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Jesus Christ.
No.

>>9367909
Alright, thanks for bumping at the very least.

>>9367823
>Alternatively if any of you wish to assist me by providing the words I need I'd appreciate it.

You mean you want us to write the thing for you.

>>9367651
Gay.

It's more like this:

On a cold morning, my love and I sat near each other in the living room. Between casual conversation and normal, unautistic glances, there existed a relaxing peace and sense of belonging that filled the winter morning with the everyday sense of simplicity and purity. As she usually does, she took me in her hands and led me to her lips, and in that moment I felt a little less cold--until the moment after, in which she said something i'd not foreseen: "I'm going to do something productive today." Alas, I've poured all of myself, and all of my bourbon into this crystalline cup that I will enjoy throughout the morning. Am I to believe that my love really will do something today? Or perhaps, her warmth will annoy me until nightfall. And her laziness will carry into tomorrow.

>>9367672
Well meme'd friend.

Do you actually get it or are you unironically grilling me?
It's intentionally bad. It's a poem about coffee that uses the word "alas" for fucks sake.

>>9367709
I got it. I was just ironically memeing about the fedora-tier descriptions of having a gf, but I know it's about coffee.

They are *right* there >>>/pol/

What does that even mean

>>9367684

Novels with a conservative ideology.

>>9367370
Most Murakami sex I've found gross and badly written, with exception of Reiko in Norwegian wood.

>>9367370
Also, Kafka on the Shore is worth the read mostly for Nakata and the magic realism. Kafka's storyline I couldn't care less about.

>>9367370
colorless is definitely sexually toned down compared to kafka. kafka is more representative of his older works...where the book isn't about fucking, but there might be an explicit scene or two.

I don't see the problem. those scenes aren't that bad and aren't usually what people complain about when it comes to murakami...well the ones who aren't prudes anyhow.

It's autistic as fuck and frankly embarrassing. Nobody but you should know that you read

>>9367333
As long as you're not checking every 10 seconds that people around you have noticed that you're reading, yes it is.

>>9367333
If it's non-fiction it's okay.
If it's fiction, lol, what the fuck are you doing? Do you really care that little about literature?

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Learn Koine Greek and read the original new testament.

Also, get a Septuagint for the old testament.
(This is the same old testament translation St Paul used)

Seriously though
KJV for aesthetic
NIV if you cant read the KJV

ESV

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>>9367373
Thank you. Don't really have the time to learn ancient greek rn but maybe someday. Is there any discernable difference between NIV and ESV? Also why are these editions less aesthetic than the KJV? Is it because of the antiquated use of english?

I would like to say blood meridian but I haven't actually read any other books of the setting
why do you like warlock, is it worth reading?

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>>9367344
I've never read it, I posted it because it was briefly /lit/core and I thought it would be less controversial than putting BM in the OP

>>9367363
Blood meridian confirmed peerless

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no it's not

>>9367268

Yes it is :^)

>>9367262
Philosophy is preparation for theology.

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>>9367230
>finally /lit/ is discovering based Buzzati

>>9367253
His only decent work is his children's book.

>>9367263
The Tartar Steppe is his masterpiece.

>>9367217
I liked it

>>9367217
Wasn't bad.

>>9367217
Neil Gay Man

hahahaha
!

>>9367179
his head doesn't look white

i guess his face does a bit but hair and color don't match

>>9367179
He wuz just samplin dem an shiet

>>9367179
Not read The Underground Railroad but if it's as fantastic as A Brief History of Seven Killings then we may have one of the first great authors of the 21st century.

If I recall correctly the Radetzkymarsch only features a small bit about WWI which constitutes the end of the novel. In that vein, Der Zauberberg and Die Strudlhofstiege might fit your criteria as well. Both novels span several years, but touch on WWI only briefly if my memory serves me right. If you want to go back a bit in time and consider the Napoleonic wars, War and Peace is the obvious choice.

>>9367113
V. by Pynchon could work for this

>>9367113
ISOLT

>>9367104
What a stupid question

>>9367107
What a stupid answer.

>>9367104
But they all do already if it is pleasure they worship. It's like /pol/ and race.

>>9367003
I literally grow a tumor when someone unironically believes that

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>yfw the author is so fucking old and drug addled that he re-writes the book 30 years later as a utopian novel instead

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>yfw both of those books are just cheap ripoffs of the following

>>9366910
diary bait

>>9366910
Anything by Hemingway

>>9366910
Something by James Ellroy, where the character sitting next to he girl is a closet homosexual even though he doesn't even know it.

Other male character would have IQ of table.

Girl character, how the hell would I know, I know nothing about female characters that are not stereotypes.

That could be The Big Nowhere.