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An autistic child goes on an adventure with his talking dog to find the magic skull of Oogy Bogus the Angolan war chief. On the way he learns a thing or two about friendship.
also he fucks his sister.

What do you normally write?

A boy falls in love with a girl.

Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.

But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.

>>7572486
its quixotic

>>7572496
Quick-saw-tick

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>>7572505

Fine. Buy with confidence. One of the better publishers for affordable hardcovers of classic titles, usually uses good translations for foreign works, and typically contains sufficient notes/intro/contextual info.

they're good but expensive. hold out and look at library book sales and stuff, or at least buy used. They're all over the place.

Excellent series. Beautifully made books. Sewn signatures. There's about thirty books from them that I want to buy. I love that they pack multiple titles into one volume. E.g., Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, Didion's nonfiction, McCarthy's Border Trilogy. Love it.

They're under the same corporate umbrella as Vintage, so I hope they one day publish Mishima's Sea of Fertility books in one volume.

>>7572298
Depends on the question they ask.

>>7572298
Too wordy
"Say again"
"Say what"
Or simply
"What"
Are all superior

>>7572298
>Which one is correct?

they mean different things

he meant "stop being a pessimistic narcissistic insufferable aspie dip, OP"

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A'ight. It's just that, take the good wif the bad, innit? Or the bad wif the good, I don't know, I mean, take sumfin, like a Chinese restaurant where they give you them sauces for free, an life is like that as well.

So life's like that, innit? Like a Chinese dish, with a shit afterwards. Take the dish, an take the shit with it

>One moment of pleasure justifies all the shit and misery of the rest of eternity, because it was connected to and required for that one moment
He's telling you to settle for what you get, pretty slave-like mentality there, Nietzsche.

>audiobooks
>patrician

senpai...

>>7572138
I work a job that requires me being at an office for 12 hours a day, so audio books are really the only way I can scratch my literary itch. I just watch them and 1.5 speed on youtube because I find them a bit slow otherwise.

Audio books are pleb and will always remain pleb. Only good for YA tbqh faggot.

85 years and 183 days old

bloom years old

I'd say 50

about 95% of the time yes.

>>7572060
Sometimes, if the book is entertaining.
Mostly, I just read for knowledge and to strengthen my grasp on characters, narrative and to improve my lexicon.

Not always, but if something isn't fun to read for me then I just don't read it.

Because it's hilarious

If you didn't feel like shit when Wardine done be cry you aren't human.

>>7571985
This

>>7571948
If you don't like the book, stop reading it.

>>7571948

The ending could bring everything together in ways you wouldn't imagine.

why would u do that

Maybe the book is a metaphor for the transformative power of pop culture.

Robert de Niro and Kenneth Branagh made a movie in the 90s that was easily the best adaptation of the novel. De Niro is standard De Niro, but more squinty and touches his mole more. Branagh is the comfirmed bachelor who cheats on his partner a lot.

If I remember right, the movie as a whole is....reddit at best, but I remember the leads being whores towards their emotions.

>>7571695
What does "Reddit at best" exactly mean?

wake up read ~50 pages of recreational book

going to go to English classes

going to do assigned readings

going to do more recreational reading

going to do 1 hour minimum of writing

Work on my research project and then read miscellaneous material.

>>7571529
Pretend that I have read the book someone is talking about and shit post in their thread.

>>7571488
>is calling out fallacies a legitimate argumentative tactic in debate
Not if it's not an actual fallacy, which, as you pointed out, isn't normally the case.

>>7571524
*is

>>7571488
>is calling out fallacies a legitimate argumentative tactic in debate
No, it isn't. If you identify a fallacy, you should attack the fallacious argument, not just squawk "ad hom" over and over. Or just keep piling them on; if your opponent calls you a faggot for wanting to make homo marriage legal, call him a murderer for being in favor of abortion. Whatever floats your boat.

Rest in peace.

Who the fuck is David Bowie?

>>7571251
How do you know it's David Bowie?

>>7571073
I liked The Idiot and Demons better than Brothers K. I think it's because everyone hyped it up so much.

What's wrong with dune?
Yeah it's kinda overrated but it's damn good.

>>7571073
Harper Lee is a top 5 author of all time.