You come home one day to find Bloom going through all your written work. What does he say about it?
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Oy vey! It's literally nothing!
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The man can't think.
It'd be true this time.
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>>7665869
Probably that I'm too derivative and have no discernible talent.
I'd still commend him.
What's the funniest book you've ever read /lit/? Mines a toss-up between Catch 22 and A Confederacy of Dunces.
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>>7661885
The Onion: Our Dumb Century. No memeing.
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>>7661885
Your diary Tbh.
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>>7661919
Played out joke
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>In the early 1990s, Wallace became obsessed with the memoirist Mary Karr. Despite her statements that she was not interested, Wallace got her name tattooed on his body and even contemplated killing her husband, according to biographer D.T. Max. The two later had a tumultuous relationship during which, Karr reported, Wallace once threw a coffee table at her and attempted to push her out of a car.
Fucking madman
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Wallace was pretty smart but he also beta as fuck
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>>7655975
The system is in place because not everybody can be an alpha.
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Is Romance of the Three Kingdoms the greatest book ever written?
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>>7667922
No. Finnegans Wake is.
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>>7667929
FInnegans Wake isn't even 800000 words long.
It's #2 though.
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>>7667922
It's actually Harry Potter
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I need a new fantasy series.
I have read all of Raymond E. Feist books (a few times, The Magician is my favorite book), LOTR, most of Robin Hobb and few from different genres. But I find myself craving more fantasy, preferably long series. Can anyone help me?
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>>7667507
Damn, I remember reading Feist in elementary school. I'd check out Gene Wolfe if you haven't heard of them already.
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>>7667520
No, I haven't heard of him. Checking out his works on goodreads, any particular series to start with?
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>>7667507
Peter V. Brett's got a decent 5 book series, have a read. Also, the Imperial Trilogy isn't half-bad.
ITT: authors that are /lit/erally you
For me it's Dante; intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.
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>>7665589
For me, its that one author with the huge dick and infinite amount of money with incredible aesthetics. Ya thats me. Yours is cool too though
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>>7665589
Mines the one that drives a ferrari
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How does /lit/ regard Nick Land and his work?
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>>7665562
He's kind of fun. Read parts of fanged noumena before really reading philosophy on the source texts, but I'm fairly sure Negarestani's more my cup of tea.
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>>7665572
Have you read any of Land's politico-philosophical works?
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Some Vintage Land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiaWsgtJrNI
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I pray to God I don't end up like Charles Bukowski. What a sad, lonely motherfucker.
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>You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks you make a pet out of it.
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Loneliness is inescapable to anybody with an artistic temperament.
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>>7663713
guhhhh reddit pls go
>Mr. Madison, the Industrial Revolution changed the face of the modern novel forever. Discuss, citing specific examples.
>tfw I can't name a specific example
Which books have you read that displayed/ were written in that period?
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The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
It's a good read.
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>>7667912
Uh well thanks anon
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Lord of the Rings
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Has/is anyone else reading this pretty little thing? Follow up question: can anyone explain the importance of rubber in it? It's mentioned all the time, and I really can't make heads or tails of it.
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No man haha, you're the only one who has read it. You're quite a smart young lad, big cock too I bet. I wish I were ad smart as you. No one else even compares.
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>>7667663
I don't understand. I just wanted to why Hawkes mentions rubber on every other page.
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Why to has an rubber smartie?
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Did it predict the future of entertainment?
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Ask again later
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No, because our pictures (memes, if you want) are always joined with texts. Reading is very essential in our modern world, even if it's just for small sentences. Also many books are being sold everyday (shitty or not, it doesn't really matter in my point.)
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is this worth reading? i have the turkish translation though.
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What does /lit/ think of text-hased multiplayer roleplaying games?
Pic related, people say it's like writing a collective story.
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We think they're mud.
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>>7667010
Roleplaying in general is one of the rare mediums where postmodernism doesn't feel circle-jerky or clumsy. It rarely makes for good stories; still, the collective experience is fascinating.
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My nigga playing SAMP, what server is that? SAMP isn't bad at all as you can experience different scenarios, but it can be addicting and make you waste useful time.
What are your literary guilty pleasure's, /lit/?
I'll go first
I actually enjoyed Cathcer in the Rye. Maybe I should reread to make sure I'm not completely misremembering it, but whatever.
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I don't have any. I'm not stupid or insecure.
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Catcher in the Rye is one of the greatest American novels so I don't get the problem. You think you're too cool for liking obvious classics or are you too cool to like things other people like?
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>>7666021
Sometimes when I really need to center myself I read books with black and white morality because sometimes I really need the good guys to triumph over the bad.
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Hey /lit/ I just marathoned the first 20 pages of this book. Does it get better? What did you think about it?
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>>7663161
>marathoned
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>>7663161
>marathoned the first 20 pages
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>>7663161
fank you fo buying my shit sucka hahahaha stupid white peepo
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Just wanted to update you guys
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>>7667185
>no The Recognitions
>no Women and Men
>no The Tunnel
You fucked up, anon.
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>>7667185
gonna hazard a guess that the fault in our stars is only there because there are a lot of john green hate threads and we don't want to disparage authors we haven't read
I mean, we do, but it'd be retarded to do that
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>>7667192
Those are forced shit nobody here ever reads