Thread 24633881

I am 25 and work at a papermill. I have been writing for a year or so now, but I do not read enough and it is holding me back.

Where is a good place to start? The authors I like the most (from a pretty small sample size) are Richard Fariña, Kerouac, Raymond Carver and Hemingway. I feel like while these guys have good books, I should be reading older guys like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, or some other names I have seen floating around here like Melville and Joyce.

>>24633881 (OP)
I want a giantess to sit on my face

>>24633881 (OP)
>how to be more well-read
By, well, reading.

>>24633881 (OP)
read mythology by edith hamilton and shakespears collected works and commit them mostly to memory
youll understand most references thatll come up among well read populations

>>24633881 (OP)
read more, stop being afraid of books, pussy.

>>24634034
hmm I was a bit rude there, sorry. Anyway i'll say this: don't focus on reading a lot of books just focus on reading the books themselves well and thoroughly. Heres a quote from Churchill about it: “It is a mistake to read too many good books when quite young. A man once told me that he had read all the books that mattered. Cross-questioned, he appeared to have read a great many, but they seemed to have made only a slight impression. How many had he understood? How many had entered into his mental composition? How many had been hammered on the anvils of his mind and afterwards ranged in an armoury of bright weapons ready to hand? … They should not eat too much. They should chew it well.” Read well fag

>>24634020
Oh fuck now you're going to tell me a healthy body equals a healthy mind

>>24634046
Called him a bookworm and...

>>24633881 (OP)
>Where is a good place to start?

The Bible

that's awesome that papermills still exist, wealthy characters owned them in the 1870s

>>24634606
thank you, but Im not jewish.

>>24633881 (OP)
6'0 on the left, 5'11 on the right

>>24635873
you are a ridiculous puppet of cliche. unable to conceptualise an original comment nor quip.

>>24633881 (OP)
English:
Faulkner, Nabokov, Henry James, Poe

Non-English:
Chekhov, Ibsen

I think those are good to start.
Poetry can help too.

Ah the scent of a papermill hangs over more than a few towns. Thomas wolfe is another old writer that wrote about stone carving or other things like that.

>>24635875
>T. 5'11
Don't worry anon, I'm sure that leg lengthening surgery will do wonders for you :)

>>24635896
The stank of a papermill perhaps. It is like what I imagine working in factories 100 years ago was like, because most of my coworkers are meth-heads who drink in the parking lot and smoke weed and drive forklifts around for 12 hours.

I want to be a manlet and date a very tall woman. I want to be a midget. I want to be smaller than a midget. I don't want to be tall anymore. If you try to lick part of your girlfriend when you're big and she's small it's over in three seconds. I want it to take considerable time and effort to lick part of my girlfriend. I want it to be a task. I want to have to set apart an evening or afternoon to lick my girlfriend. I want to slap my hands together and say "hokay! here we go" like I'm about to half an hour on a considerable task every time I undertake to lick part of my girlfriend. I don't want to be large anymore. Licking part of my girlfriend while large is like eating a tiny chocolate. It's over in seconds. I want to be a two foot tall goblin so that it takes one hour to eat the chocolate bar.

>>24634758
Deranged comment

>>24637437
Cluster B comment
>Something I don't like? Wow dude just wow you're insane. Like you're literally deranged dude I feel sorry for you wow. You're crazy seriously.

>>24637442
So you’re deranged and histrionic. Good to know.