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Lord of the Rings

I will never read 1984 or Brave New World. Just a super boring topic to me. Also any Vonnegut/Pynchon.

>>7672410

You might also be bored by Darkness at Noon but it's much more important than Orwell/Huxley and deserves to be their place

>>7668267
Badass grandpa

your face was a book cover?>>7668267

>>7668267
I've always regarded asians as more callous than other races

This is pulp for the people put off by the poverty of the language used by Stephanie Meyer.

>>7668225
I don't understand?

nothing BUT atmosphere

the series is good, but it's not in any hurry to go anywhere

Boy in Darkness is great though

god dammit, i fucked up the pronouns. you know what i mean.

I just had this experience with a /lit/ recommendation. I imagine it was a woman at least, because its quality was offensive.

>>7671957
What book did they recommend?

>>7668131
>is this babies first sci Fi?
yeah it's as good a place to start as any
>>should I read the other books?
they get progressively worse as he slips his weird mormon ideas into the story but if you're into that kind of thing and you didn't like everything that made the original good then go ahead.
>>were/are you able to separate the authors opinions on homosexuals from his work?
yeah
>>did you like the book
it was alright

why the fuck does it have all those jew stars at the top? who the fuck would read some shit like that?

>>7668133
did you seriously bump your own shit after 2 minutes?

saaaaaaaaaagggggggggeeeeeeeee

Do cats not like syrup?

>>7668049
>parrot some information for my uni papers
Nice.

Btw, by archive you mean warosu?

If you google 4chan lit archive or something probably there will be one site or other with a backup.

>tfw all the pomf links posted last month are dead because pomf had an issue
>tfw didn't grab the torrents in time

tfw no qt like girl in op's pic.

>>7667910
That jet fuel can't melt dank memes. I've already self-published several books on the topic.

Who is this demon of the semen?

hire a sex worker lmao

>>7671079
>>/gif/

>>7671088
Maybe I will, but companionship will never be attained unfortunately.

Fuck off with your dog book shit

>>7667914
Confirmed for not even reading the book.

>>7667907
Great fuckin book. The perspective actually felt like an animal's, and somehow I completely identified with it. Primal as fuck/10

Good books can't be converted to film

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>>7667894

It's pretty much the only way the masses will read a book, is if a movie adaption is coming out and there's hype around it. It's also probably the only way to make a real living as a writer anymore.

Write
Read fiction
Read books about writing
Write books about reading

Fuck her
full force
In face
and ass

buy prostitute
ask her for her name
tell her you actually don't care
leave her in the closet locked

that moment where you realize you exist and it's really overwhelming and kind of spooky that you have to make decisions dependent on that reality.

Existentialism is a reaction to the nihilism inherent in the death of God and secularization of Western civilization. In previous eras, man's life was given meanig by God. With science slowly disproving God, we are left with a vacuum of meaning. Since nature abhors a vacuum, various philosophers have attempted to prove that man is capable of creating his own meaning even if that meaning ultimately proves absurd.

>>7667763
An idea that seems really really cool when you're 18.

bump cause im also interested

>>7667756
Vaulted me out of my funk... so, fellow moderate pessimists, go buy this book.

>>7667756
Optimists are bad people and should only be allowed to live because of how difficult and costly it would be to kill them all.

Great author. Brilliant ideas. His prose is a tad pulpy tho. My favorite book by him is VALIS. But I'm a tad biased because I'm schizo and I find it to be one of the best portrayals of the disease. Second favorite would be A Scanner Darkly. I cried when I got to the ending and he dedicates the book to all the friends of his that died from junk. But I might be a tad biased with this too since I used to be a junkie. If drugs and schizophrenia are too edgy for you then Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep would probably be your best bet. As I'm sure you already know, 'tis the book Bladerunner was based off.

>>7667712
This is a controversial opinion, but I've tried reading a few of his books and never made it past the first 20 pages at most.

His prose is just insufferable and I don't care what any of you have to say about his ideas, he couldn't write his way out of a wet paper bag.

As pointed out whenever this topic arises - great ideas, terrible prose.

Don't start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (like most people do because of Blade Runner); it's got some of his worst writing. If you can put up with some crap writing, try Ubik.

If you want some Dick SF with better prose, try his 1970s novels, especially A Scanner Darkly.

Alternatively, try his non-SF novels (e.g. In Milton Lumky Territory, Confessions of a Crap Artist). They lack the great ideas of his SF, but the prose is much better. The non-SF books read like an apprentice Richard Yates.

Its rather enjoyable if you can stomach 1200 pages.

There was a span of two weeks I saw a lot of praise for it a little while ago. Haven't seen much recently though I think it is well received here.

>>7667686
I loved it when I was a teenager, but the incorrect names really tickle my autism now. There are some good jerk off scenes