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I have never heard of this book until the current moment, but I'm going to go ahead and put forward my review. It's bad and it doesn't get better, but there are small snippets of wisdom that might come in handy at some point in your life.

>>9816824
I do admire your wit anon

one final bump

>>9816813
Most books by Donald maass

>>9816813
Doesn't exist. You don't want to study easy prose, you want to study grammar and know how to use it. You want a vocabulary that proves your giant ossified brain can crush any other mortal's. You can't learn how to build a plot or make your characters come alive from a book, but you can learn it from many good books. And practice.

>>9816822
What good books

How do I study

Can you write a step by step guide please

Nobody has time to do what you're saying.

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>>9816721
>imagining the empty bookstore when i release and give a talk to a bunch of chairs
>mfw i am still a failure

>>9816721
I'm not reading your gay book.

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>realizing that despite pouring all your heart and soul into you novel and summing up your own personal take on the human condition while simultaneously reaching out to a world that never understood you in the only way you can, the likelihood of someone actually picking up your work and being personally moved by your writing is almost none

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Liam Payne

Nigga bounced down when I popped it all out
Nigga outta town since I stopped widda nut
Bitch took it widda frown but I beat her ass up
Bitch called for nigga but nigga in the groun'

Fin.

>>9816617
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0WGOAK4qE8

quoth the poet
in the halls
balls on balls

My diary desu

Even though it's also really funny, Journey to the End of the Night

>>9816604
I dunno man but this is the most depressing album. Aimee Mann's The Forgotten Arm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmDB8I9ByFA&list=PLEoEeAGoFxVSQhS62pNJMlo8LD1-KJTHU

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>>9816588
all the books in that picture are basic bitch tier

>>9816588
Count of Monte Cristo is 5th grade level writing

>>9816588
you just edited the orginal chart into brain meme

>>9816559
You are on vacation, read pulp.
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

>>9816559
A quick definition of what I mean by "comfy": literature written in good prose that is not too "heavy" and make a fine read for entertainment purposes

>>9816566
Yeah, Palahniuk was one of my second-tier choices

Because he didn't want those things, that life, in the first place. He never admits it, but if you read between the lines you'll know

>>9816591
yeah of course he didn't want that life but every time he was confronted with a realisation where he could change what was happening he just says he can't do anything and concedes to either lomax or edith. fuck me drunk cunt this cunt just savaged himself

>>9816659
And that's the real tragedy. There was no other option. Confronting the truth would mean to admit he hadn't had a real purpose, leaving him in a meaningless void worse than the one he was living

>>9816487
Novels won't make you less dumb, even the 'hard' ones. If you want to dip your toes into reading more serious and better literature I'd recommend:
Jesus' Son - Dennis Johnson (RIP)
The writing is phenomenal, it'll give you something to think about while and after you've read it, and it is pretty short.

>>9816498
He's saying that the material is too intelligent for him, not the other way around.

read them anyway

Do /fit/izens not know that he was gay? Read his books, Sea of Fertility tetralogy especially. Also read Socrates and Plato because they were jacked

>>9816461
No gays allowed, go back to your homosexual containment board

>>9816473
You are aware that the biggest running gag on /fit/ is that they're all homoerotic?

>>9816398
Sorry what is it?

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>>9816404
It's apparently a book, specifically an encyclopedia an artist made in the 1980s, which depicts an imaginary world described in an imaginary language with imaginary words.

>>9816409
So its basically just gibberish nonsense?

Is the language coherent and is there a translation? Or just some nutjob who may as well be scrawling in his own shit on a padded wall?

20 pages of philosophy or 100 pages of nonfiction or 300 pages of fiction

or

a single poem, but only if you parse every line and syllable for three hours straight and you recite it from memory backwards and forwards over and over

>>9816397
You have to finish books. Then understand them.

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>>9816397
20
Any less and you're a pleb, any more and you're not retaining most of what you read.

>>9816372
Huh, never thought of that before. What a weird problem.

I find sometimes the imagery in my head is crazier than what is put down in art or in movie adaptations tbqh famalam.

>>9816372
Literature isn't a visual medium, if you aren't capable of appreciating words on a page you're on the wrong board.

Watch more movies and whatever else. Play more games. Look up more images of lush wilderness and whatever else you want on pinterest. Maybe that will help you?

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>>9816351
>>>/gulag/

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>>9816366
Did you just get BTFO in some other thread, sweetie?

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>>9816388
Just not in the mood to hear about your bf man. Either >>>/lgbt/ or rosties out reee etc

Aesop.

>>9816310
the Fables?

Of Mice and Men