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Return to Reddit, OP.

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>>7670211
upset i caught you?

>>7670403
>a shitposting redditor

What a surprise.

Why do these threads always remain unanswered

Go to a national or university library. Otherwise, suck it up and pay for Jstor.

>reading criticism
>2k6+6+4
>“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”

>>7670109
You want deep?

Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
The Recognitions
The Tunnel
2666

These are meme approved. They're great for all upper middle class white college sophomore males

>>7670109

>>>r/books

>>7670109

It's posts like these that make me feel well-read

>>7670074
dont be a pussy

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Honestly, /lit/.
>Dialect?

You're writing in a dialect right now....

I recommend checking out any list of international bestsellers, OP. You'll find a lot like it.

Just read Blood Meridian... set in the same era but good

Just read all of them I guess.

>having a girlfriend
Never gonna make it

>>7669980
I would probably go to a library or find some place where I can get a coffee and write there.

I wouldnt be even able to function normally with 4 roommates. I always get depressed when there are people with me 24/7 and have no place to go to be alone.

But I dont write so what do I know.

>>7669980
On the loo

yeah I do

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>>7669950
>palmers

http://btdigg.org/search?info_hash=&q=palmers+penmanship

This is the exact problem I had, Part II was so fucking confusing.

>>7670013
The style of Part II is not my problem, I'm just not sure whether to go with or fight against it.
Should I be mapping out characters and relations, or just surfing the sea of Chicos and Phillipes?

Just surf it. It’s all about the individial stories, I felt.

Unrefined technique, just keep practicing

>>7669843
>just keep practicing
For how long on average? FYI, I'm a non-native English speaker so does that account for something?

>>7669847
What language do you write in?

Also do you know what you're writing? Our writing is always better when there's a clear vision behind it. Visionless writing is sporadic and meandering. Hit or miss.

>>7669793
Dont be the guy who wastes his literary talent on shitsposts. thats our collective challenge

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Can you imagine how many budding authors we've lost to shitposting?

seriously though that is a very real thought and it's fuckin sad

Realistically we have probably lost a lot more due to war, starvation, lack of resources, etc.

What's Updike?

Nothing, what's up with you?

Roth. Not close.
Though Mailer was the best of the GMN.

>>7669708
lol

I guess I was referring to http://imgur.com/gallery/N2JxpDE

Really inconsequential and I might delete this later

>>7669700
>Anyone who thinks the best book ever written is by David Foster Wallace hasn't read that many books.
BTFO

DFW ON SUICIDE WATCH

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>>7669699
>http://imgur.com/gallery/N2JxpDE
>Why is Hitchhiker's down at #90?

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>>7669695
>running late at uni so I decide to grab a coffee in the canteen, which I've never entered before
>the first thing to grab my attention is a large poster of a starving african child with some platitude written underneath along with a note saying that x amount of the price of a cup of coffee will be given to charity
>it's a starbucks, oh boy
>full of hipsters reading popscience and new-age self help books
>I snort in derision and mutter "my God! and so on" under my breath, tightening my grip on my copy of Phenomenology of Spirit with an expression of smug satisfaction before turning to leave
>I'm in the middle of a line to the counter and it would be too awkward to leave
>I begin to get highly agitated, pulling at my shirt and sniffing repeatedly as perspiration begins to glisten on my face
>As I approach the counter the girl behind it asks me what I'd like to order
>"one cup of ideology please"
>She looks confused and tries to ask what I mean, but I keep cutting her off and going “huh? huh? huh?” while closing my hand shut in front of her face
>In my excitement I knock all the cups off the counter and exclaim "ideology at its purest!" before storming out

>>7669695
unconscious civilization - john ralston saul

I dont really like them but they have their place I guess.

I think its because they depend so much on the reader having a per-established knowledge of whats being deconstructed instead of being a straight story on its own.

Think the difference between EVA and Madoka. One played it straight with deconstructive elements on the side, while another kinda banked everything on its deconstructive aspects and didnt really go anywhere else.

>>7669687
If you're talking about Madoka, I hated the arbitrary mindscrew in Movie 3. It was just forced in a way that wasn't enjoyable.

>>7669682
http://www.chillispot.org/chilliforum/topic178079-gentoo-free-ebook-online-the-magnificent-third-rail-a-retrospective-by-robe.html

It's a deconstruction of the shilling genre in that I have no idea what the fuck that post was about. The book's on amazon though.