>so anon, what have you been reading lately and why do you like it?
>>25467938everyone on here was right about how great Moby Dick is. I’d elaborate but you’ll just have to take my word for it. Thanks for the rec fellas!
>>25467938nothin at the mo mategonna read the hobbit at some pointmight read herzog might noti kinda wanna read something fleshy & becomingskin asunder from bonehouses rise sun comes downthat sorta thingmaybe some emo jap buddhist litmaybe some edgy sci-fi with demiurgic ascended cultures
>>25468006sounds fuckin gay
>>25467938Just finished Swann's way. It would occasionally have passages that really hit me, but usually would take like 30-50 pages to get there. I like that it forced me to be patient, probably for the best to remove the idea that a book needs to be constantly engaging to be rewarding.
>>25468013maybei think its really neat how /gif/ hoards both porn & gore
>>25467938Sorry, I'm not gay and have no interest in joining your gay threesome. Have a good day, though!
>>25467938Chapter two of my current writing project. No I don't really like it, mainly because I don't think it's building tension in the way I intend before the big action scene. I am tempted to cut the first half and just extend the action scene to take up the whole chapter to avoid boring a potential reader.It already bad enough that chapter 1 is probably going to get cut in it's entirety in the second rewrite to better fit subgenera conventions. Right now it isn't structured like a reader of the subgenera would expect which would create a friction point and make them drop the book.Some of my word choices and phases need to be simplified or cut too.Got to remember I am not writing for myself, I am writing to please a wider audience. It's annoying but it's far better than being unread and ignored.
>>25467938Mostly rereading stuff I last read as a teenager.Shakespeare’s comedies, which I mostly like because they’re funny, especially comedy of errors, but there also some real beautiful jewels of language and beauty in them.The Iliad, it’s one of the only books I’ve ever read that actually writes combat and action in an exciting way whilst also tying that action into the wider cultural narrative that the story tells of the coming together of the whole of their world. It’s significantly reduced my already low estimation of modern genre fiction because of how lamely they write action. I’m guessing it’s because modern genre fiction is mostly written by nerds who’ve never seen action or modern military people who mostly can’t even see who they’re shooting at or being shot by, whereas in that world nearly all the men were soldiers.
>>25468191>Shakespeare’s comedies, which I mostly like because they’re funnyHow bold
>>25467938ummmm UMMM UMMMM FUCK FUCKING FUCK BY FUCK FUCK FUCKSON, HAHA IM COOL RIGHT GUYS?
>>25467938My own book I am writing.
Endō, Silence, and Bentley Hart, All things are Full of Gods. I wish God would talk to me again.Also Mearsheimer, the Israel Lobby. Feel like they must have crucified him for this one.
>>25467938Anyone else feel like it's kinda gay to hang out with other men a lot? Usually when I go out I prefer to be around girls ever since I was a teenager.
>>25467938Lots of stuff by Bill Bryson, he's neat.
>>25468013Not as gay as The Soft Machine. Currently reading that. It's gay.
>>25467938Your mom's DMs. I've been giving her backshots every night.
Picked up a semi-autobiography of a prolific war correspondents travels from various post-colonial period African warzones and his coverage of said wars. Guy is apparently the oldest living active war correspondent in the world and, I recently discovered, an avid scuba diver just like myself.
>>25469518That's because you're gay.
>>25469518Insecure + projecting
