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there's anthony burgess on joyce?

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>dream
>wake up
>Aristotle has been dead for 2300 years

>>9930693
There's this homeless guy that calls himself Aristotle near me. He's pretty smart, I dunno. I think he's a child molester.

>>9937669
>I am not joking when I say that for my entire life I have never read a book before.
If this isn't a ruse you will not get very far in that book.

>>9937683
Not a ruse, I've never bothered to read a book. I know that I most likely will not understand it all but I hope it's a good introduction to literature.

>>9937709
A good introduction to literature would be Siddhartha or Catcher In The Rye or Full Metal Jacket. Not an incredibly dense, incredibly religious, translated epic of a man's personal journey through Hell during the Middle Ages.

>>9937668
You never had any talent and you're a boring person Tao, simple as that

No, not again threads about this guy
you people made me read it

>>9937668
>What went wrong

Nothing? He self-promoted like a motherfucker and made a career out of writing. Isn't that the dream?

>>9930616
good goy.

>>9930618
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>>9930616

I've read them. I'm actually not sure you have, considering the initially dismissive, ironic, and derogatory tone you're taking with them.

I found Guns Germs and Steel to be well informed and researched for the broad proportion, but disagree with the prevalence he gives to supposedly biasing facets such as the primary axis of individual continents.

As far as Manufacturing Consent, it's 80% Chomsky. Which to me means 90s intellectualism for the lowest common denominator, that we take for granted and obvious in our everyday lives.

You seem to want to make a point about the two works. What?

>>9930601
He's fun. Time Machine.

>>9930620
>Time Machine.
Can't believe you haven't read this, OP. Wells is one of those authors every boy should read growing up, like Jules Verne or Robert Louis Stevenson.

>>9930681
Hey anon, just because OP had a shitty childhood doesn't mean he can't re-parent himself now. Good taste btw

>>9930575
Yes, I agree.

>>9930575
Comma missing after catholic

>>9930575

Lov eth eClu Bo fQuee rTrade

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Do you think you might be spending too much time exposing yourself to things you don't like?

Keked, pls moar about you

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>>9930553
> Why is getting a degree on literature or related fields, a bad idea if you want to make a living off writing and literature?
Only STEMfags think this. It's not a bad idea. Go study what you want, OP. I believe in you.

>>9930845
On the flipside, OP, I used to study English at an elite university yet I withdrew from the program to study CS because I was concerned about future employment prospects. I would only study literature now if I won the lottery.

>>9930553
Literally no one gives a fuck what your degree is in after you leave college, just don't expect to get a day job in English/Literature unless you want to go into academia. If you're a people person, you'll probably get a decent paying job in insurance or something and write at night and hope to make it big someday.

It's what I'm doing because I didn't want to do academia.

Ulysses

>>9930539
Naked Lunch is a masterpiece. Ulysses is one of the few elite works of literature to approach perfection. It's on the level of Shakespeare's plays. Ulysses is harder to understand if you're not Irish, but they're both fairly approachable.

I thought /lit/ hated NL

I'll give you a synopsis of that book:

> No one knows shit about the druids.

It depends on the author, they are mostly good, but you can find them for free on libgen. I would only buy the ones that aren't there.

They are actually for the most part very good.

hell yeah

Literally me.

>>9930602
go back to /co/

>erotica on a coffee table
disgusting fuck

have some respect for your visitors

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>>9930470

>>9930491
tasteful erotica is the pinnacle of respect for visitors

Anyone?

>>9930554
Give me yours, OP. He seems a relevant current author. Rec me some stuff as to why

>>9930186
I like some of his work, but in a way that some general reader talk about airport books as trash. I feel cosy in his worlds, but many because I don't feel like much has changed from the television screen I've stared at for years.

He's got more depth than most pulp mystery writers. But his works are essentially The New Pulp - the genre mixing genre of years past that was essentially just a new low for writers with literary aims. Nothing wrong with him as pulp, though. But I hate playful, sitcom style, Netflix binge watching books that not only are not projecting some self-satisfaction, but are also conscious of trying to undermine both the authors self-satisfaction and their self-consciousness.

Should I explore more of his work? I'm usually not satisfied with American writers in general, unless they're from a different era. Maybe it's just me.

>>9937590
Start with the greeks

How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler
Atlas of World History - Patrick O'Brien
The Art of Fiction - David Lodge
The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing - Thomas S. Kane
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric - Sister Miriam Joseph
How to Speak How to Listen - Mortimer J. Adler

>>9937590
>buy

Acquire torrents and irc for one

his manifesto is neat but founded on some gnarly assumptions
>you will be happy only if you're going through the POWER PROCESS to ensure your own survival
nobody does this in industrial society therefore nobody can be happy in industrial society

and its a tough pill to swallow because if you actually buy into it you should find yourself living in the woods pretty quick