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I have become interested in the books on Victor Pelevin. Have any of you read his books, especially in english translations

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Is this the best fanfiction ever written?

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was this man a gay

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What are some /lit/-approved thrillers?

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>He hasn't done the Kenosha Kid

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ITT we write a shitty William Gibson novel (they're all shitty).

>The pink, plastic geodesics burned like neon temperfoam alan in a zaibatsu simstim hotel, where beige ultralights looked like hard chrome cyberspace on the fringe of an ancient corrugated carpet.

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By John Hermann Randall Jr.

Does anyone have this book electronically? Can you share it with me?

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i read this almost a decade ago when i was majoring in literary studies (don't worry, i've got a good job now) and picked a class on asian american literature. i liked it, it was bleak and somewhat rough around the edges, but it was genuine and at times, it had this visceral, gripping rawness to it that i can still vividly remember. okada must have been a bitter, bitter man at some point in his life. it's a shame he burned the manuscript for his second book before he died.

in any case, i recently went through my old university folders, stumbled over my notes, and remembered that i read this is actually a somewhat popular highschool pick in some regions of the US. is this true? what did you think about it?

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What are your absolute favorite non-fiction books?

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Is this good prose?

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I want to study philosophy as a foundation for understand Literary, Cultural and Critical Theory. I am an English student so I have no great need for studying philosophy itself in great detail, but I still wish to build a base on which I can base later thinkers like Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Badiou, Deleuze, Kristeva etc; that are the one a literature grad student most commonly encounters.

>inb4 start with the Greeks
I don't have that much time, I have just an year left in this degree program before I apply to grad school where I'll have to pass through an interview and I need something that will help me understand theory in sufficient depth and detail by then. Can't devote a lifetime to this stuff, sorry.(Atleast not right now)

I should add that I am not completely clueless; I know quite a bit of Structuralism for example, a decent amount of Marxism, some New Historicism and post-colonialism too. Speaking of thinkers, I know some Kant, some Marx and some Hegel. However, since I'm not in philosophy, my reading of these people has been limited to secondary texts and textbooks only.
I'm not really worried about things like feminism, queer studies or Post-co theory because they don't really require that much philosophy. It is fields like Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-modernism, Hermeneutics, that really concern me. I feel that it is of no use picking up and anthology of literary theory unless have a solid understanding of western thought through the ages, the things that those guys based their ideas on.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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im looking for a book about the various,primarily western, depictions of the afterlife.
preferably it should focus more on heavens then on hells and can be academic or pop-scienc'y that doesn’t matter.


thanks

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If you had to write a short memoir (~10 pages), what event that happened in your life would you write about?

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Hey /lit/, sc/out/ first time posting here. Quick question, I need to buy some books, preferably used and cheap, to read while /out/, what's the best place to do it so? Ebay? Thanks in advance and pardon my poor English, I'm not a native speaker.

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What's the most enlightened book from the 13th century a.k.a. the High Middle Age?