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>>8585624
What other books by Murakami have you read? I read this after Hard Boiled Wonderland... and Kafka on the Shore. I found it just as enjoyable but perhaps over-long in places. Hard Boiled Wonderland remains my favourite but I'd still recommend Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

>>8585664
I've read both HBW and Kafka on the Shore, and a around 5 or 6 more (Sputnik Sweetheart, After the Quake, South of the Border, and a few others).

HBW is my favourite as well. Really a nice story and not too long either.

Any recommendations from other authors?

>>8585624
You must read 1Q84. It is his best book, while The Wind Up Bird is mid-low tier.

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>>8585621
Unlike the jibbering, effemninate, impious mess of incoherent oral tradition that is the """Holy""" Bible, the masculine, direct style of Homer requires no interpreter. For he wrote in accordance with the memory of the Daughter of Zeus herself.
Nor is there any need to scour one's imagination to know Homer's meaning- he means what he says, the events he narrates actually happened as described, and we draw lessons not from the biased fiction of allegory but from raw history told by a master. Contrast this to """Holy""" Bible, which needed to wait milennia for a Canaanite to explain that Solomon and Abraham actually had his own morality of antisexualism, a thousand more years for an Italian to explain that it was all equivocation, and then another thousand for everyone nowadays to realize that it's an allegory- though for what even they can't say.

You could spend your lifetime simply just reading secondary lit on Homer. Another on Shakes. Just yesterday I saw someone say that the entire western canon is Shakespeare fanfiction. Before him, there was only Homeric denominations.

>>8585621
it's kinda hard to keep books atop living persons like that for a very long time

i guess for the Bible you could find plenty of examples though

Roger Scruton, Pat Buchanan. Depends where the line of contemporary ends for you, since conservatives don't churn out books.

Does Spengler's "The Decline of the West" (published 1913) count as contemporary? If so, that.

Carl Schmitt
Alan de Benoist
Kenneth Minnogue
Christopher Lasch
James Kalb
Paul Gottfried

Gulliver's Travels

The Odyssey

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>>8585545
In case you're interested

http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/List_of_storyline_sources

>>8585520


no. drugs help some people make art while preventing others. shut up. bad thread. sage.

>>8585526
>drugs help some people make art while preventing others

who?
they might make entertainment and media using drugs, but not art proper.

>>8585520
>The highest art is always religious and no artist who has reached the highest ideal did so using drugs.
holy...

The Bible

>>8585480

If sex is very enjoyable for both parties, then what is the harm in some women being promiscuous? It literally is just adding happiness to the world.

>>8585525
this

You should read Freud OP maybe you'd get a better understanding of how desiring to change the sexual life of others is projection of your own psychosexual complexities.

Dečki, ima li što lit cura igdje

>>8585477
is just like we are living in one of those decadent post modern novels

>>8585501
and so on

>>8585425
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this.

>>8585425
what kind of mongoloid do that

>>8585425
>he capitalizes and punctuates his greentexts
l m a o

Riasanovsky is good and Russian apologist

>>8585408
Which Tsar?

>>8585615
The last one.

None. I only want shitty films.

>>8585402
I'd like to see Infinite Jest done up as something similar to the last few John Green films.

That or having it produced originally as a 24 hour long film and then shortened down to 90 minutes.

roman polanski should be in the cell he deserves

vulgate latin

>>8585380
oh yeah, for clarification. What is the most beautiful English version of the bible?

vulgate latin

Self Diaper Changing for Retards

>>8585352
Models by Mark Manson

Lolita

>>8585335

He is generally perceived as a pretty dumb Catholicuck, particularly for his retarded ad hom """"refutation"""" of Nietzsche.

Father Brown is alright, though. Better than Sherlock Holmes.

I noticed Zizek trumpets Chesterton and praises his work often, which is unfortunate, since Zizek clearly has brain-damage from all the cocaine and leftist-propaganda he ingests daily

having said that I enjoyed The Man Who Was Thursday

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>>8585340
That "ad hominem" refutation of Nietzsche is actually brilliant if you think about it a bit.

I mean, really, how often does Nietzsche use ad hominem attacks on other philosophers? It's a constant thing. He consistently uses a philosopher's thoughts to psychologize about their private life, and then use those imaginings to disqualify their thinking.

Well, Chesterton decides that two can play that game, and so he delves into Nietzsche's own private life to discredit his thought. You might say this is unfair, but what is it, really, other than Chesterton playing by Nietzsche's rules? And if you say that what Chesterton has done shouldn't be done, you've stumbled into the great strength of the refutation: that it isn't a good refutation at all, but by extension, neither are any of Nietzsche's refutations of Christianity, of Platonism, of nearly everything he refuted.

Chesterton offers a bad refutation that turns into a good refutation, because acknowledging its badness causes a huge chunk of Nietzsche's criticisms of other thinkers to unravel. It's almost... paradoxical, but then, of course it is.

OP, you should read Chesterton's critical essays. Try "Heretics" and "What's Wrong With The World."

>>8585255
0/10

Is Lord Byron the one who did opium and ripped off Schelling or the one who was really fucking gay?

>>8585272
All three of them apply to literally every romantist ever

>>8585209
Le tree dog

First and foremost you need to get a lobotomy.

Deer are the most beautiful animals in existence and they are covered in deadly ticks that will destroy your life for seven years.