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>>9919338
i tried reading Roget's Thesaurus, but it was boring. two hundred pages in, not a trace of a plot or character development. dropped.

>>9920351
The dictionary was a real page turner, though. It turns out the zebra did it.

>>9919338

how about just any mobile phone with internet access so you can just google that shit

>>9919291
STOP FUCKING BAITING.

i remember waiting for winds of winter back in high school

and now I'll finish uni next year

what a hack

He deserves some merit but don't think he accomplished anything genius. He was heavily influenced by Accursed Kings, European history and some fantasy tropes. It was nice and well executed but not original.

>>9919286
You'll meet David Foster Wallace after I am done with you.

>>9919286
are you proud of yourself

I often dream about going to bookshops.
Fuck lucid dreaming,nothing interesting happens.

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It is I, Lao Tzu, here to empart my divine wisdom on your dumb ass

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

>>9919274
A Mind for Numbers, used in the massively successful MOOC "Learning How to Learn".

How to Read a Book, The Trivium and many more can be found here: https://yuki.la/lit/9475678

critical and creative thinking by w. edgar moore

>>9919243
op I wrote this

I wrote a song here it is.

Today we want to march,
Try a new march,
Through the beautiful Westerwald,
Yes, the wind whistles so coldly.

O, you beautiful Westerwald,
The wind whistles so coldly over your heights
However the smallest sunshine
Go deep into the heart!

And the Grete and the Hans
Going to Sunday for dancing,
Because dancing is fun
And the heart in the body laughs.

O, you beautiful Westerwald,
The wind whistles so coldly over your heights
However the smallest sunshine
Go deep into the heart!

If the dancing is over then,
Typically,
And the boy, who is not happy,
It is said to have no cutting.

O, you beautiful Westerwald,
The wind whistles so coldly over your heights
However the smallest sunshine
Go deep into the heart!

http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=E5F647825579B39AA5009A597F31C845

>>9919416
Wrong one. I'm looking for the one by Dennis Sweet.

>>9919210
You don't have to justify if you want a big juicy cock in your ass, anon.

Third-rate Pynchon desperate to impress with quantity rather than quality. Critics taken in by sheer volume: 20 books written before the age of 50, including Rising Up and Rising Down, 3,300 pages; Europe Central, 811 pages; The Royal Family, 780 pages; Imperial, 1,344 pages. Grist for dissertation mills, intends not to be read but admired, motivated by the same incessant logorrhea as David Kirby and Albert Goldbarth in poetry. Consistent strain of misogynist sadomasochism overlooked by awed critics. Hunting down prostitutes (especially Southeast Asian prostitutes) has been uber-nerdish preoccupation, both in life and writing. Stepped into the breach left by Pynchon's long silences, determined to churn out a full Pynchon a year. Encapsulates ethical vacuity of American fiction after the collapse of 1970s postmodernism. Any moral meaning is buried in indigestible compendiums of graceless sentences. His few readable pieces are those heavily edited by conventional magazines (such as his Taliban piece edited 40 times by the New Yorker). Intentionally kills narrative with digression, to prove his superiority over other writers. His travel books follow Orientalist conventions--the coy outsiderness--despite his radical pomo self-image. Myth of Vollmann the Nobelist has been assiduously cultivated--by himself! Among his notes to his poor Viking editor, Paul Slovak, on being advised to cut his books: "I actually believe I have a shot at winning the Nobel Prize"; "Almost never do I read the final product"; "I believe that this book is worthy of standing in the shadow of Gibbon"; "It should be classed in the canon of great books."

>>9919181
If Vollmann is a third-rate Pynchon, who's a Pynchon a third-rate of?

>>9919192
Me

>>9919155
honestly i find the greentext i read on /x/ is usually more creepy and entertaining than what you find in these published anthologies

>>9919155
Hunger Games senpai.

There's mutated animals including anthropomorphic zombie wolves.

Also, Marxist class struggles. The horror!

None of them.
I have read a few but the endings always make what came before worthless.
Don't get me wrong. I think King has some merit and I do enjoy the nostalgia associated with that era of horror fiction but those endings... Wew.

>>9919130
Some of the short stories, but yeah don't bother with his books. He was clearly a pedo who couldn't end a book to save his life.

>>9919130
Let me save you a whole lot of time.
>reading fiction

>>9919064
I honestly never realised he was that much of an impact on lit until I came to this board. Should I start at the beginning or right to his best works?

>>9919076
The beginning is his best work you fucking idiot for gaddis go in order. Its all leading up to agape agape.

I honestly had no idea if that was his first. I usually scorn hipster books, and this seemed too proto for me. Am I enlightened now?

Ding dong, Chingchuangtzu

kwangtzi a bes

>>9919039
Basically I'm a brainlet and don't want to read Kant if I don't have to. It seems like the guy came up with very few answers and maybe asked a lot of dumb questions in the process.

ECCE H O M O

>>9919008
dude just read the hymn. It is pretty golden. thank you for letting me know about this.

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>>9919008
>cum

>>9918971

I haven't read it but as far as I'm aware there isn't anything you should read first.

Some his more explicitly metaphysical works like "multiple states of the being" and "man and his becoming according to the vedanta" should only be read after reading his "introduction to the studies of the hindu doctrines" which doubles as an intro to Guenonian terminology and metaphysics.

However, in my understanding "Crisis of the modern world" was more intended for a mass audience or rather the westerner who seeks to understand the problems plaguing the west. My impression is that it's a sort of self-contained work and so understanding it is not predicated upon being familiar with his veiws already.

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>be Serrano
>stay in Bulgaria as a diplomat
>suddenly the children of the elite are into indian stuff and esotercism, so the soviets kill the daughter of our dictator

Fucking Serrano, mate.

>>9918946

Glory to the Nazist Martyrs of Chile! Glory to the National Socialists of All Latinoamérica!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BdKmfLHYTA