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>>8809010
I admire the fact that she figured out that if she says inflammatory things she doesn't believe liberals will promote her books for her.

she's right
Whats a "workers rights" party to do when the blue collar workers of the world hate them?

>>8808983
Ignatius J Reilly.

>>8808983
The Underground Man.

Also Max Stirner.

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>>8808983

Why don't you tell us what you thought of it?

>>8808939
I don't form my own opinions, as I'm above it. The life I spend here on the world is a Planck's length compared to the age of Existence itself. Any kind of thought or idea is insignificant in that comparison, and but so I feel it's worthless for me to have any of my own. It's inherently a waste of time.

>>8808927

I'm not interested in biology.medicine at all. Would this book change my mind?

>>8808822
A Confederacy of Dunces

Balzac

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>>8808822
Candide

It is philosophy-esque but divorced of all pretension and riotously hilarious. Some say Voltaire wrote it simply as a protracted fuck you towards Leibniz.

>>8808701
nice copy and paste job faggot. kill yourself. >>8808701

>>8808718
Why is no one talking about this though?

>>8808726
they were. like 60 years ago. but honestly boys will be boys. or was just an accident. give the guy a break.

>>8808619
negative

If you're a moody faggot teen, sure, but you'd be better off just growing up.

>>8808619
how many male novelists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? :^)

I don't read most days

>>8808589
absolute madman
u gaining life experience, bro?

>>8808598
Nope

Works of Love

>>8808546
Learn about hegelian dialectics. Read Fear and trembling and then sickness after death. After that it does not matter.

>>8808564
Is there any particular reason to start there?
I took a college course that touched on the basics of Hegelian dialectics so i dont expect a whole lot of trouble there.

>>8808459
Same amount of time it'd take me to drop my knickers in front of that guy

n o t i m e a t a l l

>>8808463
Handsome as he is I suspect he is about 5'2".

time your words per minute with a book from your classes. Work it out yourself then double it for pauses and notes and shit. Then allot that much time in your schedule.

btw I have no idea what I am talking about but I have basic common sense and don't need to ask lit stupid questions.

Do you have anything more substantial to say that can actually generate discussion? Please delete the thread if you don't.

>>8808434
Fuck off you holy patron of /lit/

How can a human being feel nothing after killing someone they loved from heartbreak? Jesus Christ..

>>8808262
V. is as good as those even though some will argue otherwise. Slow Learner, Vineland, Against the Day, and Bleeding Edge are all optional.

Honestly the only books of his I haven't seen glowing reviews of are Bleeding Edge and Slow Learners. I've definitely seen people cite Against The Day as their favorite, and I've definitely seen people make a strong case for Vineland as a piece of great literature. Also V. dawg.

against the day will be a challenge for you but all the others are just memes

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>>8808228

curiously aestheticized violence is one way

apparently GdT said he shot this like a sex scene

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

use lots of metaphors

>>8808228
Don't mention the positioning and behavior of genitalia. Take a macro approach to it and focus more on setting and characterization via allusions to Dionysus.

worryingly delusional

>reading more than one book in the same alphabet
Fucking plebs.

>open a file
>It's all ones and zeros, nothing but ones and zeros

>>8808161
Well Lolita is Nabokov's most famous work. Many, like myself until recently hadn't read anything else of his. That being said I'm reading Ada at the moment and it's at least as good as Lolita.

pale fire is the contrarian /lit/goer's weapon of choice

daily reminder Lolita is Nabokov 5th best book if even that

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

>>8808098
My diary, desu

Jokes aside, read All You Zombies. It's only a short story but it does everything you need from a time travel story.