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>>8682450
You got here fast

>>8682449
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522465.The_Art_of_Worldly_Wisdom

Did you like it? What other Pynchon novels have you read? I need some context here.

I can't for the life of me think of an entire book which merely goes on complimenting Pynchon's novel

>>8682396
Finished Infinite Jest and 1984 pretty much at the same time

I would assume I would be recommended alternate-history novels, which I'm cool with.

Found this about a year ago and everything I have read from it has been great.

>>8682315
Fuck that's patrician

>>8682315
Where is /lit/'s "XX books essential for a literary education" list? (I assume you're not dumb enough to be talking about the 100 favorite book vote)

None. It's up to you to change if you want to.

Mobile suit gundam wing

>>8682231
make some friends

Pls help me out anons need ur advice.

>>8682008
>>8682244
why would you read such piece of shit?

>>8682008
Last year as in 2015?
Just restart or you'll be frustrated at not knowing what's going on and who's who.

>>8681997
Nobody gives a shit about honesty

>>8681997
Camus did in The Stranger.

>>8682558
Did you feel that the stranger was mostly about honesty? What led you to believe that?

>>8681781
Ulysses kinda does that

With VR technology 1st person-everything will be imperative.

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>>8681781
>Third person limited omniscient

what translation did you read?

>>8681587
A German one

>>8681586
>great epics such as Gilgamesh?
My diary desu? Though to be honest it is more a kind of tragedy than it is an epic.

Perfectly average piece of mid-century American realism. Overesteemed due to "feels".

Apparently its recent popularity is because of how perfectly it emphasizes (and contradicts) the modern notion of "everyone is a winner, everyone is entitled to a great life" and so on, the bullshit millenials grew up on.

That said, it's good. Read it.

dude

>>8681403
>novel contain homo sex
>it's portrayed positively

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>novel contains hetero sex
>it's portrayed neutrally

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>>8681403
>Novel contains sex
>It's portrayed

>>8681400
nothing, because im not a pseud

>>8681400
Continue working on my novel as I have all year because I have no interest in hipster normie memes.

And you, dear TWPoet?

>>8681407
What's your novel about?

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Don't know but I'm actually starting as a Christmas temp at the post office tonight.

>It began as a mistake.

Isn't that sort of his core?
Idk, read Plath, just as trendy with the type of girls like you but more interesting in every aspect

What's cringey about Bukowski?

Brang Duwang

Maggot French Lionel

Robbie Rotten

>>8681142
alright then keep going man

tell us how it gets weirder

>>8681168
K.

Cain's Enoch has Irad, while Jared's has Methusaleh.

But Irad has Mehujael, who has Methusael, who has Lamech.

Then Methuselah has Lamech. So it goes:

Enoch----->Cain----->Irad------>Mehujael----->Methusael------>Lamech
Jared------->Enoch------->Methuselah--------->Lamech

Does anybody know if they're the same Enoch or not?

>>8681252
There can be two people with the same name particularly if the name has a clear mening to the people that use it. In this case Enoch is thought to mean 'consecrated' and Lamech is thought to mean 'powerful'.

One of the most common views of the origin of the early books of the bible is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis The basic idea was that there was a folktale tradition from around 4 different sources that were combined into the books we have now. And instead of combining perfectly and removing all the inconsistencies, some remained which is why there seems to be conflicting genealogies.

That's kind of the point I feel like. The book should make you feel like Yossarian, stuck in this loop, not able to make any progress.

>>8681084
Like most anti-war books it doesn't really say much. Of course some people will go crazy during the war. And by stressing the importance of not dying he says the oldest thing under the sun, and completely ignores any of the disadvantages of putting your gun down when enemies are still trying to kill you.

>>8681084
>>8681156
You people need to take it for what it is. It's an absurdist dark comedy with very little underlying meaning or message. By looking for one, you're discrediting the author.