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Checking in. I'm a day behind. Currently reading chapter 17.

>>8894618
Luckily you are getting into chapters with a lot of momentum.

bump for mother russia

>>8894519
The teacher doesn't demand a certain one?

>>8895239
>Solzhenitsyn
>Commie
Idiot alert

Also.

What's your opinion on this arcticle?
http://puntofilosofico.blogspot.com.es/2010/07/quienes-no-deben-leer-nietzsche.html

>>8894382
Well, the article is in Mexican to start off :-)

Ecce Homo enamorado de la Luna

20 books.

Top three:
>The Brothers Karamazov.
>Infinite Jest.
>War and Peace.

Worst book (by far):
>Farenheit 451.

Absolute motherfucking TRASH.

Yes, reached goal.

Next year I want to read about 35.

Next year TBR off top of head:
>Journey to the End of the Night
>Lolita
>Madame Bovary
>Blood Meridian
>Anna Karenina
>Resurrection (by Tolstoy)
>Mrs Dalloway
>Swann's Way
>Finish reading J R after I dropped it a couple months ago

Meme-level:
>Gravity's Rainbow.

>>8894358
>How much did you read this year?
Currently on my tenth book. I know that's shit progress, but in my defense I didn't start until march.

>What were the best and worst books you read?
Best was probably Anna Karenina. I think about infinite jest a lot more though.

I haven't finished it yet, so I don't want to prejudge, but Kafka on the Shore is looking to be my weakest read this year. It's enjoyable to read, but the story at times seems a bit clunky and a little to convenient. Also the prose isn't to great at times, even when considering that it's a translation.

>Did you have a goal, and did you reach it?

Just got back into reading so I started small at 10 books. Still have about 100 pages to go on Kafka, but plenty of time. Tfw I know I'm not gonna make it.

>What are you planning to read next year?

Also working on the Pale King and The Penguin History of the World

Some russian literature like brothers k and W&P. More contemporary american stuff like blood meridian and underworld. I've been eyeing that anthology of english poetry that harold bloom put out.

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>>8894420
>I didn't like F451

kek

>>8894345
Yea

>>8894345

Schopenhauer considered it the purest form of art.

Schopey thought it in a league of its own. The language of the will

Me too.
I didn't read it, though.

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>"Severian, you must go o Thrax," said the gleaning plissimer of Master Bromine's spectral danse macaroon.
>So I departed for the North. On my way, I met a festoon-selling iridorian and we spent three days buttracing the gargantuan stairchimneys of the Antediluvian Tor of Grumblers. At the top, the Chatelainee of Slapchop deenuded my boomtube actuator, and I recalled a fable about butterflies.
>Chapter 9: The Hat Dimension
>I departed down the alley of blades and swiftly encountered an iridescent excrudescence of the scion of a manticore. "Two hats," I said. He nodded and tied his face to his face. Time makes liars of us all. Hyacinth.

>>8894324
>>8894335

There's nothing to get until near the end of Sword of the Lictor. Then the revelations start coming fast and furious.

>>8894314
Loved 'Snow Country' and his palm-of-the-hand stories.

Without him there wouldn't arguably be a Mishima as we knew him

>>8894314
MOre like Crap-bata haha just kidding

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Can you see the biophotonic cadence and your singing DNA

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A syntax and diction mystique with which art transforms language into music of the soul

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There exists in the cortex, a multidimensional holographic-like process serving as an attractor

>>8894285
I'll reread certain pages or passages if I feel like i've not grasped what the fucks being talked about, but how could you possibly read an entire chapter without knowing whats going on? Surely you'd start rereading before going through several pages

>>8894296
Just reading chapter 6 of BNW and figured I didn't understand what I read. Also, I'm reading the for the second time now.

>>8894311
*book

No one will give a shit if "Lolita" is but one book among many. If you do not have books of a similar (or worse) nature in your collection, you have nothing to worry about.

Grow a fucking spine, faggot.

>>8894242
delete it from your kindle before you kill yourself

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Anyone who knows what Lolita is actually about will also know that it's a highly regarded piece of literature and not a fap fantasy written for pedos.

>>8894081
me

>>8894081
women and children (same thing, really)

>>8894081
take the red pill man, Watership down's bad

>>8894077

Catcher in the Rye, Steppenwolf is just that but with an old person as the main character instead of a teenager.

>>8894082
I am after the magic from the theatre making bizarre scenarios element more so than the story itself, thanks for the rec though

I also recently finished it. I understood everything up until the ending. As soon as he ended up in Pablos magic theatre I got really damn lost. What was the point of it? The end conclusion is that he needs to learn to not be a depressive tightass right?

The novel was written in 1951 mate, culture changes and so does peoples use of language. If you are too fucking stupid to recognize that then I think you should probably go read some YA fiction or some shit, because you're going to struggle reading most classics.

>>8894062
simmer down kid, dont need to get triggered, go back to red dit if you cant handle a little 'horsing around'

>>8894080
Kek.
Just trying to keep the plebs out.

Leftism is largely ideology, ideology is parasitic in the sense that it borrows structure from balanced religious myth/meta truth and creates its own 'myth' except unbalanced

Leftism originated mostly in the occult.

>>8894039
Yeah but Asia sucks, who would want that?

It is the binary state of Western politics that makes it so good.

>>8893992
*/lit/

It could be a lot better.

>>8893992
it's SHIT