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>>9665560
Leather bound gold trim
Cost 30$
Still haven't read

>>9665565
This post is the fucking epitome of /lit/. It should be made into a fucking banner.

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This one. The harsh orange spines and creamy covers of the old Penguin English Library editions take me back to when I was a kid picking them up for 25¢ at the library sale bin. It's also edited by Harold Beaver, and the same could be said of him as of the poor sub-sub: pocket-sized this may be, but of the 1015 pages of print 680 are taken up by the actual novel, and the rest are filled with every kind of encyclopedic, historical, contextual, hypothetical, fanciful and critical commentary to fill out 335 pages of tight-knit endnotes, making its shape closer to a Polaroid camera than a travel-friendly companion.

Other than that, anything edited by Hershel "Mr Melville" Parker or with the Northwestern Newberry seal of approval cannot steer you wrong. I really like the cover of the Library of America solo edition.

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>Le there is no reality

Except Nietzsche is arguably Peterson's biggest influence. Shitty thread OP.

I unironically think it's Fitzgerald. And I disliked Gatsby.

The reason it's J.D. Salinger is "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."

This story is god-tier.

>>9664636
>B.J. Salinger

That's not how you say Kurt Vonnegut though.

>>9663286

Yep, absolute trash. Haven't seen it on lit a lot, thank god, mostly just reddit.

It's so bad that i actually enjoyed reading it

like when you read those screengrabs of neckbeards professing their love to women

I knew from the 5th word that I wouldn't like the book, then from the 2nd paragraph that I'd hate it, and by the end of the first page my hate boner demanded I read it all, which I did in one sitting. It is by far the worst book I've ever read. Every other book I've read seems like a much greater achievement now that I know how low the floor for what can be considered a publishable book really is. Also, I can now hastily disregard the opinions of anyone who liked this book, as I know without a doubt I can't trust them; it's the ultimate pleb detector.

go on...

Once you "get it", you are already happy.

I personally prefer Patanjali's Sutras, which has a similar vision but also tackles the "action vs. contemplation" duality of the Path.

>>9659976
Patanjalis prose sucks

Industrial Society and Its future

>>9655475
Mien konf

>>9655475
classified government files

have any of these reading threads actually worked? the only two i remember were /swtg/ and the don quixote one, and both failed within two weeks

>>9650867
I've never participated in one but I remember the Count of Monte Cristo one being around a long time. I can't say if any have successfully finished

>>9650867
The first series of IJ threads went pretty well. The second series was all right as well, but less active.

>>9649919
>tfw no dandy looking girlfriend

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>>9650016
>tfw no replicant gf
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bzzzz

>>9671555
baby's shoes .

>>9671572
Defeated by the first reply:(

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>>9671348
General Deadwood shitposting will also be appreciated and let all who disagree suck cock by choice

look at the fucking charts

any philo bosses on here today?

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"the raven" isnt even the best poem about corvids, newfriend

>>9671248
the raven is the best poem about paranoia, most relatable, most accurate and this is why it's the most famous

>>9671291
>this is why it's the most famous

its the most famous as its on almost every high school English syllabus and has been for decades. for many Americans it will be the only poem they ever read closely.
same reason catcher in the rye holds the status it does.....because every second american is literally forced to read it.

I think, although he's not bad or anything, but Philip K Dick's books would be better as films. His books are good but the ideas and events could be more interesting if they were depicted via a visual medium. I know there's plenty adaptations of his work so far (many considered popular classics, especially BladeRunner) but some of his lesser known works should be up for adaptation.

Man in the High Tower is shit as a book and shitter as a TV series though. That's some truly terrible SyFy channel-tier crap.

>>9671146
John Dies at the End was a dumb fun book but deserved to be a much better film.

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time could be a big award winning film that'll make everybody """feel"""

I Am A Cat as a Studio Ghibli film is my dream.