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How old are you? Sincere question. A lot of younger readers probably aren't gonna like it, if only because they won't get many of the references.

How intelligent are you? Sincere question. A lot of intelligent people aren't going to like it, if only because they realize how idiotic reading a book where the only thing the fans can say about it is "it has lots of clever references!"

Lol no way it's one of the funniest most insightful books ever right up there with my favorites hitchhikers guide to the galaxy Kurt s vonnegut and Neil pratchett and terry rr Martin!!

>>9711618
It's shit

>>9711621
is the movie better?

>>9711627
Yes, it's cheesy and entertaining. Watch it stoned.

Who knows.

Stop caring what people think

>>9711630
but i care

>>9712128
well stop

>you have ten seconds to write a better book

Dead men tell no tales, OP.

>>9711453
You'd have to be a rock'n'roll star for that beforehand

Huh, I never knew Alice Coltrane wrote a book, is it any good?

I need to stop coming here. I legitimately get angry and feel my face scrunch in disgust and fear for my child's future. Every day I hope that the arts just get ignored by women and niggers but and hope my son will be fortunate enough to go to a private school.

This is unironically the end of the author and the death of the book.

>it says that irá
It isnt. case closed.

its that simple

>>9711255
Slaughterhouse Five

It's something that seems experimental to people that don't know very much about the art form.

>>9711255

Gravity's Rainbow. both the respective pinnacles of their mediums.

>>9711255

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

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120 Days of Sodom, The Bible, Less Than Zero, Antichrist, Leipzig Connection

>>9711205
>blackpilled
You mean Cuck-Literature?

>>9711229

>implying it's not "cucky" to think there's actual hope in this world

accelerate collapse now desu

I'd recommend actually reading books.

Maybe the Trivium, some fiction or a non fiction book about something you actually want to learn.

Did you like the book, OP? I found it was very helpful but I still failing to annotate things from the books I'm reading, but that's just because I'm a lazy piece of shit.

>>9711174
How did you read that without knowing how to read though

>>9711125
Because the internet doesn't forget.

>>9711125
It's pop culture, infantilisation and prolongued adolescence

>>9711125
>he says, without irony, despite living contemporaneously with "Zyklon" Ben Garrison

>>9710826
The Knight in the Panther's Skin was dope
The Nibelungenlied was dope
Grettir's saga was dope
Piers Plowman was dope
The Mabinogion was dope

Never cared much for Arthurian stuff or similar such stuff that came out of France

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I present you the GOAT.

>The text of the book is written in a bizarre Latinate Italian. Without explanation, the text is full of words based on Latin and Greek roots. The book, however, also includes words from the Italian language and illustrations which include Arabic and Hebrew words. Moreover, Colonna would invent new forms of language when those available to him were inaccurate. The book also contains some uses of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but they are not authentic. Most of them have been drawn from a medieval text of dubious origin called Hieroglyphica.

>The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, set in 1467, consists of a series of precious and elaborate scenes involving the title character, Poliphilo ("friend of many things" from the Greek words polloi meaning "many" and philos meaning "friend"). In these scenes, Poliphilo wanders a bucolic-classical dreamland in search of his love, Polia ("many things"). The author's style is elaborately descriptive and unsparing in its use of superlatives. The text makes frequent references to classical geography and mythology, mostly by way of comparison.

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I'm not even going to pretend I understand 80% of what he was talking about, but at least now I understand the properties of angels.

>>9710635
A mediocre book.

Overrated trash.

>>9710635
A masterpiece read it again to appreciate it.

>>9710334
Words

why dont you actually start reading it and find out?

>>9710334
>Genesis
>God giving rules/fashion- & cookadvice
>jewish phone book
>actualy stories start
>jesus be ballin'

All fiction has a genre, therefore it's an invalid concept. /lit/ just hates on certain genres and not others. There's also the fact that "genre fiction" suggests commercial motivations for writing, or pure entertainment without regard for art. I think that's a better distinction, artistic literature versus entertainment literature.

It's probably better if you hear it from a class on genre fiction writing, with several business-related advice, directly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXSjRqTZeCs&t=10m10s
a window on the high opinion these people have of their audiences.

Genre fiction to literary fiction is what popular music is to classical/art music. So we are talking about categories above genres, and your comparison isn't a good one.
I personally don't like to completely reject whole genres or categories of art, but in practice I definitely do prefer literary fic or art music. They just offer more to the audience and generally have higher standards. They want to explore the human being, its thinking and emotions and the society. Popular music and genre fic on the other hand are largely made for money and to entertain you, which makes them just inconsequential. There are certainly well-made and intelligent genre/popular works that I enjoy as well, but they are rare when you compare them to the "higher" categories.

>>9710057
Really bad man, cringing

>>9710057
>you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYVO5bUFww0

>>9710057
I really did laugh out loud. You should read more.

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Cassandra

That's it

If you think ANYONE else in Greek Mythology is waifu worthy, you're a fucking cuck

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>>9710090

>anyone other than Helen

You're probably an Athenian boyfucker