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Idk about all of that but Slaughterhouse 5 is a good read

>>8898177
Cat's Cradle was even better

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>>8898170

>>8898135
It's called free verse

>>8898135
Sure. Ever since Bob Dylan gratuitously won the Nobel meme prize in literature, anything in literature is possible.

>>8898135
It's poetry.
Hell, even this post is poetry.

>>8898056
>tfw ur big boob gf is too heavy to do position in OP's pic

>>8898056
I've never had sex.

>>8898104
that sucks. it's actually one of the things in life that lives up to the hype. that and heroin.

*spits in book*
*closes it*

nothing better than the natural bookmark

>>finish yank
>>tears page

have to introduce them to reading at some point

Don't do that shit I read Name of the Rose nigga that shit will get you got

>>8897981
They're pretty solid. But his novellas are far better.

>>8897988
I found Franny and Zooey quite pretentious actually.

>>8898012
The discourse throughout the novella is truly GOAT.

>>8897943
Everything

>>8898007
okay thanks

Where is there a sale? My bank account is in the green and it's upsetting me.

>>8897877
Dr. No

>>8897877

Presumably the only answer is 8 1/2. Still is the premier film about a film director in the midst of creativity crisis while making a film, and all while scenes from throughout his life swirl about.

Like the Recognitions or Pale Fire (though with the latter, I've only read once in bits and pieces, so I'll be careful here), I think all works that could only have come about in this time and place

>>8897877
How about you do your own fucking research you insufferable cunt.

>>8897856
Why are people, like you, so fucking desperate to find pop-culture personalities that read semi-decent literature?

What does this achieve?

Because a comedian reads Alice Munro and Samuel Beckett that improves your quality of life? How?

Take pop-culture for what it provides at face-value, because it provides nothing else.

You are not going to find anything you are looking for.

>>8897933
Perhaps he's lonely and in search of someone to look up to. Living

Did the other Norm thread get deleted?

>>8897966
yeah basically this, i've probably spent more hours listening to norm clips on youtube than i have talking to anyone in the last year tbqh

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>>8897812

>introduction written by a celebrity whose work has nothing to do with literature

>>8897812

I give introductions a maximum of 3 pages to convince me to read it otherwise I rip it out of my copy and throw it in the fucking trash.

That maximum shrinks to 1 page if the writer is female.

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>>8897812
>First World problems

Crime

>>8897718
The Red and the Black, by Stendhal.

Crime, and then read Notes From Underground.

Sewn. Except, I think, is the book is like 150 pp.

>>8897694
Sewn.
>>8897705
>Except, I think, is the book is like 150 pp.
That's also sewn.

Also, best value for money especially if you wanna own classics mainly Tolstoy, almost all English authors and few Greeks (Homer, Virgil, Herodotus, Plato).

>>8897694
Gimmicky stuff anon

marx improved his work, read capital instead

>>8897676
Die

>>8897676
Ok. Maybe I should just go and read piketty while I'm at it. Yeah and I can pick up mein kampf too. You people make me sick.

>>8897578
koreans cant write for shit

>>8897578
Vi Khi Nao's Fish in Exile was bretty gud, probably the best I've read that was published in 2016.
The prose is great, and she manages to cover the subject of grieving for post children in an original, brutal manner.
She also clearly started with the Greeks.
I honestly had low expectations for the book coming from an MFA grad, but I was really surprised. She broke the mold almost entirely.

>>8897578
>Mongolian literature
I'm of Uzbek descent, not Mongolian but I can make a few recommendations. That said, I don't know what you're looking for. Anything worth reading would be translations of shit from the 1200's and whatnot. Modern Mongolia is a small nation and most of it's modern literature is all the Socialist Realism crap the Soviets were pumping out in which case I'd just recommend reading the Russian stuff instead, it's probably better.

>>8897535
i like how he's picking up some steam around here. I got smugglers bible for Christmas. I read his 9/11 essay which was...different and brilliant at the same time.

>>8897535
I hate crime thrillers.
I never watched any of these CSI things, Dexter BS. Blah.

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>>8897563
how about ancient history?

>>8897467
Who is it though? Evola?

>>8897467
>not using stanford's philosophy wiki

>Looking up a philosopher on rationalwiki