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I hope your dick rots off

>>9968096
Why?

pynchon is rated highly but still i think underrated and underestimated by the literary establishment and even folks who have read him before and think they've got a handle on him as basically a satirist and absurdist. pynchon is the greatest contemporary writer i've ever read.

>>9968048
this man, in my country.
He is nothing

>>9968048
Norwegian Wood disappointed me so I haven't read anything else.

>>9968048
He isn't bad, but he's very populist.

I feel like he panders to lonely middle class males in his books, trying to reinforce an already existing worldview (one of romantic alienation) he assumes they have.

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>>9967573
Nope. What's bad about them?

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>>9967574
You tell me.

>>9967573
>favourite modder stopped just before the end of a series to write books instead
>can't read French, so I can't even tell if the stories are good or not
Life is truly suffering.

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>>9967570

what did you expect?

Why isn't this a thread about literature you furry faggot

why is there barely any threads pertaining to the topic of the board on any of the fucking boards around here?

>>9967471
The Conspiracy Against The Human Race, Ligotti

>>9967471
smoking isn't cool anymore you tryhard faggot

Why can't white women into butts?

what's it like, fitting a stereotype perfectly?

What sort of butthurt womeme or nu Male would write this? Infinite Jest IS funny, GR IS funny. Are they mad they prefer Harry Potter?

Nothing's at stake, start with Finnegans Wake

>>9967435
B-but I don't want to read that one.

Read Shakespeare, as there are passages about him in Ulysses. And believe me, even people who have struggled through pomo tomes will find themselves unprepared for Ulysses.

that picture reeks of facebook/9gag

The image presents a sort of a dialogue with two opposite views, and it never really states which of them is true. So, if I said that the image is true, then I would be affirming its content. Its content is a statement and a negation of that statement, which makes the whole image a contradiction. Contradictions cannot be true, so the image has to be false.

t. logic pro ;)

>>9967463
I mean is the killing of your main char bad or no?

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ok

>>9967393
'Convinced'? How is that possible?
What compels (you) to put up the words (you) do is anybody's necessarily fated guess.

fatalists are manchildren who are afraid of responsibility: note the weeb picture

Dont do it. He is a hack. Google the subject. Read Matthew Rohrer--probably wrong last name.

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Did someone say Hafez?

>>9967313
>go for a walk
>gym
>while listening to an audio book instead of music
It's simply more reading if you do it right

Sounds more like schizotypy desu

not if you have a menial job that doesn't involve customer interactions

>>9967251
>he hasn't read it yet
Have you been living in a cave?

>>9967251
1. If you like the allegory implied in xmen that the mutants are gays and/or lgbt
2. If you're just getting out of a relationship.
3. If you're into vampires and werewolves and don't need the action and violence.
4. If you can read the book and identify with Bella and not one of the boys.

No, I just read it as a teenager because some girls read it so I could talk about it with them but it truly is a waste of time and the writer is so mentally backwards, even worse than /pol/ but still for some reason the hordes of feminists haven't complained about it

American here, I fucking love the Flashman books. I've read two or three of them; one was where he had to impersonate some royalty in a plot involving Otto von Bismarck, the other where he got mixed up in some plots in America by multiple people trying to make sure John Brown didn't raid Harper's Ferry. They were a blast to read, incredibly entertaining.

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>>9967261
His American adventures are the best ones. You should read the OP image cos its about Flashman trying to cross the plains in 49. A rollicking adventure from start to finish.

does he bang that qt indian in the books

or is the cover lying to me again

Why do you want to believe in God?

>>9967244
try to preserve the shaker movement

Fear death more than you love truth