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>on a par with George R. R. Martin
Says it all doesn't it

>>8643718
eh they were passable.

I read the first twenty pages and it felt like I'm reading the journal of an edgy anime character.

patience, child

>>8643650
>He fell for the annual October troll
I bet you got tricked into reading Infinite Jest too.

Wait some more, the dude doing it is just being lazy and will probably make a thread about it when niggled enough to overcome the burnout

>>8643564
I think you got the gist of it.

>>8643564
Cioran is for admiring the prose and being vaguely shocked by his enormous hair.

>>8643578

Can't deny he writes well, but I guess I will move on and will keep getting the quotes when I need. Some personal favorites(not essentialy from this book):

>I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.

>He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

>>8643498

i dont really care about a books rating. some of my favorite books have been rated very highly because they were challenging and obscure enough that popularity didnt lead to the wrong people reading it. the other side of this is that some of my favorites have mediocre ratings since the public is aware and for the most part failed to understand them.

i use it more for recommendations. as long as youre not absolute pleb tier, the recommendations will lead to some really great and underrepresented authors.

i am not sure how popular bartheleme is around here, but i would never have found him without GR.

>>8643505
Low tier two high tier three meme.

>>8643498
I don't care about aggregate sites, I just use about a half dozen individual reviews (not on Goodreads, their own sites/columns) and get a good idea of whether I'll like it that way.

I've always felt it was /lit/.

/co/
because they read for fun, not in an attempt to be considered intellectual or well read.

>>8643478
/fit/ is shit

Seeing images isn't compulsory to enjoy reading

Huxley couldn't see visualize either.

I personally can't imagine reading without it. My brain visualizes novels in a cinematic way. I don't try to turn the novels into mental movies; it just happens. I often wonder what visualization was like before movies, since my own visualization powers seem dependent on it. I don't picture people in real life, I picture a movie.

Maybe I don't really picture a movie, though. Maybe I just feel like it's a movie because there's a certain point-of-view. It's hard to say exactly what's happening.

I disagree

>>8643389
Why ?

>>8643384
girl with nice feet detected

Unlike his late friend, he's not a rhetorician, and he doesn't apologize forty times before he offers his opinion. Says what he thinks, doesn't try to be cute about it. Sells a lot of books, which makes him a big target. Comes off as an elitist sometimes but doesn't much care.

>>8643368
Because he's a mediocre hack who thinks too highly of himself. Even his target audience of milquetoast plebs doesn't actually like him anymore.

Also draws ire for being - through whatever complex cultural processes that elected him - the epitome of the "white male novelist."

>>8643323

I think you need to reread Stirner.

>>8643323
You're not supposed to do that, you're working under the assumption that what is in your self interest is separate from the interests of others, when in actuality there is a huge overlap between the two

You can still take the interests of others to heart, because that is in your best interest

>>8643323
Seems like your desire to be de-spooked has become a spook in itself.

Odd timeing I just picked up a book of his aphorisms from the library. Reading it now between fun posting.

I did read Emil Cioran's essay on Valéry a few weeks back. Was pretty cool. Made me want to read him.

>>8643325
How are you finding it? Similarly to you Adorno's conference on him and Degas made me want to read him

>>8643346
Pretty good. He is a witty guy. Love aphorisms a lot and always like reading stuff in that style.

Arno Schmidt - Zettel's Traum

>>8643280

Hemingway

>>8643280
Lawrence Sterne

You need to get good at one of them to know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy
Literally took you longer to make this thread.

>>8643243
There is no comparison here.

>>8643140
the turn of the screw

>>8643143
good ghost stories huh?

>>8643140
I want to fuck that panda

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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

>>8642938
How about a book about THE MONGOLS?

>>8642938
I mean, if I had to choose people a fresh bowl of cheerios, or one that had the cum of fifteen men in it, it wouldn't really make a difference.

>>8642890
Huidobro

>>8642890

bump

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>>8642890
Paul Mariani