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>>7673543
I read it back when it just came out. It was bretty funny. Especially when he pitches hissy fits and throws drinks at people. His plan was the most hilarious part though.

I did!

Jesus, it was equal parts funny, sad, and dark. I hate to admit I related but highschool Rodger was highschool me.

I thought it was pretty interesting. He really did not understand how people interact/what other people's minds were like. I can't imagine how utterly alone you would feel being incapable of understanding the common social language of people around you.

It seems that he coped with his extreme isolation/alienation by developing some kind of hyper narcissistic denial of reality that eventually led him to violently strike out at people he had become incapable of empathizing with. His views on power relations are telling, especially those to do with race and gender.

What didn't you like about it?

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>>7672158
This. I hated every second. Stopped after Chapter 10.

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>>7672158
This piece of shit. The memecarthy posting needs to die.

>>7671632
that's not a very controversial opinion OP. why bother proving you wrong?

>>7671632
Borges out, Beckett in

>>7671635
See >>7671636

>>7670151
The Warsaw pact countries

>>7670151
Project Gutenberg

bookzz or what.cd

>>7669156

little bit of both.

He's better than alot of "literary" fiction authors tbqh

Purple prose shit narratives desu

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>>7673818
This is a meme thread, yes?

>>7673827
Nah dude, GR is legitimately feelsy as fuck.

>>7673840
How's first semester in college treating you, kid?

his short stories were good

for some reason authors always feel like they need to go full retard when it comes to novels.

Bad bait. Get this shit out of here

It's pure aesthetics. Faulkner's writing is beautiful, and beauty gets you pretty far.

you could start with "rouse up" to understand his influences but anywhere is fine. he's not difficult.

>>7673254
Start with the Greeks

A Personal Matter. It is one of my favorite novels.

>>7673189
His name wasn't Ulysses. It was Harold Bloom.

Because she said Yes.

>>7673193
>Harold Bloom

>>7673108
Pretentious hack who is only mad at DFW because he knows he is inferior to him.

maximum douche

cool guy ťbh fàm

>>7673073
Margaret Atwood is a disgusting old lady.

I WILL ADMIT that I couldn't stop reading Oryx and Crake, but it was because I wanted to see what happened in the end, and it turns out that was bullshit. As a satire of the future, it had some genuinely good points, it had some good themes, and its disgusting content is stuff that should be explored more in literature to provoke discussion, such as the reality of everyday consumption of child pornography.

BUT

The following two books in the "trilogy" were feminisit propaganda that didn't make sense and turned the original book, a sick but intriguing joke, into a stale fart that wouldn't leave.

Alias Grace was dumb too. I get that you are creating an unrelaiable narrator, but Canadian HIstory is fucking boring and so is your story, no matter how many back alley abortion wizards you put in it.

Haven't read handmaid's tale though. Don't plan on it ever. I read Oryx and Crake before I knew who she was, ALias Grace in UNiversity for class, and the other two in a vain hope that I would get decent closure for Oryx and Crake. NOPE, by the way.

Yeah, the other two in that trilogy are shite.

>>7673073
Variation on the Word Sleep
By Margaret Atwood

I would like to watch you sleeping.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
with you, to enter
your sleep as its smooth dark wave
slides over my head

and walk with you through that lucent
wavering forest of bluegreen leaves
with its watery sun and three moons
towards the cave where you must descend,
towards your worst fear

I would like to give you the silver
branch, the small white flower, the one
word that will protect you
from the grief at the center
of your dream, from the grief
at the center. I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as breathing in

I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
and that necessary

Write in your books

I have a friend who has ADHD. Her doctor prescribed an amphetamine for her. It worked well because it gave her focus and she was able to work and remember substantially better than she was able to before (half an hour of anything and she was bored) she started the medication. Now she can do a full day's work and it is easy for her. Before it was quite hard.
If you want to remember something you have to be able to concentrate on it long enough for it to sink in. If your attention wanders all the time, comprehension/remembrance will suffer. Talk about the medicinal use of amphetamines with your doctor.

You remember something easier when you actually understand it. Read slowly, word by word if you need to, dont try to analyze it and just flow it out. .

>>7672941
You sound like you have autism OP, but also like you are pretty cool.
Myself i had try to live like in a cyberpunk future, inhaling the smoke directly from cars and decorating my room with a lot of black cables and fans.

>>7672941
i have part ii of this book at home, planning on reading it some time

Love LARPing to be honest family.

Mine but it's not out yet

They are all in that image

>>7672714
but anon you're too late, it's the 21st century

>snort coke
>strangle a hooker
>put on my thinkin' jeans

before reading
>put in earplugs if i have them on me
>read

before writing
>assemble writing table with pens/pencils/paper lined and unlined/computer/computer charger
>put on some jazz
>collect inspirational reading material, various collections of poetry, my favorite novels, the holy bible, the day's newspaper, my literary notebooks
>meditate for 15 minutes
>masturbate to white noise
>shower
>eat a hearty meal
>have an alcoholic drink and smoke a joint
>brush my teeth
>smoke a cigarette outside
>meditate for 30 minutes
>masturbate again
>write for 15 minutes

>>7672652
try the pomodoro method. i have adhd (or something like it) and it helps immensely when it comes to reading or writing when I don't feel the flow.