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stupid catposter

>>8921770
not an answer

>>8921773
Your questions is kind of vague, to be honest, desu.

ride the snake
to the lake

with the difference that Jimbo is good, Dylan is shit

no one remembers your name when you're strange

Faith without works is dead, and the Bible proves it time and time again

Anything on the contrary is simply incorrect

Greatest book ever written

>>8921731
Agreed, anon.

That's the ethos of 66% of the United States, soon to be <40%.

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Adventures of augie march by bellow was a better stab at the great American novel.

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>>8921645

What did everyone think of the more didactic style of the first chapter of this book?

I think he makes a convincing argument but it was mostly already conveyed more powerfully before, for example with Andrei's experience at Austerlitz and his disillusionment with greatness after his encounter with Napoleon. Though in its rejection of the idea of the war having singular causes the chapter does seem to give a useful overview of the typical history textbook answers to that question for those of us not fully clued up on events.

And how do you feel about the passages exclusively concerned with real people and events, like Balashov's dispatch to Napoleon? Do you regret it when none of our fictional heroes are there to at least observe?

I think I enjoy it more when Tolstoi manages to integrate the historical and the fictional, such as that scene where Boris overhears the Emperor. It portrays the necessary factual event and reinforces our understanding of Boris' character, all without straining believability.

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>Rostov, smoking his pipe and turning his head about as the water trickled down his neck, listened inattentively, with an occasional glance at Ilyin who was pressing close to him. This officer, a lad of sixteen who had recently joined the regiment, was now in the same relation to Nikolai that Nikolai had been to Denisov seven years before. Ilyin tried to imitate Rostov in everything, and adored him as a girl might have done.

I don't give this youngster much chance of surviving the war.

>>8921578
I think Tolstoy gives a classic fatalistic argument, ie reality is determined and we cannot grasp the full picture so our perceived causes are only illusions.
I think this is a wrong way of looking at things; we've evolved to find causes in things because we can influence those causes to change things to our liking. While Napoleon was a product of his time when he reached power, his decisions DID matter, and looking at historic "causes" such as his intentions and mistakes can actually make us more prepared to deal with the present.

The Illiad, get it. Also Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>8921491
Faerie Queene if they have it

>>8921491
stoner

Burroughs is all I can stand and it mostly due to his writing being postmodern .

>>8921337

who's on the cover there? looks like lew welch and gary snyder

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>>8921337
I am against sexually active people and those with liberal attitudes

>>8921250
That seems like a pretty dumb thing to write a paper on

>>8921250
bait

>>8921250
>So I am writing a paper in my AP English class about the sex lives of many appraised writers

End yourself

Novel ideafor you mate, read it and find out.

>>8921111
i read My work is not yet done and it was pretty bad. actually i think i just read the first one and then returned it to the library. i was disappointed because i had heard of him several years ago and "nihilist horror" is something i would love. i'll try reading something else

It's two books reprinted as one. They're both pretty good horror collections. Very understated horror, though, more about building a sense of dread than shocking the reader. Think Robert Aickman, if Aickman decided he wanted to write more like Nabokov or Bruno Schulz.

>>8921163
MWINYD is an odd one in his body of work. I think Ligotti said in some interview that it was originally an idea he had for a movie script, and he figured that a more grounded and realistic story would have better chances at getting produced. Instead of a script he ended up writing it as a short novel. It's really not his best work, though it has some really good bits in it.

Either way, Ligotti is kinda hard to get into. The horror in his story doesn't jump at you so much as it lingers in the back of your head.

If you feel like giving him another chance, get the book OP posted and skip straight to the story "Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech." Or get Teatro Grotteco and start with whichever story you think has the most appealing title.

A lot of contemporary lit is cliched navel-gazing filled with bromides to make those living in bicoastal cities think they're intellectuals. It is the con-man of literature. It offers nothing, but seems to.

>>8921041
Because best sellers are like normie top 40 music. If you like it, good for you. Chances are, it is not anything groundbreaking

Brief History is decent. Could have been great if it wasn't so bloated.

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>>8920927

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>>8920960
ewww

>>8920927
sun tzu is berrer

Before anyone points it out, I know the pic I attached is of Sophocles' Antigone.

>>8920844
Lol how she doesn't have valid reason

Ignore this, I thought you were talking about Sophocles'
>>8920855

Wind, Sand and Stars
Homage to Catalonia, or Collected Essays of Orwell, whichever he hasn't read yet

>>8920801
start with the greeks

>>8920898
>>8920832

Thank you. Which Books from the Greeks?

"Depression" is such a broad term that it'd be impossible to prescribe you a cure when you haven't even explained the extent of your depression, my man.

Reading Plato might help though.

Stirner

>>8920796
It is not precisely a sad or happy book, but I found The Magic Mountain to be extremely therapeutic and comfy. It might help you to at least to not feel alone due all the characters and ideas exposed. (However the end is kind of gloomy)

>That Nietzsche mustache

>>8921101
just listen to what he says lmao

>>8920619
Who is this guy.