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>>9226232
Oh man, Lovecraft isn't even that weird. Here's some recomendations.

Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford- short stories about dogs, and people fucking dogs, and dog-human hybrids, and people killing dogs.

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs: Lots of gay alien sex, alien drugs and alien drug dealers. Some murder and executions as well.

1000 Days of Sodom by de Sade- Snuff, Pedophilia, Scat, etc

Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs: Ancient cities of sex and drugs, an anarchist pirate community where a guy invents the revolver. Also cowboys.

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino: short stories about dinosaurs, evolving molluscs and anthropomorphized planets.

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>>9226232

>>9226250
>>9226253
It's worth mentioning Weird Fiction is a genre nit just literally fiction that is weird.

e.g., Lovecraft, Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith etc.

I once brought Pynchon into my cubicle and read it for three straight hours.

What a life

>>9226191
How was that? Which one did you read?

That's funny because I'm reading at work now and I'd rather be here. I have more time to read here than when I'm at home because of my gf and dog craving my undivided attention.

>>9226167

I just finished reading a bunch of his essays for a personal project. I watched a short BBC biopic on him.

The man would be a rip-roaring good time a party.

He was a huge man, who probably had Tourettes, had pretty much gone blind. Probably dropped out of university because of financial issues, probably brought on by drinking. Lived with a lot of street-type paupers. Later in life, had a place with a young slave boy, an elderly blind poetess, a 'doctor' who learned medicine by hanging out at the pub frequented by medical students, and a few other friends and wacky types.

His writing is perfect, his wit sharp, and intelligence awe-inspiring.

A man for the times.

>>9226167
Since I was 14, beginning with Rasselas-- a great one for a kid to begin with. Since then I've read and annotated an old teeny 2vol Oxford Lives of the Poets, the accounts of he and Boswell's journey through the Hebrides, most every essay, everything, in short, except the play, Irene, which, maybe, I'll pick up some day. So, yes.. I've also read all Boswell, not just the life. The one expensive book I own is a large 2vol copy of the dictionary, first authorized American edition from the eleventh London. He's the soul of brevity, point, and wit when it comes to the discernment of other authors, particularly poets, in English up to his time. Only Auden perhaps approaches him in facility of expression (I love the Dyers Hand) in English English, but is a far distant second.

>>9226167

I guess that answer to your general question, is no, /lit/ does not really read Dr. Johnson.

With ease.

By squeezing the sperm with a few buddies.

>>9226348
kys

>no one likes fielding
figures.

>>9226042
I've always felt that Tom Jones is one of the strangest classics in English, as if something else was hovering over the surface of its pages other than (if similar to) reflected light. I'm serious. There's something odd about that book. Joseph Andrews is a romp by comparison.

>>9226101
This is a slow board. Allow some time for people to reply.

I know /lit/ hates it, but I found the concept of a death tournament founded through forced tributes really fascinating.

>>9226062
Battle Royale?

Thanks for the post.

Just like my cock.

>>9226187
The police have been informed.

>>9225996

You come up with that analysis yourself? It's good stuff.

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Just read

The more you get rid of social media and cut down phone usage the better

You gain intelligence from a war of attrition against ignorance. you spent years letting ignorance win. who cares if you can make up for all the lost ground...the point of reading is to gain knowledge and truth, which is of infinite value you to you

>>9226005
this. also the lit starting guide gets shat on because the books arent great but its a STARTING guide, its a good way to get reading and gain speed. Reading books that are very "obvious" like Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye and L'Estranger help you state the obvious and then take that to tougher texts

I am an undergrad at an ivy majoring in philosophy. I felt really overwhelmed by all my peers being extremely well read and intelligent. Eventually I realized the only difference between me and them is the hours they put in, not a fundamental difference

Once you get an appreciation for literature and feel better about it, start with the greeks.

>>9226019
>Start with the greeks
Good lad

how I envy you!

ok, ok, I relent. Congratulations OP, what an exciting journey you've just begun!

You're welcome.

>>9225899
now try sucking dick and you'll see how much of a waste reading actually is

do peyote and meet the weird naked arab

>>9225890
can't help you, but it sounds cool.

>>9225890
I remember discovering this when I was dicking around on amazon one day. I have no idea what it's about though.

It was ok. Prefer his other works, but I dont think I really "got" this.

>>9226135
yeah, i can agree with that. I wasn't really sure what to make of it when i finished it. the only other one ive read is white noise and this definitely felt different. i mainly just read this because my college had it in their library and it is really short

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i really need to get my shit together and do one of lone pine peak's ridges soon.

>>9225832
That depends... Do you consider critique and rejection of social trends to be a sign of autism?

If you take an academic and stick him in the middle of a frat party, or vice versa, would you realize that certain people are more acclimated to certain situations? Or are they just both autistic

>>9225883
I don't read it as her critiquing or choosing to reject anything, but an inherent lack of ability.

>>9225801
>No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
He doesn't hate people hes just fearful and alienated which makes him unable to understand or connect with society.

Can you be a misanthrope and still not hate yourself, /lit/?

louie ferdinand celine's journey to the end of the night . set in france during ww1 .

see if you can track down some samuel francis

Those are some amphetamine eyes

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Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism - Michael Watkins
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn
The Philosophy of Vacuum - Simon Saunders
Incerto - Taleb
After Godel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic - Richard Tieszen
Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation: Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem - Campbell and Sowden
The Hatred of Music - Quignard
Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science - Ernest Nagel
Philosophy of Probability: Contemporary Readings - Eagle
Material Constitution - Michael Rea
Holism in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Physics - Michael Esfeld
Instantaneous Action at a Distance in Modern Physics: "Pro" and "Contra" - Pope, Osborne, Winfield
Considerations on France - Maistre
An open letter to open-minded progressives – Moldbug

>>9225679
my diary tbqh

>>9225679

goethe's werther.

>>9225689
his diary