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>>9736174
I'm not a huge fan of him, but no he's actually one of the greats of the 20th century.

no he doesn't

one of the most important literary stylists and artists in general from the last century

probably a bigger influence on literature over the past 50-60 years than Joyce

Men like you turn my stomach

you might like Martin Amis

Maybe try the My Struggle series by Karl Ove Knausgaard

>>9736165

any other authors who shortchange themselves artistically to convince themselves of their average guyness making every avg guy in the process their idol for being the smartest sounding avg but not rly avg guy?

Less than Zero by Bret Easton Phallis because he is a 9-gag tier edgelord.

Purchased a translation for La vida es suẽno because my Spanish is not that good and right there on the third line I realize it's not an actual translation but a loose adaptation of the text for playing to modern audiences. Hurt my hand wrenching the book out of anger.

>>9736045
have you ever even gone on 9gag or are you just repeating what you saw on your computer screen

I don't understand the people who say Tom Bombadil makes no sense. The more you think about him, and the more you learn about what Tolkien was getting at, the more sense he makes. He's kind of the "tell" of the story, the idea that there are forces in the world even more powerful than the big, bad dark lord, and they're not evil at all.

Originally Tom Bombadil and farmer Maggot were going to be related. And farmer maggot would have been just some god hiding his power level in the shire not doing anything just because.

>>9735958
Tom is strong but i dont think hes stronger than sauron.

>>9735864
We don't want to end up like /mu/

Being unhinged is the beginning of wisdom

The boards for literature, not books/reading general

Autists grasp reality unalloyed by delusion and that's why they seem alien and terrifying.

Autism is our first glimpse at the posthuman future.

>>9735837
Why does this seem prescient?

You guys talk like fucking queers holy shit get a grip.

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>>9735813
>Each time Seymour confronts lost youth, lost innocence, I wrote "YES."

>>9735813

why are lawfags so universally lulzy
it's like the worst shit always happens to them and it's always funny as fuck

>anotating books

>>9735832
we work in the worlds worst industry

>>9735800
I know I wish he wrote them in another language so I didn't have to read them. joyce is terrible

>>9735800
He wrote it in Irish, retard.

Back to /pol/ you go
>>>/pol/

>>9735814
This is just a silly thread

Just read picture of dorian gray and call it a day

>>9735756
Mitford's good, and Huxley has two around that period too (Grey Eminence and Devils of Loudon)

If you want something slightly earlier and first hand Book of Holy Doctors (Livre de seyntz medicines) by Henry Grosmont, Something bang in the middle and baroque, 2nd Earl of Rochester, though that's less detailed and more designed to shock. For something more judgy and with (slightly) less dicks, you could hit up Candide which takes more off the church aristocracy like Huxley.

I guess you could read Fielding too but that has a lot of poverty alongside whores.

>>9735756
Against Nature by Huysmans.

>>9735725
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Frankfurt School, Weber, etc. made this point long ago.

And yes, I agree.

>>9735734
lol and they are incredibly wrong as well

what the hell does "desacredize" even mean, how could you even quantify something like that

and Newton did more than just write a linear equation, if you actually read the principia which you didn't

usually people that make these claims often have a poor understanding of science and the scientific method, as those people you mentioned

That's what I thought until I started probing more and more into science, after you've familiarized yourself through popsci with it and start digging into papers and heavier books, you'll find out that reality is much more sacred and miraculous as any mythology or religion has come up with

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>Heh

It's a shakespeare reference

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>>9735687
>Dan Harmon

>>9735694
Yeah I know he's a cuck and yada yada, but does the wheel make sense or is there a better story structure format for writing episodic content?

>>9735687
This works for Godzilla

and that would be the lowest of his achievements so really who gives a heck

>slow and suspenseful

It's Shakes' shortest play by a pretty wide margin. Shorter than the shortest comedy. Pacing beyond what flows naturally from the text is a directorial choice. I recall the recent adaptation taking extreme liberty with montage, while simultaneously removing significant portions of the text.

>haunted castle

More like haunted psyches.

yeah macbeth is sick.

Shameless self bump

>>9735636
recognitions obviously

>>9736150
Why obviously ?

Start with the Greeks, end with the Scholastics.

Read a comprehensive book on the history of philosophy, then start with the greeks.

Not OP, how do I get started into stoicism?