any books with this type of absurdism/surrealism?
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idk senpai, kafka or some gay shit
you should stop bei g a fag dude and just read the bible
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>>9787345
The once and future king
vurt
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My diary desu
read / expected / got thread
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>ywn enjoy reading as much as her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsIJMo39hFU
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>>9787253
well I am hard
>tfw no serbo-ukranian slav gf who looks like stoya to sit on my penis and read
how do I cope with this feel
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Borkie Pigfuckpie
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>>9787253
I am sick and tired of this. Every day I come to /lit/, and every day there is at least one thread up with an OP image of an attractive woman dressed scantily and posing seductively. It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly. Let me tell you something, you faggot pieces of shit who are doing this: you are the poster child for everything that is wrong in literature, art, and society as a whole today. You are incapable of coming up with anything creative, thought provoking, or of substance, and you lack even the smallest modicum of intelligence, so you use "style" and "flash" and pizazz in place of it and to draw attention to yourself, because that's the only way your SHIT "creation" and ideas would ever get seen by anyone. And before you say anything, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. Anyway, I will be petitioning the owner of this website to ban your asses, so enjoy being able to post here while it lasts, because it's not going to last long, just like you that one time you convinced an obese girl to let you fuck her.
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Name a living author more unique and original than Joseph McElroy. This should be good.
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>>9787247
John Ashbery. People try to copy him and they just can't. The only poets before him that are even similar are Stevens and Auden but he doesn't sound or write like either.
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>>9787277
Neat sounds good. What are your favorite works by him. I will check them out.
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Peter Esterhaz..wait, fuck, im sad now.
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>tfw when think of an entire paragraph of prose but don't have a pen and immediately forget it
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hey felluh, ever heard of smartphones, dude?
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>>9787349
Why would I ever buy a smartphone? You can do more with a pen and paper.
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>>9787357
I use them because sometimes I think of entire paragraphs of prose and am no where near pen or paper.
You guys were right
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Ha, we were weren't we?
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Right about what?
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>>9788734
I really was a faggot
>"Have you ever gotten a blow job?"
>"Urn, that's out of the blue," I said.
>"The blue?"
>"Like, you know, out of left field."
>"Left field?"
>"Like, in baseball. Like, out of nowhere. I mean, what made you think of that?"
>"I've just never geeven one," she answered, her little voice dripping with seductiveness. It was so brazen. I thought I would explode. I never thought. I mean, from Alaska, hearing that stuff was one thing. But to hear her sweet little Romanian voice go so sexy all of the sudden…
>"No," I said. "I never have."
>"Think it would be fun?"
>DO I!?!?!?!?!?!?! "Urn. yeah. I mean, you don't have to."
>"I think I want to," she said, and we kissed a little, and then. And then with me sitting watching The Brady Bunch, watching Marcia Marcia Marcia up to her Brady antics, Lara unbuttoned my pants and pulled my boxers down a little and pulled out my penis.
>"Wow," she said.
>"What?"
>She looked up at me, but didn't move, her face nanometers away from my penis. "It's weird."
>"What do you mean weird?"
>"Just beeg, I guess." I could live with that kind of weird.
>And then she wrapped her hand around it and put it into her mouth. And waited. We were both very still. She did not move a muscle in her body, and I did not move a muscle in mine. I knew that at this point something else was supposed to happen, but I wasn't quite sure what. She stayed still. I could feel her nervous breath. For minutes, for as long as it took the Bradys to steal the key and unlock themselves from the ghost-town jail, she lay there, stock-still with my penis in her mouth, and I sat there, waiting. And then she took it out of her mouth and looked up at me quizzically.
>"Should I do sometheeng?"
>"Urn. I don't know," I said. Everything I'd learned from watching porn with Alaska suddenly exited my brain. I thought maybe she should move her head up and down, but wouldn't that choke her? So I just stayed quiet.
>"Should I, like, bite?"
>"Don't bite! I mean, I don't think. I think — I mean, that felt good. That was nice. I don't know if there's something else."
>"I mean, you deedn't—" "Urn. Maybe we should ask Alaska."
>So we went to her room and asked Alaska. She laughed and laughed. Sitting on her bed, she laughed until she cried. She walked into the bathroom, returned with a tube of toothpaste, and showed us. In detail. Never have I so wanted to be Crest Complete. Lara and I went back to her room, where she did exactly what Alaska told her to do, and I did exactly what Alaska said I would do, which was die a hundred little ecstatic deaths, my fists clenched, my body shaking. It was my first orgasm with a girl, and afterward, I was embarrassed and nervous, and so, clearly, was Lara, who finally broke the silence by asking, "So, want to do some homework?"
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Not literature.
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if you only ever read looking for alaska it's actually a pretty good book (i read it was i was 13)
but now that i've read other shit by john green i realize it's the same tired formula and that he's incapable of anything else
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>>9787918
100% correct.
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How the fuck am I supposed to buy into the idea that pessimism and anti-natalism is anything more than a bitter ideology pushed by men who can't get laid?
I mean if Chad pushed these ideas I might but them, but look at the type of males who are pushing it hardest:
>Thomas Ligotti
>Michel Houellebecq
>Leopardi
>Schopenhauer
They are all ugly fucking dudes. Why should I take them seriously?
Honestly what an answer here.
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>>9787158
Cioran is where ligotti steals from, and he was decent looking. Not handsome but he got laid for sure
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>>9787158
Schopenhauer and Houellebecq got truckloads of pussy.
Not sure about the other two.
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>>9787166
Schopenhauer didn't, remember the grape story?
Houellebecq boasts about visiting brothels etc, and sure he's had a wife and girlfriends, but 99% of guys who look like him are jerking their wieners in their mother's chateau right now.
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Fuck this word.
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Literally fuck this word
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>>9787073
Litchraly
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using literally to emphasise something is already accepted usage. fucking prescriptivists.
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This is easily one of the most poorly written books I've ever read. Is it some sort of white/American guilt that compels people to read it?
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read it for a college lit class. i dont remember it being so bad. and good luck finding a man booker shortlisted novel that isnt about how evil straight white american men are
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>>9787655
Life of Pi won the Man Booker, and it's not about that, fuckhead
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A book you think everyone should read at least once in a lifetime. Pic related
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when the kids on hwndu started drinking milk i thought it was all a scripted thing put together by student actors hired by labouf as an homage to clockwork orange, but then it turned out those kids weren't actors, and they weren't only pretending to be retarded
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>>9787056
>watched hwndu
>calls others retarded
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>>9787083
hwndu is one of the greatest pieces of art created during the social media age, i still can't 100 percent be sure it wasnt' scripted since those nazi dudes from identity europa showed up the last day during the "milk party" and then it got "shut down" the next day, it was like too perfect of an ending
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HOLY SHIT
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>>9787019
OMG LITERALLY SCREAMING
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>>9787019
>BuzzFeed
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>>9787019
I like the idea of A History of Magic as a real book but I know she will just shit out 100 pages and publish it. It should be a encyclopedic tomb of lore shit.
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Why am I, a native English speaker, so awful at recognizing stressed/unstressed syllables? Am I retarded?
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desert
dessert
there you go
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>>9786861
I'm pretty good with invidvidual words, but fail with lines of poetry. Has my experience with quantitative meter fucked me?
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>>9786898
it's okay to fail with poetry, 'cause it's arbitrary
keep practicing
Is there any viable treatment/fix for newly damp pages?
Pls halp.
Pic related, but not my book.
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>>9786827
Dry rice can help. Also do not cum on your books.
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>>9786827
eazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSjI-BjrGLo
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>>9786827
Put your book on the floor, another book on top to distribute the force and put the weight of a thousand suns on it to squeeze out any moisture.
Also if you can incorporate a breeze, hot air (hairdrier), or an absorbant material like rice into this you should.
Sorry for your potential loss, OP.
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Is the Familiar worth reading?
House of Leaves was GOAT, but Only Revolutions was shite.
Should I commit to a 27-volume series about a cat?
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> House of Leaves was GOAT
All I can say is try one volume and see if you like it. If so, continue with each volume until you dislike it. I really don't believe a 27-volume series would be consistent and all that enjoyable but I suppose I'm not part of Mark Z's demographic either.
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>>9786786
in search of lost time for people who thought american gods the tv show was profound
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