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>>9464640
>Should i read the first book and if so what version of it?
You are like a little baby
Watch this:
https://geekunchained.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/the-dark-tower-an-introductory-guide-and-expanded-reading-list/

>There are two fundamentally basic ways to read the series: either you read books one through seven straight through, or you read all of the eight core books, putting The Wind Through the Keyhole between books four and five. A beginner’s read through of the series is probably going to be one of those options, and I’d personally recommend going with all eight books.

>A more advanced, expansive, and rewarding reading of the series would look something like this:

>The Stand
>The Eyes of the Dragon
>The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
>“The Little Sisters of Eluria”
>The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
>The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
>The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
>‘Salem’s Lot
>Hearts in Atlantis
>Insomnia
“>Everything’s Eventual”
>The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
>The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
>The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
>Black House
>The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

>>9464650
But am I supposed to start with page one of The Gunslinger and read the whole page? I've heard that the first 9 pages are boring and I can't be bored ever.

>>9464640
You can get away with just reading the revised version. If you like it, you can go back to the original eventually.

>>9464387
How dumb are you?

>>>/r9k/

>>9464395
t. faggot who's bad at writing

>>>/lgbt/

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>>9464387
>heard you was talking shit

>>9464304
No amount of learning will make a worthless frog faggot interesting, charismatic, charming, or intelligent.

>>9464304
Sadly they don't make you more articulate

>>9464314
How do I become articulate?
My internal dialogue makes sense, but whenever I talk I literally sound like a retarded person

>>9464272
What a retarded thread

>>9464272
Kill yourself pleb

I really like Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and Hamlet tbqh with you

>>9464249
120 days of sodom, very underrated

The Camp of the Saints

Barjavel: Ashes, Ashes (Fr: Ravage)

>reading for pain

>what is the pleasure of the text

>>9464205
>Not being an epicurean

That among so many things as are by Men possessed or pursued in the Course of their Lives, all the rest are Bawbles, Besides Old Wood to Burn, Old Wine to Drink, Old Friends to Converse with, and Old Books to Read'.
-William Temple

Just because you call something a branch doesn't mean it stops being part of the tree.

It's conceptual thought that actively creates duality. Non-duality is the basic state of things if you do not actively practise this division.

>I think some people out there have convinced themselves that they are ethereal, disembodied, floating pervasive consciousnesses
What you're describing is called subject/object distinction.

>>9464246
So monism?

dude entropy! lmao

both

So what happened to Slothrop?

>>9464129
Well, if your aim is to find literature to read in its original idiom and you already now French, I would suggest you to learn Spanish now. It sure is not identical to French (I wouldn't even say they are very much alike) but as far as romance languages go you are already versed in one so it will be easier to learn the other. There is a lot of literature in Spanish not even being recognized because it never even becomes relevant enough to be translated to other languages (mostly stuff from the most skewed south-american countries like Cuba).
Now me, I speak Portuguese (native), English (formally considered "native level") and Spanish (conversational), though I definitively need to sharpen my Spanish. Once you know English, Spanish and French my friend, there will be so many countries where you can just land in and be able to communicate freely.

>>9464165
know*, fucked up straight away

>>9464129
Sanskrit is not a dead language. I suggest you learn italian since it shares a fair amount of words with english and french

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>>9464072
This was the book that came to mind. Sort of a real life lord of the flies.

>>9464072
>referenced in small talk
None, because this would assume other people read.

But assuming they did, Borges.

Depends on a person who you talk to. Most people would be too dumb to consider interesting thought experiments interesting. They'd think you are autistic or pretentious (or probably both) for mentioning them.

Because it's the REAL, ORIGINAL English language.

>>9464028
I guess its simplified vocabulary and grammar, and relative lack of accents, make it easier for non-natives to learn.

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BRRRRRAAAAAPPPPPP

Things Fall Apart is a great read. I'm not exactly interested in the rest of it.

You're right. I also don't read swedish literature. I have my interests, you're just racist.

>>9463946
Honestly, the only reason I don't is that I don't know any and don't trust most other sources of recommendations on the internet, but if someone posts a little reading list (including something about african myths and etc.) I'd be very glad.

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Valeria Luiselli?

>>>/bant/

>>9463943

thats a certified qt oh my

>>9463867
A small addendum:
In a word, he gives Apollo the ability to sing his truth, rather than just speak it plainly, which I think is a powerful metaphor for rhetoric.

wow, quick turnaround

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>>9463780
never read him but I suspect his books would make better movies

>>9463782
Did you saw Generation P?

>>9463787
No I haven't. Is it any good?