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>>8491958
Plato, Aristotle, Jesus.
it's difficult to quantify something like influence, but those three are the top almost objectively, I would say.

>>8491970

You can't read.

>>8491958
wittgenstein, wittgenstein and wittgenstein

i liked blood meridian

The idea of meme authors is a meme

>>8491917

No, that's Patrick.

A book is classified as experimental when (like in music) it modifies its style and structure in unusual ways to change the perspective from which the narrative is told. There is a lot of experimental literature in the modern and postmodern movements. Joyce, Pynchon, Beckett, Woolf, and Gaddis all come to mind as being seminal "experimental" authors

>>8491894
It depends on the experiment. Oneohtrix and other recent electronic stuff reminds me of bricolage stuff like Burroughs/Tzara poetry and sometimes Pynchon novels. Also have u tried google yet

>>8491961
Google gives me popular book titles. I was hoping to get the general concensus among avid book readers, and if they're respected.

And I guess your personal favorites.

Ernest Hemingway titled it.

It's a dick joke

Who says the contents of a book needs to have anything to do with its title?

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>>8491846
>pretencious

>>8491863
sorry, my mother tongue is not english. I'm really ashamed of my english vocabulary.
Pretentious*

stick with the basics. literally look up anything that has to do with those old greek/roman philosophies. or you could do something more recent like the age of enlightenment.

>no caps pic
>not in caps
saged, reported.

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Last book(s): Lolita and the stranger
Currently: Love in times of cholera
Next: I don't know yet

>>8491769
So let me get this straight, you're looking towards the minority of people here who happen to speak Spanish
Who also happen to also speak English
Who also happen to have read Hemingway
Who also happened to have read his translation into Spanish

Just get a fucking English copy mate

>>8491769
I literally just finished reading this, but in English...
if you wanna talk about the book in general, I would appreciate it....

>>8491797
well, I didn't read the book already, but you could send me some info contact if you wanna talk about the book once I get it and finish it.

>>8491782
No, mate. There's a minority of people here that speak spanish, sure, but enough to ask a question about translations. I'm just trying to get to someone who read the book in spanish. I don't know if you talk more than one language, but in that case, I could read any translation for 10 pages and know it's a shit translation. My example of catcher in the rye, and the reason of why I'm reading things in english, is because a lot of this translations (especially the ones that come from Spain) are really shitty, especially in the case of modern literature, where's theres a lot of slang in it. So stop being edgy and contribute or just go shit into a thread you could have at least a valid opinion.

Because Mexico is awful.

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Just read part 4, why does Bolano keep bitching about how awful Mexico is?

>>8491756
Because it's Mexico

It's not reddit. It's not as good as Dune. It's alright. There are some great parts. Some parts drag.

>>8491748
>science shitsion

hohoho

it's not reddit, and i liked it more than dune

Sup, /lit/. I just moved here from Pacifica, California, which is on the other side of the bay from here. On the other side of the peninsula, which is probably the least hip town in the whole Bay Area. And you can get a nice ratty apartment there with a nice panoramic view for about $700 bucks a month. Anyway, this is something I wrote while I lived there. It's called Pacifica.

My balcony looks over Eureka Valley.

In the evening, I get to watch the land turn the color of brick, and then aluminum.

On the hills there are trees: eucalyptus and Monterey pine.

And in the sandy bed, a housing development.

Often, I catch my eyes, sliding easily - as if they rolled on bearings, or had been oiled - off the identical rows of houses of people, and back up to the more peculiar trees.

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>>8491673
>$700 bucks

>>8491673
Your sentence structure is unnecessarily complex.

>>8491562

Sweet
Kindly devote your time to translating Finnegans Wake into your new language and let us know when it's done

>>8491562
ok, do you like books though?

so is this an international NEET language? If so this is kind of amazing

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>Thomas Sowell
>St. Aquinas
>Tolkien
>Ann Coulter

truly red pilled my fellow red pilled friend but where's Art of the Deal

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>>8491527
>not all in English

>>8491527
>no nick land
trash

>>8491520

do you write commercial trash

>>8491520

What do you get from lying on an anonymous image board?

>>8491520
Assuming you're in short stories, where you informed or influenced by the short story writers of the 20th century?

>>8491503
It's a Victorian idea that literature has to be edifying, but reading can have that power.

>>8491503
Just about anything can 'exist,' anon

Ideally a work of fiction or nonfiction gives you knowledge. Something to think about once it's over. Otherwise it's just a waste of time

That knowledge doesn't necessarily have to be an easily digestible moral, but there should be something that at least raises questions or gives you knowledge about something

>>8491503
>>8491511

personally I don't think a book needs to be pushing a moral, but if a story is true to life you should be able to learn something from it, even if its completely your own construction.

>comparing Pynchon to Vance Vliet's bottom bitch

>>8491459
>Vance Vliet

>Pynchon
>still alive
>all photos of him appear to have been taken in 1853