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>>8507527
It's not exactly the same but Hawkes' first person books like The Blood Oranges are somewhat like that.

>>8507527
Lolita

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the most /mu/ maybe

>>8507533
>alt-rights are boring enough to look through all guardian columns for dumb screenshots

No, the most /lit/ newspapers are Rodong Sinmun and Granma

http://rodong.rep.kp/en/
http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/

this is a preconversion dfw novel. it's from when he was a smart aleck, before he became an AA member, before he believed in christ. as an object of scholarly study for husky bearded khaki-wearing grad students who lust for japanese girls, it is interesting, because wallace at the time was under the spell of a lot of "literary theory," which he would later rightly dismiss. later on he would call theory "a whole lot of obfuscation whose sole raison, it seems to me, is to make the humanities as inscrutable to outsiders as the sciences." he wouldnt visit europe until 2006, when his friend jonathan franzen dragged him there to see all the crumbling buildings.

>>8507511
Post feet.

>he didn't like the cabin in the woods story

looks homo 2 me.

you can tell a homo by their kind eyes

>>8507517
Also his crossing his legs like a girl.

>>8507517
He did get married though.

Albeit his wife apparently complained he wasn't very good at sex since he was something like a 25 year old virgin when they married.

>>8507342

Stay gold, ponyboy.

S.E. Hinton ( The outsiders)

>>8507342
>So it goes.

I even have it tattooed in my back!

>>8507342

I'd prefer not to

>fake
You mean did she have a peenus? She never talked about having one, I think she didn't.

>>8507269
she didn't

and she owned a printing press and was a terrible person

>>8507294
>she owned a printing press
Isn't that something her husband bought so she would stop being depressed

start with the sramanas

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>>8507261
1. Remove yourself totally from internet culture, your own petty life, etc
2: >>8507309
3. Take off your clothes
4. Raw Vegan
5. Starve yourself to death.

>>8507316

>when plebs try to talk to me about literature

That means Harry Potter will be eligible next year

>>8507252
Jesus fucking Christ, I can't believe it's that old.

>>8507231
>>old genre fiction gets called "literature"
Examples?

It took you reading that much to figure that out?

Do you have a mental deficiency?

I, too, have read many of the classics, such as harry potter and the sorcerer's stone; and many modern novels, such as the hunger games. I couldn't agree more, fellow redditor. Now let's leave this god forsaken image board and return to reddit, where we belong.

>>8507171

I kept trying to disprove my suspicion by reading more and more...I said to myself "be reasonable, there must be something of worth out there" but there is not.

Some are born happy, some depressed?

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He didn't mean anything. Like most writers he just says something vague in nice prose which plebs eat up as deep.

>>8507137

like age old adage from shakespeare, "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them" neglect s to point out that many never achieve greatness, are never "sweet delight" and live an "endless night."

>he's made entirely of straw
what a gaffe

So many memes, so little time to read.

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>he reads

I've been looking for a book on the history of rallying for ages. Thanks anon.

>>8507096
Nice. What period does it cover?

as expected of someone that thinks dickens and tolstoy are comparable

>surrealistic, nihilistic trash

>it's a uninteresting side story chapter

>it's a chapter

Not similar, but have you considered other books by Calvino? Short stories?

>>8507072
Haven't read a book quite like it, near the ending I felt it became a mix of Borges and Philip K. Dick. Anyway, it's basically a Borgesian idea that is actually worked out (Borges refuses to work them out in novel-form and instead writes about them in an abstract manner). You can try to read him, starting with Fictions. Or try some Philip K. Dick, but don't expect a similar, metafiction, experimental structure. Other (metafiction/experimental) titles: Pale Fire, At Swim-Two-Birds. If you enjoyed that you can try Petersburg by Bely, but don't start with that.

>>8507072
Read Perec's Life a User's Manual. I didn't love Calvino and Borges, but I love Perec, and he is very clearly influenced by them. Imagine a more melancholy and human but also inhuman version of Borges/Calvino. You'll love it

>>8507032
>>8507032
Yeah it's great, English translation is good as far as I can tell

>>8507199
The description of the surgery shocked me quite a bit.

>>8507297
yeah brain surgery while fully conscious must have been pretty fucked