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Post-modern horseshit.

No, comics are inherently inferior.

>>8959156
Agreed, they're all basically the same story but with different characters and pretty pictures. That being said, Watchmen is better than most imo. I enjoyed it at least

all stacks memers should be euthanized.

>>8959082
>Ripley's Believe It or Not
Patrician af

This is possibly the single worst thread ever to appear on this board.

>>8959070
analysis,

hobbes is a piece of shit when it comes to explanation, but his ideas are solid

the only reason they ascribe the quote 'life is long, nasty and brutish' is because of his expository style

This is on my "to get" list but i've forgotten why.

yes, thats why infinite jest is the best book of all time

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Read your mom's diary, desu.

if it's good then yes

>>8958859
please be true.

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>held a door open for old faggot proffessor
>community college
>he comes to school in a fedora and groomed beard
>doesn't look up at me
>I'm obviously there
>goes through another door

I swear to god if I see that faggot I'm going to eat his old ass like Mike Tyson

I always think of anime people belonging to their own unique race that just so happens to sound Japanese. I can never jack it to cosplay because when they're white it looks wrong, and when they're Asian it looks wrong. No one can emulate the Form and essence that anime girls exude

>>8958812
Shut up.

>>8958837
your whore mother should've developed a useful habit of checking for holes in the condoms before she took customers; on the second thought she probably would have died a virgin if she knew in hindsight that even safe copulation would've had the slightest chance of creating an abomination such as you anon.

i really want to read this guy, where should I start anon?

MY

DIARY

Not really lit but Welcome To the NHK matches that description and is OK if you know that it won't be great.
>>8958813
Diary, desu?

Probably, doesn't mean he's worth reading though

>>8958756
lmao good one.

That sounds interesting but this is the first thing i found about the guy

>Vollman began cross dressing in 2008 and has developed a female alter ego personal named Dolores which is documented in The Book of Dolores. "'Dolores is a relatively young woman trapped in this fat, aging male body,' Mr. Vollmann said. 'I’ve bought her a bunch of clothes, but she’s not grateful. She would like to get rid of me if she could.'”

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GIVE EM THE

>>8958791
any recs, fem?

>>8958804
Time Out of Joint
The Mold of Yancy
If There Were No Benny Cemoli

celine is viewed as somewhat controversial i guess

>>8958672
Wouldn't a shorter list be who are great literary figures who aren't considered "wrong" by history?

>>8958680
Okay, good start.

>>8958683
I don't care how long the list is, I said what I meant.

>>8958625
>that projection

>fingered by goblins

Tolkien, you hack

>>8958632
You dont know what that word means.


>>8958625
>"IT BEGINS WITH THE Ford idling up the narrow drive, the sweet drone of honeysuckle thickening the August air" The Girls by Emma Cline

In a way I'm thankful it's the first line, it made me read a few more pages before I reconsidered buying it.

For those unfamiliar, here’s a brief description:
The novel spans several decades and explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and its aftermath through the crack wars in New York City in the 1980s and a changed Jamaica in the 1990s.

>>8958620
Nigger literature

>>8958620
I respect and appreciate your trying to start a thread about non-meme contemporary literature

that said

underageb&

>>8958529
>24
>Ohio
>Catch-22
I'm not very for but it's quite good.

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>27
>NJ
>Infinite Jest

350 pages in. idk yet.

>>8958529
21
michigan
everything flows

very good, but a little scattered

>>8958454
>he's morbidly obese

Fat means pleb, no exceptions.

>>8958493
/thread

>>8958493

>he's a literalist thinker

Making sweeping, unambiguous generalizations means pleb, no exceptions. Granted, being fat probably means that certain kinds of literary genius are inaccessible (could Keats ever have been fat? Or Milton?), it appears to perhaps augment certain other virtues, which might be called charm and exquisite perceptiveness (cf. Johnson, Gibbon, Balzac, Chesterton).

Anyway, one cannot practically speaking learn all the major literary languages of (I say that as somebody who can read Spanish, German, and Latin with decent fluency, and is working on Greek), and yet you should read a smattering from as many of them as possible, so you must read in translation some of the time. Even Ezra Pound conceded that, in the case of poetry, none of the musical beauty of language could survive translation, but if the translator were good, all of the beauty of imagery might. I'm not sure if I exactly agree with that proposition, but that was coming from one of the most exigent men of letters there has ever been. And certainly the situation is much better in the case of prose, whose music is less distinct even in the native tongue, and where the imagery takes a more prominent role in the pleasure of the thing. When I read Baudelaire--Un Voyage a Cythere, say--I recognize that I am in the presence of a very great poem even though I have not a lick of French, though I also recognize that the experience of it would be even more visceral if I could read it in the original. But not so much is lost that it is not still an ecstatic experience, if somehow less "direct" than with poetry that I actually can read.

Nope. The Outsider was much better imho.

The plague wasn't good at all though

>>8958471
t. didn't understand the plague at all