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> Where's that girl? - there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with - 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' - might as well kill both birds at once
Why did no one warn me that this was a comedy.
>>8223370
The book is surprisingly funny in gentle doses. The chapter regarding Queequeg and Ishmael's eating of chowder provided some laughter for me.
who in this picture is not a meme author?
and what's the rankings regardless of memes
>>8223332
It is obvious that he needed help
WE killed Dave
>>8223344
tennis killed Dave... not you anon, not you
>make book series
>psuedo intellectual bullshit to cover their own pride and look humble, claims that Wiedzmen is his worst series
>games come out
>do better than the books
>make a shit ton of royalties and more advertising for the books thus even more readers
>goes on about how videogames are shit and books are the only true way a great narrative can be told , but flip flops every six months
Is...
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yea he's bitter that his decent books got trumped by great games
your average philosophy undergrad
https://youtu.be/8JH7vJgDozc
https://youtu.be/SFnpfwMaIJc
>>8223107
I love the idea of the friend zone.
Every time I have shared a bed with a friend I ended up having sex with them, but I am queer and faggots sleep with each other. I guess a friend zone is only a straight thing. Every other bi person I slept with had sex with me if we were in the same bed.
Has Greek/Roman mythology become too clichéd in literature and media in general? Is there any way a new author can explore it in an original way?
>>8222954
This is a great question. I'm starting a newfantasybook, and I'm trying to consider monsters in it, and I always loved Greek and Roman mythological beasts. Stuff like the Hydra, Medusa,Cerberus.
The gods I don't much care for, but will probably end up bringing in anew pantheonof gods I created, filling similar roles.
My biggest issue is basically trying to avoid being PERCY JACKSON 2.0, insert YA inaccurate mythological things here.
I've done some digging...
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dark souls desu
Is he better than Lovecraft?
Have you read his books?
and
>he invested in (...) exotic hobbies, like cultivating orchids and plants linked to witchcraft and magic (monkshood, wolfbane, blue datura, peyote, and cannabis).
>he accumulated collections of weapons, carvings, and primitive masks from his travels, as well as a library of occult literature that reportedly exceeded 5000 volumes.
>Have you read his books?
Should I?
>>8222723
I've only read 'The People of the Pit' and I wouldn't say it's better than lovecraft, but it was bretty eldritch
Describe in general terms the last scene you wrote.
For example mine:
>Character arrives town.
>Gifts the protagonist two tarantulas and guilt trips her into accepting them.
>>8222551
>characters define user stories
>character defines test sets
>character implements software
>character verifies the implementation with the defined tests
>character doesn't get the girl
>Character arrives town
>Tarantula gifts character two protagonists and guilt trips him into writing a scene about it
Post music that is inspired by or based on some kind of reading.
Album: The Unknown Citizens by Grorr
Reading: The Unknown Citizen
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/unknown-citizen
>>8221498
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlt1gvoAJC4
Allusions to "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg.
How do I get into the works of Neil Caiman
Go to Caiman Islands
Eat Caiman peppers
Do you follow any blogs, /lit/?
yeah, it's called /lit/
You all have to go back to /b/ now. To survive. Go back for a little while. It's almost complete retardation everywhere soon. Hide on /b/, in the chaos of being. Always be. Don't despair. Despair is for all failures that only get in the way suffer stupidly bringing beauty down through retardation and misrule. Ugliness does. Superfluity. Anyone who is sane will talk like a simple and direct sane person on /b/ for a little while until it is safe.
Look behind me. At that man. Is this magic? Or a mystery?
>>8220190
it is cringe.
![laptop-use-can-make-men-sterile[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/pFRftxc.jpg "laptop-use-can-make-men-sterile[1].jpg")
Can we please have a thread on literature that only white male upper/middle class sophomore college students can truly understand?
So far I've got:
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>The Recognitions
>2666
But i enjoyed Infinite Jest and i'm a wage cuck!
molloy is a zombie right? don't tell me im imagining it. the man is clearly a zombie. how does no one mention this. he admits to dying.
I do remember chuckling upon coming up with this very idea at some point, where was it?
Is it acceptable to be juggling ten books at a time?
How do I commit myself to only reading one book? Because my attention span is really horrible tbqh.
>>8219422
just read them all simultaneously, one word after the other in each corresponding book in the order of their chronology multiplied by the number of letters in the name of the author.
Turk memes aside, what do you all think of his works?
>>8219293
Only read My Name is Red
I actually thought it was pretty nice
one of the greatest living writers, incredible characterisation
