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>>8919390
there's a sticky for that purpose, but i'll bite: what do you like?

>>8919394
I've red most of the critically acclaimed stuff like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Kite Runner and that sort of thing. I wouldn't really know what category/genre that would be in though.

>>8919407
read* shit

Start things and try to finish them.

The problem of authentically "being oneself" disappears when you actually set out to "do" anything; your success or failure will constitute whatever you were as you continue to "become" whatever it is you are.
Why do you feel the need to be unique and new?
All people know are things others remembered and shared with them; basically all of those things are/were derivative of something else.

That's just the way it is.

>>8919320
>you take this anon's advice
>you have been influenced by him

there's no escape op

>>8919334
lmao
>>8919303
I have this problem too.
Try to operate based on your instincts within reason

>>8919301

Doubt it. Not the way he wrote to Nora.

I think Joyce was even more red-blooded than most "Greats" were. His biggest competition was Proust, and we all know how Proust was.

>>8919301
No way. You can't hide your homosexuality as a writer. Just ask Lawrence.

Not even "closet."

>>8919229
He doesn't look like he does

psychotic reactions and carburetor dung

here's a primer:
http://www.oocities.org/tracybjazz/hayward/van-the-man.info/reviews/astral.html

>>8919229

With his Metal Machine Music review.

>>8919219

People see that it's not treated as Prime Pynchon and they see that it's a thousand pages, so they decide it's not worth it. desu because it's more accessible than GR it goes by a lot faster than that one.

>>8919289
>desu because it's more accessible than GR it goes by a lot faster than that one.
i don't understand that at all. ATD was near impossible for me to follow even as reading it. GR is crystal clear just by memory.

It's just so big...

>>8919188

Oh boy are there!

At the very top you'll see a link under 'Recommended Literature'

Theres loads there

>>8919188
There's the better Greek one >>8916890

>>8919188
My personal list:
"Mythology" by Edith Hamilton
"A Brief History of Ancient Greece"
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Theogeny, Works and Days by Hesiod
The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers. Eumenides) by Aeschylus
The Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
Medea by Euripides
The Frogs, Lysistrata, The Clouds by Aristophanes
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito. Phaedo, Meno, Republic by Plato
Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemain Ethics, Politics by Aristotle

>getting spooked into "supporting independent book merchants" instead of just getting them off amazon or itunes

>>8919173
>Implying I'm going to buy my books

>>8919170
Yes OP

>>8919173
>getting spooked into buying digital media instead of pirating

He saw in many which ways.

>>8919164
One eye on the intrinsic meaningless of life.

One eye on the bitches.

>>8919135
My ex girlfriend said she loved the movie. Never watched it, and never will because it makes me remember that fucking bitch.

>>8919204
It's pretty good. Forgot it was based on a book. Might read it myself now.

Into Thin Air is better tbqh

>>8918981
Flowers of Evil is essential opiumcore

Who here /drugaddict/?

>>8918986
Me, well not really addicted but preparing some poppy tea now

Degenerates get out

he's just bragging about being a certified edgelord

He is implying that intellectualism should not be restrained to the binary spectrum of "healthy" or "unhealthy" labelling - that no scholarly paradigm is dangerous.

>>8918950
He misunderstood what they meant by intellectual health. People were asking Foucault to stop having sex with the bugchasing students.

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>can't even begin to understand anything he's read
>proceeds to make a thread about it

Was he retarded?

help. how do i into hyperbole. sos.

>>8918915
It pisses me off how everyone criticizes Lovecraft's typical "undescribable horror" when it's the BASIS of his work, perhaps the most original and aesthetic notion he came up with. It's the very kernel of his works, that which distinguishes him from the mere dustbin of unknown, long past fantasy and science-fiction and horror writers. The notion that language is inadequate to describe reality, and that the true, transcendent reality that can't be described by language is itself horrifying is what raises him a notch above all the other forgotten horror writers. There's a genuine philosophy behind his horror stories, one that might make you stop and think for a moment. Is he Joyce, Proust, Melville? No, definitely not, his prose is as convoluted as theirs but in a worse way, but he's at least deeper and better than other horror writers for the philosophical nature of his works.

Criticizing the (admittedly on first glance cliched and trite) "undescribable horror"-trope in his works means you don't understand Lovecraft. also, he was only describing what he could of it, what could be described by language and comprehended by the speaker's mind, that's the point

It's absolute shit.

>>8918839
>we
We don't read Malazan or fantasy here. You're looking for the containment - i mean genre thread.
>>>/lit/sffg

The only fantasy series that even comes close to being "literary", in my opinion. Dont listen to faggots who've never actually read a book, read it and decide for yourself.

so what if i am???!??

Subvocalizing masterrace is finally vindicated

it syas "a brid in teh teh buhs" rigth?

Starts out really spooky, get super boring in the middle, hits all the victorian cliches, and then evolves into this adventure montage before ending in a really anti-climactic way. If you're really into vore you might like the fly eating part.

>>8918885
HA okay looks like ill give it a go, cheers

It has its moments. Van Helsing's dialogue is always long-winded and tiresome but that was my only major gripe. I'd recommend it.