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Den ur off 2 a good start :^]

read it, let it sink in, come back to it in a few years. that's what i did, and i went from barely getting through it to loving it

>>9713355
Did I ever tell you about the guy who taught his asshole to talk?

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>>9713382
>when you've already spent a significant amount of time reading a book and you start to realize how disappointing it is

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>>9713390
>when this never happens to you because you've ascended from living in preparation for disappointment to living eternally in the moment of disappointment

>>9713382
might wanna remake ur pic

thats kierkegaard, not cioran. theyre both some real niggas tho so i cant be mad

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>(But this transparent thingum does require
>Some moondrop title. Help me, Will! Pale Fire.)
wdhmbt

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>>9713353
He meant that Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds which have lost their balance

Fun fact: My pretentious bullshit novel was going to be named The Thousand Natural Shocks until I found out that it was taken (and by what looks like a real bad book)

>>9713338
>Infinite Jest
>pretentious bullshit
What? Infinite Jest is unironically a very good and interesting book. I have come to page 815, which is probably more than you.

>>9713193
what's so strange about him?

>>9713193
>being this transphobic

google it fag

That's a pretty stupid reservation you have

What if your favorite author only wrote one book?

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>he's read more than one book

my diary?

>>9713271
Start with the Greeks

>>9713271
I think this might be what I'm working up to. I want to write about the insanity of letting political correctness entirely influence one's view of the world. Of willfully accepting ignorance and spreading misinformation or outright lies for the sake of supporting political correctness. Specially here I'm speaking of Islam and Black Lives Matter. If BLM cared about black lives, they'd protest in ghettos and go to schools with a black majority of students. Most black lives are ended, not by police, but by other black lives. 'Gangsta culture' is a cancer on American society, and the perpetrator of the vast majority of black deaths. Well... the REAL perpetrator of the vast majority of black deaths is abortion, but 'gangsta culture' is up there for black individuals who had actually been privileged enough to be born.

For Islam, the suggestion that it is a religion of 'peace and feminism' is outright fiction. In 'Opposite World', yes, Muslims would staunchly promote gay marriage, women's rights, and protest against violence towards women. Instead, we see Muslims protesting in favour of Sharia Law which legally allows the beating of wives, and wives cannot deny their husbands which means rape is also legal under Sharia Law. Feminists support Islam, and that is like Black Panthers supporting the KKK, or Rabbis supporting Nazi Germany. It is absolute and utter insanity with no small amount of ignorance thrown in. If you try to teach a Liberal about actual passages in the Quran that promotes the distrust of Christians and Jews (of which there are many), or promotes fighting in the name of Allah and preparing for war (again, quite a few passages for this), then they will often times outright reject it, claiming you're intolerant for having studied and book and having been critical of it, saying that if you don't think Islam is a religion of peace than you're a disgusting bigot.

Then; manspreading, mansplaining, rape culture (exists in the Middle East but not in the West), wage gap (yearly income, not hourly wage, and no economist takes it seriously, not even female feminist economists), patriarchy... 3rd wave feminists have produced such fiction to try and legitimize feminism. In truth, 2nd wave feminism not only achieved equality, but earned women more rights than men. There is not a single right that I know of that a man has that a woman does not. Yet 3rd wave feminists fight for MORE rights, and what do you call that? I call it a battle for supremacy, and it is why I'm anti-feminist. Feminism because unnecessary essentially decades ago, perhaps even before I was born. Now, there is a need for the Men's Rights Movement, a need for The Red Pill, and yet feminists do everything they can to ban it.

Feminism is not about equality; it is the fight for women's rights. Historically that fight had the end goal for equality, but not anymore. Now it is a fight for lies, misinformation, misandry, and supremacy. Insanity.

>>9713050
Gee i dunno OP what do you think?

How does one not create an allegory or parable where none exists?

How does one create an allegory or parable where one does exist?

>>9713050
i see no problem with this

It was a blind love, OP

You can count on delusional men to assume shit that never happened to be "true".

Psychosis at its finest

She did, but to what extent we don't know.

He was a jew loving Manlet
/thread

>>9713269
Not War and Peace. Tolstoy's constant bickering about Napoleon gets really tiring.

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pic rel the GOAT
andrew roberts is good too

He was right and Marx was wrong.

I haven't read him but I have the feeling he's only popular because he has a Dilbertesque self-portrait. Very memable.

>>9712899
The Ego and Its Own is accessible. Stirner tends to eschew obfuscation, and says what he means.

>>9713091
Read a lot then write a lot. But read a lot before you write at all.

>>>brainpickings.org

>>9713091
see: https://podio.com/site/creative-routines

The most common aspect of great writers is having some habit at all; sleeping, waking, and writing at the same time everyday like it were work and a craft instead of random bursts of inspiration and fury. Aside from that, most woke early and wrote early.

>>9712834
he knows his Southerners pretty well
writes some beautiful sentences
experimented with narrative techniques often successfully
was capable of getting me right in the feels quite a few times in The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom!

>>9712834
Perhaps the most perceptive mind to gaze upon the American south, and certainly its most honest chronicler. Easily one of the English language's most adept and creative students. He imbued with mythological power the decayed lives and decaying spirits of the southerner, in a way if not universal in itself, made universal by his treatment.

You read A,A! and come away in awe of his capacity both as thinker and writer; you come away broken from what is an honest and honestly loving portrayal of the armageddon of Sutpen's family and of his country and of his world; and you come away a fuller person because of it.

Or you get intimated/frustrated/impatient by what is unfamiliar, attracted to easy contrarianism and happy to count jealous Nabokov as your ally, and you shitpost to hide how little effort you put into reading.

>>9712834
he has none

The Count of Monte Cristo, though it's long. And go back far enough, say before the 17th Century, most of the good literature you'll find will be exclusively in verse, so I recommend you read Eugene Onegin as a decent start. And speaking of the Russians, if you like Steinbeck and co then you'll probably like the stories of Anton Chekhov (though personally I think 20th century modernism beats the realism you're reading any day of the week)

>>9713005
I wouldn't bother if I were you, I used to read books, then I stopped being able to finish them, now I just fuck whores and wank.

>>9713016
I have Rothschild's Violin in an epub some where so I might go the Chekhov route. Its really just getting used to the prose that is the most difficult bit for me.

Its whatever you want it to be maaaaann

>>9712873
this dude like death of the author n shit
*tokes weed*

LO! Fall not of that ISLE OP!

>>9712804
what sort of literature?

>>9712826
The kind they write books about

>>9712804
what the fuck is Vollmann!