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>>8854855
all you need is i ching

>>8854855
David Hume, because only then you'll realize you can't predict the future.

it comes from your own soul not any external

a good understanding of the world helps

>>8854793
Don't buy doorstoppers for people that don't read.

Maybe A Chess Story or Butcher's Crossing for your dad, something masculine but introspective. Slaughterhouse 5 might also be good

Flowers for Algernon might be good for your mom. If you think she'd enjoy Middlemarch but might be overwhelmed by its size, To the Lighthouse is a great alternative

>>8854793
The Brothers K or Little, Big for mom. Little, Big may be hard for her though, but my mom loved it.
Dads love Killer Angels. If you want something past that I could see him liking Dune.

>le push my own interests on others as gifts meme

you're a bad son as well as a bad person

After abstaining from reading a book since the Harry Potter craze as child, I unironically picked up Infinite Jest in my early 20's and loved it.

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>>8854774
with the greeks of course

>>8854817
Are there follow up guides?

i fapped to these books in 7th grade

Cons:
It's young adult genre fiction.

Pros:
It's on the better side of young adult genre fiction.

If you're a teenager growing up in the early 2000s I would highly recommend it. As well as the Power 5 series, Alex Rider, Artemis Fowl and His Dark Materials.

>>8854794
idk, it took a darker take on "superkewl teenspy" kinda further. And I do agreed it's a better written ya novel than we have nowadays. And artemis fowl was my shit back then.

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>>8854727
Yup checks out

And the fucking songs, everything else is amazing

>>8854727
Tom Bombadill.

>>8854725
Godspeed, anon.

>>8854725
>I am my own publisher.
Gloria Tesch, pls.

Obvious bait, but how do you suppose your writing will get "discovered" after your death if you've never published anything during your lifetime? One of your buddies is gonna find it on your computer somehow and be like "damn this is nice better call up the publishers"?

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Stories began to accumulate, it became clear that the stories themselves were important, the collection of stories was a strange and wonderful garden we could all explore, marvel at the further frontiers of human consciousness what the ancients believed to be our highest purpose

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Give way to a new cultural emphasis on discovering and expanding, ever perfecting our own consciousness, our own will, our own metaphysical gravity, our own destiny, our own inner garden

>>8854673
This guy seems like he's on the brink of tears talking about the cultural wasteland we're in

why the long face?

>>8854577
Is there a better whale in fiction?

>>8854577
Why the noose? You sad because you're wasting your meaningless existence reading about whales?

I've never seen this book described as such. One is actually more inclined to say that it's his worst novel, from my experience at least.

It's not bad of course, it just isn't better than any one of his other four major works.

>>8854636
>I've never seen this book described as such

Im refferinf to this wiki excerpt:

According to Ronald Hingley, it is Dostoyevsky's "greatest onslaught on Nihilism", and "one of humanity's most impressive achievements—perhaps even its supreme achievement—in the art of prose fiction."

>>8854636
Is it better to read the idiot first?

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>>8854547
>Farah, London

>>8854547
Pornhub

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>>8854561
>Reddit (mostly SRS and /r/communism)
>tumblr (for art stuff)

you need to go back

>>8854565
> Paki
>hot cousin

you need to go back

>>8854518
Reminder
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S1000000#p1000000
Fuck you Dean.

>>8854518
neuromancer.

of course someone will probably jump on this thread and slam it because its genre fiction and they want to look smart in front of their anonymous autistic audience. however, it's still a fun read and the atmosphere is genuine cyberpunk.

>>8854518
Also, PKD is generally well liked. I will say Titus Alone too though that's proto steam punk but I don't really care. Same shit.

>>8854512
are you being unironic?

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>>8854530

yes

>>8854549
That poorly drawn cartoon might indicate otherwise

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>>8854505

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>>8854505
Araki Hirohiko

>>8854505
David Foster Wallace himself?

>>8854469
*first of the twenty-five days

fug

>>8854469
About ~25 pages in, havent had much time to read but will finish later tonight. 50 pages a day seems like a easily sustainable pace. How important are the footnotes? The version im reading on kindle doesnt include them.

Yeh nigga

Gonna finish this Against the Day chapter then gonna start. You're using the Oxford World Classics edition, right?

>>8854423
His autobiography "Surprised by Joy" is excellent. I used to be a Christfag and read him but I haven't lost any respect for him since then.

>>8854440
Thanks for the rec, mate.

>>8854423
No. Anyone who believes in the Jesus story is obviously not capable of critical thought.