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He got lucky that a rich MILF decided to marry him and leave him her fortune.

>>9955159
He'd have to be pretty damn alpha if a MILF chose to marry his poor ass of all people

>>9955146
I like the part of his life how the legal limit for wives was 4 but he was allowed to have 9 by Allah's will

“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”

The judge judges, the ultimate trade meeting it's ultimate practitioner.

I think it should have been called Johnny Deformed

>That shit isn't funny but it is

>>9955110
Wasn't it mostly about his faggot hand that he burnt like a dumbass?

it probably means you aren't gonna make it

If your gf says you should be more [x], then it's because she's cheating on you with a guy who is [x], or is seriously thinking about it.

>>9955080
>taking relationship advice on 4chan
Anyways just write her a poem or love letter. She'll dig that shit and you have inspiration to write something.

>>9955078

Just restart I've restarted a thousand things and they are always better because of it

Do (you) mean a novel masquerading as an introduction, poem, notes and index in particular- or- a novel masqerading as something other than itself in general, like a Biography, History, or Notes from some Judicial Proceeding?
If the latter Moby Dick, The Sotweed Factor, Mason&Dixon, Ulysses, etc. come to mind.

Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic.

>>9955136
>a novel masqerading as something other than itself in general, like a Biography, History, or Notes from some Judicial Proceeding?
This form has been around since the invention of the novel, it's exactly what Don Quixote is. One could argue that it was the very definition of the novel for centuries.

Welcome To The Water

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>>9954990

>>9955021
I'm embarrassed at how funny this is

I have confused feelings about dfw... I really like infinite jest but i like it in much the same way i might like some art made by a very good friend. I don't see it as some sort of holy grail or masterpiece entirely beyond me, rather i have a whole lot of gripes with it. Lots of it is true genius and in other parts i see the writelh tendencies in myself which i most seek to correct... DFW was certainly more learned than I though.

Idk. I love it and i love him but at the same time I don't find either to be like... Intimidatingly masterful and perfect. perhaps that is part of its humanity?

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The best, without question, is P&V my good friend.

Oliver Ready

I already got this edition, translated by Monas. What do you guys think of this translator?

>>9954949
It's not prestigious enough for this board.

But seriously, is it good? Tell me more.

>>9954949
It's the one about the Hitler sex tape. Not as good as FEAR AND TERROR or even the fooseball player

>>9954956
The book is about a lot of things but it essentially concerns the psychological aftermath of the Vietnam war. The premise of the book revolves around a rumored porno of hitler and eva braun in the last days of ww2 with several competing forces trying to obtain it who include a senator, an erotic art dealer, a rogue former cia operative, a twenty year old porn distributor, and the mafia. It gets fairly complicated. However none of these characters are the main characters. One is a female journalist working for the magazine called running dog, which is a sort of radical mainstream edgy production; and a sort of ambiguous (cia? Its never quite clear which organizations these people work for) operative who tries to obtain the film for his mysterious employer. A lot of the book concerns characters who are either discovering the bullshit they've been believing in order to survive, and self destructing thereafter, or characters who are the scum of the country, those who are the problems that reveled in the vietnam war that include profiteers of black market Vietnam reading and politicians. I would also advance that DeLillo means to say that a lot of the vietnam war was due to the fantasies of the people involved, from top to bottom. But the whole book is really about fantasy, I.e. the hitler film, and people attemtping to define themselves within a story, and therefore language. Delillo has this thing running throughout many of his novels that language is essentially erotic. Im rambling now. But the book is also very entrenched in western romanticism and gritty noir and merges the two successfully. I'd say it's in this book, if implicit in Players, he starts to unravel the idea that film and its dream like fabric has invaded the american populace, mostly for the worst. One more thing, if tou wanted to argue against popular belief that Delillo is a paranoid writer, this is the book to begin with. He does a good job showing that despite the fact that several organizations and power structures may be in bed with one another, they are all competing with each other and are too disparate and caught within their own fantasies to ever merge.

>>9954884
Middlebrow historical fiction. Okay I guess. I liked the Houdini stories.

>>9954858
No. When are the leafs going to shoot him?

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>>9954897
Why would the leaves shoot a man responsible for decreasing unemployment, easing the burden of student debt, a hefty increase in infrastructure spending and worldwide renown?

>>9954799
Here's a test:
Do women and/or liberals like the book?

If yes = it's shit
If no = it's genius

>>9954799
Barking up the wrong tree. No one here is capable of anything but mindless parroting of what they think Joyce or Bloom believes (this having read neither).

Having read the books so long ago as to disqualify myself from discussion (and not actually disliking them to begin with), I'd say LOTR is indulgent. Excessive detail serving no obvious purpose other than to forward a trite allegory about about WWII. Many authors imagine detailed worlds and histories when writing, but they don't showboat it.

The Hobbit seems pretty good to me, though.

>>9954804
Are you being ironic? Why did I even ask this question, curiosity made the cat look like a fucking idiot to a bunch of self centered twats who think they're genius and go to book clubs without even being able to understand the books they were suppose to read.

there's no such thing as "developing your own opinions and taste." All of your opinions and tastes are subject to social pressures, egoism, enculturation, etc.

Purposely trying to give no credence to other people's opinions is just as, if not more shallow than giving credence to them.

>>9954807
Don't ever reply to my posts again

>>9954811
by purposely trying to avoid being influenced by other's opinions, you've been influenced by other's opinions.

>>9954768
Oh gosh, what happened to you?

>>9954768
Take up reading. You're going to be doing a lot of it. You might dedicate some amount of time to the Stoic thinkers given your situation. There's a lot out there to keep the mind entertained, I wouldn't let that get you down. Mostly I'd be worried about healthcare/old age for a thing like that, but then again, how is an anonymous imageboard going to help you there? That's what family is (supposed to be) there for.

>>9954791
I won't know until I get the CAT scan, but the only possibility that isn't mind-numbingly horrifying is that the medication I've been taking for a decade at the same dosage without problems is causing serious side-effects

Did you enjoy it?

Y/ Yes
N/ No

>>9954717
Why the fuck are you asking us

>>9954717
Of course. Antigone in particular is very good