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>>8711593

I love this kind of spurdo picture. Can someone post more?

>>8711593
I don't, I like the idea

i don't think there was anything wrong with the old sincerity. it still works, and i resent being pressured into upgrading.

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useful for war stories

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added wojak

>>8712428
thanks mane, needed this.

It hasn't been. Trump wants to destroy taxes on the wealthy

>>8711430
But he's also in favour of tariffs, protectionism and isolationism.

how long until nick is born again and repudiates his philosophy? i say 20 years

>>8711351
Tu hai ragione. Non dovremmo parlare inglese qui.

>>8711351
Une remarque qui ne finit jamais bien sur un site anglophone

ke verga

but I did

Are you telling me I can't read it? Your op is a mess lassie

HOLY

Doesn't he have some interview where he condemns people who watch television and particularly their fascination with "reality" shows?

He'd probably just laugh at us and say I told you so. A large minority of Americans actually voted to bring the fantasy of television into the White House. They've transformed global politics into a sit-com. The fate of millions of undocumented workers, of Syrian refugees, of debt-ridden millenials has been reduced to a tune-in-next-time dramedy. And if people have to die, or if there are mass protests, or if the value of our currency spirals downward, it'll be great for ratings.

>>8710898
>Catalog

He had interviews where he said that he believed the only possible revolution would have been made by people who don't watch television.
Now, if you think about Trump election, mainstream media were all against him. They lead people into being delusional by claiming HIllary was going to win, and that she was ahead in the poll when she was not.
Now, people who got info by themselves on the internet and not from mainstream media are the ones who voted for Trump.

>>8710911
To say that the media as a whole was categorically "against" Trump is obviously untrue, but you're not getting my point.

People enjoyed watching Trump say controversial things just as they enjoyed watching various pundits pantomime outrage. It was all a great big show and Trump's supporters had front row tickets. This is one of the great ironies of the election: Trump would encourage his supporters at rallies to boo the very media that made his rise to power possible, and then the media would dutifully record it and play it back for Trump's supporters to watch.

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>>8710815
lol no

>>8710808
how come the title is 'Paradise Lost' instead of Paradife Loft?

>>8710504
because you're boring as sh-t dess

The dissimilarity of the language use years ago and now is too big. Also attention span of a goldfish, so I tried to keep this post as short as possible for you OP.

>>8710504

dean koontz
john grisham
lee child

there. some high octane book action

good old fashioned southern incest

>>8710290
One of the best American novels and one of the best novels written in the last 100 years.

>>8710290
Finished it last week, it was surprisingly good.
Incredibly despondent southern Gothic family story with intermittent spatterings of deep universal truths and psychological insight.

>>8710230
Because he decided being dead was the smart thing to do

Fuck off dad.

>>8710230
Wait, hes dead?

heh, my diary desu, kid...

The Outsider (meursault did nothing wrong)

>>8710075
The Stranger

>>8710040
Lol, fuck you

>>8710040
Lol, fuck you

>>8710040
Lol, fuck you

My dude what other books have you read related to this topic or is that the only one you've read??

>>8709655
I'm new to it which is why I'm asking recs. You got some good ones family?

Hopeful bump

Natsume Soseki, Mishima, Kyoichi Katayama, Yoko Ogawa ;)

>>8709571
Battle royale by Koushun Takami
Welcome to the N.H.K. by Tatsuhiko Takimoto
if manga is also ok:
Oyasumi Punpun by Inio Asano

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>>8709571
Mishima my nig, enjoy all that delicious homoerotism.

what did you think about it op? i got a used copy the other day for 2 bucks , worth it?

OP here, wondering if someone could help me out with a few questions. I don't think I "got" this book.

(Most of this is spoilers)

Why does the reader never learn definitively whether the Plan was actually real?

I didn't really understand Belbo's character arc. Eco kinda spells it out at the end--Belbo as a noncommittal, wishy-washy manchild who missed out and never created anything in his life and then finally decides to do something important (or maybe "important") by refusing to tell the 36 Invisibles his secret. But what does this have anything to do with the rest of the book?

For that matter, all the characters just seem like placeholders for the erudite knowledge they can contribute. Why did Eco give any of them personalities?

Why at the very end was Causabon concerned with Belbo's motives (and his childhood) rather than whether the Plan was real?

Did Belbo engineer his own death?

Lastly, why is 90% of this book a massive infodump?

>>8709594
It was compelling at times but usually just difficult. Around 50% of the book is dialogue among characters who are experts in obscure fields. It's a massive infodump. It reads like a detective story where the detective is scouring libraries reading ancient texts looking for one specific piece of information. As I said in a post above there's a lot about this book that I didn't understand, but that post contains spoilers.