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Should I read the Bible and the Quran, even if I'm atheist?
cool jpg
Start with the Torah.
>>7818448
>reading books that only conform to your world view
>not identifying and reading primary works that formed the modern world'
Fox News Babyboomer tier desu
Post your Grimes fellow patricians
>>7818276
I love her
she looks like somebody ALMOST scalped her
God can't females just stop fucking advertising with their face? I get it; you're sooooooo special cause you're ugly-cute and have a neat haircut.
Tho honestly I'd rather men just be able to advertise with their face too desu. It's annoying that only one gender gets to do this.
ITT: good short stories, especially ones with dark themes
cloud castle lake -nabby
>>7818207
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.
are their writings/subjects similar to each other?
what's the differance?
>>7818155
W H A T
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Just read a book and stop being so fucking lazy
>>7818155
Pinecone is more of a textbook postmodernist while DFW (unsuccessfully) tried to eschew postmodernism or go back to a state before it by intentionally emphasizing its flaws.
What did he (as in the author, Stephen King) mean by this?
Check me digs xD
>>7817963
He bit off more than he could chew and almost shelved the book entirely.Then he had the epiphany that he could just kill half the cast and send Oprah into the desert on a randumb spirit journey back to her home planet.
>>7817963
Harold Lauder IS /lit9k/
What are some of the best historical novels out there, /lit/?
CEASE TO EXIIIIIIIST GIVING MY GOOOD BYYYYYYYEEES
>>7817769
HEY.
BEEN TRYING TO MEET YOU.
Tranny relationship of the three faggots.
There's something about
>narrative
that I just can't get
It's the conflicts, the decisions that I just don't really get going around me
I can pull off poetry but nobody cares about poetry except for poets, so how the fuck do I turn writing fiction into a skill like literally every other talent? You can't get a teacher for this because it's just so fucking deified
>>7817724
You need to understand what conflict really entails: it's a dramatic battle of interests. Conflict doesn't emerge abritrarily, it's a total organic extension of the contradictory nature of the subjective human psyche and personality. Take for instance just a man. This man needs to be interesting. He is cynical about life, dark in his outlook but positive in his reaction. He wishes to be kind to others but is sharply critical. He jogs and smokes. He wants to be a happy banker, but his problems are only...
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>>7817749
>Not OP
This is really good advice. Thank you.
>>7817944
Thanks for thanking me. If your unsure of co contradict ions, look at yourself and your family. We're made of them.
Why didn't Bloom come to America?
>>7817239
The Jewish dad or the son? Either way, why would he?
>>7817241
Bloom finds himself oppressed by the English for being too Irish, beleaguered by the Irish for being too Jewish, and haunted by the ghost of his Jewish grandfather for being too Goyische.
Immigration of both Jews and Irishmen was exceptionally common at the turn of the 20th century. My own ancestors, members of both those nations, emigrated to Philadelphia around the time Ulysses is set. Bloom's mind constantly turns to the United States, especially New York, a city which he mentions in nearly every chapter.
So...
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>>7817239
They wouldn't let him in since he's not white.
A girl once asked me what's the one book I would bring with me if I ever got stuck on a deserted island. I said the World Almanac, because it has everything I'd ever need to know. She said I was being autistic. She said pick something else, a real book, so I said the complete works of Shakespeare. She said you can't do the complete works of someone because that would be cheating. I said I knew, which is why I had picked the World Almanac. The World Almanac rules. It has everything you ever need to know.
What would you pick?
"How to build a raft"
>>7817170
Never read it. Is it any good?
This question gets asked a lot, but it's so easy. The answer is The Dictionary. Other books have some of the words, but The Dictionary? It's got em all.
>gives me the false hope that I will be relevant in the world someday
>allows me to project ideal parent figures in my characters and watch them interact
>excuse for being a NEET
>accessible way to at least leave something for the world
>allows me to thrust my own emotional problems into people through depressive shit narrative
>makes me fantasize about having at least an income to pay back...
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It's fun :)
>>7817074
>2016
>still writing for fun
>>7817074
>still falling for the "fun" meme
Nothing is fun in the world, Anon.
You just tolerate the awfulness in it a bit better.
When did you "grow up" in tastes? What was the last YA novel you read? How long did you spend on genre fiction before getting into real literature?
Pic obviously not related, just got memed into reading his """masterpiece""".
>>7816892
I don't think I was ever into YA as a whole. The last YA book I read was this "Fat Vampire" thing I saw in the library a few years ago because it looked amusing. Most of the things I read were genreshit for 5 years before I got bored of reading Stephen King and Nora "JD Robb" Roberts.
>>7816892
I read whatever I want t.b.h. be it literature, a comic or YA pulp
>>7816892
i read ya until i was 12, then i stopped reading until highschool, when i started reading lit
Which version of Moby Dick should I buy?
all depends on how much you like whales t b h
get the regular one if you really like whales, get the condensed one if you could live without them
>>7816980
I wouldn't even think of a 'condensed' one. I am referring to footnotes, introduction, etc.
>>7816980
kek
What do girls read?
Text I would assume
>>7816059
Our minds, so they can torment us to their utmost.
They read you like a book.
I need recommendations of books with interviews, like interview with the vampire but less pleb. Also books about suicide.
When he comes, the visitor
Curious, and asks you
Then tell him, that you don't collect stamps
You don't take colorful pictures
You don't raise cacti
That you don't have a home
A television
A houseplant
That you don't know
Why you sit and write
Unwilling, because it doesn't give you any pleasure
That you still haven't found out
The point of life, even though you're old
That you've loved but insufficiently
That you fought but with timid arms
That you were at home at many places
But can't...
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>>7815596
I'm Not Stiller (sort of?)
Guy gets arrested and has to prove that he's not the guy they're looking for so he goes on to recount his story.
Maybe not exactly the most relevant answer but bumping because I would like an answer as well OP
Emil Cioran writes about suicide often. New Gods has a section on it.
>wage cuck job
>part time
>working 45 hours next week
How the fuck do you guys find time to read in your lives? Unless you're all neet of course. Every single time I'm off work now, I just wanna lay back and recharge.
there's 168 hours a week
allow 8 x 7 = 56 for sleeping
45 for work
that still leaves you 67 hours to read
spend less time shitposting on 4chan, staring at nothing on the computer, watching shitty tv, etc., and you'll find plenty of time to read
>not recharging through books
pleb
I work 30~ hours a week, I'm in 10 hours of garbage fucking coursework I don't care about at all a week, which entails another 5-10 hours of homework basically, and I'm on my awful commute 12+ hours per week, all while trying to write a fucking Master's thesis.
I don't find time. I hate my life.
How do you deal with the moral dilemma of knowing that any kind of work you do for someone is inherently exploitative, and that you need money to survive?
