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>>7646808
This is already a thread. Critique threads contain the exact same shit that you're describing.

>>7646845
you can't post shit like >>7646909
this >>7646194
in the critique threads

What do you guys use for inspiration and research and shit? I look at paintings and listen to music to get the creative juices flowing.

less than 10 people (if even that) on this board have read it

it's a meme.

it may or may not also be good, two separate issues really.

>>7643032
less than 10 people in the world have actually read it t b h

I own a copy that I bought because I managed to find it cheap and wanted to be able to say I own a copy but I havent read more than ten pages.

The writing is weird as fuck.

Anything Kafka. Especially "Give it Up!". Not even Kidding.

>>7649641
None of his characters give up until the very end.

>>7649641
you don't understand kafka :)

housewife porn
rich powerful attractive man falls in love with some mediocrity of a woman and makes her safe, adored, wet and loved
and maybe spanks her ass like daddy used to from time to time

>>7648560
Pseudo rape literature masquerading under some vague notion of a story aimed at the 14-70 year old female market in which the reader can easily self-insert themselves into the story.

I wish I wasn't trolling.

It will sell

>>7648560
Write like you are writing a video game, like Sanderson.
Have complex artificial systems that don't enhance anything thematically, but are 'cool'.
Gay rights and them being oppressed is also the way to go. All the rest of liberal dogmas are welcome too.
Power fantasy, so having an amazing at everything bland katana wielding protagonist with a dark past.
References to pleb shit people like.
Avoid complex prose, but make it forcefully flowery.
Make teenage girls feel like they are far more special than they actually are.
Aphorisms like John Green or Nietzsche.

It's a shit-tier DFW knock-off. It's 500 pages of trying to prove that you're clever. It's a needy, "clever" novel intended to make you feel both stupid and clever simultaneously despite being neither. Don't bother replying to this post. Sage. Hidden.

shes cute

>>7648469
This guy replies to every book the same way. Nice pasta though.

An Untimely Death

The lawyer has just been told of his client’s death. The prison bus had overturned and his head had been milled against the cement in abstract art technique.

>>7644815
Is this an excerpt of something or a complete story?

At night he chews at the same barley and thinks about one of his father’s stories. And many a week ago the farmer took his wife to a doctor where she died. Direct. No happy endings in his stories. He watches the buttes standing against the brisk air and the looming blue like the survivors in Hawaii. Another one of his father’s stories. They had strapped themselves against the palm trees during a hurricane. The barley is wilted and damp and he spits it into the fire and watches as its spirit in the embers rises into the night only to be pushed away by the wind.

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Well, I reckon one oughta do unto others exactly what has been done unto him, that's what my beloved late grandpappy used to say before he kicked the bucket. Thus I gathered my guns and other useful contraptions and went out to meet that mean son of a bitch Jackson.

Imagine my surprise when I entered the fucker's porch and kicked his door open only to see him having a go at my wife, again. Lord Almighty, I told myself I won't be vengeful. I was to geld that rascal plain and straight, stuff his balls right in his mangy kisser and go about my business. Good Lord, him fucking my wife again was the last straw.

Weeks later I still pondered whether I did the right thing, see. When he and my old Nellie were getting it on, I sorta hid and watched. Seeing the glistening sweat running down my wife's back made my blood curl in a manner less and less familiar these days, since she met that bastard Jackson.

So I started jacking off nice and slow listening to their endeavours. Boy, he was good. Damn good, better than I ever were. I admired his technique and stamina as he fucked my wife, dick still in hand. Did I cum once he came? Hell yes I did.

Now I kind of rue what I did next. I entered the room with my fly still open and threatened to shoot both them rascals if she doesn't blow him right there, before my own eyes. And she did, more than eager to do so.

Did it make me mad? Son, I don't get mad. You won't get by in the prairie if you get mad at things. Now hop off and fetch me Ma, Daddy feels he has to call good mister Jackson right now.

>all that mccarthy

embarrassing

So you admit you're checking me out and you want to mate.

We saw you had all the memes last time you posted them, why are you so eager for attention?

>>7631519
use it for stuff you don't want to think too much about and don't remember, perfect for entertainment literature.

Just get a bluelight filter for your smartphone and read there.

I do this for poetry and read non fiction on my computer. I pay for nothing now.

>>7631519
I have a semi old kindle 3 with wifi I never use. I've gotten a decent library of ebooks on my computer to be read in the future but already have put some 300 books onto it. Its pretty handy since I have to move a lot, like every 6 months, which hinders me from buying books for now.

The trick with using an e-reader is to keep it organized. I keep mine divided into categories like Poetry, <Language> Literature, Philosophy, History, Biographies, etc... and try to read one book of every category up to 5 books at a time to not lose all track of my progress. Its a challenge to keep reading the same long book for the same time and not start a new smaller novelle or something but its doable. I do read though from both paper and my e-reader but I find that I find it clearer to read from the e-reader than some books, since I can change the letter sizing and words-per-line which can sometimes be annoying if you get a book that has been printed with too many words in one line. It just makes for more attentions being needed to follow the text, which some people here on this board tend to find more patrician.

There's currently a world-wide contest that all major publishing companies are doing where if you give them a book you've written and they think would be profitable to sell it, they'll publish it. The more the book sells, the more contest prize money you get because they actually give you some of the money from each sale, which is pretty cool.

>>7651526
Thanks, I'll look into that! :^)

>>7651530
No problem! Apparently there's an easter egg in the fine print where it's much easier to win the contest if you're a straight white female, hope that tip helps!

>>7651281
owc bretty gud family

>>7651281
It's utter trash. While a lot of great works came out of the islamic golden age, their holy book just aint that great.

>>7651324
Wow that's pretty offensive, I hope Islamophobic opinions like that bar you from ever getting a job

it just means they dont actually read

>>7651275
I dont know but you just described me.

>>7651287
i dont like all music though.

Rayuela
El Aleph
Cien Años de Soledad
La Casa Verde
Pedro Páramo
La Invención de Morel
Todos los Fuegos el Fuego

The list goes on...

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>>7651271
Ficciones- Borges
Pedro Paramo- Rulfo
One hundred years of solitude - Márquez
Amulet - Bolaño

Ciem años de soledad
Rayuela
Ficciones
2666
El llano en llamas
La guerra del fin del mundo
La muerte de Artemio Cruz
Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Conversación en la catedral

Nobody here actually reads, friend.

>>7651071
I read all of the Foundation books and they were quite enjoyable.
Many of his other books and short stories are good as well.

the entire idea of historical mathematics influenced my own worldview right up to the present day. It's a fascinating way of thinking about the world, even if it's not true. A good "if it were this way then..." kind of scenario to bounce other ideas off.

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>>7650589
>reading Penguin ever

>>7650589
>We want the reddit audience

Is that cover drawn by fucking Mike Mignola?

>>7650475
There is literally nothing of substance in RP1. I couldn't get past the first chapter it was so awful.

Ready Player One was loads of fun, don't care what anybody thinks about it.

>>7650475
What the hell is it about? Ive heard of this before and it was popular last year for some reason. Is it really that bad?