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Little, Big by John Crowley. It's a very pleasant, enjoyable, engaging read. Very 100AdS-esque with magical realism and a focus on multiple generations of a family with deep connections to the waning "magic" of their world that employs occasional metaficitonal techniques to good effect.

That's super reductive and maybe not an enticing description. It's not as derivative as I'm making it seem. Please read it it was really good.

Read the sound and the fury. Possibly the great american novel, certainly the best southern novel ever. It can get hard to follow at times, but the themes aren't too difficult to grasp.

The Bathtub's Music: A Novel (2015) by Angela Kim. Lyrical, heartbreaking, deeply felt.

>>9160785
>being an academic subverter of decency and whiteness

try the redpill

When did you realise that the ideal of being well read was a harmful meme propagated by the academia-media-publishing industrial complex?

"Good peon... Focus on the barely disguised narcissistic memoirs of some dead person... Books are mind enriching... Consume more books... Never mind that the information age has made a mockery of information's value as a commodity among people... You're just so curious about the world and such a voracious reader, aren't you, peasant...

That psychologist's new 400 page book based on lab experiments and that could be summarised in 5 pages has been read by most people at your local cafe! Imagine the embarrassment if they find out you haven't read it... You're right, enjoyment is an immature state... That continental philosopher has such profound and non trivial insights about our society, it seems like you now have another 12 books on your "must read" list in order to be well read... Don't forget the conservative tradition, that's another 20 books you must read... No, don't ask any meta-questions or ask whether they work within self referential citation ring systems with unfalsifiable theories and trivial insights; bad peasant! Your dinner party guests would be shocked to hear that!

This 1200 page post-modern masterpiece references 500 works that you must also read before you die... No, don't fall asleep while reading it! The cover quote calls it, "Frequently hilarious!" Maybe you haven't read enough to fully appreciate it?"

>>9160805
>That psychologist's new 400 page book
>havent read
>anon claims people claim is embarassing
>is anon right though?
>narcissistic memoires
>fiction is about the author and not the reader
>projecting this much

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Basically paraphrasing the cutscenes from this game will make you sorta sound like you know what you're talking about in current events to plebs

No, Goathe (or whatever the guy who wrote Faust is named) is

You might actually be retarded, usually people grow out of finding bright colours infinitely entertaining by the time they're 5

Ignoring that this is pretty clearly bait, there's plenty of pomo lit that addresses the concept/limits of the form of the novel by breaking typographical conventions.

>>9160448
It serves as an eternal reminder of the Mongolian flag.

Nothing, because I'm not a control freak

>>9160448

It helped me get a grip on reality again when I had psychotic depression.

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>>9160272
Po-mo Orthodox Mysticism it is.

Also the last line wrecks the pasta.

>>9160272
read hunger by hamsun

>>9159753
i am drunk and misspelled two things.

>>9159756
Commence IS begin. How many thongs? That St. Chapelle?

>>9159636
think he influences anyone, really? how many of these authors have furtive gardens?
how many of them have access to treasure that hasn't been plundered so many times that it feels old at the first few paragraphs?

why the fuck should i read these fat fucks when i can read the shit that inspired them?

me

>>9159674
fertile* lol i'm so stupid sometimes.

Talented fourth grader you got there. Stick that on the fridge.

I fucked up, man. I sat in my apartment bedroom anxiously. Fixing my hair and confidence, I thought about what I'd do to the girl sitting in the living room.

2 hours ago I smoked weed on the cold back porch. She and two others walked out on me. I thought of this story about how I was on the phone with my girlfriend in case she asked me why I was out there for 40 minutes.

"Yeah, long relationship."

I was telling the girls from the couch about my girlfriend, the internet.

Act II.

We met in a La Quinta. Funny enough it wasn't too far from where I am now. My PSP could access this thing called "Wi-Fi." At 11 I was in heaven preparing to see nude women. I had been a horny kid, visualize naked women intensely from 5 years old. I got in trouble in first grade because I told the other three kids at table that I saw a women walking down the street. After waiting with my 6 long and hard inches, I finally got to see it irl. It was amazing.

And that's how I got trapped by porn.

-June

Las Vegas features pretty prominently in James Ellroy's Underworld USA trilogy

>>9159091

Fear and Loathing? It's a fun, pulpy kind of read without much substance, but he occasionally throws a very clever observation your way, especially in the last few pages.

>>9159091
Fools Die by Puzo.

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stop feeling sorry for yourself

My Diary Desu

>>9158670
You should probably keep in mind that nobody but yourself will ever read it. Or better yet just bust a nut, don't waste hours writing smut, and read something to better yourself.

can push girls even feel sex?

>>9158678
no

the book is pure ideology

Go to bed, Bill.

>>9158607
>he thinks there's a way out of the postmodern

>>9158607
What if Trump killed postmodernism and revived the West's sense of dignity and purpose?

>>9158527
BRRRAAAAAPPPPPPPPPP

I want to tug and tongue his fleshy little-big sexy stretchy wrinkly meat slabs of flab.

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>when you feel something coming up The Tunnel

David Fords' Theology, A Very Short Introduction (Oxford) quickly breaks it down, and has the bibliography to get you started. The best way, I think, is to read one of the better histories of the Middle Ages; a good, old one is H.O. Taylor's The Medieval Mind.

>>9158380
>Not just Christianity/western theology, but theology overall, including very ancient religions.
You know there is a difference between theology and religion? For example there's pretty much no islamic theology at all.
Therefore, are you interested in theology or religion?

>>9160466
Most religions have atleast some recorded theology, what the fuck are you talking about?

Islam has plenty of Theological writings.