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Atheism is reworked protestantism but with even less thinking involved, surprisingly. So no.

Possibly Hemingway

>>8930734
>intuition
lol

>>8930487
Start with the Greeks

>>8930499
Shut the fuck up peasant

Be more specific.

>>8930443
looks like some sort of numale cuck who hates whiteness and masculinity

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>>8930448
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>>8930443
I like his stuff. Tom Wolfe and Thomas Wolfe are both pretty good, for very different reasons.

Read more slowly.

read less quickly

>>8930373
>>8930381
Incredible. Thanks for asking this amazing question to evoke the depths of this boards wisdom, OP.

Hates manlets so pretty based

>>8930358
true, but she doesn't really know how to pick 'em

>>8930340
Enjoyed it

>>8930123
Zadie is on my reading list but I have yet to get there.
this thread is going to go to shit btw

>>8930135
I'm almost through White Teeth. Getting to new lit is a long process when my queue is already so long.

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>>8930123
> female authors

I got a tablet to read but I end up just reading library books. Whatever you are used to I guess

>>8929959
my friend has one of those and honestly it is the raddest shit I've ever held

>>8929959
Apparently it feels really good in the hand with its asymmetrical design, plus it comes with a leather case that has a built-in battery.

I remember reading somewhere that all kindles, even the more expensive ones, actually end up costing Amazon more than they sell them for. They end up making their money through the books and other media people purchase for those devices.

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this

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Not that I ever bought into that meme, but if anyone can read pic related and still believe a woman can't write then they're hopeless as a reader.

>>8929890
>>8929928
>>8930040
If women can write, how come they have absolutely no sense of humor? This applies to all three of the above writers, as well as Virginia Woolf.

This is not true of all female writers of course (I like Flannery O'Connor a bit, as well as Colette and Muriel Spark), but I think one of the reasons /lit/-types come down so hard on them is that they were at the forefront of the hushed and deathly serious sort of prose you find in so many unreadable books today. Very style over substance, which is, dare I meme, symptomatic of the irreducible female principle. McCullers is like the Nirvana of literature: good enough on her own, but she spawned so many shitty imitators I wish she hadn't happened.

>>8929881
>Finnegans Wake
>English language

u wot m8

Listen to the audiobook. Joyce intended his work to be listened to as much as read

>>8929906
The musicality of it

How was 9th grade English today OP?

>>8929879
Didn't read it for school. Just for fun. I did read brave new world in 9th though, enjoyed it.

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>>8929879
>shitting on people for reading classic literature

Yep, every book is a contest and you have to clock in your read times.

Also, any meal you don't wolf down in under 20 minutes is a disgrace to yourself and your family, so clock that shit, too.

>>8929864
You're a fucking idiot.

>>8929903
>wolf down in under twenty minutes

Are there people who eat for longer than five minutes?

Except fat people?

>>8929856
nice glad to see you haven't read them.

I own four copies of infinite jest

>>8929873
Are you allowed to post here?

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Psyche, ψυχή was the deification of the human soul

She was portrayed in ancient mosaics as a goddess with butterfly wings (because psyche was also the Ancient Greek word for 'butterfly')

The Greek word psyche literally means "soul, spirit, breath, life or animating force"

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Cyberpunk's protagonists are adept at appropriating the materials of popular culture and making them speak to alternative needs and interests

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Without the courageous satire of the sacred clown, there would only ever be the overly-serious, prescribed state of cultural conditioning

ñ_ñ

>>8929791
>Implying anyone cares about poetry
>Implying anyone here has read any of bolaño's poetry

>>8930713
Speak for yourself, pleb.

>go to bookstore
>look around for about 10 minutes
>find a book I'm interested in
>go to counter to pay for it
>leave store
>drive home
>stop at hardware store to get a couple of supplies before going home
>go home
>get lunch later with friend
>go to another bookstore after
>store owner is spooky

>at Barnes wandering around
>Jerusalem over in the sci-fi/fantasy section catches my eye
>check out the new meme
>its literally twice as big as it needs to be
>while I'm flipping through this old-people-Bible of a book some guy pushes past me
>i'm the only one in the aisle so it's obvious he's trying to low-key get my attention
>middle aged overweight neckbeard in sweatpants and novelty shirt puts a Jerusalem sized book back on the shelf loudly
>"OOHHHH MAANN. BRILLIANT BOOK. SUCH A BRILLIANT BOOK I FANT BELIEVE I FINISHED THE WHOLE THING IN ONE DAY. BEAUTIFUL.
>he leaves and I go see what this redditor is on about
>The Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
I hope he saw me laughing

>talking with friend in book store
>describe book that I've heard of but don't remember the name
>from behind the shelf a bald man in a wheel chair rolled around
>answers my question and rolls away back to another aisle
I believe I met my guardian angel that day