! I'll pick it up in the next few days.

Fuck off

this is clearly a take on man's complex relationship with his inner animality, between the necessity to live in a community and the desire to fulfill one's urges. The theme of metamorphosing hints at the way personality is not determined and eventually led to change but may refer as well to the notion of gender.
Definitely a modern book that also raises general questions like the division of the self but conveying it through a sic-fi context, that's clearly where lies the originality of the text

Or at least recommend something camp that isn't Pynchon

>>7803923

The Enchiridion

>>7803959
I just listened to the audiobook. Thanks that was great.

Any more suggestions?

steps by jerzy kosinsky

>tfw people say its good and you wonder if they're bullshitting you or not

Thats when I learned to always be my best critique partner. People will almost always just sugarcoat because A) They want to be nice or B) They lack the knowledge themselves.

>>7803828
yeah that's the point fucktard

you don't wake up and suddenly start writing good shit, you have to wade through an ocean of your bullshit first

>>7804040
My stuff wasn't just shit though, it was extremely immature and embarassing while some of the other 18 years old had some actual good stuff.

The despair is just getting started, anon. Keep reading.

>>7803806
> Half way through this...

get the fuck out of here before you get this perfect novel spoiled for you

the ride has just began,i'm surprised it's even possible to stop at the middle of reading it

I just finished this today, I fucking loved it but it's super emotional especially when Stoner picked up his book in the last moments before his death

>>7803745

A few hundred.

I make a goal of recording at least some coherent thoughts each day to keep in shape. It helps me stay in shape.

As for fiction, I'm in a rut right now.

So I'd say, on average, 500 words a day. 2000 on an exceptional day, which I haven't had in a while. 300 on a bad day.

>>7803745
you should read more than you write imo

>>7803753
if you read a book a month you still read more than you write

>My imaginary friends from Tibet told me the secret of everything.


Does anyone REALLY believe this crap?

>>7803705
Supposedly Tesla was given information by ayys. I want to believe.

>>7803709
Yeah...it's all based on events/encounters that can't be verified. It's no different than Joseph Smith looking into his hat at the 'seer stones' but not allowing anybody else to look at them.