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Sisyphus comes to mind. Yet it is I who brought him up. I must have grown accustomed to something vile.

>>9149867
>press start to continue

"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."

>>9149865
>tfw to smart to not believe in god

>>9149869
W would have traded his favorite piece of boipucc to believe in God.

>Read Wittgenstein
>Burn every Philosophical book I own and never read Philosophy again

Feels good to be at peace once and for all.

No, it's not. Want something fun? Start with the Greeks.

First three (four, but fouth is basically a spinoff) novels are okay, then King got hit by a car and went a little insane

>>9149778

Not unless you're already a big fan of Stephen King. Doing a whole series just amplifies all of his faults. It's overlong, the plot either goes nowhere or goes into some really silly stupid shit, and then the ending sucks because he never plans out his plots and just makes them up as he goes. It may start out promising with a unique and interesting world, but it falls apart pretty quickly. If you want a nice fantasy saga to read, there are many many other series to chose from.

>>9149776
>Everyone who pursues education must have a job linked to that education.

Do you ever spit in the customers' food ?

>>9149776
And yet you just did

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>>9149718
sorry you farty mofo, i have read the superior one.

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>>9149726
So you have read The Tunnel by William Gass then?

>>9149718
I tried, Willy. I just couldn't do it.

Just Google it nigger.

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>>9149620
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>>9149665
there is another dark blue chart somewhere here but I cant seem to find it atm

ITT: Bob Smithee posting about himself

My favorite was the spinoff starring Miles "wetback setback" antwiler.

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>>9149616
Now that Boros guy writes some hardcore shit.

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>>9149554
I've only ever read Brideshead

It was good. Foppish and lush in style but not overly so. I want to be as decadent and idle as they. I also want all their weird Masochistic Catholic miniseries.

I though the framing story was little lame and made the novel see too much like a conversion piece.

What else has he done that's good though. You never hear about anything but Brideshead

>>9149593
>What else has he done that's good though. You never hear about anything but Brideshead

Most of his other novels are better than Brideshead.

Read "A Handful of Dust", or "Decline and Fall" or "Vile Bodies"

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>>9149593
His short stories are where the real talent is at.

Read Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

>>9149512
Audio books count? Screwtape letters.

It's about jargon and shills and degeneracy.

Don Quixote part 1. One of the best things I will ever read.

>>9149512
Dracula and David Corbett's The Art of Character. I don't tend to read two books at a time but I've been trying to develop new characters for a project I'm working on and I tend to find books a useful learning tool.

>>9149866
With the exception of Don Quixote Part 2 where the tragedy really sinks in. I love Don Quixote so much, anon. So pleased to see people who also enjoy it just as much as me. Part 2 really packs a punch though.

>>9149457
There is no book that is worth reading. They are all a waste of time, money, or both.

>>9149457
Yes, if you have a revolutionary heart, which from what I know of you I think you do, read Germinal.

>>9149457
This is what I sent to one of the /lit/ goodreads group when a guy asked about Zola:

" only read Germinal and it was a great book.
I read it mostly to understand how the social movements were manifestating themselves prior to the russian revolution (i.e early days of the spread of the marxist ideology throughout europe)... There are a couple of other good fictions books that deal with more or less the subject or relevant things to it.

Anyhow, even though my goal was not within the book itself I ended up being impressed in how well the story unfolds and how the characters are built.

There is misery, life difficulties, opression of the poor classes, the grooming of the intellectuals and the ideological differences within them (no i'm not a marxist), but it doesn't romanticize it, or any side of the "class fight".
The miners, the whores, the engineers and the businessman and also the kids are well developed and fit properly into the story, they are not representative of an ideal model but rather they appear to be real people with real desires and fears. There is even internal conflicts between the groups.
It is clearly an amazing work of literature.

As far as english translations I don't know any to recommend, I read it in my native language (portuguese)."

>>9149377
If you like Tennis and drugs, yeah.

yeah its okay i guess

>>9149377
yeah, it a great book

Salinger

uentin Tarrentino

without uestion one of the best of all time

Dickens

Maybe it's because I'm not American, but I can never know what the hell he's ranting on about.

>I jizz all over the trees and mountains,
>and over every living human being,
>and also over my soul.

Very interesting stuff. Very innovative poet.

Have you heard about the recent finding of his novel?

>>9149221
Yes! and wasn't he supposed to have written a novel which condemned drinking?

Brave opinion and smart

agreed

>>9149266
Let's agree to agree

>external superheroes

literally what did he mean by this?

I would read it ironically

>>9149861
I think he meant extraterrestrial