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>>9702473
How do you know what you should do?

>>9702657

How do you know that you've a (you)?

>>9702657
i figured it out, i just cba

Fuck Dickens.

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>>9702447
Why?

God tier poetry, shit tier prose

>>9702412
*responds by quoting Wittgenstein*

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why do you think someone like Bloom, who can't say enough about Pynchon and DeLillo, shits on this guy, who, to the average reader, bears a lot of passing resemblance to both (almost like a best of both worlds thing)?

why do you think someone who has read as much as Bloom, someone with as refined tastes and standard for judgement, would completely dismiss this guy?

why don't you?

Why do you think people post pictures of anime girls on lit?
Why

>Napoleon - Andrew Roberts
>Napoleon - Georges Lefebvre

memoirs of general marbot
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2401

115 military maxims of napoleon
https://web.archive.org/web/20080302034741/http://www.bellum.nu:80/literature/napoleon001.html

>>9702235
Napoleon the Great - Andrew Roberts (best modern biography)

The Campaigns of Napoleon - David Chandler (if you want something more focused on his military achievements)

Could also try reading his autobiography

no
it just made it better

>>9702194

lol what sort of nanowrimo pleb mentality is this

gtfo

>>9702194
what?

so, you are writing about some stupid story about your depression and that make you incapable to read something like borges?

book of mormon faggot

>>9702185
I don't read fanfiction.

>>9702186
the quran was just an cheap asian knock off but u read that so why not

i buy a ton of of memes and random shit that looks dank, and then when it comes time to pick a new one i just sort of grab some shit off my shelf and read it, sometimes when i know i'll have time to start a new book, i'll put two in my bag and then grab one at the last minute, the key is just to have a bunch of dank shit sitting around so when the time comes you end up grabbing something good

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>have a to-read list
>go to the library to buy one of the items on this list
>see several books from said list
>see one I heard about but didn't put on the list
>end up buying and reading this one
Every. Fucking. Time.

Have a small list of authors that /lit/ recommended and seemed interesting. Usually read 1 of their novels and if it intrests me enough, I'll read some more of them. If not, onto the next author.

>just now realizes the old testament is just remix of random mesopotamian shit

and this is why it's important to go to school and become educated, so how's summer semester going? was that the first reading?

>Every pre-Abrahamic religion that originated in Europe to the Middle East had their own version of the Great Flood
Color me fucking shocked!

>>9701846
>implying i've read the old testament
you don't have to read it to know biblical stories unless you live under a rock

>>9701760
what did google say?

>>9701760
you're ready for the spiral

>>9701760
>Should I read the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament?
What did he mean by this?

Just read the KJV bible, and read all of it. You can skip or skim Leviticus if you really want to, but it's not too long so you should probably just read it.

>>9701704
He was literarily better than either, and that's precisely why he's less known. Horror fans are overwhelmingly illiterate morons, ever more pulpy of mind and ever less deserving of the golden age of cosmic horror.

whom exactly?

>>9701722
Clark Ashton Smith. On a related note, I just read "The Monster of the Prophecy" and it was fucken tite.

>>9701683
I fap to them but often don't finish them

>>9701683
Can't stand them. I can't even stand non-trashy romance stories. I hate romance. It's universally awful, with like, 5? exceptions.

I do like trashy books tho. Trashy adventure books. Urban fantasy. The Predator and Alien books.

>>9701683
bump

>>9701674
he went to that neat school. i won't ever read anything of his because i don't care enough to put myself through the tens of thousands of pages he's shit out.

there must be something wrong with his cracker if the butter had to be spread that thin.

>>9701674
fugly mofo that cant stop talking about hoes

>>9701674
bump. he's one of the most interesting writers working today.

>>9701535
my diary desu

>>9701535

Gravity's Rainbow

>>9701535
Which part or emotional effect specifically?

google it fag

BookZZ is now b-ok... just try there.

>>9701488
Looked, I can't find the book

>>9701093
my diarryeah, desu

>>9701093
The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr.

One damn obsession after another.

Darn good book - a very good read - although a notch or two below the god-tier achieved in Requiem and Last Exit.

>>9701093
Behead All Satans