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N A N O M E T E R S F R O M M Y C O C K

>>11069426
lolwut?

>>11069419
Is it worth reading?

>>11069443

It's short and much less obnoxious than The Fault in Our Stars with the whole "breakfast foods" style humor. I would say Turtles All the Way Down is the book to read if you read John Green at all. If you're the kind of person who doesn't like any kind of genre fiction at all, you probably won't like it.

>>11068989

Someone reposted my OC. I have ascended.

>>11069432

You should photoshop Frollo's face onto Quasimodo for Lomax.

>>11068924
Really? I was thinking about picking carver up as a comfortable read to have by my bed-side as something light and cozy. What are some books for that?

>>11068924
Will this book make me hate love? I want to kill any hope I have left for it

>>11070312
Honestly I got a copy for those parts as well as the ones suggested by the writer of Perspolis

>>11070314
makes you realize how fucked we've become in our conscious perceptions of our instincts like love and sexual desire - specially in tell the women we're going and the title story

>>11069008
As I Lay Dying is hilarious in the grimest way possible

>>11070969
>"It's like I've been living in an infinite jest this whole time"
wow, i thought this was supposed to be a good book

Who the fuck reads Raymond Carver not expecting depressing alcoholism

i enjoy this thread

>>11069443
>John Green
>worth reading
I don't know anon why don't you tell me?

>>11070969

Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents would make a great name for a punk band, don't you think?

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>>11071148
Because of that image I can't stop imagining Ride of the Valkyrie being played on a recorder. Fuck you.

>>11071248
lol very good

>>11070311
lol @ carver being something light and cozy

>>11071186
kek

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Some of his stories are cozy. Many end on a bleak note ("Some Much Water So Close to Home","Tell the Women We're Going"). Others end in a very hopeful or ecstatic way ("Viewfinder","Cathedral") . Either way, whether for darker or lighter, Carver manages to achieve some atmosphere you can't deny finding yourself at home in; he's a lot like Delillo in this way (though of course he's nothing at all like Delillo in any other way imaginable.) His stripped style lays bare in a way that you can either find yourself cozy or crying as if by gnosis, or you'll be so polarized by its indifference when alluding to voilence, you'll be more uncomfortable than if you'd seen it happening before you.

Tl;dr, Carver knew what he was doing. Harold Bloom even said the man had (by his standard) talent, but Carver died before he had the chance to be truly great. I think he's great despite Bloom.

>>11071912
Oh yeah that sadistic episode when the waiter only had Pepsi. Holy fuck that was a fucked up book, but it has some funny parts.

>>11070924
This. The pharmacist's attitude while drugging Dewey Dell was both disconcerting and funny. My favorite comedic scene is the townsmen calling all the Bundren's dumbasses for using cement to mold a cast for Cash's broken leg (arm?). Good stuff.

>>11070234
Lolled at that pic.

>>11070969
Basically I expected do androids dream of electric sheep 2: pacifist bungaloo

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underrated post

>>11072941
Are every greek's works like this? It seems like they're obsessed with lineage.

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To the Greeks, not much was more important than who your father was, and who his father was, and the great deeds done by those whose line led to you. In the Odyssey, for example, it matters a lot that Telemachus looks like and holds himself like Odysseus does, and this instills in the old reaver's friends the attitude that his son, too, must be taken seriously and received generously.

If you want to read some Greek stuff that isn't focused on this aspect of the culture, read some of the comedies. Aristophaneic old comedy handles matters of politics through metaphor and humor, and new comedy (fourth century BC) almost reads like a modern romance plot. They're quite funny, and won't bog you down with lineages beyond one generation up or down of the protagonists.

>>11068924
This is very accurate. I just read that book. Carver is excellent

>>11070296
Holy shit kek

>>11071248
kek

>>11072941
works and days is a lot more interesting if you pay attention to details

>>11071218
Is it worth reading? Is there really any substance under shock value?

>>11077043
its a very short read and a casts a nice impression on the mind of the sexual subconscious. sensual.

>>11072369
Wtf was his problem

>>11073712
gets me everytime

>>11069419
is A Silent Voice a good anime

I got genuinely mad when Your Name wasn't nominated for an Oscar if that helps

>>11070296

not wrong to be honest

>>11071218
> What I Got
> it isn't the egg masturbation scene from In The Realm of the Senses or the raw egg kiss from Tampopo

still pretty close though

>>11071248
I need this recorded and dubbed over that scene in Apocalypse Now please>>11071912

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> no Les Miserables CD soundtrack

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> what I expected isn't Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Dante's Inferno for Xbox 360

fuckin missed it, mate

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>>11070912
kek made me chuckle, good job anon

>>11070234
Nice. Good effort.

>>11069432
there's an extract from a john green book where he describes in detail, an underage girl going down on him.

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>>11077377
I've read the book a long time ago, but I don't get it

>>11072369
Good pic
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Incel angst

>>11070312
sensiblechuckle.png

>>11073712
Best image in existence

>>11078161
When he returned to port all that was left was the skeleton of the glorious fish

>>11071148
>apucopters
wtf so qt <3

>>11073712
ah fuck it.

>>11077312
is the startrek pic a reference to something specific?

>>11077324
It’s good.
The manga is a lot better from what I hear but there’s something to get out of the anime.
Sad also desu

>>11077397

>like the setting
>fucking love the idea of civilization built on dead civilization, some reaching scientific wonders in the past before the Earth itself struck them down
>even enjoy the centrail conceit of the trinary protagonists
>AYO WOMAN, I FUCK YOU LATER, BUT THIS BLACK PIRATE GONNA FUCK YO WHITE MAN FIRST
>she felt peace seeing cock on oily cock, his white shoulders trembling in pleasure embraced by the powerful black man

>>11075390
Correct
How the fuck he made a bitter farmer telling people women are gold diggers more interesting than the gods fighting massive earth-shattering wars baffles me, but he did

>>11070234
amazing

>>11077377
heh

who's got a template?

>>11079744
Just dl one of the pics in this thread and crop out the images, you doink.

>>11071248
thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ezTshNMp8o

>>11071248
goddammit

>>11071170
There's a Japanese noise rock band called Les Rellizes Denudes that's as close as you'll get

>>11077095
If I had my pepe giving a noncommittal thumbs up this is where it would go

>>11080428
you have good taste

>>11077288
Underrated

>>11080454
thanks bb

>>11073712
truly the image that will save 4chan

>>11072319
Carver wasnt all that great, his editor Gordon Lish forced him to have that stripped down style

Carver probably didnt know what he was doing, considering he was drunk all the fucking time

>>11078680

fucking lolling

>>11081029
Was Lish our guy? I’m really entertained reading his Wikipedia entry.

>>11075390
agree. Theogony just tells you a lot of random names.

>Works and Days>Shield of Heracles>Theogony

>>11079138
> tfw the original Evangelion series' distribution rights are lost in a limbo
> will never own the series physically on blu-ray

a-at least I have the manga...

>>11073712

this is a masterpiece meme

>>11082273
> What I Got doesn't include looney tunes, an aerosol can or Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man

fucking missed the mark

>>11082233
The manga is honestly the best version that came out of it.

>>11082350
It'd still be nice to see the classic series everyone references and talks about. I know there's torrents but it's not the same ;_;

>>11081253
>Lish attended the University of Arizona, only because he had already been sent to Tucson for his psoriasis. He later taught high school in Northern California, but incurred the administration’s ire for “wearing a hat indoors, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance too quickly, allowing students to ignore duck-and-cover drills, having ‘funny furniture’ and abstract paintings in his house, and recommending the ideas of Emerson,” writes Sklenicka.

>>11081029
>Lish is acutely aware of the controversy, and it still pains him. Carver’s stories, he says, “were de-feebled by my exertions.” Carver, he tells me, was “a fraud. I don’t think he was a writer of any consequence.”

>>11072362
The ending had me rolling.

>>11078558
He spends a large chunk of the story with a hooker he drunkenly boned and conned into thinking he'd "save" her. Not exactly celibate.

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>YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES