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it doesn't matter what order you read non-sequential books. what is with this board and /mu/-infected autism.

>>8876938
>Doesn't know that the /lit/ wiki is filled with flow charts

>Doesn't want to help the board by making OC

>Makes a shitpost complaining about another board

Off yourself please.

>>8876927
why do you guys keep shilling P&V they are so fucking awkward.
The reading order is fine I guess, but I wouldn't use those editions

stop making pointless threads. fuck off

The fact that you purchased the other three makes me believe you're not ready for V. yet, so read it last

>>8876889
>ready for V

fuck outta here

No woman likes joyce......unless this is one of those completely unfuckable masses of androgynous pigflesh, in that case why are you trying to impress that?

>>8876856
>giving her the full Joyce bibliography
She'll take off her pants and offer you her pussy immediately, I guarantee it

if she has shit taste, give her joyce.

>>8876654
Not "steal". I once "borrowed" a reference (not to be issued) textbook from my school library because the librarian and vice-principal had ganged up on me. Returned it 2 years later

yes. cause reasons.

>>8876654
not only books, i'm a robber

>>8876567
>have autism
>have an epileptic seizure
what do i win?

>>8876569
move to russia asap, you might develop a god complex, kill a mortgage broker and meet columbo

>>8876567
Feels... pretty lucky actually man

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>"You know, from our perspective life really is eternal for we do not experience time before our life begins or after it ends. And still, it's nothing but a cruel joke. An Infinite Jest, if you will. "

>Passerine spread his arms in a gesture that seemed to belong to the priesthood of some remote culture; perhaps to a descending angel. The auctioneer cleared his throat. Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49.
PIIIIIIINNNNNEEEECOOOONNNEEE

Comfy birdie

>>8876505

You could have just said you want a book that is sad, but has an overall hopeful tone.

>>8876505
The Sound and the Fury might satisfy your request.

>>8876505
Godspeed you and its derivatives are the biggest leddit sjw cucklords and anyone who listens to this boring crescendocore is a tryhard or /mu/ sheeperson who flaunts his (or her, but let's be honest here, women don't have the patience for this shit anyway) 'unique taste' by posting the same old topsters chart with fucking king crimson, swans and the grip lads left right and centre.

It certainly doesn't waste any time getting started, i enjoyed the entirety of the chapters. Fernand seems like /ourguy/

I have a reasonable basic idea of Napoleonic history, which is helped by just finishing W&P a few days ago

>tfw you don't want anything bad to happen

And Edmond was released the next day, married Mercedes, became captain and lived happily ever after. I hope you enjoyed this short story of good things happening to nice people.

Fernand is a pussy sperg.
Who else pictures Caderousse as that nigger full of piercings from Pirates of the Caribbean?

>>8876467
I''m from the northeast. Generally americans don't know so much about cultures from other parts of the empire so I'm about as in the dark as you. Besides the fact that southern religous culture is half dead, you have to consider that this is a sort of microcosm of a time period which has past. I don't know if anyone will "get" what you're missing.

in short: it helps.

check out this clip I think it'll help at least a little

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtTlCywIuoE

>>8876467
I sometimes get that feel reading about Russian culture when I'm reading Gogol or Tolstoy. I'm sure I'm missing out on stuff but I get the basics, aristocrats are decadent, idle and frivolous, peasants are ignorant and grasping but sometimes possess some humble folksy wisdom.

Southern gothic has a similar divide between post civil war aristocrats in decline and poor whites. Then they throw niggers into the mix which just adds another level of confusion.

I just use two bookmarks

They're called endnotes then.

I don't even read them when that happens. Worldsworth does that all the time.

>>8876365
This is why I can't hear people saying that Kafka is depressing/whatnot

He is funny as fuck, one of the best jewish comedians the world has seen

dis >>8876495

that passage is fucking hilarious, even more so in context

>>8876495
>>8878346
>t. numale cucks

>>8876382
When will they learn eh?

>>8876382
>israel
>everyone in the background is Asian

I didn't know there were so many chinese jews

>>8876296
Was it about a girl that falls in love with a vampire?

>>8876296
>welp
>>>>>/reddit/

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>>8876308
>boy falls in love with a girl with autism in highschool
>drift apart as they go to college
>man is an adult and is married with kids
>meets the girl with autism again
>is conflicted as primal emotions take hold and ultimately has to decide to stay with his family or let them have reign and profess his love to the girl with autism
>tfw this is exactly the same as the murakami novel, except the girl has fucking polio in it

Notes then C&P

>>8876251
Is it hard to digest the content? Never really read philosophy

>>8876253
nope. plug and play.

I haven't actually read that but The Count of Monte Cristo is great and by the same author so it should be a safe bet

Dumas wrote two sequels, you know. His The Count of Monte Cristo is also fantastic.

I also recommend Sabatini's excellent adventure novels, e.g. Captain Blood (the title sounds silly but don't let that put you off, the book is marvelous and not silly at all), Scaramouche, The Sea-Hawk.

>>8876223
count of monte cristo is better, but in terms of an adventure like it? mone that i know of, closest you'll find is picaresques, or as i like to call em, roguelikes, due to the counterfeit nature of bothe genres along with them being synonymous, simplicissimus, gil blas, and a protopicaro morgante by pulci as well as orlando furioso. both are poems though no less epic and rollicking in scale.