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Fuck this book.
I hate this book more than I can even describe, and I hate myself even more for finishing it. I will be shocked if anyone can note even one redeeming quality about this mountainous pile of trash.
I started it a while ago but put it down and haven't started again since. I don't remember it being that bad, though; maybe a little flowery. What did you hate about it so much?
>>8032708
The further you go, the worse it gets. 50 page sections where a seemingly insurmountable problem is developed and then resolved in half a page with a Deus Ex Machina, entire chapters and episodes that do nothing to serve the advancement of the plot (or any of the book's dubious 'themes'), secondary characters that have no purpose existing, schlocky, forced, predictable romances, a protagonist who disappears for four hundred pages (no, I'm not joking), labored slapstick comedy, an antagonist who vanishes after the first twenty pages only to return six hundred pages later at the end of the novel...
I could go on. Floweriness is the least of my complaints.
>>8032804
Forget to mention, total lack of character development.
The most well-developed characters occasionally attain two-dimensionality.
Strand Bookstore has so damn many books.
my camera is bad but yeah. love delillo, heard nothing but good things about gaddis but waiting to drop $50 on j r, and the premise of take five sounds interesting
>>8056698
>dirty tinfoiled fedora man
Well there are two other books in that stack also. I just seized the opportunity to visit an occult bookstore, since there are none where I live.
Do you think he's well read?
Sure.
he probably pays people to read to him
he's very stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upC8pX3RY0A
What about a daily routine thread?
wake up
wash face
brush teeth
>floss
shit post on 4chan
eat/drink
shit post on 4chan
nap
shit post on 4chan
brush teeth
>floss
shit post on 4chan
sleep
repeat
This is my tomorrow. More or less similar each day
Wake up at 5:45
Have morning sex with Jenny followed by fun, loving chat
Go to the gym
Go work in the office for an hour to maintain/update online company
Learn some more advanced guitar pieces
Go to the market and pick up fresh vegetables and fish from favourite sellers, maybe have a chat with them
Have lunch with the girls
Meditate for an hour
Read/relax
Do some volunteer work for some friends/good causes
meet up with amy for a chat and coffee
Have dinner with girls
Go meet up with friends for a laugh and enjoy the sun
Read
Bed/sex with Jenny
>>8058979
Who's Jenny???????????????
>pick up a book by a gay writer
>his depiction of straight relationships and women is completely unrealistic and naive
>>8056671
Give an example of this
>>8056671
Name some examples please, and go into detail about why they are unrealistic.
It's one of those threads again
Focus on interaction of color, contrasts, composition and thematic structure
>>8054327
and focus on making the picture as unreadable as possible
>>8054342
This thread is not about wether or not you have Hegel on your shelf
mostly uni stuff, I have a lot more books back home
find a flaw
you can't
>>8053744
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMdPLxbuc8Q
Young Nick Land was the inspiration for Sheldon Cooper. What more of a flaw do you need?
>Yes, there is an enabling superpower that autists have through damage and accident, but non-autists like me have to cultivate: not giving a shit about monkey social rituals.
what did he mean by this?
Can we have a biography thread? I really enjoy interesting facts and tales from the lives of authors. Stuff like the Joyce and Hemingway drinking together (link related) or Nietzsche eating lots of fruits. I feel that in some strange way it helps me know the authors better, or at least makes them more memorable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpPsAojqcKo
Right now, Gore Vidal comes to mind, gonna post more stuff as I remember it:
> Cyril Osborne was a hard line Conservative MP and Justice of the Peace. In a TV debate, he clashed with Vidal on morality and said he demanded a straight answer to a straight question: "Do you or do you not believe in corporal punishment?" Vidal replied: "Only between consenting adults."
> Vidal always rejected attempts to categorise people by sexual orientation, arguing that: "There are no homosexual people, only homosexual acts." While he claimed to have slept with thousands of men and perhaps women – when asked whether his first sexual encounter had been homosexual or heterosexual he replied he had been "too polite to ask".
> Vidal always maintained that his 53-year-long relationship with Howard Auster was sexless.
Speaking of homos:
> In his recently discovered secret diaries, Wittgenstein reports that, while masturbating at the front during World War I, he was thinking about mathematical problems.
From Zizek's How to Read Lacan
I'll just casually steal this from another thread to bump my own.
> But he soon had to return to Berlin to answer a charge of battery brought by a seamstress: Schopenhauer, who hated noise (and wrote an amusing essay [1851; translated, 1890] on the topic), had been enraged by her loud chattering on the landing outside his room; in the ensuing altercation he pushed her, and she fell down a flight of stairs. He lost the case and was obliged to pay her a monthly allowance until her death. (When she finally died, twenty years later, he commented, "Obit anus, abit onus" [The old woman dies, the burden is lifted]). The experience served only to make him more misanthropic and misogynous--his diatribe "Über die Weiber" (1851; translated as "On Women," 1890) is notorious.
where did wittgenstein splooge?
did he just bury it under the earth or something?
even if they had kleenexes what would he have done with them?
>>8053726
>In his recently discovered secret diaries, Wittgenstein [...]
What secret diary? Anywhere we can read about this?
>no Trojan horse
>So called ""hero"" Achilles gets cucked to the max
>2nd chapter is literally a list of names
>Paris is a lil' bitch
>Helen is a cock hungry slut
Why is this good again?
>HE READS POETRY FOR THE PLOT
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>8052715
>He reads poetry in a different language than the author intended it to be read
>>8052727
EXACTLY MY NIGGA
DID YOU LEARN HOMERIC GREEK LIKE MYSELF TOO?
WE UP
Can we have a serious discussion about Sam Harris here?
>inb4 muh hats
He's a great philosopher and thinker, perhaps one of the best in the last 20 years. He deserves discussion
>Can we have a serious discussion about Sam Harris here?
No
>want to have a discussion about an often-memed "intellectual"
>doesn't want memeing to block the discussion
>provides no start to the discussion
fuck you, sage thread
>>8059304
>Can we have a serious discussion about Sam Harris here?
Nah
What books did high school ruin for you?
None, I'm not an easily impressionable sperg.
>>8052565
This.
>>8052565
You sure about that?
This is true.
>>8051903
>Sunrise
10/10 movie taste
Should add Shadow of the Colossus to games and Low to albums.
I think Lolita and Blood Meridian make better choices for books too.
I'm assuming this is either "babies first serious X" or "gateway to serious X" depending on your level of derision.
>>8051903
Make your own senpai.
3x3 of your favorite books? provide recs for others, no bully, make suggestions, etc.
>>8050092
hey I made one.
this is really gay desu
Describe a book with > muh and others have to guess what it is. I'll start.
>muh arm
>muh muh
>muh-muh-muh-muh-muh
>>8041307
/thread
How do I read this out in public without looking like a douche?
>>8054977
no one knows what that book is dumbass.
make a worthless thread about it
>>8054981
This, if anything people who do know about it are likely to be low power level pseuds who'll thin you're amazing
