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Your opinions?

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So as I came out of the hospital this afternoon a dude came to me and invited me to his wedding and asked for my help to kill the light inside of him so I gave him some dubstep songs and I left him with his imaginary friend to go to my father's highschool , as I sneaked inside I remembered that my father never went to highschool and that I was in a Barbie factory that was full of drunk Mexican unicorns with lightsabers , I tried to tell them that my leg was made of rubber but they just left using their teleportation powers , I decided to not text my friend cause he was being mean to a dog that we found eating some hamburgers leftovers the other day and I came out of the factory and met this girl telling me that she caused the big bang and that she will make a black hole swallow a meteor coming towards us , I closed my eyes to see into her soul but she didn't want to so I left her and went to Indonesia to meet the unicorns, I finally found them in a cosplay shop in Japan trying to convince a dude to buy a pink sword for 60¥ but the dude complained about it being too small for his taste so I tried to ask them to teach me the teleportation technique and the oldest looking one of them came to me and told me that I had to go into the center of the planet to mess with gravity and earn the ability to fly first so I did it and india started to float out of the atmosphere , I was just sitting there watching Indian people burn in outer space as a giant space ship came by and stole the diamond that one of the unicorns was wearing on his left ear , but a dude named Yamada came to me and said that the girl from before failed on stopping the meteor and that I have to go to the sun's center and ask to meet a massive quark and bring him to mars to generate a gravitational pull enough to change the meteor's trajectory, but as I realized that the sun's center is 25 000 000°C and that i had to get something To protect my hair from burning , the meteor hit earth and destroyed it , as I floated in the blank space around me I heard a voice in my head telling me that everything wasn't lost forever and that I can bring everything to normal but I'll be the only one to remember what happened , I decided to give humanity a chance and see if anything would change but I was wrong and nothing changed , I still hear the voice in my head saying that I should've left it destroyed and created a new planet but unfortunately i didn't know i had that kind of power at that time and now....now I'm stuck in this body....

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Spoil a book in just five words.

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I've been reading my whole adult life, but I'm not getting the "enlightened" feeling of reading a good book. I've felt it a couple of times (mostly during Pynchon and Krasznahorkai), but it's seriously getting in the way of me enjoying fiction.

Do anyone of you know the feeling? Are there any books that will wake my inner child up?

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What's the most depressing book you've ever read? For me it's probably Fowle's "The Collector".

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Hey guys i had a question up for debate. When writing sci-fi which is more important? Historical reinterpretation or logical extensions of prior art. Historical interpretation would be like in Dune how the spice and native population interact, while a logical extension would be the mood organ from, Do android dream.., I personally lean more toward historical science fiction.

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>he will never write a reimagining of Othello

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Seeing as how everyone is always complaining about "meme books", what do you actually read?

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>DFW starting to read infinite jest for the past 3 months and dropping it five pages later every time

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Hello there lit. I am an independent film maker and am looking for a novel or short story to adapt for my next project. Any suggestions? I am looking for some lesser known works that could be shot with a relatively low budget so no space alien robot operas s'il vous plait.

What are some of your favorite hidden gems that may be begging to be made into a motion picture? Thanks!

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hey /lit/

i used to love reading as a child but going through the gauntlet of america's public schooling system turned me on to more useless habits during my free time. i'm 24 now and a recovering NEET, (i've been employed for nearly a year), but my cognitive abilities have been dulled quite a bit. i've purchased about a dozen books in past month or so that i start but can't seem to finish.

do you guys just naturally enjoy reading or do you push yourself through what could be a grating experience knowing that it benefits you in the long run?

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My English is pretty good, but I find myself skipping words every now and then. I'm trying to get into the habit of looking them up every time rather than just making sense of things via context. I was thinking about writing them down on index cards or something. Not sure how effective that really is

Do you guys do anything like that? Advice?