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Interested in getting into his works. Where do I start?

>>8455379
This statue is so ugly lel

>>8455392
ride the tiger is pretty good
if you're into esotericism he has an awesome book about alchemy too

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>not flipping pages from the corner

What kind of ass-backwards culture are you from, lad?

>>8455360
Thats why its always good to have a kindle. If theres a book that comes in an absolutely shite edition its better to have it digitally.

>>8455368

>the corners aren't completely fucked

did you look at this nonsense?

Montaigne
Barfield
Emerson

>>8455357
sir thomas browne is good
burton too

What do you like about the essayists you mentioned?

Or are you just regurgitating a reading list for a course you took once?

>>8455303
Bloom's book on poetry is pretty decent - I think I picked up a copy used for like $1 too. It's called "The Best Poems of the English Language."

>>8455303
>essential poetry
>no Neruda
>no Huidobro

Good Lord, that's a shit chart

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>>8455268

>>>/r/books

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>>8455245
that is a cute kitty

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essential "fuck everything lmao"-core

i dunno, you tell me, what books make you go "man, fuck having borders and laws 'n shit"?

Long Goodbye without a doubt. Marlowe's stoicism and integrity in the face of all the chaos elevate it from detective schlock, although to be honest i havent read the big sleep since high school.

>>8455244
The Long Goodbye is a better work but The Big Sleep is seminal noir. i haven't read both in ages, but i remember laughing a lot more while reading Sleep than Goodbye.

>>8455244
honestly i might like Farewell, My Lovely the most.

that fucking opening of the first chapter with the description of Moose was so fucking witty. hell, that whole chapter had me in awe.

No, why should I?

>>8455238
Autism: the post.

>>8455238
You're insane and should swear off 4chan.

From a purely materialist standpoint there's literally nothing I have to deal with

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Generally with this kind of attitude.

>>8455200
>Hard mode: no spiritual beliefs, purely materialistic worldview.

But then I'd be giving a dishonest answer.

Shakespeare (Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet)
1984
Brave New World
Night
Grapes of Wrath (alternatively Of Mice and Men)
The Scarlet Letter
Antigone
The Crucible
Fahrenheit 451
The Odyssey
The Awakening
Their Eyes Were Watching God
That's all I can remember rn, I'll probably post more if they come to me.

>>8455172
Besides the stuff that was already mentioned here's a brief list of things I remember being assigned in high school

The Assistant
Go ask Alice
The Old Man and The Sea
Jane Eyre
The Things They Carried
Pride and Prejudice
Things Fall Apart
Ethan Frome
Angela's Ashes
Gulliver's Travels

There's more that I don't remember as well as those. Also I think the kids in this one AP history class had to read Candide.

Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Great Expectations
The Bluest Eye
Death of a Salesman

>>8455130
>marries Chandler's style with Philip k. Dick's vision

So it's a genreshit slurry.

>>8455139
I read it a few years ago and this is a pretty good description, other than that it's not as bizzare as dick's stuff usually is.
The main thing I remember is that there were a lot of animal-people in it. It was OK.

>>8455130
Out of the 4 books I've read by Lethem, this was the only one I disliked. The characters aren't as vibrant as the synopsis makes it seem, and the whole thing is just kind of hollow.

It would make a good film in the hands of the right director, though.

you should read better books

>>8455121
What about it moved you?

I'm reading it for the second time, I'm on the last couple chapters.
The first time i read it I enjoyed it but the second time around its absolute shit. reads like a tumblr blog sponsored by various companies and music labels.

>>8455129

Miss Saeki's got it/lost it/found it relationship with her boyfriend/his spirit/Kafka

>>8455089
What would there be to miss? It's just shit and you got memed.

DO NOT FALL FOR THE MEMES

>>8455089
Yeah

Tao Lin's hard though

I recommend starting with Bed, then read a Lorrie Moore short story collection, then Bed again, then move into his novels, it'll start to come together

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>>8455079
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>>8455086

>Ingsoc wing death squads

>dystopian
>utopian
>Malthusian
>fascist
>regime

The Socratic method is more useful for defeating answers than it is for coming up with them.

>>8455012
Analyzing yourself is overrated. I spend 10 years doing it instead of living and it was not worth it.

Just do what you want m8. There's no higher meaning out there anyway.

>>8455012
I've been trying this thing called Focusing. It seems to be working alright for me.