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harrington on hold 'em

tryhard

>>9594473
Thank you, it looks interesting.
>>9594496
There is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to get better at something.

The patrician's choice; I suck dicks.

How the hell do you use this properly?

>>9593986
To be honest it's quite easy; Bob raped me in my sleep.

Why does /lit/ obsess over people reading YA novels? Are you all so desperately insecure that you need to bully people anonymously on the internet to feel better? Why not discuss books you actually read and like?

2013 was a long time ago. I believe dystopian settings have fallen out of fashion to an extent. Bigger focus on inclusivity. If you were trying to cash in I would recommend finding some excuse to make every character bisexual, though you'll still want your heroine's true love interest to be a boy.

>>9593903
Does that mean YA scifi is out of fashion?

YA is generally pretty stereotyped, so the plot is that everything is fucked up, and scifi is futuristic, therefore YA scifi is dystopian.

>>9593836
Machiavelli didn't look like that.

>>9593836
Pleb

>>9593867
Kek
Good one

>>9593881
Show me yours.

Real LIFE! You poor bastard!!!

REAL LIFE!

[Dramatic pause]

LIFE!

>>9593802
i like gaddis but this is the equivalent of saying shit with an ironic SNL voice and assuming that makes it untrue

>>9593802
nice strawman gaddis

>>9593577
>*good

>ftfy

>>9593577

montesquieu "spirit of the laws", when I realized that this is the cause of the division of the 3 powers:

"constant experience shews us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Is it not strange, though true, to say, that virtue itself has need of limits?
To prevent this abuse, it is necessary, from the very nature of things, power should be a check to power. "

>>9593577
F: Charles Portis, True Grit.
NF: Georges Gusdorf, La Parole.
Both in December of last year.

>diimdl fdjam

>>9593419
To explain what went wrong

>>9593419
for the money

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>>9593093
As a response to increasingly common incidents of inexcusable bad taste I propose that we rename Science Fiction & Fantasy General to /gwg/ Gene Wolfe General. Plebs need to know just from a glance at the OP in the catalog that Malazan and Sanderson aren't welcome here.

>ywn be an Ultra living out decades in a couple of years aboard a lighthugger

3rd the first story in hyperion is the only good story

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Don't be like us adults.
Go grocery shopping on weekends.
Hop into the water.
mmmhahahah

>>9593055
Why do you hate it

>>9593099
I find it hard to follow at parts. It jumps around and it feels like Wallace uses word salad at parts

>>9593008
He's an ass and you're fucking garbage. I'll kill you bitch.

>>9593008

Amazing writer. But some plebs like
>>9593028
will never be /lit/ and conflate politics with art too heavily. They think political first, art second.

They're bizarro Reddit. Unless they "relate" with a writer they either disregard them or become physically angry. Pleb shit.

I like him, but I know a lot of /lit/ doesn't like him.

Can i fuck your wife?

Why do you descend to the level of your teenage readers, instead of calling them to rise up to your own level?

Spare some change?

banks is shit. science fiction based on hippy ideology is inherently mediocre. his popularity makes him basically the sociological version of star wars.

>>9593183
Specify your trolling if you want to make it more effective.
Better to make a fist than a slap, right?

Anyways, what I love about the Culture series is that despite it featuring a Utopian society as a centrepiece, it is vehemently critical of that so called "Utopia"
Quite "anti-Hippy"

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>>9592979
Really enjoyed Player of Games. Banks does a good job of showing the ugliness that lies beneath the facade of beauty.

Use of Weapons is next on my list.

Regarding the series as a whole - I like how all the books are only loosely connected. They all take place in the same universe, but are stretched out over hundreds/thousands of years. The only constant is the Culture itself.

>>9592940
Absolutely reddit. Kys.

>>9592946
what book is that from?

>>9592952
From delilo is a gay faggot by Joseph mcelroy

Dubliners

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>>9592672
Was this the copy you read? I always fell in love with books because of how the older copies looked. Pic related, this is how I picture /lit/ too.

>>9592677
That was before The Hardy Boys but after Tom Swift and The Rover Boys, right?

>>9592360
woman sperging out at the april screening of the movie at EYE

>>9592360
About to tackle this. I'll keep you posted.

good