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>>9964713
>How can females even compete with the Dick?

by not being self-involved pseudo-literate speed freaks with terminal logorrhea would be a good start, i guess.

>>9964713
Looks like Philip K. Dick likes him some DICK, amirite?

>>9964637
where do you buy this
also >>>/x/

>>9964624
Well, he is a gambler and an author who struggles with wanting to be faithful to our lord Jesus Christ despite his own cynical shortcomings.

i love him

>>9964624
Where does he get his ideas?

Can you be more specific? Do you want history books?

>>9964610
History books, fiction from the 17th century, fiction about the 17th century, books, games, movies, anything that has to do with that century really. It's just a time period that fascinates me and for whatever reason it seems both hard to classify and kind of generally unpopular nowadays (unless its pirates)

>>9964626
You could give Shakespeare, Milton, or Cervantes a read if you haven't

>>9964560
Frankenstein.

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The Master and Margarita

Hang yourself

Vale...easy on the tears

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Learned it in a song by the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQFrE-5WSg

>>9964530
When I first heard it I thought it was "veil of tears," which desu I still think is slightly cooler

It's not good and it didn't even have the entertainment value of being ridiculed (except for maybe one or two scenes) because of it's intentionally bland writing. Avoid at all costs

>>9964824
Oh, well. That's a shame.

>>9964519
It's just kinda meh. pretty boring dystopian setting that kind of happens overnight. It's not very smart tebehe.

You know, all it took was a google to find the answer. Maybe try that first.

Shut off your computer and read a book, you fucking faggot.

Why are you still reading this?

>>9964397

classics aren't fun to read if you're not used to reading, read something contemporary and engaging about something you're actually interested in.

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Start with the greeks

stop posting threads

>>9964367
Go to bed Leo, you'll never win.

You got my interest, is this a good one to start with Dick?

>>9964325
Because everything is about money and easily digestible garbage makes money

Because you're reading the wrong books.

>>9964325

Not all of it. Time needs to sort out the wheat from the chaff. I like Ben Lerner's books. I think David Rakoff was very funny (RIP Dave). Marilynne Robinson is still working. Pinecone is still working. DeLillo is still working.

>>9964320
The Unsettling of America or perhaps The Way of Ignorance. Both older but still timely.
He was buddies with Thomas Merton and Guy Davenport back in the day fwiw.

>>9964356
Wow did not know. Cool.

>>9964320
His berries.

Damn, well if that's the kind of thing you're reading, then that course isn't gonna teach you SHIT.

If you are in your first week of a major i'd be surprised if you knew anything at all

That being said, its not too late to switch to a major that wont be literally useless by the time you receive it

>>9964292
In order from least important to most:

(1) Get off 4chan
(2) Listen to your teachers and truly engage with what they say. Even if you disagree, you'll learn something - probably even more if you disagree, because you'll learn to defend your opinion rigorously
(3) Do the reading

Do that and you'll not only be fine, you'll get something out of your education. Blowing that shit off, half-assing sycophantic papers you don't believe in, dismissing your profs as brainwashed, etc. are all recipes for regretting uni. If they really are moronic dogmatists (which, maybe they are), then you should have no problem refuting and seeing through all the readings.

Also>>9964301 ignore this fucker. Anything book get a Norton Critical Edition has some merit.

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Note that I'm referencing the specific translation. Even though I'm an atheist now, I still enjoy the KJV quite a bit.

>>9964243
is it true that most churches use newer translations? First I heard of them was this month.

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A Separate Peace. Even my dad has horrible memories of reading it from school

>>9964207
why are there so many books with this exact same cover

>>9964207
The subversive urge to promote white genocide. They really can't help it.

>>9964207
I think it captures the pathos of the egomanaical 'wunderkind' pretty well. If you were the sort of kid who took all AP classes and so on, you know what I mean. Transferring this way of thinking/behaving into the magical world, and so making it more mundane and mean-spirited, like one more academic exercise predicated on brainpower and social class, hits home for people who have been, or have had to deal with, 'early academic' types. That way of living fucks you up, and teenagers are always petty assholes. The point I take it is that contra Harry Potter and A Wizard of Earthsea, magic wouldn't fix this.

The Magicians was actually a breath of fresh air, one of the few modern fantasies of this sort in the past 15 years centered around a young protagonist that I thought really had something to say. The sequels were meh, but I think this one book deserves a place in the fantasy canon.