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Nothing, its a great book.

Or did you mean the main character?

>>8399717
>did you mean the main character?
Yes.

>>8399723
He understood that normies are evil

>>8399605
I kind of like a couple but yeah these mostly suck

needs katie, joker rape, please no corn father, or commentaries on gallic wars read/expected/got

i like the one with the dictionary lol

Can you give us an idea of the plot? Pregnancy giving women power isn't that original. (Not that it has to be.) I think a bit of plot would make this question easier.

>>8399588
mpreg is always the way to go, gotta tap that fetish audience

Honestly?

This sounds gross and fetishy, have you tried talking to /tg/ about it?

Theyy We love that shit over there.

>>8399577
>non-entity says something about an entity
?

>>8399592
>Peter Ackroyd
>non-entity

>>8399577
>it may be that Nabokov is fascinated by his own work, and so continues to harass and worry it in order to extract some key or secret code which will justify it all; or, more probably, it may be that his talent has long since atrophied and he is condemned to the constant reworking of his original material, to press some scent out of the already heavily pressed flower […]. When a novel strives too hard to become literature, it falls into literariness. Nabokov’s words are hollow and external, and he lays them on with a trowel. All that is left is solemn persona playing with himself and that—of course—leads to blindness.

On Nabakov

>OP attempts to pass his psychological buck onto others

nice try bud

>>8399557
Greatness is subjective. Sage.

>>8399557

Frederick Douglass was 27 when he wrote his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, so I feel ok.

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>look at how diverse we are

>>8399502
If I had all those things, I certainly wouldn't be wasting my time talking to you cunts, I'd be self-publishing.

>>8399528
What are you attempting to express with this post?

>>8399472
>tfw you will never be patrician enough to be moved that strongly by literature
I want to feel but I don't

>>8399558
It's called being overly sensitive, not patrician.

>>8399559
>tfw not sensitive enough to be moved that strongly be literature
It feels exactly the same

>>8399441
radio lab and in our time are good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKTMmbGiqOc

I bookmarked this earlier today, looks like she's got some good stuff (don't have to watch the vid, they're in the description)

>>8399722
Looks crazy. Also, what is it with women and the attraction for parapsychology ?

>>8399440
Context clues and Wikipedia. Don't actually set out to read full length works unless you're genuinely interested in their content, otherwise see the above mentioned.

>>8399440
>It's another 'I want to understand absolutely every single reference' episode.
No wonder you autistic fucks never read.

I'm reading Schopenhauer's The World As Will and Representation having only read the Greeks and a handful of his essays (which are what got me interested in him). I'm doing okay so far, I just Googled a summary of his first work that he recommended one read first. I can piece together most of what he means by context clues, despite him asserting that one has to read a library before tackling his work.

Vampercore?

>a cumming penis

>>8399467
>projecting this hard

>>8399399
ask carol vorderman to give you a handjob

>>8399399
eat out of the trash can of ideology

>>8399399
Eat sausages every day, smoke and drink heavily. It will come to you.

i've only listened to Live at The Old Quarter (tho i've listened to that a lot) what do you reccomend from him?

>>8399356
s/t, Our Mother the Mountain and Flyin' Shoes are all great releases. I'd say everything he released in the 60s besides his first album (For the Sake of the Song) is worth a listen though.

I'm curious about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The animated disney film is one of my favourites and I don't know if I will enjoy the book(s) as an adult.

Is it purely for children?

>>8399194
>Read Waiting for Godot back in the spring
>Now reading an anthology of some of his lesser-known drama like Krapp's Last Tape/Act Without Words

Are his novels similar? I fucking love his brand of blunt, humorous surrealism.

>>8399200
Krapp's Last Tape has similar elements to the Molloy trilogy.

>>8399194
beckett is lit incarnate as fuck man, like i can imagine any one of you fuckers chain smoking binge drinking and spinning yarn with him lol

Quentin was a cuck

No quentin just got pissed when other guys fucked caddy but he was a pussy and never had the balls, Caddy fucked swagged out fuckboyzz who could get it

>>8399171
Caddy's daughter's name is Miss Quentin. There are myriad reasons why Caddy would name her child after her late brother, but the Faulkner-fact of the matter is, late in the book she is literally the last vestige of Quentin's namesake. I think she fucked Quentin. Taking into account the book's emphasis on ancestors and decedents, it's the only scenario that further promulgates the chronic toxic family themes to the readers while at the same time giving due diligence to the actual cast of the book and not Somefuck Randy catcalling Caddy on the periphery.

Define what you mean by taking it seriously. Using it as a means to understand some of the motivations behind certain historical people's actions would make sense to me, I would assume having not read it.

The art of war section is pretty straightforward. But the Confucius part doesn't seem to have a purpose.

Overrated. Highly disappointed and overrated.