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>>8460840
Sorry, I can't make you feel anymore smug when you're using that filename.

Finnegans Wake

Not your diary, desu.

I went to the bookstore to buy Filth and ended up walking out with Trainspotting. Haven't read it yet, but I liked the movie so...

I like his work but recently attempted to read Filth and became bored and gave up on it. It might have worked as a short story but who wants to read about a character like that for an extended period of time?

>>8460836
I like Children of God and The Great Annihillator much more than Filth, but prefer Filth to To Bee Kind.

>>8460768
Polonius was actually Slain, the chambermaid. Him saying it made it true, and absolved Hamlet of killing Desdemona's brother.

>>8460768
"O I am laffin"

>>8460768
>Always read about fashionable last words
>Dramatic deathbed declarations
>grandfather just kind of splutters and chokes and gasps and spits for 15 minutes

>>8460710
If you really care about LOTR lore I guess.

It's not written like novel, more like a history book for fake history.

>>8460719
fake history is the best kind of history

oh wait all history is fake

>>8460710
How much do you like Tolkien?
I loved every second of it

>>8460685
Anyone?

Bump
Also I've heard that Tutunamayanlar by Oguz Atay is Turkish Ulysses, can anyone back that up?

OP it seems you know more about Turkish lit than we do. Shoot, I barely know any Arabic or Asian lit either. If the book is good would you kindly let us know, maybe we can branch out our reading taste.

You could write Stoner from the perspective of Lomax and you would end up loving Lomax. That's what makes the book so great, the characters are no caricatures. I don't think Williams was against cripples, Lomax is trying to protect Walker from Stoner, whom he may perceive as being a threat to Walker/Lomax - Stoner is the better academic, Lomax is the better politician. Both Lomax and Walker have physical inabilities which binds them together.

>>8460665
>Lomax is trying to protect Walker from Stoner
So do you think maybe he just went a bit too far in his protectiveness and probably started to just feel animosity and uncariness for Will as a person?

But more importantly, why has he always been so hostile to Will even before this? Is he just not good with people unless they have something for him?

>>8460789
Wasn't Lomax cold to everyone back when he first joined the university? He never joined activities not directly related to the university and his tenure. I don't think he had any personal problem with Willy before Walker showed up.

>>8460641
What role does any philosophy have on society at large? Do you ever hear people talking about hagel, kant, or heidegger? I don't.

>>8460641
It's not virtue that is moral, but moral that is virtuous.

>>8460801
>Marx was hegelian
>nazis were also hegelian
>ideology all around us now
You tell me

>>8460629
It's pleb

Time to grow up young man.

>>8460638
any suggestions my old man?
do i literally just need to read more in order to develop my taste and be able to discern between good and bad lit?

>>8460620
To whom?

>>8460628
For people in general.

>>8460793
>believing in general people

kek

kek

KEK

>>8460590
You're a retard, and don't know the first thing about postmodernism

Go back to your anime and 'vidya'

>>>/r9k/

sage

>>8460590
some truths can only be expressed in contradictions :^)))

>>8460590
This is almost entirely incorrect and shows a clear misunderstanding...

You know what? What's the point of this thread? Just to bitch about a concept you clearly don't understand? Most people would just look into it further and give it some thought, not think "I need to go to 4chan and post a dumb-looking frog" about it

Shame on you

It's good, surprisingly a pretty slow read especially given the genre, but the last section in particular is really nice. If these are the kinds of books (magic faggotry) you like, go ahead, it's worth

>>8460494
I can't say for this, but for light, entertaining, but still decent or even good, look to Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Elric of Melbourne, Amber Chronicle and probably the best in the bunch, Dying Earth.
All of these are fast and except Amber, are short stories or novellas you can stop reading after 200 pages, instead of 800 that Jonathan Strange.
The general has shit opinions for the most part, stay clear

I love it when a book creates a world without showing (prime example of a book created purely for showing: Ringworld), and Jonathan Strange weaves this huge net of a world by using hundreds of footnotes, it's great fun

the main audience is teenage girls

what did you expect

Let's test this with my reading list.

Nineteen Eighty-Four
>“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
Childhood's End
>“Science is the only religion of mankind.”
Slaughterhouse Five
>“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
The Brothers Karamazov
>“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Lolita
>“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

3/6 not bad, but not ANY book and ALWAYS about love.

>>8460507
I'll do the same for 6 random to-be-reads or recently reads (I'll pick works which are known in the English world, so I'll actually get quotes)

Água viva
>“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”

The Idiot
>“Beauty will save the world”

Crazy Cock
>“She felt that in everything, sublime or ignoble, there was hidden a turbulent, a vital force, a significance and beauty which art, however glorious, was but a pale refection. “I want to live!” she muttered wildly. “I want to live!”

Transparent Things
>“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future.”

Zizek's Less Than Nothing
>“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

Bad Feminist
>“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.”

I'm really failing to see a pattern here.

>>8460425
Occultism is LARPing taken too far.

not really

not in the modern sense of capitalist productive knowledge

so no

I mean yeah, it would work, because it's already true. Children just aren't aware of it. Read some shit about child psychology and I'm sure you'll come up with something you can use.

>>8460388
Yeah that's called Lord of the Flies

Yeah that's called Rugrats.

Start with the Greeks

you might want to try the homework board >>>/hm/