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What are some novels with realistic homosexual women in them?
They don't have to be the main characters, I'd just like to read a story with non-romanticized lesbians in it.
>>8109831
thats donald trump?
>>8109831
A lot of Tove Jansson's short stories/novels. Check out Fair Play and A Winter Book.
>realistic homosexual women
All of them, since lesbianism doesn't exist.
How do i know of i enjoy literature because i like it or because i have inferiority complex and i want to get knowledge or seem smart in front of others.
I was dropped out from school at 16, to give you some context. But I made some advances since then.
I really really really want that for my shower
>>8109783
>How do i know of i enjoy literature because i like it
>or because i have inferiority complex
probably both, and satisfying the latter fuels the former
>>8109783
Do you read books that only others would know?
Also,
>that pic
Why not just make a water proof kindle?
>tfw too stupid to read non fiction
I just get bored, i feel like fucking nothing happens.
Im the only one?
>too stupid for non fiction
no anon that's called being smart
I feel that way about most, but not all, biographies. Something about biographies bores me immensely, even if the subject is interesting. Barring that, I tend to find non-fiction more engaging than all but the best fiction. I can't stand mediocre fiction.
This is sort of unrelated, but does anyone else hate how non-fiction books that have photos and illustrations tend to shove them all in the middle? I'm not saying I need pictures to keep my interest, but I think it would be better if, say, a portrait of the subject as a young man appeared at the beginning when...
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>>8109780
You'll be a great Liberal Arts Major.
Out of the way, plebs. Patrician coming through.
Doesn anyone think Vollmann would have better meme status here if he had a definitive meme book? Every one of his books is a doorstopper and they all seem to be pretty equally acclaimed by critics, I think. If one of them stood out it would fit nicely in the new meme trilogy.
>>8109471
Not really: The Rifles stands far above most of his work. I think it's just the sheer volume of writing he's done that keeps him from achieving popularity here.
>>8109471
Europe Central should probably be his meme book. It isn't part of the Seven Dreams but is still a behemoth. He's got a great persona for a meme author: fucked prostitutes in the shittiest part of San Francisco, traveled over the world to do war correspondence and hated it, kind of killed his little sister, cross dresses, and was a unabomber suspect. Oh and he loves guns and is one of the ugliest people I've ever seen.
>there are people on this board RIGHT NOW who unironically believe in metaphysics
>>8109391
What the fuck do you mean "believe in" metaphysics?
That's a meaningless statement.
>>8109391
No metaphysics = no physics dumbshit.
This is good bait if it's actually bait. I suspect you might genuinely just be some stem undergrad who looked at a wiki article and has the most shallow understanding of metaphysics possible.
Why don't Millennials read books?
Why don't 4chan users have sex?
Why don't white people excel at basketball?
Why don't people like OP think in anything other than blanket statements and generalities?
>>8109387
Why are you so negative?
>>8109379
what's an millennial and aren't you one?
I'm all out of ideas. What should I write about anon?
Right about saving her in some sort of time machine smelling of semen, Anon.
How the fuck do you run out of ideas
Write Finnegans Wake if "it was in normal prose." Lots of people do this.
I know it defeats the purpose and so on, but you know, whatever, dude.
>tfw /lit/ has never read the best meme trilogy
>>8109300
Heh, I remember being in high school and being as impressionable as you, kid.
Listen, do you genuinely think those books constitute good literature? Any mature intellectual laughs at the mere suggestion.
Now, sweetheart, listen closely: If you want to have your mind blown by the best literature ever written, you need to step up your game significantly.
You're but a kid; you won't 'get it' until you face the realities of life.
Come back and post on this board when you...
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>>8109300
>tfw the meme trilogy is a meme
>>8109300
Are you the one other poster I see here posting about The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. We should get a thread up, one of my favorites.
Are you patrician enough to read the holy texts of all the world's major religions, and come to your own conclusions?
Only the weak of mind would turn down such a challenge.
>>8109285
Nah, I'm redpilled. All I need is Hitler, Schopenhauer, Evola, Sam Harris, and Oswald Spengler.
>>8109285
>holy texts of all the world's major religions
No it's waste of time. Those are all dense af; I'll take the time to learn about all the major religions though and I'll read the holy books of the ones that seem most interesting.
What does them being major religions have to do with anything? Their popularity has no bearing on whether they're right or not.
How do I write like him?
Honest question though.
>>8109260
Stop shitting up this board
>>8109260
>be russian
>be rich
>have nothing to do except studying
>have sex with whores and gamble a bit
>feel bad about it
>go to war eventually
>write about it
>?????
>profit
You don't, there was only one Tolstoy.
Post things that you have written recently and we'll rate eachothers work
http://isaacwhowrites.tumblr.com/post/144949296758/an-old-friend
>>8109096
Terrible website design, first of all. What's a "convince store?" "Littered" is the wrong word for that sentence. Next sentence features the words hair and wind twice each, do something about that. "It is auburn tint."
First sentence of the second paragraph is incomplete, and should be joined with a comma to the second one. Cold cold colder harder stronger colder.
"Honked it is oddly low pitched horn." Smile smile smile. "Seemed to of never changed."...
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>>8109149
My Friends are horrible editors
>>8109173
Do you have friends who write? Do you at least have friends who read books that aren't assigned to them? Get those friends to edit your shit. Also edit it yourself before posting it anywhere.
What is the longest book you've ever read?
War and Peace. I usually just go for 300 pagers.
The Mahabharata.
Nabokov:If the book has great philosophical themes and it doesn't have good prose... then who fucking cares?
Bret Easton Ellis:Well, let's just say hypothetically ok? What if the book has good philosophical discourse?
[pause, all laugh]
Bret Easton Ellis:I know, I know.
[all in unison]
All:There are no novels with good philosophical discourse!
Dickens:A good philosophy consists of a book with a little hard cover, which will satisfy all storyline demands without being too plot driven about things, and will essentially will keep...
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>>8108847
Except Nabokov loved Ulysses. What is Ulysses but a bunch of references? Joyce personally leaked two cheat sheets explaining the structure and themes of Ulysses to his friends.
It's the ur-text of Literature of Ideas.
Nabokov also hates Freud but loves Kafka, who is probably the most Freudian writer of the 20th century.
>>8109039
Cheat sheet you say?
>>8109039
But references =/= philosophical themes, dolt. Fite me irl, I'll fuck you up.
Who are the essential Catholic authors?
I've been making a list and here's what I've got:
>Flannery O'conner
>Graham Greene
>Evelyn Waugh
>Andre Dubus
>Anthony Burgess
>Tobias Wolff
>Tolkien
Any suggestions?
>>8108654
Augustine. Dante. That guy who made a Pilgrim's Progress.
Hell Plotinus and Boethius are well worth a read
Pinecone and DeLillo are both papist scum.
Has a book ever triggered you?
>>8107266
>getting triggered by words on a page
next you'll be getting your feelings hurt by people on the internet.
>>8107266
the intro of that book is how he got the name of the book and it triggered me
