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>guys don't read books
Why are books seen as girly? Or unmanly? Are they in fact girly and unmanly in the modern age?
>>8131929
>wasting thought on what normaltrash thinks
I don't know if I think the book brand is unmanly, but the passivity and introspection involved in consuming a book are definitely not traditionally westernly culturally masculine
>>8131929
Its just an inferiority complex protection spouted by lower class wagecucks because they have neither the time nor the ability to get anything out of reading
You have 5 seconds to explain why you haven't read it yet.
because i'm not a pleb
>>8130471
But you are a pleb, because you haven't read it.
How long is that shit?
>Haha..started as a seed from the semen;
>Straight outta papa's nuts
>Lustin for creamin
>Bitches with big butts
>Curves make a nigga cry
>Tits 'n shit
>When I'm locked down beggin you for porno flicks
>- Tupac Shakur, Niggaz Nature
>>8130188
No, its music that rhymes. Not even trying to be offensive, but you don't call lyrically focused rock songs "poetry," it's still music.
>>8130188
rap is rap
Go check the Warosu archives you fucking retard. This topic has been discussed to hell and back.
Post a nice sentence that you recently wrote for your novel.
>>8130155
A sentence is rarely enough, here is a short fragment.
Я шлa к бoльницe чepeз двopы. Чepeз дыpы в зeлeнoм зaбope мoжнo былo paзглядeть кopoбкy дeтcкoй плoщaдки, и дeтeй, пинaющих cдyтый мяч. Их pюкзaки и кypтки cвaлeны в yглy, нa плoтнoм, cтoптaннoм гpyнтe кoнcиcтeнции бeтoнa; иcкyccтвeнный гaзoн cвepнyт pyлoнaми нaпpoтив, oн пoбypeл, и плacтик нaчaл пoдгнивaть....
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I need to have sex
>>8130155
It's about a guy and his love for chips
>Doritos, light of my life, cheese on my fingers. My hunger, my munchies. Do-ree-toes: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Do. Ree. Tos. It was chips, plain chips, during lunch, weighing one-point-eight ounces in one hand. It was Cheesy Nacho for snacks. It was Cooler Ranch at school. It was Salsa Verde in the shopping line. But in my mouth it was always Doritos.
What do you think of YouTuber books?
>>8129989
I try not to.
>>8129989
I don't.
>>8129989
What do you think about contemporary Latin American literature ?
So how is this not just a story about some r9k autist?
>>8129890
what is r9k and what do they stand for. I know nothing of this site outside /lit and the Hacker that did the fappening.
>>8129900
Its a place where the miserable go to reaffirm their narrow self-depreciating worldviews. If you've never been there, don't bother. There's nothing of value there.
>>8129890
There is no equivalence between the Underground man and the anime-watching and 'vidya'-playing resentful frog-posting autists from /r9k/.
You didn't understand the book
I think it's time for a nice conversation/debate on this, guys.
I personally like Dostoevsky because he's a psychopath and that appeals to me.
http://www.strawpoll.me/10408645/r
Don't just vote and say nothin!
Tolstoy was a french loving bastard who couldn't write a passionate scene to save his ass!
>>8129040
Its not even a comparison, Dostoevski produced great portrayals of the human psyche brought to its ugly stretched lengths, Tolstoy produced YA tier period dramas
>>8129040
Both.
Why are people so desperate to make art into a competition?
Post your favorite writers or books you don't think we've heard of but need to read.
Me first: Urmuz, Romanian writer and avant-garde cult hero.
>>8125727
Potocki
>>8125737
Jan Potocki, or Count Potocki de Montalk?
>>8125727
Raymond Federman, Jacques Roubaud, Alexander Theroux--3 great nobodies that all of you should read.
how will it end, /lit/?
Bran goes back in time and prevents white walkers from existing and in the final scene we see all the characters alive and happy and we think it's all fine until Ned Stark chops off that dude's head again and we realize nothing has changed.
GRRM dies, books are never finished.
who here has a complete written record of their life and times
What do you plan on doing with such a thing?
>>8136586
they're just like eight years of journals from age 14 on or so, they're always good to look back to just for shits and gigs and have also been indispensable for different creative nonfiction things i've done, ordering events and getting shit straight and all
>not having enough to throw some in a river
gg
my drama professor gifted this to me.
what am i in for?
An excellent story.
Read it.
It should only take a couple of hours,and it's incredibly revarding.
>>8136143
kind of shit
>mu introversion
>>8136143
One of the best novellas written. Have fun.
what a dope book. reminded me of libra. what are some other works of fiction that revolve around real historical events?
woops forgot you guys don't actually read books outside your yearly charts lel
>>8136247
you're not the op
There's an entire genre of this called "historical fiction", OP.
I'm 250 pages into the book but it is really convoluted and hard to get into right now. Does it get any better?
no.
>>8136036
Do you want to read dnd? If you do, yes, but you ain't getting literature.
>>8136065
so it's worse than song of ice and fire?
>What's your favourite book, Anon?
Of the Bible? Psalms. Why are you burning so slowly?
>>8135985
I don't think I'm qualified to pick one.
It's the same with any ither medium.
I haven't experienced enough of it to say that "yes, this is the best thing ever".
vurt by Jeff noon
http://www.johnjosephadams.com/the-living-dead/free-stories-excerpts/meathouse-man-by-george-r-r-martin/
This is a man who's won awards for his writing. This is a man who's considered a professional editor. But just look at that fucking prose. The punctuation is so off that it actually hurts to read it, and yet he's considered a professional.
Why the fuck has the art of writing degraded to this?
>>8135561
>I know better than an established author who has many published books and who has been writing for 40 years
>>8135561
le wrong generation xd
