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I liked it

Kind of shit. The way they portrayed DFW as an aww shucks softly spoken guy who is too smart for his own mortal body was extremely inaccurate.

>>9682559
It's enjoyable as a movie but as an accurate portrayal into DFW and his life it's not so accurate. Nonetheless, it's a well put together film.

nope
attention whoring precedes the dawn of humanity

>>9682470
Never got that vibe aside from the fit she threw with the random dude over in Europe. Besides she goes on in the epilogue to point out how we've gone too far with Prozac, and people need to get over it to a degree.

>>9682492
I don't know about that. We'll never reach the sheer level of the 50s.

"Text" as in any literary work written after Y2K?
Andy Weir's The Martian is a good post-2000 novel that comes to mind, drawing a blank otherwise (at the shitter at work rn)

>>9682365
Well they have to be of the same type I guess. So if it's a poetry collection from pre-2000 I would also have to choose a poetry text from post-2000

>>9682389
stuff you can compare, gotcha
what pre-2k text did you have in mind?

Yes.

>>9682305
Why?

>>9683679
It's very natural for the language

>that passage in notes from underground where the narrator spends 2 pages blowing the prostitute the fuck out

for what? who are you?

why the fuck would i waste my time doing it for a bunch of tranny fucks who masturbate to hentai

>>9682261
literally came here to say this

just pick up a book and read nigger geez

>>9682092
i need someone to play god and give me an authoritative answer so i don't have to think for myself

Cut out Murakami. Read the rest in chronological order

yes
almost
no

>>9682088
am I a fucking moron because I can't for the life of me understand the prose Joyce writes in?

>>9682088
>>Is it worth it?
absolutely
>>Does it live up to the hype?
yes
>>Is it the greatest book ever?
no
>>If it is, why?

I leave it on the floor

>>9682032
b-b-b-b-but...

>>9682028
I've got a nice durable, leather cover that can fit a composition notebook. Normally, it locks with a little hole+strap that becomes closed when you stick a pen through it, but I use a little lock+key to keep it locked.Seems like there's little market for custom locked journals unfortunately.

>>9681972
the poop that took a pee

>>9681972
caca mama lama in a drama

Collected Poems

La Invención de Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares

Chronicle of a death foretold - Gabriel García Márquez

>>9681917
I remember reading a book in high school called something like "23 Minutes in Hell." It was about a guy who died and went to hell (obviously). Pretty freaky.

Ted Chiang's Hell is the Absence of God.

Most horrific story about what would happen if theology could be empirically verified

>>9681917

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

John Henry Newman's poem The Dream of Gerontius is about a man who dies and undergoes the judgment. I gave this to my sister to read. You found the description of the soul being separated from the body very disturbing, and upsetting even, and is still angry that I asked her to read it, lo these several years.

http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/gerontius.html

>>9681881
Do you have asspergers?

>>9681881
I thought that stress was just a poetry thing? Does rhythm actually matter in prose too?

Use alliteration, internal rhyme, and assonance/consonance instead

Also, play an instrumental beat & try to match a random paragraph of words to the beat.

Brothers Karamazov would be great IMO. Otherwise, maybe Atul Gawande has some stuff,however ; I'm not sure how he is viewed by physicians.

>>9681877
There have been some very interesting non-fiction books written by doctors about their medical practice - including life and death issues - that I've seen reviewed in the past five years or so. I haven't read these books, but they're out there. Actually, the sense I guess is that there may be something of a mini-renaissance of this genre, or sub-genre of books.

You could do worse than read Chekov, who was a practicing physician. E.g., this:

>Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales, edited by Jack Coulehan.

You can't really go wrong with Chekov. A truly great writer with the soul of a poet, and a doctor's non-sentimental clarity of vision.

Sherwin Nuland's How We Die, The Wisdom of the Body, and others.
John Donne's prose, Jeremy Taylor's as well.

wtf are you talking about

>kindle double xp weekend
>buy war & peace
>swipe through the entire thing five times while watching netflix
>farm shitloads of xp to spend on new skins for my homepage

>>9681645
Did you see that kindle two-for-one deal coming up soon? Trying to decide if I should use my discounted swipes on a postmodern doorstopper or on a few light novels.

>>9681589

>needing a compelling argument

ever hear of faith, pleb?

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

>>9681643
All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Kierkegaard