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Bumpu desu

>>7609516

Greeks. Off the top of my mind, Rhetorics by Aristotle and more tangentially and in application, Apology by Plato.

>>7609516
is that ceit's sister?

>implying I have ever read anything published after 1950

>>7618540
threads right up your alley then

What is the point of this question?

Any one whose favorite work had not yet been written by 1950 is either a very eccentric lover of the later cantos of Pound or quite simply stupid.

>>7618518
Borges
Gene Wolfe
Phillip K. Dick

Joyce does it. From what I understand it's somewhat subtle

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson was purty good and subtle.

Sci Fi a shit, speculative fiction is where it's at.

>>7618457
Sci-fi is speculative fiction bruh. Fantasy is the shit, but something about space and time and the evolution of humankind through advances in technology has always made my dick wet. So tell me. Why is sci-fi "a shit" to you?

short ones, is the sad truth.

My book club read "good old neon" by dfw last week to great success

I finished When Breath Becomes Air

Complete shit. Pretentious rich Indian doctor dies and writes an Oprah-tier book about his death.

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Also i'm looking for Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire as an epub if anyone has it.

>>7618343
Just fucking read it from start to finish

>>7618353
Really? I feel like that's a great way to get lost. You wouldn't get through the first chapter without at least a few annotations.

>>7618431
Either bait or retard

Nice dog (bumping for curiosity).

>>7618305
Book of the New Sun.

Also curious...

Can you tell us anything else about your story, OP, or are you still in early stages?

The Road and another book whose title eludes me didn't give their main characters names, so they are just "man", "son", etc. I enjoyed these aspects because I didn't need their names to become close to them.
I have always thought the concept interesting, and I like that you're going even further.

Is there an all-knowing narrator, or is the MC the narrator? There has to be a word for that, but it doesn't come to me.

>>7618157
You don't need to read a book about writing.
First just let the ideas come out as 'retard' and 'loose' as possible, just throw them all out there without any consideration for the reader, merely just to try and get as much of the idea out as possible.

Then, edit the hell out of it.

Write it so a child can understand it. I know sometimes I am blinded by my ego so I follow that advice.

>>7618162

This. I think the problem is that we view books as spontaneous products of an author's genius, when in reality they've been carefully pruned and edited and cut to perfection.

It's the same way with movies. There are so many cringe-worthy parts of the script that get cut, sequences filmed that never make it into the final product, and scenes that are refilmed dozens of times after adjusting minutiae you will never notice.

Isn't he like one of three?

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>>7618135

Borges tbqh

>>7617989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhW0TrzWGmI

>>7617989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBMDYUb0RY

Nothing.

>>7617978
It was pretty lame honestly. I bought it years ago thinking it'd be an awesome perspective to see the collapse of Yugoslavia from but instead I got an Englishman going on about how he would go from heroin to silvovitz throughout the week.

the one about the knife fighting gauchos

nippon connection

Why would you do such a retarded thing, goddamned faggot.
Anyway, abouty country:
some history books. Dunno, Felix Luna, Mitre, Pigna. Your choice
Martin Fierro, by Jose Hernandez
El matadero, Echeverria
Facundo by Sarmiento
Recuerdos de Provincia, Sarmiento

>>7617780
>those choices

you don't belong here. Go back to reddit, kid. This place is for intellectuals and your women-tier Oprah's book-club style plebieanism is embarrassing.

My favorites:
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Lolita
>Brothers Karamazov

Those are intellectual choices, for ACTUAL patricians

>>7617794
It doesn't matter if you are being ironic or sincere: you are still pathetic.
My favorites:
A Frolic of his Own
The Recognitions
The Tunnel
The Lime Twig
Ulysses
Cannonball
Mason & Dixon

No Longer Human
A Confederacy of Dunces
Lolita
Last Exit To Brooklyn
Stoner
Crime and Punishment

Bonus: I would choose the accident that kills me only

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>>7617304
I swear half of my books have someones in it, but that's what you get when you buy used. one man I know has his as a basic stamp that reminds me of collectors seals in china. I might do something like that so my books stop getting "borrowed" but i have a ingrained tendency to not do things like that as my grandfather is a book collector. still 80% of my library is used so its not like anythings in mint condition anyways.