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>>10019263
Fagles. For the modern reader, it's the most enjoyable.

>>10019263
Having read two other Landmarks I'd suggest that edition, though I can't vouch for the translation. I read the Penguin in hs.

give up

Is that Husserl? I think he was into Phenomenology, which is the study of phenomena, such as a sun rise, a gesture or maybe even a miracle. So pretty interesting I would say.

Trying to turn philosophy into a science and completely disembodying it from being and mainly just being boring

>>10019317
I have a used copy of this. Is it actually good? What did you get out of it.

>>10019414
Great perspective on small town blue collar America and the relationships they engage in.

Gives blue collar characters a voice rather than being background.

I was really drunk a while ago and watched the movie, trust me man, don't waste your time.

sage

>>10019055
>reading teen fiction

Even as far as teen fiction goes this one is particularly dogshit. Not an original idea the whole way through, the obligatory dystopian setting makes no fucking sense, protagonist is a huge bitch, and at the end of the book completely out of nowhere theres these random religious themes that the author starts shoving in without any prior setup or context.

I know this is a bait thread but this book was so terrible it shook me out of reading teen fiction once and for all, so I guess it led to something good.

>>10019038
how do I into Land

>>10019038
I was literally just about to post this.

nick land is for nerds who masturbate to ghost in the shell stand alone complex

Whoever ghostwrote for him was pretty damn good.

>>10019028
Steps was a quick read. I read it in one sitting. A little under three hours.
Very simple prose. Very much an edgelord. I tried a couple later novels The Devil Tree and Cockpit. They were just rehashes of Steps to be desu.

Steps and The Painted Bird were the only ones that I enjoyed reading.

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Looks like it already got wide appreciation even from oppisite gender.

>>10018918
Yes. Read up on those who you oppose.

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Is this worth a read?

robert a caro's lyndon johnson books

Stoner

Any good ones on Nixon?

Bookchimist favourite author

>>10018657
It is spelled The Bookchemist. Please delete your post.

>>10018724
Sorry im on my phone and typing is didficult

take notes AFTER reading, it'll force you to recall what you read and its usually the most important points that you end up remembering.

Take them AS YOU READ

>>10018502
It's atrocious meme pop sci fi garbage. It's Ready Player One tier.

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>>10018502
>dude i wanted to write some cyberpunk shit but i a WAAAAY to cool for it so its like a kind of parody but is not
>And i cant write and ending to save my balding fucking head

>>10018502
Stuff about memetics was fun and not even that dumb. Acid comic-book cyberpunk is not actually a bad genre, Stephenson just didn't milk it enough.

The whole book feels like someone retelling their awesome tabletop campaign and realizing that it sounds lame unless you've played in it in the middle of the story.

>>10018435
He was using "fantasy" as an unconscious admission that his life's work was playing pretend inside a self-affirming bubble of confirmation bias.

http://frithluton.com/articles/fantasy/

>>10018494
Haha based