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What are you waiting to read her biography?
Yes.
She looks like a boy.
Does the book end with her admitting she is a lesbian, like Ellen Page?
>Using the fucking dreamworks-smirk on the cover of your book self-acclaiming your thoughtfulness and wisdom
I'm lost in the world without purpose or direction. Rec me a book that will give me a reason
The Bible
>>8282310
I tried christianity it's shit
Try this out.
Read Nietzsche too
is there any scientific or prose literature about men at the bottom of the sexual market ?
>inb4 piss off /r9k/
its a very serious and ignored topic
You might have an easier time in life by ditching any conception of the sexual market
My diary desu senpai
read up on Nietzsche's slave morality
This woman did not deserve her success. Her success is an achievement of her marketers, PR and publishers, who spent tens of millions of dollars to launch her. i just hate how she walks around like this literary figure.
Have you read Harry Potter?
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I enjoyed her books. They got me into reading
>>8282204
Who gives a fuck. Shut the fuck up and stop spending so much time worrying about wizard fiction for ten year olds.
Have you read Walden yet?
>>8282112
It's on the pile. Should I?
>>8282112
Yes.
Growth of the Soil is better.
no but i promise i'll get around to it eventually
I remember seeing a little while ago comments on how Franzen is bad in some way. I believe it had to do with his person, rather than his literature itself. Can someone remind me why this guys sucks?
>>8282029
why dont you just fucking read his books and decide for yourself?
>>8282066
im having a conversation with a friend about him and i told him that i remember hearing that he's artistically corrupt, but i had no evidence or sources to resort to, so i feel like my statement was rather empty.
i'm not giving him my opinion of the guy, i'm just telling him what i've heard about him, so there's no need for me to read his books to figure it out. it would be counter-intuitive for me to develop my own opinion of him as an author if i'm trying to illuminate what other...
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>>8282073
So then you felt some chinese cartoon image board would be a valid source?
Is Voltaire a meme philosopher?
Philosophy is a meme, so yes.
don't let Billy Durant fool you, Voltaire's not a philosopher. he's a contrarian faggot.
>>8281803
>a contrarian faggot complaining about a contrarian faggot
The internet was a mistake.
>go from learning German to learning French just to read Baudelaire
Fuck you frogs why does your language have so many fucking rules? The monks that conjugated your shit must have been the most retarded faggots. No wonder your immigrants want to murder all of you.
it's really not that difficult
>>8281639
this tbqh
>>8281610
>muh conjugations
If you are learning just for the sake of reading then you couldn't have picked a more retarded thing to bitch about, since you won't even have to use conjugations yourself since you are just reading and they'll literally be spelled out for you.
Can someone recommend a book of Stephen King to start with? What are his best works?
memes aside, The Stand and THe Shining are pretty respectable. Of course, you'll have half this board whining like pretentious children about how Stephen King is an awful author due to his popularity.
Start anywhere really, they're all pretty different
>>8281363
Pick one that's set in Maine
His short story collections: Night Shift and Monkey Shines.
Carrie , The Dead Zone
Misery
Don't overthink it.
Going to try to write a novel but I can't think of anything to write about.
>47 picks the title
>65 picks the topic
delete this
>>8281244
asparagus
>>8281244
Title
The filthy black hole
Topic
Black Lives Matter
What does Hamlet even have to do with this book? Aside from superficial similarities -- How unlikely! Two literary characters holding skulls -- Wow! Hal and his two brothers have troubled relations with their father, just like the Brothers Karamazov and Hamlet! -- what does Hamlet have to do with this book?
Who's there?
Allusion for allusion's sake is
[sorry for new ij thread...]
>>8281132
I haven't read IJ (don't lynch me you fags, I'm still going through the 19th century russians), but isn't the title literally a reference to a quote from Hamlet?
>Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy;
>>8281132
Consider passivity versus action in regards to entertainment and drug use/abuse.
>>8281132
The reference is a reference to something really important in the plot called infinite jest...
A character named it infinite jest.
If you don't know why the character bothered to name it that you are hopeless
whats your opinion on free will?
I'd answer if i could
It's real. Nietzsche's opinion that it does not exist in BG&E's starting pages can be easily disproved (if one was adept at philosophy)
Otherwise, it does not matter what can be said against it.
Look, if Free Will exists then explains Cats, for FUCK sakes.
Does this shit matter at all?
>>8280310
if you have to ask don't bother. maybe someone will bother explaining it to you because they're nicer than i am
for you
I have athletes foot
And yes, it's what separates poetry from prose
It creates rhythm, makes the words flow
>MFW I got that DFW's tic
So, this is the first step?
homosexuality?
>>8280043
i think he might probably mean needless-ergo-hilarious pedanticism and redundancy. all the 'i.e.'s, '='s, end-of-long-sentence-danglers, etc. c.f. 'the depressed person'
And but so it is.
Anyone else here like Emil Cioran?
I've read A Short History of Decay, On the Heights of Despair, and I just picked this one up today. Love everything I've read so far, and I'm interested in finding some similar stuff besides the obvious Nietzsche/Schopenhauer.
Also how the fuck do you pronounce his name? I've heard "chaw-wren", "chore-ahn", and "see-rahn".
Journal of a Sad Whiny Cunt Written in All Honesty by Me
Yes, and he is one of my favorites. His principles will always be ridiculed by posters like >>8279731 because they've been so deluded by their own biology, because humanity "needs" to prosper.
>>8279731
"not everybody loses his innocence: therefore not everybody is unhappy. those who live naively, not out of stupidity - innocence is a pure state which excludes such deficiencies - but out of instinctive and organic love for nature, whose charm innocence is always quick to discover, those are the ones who achieve harmony, an integration with life, much coveted by those who struggle on the heights of despair."
>>8279736
What's your favorite book...
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