/fa/ books

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Based Bulgakov

>>10995729

>Book on a closeted homosexual

Yes it really is /fa/

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infinite pussy

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This book is probably my most prized possession.

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Books in my room,
Rate my taste /lit/

>/fa/ books

end yourself.

The Bonfire of Vanities.

When I was living in LA a few years ago I saw Bret Easton Ellis in a West Hollywood 7-11 eating a hot dog.

>>10997139
was he fat?

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copped from dope little used bookstore in San Luis Obispo, great conversation starter

>>10997145
Yeah. He looked like shit - sloppy as fuck, strung out, and overweight. It was kind of sad, t b h.

>>10997208
Those go for around $50-$70 nowadays

>>10997264
thats because long ago he realised long ago that he'd only be remembered for A.P. nobody knows any of his other works

>>10997264
that is sad t h o

>>10997272
neat. I paid $10, but it had some grime and mold.

>>10997334
"long ago" twice. . . yes i do have autism.

>>10995729
You buy books to be /fa/? Pathetic

>>10997334
Which sucks, because his other works are genuinely good. American Psycho is arguably an outlier to what is a bigger theme of wealthy ennui in his books.

While I'm sure he felt some weird sense of loneliness after the popularity of American Psycho waxed and waned, I suspect a lot of his more depressive swings come from his personality. His work and his background match up scarily well (even ignoring Lunar Park), which indicates to me that he has a pretty negative view of the world in general.

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Finished it a week ago, started off really slow but intense halfway through.

>>10995949
Literature undergrad book-list tier.

>>10995891
fuck, that edition is very nice. i just have some average B&N hardcover copy

>>10995949
Is this a meme

>>10995949
>i'm a 14 yr old dumbass who thinks any rand has any literary merit whatsoever

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE BEST SHAKESPEAREAN HISTORY

>>10995875
Love love love this. The second book is probably my favorite of the seven.
You really ought to read the translation that Christopher Prendergast oversaw for Penguin. It's a brilliant update and I think it should replace Moncrieff as the standard.

>>10995949
I took some college classes once/10

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>>10998121
oh, forgot to post a book
this is probably my favorite of all time

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This piece

>>10998105
>muh literature
Not all books have to be art you know. Just like not all enjoyable music has to be good or all like able movies have to be cinema-tier

>>10995949
looks like books you would be assigned in high school.

keep trying to look smart anon

>>10998194
Robert Green is god tier. Mastery is also a great book.

>>10995729
owning books is not effay
downloading epubs and pdfs to put on your ereader is effay

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currently reading this

>>10997891
>>10998121
I'm actually a stem undergrad final year. I haven't really had any notable books in college other than Slaughterhouse-5
>>10998077
No, unless you mean the photo quality, then yes shitty iphone cameras are a meme anon.
>>10998105
I bought the rand novel on recommendation of a friend, I try to stay open minded despite the negative connotation you and others give the author. Also I only buy books on sale so its just whatever Shakespeare I picked up for a dollar or two a book/ some are not in my current room.
>>10998221
I read Heart of Darkness, Frankenstein, The Pearl, & Tale of Two Cities.
Are you implying HoD isn't fa?

>>10998221
>Trying to look smart
What are you even implying with this?
I get how Dostoevsky and Ayn Rand might be seen as pseudo-intellectual, but just those two in this mix doesn't really feel like I'm trying that hard. If you're implying reading Shakespeare is trying to look smart you are a pleb.

>>10995949
pleb

>>10995729
>Bret Easton Ellis
>/fa/

>>10999508
Nothing is /fa/ about the gadget soccer moms use to read Chuck Tingle.

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>>10995729
Recently bought the dries book

>>11001007
Conrad might be more /fa/ than Chinua Achebe, but that's not saying much.

>>11001039
New trip talking shit? Who could have guessed.
Post some recommendations then.
As your post is now is why everyone ridicules tripcodes.

>>11001051
>Chinua Achebe
What are you getting at?
Because the setting is in Africa this is relevant?

>>11001059
I just wanted to pick the author who called Conrad a bloody racist, which he probably was. What he wasn't (and isn't) was /fa/.

>>11001089
I get the complaint he poses, that Conrad dehumanized the Africans and treated Africa as a lost world. He exaggerates qualities of the tertiary characters and setting to create progression in the story, this isn't uncommon in fiction. Its not like the main antagonist Kurtz is a black guy demonizing them further. To be clear even if the book racist, but the story really isn't about that.

Besides, a story about introspection, solitude and madness seems pretty aligned with fa to me. I do appreciate Apocalypse Now though so I'm pretty biased. Not to reemphasize this was a book chosen by my high school, not one of my own personal taste.

>>10998126

This is a truly worthy book

>>10997743

fucking superb trilogy...

>>10997743
Read The Man Who Came in from the Cold. It's very good.

>>11001158
Trump undisputed king of /fa/

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This was pretty /fa/ I thought

Just finished Norwegian Wood (which I thoroughly enjoyed), and am currently reading Eating Animals

I really want to have a go at a Noam Chomsky book soon too

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>>11004243

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>>11004248

>>10995752
my nigga

>>10995729
plebe
>>10995752
ascendent plebe
>>10995875
plebe
>>10995891
incorrigible plebe
>>10997208
patrician, shows signs of refined taste
>>10997743
patrician
>>10998126
patrician
>>10998194
plebe, recommended for gulag
>>10999610
likely plebe
>>11001158
psychohistorian, or plebe.
>>11002358
>>11003494
>>11004243
unbelievably plebe

>>11003525
>>11004210
>>11004248
>>11004252
patrician

>>11004287
>On Liberty
>pleb

Get the fuck off this board, you dirty fucking communist.

>>10995846
Honestly it's basically 4 chan: the book

>>10997208
What book store? I live in SLO would love to visit it.

Any of Camus' fiction

>>10995875
read it ten times; not a god book

>>11004243
actual trash

>>11004287
Eh, Don Delillo is like a slightly less terrible Jonathan Franzen.

>>11004300
Go back to /pol/, cuck.

>>11005658
Honestly, the fact that some of you faggots, on a capitalistic board such as /fa/, where individual choice should be one of the highest virtues think it's something bad just proves what a bunch of underage morons you are.

>cuck

Right back at'cha!

>>11005629
Good or God? The difference matters to me

>>11005686
Sir, do you know how mad you were going?

>>11005695
Right back at'cha!

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Rate the books next to my bed /fa/

Martin Heidegger - Being and Time

Hans-Georg Gadamer - Truth and Method

John Dewey - Art as Experience

Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self

Samuel Beckett - Collected Poems

Gerard Reve - De Avonden

>>11005747
>The End Of History

Fukuyama is a hack

>>11005793
Haven't read it yet. How so?

>>10995975
tell me more about that cover?

>>11005765
> Being and Time instead of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event)

fucking kill yourself pleb