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>>9941528
Yes.

No.

>>9941669
>>9941673
>>9941723
Fuck

who cares, gas hipsters and start over

I'm not convinced that concept even exists

>>9941505
no
it's just the neoclassicism of our time

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>>9941491

>>9941491
Naked Lunch

Yeah... naked lunch is a good pick

If you're a liberal, then no.

>>9941270
nope, not at all, anon.

>>9941270
As long as you're not aware of it, sure. That's how most people find 'fulfilment' in life

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>>9941250
>implying 'Lem' wasn't the code name for a cabal of dozens of Soviet writers

>>9941205
Cum Town

>>9941200
god is like barney. he exists, but only if you believe in him

>>9941211
So why did we stop believing?

>>9941214
indolence

But it's impossible that Ishmael has that degree of knowlegde at such a young age. Unless he is an edgelord

>>9941110
>cutting out names
maybe reddit is where you belong

>>9941145
I was sent this by someone else sorry, no idea if its on r/books or whatever.

>>9941088
Looks like you're in for Shakespeare's comedies.

You'll be entertained, and have some of the best wordplay in literature. Good pick.

>>9941182
how is the prose? its my first time reading the spear

I like that one part in Taming of the Shrew where he's talking about eating ass

Fine, I suppose.

Any recs?
I don't really want to read much but I realised I didn't know anything about them besides john wayne/clint eastwood films which I hate.

>>9941079
Well, Blood meridian is bleakly beautiful and one of my favourite books, but aside from that I haven't read many of them. I suppose that means I'm a fan?

Donald J. Trump is an anarch.

>>9941143
Go on, make your case for it
That's the least you can do

>>9940943
No

I went all the way through my undergraduate degree completely avoiding any literature or politics subjects which went anywhere near domestic issues or history. I just assumed that I had a pretty good handle on Australia as a whole and that it was all basically pretty dull. This was a mistake. It's always worth looking carefully at what's right in front of you, especially if you're going to be looking at it your whole life.

The Fatal Shore is excellent. It's quite long and probably not very well organised really but the scale is incredible. It will give you a real understanding of the origins of Australian culture, though obviously a lot has happened since the convicts. It is also just a well written historical account of a lot of deeply interesting people and events which, at least at my school, was relegated to the too-hard basket on account of the two-way racial violence and sodomy. Hughes doesn't shy away from making an argument or examining the unsavoury. He is a great writer.

>>9940943

Wake in Fright is a cult classic film, if the book is anywhere near as good its worth it.

Become a whore.

>>9940791
You dont.

>>9940795
Basically this

Or marry a rich woman in her final moments

What don't you like about it?
Do you have any grounding in chinese philosophy/religion/culture or do you think you can just go in blind?

>>9940776
Zhuangzi and Huizi were strolling along the bridge over the Hao River. Zhuangzi said, “The minnows swim about so freely, following the openings wherever they take them. Such is the happiness of fish.”

Huizi said, “You are not a fish, so whence do you know the happiness of fish?”

Zhuangzi said, “You are not I, so whence do you know I don’t know the happiness of fish?”

Huizi said, “I am not you, to be sure, so I don’t know what it is to be you. But by the same token, since you are certainly not a fish, my point about your inability to know the happiness of fish stands intact.”

Zhuangzi said, “Let’s go back to the starting point. You said, ‘Whence do you know the happiness of fish?’ Since your question was premised on your knowing that I know it, I must have known it from here, up above the Hao River.”

>>9940734
stargirl - spinelli

good luck anon, it's getting harder to tap that market without anal sex by the third book.

>>9940734
I'm in here looking for replies because I'm lonely and books always offered a bit of escape, have a bump.

>>9940734
Warm Bodies was really cute.
I watched the movie expecting it to be absolute shit, but I actually really liked it. Just a day or two ago I read the book, and it's just as cute as the movie. It's only 200 pages or so, so it's a real quick read too.