Post your top 10 read authors from Goodreads.
If there is a tie-breaker that causes it to be more, post those, too.
Rank____ Author____ # of books read
1) Kurt Vonnegut (8 books)
2) JK Rowling (7)
3) Friedrich Nietzsche (5)
4) Charles Bukowski (4)
4) William S. Burroughs (4)
4) William Shakespeare (4)
4) Cormac McCarthy (4)
8) Aldous Huxley (3)
8) Don DeLillo (3)
8) Thomas Pynchon (3)
8) George Orwell (3)
8) Philip Roth (3)
8) Hunter S. Thompson (3)
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>>8973498
I too have read way too much king
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>>8973498
>kafka
>20
did you marked as read every 10-page story ?
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We Americans are rather fond of Russian literature. But how do Russians view American literature?
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>>8973417
>The only things that interest me in the U.S. are Tupac Shakur, Allen Ginsberg and Jackson Pollock
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>>8973417
i'm willing to bet they like it more than their own current lit. that stuff is a phantom of what it once was. the soviet era really destroyed literature in russia. makes me feel sad.
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>>8973426
>i'm willing to bet they like it more than their own current lit. that stuff is a phantom of what it once was. the communism really destroyed literature in russia. makes me feel sad.
FTFY, friend.
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What are the weirdest books you have ever read? 2017-01-14 07:52:58 Post No.8973364
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What are the weirdest books you have ever read?
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I'm looking for unusual and interesting read material. If it's from newer authors, then it's even better. The image is for the lulz.
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>>8973370
DIARY
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>>8973374
To Be Honest
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Why does antipathy surround Alex Kierkegaard's work? Is it purely due to his writing style?
So many authors have said so much more that is offensive. Yet you don't see people calling authors out as just "bullshitting" as much as people call Alex out for this, on the internet at least.
Is it because he challenges the internet (i.e. the popular philosophies of our time) specifically? Was Nietzsche really right when he said this quote? Nietzsche challenged the popular philosophies of HIS time; would people who rail on Alex be no better than those professors who thought Nietzsche was full of shit back then, whom we have all forgotten about (since they were wrong)?
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>>8973383
Alex Kierkegaard (pen name) aka Antony Zyrmpas or Icycalm.
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You answered it yourself, these people will be forgotten and Alex will stay. Time will wash the vermin out of history.
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Reading this and loving it. Th e ebook is currently free on Kindle.
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I recently read Starship Troopers, and am working my way through Forever War. Love both of these so far.
Recently got a $25 gift card, and I want to get a book or two. Been wanting to read Heart of Darkness, so I'll probably get that. Any other suggestions?
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>>8973360
get Job a comedy of justice.
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>Reading this and loving it. Th e ebook is currently free on Kindle.
Yeah? Interesting. Because that image is only available online from the amazon website with the filename "51A32pcbqgL._AC_US218_".
So I have to ask why you're posting it with a filename that means it's one of a number of different versions (cover with seal, cover without seal, silver, gold, then "copy" indicating it was originally a different file type, saved for internet)?
Because that would mean you made the image because you're the author and that makes a lot of sense because the sort of person to do something like that would have to be as stupid as the sort of person who'd write something like that.
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it depresses me to look at this list. i honestly don't think i'll be able to make it through in my lifetime, let alone re-read parts of it.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/literature/bloom/complete.html#C
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>howard
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>howard
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>Me
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when did you realize that a single action or life experience is the equivalent of reading dozens of books, and that reading isn't a valid substitute for real life?
for me it was a few months ago, i'm 25 btw
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>>8973068
I disagree. Some books have changed me so much more than a single action or life experience ever could. Also there is a big difference between those two you know. What exactly do you mean by action?
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>>8973208
it's bait
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>>8973068
Or maybe you just read the wrong books or you aren't able to understand them.
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Are Plato and Aristotle complete works worth getting?
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How much of each have you read
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>>8972773
Yes
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>>8972773
im poor so i would just download it for free but i can see how its aesthetically pleasing
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Why do you guys and other people like poetry at all? It rhymes, but what's so good about that? Why is that good? Is this suppose to be enjoyable? I don't get it. Please explain, I feel like I'm missing out. Unless all poets and poetry lovers throughout history are just pseuds
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>>8972765
>it rhymes
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>>8972769
why did Milton have such DSL?
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well why do people watch movies, look at paintings or listen to music?
because it's art.
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Let me see if I understand this:
Pls correct if any of the following statements is wrong or incorrect:
>reading classical works will give you more cultural memes to work from, these tropes works as cultural baggage you can drain inspiration or simple reference them in your work
>the more cultural reference you can shoehorn, the more wet will be the academia vaginas
>being exposed to more classical readings will offer reference points over what constitutes good writing
>after a while your taste will growth and mature
>the more cultural tropes or more cultura baggage you posses in terms of tropes will give you an edge over the use of tropes, narratives, world building
>trully innovative and genius works are nothing more than ripping off enough works as to plebs not being able to pin point a previous big reference (by example evangelion in anime).
>a genius in art is much more than the technique
>even while most geniuses have great and masterfull techniques, they're considered geniuses because of their originality
>this said originality stems from reading a lot of classical works
>therefore you don't need a lit degree to get to genius level in literature
>the only courses you should even get relates to the technique, like studying grammar and metric in poetry
TL:DR don't major in a lit degree retards, study STEM and get some courses on grammar and how to write poetrhy.
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>>8972583
women are worthless and inferior
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>>8972592
nope retard from r9k.
just like the night is the complement of the day, women are the complement of males.
meanwhile males are too busy waging wars, inventing shit and traveling around the world, women are busy taking care of the childrens and cooking the food.
What's more honorable than to give birth to the newer generations and raise them.
Women are the cornerstone of civilization and their place is the home, free of the worry about having to get a job and archieve things.
That's why most women major in social jobs, because their intelligence in terms of emotions is way advanced to males.
Males think women are stupid because they're too stupid to realize women inteligence is mostly about emotions and intutitions.
But who are u?
nothing more than some bitter virgin who puts the vagina in some pedestal, even if the way is in reverse of normies.
lmao at your life pleb.
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>ITT
>REEE, LITERARY QUALITY IS SUBJECTIVE
>In every other topic
>REEE LITERARY QUALITY IS OBJECTIVE
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does anyone have nice separate hardcover copies of the divine comedy? are penguin classics hardcovers good
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>>8972468
Penguin hardcovers?
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>>8972473
these
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>>8972479
those are extremely tacky
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The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations
of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands
of another shore. Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it
at Henry— threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time,
bounced five yards to Henry’s right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round
Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.
Here,invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting
child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the
law. Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of
him and was in ruins.
Henry was surprised by the plopping sounds in the water. He abandoned
the noiseless transparencies and pointed at the center of the spreading
rings like a setter. This side and that the stones fell, and Henry turned
obediently but always too late to see the stones in the air. At last he
saw one and laughed, looking for the friend who was teasing him.
>>But Roger had whipped behind the palm again, was leaning against it breathing
quickly, his eyelids fluttering.
did roger have an orgasm?
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>>8972417
Who's the girl?
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>>8972552
cute
>get a copy of the latest Harold Bloom book
>ctrl+f "phantasmagoria"
>237 results
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>>8972354
How do you CTRL+F a physical copy of a book? I don't understand!
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>>8972362
Digital copies exist.
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>>8972362
You ask your network of slave scribes to count the words obviously.
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I just got back a bock I had lend to someone, he gave it back with folded pages to point what he liked. Should I kill him?
Also do you usually lend books, and if so do you have any rules?
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>>8972243
Is this guy in fucking middle school? They teach you not to do that at a young age. And no, just tell him not to do that anymore if you ever lend him a book again. I've lent war themed books to my grandpa, as he reads those a lot anyway. I just lent Crime and Punishment to a grill at work. I've lent shitty fantasy novels (Diablo) to my friend when I was younger. Never had a bad experience. I don't have any rules.
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>>8972243
In my experience, people don't read. Especially if they didn't spend money on the book.I still do let people borrow them, but I usually just order another copy on amazon and never expect to hear about their having read it.
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Never EVER lend a book to someone.
When my father was in university he lent one of his "friends" an extremely precious book whose name i don't remember.
It was returned with a fucking coffee cup stain.
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>Hey anon, I heard you like to read so I bought you this. Hope you like it!
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>>8972149
>Thank you!
>Sell it on ebay
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>>8972149
>Oh thanks!
>Later that day I open the book and read the first page
>It reads as follows:Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over,, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death. Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is really.) But my mom believed I required treatment, so she took me to see my regular Doctor Jim, who agreed that I was veritably swimming in a paralyzing and totally clinical depression, and that therefore my meds should be adjusted and also I should attend a weekly Support Group.
>I put down the book and bring it to a charity shop later in the week getting rid of it
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>>8972216
Reddit: The Author