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No, he's not, because in directing plays he would be tangibly illustrating his thoughts whereas in the novel, he would need to express them; however, from what I've read of some of his screenplays, he's a lot better than other screenwriters out there; add to this the caveat that quantum tarantula is a huge beta cuckold indeed, and I do not claim contradictory.

I don't think he is right. When you write a novel, you write it in prose, and then it isn't perform. The reader has to read it in a book and imagine the events himself. When you direct a play, you write the play, and then it's performed, and lots of people take it in at once. Moreover, a movie is different from a play in that the performance isn't right there in front of you but shot on film (or digitallly) and then reproduced en masse to be shown on screens throughout the world. So they're all different mediums, in my humble opinion. Hope this helps.

>>7586054

I think he'll be a good playwright/director, and I think the theatre could use someone like Tarantino to come in and shake things up a bit there, much like Matt and Trey did with Book of Mormon.

I'm not sure his transition to novels will be as good. Yes, his screenplays are more descriptive than most, but a lot of it is still describing what he wants to shoot and what the camera will see, which he uses as motivation for some of his description.

We'll see, but I like Tarantino, always have, and I think he has potential if he really ends up choosing to go this route. The only thing I do hope if he does decide to do this, is he actually takes a shot at fiction (as in a book), and doesn't decide at the last minute to go the graphic novel route - which I can also see him doing.

>>7585968
What happened; the long story.

Are Pot Noodles as bad as they look?

>>7585968
Share with us your trials and tribulations, faggot.

The third in the Bourne series.
700 or so pages of an old man hobbling around an island before Bourne kills him.

The manipulated man by Esther Vilar
Shouldn't have taken that bright red pill.
I have become even more incompetent at talking to women now.

>>7585948
Who is this semen demon?

why even bother cutting that long ?

>>7585901
he fell for the keto meme

>>7585901
4th-most shameful laugh I've had all day.

You mean catcher in the rye?

>>7585808
No, the other ones.

His short story collection, Nine Stories, is great. Highly recommended. Haven't read Franny and Zooey.

How affluent are you people that you can spend money on this garbage

>>7585751
>he cant afford 20 bucks for a meme book

>>7585737
I'm waiting for the 10th anniversary deluxe edition to buy it.

I found white nights awfully boring to read at first, but it got interesting in the last half. Dat assburgers tho

>>7585704
Yeah, it's just two autists falling in love. Does it really get better in the second half?

>>7585707
>Does it really get better
Imo yes.
It's pretty short, give it a chance

I'm doing both. Worry about yourself bub.

>>7585661

Musk read a shit ton in his youth, anon.

>>7585661
>inventors don't read

get off /lit/ is my advice

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

>>7585540
Do what you want

What you REALLY want

>>7585449
you could read a history of the roman empire
gibbon, or whatever the updated version of that is

....Anyone?

OP, you are JUST LIKE ME. It's incredible and I can't believe it, but we are the same person. I am starting to read the bible for the first time just this week (downloaded the epub) after an imense urge for God.

Read Dostoevsky.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

>books that will make me more X


Just stop. Saged

The Lovejoy approach.

>>7585411
start by READING THE FUCKING WIKI YOU ILLITERATE NORMIE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>7585411
discourses of epictetus

Also some information. I am 19 and not too smart, just looking to broaden my perspective somewhat. From the sticky the category that intrigues me most was "Aphoristic", but again, i don't know where to start. Any suggestions appreciated (nothing too advanced).

>>7585355
>17 years old
Concerns

>>7585483
Is that an indictment of my taste or are you talking about something else

>>7585355

I really hope this is elaborate bate

>>7585324
Whenever i used to finish a short i used to drink and smoke and have my own private party. Now i don't smoke or drink much..

But the feeling of elation is well worth the toil.

>chicken and wine
Let's talk about the kind of chicken and the kind of wine. Also, tell me about your book.

>>7585331
The chicken is just the cheapest sort of broiler cooked inside a bag with some turnip, carrots and onion. The wine is a Terra Cruz Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 year "vintage", a Chilean red wine which cost me only 3 euros.

The chicken is still cooking so we have to wait a bit.

My book is about five teenagers sent to Earth so they could send something from Earth to the outer space colony. Meanwhile the world (which has been ravaged by wars and disease) blames the teenagers on shit that they aren't guilty for - global warming, the pandemic, wars etc. just because they're from the outer space colony with all the rich and famous. So it's a book which deals the question: "Are children supposed to deal with their parents' mistakes?"

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>>7585190
Unfortunately, this man.

It's you, OP. You're next.

>>7585190
Delil is almost 80 and is about to release a new book which apparently took quite a toll on him
That said, probably Chompsky. He's 87 and is basically one minor fall away from the infinite nonexperience