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holy....

>>9298929
Stop ironically posting Reddit shit and fuck off.

>>9298929
Once there was an OP. Then there wasn't.

Seconded.

Reading Bible atm and want to read Divine Comedy afterwards. Is there any other important influences/references I should read beforehand?

The Divine Comedy is basically just Biblical fanfiction. You just need to know the major players.

If you live in a Christian country you already have enough knowledge. I've only read Genesis, one of the gospels, and Romans, and had no problem understanding anything, but if I'd not read those I'd most likely have understood everything perfectly well anyways.

>>9298815

> unironically reading Terence Mckenna

Are you a neo-pagan body worship sweat lodge pseud? If so try True Hallucinations.

His talk on McLuhan is an enjoyable listen.

My take on McKenna is that he was a smart dude with zany ideas, who pandered mostly to drooling hippie idiots.

>>9298815
The only thing I've read by him is True Hallucinations and I'd recommend it if you think you'd like a fun travelogue about searching for ayahuasca in the Amazon. Complement with the Yage letters by Ginsberg and Burroughs.

I have this book and only read the first few pages before becoming bored and exasperated with noveliists. Anyone care to convince me to pick it up again?

>>9298937
pick it up

>>9298937
pick it up so you can throw it in the trash and get it out of your life forever

No.

that would be my dad's diary desu

No but it's one of the best since WWII.

Autodidactism > Academia
Save your money and drop the class, chief.

Why didn't you know these words before?
>words are inherently "pseud"
You're a dumb guy.

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>>9298651
For you

>>9298635
I doubt it but

Halo as a premise is Godtier as far as im concerned

forget whatever the games are and their execution,

the premise kicks ass

Forerunners and what not is like gobekli tepi

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>>9298647
>tfw this once great franchise was run into the ground by 343 injewstries

>>9298647
>Forerunners and what not is like gobekli tepi
are you retarded that's been a staple of SF for about 50 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_race
longer if you accept the idea that divinities = aliens.

Goodreads is shit, Ulysses has a lower rating on Goodreads than Harry Potter, hunger games and the second fifty shades of grey book

>>9298620
It's the IMDB of books.

>>9298614
yeah, me too, but I used to read a lot of manga. Since I use goodreads as an overview and nothing else, I only at the first volume of a series, regardless of how many I've read.

>>9298608
My dairy desu

>>9298608
Pagans BTFO

>>9298608
If you have the shitter of a rough Kodiak or grizzly, then some good toilet paper, coz everything this hack wrote is totally irrelevant and Paul himself wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire.

Ulysses

The bible

the bible

better musician than a poet but a decent enough poet too

strange days is a sick album

I fucking love the Doors but it doesn't translate that well onto paper

I'd say he was more a performer than a writer despite him labeling himself as vice versa

Imo the doors havent aged well at all

Their music sounds hollow and corny

La woman is the best because blues music is timeless

Morrison was a decent singer and frontman but a charlatan

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also

>tfw you finish a good book and you will never hear from those characters ever again even though you're emotionally attached to them now

>>9298302

I didn't like the ending. In fact I would have done the opposite. I would have made it so that the present would be a complete utopia and world peace had finally been achieved. It would be a much more unnerving implication: if this one event happened differently, everything could have been different. We were *this* close to achieving world peace.

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>>9298324

Huh? did you read the same book as me? He stopped the assassination of kennedy, killed frank dunning (who would have murdered his wife and kids), and stops that one girl from being killed in a hunting accident.

He did a ton of shit to make the present a better world, but it basically ended up being some weird constant natural disaster occurring mess (maybe nuclear bombs constantly going off in this version of the universe caused earthquakes and shit to happen more)

everyone in that version was rekt and shit with disfigured faces from fallout. Basically it was fallout 3 in 2011. So he goes back and then gives up 3 weeks in when he realizes he's just damaging the time continuum or whatever the fuck those time string things were

the one you make for yourself after you learn greek

>>9298423
First post only post best post

>>9298423
Why bother, it's a technical manual, not poetry.

Having an embarrassing video is the first step to becoming a household name, anon

Mac DeMarco has a video of him playing a drunk show naked where he shoves a drumstick up his ass but he's still America's sweetheart. You'll be fine.

>>9298235
>actually good?

depends whether or not you're able to view his ideas in a vacuum for their own merit instead of attaching everything he says to your own political beliefs.

The story is interesting. Think of a mix between A Farewell to Arms and The Tropic of Cancer, plot-wise anyway.

>>9298254

>depends whether or not you're able to view his ideas in a vacuum for their own merit instead of attaching everything he says to your own political beliefs.

This.

Literature first, plebs.

>>9298235
He's great, and i'm pretty far left. Unlike american writers of the same generation he never seems to be, dude is totally unforgiving and brutally funny as well. At once a realist and an expressionist.