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Where would you recommend I start? Has to be fairly short.

>>7568337
Start with Your Prodigious Engine

>>7568337
Well, all of his works are short stories and poems, so ideally, you could start with anything from Dunsany.

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He reminds me of the Japanese.

This movie fucking sucked on movie terms.

It fucking sucked in realistically portraying dfw terms as well. People will walk away from the movie with completely the wrong impression about who dfw was, both in terms of what he really cared about and how he acted.

The other actor sucked as well.

>>7568644
Every time I see that no talent faggot act I'm reminded how good of a director the Finch is.

>Parallel Stories
>It was okay. Despite the length, I finished it in about a week. It was peculiarly accesible.

Of course it is

If you're not in academia, do not read theory.

I have not read pic related, but Foucault is worth reading. He spent a lot of time researching the obscure, mundane facts of major institutions and you can benefit from his hard work by reading his books. hooray! as for his conclusions, and his "rigor" it is up to you as a reasonable scholar to sort through the trash. madness and civilization is a very entertaining book.

>>7567866
nice dubs. throw your back log away, none of those are any good.

>no girl ever twisted your nips

>a beautiful piece of classical art
>hee hee let's take a funny sexy picture with it and put it on Snapchat

literally everything wrong with modernity

>>7567764
No, because there is nothing to be learned from /lit/.
The discussions are memes, and if not they are trash.
The books are well-known already and any literary magazine or newspaper with a culture section talks about them and their authors.

/lit/ only says what people with high status in the literary community says, and only praises what these people praise as well.

fuck off

/lit/ is where you go when you already know things retard

Parlay with Polybius

Romans, and then Back to the Romans Part 2: Renaissance.

Ancient Greeks (750 - 490 B.C.) --> Classical Greeks (490 - 323 B.C) --> Hellenize Greeks (323 - 146 B.C) -- > Romans and Romanized Greeks (254 B.C. - 18 A.D.) -- > Silver Age Latin (18 A.D - 180 AD) + Early Christian Writers (45 - 325 A.D) --> Christianize Rome (306 - 476) --> Middle Ages (476 - 1321) --> Renaissance --> Fuck all

Roadsters.

I read a lot of Hardy Boys when I was younger and liked them. Nancy Drew was alright also.
Does that cover have a lot of subtext?

>>7568108

Yes. Also the first 58 books published by Grosset & Dunlap are the best. I regret selling my collection so much.

Right.

I've noticed peoples criticism of mein kampf is almost exactly the same as what people say about Ayn Rand.

I've not read either, but I will hazard the guess most of this shit is said by people who have not read it and are just assblasted at the ideas they assume are in the books.

Watch for shit like:
>I'm not offended by the ideas, I'm just offended by the bad writing!
>Rambling
>Barely coherent
>Wears its bias on its sleeve/bias' are out int he open!
>Simplistic world view
>Just comes off as grumpy/bitter/jaded to me!

Kinda funny when you see someone jumbling all these into one long winded post about something. I guess mixing up cookie cutter points and arranging them about books you've never read is what an english degree teaches you to do ultimately.

>>7567693
>le capitalist Hitler loving Nazi man

Calm down Adolf Rand

Not your personal librarian

I had this problem too but I'm trying to overcome it, I found reading the wor

>>7567532
plebbit-tier, but I still kek'd like a homosexual gayman

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GROOVE STREET, HOME.

>>7567458
Sorry, I don't get the reference.

"Casual" details are usually my way to go. Say you have just a normal guy as a protagonist, and the he just enters his flat. Create an encounter with his neighbour, with or without the animal he is married to. Give a few sentences about him, which are meaningful enough.

"It was a letter from the city vet. "For Rex Dunphy", it said. I wondered what was wrong with him. Joe and Rex have been married for almost a year now, but they were living together, in this block, way before any of us current neigbours moved in. Way before the new laws have paseed. Everyone always loved Rex, no dog fetched like him. Joe always came out a bit weird, but we learned to like him. They threw a big party once they got married, invited the entire building and all. Rex bought the fanciest belt. Happy times."

>>7567448
Footnote.
>He turned off his alarm clock, got dressed, and went outside for his usual contemplative morning walk. The first thing that met him as he stepped out of the door was the singing of birds[1].

>[1] by the way, you can marry and have sex with animals in this universe, jest lettin u know. but the birds are not usually the preferred choice. God I hate liberalism

Casual details are more sophisticated and lend to better world building, but you have to ask yourself what you value more - an immersive experience or an interesting narrative voice.

In OPs example, it could be done as >>7567448 has done it, or it could be done in a more narrative-oriented focus like

"Joe went back to his flat and kissed his wife who was a cat. Yeah, this is the future - they marry animals now."

This narrative-focus is definitely more popular. and done well in books like The Martian