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>>9324043

Here's another version.

/fit/ of all people should be the most motivated in reading the Greeks.

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>>9324043

Once you're done with the Greeks you may resume with the Romans.

william vollmann is teh genius

>>9324029
jesus
i knew from the afterword in journey to the end of the night he was awful but that's something else

hes discord tier (ie. shit)

>>9324015
If you like it it's good because it has served its purpose

Poetics by Aristotle.

>>9324122
Thanks but that is only about drama/poems.
I'm mainly looking for novels and stuff. prose works

>>9323980
THiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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>>9323980
wow, I'm so sorry for you

>>9323944

>Do you skip

No. If you read philosophy you should know that if you don't read then you don't read.

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>>9323868
Isnt every extreme view especially one based on the romanticized image of something caused by depression and self loathing deep down? Isnt the core of the human experience, at least in modern and contemporary times, depression and self loathing and all we do is trying to sooth our fears, pains and boredom?

Is this achievable natty if I'm not a manlet?

>>9323962
Just need to eat a lot more, very expensive

>>9323601
the recognitions.

>>9323601
my diary desu my diary desu my diary desu my diary desu my diary desu

>>9323601
that is gorgeous

post-ironic meme

>>9323588

Although it might be disliked on /lit/, i listened to Infinite Jest audiobook, simply enjoyed David Foster Wallace style of writing and looked up some story details on internet. I wonder why it's considered "meme" along with Ulysses and Gravity Rainbow and if i can i would recommend you "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" and "Consider the Lobster" as well. I would say "meme" and misleading "facts"/opinions are kind of staple of 4chan so don't let it bother you, people are just attracted to such behavior for some reason.

>>9323677
Infinite Jest seems like a horrible book to listen to on audio book, no offense. How did they do the footnotes? How could you keep up with acronyms and character names and references?

Typhoon

The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim

A vintage Thunderbird by Anne beattie
The most girl part of me by Amy Hempel

I am not a woman

>>9323477
Dostojevskij - Notes from the Underground

>currently working a dead end job but will be unemployed in a couple of months
>no education
>in love with a girl who hates me
>no dreams or plans for the future
>functioning alcoholic

>Work 6am-6pm weekdays
>never write
>read a little maybe two weeknights a week and a lot on the weekends
>masturbate and shitpost all weekend
>only go outside to work or to buy supplies

>>9323477
>college dropout
>short, fat, pug-face, small dick, hispanic
>living with parents, 24 years old
>kissless and hugless virgin, no friends
>work at subway where my boss and coworkers constantly make passive aggressive jokes about me
>woke up at noon and then got in bitter argument with my mom for the 20th day in a row
>ate a bunch of poptarts for breakfast, felt like complete shit
>took a massive dump while watching clips of the bee movie and then jacked off, but missed and was out of toilet paper so I had to use the toilet paper roll to wipe my ass and clean up the cum everywhere
>want to become a writer but haven't read a full book in months, always starting them but getting bored and dropping them
>the last book i finished was siddartha because it's like 100 pages and super easy
>started a goodreads challenge for a book a week and then changed it to one book/year because of my constant anxiety about it
>wanted to spend last year learning a new language but learned only very basic japanese, spent most of my time watching anime and jacking off to hentai and JAV
>lungs and head hurts constantly and i feel nauseous 24/7 because of my nicotine addiction
>spend like two-three hours planning out my plan for this year and downloading various textbooks and creating study guides and book reading lists that I will never follow
>jack off again and then eat a bunch of hot pockets
>start to read a new book but then put it down and open my computer and spend the rest of my day alternating between watching cuck porn and writing "my diary desu" and various other low energy memes on /lit/ while chuckling to myself
>it is now 2:00 in the morning

Rate my life, /lit/

>>9323318
Yes

>>9323318
We were better off when only a small amount of the global population could write and read for many more reasons than just literature.

>>9323452
>We were better off when only a small amount of the global population could write and read for many more reasons than just literature.
Would you mind to elaborate? I'm interested in hearing what you have to say; no sarcasm.

Arnold is a disgusting buffoon who mutilated and sold his body

>>9323279
no u

>>9323279

This. All bodybuilders are mentally ill dipshits.

You should actually lift, maybe even play sports, instead of following in their doomed footsteps.

Nabokov

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>>9323273
Steppenwolf -Hermann Hesse
Opinions of a Clown (or The Clown) -Heinrich Böll

>>9323282
lolita?
>>9323285
on the list!
my friend just got steppenwolf, picking it up next.

Catcher in the Rye

>>9323234
my diary desu could be a game changer

>>9323360
I'm talking about something from now. Also, Catcher isn't that thought provoking imo

Formulaic with nothing important to say.

I really enjoyed The Secret History, but for exactly the same reasons you said. I enjoyed the characters (bland as they may seem) and their progression - it`s one of the first books that I couldn't put down that I've read in a while - read it in one go throughout the night. Found it very artistically inspiring which was a bonus.
Of course I wouldn't ever call it a `good book` - its a fun book but does not bring about any revelations nor is it something that contributes to your perception of things.

>>9323934
accurate. it's a great page-turner but not great art. I haven't read her others, they sound disappointing in comparison.

>>9323009
DOSTOEVSKY, ALL THE DOSTOEVSKY!

>>9323009
read turgenev, barth, and Lazarillo de Tormes.

>>9323009
Djuna Barnes' Nightwood