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>>9458676
Have this on order. Vermont really is G-d's country.

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This is god-tier.

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>>9458726
This was indeed good.

>>9458669
why would the old man be talking about his freshman year of college while he's on his deathbed?
wouldn't he have some more general, more helpful things to discuss about his life that dont simply apply to a young man in college (presumably you?)
or is his son about to enter school or something?
that would make sense but might also be kinda lame and make the man seem kinda beige/unbright and therefore not someone of particular interest as a focal character?

>>9458669
Top marks for the Dream of Tartini picture.

>Guy tells a joke
>Joke literally lasts for all eternity
>It's an infinite jest

my diary desu :(

I'm writing a book about a virgin who watches asmr girls all day and it gets into some pretty deep philosophical stuff. you might like it when its done

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>>9458639

I don't need to read that book it's already my life.

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>>9458556
Recently picked up and finished pic related; the foreward by Sam Lipsyte got me interested. GomBROwicz is supremely self-aware, moreso than he gets credit for.

>>9458556
Cosmos 8/10
Pornography 7/10
Ferdydurke 6/10
Trans-atlantic 5/10

Cosmos is great but if you want really good polish writer try Bruno Schultz

If he lived today, he'd be an edgy blogger/redditfag and y'all would cringe anytime you bumped into any of his 'works.'

He obviously craved recognition as a 'real-deal' modernist but failed, which is hardly surprising. After all, this is what happens when you use your fancy 'ME LOOK AT, I'M A MODERNIST, MY FEELINGS IN A WAY YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE I EXPRESS, AND EXCEPT FOR MINE ALL SYMBOLISM IS SHIT (also I don't know how SoC works, but fuck you it's enough if my syntax looks perplexing)' style as a smokescreen you hide your shallow, highschool-grade philosophy behind. Gombrowicz was only capable of smearing one theme over all of his books, and even though he proved so dedicated in doing so, I feel like any /lit/erate could beat the shit out of his childish POV anytime. If you can handle your style, but have nothing to say, or can only talk about what others have been well-aware of for decades, why bother talking at all? Oh, right, so you can go down in history as an edgelord, forgot about that.

Also, I almost forgot that ever since the Internet came around, anything Gombrowicz said or though about human interactions went so badly obsolete it almost hurts.

Overall, I'd choose Casey Neistat over Gombrowicz anytime, simply because I enjoy watching vlogs more than reading blogs.

Hopefully they'd be mine, i could make a lot of money selling the last books ever

>>9458397
Mein Kampf and the Bible are essentials.

>The King James Bible (cliched but fuck you)
>The Brothers Karamazov
>The Oedipus Trilogy
>Hamlet
>Siddhartha
>Animal Farm (just so they have a fair warning)
>Paradise Lost
>Dante's Inferno
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>Mein Kampf

I stopped listening when the audio turned terrible. Chomsky seemed to be dismantling Perle.

>>9458627
A lot of people say Perle gives up, defeated, half way through and spends the rest of the debate just trying to insult Comsky

I've literally never seen Chomsky lose a debate.

please guys, I like this book and I want to talk about it

I am just getting into books and this is on my list.

The Alchemist too. A tale of two cities and the Grapes of Wrath.

I'm like 36 with hardly any education, so books are great.

Should I read this first?

>>9458289
1984 is probably the book you'll get the most practical value out of compared to the others you named. I say that because it is part of the popular consciousness still and is frequently talked about.

Have you read the entire 7 books + the robot saga?

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(((Asimov)))

>>9458278
no just this one.

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>>9458203
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action
Fuck off.

>>9458219
vomit

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>there hasn't been a 'landmark' work of fiction in ~20 years

All of them.

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>>9458194
>truth
/thread

>>9458194
I meant more books that are about the topic of writing but this is definitely The Truth

That was really good

Can I get some more

>>9458216
I kissed the serpent, I risked the fangs,
Death's cold grip close at hand.
I lost the sparkle in my eyes,
But I came away wise.
Blood and fire,
Beauty and pain.
I'm a damaged girl with broken wings.
No matter how beautiful i look, there's always something ugly right
underneath the skin.

>>9459642

*-*//

Go for it Dave :)

>>9458042
This isn't Dave. Even if it was, I said ii was asking for a friend. Not that I would do it.

>>9458039
The fact that you are asking this makes me laugh.
I guess if you have this gypsy mentality,you can do it.

>>9458029
>reading graham cuck greene author of inifinite fault on our stars

Ya bruh, reading Graham Greene is real avant garde

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>>9458029
Fuck off.

>>9458013
>I see great pieces of literature given 1 star lol
No you don't.
>Pic related, it's my bookfu
Crap waifu. She's ugly.

>>9458033

Your mum

>>9458013
>Katie just dropped a new review
Thats all you neeed.

>>9457977
shit smeared on pages after pages

Waifus

>>9457983
Maria <3