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>>7331895
warum immer ñ mein freund? gibt es kein anderes Motiv um ein Gespräch über Themen, die mit der spanischsprachigen Welt verwandt sind, einzuleiten?

\ ñ.ñ /

Hay hispachan.

very good my friend

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>poetry

>>7331814

What's the purpose of the thread?

All it's done is make me sad to not live in a time where amphetamines were OTC and jazz was alive.

remove price tags my friend

>>7331783
I will. Just managed to find these bargain prices at my local bookstore.

stupid attentionwhore/10

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Another good example.

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Last one from me.

You mean "SUCH A LUST FOR REVENGE?" sotries.
MGS5 :^)

Yeah I read it somewhat recently because of this board. I liked it immensely, Tao Lin can definitely write. Sometimes it was a little close for comfort, like I was reading my own thoughts.

I don't think addiction is really the main theme of the novel though. Certainly its a major part of the novel, but I think Paul's relationships are the main attraction. As someone who just came out of a LTR, he was dead on in capturing how a relationship expands and then becomes stifling, and how it all happens under the microscope of social media. He did a really good job showing how people are aware of their own growing relationship, how they believe there is a set path for it to go along, and then how in the end their vision of how it should of gone doesn't scratch up to reality. This feeling is very depressing, and again its magnified by people seeing it on social media, and you seeing other people being successful in their relationships on social media.

>>7331604
I read it. I hated at the beginning because shit like
>like an amoeba trying to write CSS
but it turned out to be ok near the end. Not a great nor good book by any means, but an ok reading I'd say.

My kindle says I'm 82% done with Taipei, so i guess I'll finish it tomorrow.

I found it to be much better and lucid than anything HST had to offer. Some moments are genuinely sublime. It really captures the modern, socially anxious perspective on the whole party/internet culture.

Sure some moments were less interesting, but i would never say that there was a part in the book, that made me feel earnestly bored with it.
Even when Tao Lin takes his time, he still manages to do it in a sort of dynamic way. I don't really know how to say it... Let's just say that I never felt like he's spinning he's wheels. Things are always moving forward and I always found those small moments of truly masterful descriptions. I would quote some of them but I'm lazy.

The only part that left a bed taste in my mouth is that pointless First McDonald in Taiwan videotaping scene, i was just waiting for it to come to an end. Yeah i got it that they are high and kids are wierd and funny.
But other than that it all fits quite well together.
Some characters abruptly come and go, but i think that's the part of the statement about our society and the major point of the book.

Same goes for depiction of the drug use, that is handled perfectly. Pacing always follows characters current mental state, Paul's memory problems and pageant of his mental images, the way Tao handles those concepts was great... I really enjoyed letting my mind be carried by his descriptive stream of those images.

Overall i think this definitely is one of my all time favorites and deserves to be reread someday. It is, in a way, a product of our times, so comparison to Fear and Loathing is not out of place. However I believe it is much more conscious, mature piece of literature. I have a lot of problems with Hunter S. Thomson, but i only read one of his books so maybe ill change my mind.

Im tired af, but i hope that is good enough.
I'm really happy /lit/ made me come across this book. Fuck all the memeing chucklefucks that try to undermine this piece. I take a steaming shit on you all and Tao Lin is the fucking boss.

Is this copypasta? I remember reading this post recently. Wasn't it in a thread where someone was explaining the plot of their planned story?

>>7331489
It sounds like shit.

>>7331489
FINDS A WAY

Absolute quality.

>>7331468
3/4 of the way through, I thought I didn't care about prose before reading this book, but now I can't get over how beautifully written the whole thing is. The story is very slow and I wouldn't care to read about wales if it weren't written so well

shit for drones.

if it was reddit's favourite book it wouldn't even get a look in

>>7331446
the one i put in yr mom

>>7331449

>>/any board but this one/

>>7331455
>not >>>/his/

>>7331385
>Beowulf with introduction by John Green

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>>7331385
>book has introduction by Harold Bloom
>no relation to the book; just Bloom talking about Shakespeare and referring to himself as an 'old gnostic'

>>7331396

the introduction to that Hart Crane collected poems is like that

he talks more about walt whitman in it and his own experience reading Crane as a 12 year old than he does about Crane or his poetry kek

>honor the ballsack

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>>7331367

come on guys this isn't a joke thread I really wanna know

CWITBNITRW

Marx is unbelievably important. I am not a Marxist at all, and I think anyone who wants to understand Western intellectual development since the 19th century absolutely needs to understand not only Marx but Marxist thought in general.

People have taken varying aspects and levels of his ideas and created entire, incredibly influential schools with the inspiration. It's not just Marxists. A shock of Marxism runs through the last hundred fifty years of European humanities and social sciences.

>>7331229
historically marx, through his philosophically minded social theory, provided a way in for psychoanalysts, philosophers, and critical theorists to describe sociological phenomena using their particular discourse. marx, freud, and nietzsche have come together to form a 'master theory' of semiotics—anything can be read as a manifestation or repression of desire-social production-will to power. so in that sense the merit to reading marx is that he makes it very easy, if you understand him (or his students) you can churn out a lot of academic writing. on the other hand, if you happen to think that this kind of thinking is the precise kind of bourgeois groupthink that constitutes the grandest betrayal of both marx and nietzsche, perpetuated because of a freudian unconscious that loves to be repressed, then understanding marx is crucial so that you can undermine the prevailing dogma from within. just as deleuze wanted to escape hegel, it's time for someone with the courage to escape marx.

Bump

OP be cry

Search the archive you fucking cunt.

Sage. Hidden.

>>7331194

It's bullshit. Even if people are less sincere these days, there's no need for a 'new' sincerity. It would look exactly like 'old' sincerity, which really didn't go anywhere. It's just a posturing, egotistical hack wanting the prestige of having started a new movement.

>>7331168
I'm sincerely ironic

>>7331168
I'm ironically sincere

>>7331168
I'm sincerely shirking the responsibility of becoming sincere

>>7331152
Have you had your Bar Mitzvah yet?

>>7331152
Go to hollywood, develop a drug habit, become a whore to fuel your drug habit, live half a decade, and hope it'll be picked up eventually.

If not then make a shitty memoir of your life and cast some up-and-coming actor who can make herself seem all grown up by playing you.

>>7331190
Severely underrated

Don't worry bout your writing so much. Focus on reading as much as possible of the sort of texts you expect to have to read at college. Getting the right level of comprehension is key.

>>7331132
Read a lot. Keep a diary.

>>7331132
>>7331149

This. If you don't have a job then you should be finishing a novel at least every 3 days or so. Read like a monster, write every SINGLE day (essays, short stories, novel, poetry, ANYTHING).

Even in the span of a single summer, that discipline will net you 40 novels and 120 pages of material.