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Haven't read him, but he gets Pynchon's approval.

>>9692052
Must be thinking of the other Steve Erickson. And what do you get out of spamming pics of your youtube whores/victims?

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>>9692064
Oh, my bad.

I'm game.

>>9692027

Grammatical errors and all:

"We found the dead dude in Bird Park, on the eighteenth of October. The sky was a flawless ocean blue. It seemed as if the sky was just a reflection of the ocean on that day.
This was all twenty years ago, and at the time we were children, me and Tom. We'd been friends for a long time and I guess it all ended that day, because of a stupid argument over a a rotting and grotesque lump of flesh. I'd met him in second grade and if I remember correctly we were in fifth grade at the moment.
He was totally unlike me. He was lean and tall with brown and silky hair that came down over his forehead, almost touching the tip of his nose like trickles of water that abruptly ended in random places. I was kind of small for my age and watched too many horror shows like The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Darkside. They were the kind of shows that would be on every weekday and the kind of shows my parents hated, always protesting when I was slumped on the couch, no life at all, hypnotized by the show. "You are now entering the Twilight Zone..."
"Jim? You watchin' that damn show again? Oh you better not be... How many times have I told you not to..."
When I wasn't locked up at home like a mentally retarted person in a Asylum I was having the time of my life. Me and Tom would walk around the whole town visiting places like Billy's Pool and Bird Park.
Bird Park. It was a long stretch of nothing but greenland, surrounded by scrubby trees as old as the building down in Death Alley, which is what we called a block of boredom down near Tunsel's Workshop where all the motorcycle gangs would team up and tell each other that they were going to kill each other, but in the end, never did as much as make someone bleed a little. They called it Bird Park, well at least we did, because of an obvious reason. Every morning there'd be a flock of birds, maybe nine, pecking at the ground with long, slender necks. By the evening there would be hundreds.
As long as I can remember, nobody, and I mean nobody, disturbed the birds. Not even the Chip brothers who, at least claimed, to have killed six dogs and nine stray cats, didn't go up to the park in the morning. I guess everyone loved the feathery flying things, by the way they acted.

There'd been no school for the day because it was the birthday of some guy who everyone remembered as smart, but wasn't really, in my opinion, that bright. Nobody's really bright in the world I don't think, only those workaholic scientists that go around mixing chemicals and saying they've got a new medicine for curing cancer, when what they've really got is a test tube full of fizz, that wouldn't even sell for ten bucks on eBay.
My mom told me to go out and get some fresh air, so I called Tom on my cell. He answered on the second ring, with his weary voice that sounded he'd been working day and night for six days in one of those old mine shafts where dust kills you if you're not looking

Transcribe your tits into pixels and send those to me through the cables you dumb whore.

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>>9691978

>The Crying of Lot 49 (Kurt Vonnegut?)

>>9691993
>Fyodor Dosteyers

>>9691978
>no 1984
-.-

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Not really the best but I can say my favourites

Australia

>John Kinsella
Known for his 'anti-pastoral' poems about rural life in the wheat belt in Western Australia. Lots of natural imagery and symbolism, very subversive and occasionally political. Harold Bloom ate his ass in the introduction to his selected poems if that means much to any of you.

>Patrick White
If you like modernism then White is near the peak in Australia. His novel 'Voss' is a good place to start, an epic retelling of the first white man's journey into the centre of the continent. Lots of stuff about predestination, destiny, God, culture, morality, leadership, cowardice etc.

>Dorothy Porter
Influential poet in the 90s/early 2000s. Known for her verse novels, notably 'The Monkeys Mask' (amongst other things a very good satire of certain slices of Sydney life in the 90s) and 'wild surmise' a sort of extended love poem with lots of ecology/landscape/space imagery.

>>9691952
OP, you best be a subject of the glorious Austro-Hungarian empire and a native German speaker.

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since "the best" is subjective I'll post my favorite

>why other should read them
If you read german go read everything he ever wrote, Heine is witty and poetic and his satire is brilliant
If you don't I'd say don't bother with it (is he even translated?) except you have a good knowledge of german history/cities since most of his references would prob. fly over your head

I used to wonder, but no longer.

>>9691887
What was it like when you killed them?

>>9691819
I have wondered whether I'd deal with it or be driven insane with guilt.

>>9691793

Just because of the movies. If it weren't for the movies the series would be forgotten and buried.

>>9691796
but the movies became successful based on the popularity of the books

>>9691796
How does it feel to be so underage?

>>9691697
Given that this board is made up of nebbish narcissistics: yes.

>>9691697
I had this problem. I would just NOT read a book before studying thoroughly the poetics of the author. Which I realized is ridiculous so now I just read straight up

I always use literary criticism I've read at parties to impress women, and only connect it to literature if I can. Parroting concepts is much more impressive to the rabble than namedropping authors.

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You can't sell them if taken from a library though, can you?

>>9691636

I would never dream of doing anything like that.

It's a violation of the public trust.

A library in my city has Codex Seraphinianus, but they don't let you borrow it. Had to read it in the building. They also have Une Semaine de Bonte but they don't let people read it at all. You probably need connections or have to be a student or an academic to access it.
Fuck them, it's not even the original pressing, it's just a reprint from '78.

the Arms of Krupp is the only one I can speak of.

It follows the growth of the Krupp steelworks, and its integral importance in Germany's echelons of power abroad and within the nation.

>>9691583

richard j evans trilogy on the weimar republic and the third reich are great on 20th century

>>9691712
This is probably not the best way to have a discussion but I saved a post from /his/ that makes an offhand comment on Evans Third Reich trilogy.

Here's the relevant part:
>"If a work with zero new scholarship is fine - like Evans trio - then Burleigh's " 'New' history " is much better choice. The tone of Evans books is just fugly, he loses no page trying to tell the reader that 'you should feel bad, Nazis were the epithome of evil and you are to blame'."
Do you think he's right about that?

Personally I don't have a problem with an author telling me the Nazis were evil, but since I'm already ware I don't need him to drone on about it for a thousand pages, especially if what he describes the regime doing would enable me to come to my own conclusions.

I go to /v/ to talk about games!

Sometimes my willy feels nice

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>>9691502
Yes.

Assuming you're Argentinian or something, pls Bogpill me on him before I read The Alchemist or something.

>>9691525
It's new age positivism.

"Follow your dreams and they will come true" and sentences like that.

In my country, this man is nothing!

The inability to an hero

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>>9691482
Absolutely nothing.

Huge, milky boobies.

OP
>a fag

maybe Oedipus as an archetype for someone who seeks knowledge/the truth even it is his downfall, Dr. Faust would come to mind as an example

mabye Hamlet? although I can't really think of an example right now

>>9691243
>make an incredibly vague slot you can fit mythological characters into
>call it an archetype
Whoop-de-doop!

>>9691035

> inb4 my diary desu

>>9691035
Hedda Gabbler is one of my personal favorites, though it's a play

Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary are classics too

IJ

epistemology mother fucker, you read it?

I am currently working through Robinson's Nag Hammadi Library with Layton's text as well - I suppose I could offer something.

Gnosticism has been very good at allowing a great deal of shit to be recast as "gnostic". If this is due to the syncretic nature in which it is presented or by simple virtue of it's more esoteric ideas, I don't know. Whatever the case may be, there is a very large gulf between what Gnosticism was and what many want it to be - in regards to the "New Age Spirituality" that you mention Gnosticism is a great tool to obfuscate their ideas enough to the point of not needing to defend them. Veiled nonsense that categorically cannot be understood unless you choose to accept it. Some might even argue that that is all Gnosticism ever was.

I'm on mobile now, but I can respond later with a little more detail if anyone wants to keep this going.

>>9691758
I definitely want to read more.