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Gravity's Rainbow

>>9310378
Thanks it seems that "encyclopedic novel" is what I am looking for.

Moby Dick, obviously.

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>>9310295
Kind of silly but Better Than Food Book Reviews isn't too bad.

>>9310325
I'm familiar with his work. I prefer his long-form podcasts to his short reviews, but I'm glad that he exists.

>>9310369
Huh, I'll have to look up his podcasts. I had just accidented upon him a couple of weeks ago and hadn't looked any deeper.

>>9310233
Incredibly awful. Only Abnett is passable.
And I love WH to the point where I have just opened a painting studio.

Start with abnett end with abnett. Seems like lately they've just given up and brought back gav fucking Thorpe

Literally the last one abnett did was number 27 back in 2013. Since then they've cranked out almost another 20 volumes with a whole bunch of anthologies but I wouldn't waste my time on any of them. Hopefully abnett will return and save the franchise.

>>9310183
Yeah, if he's a materialistic, hendoistic pseud

>>9310216
/thread

Being a slave to desires of the flesh and spending life chasing females comes to mind

>>9310131
What has been your experience OP? I have meditated for extensive periods before, but in my experience, the moment you stop the benefits disappear and it is actually quite difficult to maintain the practice in modern life. As for the changes it will make to your writing, it will make you experience everything on a deeper more real level including reading/writing.

Not books
Take your new age dogshit somewhere else, faget

/thread

>>9310199
>meditation
>new age
just fuck my shit up senpai

>>9310050
Nice one, just ditch the Jung.

philosophy of history is the only worthwhile thing you have there

should have gotten philosophy of right instead tho

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>>9310069
Could sub him out for politics of Aristotle bro

>>9309986
>>some guy is watching a fucking John Green book review/book breakdown video- 0 post shown.

fffuuuuuccckkkkkk, so POST-modern

>op derides this while shitposting on 4chan

I bet you haven't even read Joyce you pleb

>>9309986

Why would you mock someone for that?

>>9309907
Most successful people are mentally unwell.

There's a somewhat well-known redpill for ya

>>9309907

No, just socialists.

>>9309907
No, just radical atheist socialists

>>9309745
>ferraro

you have to go back

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post-modern isnt a particular aesthetic or culture, its just a description of the period of time we're now in. if you're writing about it, just write about the world around you, because that is the post-modern world. you don't have to do it as hamfisted as ferraro does (although i guess you could say that this whole forced aesthetic is part of his point about culture etc.), just note interesting things about the way society is in the post-modern age - dont just think it has to be about the internet/baudillardian waffle etc.

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>>9309883
the current year is only about the internet. what now?

>>9309634
did you not read to the end?

>>9309634
>I have nothing to take away from this book except fear, fear that I'll make the same naive decisions and end up as unfulfilled as William.

Welcome to life in the middle class fucko :^)

>>9309634
Im halfway in.
If it doesnt turn in a complete shitfest in the second half I think it's prety emblematic for how life goes for everyone: there's some happiness and there's some misery and If you look it from afar it's all pretty much "in the middle"; it's quiet and kind of sad and kind of serene

Just because it's set in a library doesn't make it /lit/

>>>/adv/

>>9309543
dont be a dickhead

>>9309543
>>9309536
this isn't /lit/ though. use headphones and wave and say you are busy. or fucking check out the books you need and study elsewhere?

>>9309531
Garamond. /thread

>>9309776
You don't /thread your own post, but you are correct. Garamond is objectively the most patrician font.

>>9309802
>>9309776
I read somewhere that garamond uses the least ink among common typefaces, so I use it when I can. My professors usually autistically specify TNR/Ariel or consolas or something though

modern pulpfiction

>>9309360
i enjoyed dis desu

>>9309360
better than dickens

>>9309311
>He spent a disproportionately large amount of time telling benchracers on /o/ to "kys".

>>9309311
>Anon's posts seem centred around The Dark Knight Rises, in particular the opening scene, in a stunning example of intertextuality

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Nice fanfic

Being popular with normies is disgusting in the current year. If anyone I know mentions Bloom I'd drop him in an instant.

>>9309220
No

>>9309220
No

>>9309220
My diary, desu