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>>8850960
Alyosha but only because I literally ran away from girls who liked me (ran out of a room with two naked girls and out of the house to my car which I drove home).

I'm too pure for this world. Or I'm just retarded.

I relate to Ivan because I'm a psued

>>8850968
>I'm too pure for this world. Or I'm just retarded.

No. You're just a faggot.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden

>>8850949
I have a copy of it already, didn't seem adventurey enough for my tastes (at the moment) so i left it for a rainy day. All due respect for his philosophy ofc

>>8850947
West of eden

fat fuck lmao

Smarter than nearly everyone that came after him and criticized him. A better writer, too.

Orwell, for example, wasn't as smart as Chesterton.

>>8850878
Another strange, middlebrow, British writer. Like Graham Greene, he wrote these freak books that were as much pulp as they were aesthetically pleasing works full of some valuable thoughts on matters of substance.

I just finished Lolita and plan on holding out now until Christmas since my family knows to gift me good lit.

>>8850864
I plan to complete German Idealism

>>8850864
I plan on finishing the Divine Comedy in italian and then some. On one hand, portuguese's my first language, proper understanding barely requires a dictionary. On the other hand, my dictionary doesn't feature italian that old.

Illuminatus.

>>8850859
East of Eden

>>8850859
My diary tbhfam

The Divine Comedy
>Literally Dante writing self-insert fanfiction of the bible and pretending Virgil was his friend.

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>shoujoshit
Not even once

that's what you get for reading american "literature"

>>8850840
>Anyone want to admit to being a lazy ADHD pleb?

I sometimes feel like reading something short instead of something more long-winded, but I don't particularly prefer one over the other, or think ghat one genre is better than the other.

Infinitely.

>>8850819
Probably not, films are generally much better than books

>>8850819
Is the film even good? It's been sitting in my Netflix list for a while

>>8850833
It's noteworthy because of Gregory Peck's performance, but otherwise it's nothing special. It hasn't aged very well, which is saying something as I'm a person that loves old movies.

How about you read some books first?

If you literally can't think of a single villain/antagonist besides those you must have read less than 10 books in your entire life.

>>8850792
well it is frustrating since she is just plagiarizing these dark lords that were only necessary due to WW2 and hitler. so what type of villain is relevant for millennials? ready player one has their villain be computer software. That is clever.

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>>8850751
>Big man with stick tier
Thomas Hobbes, also I'm stealing Nietzche for my breakaway tier.

>>8850751
>Two tiers
Senpai
>Talking shit about Heraclitus
Faaaaaaaaaam
>Talking shit about Machiavelli
Fuck off.

>>8850751
>Good tier
Simone Weil

>shit tier
Everyone else

I will probably buy if only for the cover

>>8850727
Nah, the ones in Virtual Light are far more normal.

>>8850727
Sounds like a natural response to pleb fiction. Stick to literature

>>8850724
Trust me, nobody's more surprised than me that you've just read.

>>8850724
Holy.....

Wtf why would anyone actually read a book

Eh.

I liked Eragon when I was a kid. Once I got older, the appeal of the series really started to fade away. What bothered me the most was how stilted and awfully conceived the dialog was. The protagonist is supposed to be a teenager, but he'd speak and spout off contrived pieces of wisdom like he was an old man.

Great on the author for finding success at such a young age, but Eragon definitely wasn't one of the defining reads of my childhood.

>>8850661

If you read Eragon as a kid you were a pleb.

God tier kid's books:

ASOIAF
Assassin's Apprentice
Black Company
Wheel of Time
LotR

I liked His Dark Materials when i read them at 13 or 14. Im still non religious, but maybe i'd find em edgy now; anyway, i didn't like Will and Lyra not staying together.

>>8850527
There's an entire real crime genre that's largely founded on In Cold Blood

>>8850530
I have read some books suggested by the Goodreads True Crime section but have yet to stumble upon one that would have the layered unassuming nature of those two.
Would be glad if you could suggest some that could offer this at least partially.

>>8850527
Off the Wall by Charles Willeford. It's about the Son of Sam.

Unfortunately it hasn't been reprinted so you'll likely need to spend at least a couple hundred to get a copy.

My BIG

FUCKING

DICK

>>8850495
he isn't. Dr Manhattan is.

God in Paradise Lost