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>>7440725
I could write better than that and I only learned English five years ago.

>>7440725
are you the kid who becomes weirdly close with his teachers?

Why would anyone give a fuck about that?

>>7440526
In 2014 I tried to write one. It was told from the perspective of a hotel cleaning guy who observed the lives of people checking in and out.
I then realized that was still too much action for a vaporwave novel and then I just stopped.

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

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Hypersphere

>129 million books in existence
>hundreds of books in backlog
>halfway finished with about four of them
>choose to spend entire day on 4chan

This is my greatest /lit/ sin.

>>7440306
>spend multiple hours a day on /lit/, barely any time reading

God, what the fuck am I even doing with my time?

>>7440306
Pretty much this, and disregarding any author that I haven't heard of or seen being discussed in here.

your pa's b-hole, kid

The internet.

>paris is a good city

>>7440183
Not literature. Try bringing the subject to a more appropriate board, such as /b/.

>>7440191
What constitutes literature, tripfag?

>>7440183
>male equivalent to romance novels
Not really, though some do reach that point. The Ghosts stories run the gamut from 'great' to 'awful'. Enjoy Sabbat Martyr, because the rest of the stories in The Lost aren't as good.

"It's All Good" composed by DMX is literally the greatest work of all time.

bro i read the sickest essay on this exact shit once, about androgeny in pop music, i think it was by the fucking power of myth guy, i know he wrote some plebish books but he was also patrish enough to write a guide to finnegans wake...then again maybe it wasn't him, can't remember.... any way the point is, all the successful pop stars are androgenous so both male and female fans can relate to them...look at michael jackson, not only was he ambigeous racially, but also genderally (?) and that cotinues today, i think he based it on some greek idea of the "flower child" which became a term used for hippies not because hippies had flower images, but because when boys grew long hair it became difficult to discern their sex, i think it's also in ovid...anyways, that shit is probably a required reading for your class anyways, but after it, you will never be able to look at popstars without noticing the way they subtly or not so subtly appeal to both genders

>>7440152
>Not Ante Up
Didn't know they let fuck niggas on 4chan now

fuck off and make a worthwhile thread

>>7440098
I always lean towards paper back.

>douglASS Adams
I prefer the reddit ebook. It has upvotes at the end of every sentence.

Long story short, no one fucking knows. Many great minds have delved into these questions and many have differing opinions.

You can align yourself to the ones that you feel connect with your world view and that's fine but at the end of the day we're all grasping for meaning in a possibly meaningless world or a meaningful world that likes to keep the meaning "hidden" as to find the meaning easily would discredit life's significance (if it has any)

>>7440120
I guess I would try to have animals with three different views on life and the main character not being able to choose the correct one or taking something from each of the three's views.

I am not sure what animals to use that represent archetypes of views on life. I might take the lazy route and use turtle and hare for 2 of animals

>>7440083
>What is the meaning of life?
This cannot be answered in any universal sense but must be sought out on an individual basis. There is one, though, for each person.
>How much does anything matter?
The distinction to be made here is that the matter part, and the units involved, stay the same but the weight (and those respective units) differ. So on the moon something will weigh one-sixth as much (measured in pounds, ounces, and so on) as on earth, but the matter will be the same.
>What is the purpose of life as a whole?
This is more or less covered above, but the key has to do with relationships (not romantic).
>How much control do I have my life?
Not a lot, but *some*.

>>7440031
Native Son or Invisible Man definitely. Invisible Man if you want to read something shorter.

I didn't like Zora or Morrison. Haven't read Color Purple but it seems pleb. And Ayn Rand makes me think this is bait but she is so shitty.

learn to pick a book yourself retard

>>7440042
I go to a school with a shitton of neocons who like her and I know the prof is pretty liberal. I think she just put them there so that at least someone will pick Rand up and realize she's bad.

>>7440000
nice quads. start with the borges

>>7440008

I'm so angry, my library system, the entire fucking system serving millions of people, has essays on borges but none of his godamn books.

>>7440036

At least this site has them. https://sites.google.com/site/thebooksofsand/home

Can you post the link to the site ?

How is the grammar on the website so terrible?

>>7439823
It's run by literal eighth graders.

>>7439784
I think thoughts of him.

>>7439784
Wrong board.

>>7439784

I don't understand a damn thing he's trying to say, other than making philosophy as a whole into some kind of word game

Who do I start with to understand his shit

Obviamente Calderón de la Barca.

>who? /lit/, help! you guys didn't spoonfeed me this author yet!!

>>7439767

Given how Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day (the 500th anniversary of which is coming up next year, 23 April 2016, so mark your calendars), I'm going to say it was he.

None of them had that much impact on the language. Obviously Cervantes is the most influential on the novel.

>>7439574
when the ridiculous man denies the young girl help, due to his soul crushing depression, practically a scene that could happen in modern times without any tweaking.

>>7439595
fantastic, cheers lad, got any more like this? It'll come in handy for schooling plebs

>>7439574
Young ISIS fighters who are raised in non particulary religious families in western countries can be compared to dostoyevsky's nihilists (Stavrogin, Verkhovensky, even underground man or Raskolnikov).

>>7439561
>Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation
Khalil Gibran

Ich hab mein Sach auf nichts gestellt

>>7439570
>implying it's to my gf
>implying I have a gf