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Wake me up when the plot starts.

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>>9657609
A box fan pushes in the tepid air of summer. That used to bring me joy. I looked at the sky today, through the window facing south, inside the building where I work.

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>arguably the smartest minds of the 20th century argued mainly about how weird it is that sentences can refer to things

wew lad

>>9657552
I couldn't understand it tbqhfamalam

>>9657552
A seminal work in philosophy. It's a shame plebs here won't give it the time of day just because it uses some basic logical notation

In general, Edgar Allen Poe's. The Fall of the House of Usher, the Maelstrom, the murders in the rue morgue. Good prose, good story.

Honestly though The Dead by James Joyce is the GOAT.
>A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly on the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

>>9657243
damn that is nice

>>9657227
The Blue Hotel
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
A Shower of Gold

Read it in alphabetical order, it's the true order.

Non meme reply incoming:

Don't bother. I think he writes good YA (which is goosebumps for girls, actually precocious teen should read YA) but that's all it is. Characters are archetypes of despair and dialogue is hammy without it being genre fiction.

Stephen King is acceptable because he writes horror, he needs to elicit a basic response. Green would claim to be a novelist, but doesn't push the literary tradition.

It is a waste of time and brainpower. Read Nabokov.

>>9657195
Who dat

we are choleric.

>>9657111
neighbors.

An alcoholic.

get out of /lit/

>>9657081
Fag

>>9657068
I fuckin hated that dude. especially after his pretentious Infinite Jest rant vid.
It legitimately irks me to see him holding books I like. I don't want to hear whatever dumb shit he has to say about Giovanni's Room.

>>9657068
I'm curious as well. I enjoyed his reviews, yet he hasn't had an update on his YouTube, or the twitter that he links on his YouTube profile, in six months.

>>9657068
this guy looks like the dude who used to sell me weed in high school. i actually thought it was him when i saw the picture

bitch

>>9657051
Rasselas, some Rambler and Idler essays, then both his and Boswell's accounts of their journey to the Hebrides. Then Boswell's Life. Then Johnson's own wonderful Lives of the English poets.

>>9657141
Nah
Read the Rambler, then move on to his biographies and verse.
If you liked these, read his lives of the poets and the idler essays.