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is this from finnegans wake

>>9854731
I am the walrus ka-ka-ka-chow

he fot w/ tha he-dogs & winked @ tha she-dogs
~a-snappa-snappa~

Oscar and Lucina is a book my dad constantly talks about but he really likes John Grisham and stuff too so take that as you will.

>>9854718
the true history of the kelly gang was a damn fine read

>>9854718
I just started bliss not long ago, and I'm enjoying it. Pretty witty, so far I'd recommend it

>>9854708
better than Joyce, for sure.

>>9854875
lol no

>>9854708
pretty sure Coates doesn't do fiction

The Ethics of Street Pooping - Ghandi

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>>9854716

Ramayana and Mahabharata

>>9854688
in't the main character inspired off of Hanuman?

>>9854688
>I'm reading the first book and it's pretty great.
how is it? is it easy to read? hard to read? i remember seeing a post from an anon saying it was basically dragon ball. Is the story good? is it even one big story or a series of mini stories?

>>9854688

I read through a translation, though it only covered the major stories. I found it very enjoyable. A lot of other Eastern media takes from it, so its nice to see the origin and understand what is referenced.

>>9854678
I didn't even know they had writing

>>9854678
My ancestors started with the Aztecs. Then they conquered other native empires throughout Latin America.

>>9854681
>Our sources for studying Conquest-era Nahua philosophy include: (1) native pictorial histories, ritual almanacs, tribute records, and maps, including the Codex Mendoza (painted several years after the Conquest), Codex Borgia (painted shortly before the Conquest), and Codex Borbonicus (painted about the time of the Conquest); (2) reports of the Spanish conquerors (e.g. Hernando Cortes and Bernal Diaz del Costillo); (3) ethnography-style works composed by missionaries (e.g. Friars Olmos, Motolinia, Sahagun, Duran and Mendieta) entering Mexico shortly after the Conquest -- most notably Sahagun's encyclopedic Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana; (4) early seventeenth-century chronicles of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Domingo de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, both Spanish-educated creole descendants of Aztec nobility; (5) native sources of non-Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico (e.g. the Dresden Codex and Popol Vuh; (6) ethnographies of contemporary Nahuatl-speaking (e.g. Knab 1995; Sandstrom 1991) and non-Nahuatl-speaking (e.g. Hunt 1977; Monaghan 1995; Myerhoff 1974; Schaefer 2002; Tedlock 1992) indigenous peoples; and (6) archaeological studies (e.g. Smith 1996). (For further discussion see Carmack, et al. 1996; Leon-Portilla 1963).

In a word, not really.

with his first writings, like you would any other artist

>>9854633
Notes from the Underground and The Double.

The Idiot is a good place to start.

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>>9854620
> buys books because of the cover

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>>9854623
>buys books because of the content

>using the one-click buying option

People actually use that option? The fuck...

Also, as a semi-relevant thing, you should always ALWAYS preview books using Amazon's (or Google Play Store or what have you) Look Inside button. Simple way not to get much buyer's remorse, imho.

>>9854610
The Moustache Guy on the new did a pretty good collection of them once. The weren't narrative, but there were alot of them from the past 500 years and they were well researched.

One of the worst that still sticks with me is the woman who chopped up baby rabbits and stuffed them into her vagina to trick people into thinking she was giving birth to bunnies.

William Blake had good engravings.
Rousseau wrote a few decent operas.
Arguably Wagner is pretty good as he writes his own librettos.
And there was this one philosopher than was a professional football player if I remember.

I'm a professional fighting game player and an acclaimed novelist.

>>9854711

>professional fighting game player

niggers can't write, though

>>9854588
>ADD
Read a printed book, kid.

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>>9854566
http://libgen.io/

>>9854570
That works, ta mate

Good ol' libgen. Chop off one head, two more spring up! I don't think there's another site(s) like it.

>>9854471
One of the covers of Canticle for Leibowitz makes it look like complete pleb tier scifi trash

What can be said of book covers:
- 90% of the time flashy covers are pop garbage
- 99% of the time books with a photo of the author on the front aren't worth reading

Beyond those heuristics, the adage "don't judge..." should be followed