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I don't see the issue.

>>7730139
if my novel sold 1 million copies id never stop cumming. who gives a fuck about somebodies Instagram followers

Why bother with what? What are you even talking about? Bad thread,

because he isn't currently a meme

lack of psychological depth in his novels. Writing 85 boring door-stoppers doesn't make you good by default

He's an English Dostoevsky and /lit/ hates Dostoevsky. They're both Patrician but I people here only seem to like "le so randum XD" novels from the 20th century.

Bleak House is my favourite.

>/b/
>a guy getting laid, moving around the world, getting a useful degree, generally not spending any time in basements

ehh no

>>7729982
I think your image of either /b/ or the book differs immensly from the general consensus

I would say Notes is /b/

>>7730036
Just them doing retarded shit and sucking at life

Try to explain progress like abolishing slavery while u remain a moral relativist.

>>7730461

But abolishing slavery was done out of rational impulses. Slavery was inefficient. Northern workers were ten times as productive. Whatever gains were made by not paying the workers, were lost as the industry became less efficient due to the glut of labor, whereas northerners were forced to invent labor saving devices.

It's the age old question of why Rome never industrialized, and in slavery you have your answer.

>>7730484
I think everyone can see reasons for the abolishing, but in a relativist point u can claim it as progress, or e ven think were a more advanced in morals society now, since that would mean morals,, need a non relative standar to appeal, or according to Kant a moral standar we ought to have.
From a relativist point, morals dont have a reason to be, since ar just a missproduct and also moral progress is not possible.
Axiomatic morality needs a standar to be set,in a moralistist point of view theres not such thing as an standar.
Read deontological morals.

>>7729938
that's only useful if you're trying to do the most generic and commercial film ever.

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>>7729943
says the talking head on /lit/ who doesn't understand the idea of riffing on a theme never published a word in his life

The Quran

>>7729932
I hardly think a gentleman of his caliber would take religious text seriously.

>>7729930
Mein Kampf

>>7729908
solace for nobody turning up at your lectures maybe

>>7729908
As far as i can recall and it's many years since i read them, now i would probably react different; they are far inferior to The Tipitaka.

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>>7729908
Found them after watching Razors Edge with Bill Murrey. It had a pretty big impact on my life and would recommend.
selfenlightenment/10

>>7729832
Loved it, funny too

>>7729832
I enjoyed it for a while but was ready for it to end long before it did. I finished it but it felt like a chore.
I like Roth's later stuff more. The Ghost Writer; Operation Shylock; American Pastoral
He's one of the few American writers who I think got better as he aged.

>>7729746
ask your local priest during confession

>>7729759
can a priest really answer that? or will they just say, god will answer your questions?

>>7729648
I read it, I thought it was cute at times but I want to know what specifically did you find laugh worthy?

>>7729648
I thought it was funny as well.
I went to college with a lot of huge, overly-educated fat guys so it rang eerily true to me.

Green cap motherfuckers one and all.

>>7729675
I can't remember every little laugh but the fact that he masturbated to thoughts of his dead dog was up there.

They have Mein Kampf or "controversial" books like Lolita?

>>7729603
what do they have?

>>7729627
this. If your local library isn't promoting the reading of Mein Kampf then they are doing it wrong to be honest family.

Ernest Hemingway
Robert E. Howard

>>7729464
Kek at that picture.
God damn cocaine will be the death of us all m9

kill urself my man

>>7729458
Wu-min

Womxn

As you like it

>>7729439

It failed to impact me in any meaningful way. Or non-meaningful, either. Trashy high-fantasy novels elicited more response than this.

I found his comments on writing to be very juvenile and self-aggrandising.

>>7729439
very good book.
i enjoy early irving, but if you liked garp "the hotel new hampshire" and "owen meany" are much better imho.

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>>7729311
Thank you very much, these seem very good. Any chance you have a pdf of The Pigeon?