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> I saw the best of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked
>>8111165
>beats
not even once
fuck the beats and everyone who loves them
Allen did nothing wrong.
More authors like Mishima? To give a simple example of what i'm looking for: “Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
It's not so much about stylistic similarity, rather a philosophical one. One name that is closely attached to Mishima is for example Nietzsche, as Mishima was clearly heavily influenced by him and there are many similarities in their thoughts, though of course also many ways in which they differ.
Mihai Eminescu
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Verner von Heidenstam
Ion Creangă
Duiliu Zamfirescu
Rudyard Kipling
Saki
Knut Hamsun
Luigi Pirandello
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Saunders Lewis
Cyriel Verschaeve
Josef Weinhaber
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Paul Morand
Jacques Chardonne
Marcel Jouhandeau
Jacques Laurent
Yukio Mishima
Jean Raspail
Michel Déon
Futurists
Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola
Junger heinlein
Sir Oswald Mosley
Julius Evola
Léon Degrelle
Cornelius...
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>>8111188
Celine
Houellebecq
Knut Hamsun
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Those are the 3 i've read from this list. None of them fit whatsoever. Can you atleast give an explanation for the names?
>>8111202
do you want me to read them for you too?
Just candidly bought this book and feeling like I did a big mistake.
Does anyone have a rec list to tackle this book?
>>8111053
Unless you want to dedicate 2000 hours to deciphering cock jokes written in English that seems to be (and probably was) written by an Irishman with 30 beers and a PhD in Literature I rec you read another book
>>8111075
That would be fine by me, I already have a reading list and late era Joyce is maybe a couple of notches too hard for me just yet.
http://fractiousfiction.com/finnegans_wake.html
It's what I used.
Any other literary authors born into poor conditions
>>8110959
>>8110990
>Jose Saramago
>white
i hope he kills himself
>>8110993
So do I. I was going to make a thread raging about this, but I kept my calm.
Saramago only had his 1st shoes in his teens, and his country was really poor in the rural areas at that time.
Is it possible to practice reading enough that you are able to read for 16 hours straight with no decreased efficiency in mental processing?
>>8110920
if by "practice reading" you mean "abuse amphetamines" then yes
>>8110920
yes
getting to like 8- 10 is pretty easy. 16 might be rough but it's prossible.
>>8110920
When I was meditating regularly I could do 8 hours straight at most, and only with certain types of books, mostly ones with frenetic pace.
I have written a free ebook that is on smash words.com
It is called Seeking Sophia by Adam R. Shipley
Doesn't anyone want a free book?
What value do you believe it will add to my life
Pretty good stuff
Why is this board listed under Other instead of under Creative or Interests? It feels out of place and bothers me.
>>8110802
Why does "Other" exist at all? Put 'em all under Interests.
>>8110802
Maybe because this board is slow as hell.
It's actually a godsend that this board is relatively obscure, considering /his/ absorbs the christfags that otherwise would shill here.
>>8110802
>literature
>creative
>interesting
kek
Wolfster edition
Recommendation
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
>favorite Wolfe novel
>favorite Wolfe short story
First for Brent Weeks, Patrick Rothfuss and Brandon Sanderson
Any good new books that are not a series and like <400 pages?
I know that's asking for a lot, not expecting any replies.
When Gregor has transformed into a giant cockroach, why is his family so damned uninterested? I mean, sure, they treat him like crap in the first place, I get that. But if somebody in my family had turned into a giant insect for no discernible reason, I would lose any disinterest in that person. Shouldn't they be thinking of the money they could make exhibiting him, especially considering how financially dependent they are on him to begin with? At the end, they have his huge insect-corpse taken out with the trash. An entomologist at Charles University would pay big bucks...
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>>8110635
He didn't really turn into a bug. He was just insane. The story and his family's reactions makes more sense if you think of it this way.
i know man, it's totally kafkaesque
>>8110635
They simply thought he was going through a turkish phase
Books about nothing
>>8110401
Books about everything
pic related
Recommend me more books about nothing
who was the biggest tool in this novel?
I think franzen because he wrote it
joke 6/10
post 1/10
you're wasting space on a board that can have a limited number of topics. you don't deserve an entire thread just for this quip.
>>8110371
srs question though
>>8110377
remind me of the characters, there was the dad with the trains, the lesbian daughter chef, stockbroker and dude who fell for some scam?
I'm the best stream of consciousness writer (Read: Shit-poster.) on this whole damn board. I bet everyone here is too beta to challenge me, and I'll have to stop and read one my patrish <l:^) special booky books.
who wants to fuckin duel.
>patrish
>booky books
Choose one
There's some rancid comfort to this bowl of rice crispies asleep in my palm. I feel the flex of my wrist so differently than when I found myself committing adultery with an unfamiliar grasp. Reading attic poetry while watching dota streams is a perfect blend of high brow and low brow, like Shakespeare, or so I see myself seeing. But you don't know see the seeing, which is where Descartes was wrong.
>>8110353
pic
>>8110361
Today I found a large spider inside of my pool. Motherfucker had a million babies crawling all over him. I grabbed my net to drown them in the deep of the pool, because you see the mother was so light she could walk on the surface of the water. As I approached I suddenly lost sight of her. She probably was able to climb up the walls of the pool; I was secretly hoping she wouldn't do that. I started heaving the 12 foot metal net to make waves to...
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Reminder that Shylock did nothing wrong.
Reminder that you've done nothing right.
reminder to brush your teeth regularly
If this play focused more on Shylock it would be great, but it spends so much fucking time with Bassanio trying to get marry some princess by picking the right box or whatever shit, it's boring and predictable.
what do you think about Book of the New Meme?
>>8110218
mid-tier genre fiction. Not offensive but certainly overrated by trolls and the easily led on here.
It was okay. Well written but kind of boring. Severian and his friends are boring. People say I need to read it twice to get the full story but I don't really care desu.
#27 on the meme chart. decent meme rank if im honest
Why is The Stranger so beloved? It poses the central conundrum of existentialism, but doesn't offer much in the way of a solution. Is it just because Albert Camus was early to the existentialist party?
On an unrelated note, I love the cover. It's so harsh on the eyes. It gives you a good feeling for the ideas in the book.
If you want solutions, read a self-help book.
>>8109901
All I'm saying is that philosophers like Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and the like offered solutions to mans existential crisis.
In The Stranger, Mersault just edgelords himself to death. When he killed the Arab guy, he basically dies too. When he comes to the realization that life is meaningless, he becomes a non-entity.
Why did Camus write the ending like he did? Obviously, if he had the same mentality as Mersault he would never have written anything in the first place.
>>8109949
>Nietzsche
Shitty 'Übermensch' that has been discredited to Hell and back.
>Kierkegaard
>Le leap of faith
>Le find a truth that is true for you
