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>>8468756
Boredom complacence boredom again hit on the home stretch of M and C and the poke came out to the dyke's pomade niggerhands

>>8468849
Faulkner?

>>8468862
Nein

>taking a philosophy class
You had it coming

some pastor in this church lesson called him "neachy" and then tried to use his quotes against him.

"Neachy was a huge atheist, let me tell you why he actually hated himself and was just angry at God the whole time..." nearly shit myself tbqhwitcha

>first post on /lit/
>spells "Nietschez" as "Nay-ché"

>>8468698
When I need to take a dump, I always bring any non-fiction with me because I tend to lose concentration with it more than any fiction stuff

>>8468698
I keep a stack of remaindered copies of IJ in mine. it's cheaper than toilet paper.

>>8468698
personally, the very hungry caterpillar was my go-to for my shit sessions
also, fiction books cause it's hard shitting when there's too much friction
maybe the bible would help?

>>8468656
Why does /lit/ hate John Green so much?

Why did OP post a picture of Patrick Rothfuss?

>>8468664
It's the only thing we have in common.

Just got the hard cover of the book of disquiet off amazon for really cheap.

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>>8468581

Involuntary emotional response

Baby don't hurt me

EDIT: WOW! thanks to the person who sent me the gold

EDIT: now downvotes?

Ulysses and 100 Years are some of my favourite books but Gabo and Joyce were doing completely different shit, it's dumb to compare them

>>8468584
out of curiosity

what book was more challenging to read?

>>8468649
100 years is not that challenging, i read that shit in high school

>>8468572
the stain-glass windows in my Gothic cathedral.
I'm illiterate and had to dictate this post to my little brother. As a neo-feudalist I am wholly comitted to my serfdom.

The Martian. Incredibly funny and science.

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I read it every few years. As I grow up, the book grows up with me. I loved it as a kid and up to this day - everytime I read it, I find something new. And I always find myself crying on the last chapter.

>>8468507
He's garbage, quit now and save yourself the trouble.

>>8468516
A lot of people on reddit seem to be loving it, where's the disparage coming from if I may ask?

It doesn't.

The fantasy genre is pretty much just overwhelmed with mediocrity at this point.

>>8468468
>inb4 "i just started my first literature class and I think it would be really cool if I became a writer"

nigga read some books the writing comes along

>>8468468
Possible? Yes. Can you do it? No.

>>8468468
Every time I see a fat sow like this I am reminded that plenty of men still love this kind of pussy, maybe even prefer it. I would be interested in knowing why. Just imagine the smell rising from the folds of this fat broad. I'm not talking about all overweight women, I mean bona fide skanks.

As for the topic, it is possible to have good ideas and good imagination, and be illiterate. You need some literacy to write, and some reading is necessary to attain it.

After a certain point of literacy, the necessary of reading while writing is debatable. I recall crime author James Ellroy avoids reading books in order to avoid copy the ideas of others unknowingly.

Hagakure is really good. If you want to read something that feels like the Japanese Iliad then read Tale of the Heike.

The Samurai by Shusaku Endo

>>8468384

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa is fantastic

>>8468376
Notes from the Underground
Á rebours

Enjoy mon amis, rock bottom isn't far.

>>8468376
High school escapism? You need young adult fiction my friend

>>8468376
You fucker... you saved my pic

>>8468304
Cool review, holden.

So uh. What have you contributed to literature OP?

I don't know how it's even debatable. He makes Steven King sound like a Demigod.

t. secret wisdom

basically, you can't know what I know, F.U.
when you think about it, it's the most patrician way of life.

>>8468275
Could you go into a bit more detail on this? Sounds pretty interesting desu

>>8468270

Gnosticism is interesting because it's an attempt to answer why evil exists. There are many types, but a lot of them have Dualist, which is to say that they believe the world was created by a lower emanation than the real God. The world creator is merely a Demiurge, an architect, (variously seen as vengeful, boasting, and equated with the (Old Testament God) and his creation is flawed, and so evil and vice and ignorance can be explained as the inevitable consequence of a flawed creation.

Gnostic sects constructed a mythology to explain things, and riffed on Christian ideas. Their popularity and rising influence threatened the institutional church in the early centuries.

There is a good podcast with academics who give a summary of Gnosticism. Look for Mervyn Bragg's In Our Time podcast on the BBC website.

Like Bloom I find it fascinating. There is the whiff of the occult about it, of secret knowledge. It is as seductive a belief system as it is incendiary (The Old Testament God as a lesser, evil God, with a greater God above him.)

>>8468254
amazon link is here, if you guys will excuse my shameless plugging:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ladder-Loqman-Kelly-ebook/dp/B01KBFMZEM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1471132167&sr=1-1&keywords=the+ladder

>>8468294

Decent cover. Not sure why you needed to mention he was bald in the description.

>>8468254
You need to ask PR professionals, not 14-year-olds who circle jerk about Ulysses

>>8468240
Don't read this shit. There are better german Authors

>>8468240
>Is Goethe's Faust a mandatory reading before this?
Goethe's Faust is mandatory reading in any case.

>>8468246
such as?