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Because none of these books are linked, there's no real prescribed reading order, it's entirely subjective. It depends on personal taste, aptitude for language and skill with reading. If you've never read something like this before, and Pynchon is your first big writer, start with IV or BE because they're easier to read. I started with M&D but I found it really hard because of the writing style, so I switched to IV and now I'm going strong on M&D.

It's worth pointing out that I haven't read anything other than IV, BE, AtD and currently on M&D. I own gravity's rainbow, but I haven't started it yet and I don't plan to until I can give it my full commitment, which I going to be a while because of University.

Just read them in the order they were published.

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>>9965094
Don't you ever compare Eco and RAW to fucking cheap stealer Brown.
Also, bump for interest.

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, a fun. light conspiracy read.
It will play with your expectations a bit..

>>9965615
You couldn't be referring to renowned author Dan Brown, could you?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/

>>9965091

Go and take it to pleddit. They might actually help you because they are nice guy fags. Apart from that get fucked.

>>9965061
>ring binding

looks like ass but it does the job

>>9965061
Super patrician. Btw, how are those script readings coming along at your grandma's house in Glendale and how does she like her once-peaceful neighborhood being infused with criminal beaners, and how was your shift at Starbucks today?

Kys

read the starter kit, I think all of them are in the top 100

Minus Clockwork and cuckoo, since they are trash

>>9964936
I should've posted this in the 'questions that don't deserve their own thread' thread.

My system 21st century version

Bobby Fisher teaches chess
Chessacademy
Whatever book that teaches basic strategy, tactics, and openings.

>>9964932
Why in fuck would you want to live in that city? Chances are very slim that you'd be a guardian.

>>9964932
but i want to have sex

>>9965103
>Chances are very slim that you'd be a guardian.

That's a good thing, if you understood what that entails correctly.

>>9965566
You could have it all the time as long as you were a 'Chad', otherwise you'd be a 'cuck' taking care of all the kids the chads had.

Seriously? Damn. I once read it is a poor decision to have characters' names in your book to start with the same letter. Imagine the same names.

>>9964930
>you've got to be shitting me. Why are there multiple people with the same common cultural name in this book based in a small town?

Petrovich isn't a name you retard, it's a patronymic that's used in polite conversations

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606301h.html

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>>9964924
>It ended up as some PSA bullshit for the furry ball vampire

>>9964919
Off the top of my head I'd suggest The death of Ivan Ilyich

piratebay still offers a lot of audiobooks, more so than real ebooks it often seems to me. Free audiobooks for public domain books are also available on gutenberg.org. other than thatall the usual torrent sites and one-click hoster sites like bolt.cd.

The rose of this worldy life,
The rapine of this virtous strife,
Has alured me;
Alured me to the depths of ardous blithe

Why must I be allured?
Why must eros be so crude?
To bring me to this tempestous blight
To such torturous heights

Why must such a device be contrived?
Why must my heart be so deprived?

Oh eros! Why must you do so?
Oh eros! Why must I be so?
r8&h8

>>9964841
>last time we had this
You mean yesterday, since the other thread is still up? Use the fucking catalogue.

poetry has to be the most esoteric thing for me

how the fuck do you even do it, I don't get the high level shit at all

Soft gommie like Woody Guthrie

>>9964835
He'd probably be down with AntiFa, if that's what you're asking

Who gives a shit

Probably not. There are more resources for readers now than before the internet was a thing. Not only are eBooks more available (legally and illegally; cheap and free), but there are more resources to find books and obtain them. And, unlike life before the internet, you have places to share your thoughts and engage with a community, a good thing for social creatures like us.

It's always worth remembering that the percentage of people who read has always been microscopic.

>>9964852
Thanks, I agree. Maybe this has led to more book buyers and fewer readers though, hard to be sure. I have trouble imagining modern men reading, though you're right that it has been a low percentage from the beginning.

i never read anything because it won an award