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>>7400316
Is haruhi a meme series? I read the entire first book and i did not enjoy a single page of it. It was written as though it was a script for an anime the author hoped would happen.

Now Oregairu on the other hand had eightman, and decent writing

>>7401638
m8, all light novels are supposed to read like anime, otherwise they'd be treated like real novels that have shots at winning awards in Japoland.

>>7401678
I know, I know. But haruhi just doesn't have anything going for it, there's no substance or even attempts at fake substance

that's clearly a woman

>>7400272
Sort of looks like a goat

>>7400272
It's not so clear at all

Something sad that's also an everyday occurrence. Like someone dying of heart disease.

>>7400216
You're right and there's something incredibly sad and banal about that

>>7400323
banal implies a pejorative though

saying it's banal to die of heart diseases just makes you sound edgy

saying something is sad implies a sentimentality, unless dfw was using sad ironically similar to how we sometimes say some things are sad when we in fact mean they are pathetic.

>>7400204
he means drugs in general

not a real quote or a good idea

Hemmingway never said that.
He always wrote in the morning as the sun rose and then got hammered afterwards.
It is a bad idea.

shit thread.

>>7400177
It's only American culture because Americans figured out how to commoditize media first and so won the market. What you're actually complaining about is capitalism.

>>7400177
>almost no culture
>and what does exist is shit

that's mainstream white American culture though

our culture is memes, Big Bang Theory, Marvel movies, and garbage

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>>7400177
>america
>culture

But you don't understand dude, she's repressed. She's had way more advantages than you, makes more money, has more fame, but she's been repressed by society and deserves more than you.

>>7400111
>IQ

Still, I'd let her stomp me into the ground and I don't even have a giantess fetish.

>>7400111

God damn it, why do you keep making this thread?

Bring on the femdom.

OP again. My interpretation of the ending:

In a weird way, kind of hopeful. Mason and Dixon end up propagating little Masons and Dixons, which is all anyone can ask for.

And on his deathbed, as his sons talk to him, Mason might be hearing the remnants of his travels with Dixon--maybe even the beginning of a new adventure.

Notice that Isaac talks as Dixon might have about magic Indians and fish jumping from rivers (referencing that which is down. Fitting, considering Dixon's occupation as surveyor).

And William, who seems the glummer of the two, talks about the stars, as Mason might have.

I feel like what I just wrote was sentimental bullshit, but I hope not. I don't think that Pynchon has a cruel streak and would give the two protags meaningless endings.

N... no one wants to talk Pinecone?

It's been too long since I read it (which as a personal plus also means it won't be so long until I get to re-read it)
for me to say anything about the last chapter other than yes, it did clearly strike a hopeful note even in the end

Anyone else way spooked by the waxhouse?

>>7400045

Tell us about your Dostoyevsky binge, anon.

Do you actually value strangers opinions on a korean webcomic clipboard more than your own father's recommendation? You're a terrible son if you don't read it to be honest.

>>7400066
Read most of his short stories (except for I think 4?), then I read Crime and Punishment and Notes from the Underground. Not all, but I very much enjoyed him, especially his short works.

Whatever it is, it's a great book. Make sure to check out 'The Original Scroll' later if you like the edited version.

Kerouac appropriated the literary methods of Balzac and Proust to put together his oeuvre and for my money, OTR, Subterranneans, Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, and Big Sur can be read as one text.

Hard to go wrong with that, and then he still has a vault of poetry and other writings to check into after the main works.

It's a nice comfy travel story for about 50 pages or so but then you realize that it isn't going anywhere and that the only reason it's acclaimed was because it inspired a bunch of hippies to go on road trips.

it's very good at a certain point if ur life

after it's ok

utility monsters
the classic is-ought

>>7399839

>utility monsters
>look up example
>it's about eating a cookie

God damn it philosophy.

bumping for interest

I've been looking myself, haven't found anything spectacular so far

>>7399802
That's a pretty awesome cover. What edition is that? I'm guessing it's The Castle.

>>7399802
why does he lift the book to show the cover when a picture is being taken of him

Kafka, the absolute madman.

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>Alright Mr. Wallace, pitch it to me.
>It's about these young tennis players, and some drug addicts and this magic movie that turns up every now and then.
>Oh okay, we've actually been looking for some short stories to publish, you can type it up in a month right?
>S-s-sure, yeah, n-no problem

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>I'm writing a novel
>Oh cool, what's it about?
>Well nothing really happens
>Right, um, isn't that not really wha-
>It's 900 pages

harry potter and the order of the phoenix

Lanark
King Lear
The Book of Job

American psycho and psychosis 4.48 (the author of this one killed herself after she wrote it)

>>7399592

>>>/pol/

Heinlein.

Antiracist antisexist globalist fascism with socialistic tendencies.

>>7399592
>people call me fascist and don't tolerate my personal views
>my personal views do not tolerate some people

>>>/pol/

Yes.

>>7399438

gen lib rus ec/book/index.php?md5=8FF874620DB7CC3C3C914542D8A4857E

>>7399538
what?