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>>8833395
Kindle

Don't fight the future

Book depository. Postage is slow sometimes but free

>>8833311
>who old straight white male here?

not me

Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake was great. Need to read more of his work.

>>8833550
Why don't you?

Céline's whole point is that a repulsive world and disgusting people have made him (Bardamu) a miserable wretch too. He commits such acts partly to survive, and partly by peer pressure/cruelty/perversion.
Which books by him have you read? His twisted reasoning became clear to me in Death on Credit.

Reminder 14 year olds are women in all respects that matter

>>8833342

I've read Journey & Guignol's Band I & II

>>8833259
DELETE THIS

>>8833259
Not bad. It's not going as smoothly as my first two, but it's coming along. I have other idea for while might come for the fourth, but nothing is solid yet.

>>8833259
Terribly, I gave up before I started

>>8833252
>Also what's with Ishmael's passivity as a character as soon as he stepped onto the boat and his instant obsession with whales and whaling
dude he's writing this YEARS after the fact, having done an ass ton of research and been on subsequent expeditions.

if you gloss over the fictive non-fiction sections you're a dumbass and you're going to miss half of the point of the book, which evidently you already have.

I never understood people who didn't enjoy the whaling chapters, I found them fascinating

No you can't skip them, and you shouldn't say you're enjoying it if you don't like the cetalogy, which makes up like a third of the book, you asshat

>>8833221
Infinite Jest

>>8833221
Use ThriftBooks and get some used books for them. $3 each.

>>8833221
Bibles are good and there are many places you can get one cheap.
I have many bibles on my shelf but I would still be happy to have more. I like comparing print and translation.
Make sure the person you're gifting to is proper /lit/ and not some edgy nu-atheist though.

Céline

... that's literally it. Don't bother with other authors from his period for more of this style, it's idiosyncratic. Later imitators are many but none successful. Hugo did take some hints from him but he's much less raw.

>>8833186
Sir Thomas Browne

Are you reading him in French?

If English, what translation?

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>coming on /lit/ for anything other than shitposting

No, the Schopenhauer thread earlier proved it if there still was any doubt.

>>8833133

Every time I try to read I get bored and post on 4chan instead.

He leans forward to surround the hot turd with his lips, sucking on it tenderly, licking along its lower side… he is thinking, he's sorry, he can't help it, thinking of a Negro's penis, yes he knows it abrogates part of the conditions set, but it will not be denied, the image of a brute African who will make him behave… The stink of shit floods his nose, gathering him, surrounding. It is the smell of Passchendaele, of the Salient. Mixed with the mud, and the putrefaction of corpses, it was the sovereign smell of their first meeting, and her emblem. The turd slides into his mouth, down to his gullet. He gags, but bravely clamps his teeth shut. Bread that would only have floated in porcelain waters somewhere, unseen, untasted-risen now and baked in the bitter intestinal Oven to bread we know, bread that's light as domestic comfort, secret as death in bed… Spasms in his throat continue. The pain is terrible. With his tongue he mashes shit against the roof of his mouth and begins to chew, thickly now, the only sound in the room…

>>8833043
>yearbook
kek

>>8833043
Only one enemy and so on and so on

>>8833009
More like some people get to do whatever the fuck they want and others don't. Guess which one he was.

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yes but he hated women so u should ignore him

>>8833018
So should I just do whatever the fuck I want? Does that make me an ubermensch?

Female social activists' twitters because white men are over.

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>>8832985

>>8832981
Kerouac

the translators asked the french characters to speak english but they refused.

just spoonfeed me which versions of War and Peace and Anna Karenina to get

It takes like 2 days to learn french, m8, come on.

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I can say the same about this

>>8832848
Honestly Delilo is shit. his best book is libra. He is a poor man's Robert Coover.

>one word

>>8832810
Clancy is never considered a good writer of prose, Neuromancer works because it isn't a cliche and provides more insight into the narrator's voice.
I remember what it was like to be an angsty undergrad as well.

>>8832810

That's not the full sentence though

>It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

>>8832810
As I recall, the whole thing was overwrought, not just that opening sentence fragment, and over time the opening sentence became cultural shorthand for poor writing.

>>8833882
Or that guy could beat me to it. Cheers, anon.

so-crates

fraud

so-cra-tes

o like in orange
a like in the british pronunciation of grass
e like in end