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Please elaborate.

If you think there's nothing happening in Catch 22 and everyone is pretending, you should probably leave /lit/ and go back to wherever you came from.

I'm not even a huge fan of the book but it's awfully easy to follow what's going on. If you wanna use such a brainlet argument for dismissing a book, at least go with GR or Women & Men since those are actually hard to follow.

t. someone who has never met a person in the military

Harry Potter

The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

It's an highly influential play that was often referenced by Shakespeare.

Finnegan's Wake

Mason & Dixon > Gravity's Rainbow > Against the Day > V > Inherent Vice > Bleeding Edge > Vineland > The Crying of Lot 49 > Slow Learner

Lolita > Against the Day > Mason & Dixon > Gravity's Rainbow > V > The Crying of Lot 49 > Vineland > Inherent Vice > Bleeding Edge > Slow Learner

>>9271988
This is dead-on perceptive but pupil surpasses master in his very first book, i.e. in English.

>the English language, i.e.

How about smoking one yourself to start off ?...

>>9271924
I did and it was awful.

>>9271923
Shouldn't you be more worried about describing what its like to have sex?

>>9271688

I haven't read it yet. It's on my shelf but I'm still battling through the tower.

I hear it's a far cry from his usual fare, a detective work instead of sci-fi/horror.

>>9271688
moments throughout 11/22/63 and
the last 20 pages of the gunslinger

I really, really liked The Stand.
I've read the first 3 books in The Dark Tower series and The Wastelands was really good.

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>>9271573
The ascension of man to new heights.

>>9271573

The downfall of the Patriots and the unification of the world in accordance with the Boss's vision.

>>9271573
Probably to destroy the world desu. He knew perfectly well his writings would be miss-used by autistic nihilists, psychos and degenerate philosophers.

>>9271547
Well, most posts on 4chan including this one are useless. That's a solid pill right there.

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>>9271547

Some redpill crossposters come over here and become bluepilled in many literary ways without even realizing it.

For example hatred of all female writers is actually the bluepill baseline on this board. Understanding that they aren't all shit and that some are definitely worth your time marks a literary redpill growth past that.

>>9271555
But without this post I wouldn't have known that. Which means that he is useful.

>>9271304
I slammed my fist against the door three times, then stepped back, pulling my handgun from the holster on my hip. It was an extra long draw, because of the silencer I had screwed onto the end, and the tip snagged on the leather, but I got it clear. I pointed the barrel directly at the lowest pane of the glass.
“We're not being loud!” the man's voice shouted from inside. The television noises had stopped; they had either paused or muted whatever they had playing. I waited for the sound of footsteps, but heard nothing. After about ten seconds, I reached out and hammered on the door again. The man curse, and snapped at the woman. “Go see what the fuck they want.”

“But, who could it be...?”

“I don't care who it is, get your ass up and do what I told you!”

I could recognize that shuffling, plodding step anywhere. She flounced and drug her feet at the same time. My own teenage daughter waked much the same, the last time I had seen her. My pulse quickened, thundering in my ears as she grabbed the doorknob and whipped the door open.

“What the fuck do you wa...”

Her eyes went wide as she saw the barrel of my handgun pointed directly at her chest. Her eyes went up to meet mine, and they got even wider.

“You... how... oh god!” she stammered as she tripped backwards, falling over a stool. I stepped into the mobile home as the man rose from his seat, turning to face me. The smell of chemicals and pot smoke filled my nose, mixing with the animal smells is a nauseating way. I kicked the door closed, and thankfully, the latch caught. Too often, in shitty mobile homes like these, the doors took two or three tries to latch closed. It seems that luck was in my favor.

>>9271307
I kept the gun leveled on the woman, as I turned to look at the man. “Is she here?”

“What the fuck, Jesus, man, what are you doing here?”

“Answer my fucking question. Is your daughter here?”

The woman stuttered at me. “N-no, she's at h-her gramma's for the week.”

“Alright.” I shot her twice in the chest, then put another round in her forehead. At this range, I couldn't miss. The first two bullets parted the ridiculous black leather and lace top she was wearing, wrecking the only redeeming factor she had. The third bullet made her face look even worse than it already had.

The movies always show silencers making a whisper of a gunshot. That is not the case at all. They make a gun quieter, that's very true, but they don't completely erase the sound. While I didn't need ear protection, it was loud. Loud enough to be heard outside, but quiet enough to be mistaken for a gunshot on the movie they were watching.

I turned to face the man as he fell backwards, shouting. “Oh god, oh Jesus fuck, oh fucking Jesus, no!”
I advanced on him, stepping over piles of filth and rot. Dirty dishes and laundry were strewn about, making navigation difficult under normal circumstances, but these were not normal circumstances.

“No no no no no no no!”He scrambled backwards, knocking over a coffee table that was covered in books, tarot cards, herbs, candles, and glassware. Small white crystals that were being crushed up into powder, and a baggie of weed were amongst the wreckage on the floor. I bent down to pick up one of the crystals, and examined it.

“Really? Meth? You've sank a lot farther than I thought you had.” I kept the gun trained on him. “Get up.”
He stared at me, his dusky skin more pale than I had ever seen it before, not moving. I put a round through the television next to him. “I said, get up. Now.”

He scrambled to his feet his hands up. “Please don't kill me, please, I have a daughter, I don't want to die-”
I cut him off. “I know fully well about your daughter.” I gestured with the gun to a low backed wooden chair, the kind they have at some diners, with shitty wooden arms. “Sit there, and I won't shoot you.”
He stumbled through the filth and over the now broken furniture, his wide eyes glued on me. When he took his seat, I tossed the roll of duct tape to him. “Tape yourself to the legs. Ten turns per leg.

>>9271309

His hands shook as he wrapped the tape around his ankles, attaching them to the legs of the chair. The whole time, I kept the barrel of the gun pointed at his skull. He kept whispering to himself, “Oh god, oh Jesus, oh shit, oh god...”

When he had finished with his ankles, I pointed at his right arm. “Now that one.”

Slowly, he started wrapping the tape around his arm, securing it to the chair. “What are you going to do?” he asked, his voice shaky, barely above a whisper.

I took a step closer to him, making him cringe and hold up his left hand, as if to block me. “I'm going to fucking shoot you if you don't hurry up with that tape.”

He wrapped the tape around his arm. “Why are you doing this to me?”

I tore the tape off the roll. “You goddamn well know why. Now put your other arm down.

As immobilized as he was, I was able to tape his left arm to the chair, like his right arm was. His eyes went off of me, and locked onto the dead woman on their kitchen floor. “Why did you kill her?”

“Because she knew, and chose to hide it from me. When I found out, she chose to leap in and make it worse.”

“Why now? Why after all these years?”

I tore the roll of tape off of the binding, and tossed it aside. “Because you finally won. She left me. I forgave her, we tried to work it out, but in the end, she couldn't live with a man who knew that she cheated on him.” I holstered my handgun, and crouched in front of him, my face level with his. “It's true that she was the one that left me, but it was you that started it. It was you. When I took you out of the cold. When I gave you a place to live. When I got you a job, when I fed you and kept a roof over your fucking head.” I reached out and punched him in the jaw, whipping his head to the side. I'm pretty sure I broke a few knuckles when I hit him... my form was horrible.

I stood up, shaking my hand as he started sobbing. “I am going to kill you, you know. I don't just walk away from this. You don't just walk away.” I grabbed him by the face, pulling it around so he could see me. “Fucking look at me when I'm talking to you. I. Am going. To end. Your life. Not because you fucked her. Not because she cheated on me with you. But because you betrayed me.”

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

>>9271220
I'd say most are like me and couldn't give less of a shit

>The SCP Foundation series originated in the "paranormal" /x/ forum of 4chan, where the first special containment procedure, SCP-173, was posted as a creepypasta thread during 2007. Many other special containment procedures were followed shortly after, inspired by SCP-173. In 2008, the SCP Foundation series was transferred to its current Wikidot website.

I looked up the tweet, about feminism being a virus to infect things... kind of proves the point I guess.

No real loss though.

If you think you can even understand Bloom's highly esoteric Kabbalistic rendering of Genius-examples, you're probably wrong. If you think you know enough to argue addenda and errata, you're a fucking idiot.

Bloom's a Jew's Jew, and he's outrageously brilliant and insanely accomplished as a reader. If you haven't read Philo's complete works, oh well, he has. If you haven't read Maimonedes, just remember, he has.

If you think you can out-Jew a Jewish intellectual of his caliber, you'd better have some Jews to back you up.

>>9271192
excellent post

>>9271182
I would add myself and remove all the females.

classics are usually classics for a reason. if you think you've outsmarted generations of titanic minds you're a fool.

>>9271186
this, go read the sticky you turd wrangler

>>9271180
I'm reading L. right now and I'm really liking it. I get why they don't read it in high schools though desu

I do this music and film often too. I really do recommend it.

>>9271101
Yeah, it clears the mind.

How does one 'delete' a book?

Is this from Mein Kampf?

>>9271097
no it's from my diary desu

Is /lit/ too brainlet to (You) this great post?

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Umm... EXCUSE ME! Would you mind pausing that *snicker* lowly VISUAL MEDIA? I happen to only garner entertainment from WORDS ARRANGED IN A WAY TO GIVE MEANING. AND I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW

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u say i hav no life because im gamer.. WRONG i have many...

I really love it. Never tried it in english though, I stick to my native language. The most interesting ones are definitely the ones with plays on words rather than precious vocabulary. I also wonder how this could be used to teach students how to improve their prose, that's one of my objectives can but I can't find a good approach.

>crucify words

>>9271051
>crucify words
What means this?