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You give 9s like your mother gives 6s. Fuck off my board.

>>9088563
>oh no someone enjoyed a book that he clearly objectively shouldn't have

>I must notify him!

>>9088577
It's sad you Interpret it that way. Please never come back.

>goes to see a play he doesn't understand
>still calls it decent

>>9087952
it's one line of dialogue you faggot

>>9087962
You are still an idiot.

>>9087861

Who doesn't love Dick?

I've only read A Scanner Darkly but it's one of my favourite books. I really need to read some more of him.

Dare you enter the castle of dicks?

No.

>>9087818
No. But neither should you go out of your way to avoid it. So to realistically not mention it you would have to set your novel in Wyoming or Saskatchewan or something of that nature...

I often wonder if by leaving race out of it, is it a service or disservice to the characterization of the work? I figure not.

>>9087815
Suttree (I think I spelled this wrong, read it a while ago) and Blood Meridian are top tier American fiction. Suttree is a more personal and emotional book while meridian is about ideas.

>>9087815
>>9088065
Suttree is god-tier and so is blood meridian

If you want something lighter go for things like the road or no country for old men, then try the border trilogy

>>9088224
The road sucked desu

Read blood meridian, it's top tier

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>no longer available
>tfw can't dl the file and sell it to a sucker for $499

>>9087758
God, I need this, re-upload please.

>>9087709
He can only say this after doing a philosophical analysis of morality.

I hate these kind of hypocrites.

E.g.,

Buddha:
>the path to hapiness is non-striving
Bitch, you fucking lived like a fucking kind all your life, in a harem of sex and aesthetic pleasure. The rest of us are not sick of those things yet.

Leary:
>drop out of formal educational systems
Bitch, you received the highest possible educational honor and got to be a Harvard fucking professor in your chosen field, the rest of us are not ready to retire

Singer:
>live utilitarian ethics
Bitch, you're a fucking rich author academic who gets payed to travel the world and read a book you wrote decades ago, the rest of us want a cheap burger after a hard days work

Etc.

>>9087709
>Was he wrong /lit/?
Yes, the cause and effect are flipped. Philosophy is theology without God, and a society that forgets God is morally decayed.

>>9087709
Philosophy is just an extension of the fall from the original state to Rousseau.

He really is hilarious to read in a certain sense,

>>9087549
hehe... yeah... this is not one of your grandpa's books

Yes!!!! and if you keep reading youll only find that thats just one of his MANY

1. Japes
2. Buffooneries
3. Blunders
4. Mishaps
5. Sidewinders
6. Capers
7. Side-splitters
8. Hi-jinks
9. Pranks
10. All around general tomfooleries!!!!

>>9087666
Is this the birth of an epic new meme?

>>9087529
what does he mean by 'we'll grant you all the rest'?

>>9087529

I have about eighty per cent confidence that this suite of OPs over the past couple months are a bot running somewhere, which has picked up on "Wittgenstein" on this board, autonomously decided to pick a work that had not been discussed much, and is measuring its ability to shape board interest in the work through repetition.

>>9087559
Read the rest of the book and it'll make sense.

Hint: He's speaking about the public linguistic community's ability to "grant you all the rest".

Thanks to these I cone see where I'm supposed to go.

>>9087490
when there are no roadworks, i will put cones in the road. when there are roadworks, i will take the cones away.

that's the traffic koan

now ask me about the ice cream koan

What are jovial traffic cones made out of?

Silicone.

Yes. FW is a litmus test for patricians. If you don't completely understand it, then you're still a pleb.

hmmm side boob

>>9086996
Pls respond :(

Hollander.

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>>9086850
>African literature

boipucci

>>9086850
pretentious fagget

>>9086726
I tried getting into bezerk, but the art from the first volumes is atrocious, and although the art later on looks great and has that "lovecraftian" horror feel, I still cant get past those first issues.

>>9086726

Read great literature, and try to absorb their style and sense of humanity. If you read intelligently and sensitively, you will absorb the maturity and naturally become a better writer. Well, you won't become a master just from reading a few books of course, but some aspects will rub off on you and keep you from writing an edgy autistic fanfic, which is usually written that way because the author grew up on shallow entertainment and wouldn't know aesthetic greatness if they were standing in the Sistine Chapel.

>>9086757
Dude, Go directly to the golden arc. It's the right chronological order anyway.

>>9086660
Read Peter Singer.

>>9086677
Reading what I think is right is not gonna help.
I don't care about philosophers, they simply learn how to argue in a specific sense something that any reasonable human being can understand intuitively.
They just want to be activists for medals and money or socializing.

>>9086660
Same asinine mode of thought as Singer's "don't buy expensive shoes because you could be giving that money to charity instead". Not every decision in a human's life is a moral dilemma.

People who think like this are the same people who think Marxism is a good idea.