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>>9452542

what u read?

>>9452547
books

>>9452547
A Head Full of Ghosts. It won the Bram Stoker award in 2015, it was fucking garbage. Going to start Hex, and I'm hoping for the best, but I really don't want to have to resort to reading classic horror again, I want something fresh that doesn't suck dick.

The sheer amount of autistic cretins in their late teens who discovered adult literature last Friday and now rush to shit up this board with awful threads like this one.

>>9452550
This board really is being filled and shitted up with people who don't actually read or understand literature. It's kinda sad to see.

>>9452533
Oh my god that picture is SO RANDOM. I just saved it on my computer, that should be useful later.

>>9452506
youre a gowl

>>9452506
Did you know that clowns are based off of Irish people?

>pale face
>red hair
>red nose (drunk)
>the list goes on

Fun fact of the day right here

>>9452506
Not far off the mark. He is imitating schizophrenia. His daughter was schizophrenic, and was even treated by Carl Jung

A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill can hold more than his beli-can.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week
But I’m damned if I see how the heli-can.
-Ogden Nash

>>9452463
anon lives in hell: rhymes with fortune
of sane detainees, there's no portion
despite his longing to leave,
to this slum must he cleave
o! my mom should've had an abortion

A strapping young nerd name of Hector
Was quite fond of the launcher-erector
The squishes and pops
Of acute pressure drops
Wrecked Hector's hydraulic connector

>>9452395
I used to be a Trump supporter but reading this after seeing his actual presidency really changed my mind on racism

A widely criticized fluff piece by a non-expert changed your mind on the standing president?

>>9452395
this gave me an authentic nerd moment

>>9452392
Late for what? For reading? Are you developing some kind of blindness?

>>9452392
you're fine, but Pound isn't the most valuable of the canonized poets.

what is a serious reader? i've been reading since i was born and have progressed since. there wasn't one moment where i became a "serious reader" and there will not be.

>>9452461
no but he is very cute

So you and he have at least that in common.

>>9452295
Ba dum tss

>>9452295
Constructive. Is not construction inherently a contextual notion? For is not the act of construction, of assembling materials, also not the act of deconstructing, of sources of those materials. Could not construction then be said to be the assembly of the deconstruction? That deconstruction itself is then an act of construction and in so being Derrida may have said relatively more than anyone else.

Sure. It's your money.

>>9452221
Sure. Why not?

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Of course.

These "is X good" and "what do you think of X" threads are even worse than the troll threads, in terms of keeping the board healthy and active.

OP MUST bring something to the table. This sheer laziness will not do.

>>9452173
I asked what a good translation of the book would be.

>>9452179
burgin o'connor

but you're not actually gonna read this book because it's easier to shitpost instead

prove me wrong i dare you

>>9452128
I read several books in my youth. I remember that they were good.

>THE AMAZING POWERS OF ELECTRICITY!

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>>9452133
I too, read several books in my youth.

>>9452061
Not to mention the 50 pound bag of rice meme

>>9452061
McCandless seems like a pretentious dick and Krakauer can't stop talking about himself. Some book.

And yet there's still dipshits who trek in to the bus and get stranded and need rescuing. Fab.

>kid i used to tutor fell for the mccandless meme
>he booked a ticket to alaska to see the magic bus
>he's dumb as fuck and is probably going to die in the woods
mccandless is trash

Everyone says sartre looks ugly, but he looks badass imo.

>>9452058
Which eye is his good eye?

>>9452058
Does the googly fuck up his vision?

Folio Society illustrations are often great

>>9452098

>Look FS up
>$75 for a single book

Holy fuck, I now understand why they fell out of the mainstream

>>9452168
gotta pay for that massive inks to form pictures tho

>>9452024
Yes, Mann's Doctor Faustus.

not real novels
diderot - "rameau's nephew":like a platonic dialogue with about 1/4 content about music-related topics. would rate 5/5 overall.
"kreisleriana": assorted articles e.t.a. hoffman wrote anonymously for a music magazine, like epistolary short satires from a fictional composer's perspective. (4/5)

actual novel
"the loser" by thomas bernhard about a pianist who is jelly of glenn gould, but the character of gould has nothing to do with the real person. (3/5)

>>9452072
>"the loser" by thomas bernhard about a pianist who is jelly of glenn gould, but the character of gould has nothing to do with the real person. (3/5)
That seems hilarious. It sounds like it was written by someone from /lit/.

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Bump

What's the difference?

>>9451935
there are children's books of literary merit, the same cannot be said for YA