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How is this book any different from YA fiction?
>>7794009
What is YA fiction? To me its anything that appeals largely to people age 13- 25, the fact that people within this age range don't want what they love described as being such comes down to their age, pretentiousness, and their wish to be seen as full adults mentally if not physically. Truth is any book you read before 25-30 needs reading again later, you may have read it, but you havent read it as an adult.
>>7794009
Who cares? It's a really good book imo.
Daily reminder that if you unironically enjoy "Stoner" youre a rape apologist
>>7793948
>He... rapes her several times during the book.
>He doesn't seem to have any agency...
The two do not compute. If you lack agency, you lack the ability to rape.
well, i got to at least give her credit for the trigger warning
>I couldn't empathize with the characters
>it was boring
Probably the two most overused and unsubstantial critiques forwarded by these kind of people
I'll be spending an upcoming weekend alone in a secluded wooded location. I don't read horror a lot.
Can I get a top 3 in horror?
Thanks
Pic related. It's about the only horror I've read besides The Bumps.
>>7793904
Lovecraft
Poe
Ligotti
Clive Barker's Books of Blood
Algernon Blackwood
etc
1 The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
2 The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green
3 To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (white)
This might sound like a shitpost so bear with me. I know this isn't traditional horror. But these books make the ordinary reader reveal in a flash human nature in all its horror. The maudlin, hypocritical sentimentality. The thoughtless, shapeless banality, more sinister than any incomprehensible monster of Lovecraftian ken for its very comprehensibility,
just finished reading a bunch of essays by orwell and huxley...wanna get out of highschool core. recommend some patrician essay compilations/books
>>7793886
Gödel, Escher, Bach.
Jean Genet
Is he good?
No. He's positively wicked!
>>7793740
très utile ton commentaire
>>7793740
Folly
Where do you guys begin when researching a topic for something you're writing?
Say I wanted to research vampires, should I start with Dracula, The Vampyre and then get text books, essays, etc?
>>7793721
Read books
Fuck that, if you're writing some silly genre fic shit make up your own mythos.
>Vampires
Grow the fuck up and write a real story, OP.
Is the short story A&P basically just /r9k/?
> Main character is a sperg living with his parents.
> Works at a shitty dead-end cashier job
> Thinks he is better than his co-workers
> Three chicks in swimsuits come to his lane
> Main character is pissed that his manager won't let them be half naked in the store
> Quits to try and impress the girls who clearly don't care...
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not one of the better Updike stories
>>7793694
>Works at a shitty dead-end cashier job
/r9k/ frog homos are too autistic and weird to hold down a job.
>Thinks he is better than his co-workers
/r9k/ frog homos know they're inferior to everything and genetic trash
>Main character is pissed that his manager won't let them be half naked in the store
/r9k/ frog homos would find that degenerate, and they don't want women to be sexually self-conscious,...
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I don't know why you think we like you, /r9k/, but we don't, please leave.
its Pynchon thread time
Just go mason and Dixon first edition. Haven't read any books by this fellow. Gonna read it next once I finish the razors edge. What should I be looking forward to?
>>7793676
jesus christ you're a moron. what is he, jesus? why would you buy this? why would you care? that book is just an elaborate joke made by pynchie at your expense. seriously, tell me how much you paid.
>>7793676
>he fell for the paying hundreds of dollars for shit you can find online for free meme
>autobiography due in ~65 years
>22 years old
>haven't even started living yet
i'm fucked aren't i lads
Command your future self to obey your current and past self and all of your wildest dreams will come true.
You were fucked before you were born, and you were only born so as to be fucked.
>>7793677
Man is born free, and yet everywhere he is in chains.
What is the secret to his success?
having ambition and write sincerely
Already being famous due to YouTube.
The actual novel or dialogue therein notwithstanding, please rank the following in order of what is most important to you with regards to the construction, design, and supplemental contents of a physical book, and also elaborate on your preferences.
Notes and Annotations (presumed to be well-written)
Supplemental Essays (same)
Paper Quality (consider thinness, smoothness, roughness, etc.)
Typeface and Print Size (small print? big print?)
Cover Design
Size (big? small? what is the "perfect" book size?)
Sturdiness (For paperbacks: rigidity,...
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notes
essays
cover design
paper quality
sturdiness
typeface/size
size
Notes + Essays
Paper Quality
Cover
Typeface/Print Size
Sturdiness
Size
I like to mark up my books so paper quality's kind of important, I don't want shitty thin paper that'll tear easy or have highlighter bleed through it.
Content over all, but these are the things I look at the most
Paper quality
Typeface and print size
Cover design (have a copy of Candide I'm kind of embarassed to read because of this)
Sturdiness
Size
Notes/Essays (never read these)
best book size is 5 x 8
Any good /lit/?
I read and enjoyed The Stand, is this new novel one of King's best?
Not as good as the Stand, but pretty good.
I enjoyed it. Certainly a bit boring in the middle but it manages to keep it together pretty well.
I thought Revival was pretty great. It didn't have the arse drop out of it half way though or have a lazy ending like most of his books. I'd recommend reading it.
That moment when you're reading a book and it leaves you absolutely speechless, breathless almost. Isn't the power of literature awesome, friends?
Tell us of times when this has happened to you.
>>7793385
Reading the best books in the KJV Bible. Not even religious.
>>7793385
A Doll's House when Nora fucks up her entire life. o i was laffin when she slammed that door.
The Bad Girl when Ricardo talks to the breakwater builder and finds out he's the father of the bad girl.
After colliding with teachers, am now convinced I have no future.
I try looking for contemporary books, writers, movements, etc. that might inspire me to keep going, but so far nothing.
Still think I'm onto something, but cannot keep up with it.
Completely without energy. No one seems to care about nothing.
What now?
Do it.
>>7793405
Afraid so
What is the best written language?
What is your favorite?
Latin
Latin
>>7793445
Serious answers only please.
English is objectively the best language
