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he was definitely cooler than what academic critics give him credit for. but you should give us more Content than just a wikipedia summary of his isms

we SHOULD force people to be free. I have no problem with this.

>>9359749

I should give more content? Well anon, since the objective of my thread was just to start the discussion, i didn't really see any utility in doin this. But well, everything on his ideas decay in a system most similar to Nietzsche, that being - become what you really are, and what you really are is what humanity really is. That being, in his ideas, the liberal freedom of having a moral system based on intuitive compassion, and not on morals taught to you that only serve to continue the economic system.

>>9359709
>Is my time better spent solving some crossword puzzles?

Yes. 15 across: Irish revolutionary

i have a good board for you, it's reddit.com/r/books go check it out

>>9359764

Is it really that bad?

Cut your hair faggot it doesn't look good.

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>weeb

That's a painting, not a genre

>>9359629
This is embarrassing-- but I once used to meet a person I was dating at a certain theater once a week that was a full three hours from where i worked, usually on a Thursday. I'd work all day, get there without eating as quickly as I could, then immediately commence falling asleep (and shaking myself awake) the moment the lights went down. These states of exhaustion elicited the most wonderful halbschlaf visions while the plays were being performed, some of which i wrote down, most of which were lost.

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Yes; I once came back from a party where loud music was played for hours and when I went to bed in complete silence I could hear very loudly full sentences and even instruments playing along creating different songs.

Funny you mention this cause earlier today I dreamed a sci-fi story about some kind of LHC experiment going wrong and literally bringing about hell on earth

I don't know about contrarians, but I like this book.

Granted, Holden's sexual abuse of Phoebe puts me off a bit, but overall I enjoy it a lot.

>>9359571
It's really good but Salinger wrote better stuff.

>>9359589
He never abused her.

>Kafkasesque

>Kafka's ass

>Kafkovské

You mean real published or self published?

all of them

2, and I don't even have the benefit of being the most recognized pornstar of my day

Currently I'm not reading anything, so apparently that is better.

Currently reading the Cool brothers

>>9359399
Use Print Scrn instead of your iphone camera next time, dumbass.

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symposium
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nederlandsvriend, you're writing like /v/
>tot
wat? you're stopping lifting? i don't understand.

read the fucking sticky, the wiki arranges lit by country of origin.

>>9359273
Bro no offence but this looks already boring. Im not old im young and want a good fun book to start with If its fitness related book the better but its not a nesesary

>>9359234
Information must be relevant to the story.

Imagine you're eating some good as fuck food.

Damn that was some good as fuck food. I loved the taste and shit idk.

Now imagine you're eating some good as fuck food again. This time there's more so you finish it all and you're full. But then there's more again so you go on and eat that. Then you puke because there was too much good food. You wish there was less of the food.

>>9359234
Ah, what isn't wrong with purple prose? Grandiose overindulgence for people who believe, falsely, that consulting a thesaurus will make their intelligence seem higher. How often I read a novel with purple prose only for it to make my countenance fall and my interesting change to naught. The quick page turning becoming slow as I must suffer myself to read this sesquipedalian verbiage. This excessively technical and overwhelmingly poetic language can make me feel like I'm drowning in a heavy lake of perfume with my breast permanently under the water and but for my neck I would drown. I only wish that I could read a novel that might get to the point quicker, that won't try so hard to make itself seem like a novel for geniuses of Newtonian levels. If I find a novel of short words with quick descriptions I find it invigorating, and the book will cleave to my bosom as I devour every word the author thought to put forth upon the page. Hemingway, he was a man simplistic in his methods and writing. That is how a book is. You look at a paragraph, read it, and erase it all but for just one sentence. All else is the excess and vanity of an author who believes himself more important than he truly is.

>>9359223
Isn't he worshiped by STEMlords? This is probably the wrong board.

He got what he deserved. If he didn't want to be killed, he shouldn't've publically disagreed with the church.

>>9359231
For the wrong reasons. He was not condemned for his views on cosmology, but for his heretic views on central christian values.

>>9359207
Just be a good boy and thank your supervisor, your parents and Jesus. It's not rocket science.

>>9359557
What if I'm a Chinese exchange student and Christianity is banned?

>>9360560
Then you aren't since Protestantism and Catholicism are two of the five recognized religions in China.

>>9359080
Anglos love stylistic minimalism.

No one thinks he is.

>>9359080

(Supposing pic is Murakami, since he does't have a sword and a samurai-headband)

I never heard anyone praising him for his prose. I like his personal mix of magical realism, nostalgia and sentimentality.

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>>9359073
or this?

read only what's termed 'orthodox', don't bother with any other heretics

>>9359073
You only need the one at the top. The rest will only get in the way.

>t. Protestant

>>9359004

Good choice OP, Steinbeck is great for what you're looking for. I'd go with Cannery Row + Sweet Thursday or Travels with Charley though.

>>9359014
Any other authors that you would recommend though?

>>9359004
Has he read anything about King Arthur? Tortilla Flat is pretty funny but the entire thing is basically a parody of Arthurian legend and you'll miss a lot without knowing it.

I haven't read many funny literary books but my best recommendation is Don Quixote, one of Shakespeare's comedies, or The Importance of Being Earnest.