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Anonymous
2016-03-10 02:34:38 Post No.7793721
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Where do you guys begin when researching a topic for something you're writing?

Say I wanted to research vampires, should I start with Dracula, The Vampyre and then get text books, essays, etc?

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:42:05 Post No.7793741
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>>7793721
Read books

Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:42:24 Post No.7793744
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:42:24 Post No.7793744 [Report]

Fuck that, if you're writing some silly genre fic shit make up your own mythos.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 07:45:28 Post No.7794485
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 07:45:28 Post No.7794485 [Report]

>Vampires

Grow the fuck up and write a real story, OP.

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A&P Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:25:11 Post No. 7793694 [Report] [View this topic]

Is the short story A&P basically just /r9k/?

> Main character is a sperg living with his parents.
> Works at a shitty dead-end cashier job
> Thinks he is better than his co-workers
> Three chicks in swimsuits come to his lane
> Main character is pissed that his manager won't let them be half naked in the store
> Quits to try and impress the girls who clearly don't care about him, but the girls don't notice and just leave
> Realizes he's fucked in the end

> His fucking name is Sammy

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:31:30 Post No.7793709
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not one of the better Updike stories

Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:31:54 Post No.7793710
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>>7793694
>Works at a shitty dead-end cashier job
/r9k/ frog homos are too autistic and weird to hold down a job.
>Thinks he is better than his co-workers
/r9k/ frog homos know they're inferior to everything and genetic trash
>Main character is pissed that his manager won't let them be half naked in the store
/r9k/ frog homos would find that degenerate, and they don't want women to be sexually self-conscious, i.e. desiring and aware of it
>Quits to try and impress the girls who clearly don't care about him
/r9k/ frog homos don't even try, they know it's futile

This is your average robot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xLgPTEXL-Y

Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:33:16 Post No.7793713
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I don't know why you think we like you, /r9k/, but we don't, please leave.

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2016-03-10 02:20:16 Post No.7793676
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:20:16 Post No. 7793676 [Report] [View this topic]

its Pynchon thread time

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:23:07 Post No.7793688
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Just go mason and Dixon first edition. Haven't read any books by this fellow. Gonna read it next once I finish the razors edge. What should I be looking forward to?

Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:23:17 Post No.7793689
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>>7793676
jesus christ you're a moron. what is he, jesus? why would you buy this? why would you care? that book is just an elaborate joke made by pynchie at your expense. seriously, tell me how much you paid.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:23:20 Post No.7793690
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>>7793676
>he fell for the paying hundreds of dollars for shit you can find online for free meme

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:56:41 Post No. 7793620 [Report] [View this topic]

>autobiography due in ~65 years
>22 years old
>haven't even started living yet

i'm fucked aren't i lads

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Twiggy (ID: !zf/ZW7mGp6) 2016-03-10 01:58:48 Post No.7793624
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Command your future self to obey your current and past self and all of your wildest dreams will come true.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:20:21 Post No.7793677
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You were fucked before you were born, and you were only born so as to be fucked.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 03:15:11 Post No.7793841
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>>7793677

Man is born free, and yet everywhere he is in chains.

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2016-03-10 01:05:17 Post No.7793504
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:05:17 Post No. 7793504 [Report] [View this topic]

What is the secret to his success?

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:08:03 Post No.7793515
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>>7793504
Can you stop posting these shitty John Green threads every day?

>>>/r9k/

Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:08:44 Post No.7793519
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:08:44 Post No.7793519 [Report]

having ambition and write sincerely

Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:09:54 Post No.7793524
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:09:54 Post No.7793524 [Report]

Already being famous due to YouTube.

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:42:27 Post No. 7793414 [Report] [View this topic]

The actual novel or dialogue therein notwithstanding, please rank the following in order of what is most important to you with regards to the construction, design, and supplemental contents of a physical book, and also elaborate on your preferences.

Notes and Annotations (presumed to be well-written)
Supplemental Essays (same)
Paper Quality (consider thinness, smoothness, roughness, etc.)
Typeface and Print Size (small print? big print?)
Cover Design
Size (big? small? what is the "perfect" book size?)
Sturdiness (For paperbacks: rigidity, or flimsiness? For hardcovers: thickness? actual "hardness"?)

Given the nature of these questions, kindlefags really need not apply.

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:48:49 Post No.7793434
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notes
essays
cover design
paper quality
sturdiness
typeface/size
size

Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:55:40 Post No.7793615
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Notes + Essays
Paper Quality
Cover
Typeface/Print Size
Sturdiness
Size

I like to mark up my books so paper quality's kind of important, I don't want shitty thin paper that'll tear easy or have highlighter bleed through it.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 02:28:07 Post No.7793702
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Content over all, but these are the things I look at the most

Paper quality
Typeface and print size
Cover design (have a copy of Candide I'm kind of embarassed to read because of this)
Sturdiness
Size
Notes/Essays (never read these)

best book size is 5 x 8

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:33:02 Post No. 7793386 [Report] [View this topic]

Any good /lit/?

I read and enjoyed The Stand, is this new novel one of King's best?

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 13:16:17 Post No.7795049
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Not as good as the Stand, but pretty good.

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 13:17:50 Post No.7795052 [Report]

I enjoyed it. Certainly a bit boring in the middle but it manages to keep it together pretty well.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 21:08:09 Post No.7796482
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I thought Revival was pretty great. It didn't have the arse drop out of it half way though or have a lazy ending like most of his books. I'd recommend reading it.

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2016-03-10 00:33:01 Post No.7793385
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:33:01 Post No. 7793385 [Report] [View this topic]

That moment when you're reading a book and it leaves you absolutely speechless, breathless almost. Isn't the power of literature awesome, friends?

Tell us of times when this has happened to you.

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:35:57 Post No.7793396
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>>7793385
Reading the best books in the KJV Bible. Not even religious.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:38:22 Post No.7793402
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>>7793385
A Doll's House when Nora fucks up her entire life. o i was laffin when she slammed that door.

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The Bad Girl when Ricardo talks to the breakwater builder and finds out he's the father of the bad girl.

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:32:07 Post No. 7793383 [Report] [View this topic]

After colliding with teachers, am now convinced I have no future.

I try looking for contemporary books, writers, movements, etc. that might inspire me to keep going, but so far nothing.

Still think I'm onto something, but cannot keep up with it.

Completely without energy. No one seems to care about nothing.

What now?

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:39:27 Post No.7793405
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:39:27 Post No.7793405 [Report]

Do it.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:41:17 Post No.7793410
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>>7793405
Afraid so

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Language Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:31:18 Post No. 7793378 [Report] [View this topic]

What is the best written language?
What is your favorite?

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:50:45 Post No.7793445
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:50:45 Post No.7793445 [Report]

Latin
Latin

Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:54:32 Post No.7793462
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>>7793445
Serious answers only please.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:13:48 Post No.7793529
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 01:13:48 Post No.7793529 [Report]

English is objectively the best language

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2016-03-10 00:27:56 Post No.7793368
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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:27:56 Post No. 7793368 [Report] [View this topic]

Just finished this. Are all the other works by Camus edgelord tier or is this a one off?

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:29:20 Post No.7793370
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>>7793368
I guarantee that's not even the good translation.

Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:30:20 Post No.7793374
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>>7793368
L'etrange is pretty fucking solid imo. I never read the outsider but that isn't a good book from him if you didn't like it. His good books you would want to read more from.

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>>7793374
The outsider is L'étranger

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:27:48 Post No. 7793367 [Report] [View this topic]

>New Directions

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yeah, what the fuck happend?

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>>7793380
probably diversity hired some shit graphic designer.

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:00:25 Post No. 7793300 [Report] [View this topic]

How's 120 days of sodom? Anyone read this?

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:05:08 Post No.7793311
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unfinished. read his other shit first, a lot of that is more bang for your buck

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>>7793300
yo Marquis de Sade is fucked up

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>>7793300

It's no Fifty Shades.

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Anonymous 2016-03-09 23:59:05 Post No. 7793299 [Report] [View this topic]

ITT: Post sentences or paragraphs from your favorite books that'll make me cry

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Anonymous 2016-03-10 00:03:02 Post No.7793303
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Wardine be cry

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>>7793299
"but these head movies make my eyes rain"

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>>7793299
>You will not post any of the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry") or grotesque ("guro") images, post number GETs ("dubs"), or loli/shota pornography.

Please be more considerate with your future posting. The pic in your OP with the accompanying 'nigger' title can be construed as offensive and racist.

We wouldn't want to see you banned after all

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Anonymous 2016-03-09 23:41:28 Post No. 7793257 [Report] [View this topic]

Help me /lit/, I'm driving myself crazy trying to come up with a good honors thesis topic in english/philosophy. Are any of you graduates or college seniors? How'd you come up with a topic to write a thesis about?

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Anonymous 2016-03-09 23:42:21 Post No.7793260
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>>7793257
write about ideological discourse.

Anonymous 2016-03-09 23:44:54 Post No.7793268
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>>7793257

Write about nigilism being a product of modernity
Emphasis on the link between philosophy and historical ages

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>>7793268
isn't that just postmodernism?

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