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>>9231583
Billy budd is goat

His poetry is also damn good

>>9231583
Billy Budd and Bartleby the Scrivener are excellent

I found The Confidence Man boring, repetitive and not worth the slog.

Israel Potter was entertaining, but basically Melville lite. Just something he wrote to pay bills not something with same obsessive brilliance as Moby Dick

what about typee/omoo/mardi?

>>9231569
Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

>>9231569
Depends on what you thought of it. How did you interpret the book? I can give you different reccs based on what you took from it but we could have read it completely differently.
Dont read any of ellis's other stuff though. Its OK but this is all he really achieved

>>9231569
Pretty much every other Ellis book is a (slightly worse) variation of the same thing so if you really liked AP the rest will probably be entertaining enough. Less Than Zero is the best one and can be read in a couple hours so try that at the very least.

If you haven't I recommend going to a store like best buy or Staples with a display one, or checking out a friend's if you can. The display is much much easier on the eyes and pleasant to read on. I love my Paperwhite. I tried to read a physical book again but ended up getting it on my Kindle and reading it on that

>>9231528
Yes- they're cheaper than tablets and they're e-ink, so they're more comfortable to read.

I love how it wasn't mentioned yet, but the only rational reason to get a kindle aside from storage is to pirate books.

No, it isn't.

This is the only one that matters because it shows how fucking stupid they are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0

>>9231500
I knew this one would be posted and this was done in a much more clever and entertaining way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A

There was one fairly interesting talk on physics concerning particle physics, and whether we were heading in the direction of discovery, or endless repetition. The closing thought was something along the lines of having to readjust our perspective for the sciences because there's a chance we have it wrong.

It was a charming thought but through the talk I was just constantly reminded of the 'relativity of wrong'.

If anyone's interested I'll find it.

Brave New World--

>>9231472
Helter Skelter by Bugliosi

>>9231408
From the top of my head:

God Tier: Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein
Great Tier: Husserl, Marx, Freud
Good Tier: Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger
Fair Tier: Nietzsche, Leibniz, Adorno

Rest aren't worth consideration in a ranking

>>9231408
God: Kant

Top: Plato, Aristotle

High: Hegel, Pierce, Spinoza

Medium: Hume, Hobbes, Aquinas, Heidegger

Low: Descartes, Locke, Neitzche

Shit: Leibniz, Foucault

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>>9231427
>Top: Plato, Aristotle

the long goodbye

>>9231332
farewell, my lovely

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red harvest is pretty good OP

>>9231243
>Wait...

Expecting us to believe you just at this moment finished the book and the very first impulse was to make a /lit' thread.

Well, fuck you.

>>9231246
I finished it earlier today, and had other shit going on up til now, dickhead.

Tell her the weak should fear the strong.

damn....absolutely, completely, throughly BTFO....FOREVER,,,,someone get Sarah Fisher a sponsorship

>>9231176
Joseph Conrad was racist for highlighting racism. Also he said nigger, which, as a white woman who refuses to accept context, I cannot let slide.

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Imagine all the good times.

Sokal's hoax is really lame.
Ya man, everything is shit, we know. He also forgets pomo values. Just an aggressively pointless exercise.

>>9231154

>positivism is useful for philosophy and literature

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>>9231128
Holyshit, imagine being this intellectually blown the fuck out as a kid you're still insecure about it as an adult

>>9231138
This is from Alain DeBotton's biography

>>9231138
>Assuming OP is an adult

>>9231095
Spoilers dude come on

He realizes he can't have the 16 year old cutie. I imagine Dostoevsky had him commit suicide in the novel so as to parallel Raskolnikov. They both go through the same problems, i.e. being isolated from society by their ubermensch philosophy, so it makes it seem as if Raskolnikov's only alternative to going to Siberia was suicide, which helps explain his motiviations.

Honestly the only explanation i can come up with is that his own nihilism killed him. (its been like 5 years since i read the book and i don't remember all the details)

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>>9231069
>Ligotti

>>9231069
>The Frolic
Best C93 song.

Either "Purity" or "The Nightmare Factory"

he was part of the British New Wave, so the SF he wrote wasn't exactly Niven / Heinlein / Clarke, it was more.. uh.. Harlan Ellison with all the bullshit taken out.

He had a trilogy of sf novels that are something.
The Drowned World
The Burning World
The Crystal World
The last is the best.

Crash is good, too.
Atrocity Exhibition is for those who want Burroughs lite.

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>>9231121
Really? One short story is about the very time going wrong because someone commited the first murder in space.

Fiction

>>9231042
It's boring.

>>9231090
Just because of the dense prose, or is your critique aimed at the plot?