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>he isn't dedicating himself completely to his writing
How do casuals justify this?
There are literally people on /lit/ right now who want to write good books despite choosing to work a full-time job.
It boggles my mind, truly. Do their exhausted brains prevent them from seeing the contradiction?
>the only way to write is to board yourself up in your house and abstain from the world around you
>better not let that pesky inspiration in, that would ruin my flawless wankfest of a novel
>>7445819
because only those who have lived a life worth living can possibly write anything worth reading. Quit trying to get validation from the internet for being a NEET
>>7446812
this, fucking autists
The guy whose novel we described as "David Foster Wallace meets David Mitchell meets the search history that you just cleared" is one of Esquire's 2015 breakouts.
>"What is it about Joshua Cohen's novel Book of Numbers that got us and everyone else so breathless?"
>"Ambition, for one, both in its scope (a writer and an Internet mogul travel the world; nothing is as it seems) and in its groundbreaking structure. There is also the matter of the narrator's voice, greeting...
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>There is also the matter of the narrator's voice, greeting the reader thusly: "If you're reading this on a screen, fuck off. I'll only talk when I'm gripped with both hands."
lmfao this is so gay
>>7445767
Oh shit that sounds p. edgy af
>>7445767
IMO he is the guy posting as not-Pynchon.
Hey /lit/, what is your least favorite adverb?
Mine is 'unironically'.
>he uses adverbs
literally
>he unironically uses adverbs
I've finished the Greeks, now what should I read?
>>7445577
>finished the Greeks
>>7445577
The Romans.
>He's not even started his second read through of the Greeks
Hey /lit/ new to this board, don't really chan anymore but thought you guys may be able to offer some opinions.
This Xmas I've decided to get only books as presents for my family etc. I have a few ideas currently but i'll do my best to describe the person and their tastes and see if you can match a suggestion to them. The book inside brackets is my current choice.
Mum (N/A)
Both of my parents are quite outdoors people, my mum likes dance and spirituality. Her and my dad are currently performing maintenance on our boat.
Dad (Das Kapital)
My...
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>>7445467
>She's going through that too-cool teen girl phase right now but I would like a book that would draw her interests towards math or physics while not boring her to death.
get her a pop-sci book like death by black hole or something by brian greene. don't get her feynman because it just makes physicists look like autists.
>>7445472
thanks, what do you think about my current choices?
>>7445472
get her a brief history of time
>>7445467
Brother (Ready Player One)
>Please don't make him a pleb, get him something entry level but interesting and not to do with boats. Dostoevsky, Pynchon, Tom McCarthy.
Dad (Das Kapital)
>Das Kapital is good if he hasn't read it, otherwise get him Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations.
Mum
>Get...
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![ms_01[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BFAXcxB.jpg "ms_01[1].jpg")
Why has homosexuality changed from an aesthetic predisposition to one of "sexual orientation"?
Is there still room for an aesthetic kind of homosexuality today? Is there a name for it?
The fuck are you on about?
What are you even saying
>>7445294
The jewllumianti
Join me in a rightist struggle for masculine ideals #suckdickforsparta
I was speaking to a friend who's making a little bit of extra money through "publishing" ebooks on kindle.
My question is, who the fuck buys this bullshit indie crap?
Has anyone here published either sellout money makers or legitimate works on Kindle Amazon?
I have no experience with it myself, but apparently smut is good at making you money if you go self-publish it on kindle
>>7445276
Call me cheap, but i wouldn't dream of spending $2.99 or even 99c on smut.
Do people really spend all day buying/reading random unknown shit on Amazon?
>>7445299
I think there's some kind of best-selling list on you can access, if you are in the mood for reading smut that's probably the easiest and fastest way to do it.
Buying smut is probably more of an impulse decision you make in the moment, rather then something you plan for a long time, I reckon
1. What
1.1 Would
1.1.1 He Think
1.2 About
2. Memes?
He wouldn't.
>>7445154
Whereof one cannot speak?
>>7445147
Honestly greentexting and paypay are interesting language games, they're really alien and opaque compared to normal human language.
Is The Ecology of Freedom worth a read?
It's the basis of this, supposedly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava#Democratic_Confederalism
>When it comes to Rojava, Russia is approaching the Kurds with a significant amount of caution as it does not want to open up another military front against Assad. The USA however, is openly hostile towards Rojava. The USA went as far as not allowing entrance to Salih Muslim into the USA for a conference. During the Geneva Conferences, despite Russia's insistence, the USA was adamant in blocking...
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>>7445034
I haven't heard of the book before but the US are complete bastards when it comes to the Kurds. They exploit them however they want. At least with Turkey, they're always dogs to the Kurds but with the US they'll not support one group to appease Turkey and they'll fund another to commit terrorist attacks in Iran and they'll support another to fight terrorists they funded.
Bastards.
>>7445055
Did you read the link? The Kurdish set up there is extraordinary, especially for the Middle East.
>>7445065
I don't think you understand my comment. I know of Rojava. I'm speaking about US policy with Kurds.
i just turned 22 and i am realizing that i know nothing and have accomplished nothing. i went from being the kid who read too much/was curious about things to the depressed loner/druggy in high school. and the past four years i have worked at two dead end jobs while doing nothing of value in my spare time (unless you count aa and a codependent relationship with a girl "of value"). i have no college degree. i have not read any of the important books. i have no particular skills besides listening to and reading about music. even that, though is pretty surface level and...
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>>7444870
write.
thumbs up for the coil album. *liked*.
>>7444870
Start with the Greeks. Not memeing. Start reading philosophy. Start eating and sleeping regularly. Stop wasting too much time online.
I'm tired of it. I'm just sick of this whole entire website. All it is just stupid memes and retards bickering with eachother about whether "X is better than X". You people have no respect for anyone or anything, and the site just delves into crappier territory every day. I can't fucking stand the fact this is the only site on the net that is a Imageboard.
One day, I'll make 4chan pay for what they do to people.
you'll be back
i think everyone feels this way every once in a while
>>7444736
>"X is better than X".
do you mean better than y?
>>7444736
goufjdl meme
![PaperwhiteComparison[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/HLNeWF4.jpg "PaperwhiteComparison[1].jpg")
I got a kindle paperwhite secondhand, but you can't organize books into collections yourself.
What is the point of this thing existing? Why would a device even be released so intentionally hamstrung and gimped? I have 300 books on here and I can't categorize them in any way, forcing me to just scroll through them?
Garbage.
>>7444674
>falling for the ereader meme
what did you expect.
>>7444680
I didn't fall for any meme, it was free. But I'm just blown away how a device released in 2011 could be so terrible. I'd rather read on my 4.5 inch cell phone than this thing
You can, faggot.
Thing is, Amazon fucking despises its consumers and decided to lock that option if you don't log into your account. Just as Wikipedia and translation options.
what are the biggest wank fests in all of literature?
> pic related
>>7444566
define "wank fest"
>if it means what i think it means, pic related
>>7444573
a "wank fest" can be defined as a book that seems to be typed with one hand while the author jacks himself off with the other
>>7444566
fug I've been reading this shit for months
I'm in the last 20% or so and it's finally starting to get good
kant was great. prove me wrong
protip: you kant
yes i Kahn
>>7444166
he was an antisemite and misogynist
whew, lads
BTFO
>>7445743
this makes him greater.
ITT: Cases where the film is better than the book.
Gulliver's Travels (the HBO one, not the Jack Black one)
the shining
>>7444001
Inherent Vice
