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>>7702949
Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend
But I don't know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin,
I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well, I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord

Well I remember, I remember don't worry
How could I ever forget,
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up,
No you don't fool me
The hurt doesn't show
But the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Well, I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
But I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
But I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
But I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord, oh Lord.

>>7702949
we try to hound those who post about it out of here asap
btw kinda gay how much that map looks like the aegean

>>7702949
overrated but good fantasy. turns to shit in book 4.

kek this shit is gay

>>7702936
But isn't it interesting to think about the social and economic pressures that caused a book to be printed at a certain time and then changed much later?

>>7702942
It is interesting, I was just making myself laugh while bumping your thread. Very juvenile, I know.
Never really thought about it, though. Would censoring "nigger jim" and changing it to something else fall under what you're talking about? Or are you talking strictly format?

>>7702870
Being better than Stephen King isn't exactly a difficult thing to accomplish. So the better question is who even cares?

Bring on the memes.
>look what you've done anon

>>7702876
/lit/ might not think King is good, but millions upon millions of other readers say that he is.

I'm not saying that you're a hipster, but you're a hipster.

>>7702830
I've heard Piers uses the word "smegma" a lot.

>>7702822
holy fuck that's a good title

>war story starts talking about 20-something year old white boy posting on the internet complaining about war stories as filler as filler

Why is this aloud?

>>7702814
>Why is this aloud?
>aloud
Why is this allowed?

>>7702829
New here?

The man said nothing because he was straining to pin me down, clenching his teeth tightly, neck straining, staring down with blue eyes filled with madness. I felt the metal blade.on my stomach and cried out in pain; there was a sensation of being stretched like I was human latex, a feeling so powerfully disembodying and alien my mind separated from the self, and I watched it happen as if it was nothing more than a television show.

"Huh," I said to nobody in particular. "I think I'm going to die."

>>7702818
That's more of a murder scene than a fight scene.

The woman who carried a volatile carnation within her midriff was taken hold by a knife. and with a swift gale of expertise, her very essence drained. She fell to the ground to be reabsorbed into her mother's womb, only for the fading images of utopia to erupt. The faces of each encounter began eating away at the dreadful walls and exposed the bones of which she stood. Her husk broken over the knee of death and cast towards the ever so frail eclipse of morning. He had crashed the plane, with no survivors.

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Let's hear yours. I haven't read any Houellebecq yet, I don't read much fiction, but I've been considering it, he strikes me as a similar figure as Michael Haneke.

Is it truly savage, or just edgy?

>>7702672

It's not particularly edgy.

I think my thoughts are largely expressed in my first post; not being French or even European, I can't speak to Submission's accuracy, but the triumph of a secularism being followed by ennui and then a cold pragmatism resulting from a life without faith, and that pragmatism then leading to an insincere (or is it sincere? It is hard to tell) conversion to whatever new movement comes along that promises something sacred, makes for a good subject.

It's a quick read at any rate - it took me a little over half a day.

>>7702672
Different anon, I don't think ge goes full edgy, though I suspect some will accuse him of doing so.
I don't want to spoil the book for you, but I'll say this much: there is plenty of chance for edge, and you can even see some edgy revolution stuff in the background for a second, but the foreground is much more muted. The main character is interesting because he isn't a standout in some big cultural upheaval, he's a relatively normal person caught up in this, and doesn't become any more than just that.

When it comes to the ideas, I don't think he's being edgy at all, especially because many of the events in the book are happening in France right now, with the FN gaining ground rapidly, and the formation of a new Muslim political party. He uses the novel to raise some very valid questions about the place of Islam in a secular humanist Europe, and also how religion is seen in general.

You will never be comfortable reading, accept it.

>Reading
lmao reading is for fags I've been subconsciously internalizing prose for at least 4 years now.

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>>7702545
i saw a little of the stand movie and really liked the idea of reading book first, but for some reason i get uncomfortable. Maybe it has something to do with my Vision and having to get too close idk, how do you read?
>subconsciously
pls go

Screwtape

>>7702632
no meme responses thx

>>7702675
wut

>>7702452
Is that supposed to be Pinecone? Because it's a terrible likeness if it is, and if it's not I have no idea who that is.

>>7702547
it's that jewish niggerguy

>>7702547
me2
I thought it was Ezra Pound for a second

I would have loved to rim rimbaud

Too much absinthe? Not edgy enough?

don't do this

>>7702380
Depends on:
1) The length of the original
2) The medium you're transposing it to (if there is one)

>>7702389
what about original myth-like stories compiled into a collection?

>>7702341
I liked it.

>>7702341
i liked it when i was little, but reading it again, the illustrations are butt-ugly, the story doesn't really go anywhere, and because it's a children's book, it reads like a summary of a more detailed book

>>7702296
The Kiss

Story of O

>>7702298
>>7702301
Please, I meant femdom. Male dominance is for plebeian twinks who call themselves Lord Wyverne Darkmoone.

maybe i should answer my own question

i think id tell my younger self to

stay in school

dont do drugs

wear condoms

stay away from anons

but uh

thats no fun.

so fuck it.

do moar of everything younger me.

moar

>>7702223
Stop trying to be happy you little shit. You're making yourself miserable.

>>7702276
fuck. that is deep