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I've a feeling in my gut that you would get some value out of Les Miserables. But it's a pretty hefty tome; do you have a length limit?

>>7648839
Same anon here

Also, are you adverse to texts with particularly religious sentiment? I'm struggling to think of a book concerning the virtue of emotional appeal that isn't also steeped in Christianity

>Trying to reach any answer about life purely analytically has led me into despair

The Brothers Karamazov.

>>7647618
Everything.

>>7647618
All of them. Reading is a waste of time.

>>7647618
The Martian

>does it get better
yes. most people put chapter 5 as the best/2nd best chapter

>am i missing something
also yes

The point is that you become desensitized to the brutality of the crimes, just like those who investigate this shit in real life do. Roberto Bologna is a genuis, and frankly, you should go back to hop on pop if you can't figure this out.

Ciudad Juarez mate. Also Edomex in the 20teens. Mostly this:
>>7645437

it's not what you do, it's how you do it

-aristotle

>>7650029
>not using first second and third person narration throughout a book
Stay pleb, my man.

>>7650050
They don't think it be like it is, but it do

-plato

>>7649846
Yeah. He's not great, was funny, plays are decent. The novel's decent. That's it.

>>7649846
>reading degenerates

bet you read women and non-whites too.

fucking moron, take the redpill

>>7649866
what if i am a woman

>>7649432
"made a huge mistake" is code for "it's a trap"
which is code, if I have to explicate this for you too, for "a tranny"
which means a girl with a dick
it's implying sideways that only biological males read this
like everybody is doing (the implication, not the reading)

>>7649432
Yes.

>>7649446
this isn't a bad thing

I just say Ada. I think the full title is Ada or Ardor :a Family Chronicle anyway

>>7650164
oh yeah and Lucette was best girl. Fuck Ada for sneaking off with those other guys behind her brothers back. Van's openly sleeping around almost bugged me more though.

Amos Oz is great. There's also quite an extensive Yiddish canon if you're interested.

>>7648478
yiddish != hebrew, tho. they don't even belong to the same family of languages.

>>7649022
Well it's written using Hebrew characters so one could argue it's written in Hebrew

Do volunteer work and build up a resume. Look into editorial work or technical writing

good luck dave man

>>7648085
>majored
Oh boy. Bit late to be asking now.

Anyway, my advice is to go and teach English somewhere.

>>7648085
just be yourself

>>7647583
It sounds like the shitty demarcation that /tv/ has with film-flick-cinema

Arbitrary classifications. Why 500 years? Shakespeare isn't 500 years old, but he's surely a "classic" in the non-Classical sense.

The others are just as arbitrary. How much artistic concern is too much? What if you don't know if the book was made "for money"? One Hundred Years of Solitude surely made gobs of cash; does that means its artistic merit is relatively less than [insert any notoriously shitty 19th century vanity novel of your choice]?

Overall, unscientific, full of holes and borderline useless. Not even worth mentioning at a cocktail party.

dumb bait

back to /tv/ faggot

>>7647424
Literature doesn't really solve your problems. And anyway, expecting it to do this will simply ruin whatever pleasure you do get from it. If you have real depression, get diagnosed and treated. If you're just white-guy sad, get some friends and hit the gym.

How about Bible?

>>7649887
Sure

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>>7649887
Like sucking another man erect nipples and to admire his wonderful and muscular back.

Wouldn't it be the exact opposite? most of his work was about how homosexuality is in fact degeneracy and will eventually lead to ruin.

>>7645533
I'm not orthodox and there doesn't seem to actually be a lot of orthodox writings.
From the ones mentioned you have Philokalia, Way of the Pilgrim and everything Dostoevsky wrote. Timothy Wheare or something like that was being mentioned.
Constantine smells the mention of word orthodox like sharks do blood and will probably have more.

>>7645562
Thank you.

You may want to read some Tolstoy -- he was excommunicated for being an anarcho-pacifist, but you should still read him.

Ready:

'What I Believe'
'The Kingdom of God is in You'
'Letter to a Hindu' (letter he sent to Gandhi, which heavily influenced the latter)

>>7644651

The moustache man wrote 7 hours a day everyday for decades and destroyed about 80% of his work while he worked because he thought it was shit.
He financed his publications with his own money, was never taken seriously in his lifetime and ended up crazy.

This form of expression is not a thing you do because you want, its a thing you do because commiting your thoughts to paper keeps insanity away for one extra day.

In the age of twitter, the aphorism is the most natural medium to write in.

But yeah you're never getting published.

>>7644675
:(

>>7643838
I wish I had a hot dog machine.

storming the levy office

>>7643838
i hated that fucking book, but when the bartender is trying to get a book for her dirty pictures was funny. also that black ass mofuggah.