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You should have done it earlier instead of posting in the Bathroom u retard

>>8013195
wait oh shit what book are we allowed to do it on any???

Seems to me like with this setup, it would have to involve his personal relationships right around the time he committed himself. Of course, fast forward 50 years and even the youngest person he could've known is now middle aged.

Or he started his sentence with the idea of committing a crime involving a personal relationship, but while in jail he became more and more dissatisfied with the society he lives in and in prison plans one of the most elaborate coup d'états in history.

>>8013206
He went to jail when he was twelve (this law applies to juveniles).

The way the original plan went was like this: his father used to be a chemist and had partially synthesized a miracle drug that he had extracted from a plant/flower that blooms once in sixty years. The drug had major side effects, which he couldn't eliminate. Evil corporate bosses wanted him to reduce the side-effects, but he resisted, saying that if even one in ten people have a chance of experiencing it, he won't do it. They kill him and pass it off as suicide. Before that he is able to burn down all the samples of said plants from the company's nursery/lab.

The evil corporation gets another chemist to pretend to be a real estate agent and seduce the widow. He marries her and moves in. He is to find his notes, and the specimens that they suspect the original scientist hid.

But the new guy is unable to create a good copy, from the few vegetative stalks he could find from the scientist's old lab. He isn't able to replicate it, much less eliminate the side effect. He administers a dose to his step daughter (MC's step-sister, who MC loves a lot).

The step daughter starts showing symptoms and spurts of violence, where she has immense strength and resistance. In general, she is immune to many diseases and heals quickly. But the spasms of violence make it not worth it.

Long story short, step-daughter accidently kills her dad. Before dying, step-dad tells step-son (MC) and daughter to destroy all research and say that he ran away leaving them behind.

The company is furious, now that everything is gone. But they suspect that there is a "living specimen" and they suspect the MC to be it. They threaten the family, and MC straight goes and say, I am the specimen. But before they can get to him, he goes to jail and says "I wanna spend the next fifty years for a crime to commit in the future."

So tl;dr- he went to jail to divert attention from and protect his step-sister, who was the real "specimen". Incidentally, there are samples of the flower hidden in the wilderness and by the time he gets out, they'll be ready to bloom again. But I haven't decided what to do with that.

This is a really REALLY good meme

>>8013281
Wittgenstein's a fascist supporter?

>>8013310
Fuck off

>>8013001
i'm dead and posting on 4chan from beyond the grave

>>8013004
I came back to post this.

I think I will return to my grave-Reddit-.
Love you, guys.

They are all obnoxious faggots.

>>8013017
this

You should instantly be wary of anyone who wants to be the center of attention while not having anything remarkable to justify it. Their brains are fundamentally sick. They think their baseline contributions as some fucking nobody are valuable. That means either that they think random proles are entitled to opinions (not just opinions, but opinions delivered over a 16 minute quirkmaster video), or that they think they actually transcend the prole ooze by being a random dipshit who reads Great American Classics.

Your immediate reaction to someone saying they have a Booktube channel should be "Ah! A prole. Have to remember to gas him later."

bananas, shiteating, sentient lightbulb

the end of the Tchitcherine/Enzian plot

>>8012978
also the part with the linguistic bodies exchanging pranks and the Kirghiz light

>something

>>8012941
Guess I exemplified it pretty well in the first line

>>8012932
You've expressed your frustration with your lack of eloquence just fine. "I can't write shit, so hear me out while I go on about it" is a well used, though far from exhausted trope in modern fiction. Have at it.

P.S. I was just about to forget to call you a dumb frogposter, as is my duty and your fate.

>>8012830
Jane Eyre is oppressed by her evil guardians, etc.

>>8012824

>In John Green and a lot of other contemporary YA books there's a shy, innocent guy who gets overlooked (often due to not being very pretty) and treated badly by those around him. The guy usually falls in love with a mysterious female stranger who is assertive and eccentric and who is attracted to her despite her lack of confidence or social status. The girl is often referred to as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

consider to watch anime lol, a shy guy often gets a whole harem of such girls at once there

so, with the crisis of masculinity we have guys who wait for their princess on a white horse in the towers nearby to the towers of girls who wait for such a white horsed prince

i think you misunderstand jane eyre though, the girl there is pretty strong willed

p.s. also you forgot to change her to him here when you copied the line from the previous paragraph

>and who is attracted to her despite her lack of confidence or social status.

>>8012855
I don't think it's so much a crisis of masculinity as the portrayal of meek, beta males as virtuous and deserving of both pity and special attention.

I'm reading Looking for Alaska right now and it's so unbelievably retarded I'm just hoping the protagonist gets put in his place for being so faggy.

He routinely mocks people who like sports, who work out, who are popular and so on while pointing out on every page how skinny and pale and unassertive and friendless and intelligent etc he is, despite the fact that these features (or lack thereof) still make people want to befriend him and be around him and even want to date him (Lara). Right now Alaska, who has made every move so far in getting to know him and bringing him out of his shell, has asked him to stay behind at school over Thanksgiving and they're currently laughing together while drinking wine by the school playing field. I suspect he's going to get cucked or something pretty soon but if he gets her I'll be pretty annoyed.

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>>8012819
>long words r hard

>>8012819
it's "a picaresque" you dumb fuck
kill yourself

>>8012822
if you can't say what you think using Anglo-Saxon words only you're a bad writer

A daily reminder that some people are just that sensitive. It's a real thing, believe it or not.

End of The Red and The Black, Brothers Karamazov and some middle parts of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis did it for me. I think it's more a quality of longer books, as you get more involved into the story and the fictional universe.

I've never cried from a book or a movie that I remember. I get very emotionally invested in them but knowing that it's just a narrative kind of disconnects me from it.
Music, on the other hand, seems more like something amplifies your emotions than something that stands on its own. Hospice by The Antlers is honestly the only media of any form that has ever made me cry.

Lolita all the way

Yes. What the fuck do you think "bibliophile" means?

The sex scenes in Illuminatus! Always ended with me jerking off

I thought I didn't have that problem because I make sure to read of my fiction books (sooner or later, but I always finish them).

I recently got a new interest and want to get a whole bunch of textbooks to get familiar with the subject as much as possible, and I fear that most of them will end up being dust collectors.

What do you do in a situation like this?

>>8012758

only buy upon completion

No, I only buy physical copies when:

1) It's a philosophy/technical book that I will need to annotate stuff
2) I can't find a decent .epub or ,mobi on the internet
3) The e-book I have has a shit translation or shit diagramation

God bless, Bibliotik.

Once I got the bus out of the lobby and back on the road, all my passengers started criticizing the way I had been driving. Everybody's an expert. The kids in the back gave me the worst time. There's something about being in the back that brings out the worst in people. They were really making fun of me, and getting some pretty good laughs at my expense. I hollered over my shoulder, with growing anger, that if they didn't quit being so funny at my expense, if they didn't start making their humor more generic, I was going to pull over, make everybody walk home, call everybody's parents, blow the damn bus up and set fire to the world. This chilly prospect didn't bother the kids, who thought it was a lot more interesting evening than they had planned, but it greatly alarmed some of the older passengers, who started trying to get off the bus again, even though we were going over 50mph. I had to tilt the bus up on its side wheels to get them to slide back more or less into their seats. Then I had to deal with all the fake injuries, and spend 10 or 15 minutes saying soothing things like 'snap out of it' and 'you're not hurt' and 'please, god, don't let him die' until everybody on the bus had calmed down again. These are the kinds of things a bus driver has to deal with.

their autobiographies

>>8012638

their they're in there chairs

>>8012587
all of these people you listed were well read and educated.

you think they didn't read a whole lot?

>>8012587
>Thinking Chaucer wasn't well read
Have you read anything he wrote? He drops references to French, Italian, and Latin(both Roman and translated from Greek) works constantly.

http://www.openculture.com/
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/
http://mindfulpleasures.blogspot.com/
http://posledevedesetgodina.blogspot.com/

>>8012644
ne jedi govna picko usrana

thanks for the mid two links though