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>>9065388
Why do you write like that? Cringing pretty hard

>>9065403
I'm not a writer, I am cringing too, I knew all this in advance, but it didn't stop me nor did it make me want to write it better. This is all meta, if I turn it into prose then I'm subject to the medium.

>>9065388
Please respond.

What book, senpai?

Bibliotik

>>9065398

https://www.amazon.com/Microbiology-Introduction-Gerard-J-Tortora/dp/0321929152

I want to read it at some point, but it's like a thousand pages long.

>>9065254
Ive read it about 20 times. My mother had it when I was little and I wasnt allowed to watch TV and my access to adult books was very limited (again due to mother confiscating anything that was naughty) so I read this over and over.

As an adult it bothers the fuck out of me that he changed the names and didnt have real battle scenes. Also the sex scenes taught me about sex.

>>9065254
heh i was just playing bureaucracy by infocom. that game is stupidly impossible.

All he does in his novels is talk about incoherent religious garbage.

>>9065099
No, he doesn't? Are you thinking of Hermann Hesse?

Of course they are. Hunger is both hilarious and sad at the same time.

>>9065061
There's a fucked up video of him putting his unwashed dick in a bowl filled with milk and cereal. He, then, proceed to eat the cereals.

He's a creep.

His work, despite being technically deficient and artistically uninspired, has on a mass scale served to corrupt the youth.

>>9065061
Mostly for his lame youtube stuff and personality.

His fiction is YA so who really cares, not sure why people whinge over it

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really, Houellebecq

on a side note, the pic-related book is great. It's a collection of short stories, the main one being very famous (but all of them are fine). 20 years ago, every kid would read tales by Marcel Aymé - those called Les contes du chat perché ; I don't think many people still read him, but he writes in a clean, classical manner, and you don't get bored. He's not a "kids" author apart from his tales.

>>9065117
Thanks, i'll definitely check it out ! :)

>>9065040
>Also any recommendations on some good French poets/novelists outside of the school subjects?

Yourcenar, Cioran (not french but wrote in french), Genet.

I was in exactly this spot a month ago, taking a break from months of nonfiction with some novels (decent number of nyrbs). Unfortunately almost all so far have been super depressing; Zweig's "beware of pity" left me emotionally concussed for a few days.

With that said, Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" was absolutely hilarious and, as you said, light. Would absolutely recommend it; I'm considering reading more of him soon.

>>9065068
I second Lucky Jim. Most Amis is pretty good. The Green Man as well.

>>9064853
most fiction qualifies. just avoid 900 page tomes, older stuff, famously difficult book, etc

pick a novel and read it, they take like 6-8 hrs

>>9064701
Because it does
>inb4 Pushkin
a meme national poet on the same level as Mickiewicz
>inb4 Gogol, Chekhov, etc
They're just ok

I had never consdiered the question.

I doubt anyone thinks it only consists of these two.

>>9064701
Its all non-slavs are taught. Plus lack of decent translations

Just read some papers about panpsychism.

>>9064656
You should read some Heidegger to fix you up!

>>9064656
Nick Land's Fanged Noumena

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Ishmael called me.

LOL, lita's pork loins are on fire.

>>9064537
"My name is not important. What is important is what I'm going to do... I just fuckin' hate this world. And the human worms feasting on its carcass. My whole life is just cold, bitter hatred. And I always wanted to die violently. This is the time of vengeance and no life is worth saving. And I will put in the grave as many as I can. It's time for me to kill. And it's time for me to die. My genocide crusade begins here."

>>9064508
One of Murakami's best books desu. It is one of his most surreal works, but the surrealism is not there as a gimmick.

You should watch Haibane Renmei, too. It was heavily inspired by Hardboiled.

It's not my favorite Murakami but the imagery of TEOTW has stuck with me more than anything I've ever read.

plebshit

Nuages, huh

>>9064480
t. Rupi Kaur

>>9064480
that's cool anon

>Mad Anglo
In the trash it goes.

Bertrand Russel was the libcuck of his day. I don't even disagree with some of his viewpoints but I'm sure he's biased.

>>9064469
The early sections are very informative and tightly written but the chapters about Modern Philosophers are pretty worthless. The section on Schopenhauer is just 3 pages of Russell calling him a worthless hypocrite hack and moving on. I mean that's really not an objective recollection of history,

started it about 5 times in both book and audio form. Never get beyond 65% or so

>>9064456
lmao what a sick dog

>>9064486
pleb

>>9064438
Whatever you do, don't get tricked into reading meme shit like Infinite Jest

>>9064455
Are greeks books easy enough to read? I might be interesed in them.
>>9064458
Ye I downloaded it and it had like one thousand pages holy fuck