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>>8397656
Well, that book right there is something I'd like to get. I'm almost done with "Teatro Grottesco".

>>8397656
I'll be going on a date with Shirley Jackson this halloween

MR James.

God Emperor is an absurd work, the last two books are decent but fate cucked us out of a satisfactory conclusion to that story.

Everything not written by Frank Herbert is to Dune what the Disney canon is to Star Wars. They get some of the aesthetic details right (actually they are worse at this than Disney) but there is no longer any meaningful underlying message.

>>8397645
The 7th book would have been so good.
Daniel and Marty...

>>8397645
>God Emperor is an absurd work
Does it jump the shark big-time or something?

>>8397612
Obvious bait but I'm gonna take advantage of it to say that you shouldn't jsut read fantasy and science fiction or "deep" books. Balance is the key.

>>8397621
>le you gotta read everything
kys
I don't want to dig through the landfill of fantasy, scifi and other pulp to find something somewhat decent when I could be reading objectively great books instead.

>>8397612
just chill out dude

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>>8397589
Yonder I wonder

>>8397589
the doritos

>>8397589
memetastic

>>8397578
He was disgraced as a journalist over a decade ago when it was revealed he took pay offs to write positive articles for big industry. Guy is a salty hack.

>>8397578
Whoops I guess I should've posted this on /his/(?). But I guess this board also accepts this kind of discussion...

dunno if this is any help...

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/oct/04/roger-scruton-my-father-looked-like-jeremy-corbyn-fools-frauds-firebrands-interview

>Scruton on… the thinkers of the left

>EJ Hobsbawm
>“Hobsbawm affirmed (in the Daily Worker, 9 November 1956) that he approved of what was happening in Hungary, though with a ‘heavy heart’. Until his death in 2012 Hobsbawm continued to extend his heavy-hearted approval to atrocities. His case illustrates just how far you can go in collaborating with crime, when the crime is committed on the left.”

>Louis Althusser
>“For Althusser Marxist dogma is ‘revealed’ by being concealed. It is the act of concealment, within intellectual structures of impenetrable opacity, which guarantees the truth of every revelation. The axioms of Marxist theory appear in Althusser’s prose like blinding flashes of total darkness, within clouds of grey on grey.”

>Jean-Paul Sartre
>“Sartre changed the language and the agenda of postwar French philosophy, and fired the revolutionary ambitions of students who had come to Paris from the former colonies. One of those students, Pol Pot, was later to return to his native Cambodia and put into practice the ‘totalising’ doctrine that has as its target the ‘otherness’ of the bourgeousie.”

>Slavoj Žižek
>“Žižek’s defence of terror and violence, his call for a new party organised on Leninist principles, his celebration of Mao’s cultural revolution, the thousands of deaths notwithstanding – all of this might have served to discredit Žižek among more moderate leftwing readers, were it not for the fact that it is never possible to be sure he is serious.”

>John Kenneth Galbraith
>“Galbraith’s criticism of the American system predictably earned him a secure position within it. But his appointment as ambassador to India in 1961 [made him] momentarily aware of the truth that a century of Marxist thinking had contrived to deny: that it is not the economic system of a nation that determines its character but its political institutions.”

>Gilles Deleuze
>“He sometimes tries to explain himself to the ordinary reader. But he does so in an endless stream of abstractions from which all reference to concrete reality and the flow of human life has been excised. He does not argue but encloses his key words in fortified boxes, which he locks firmly against all questioning before throwing the key away.”

>>8397553
>“I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.”

Do you think you could handle 400 pages of that?

>>8397569
Sounds silly, but hey, maybe 13-year-old me would've enjoyed it at least a bit.

STAR WARS

you must think you're really cool having graduated from romanticizing depression to romanticizing the MUCH MORE LITERARY paranoia

o, us damaged souls? why does nobody get us? why will women never love us?

>>8397560
unironically very good post

>>8397551
kafka
pynchon

Doesn't Gothic fiction fall under weird fiction?

>>8397517
source on pic?
>>8397523
no, gothic fiction is, historically, a branch of victorian writing. This means, that modern gothic writing should, at least in part, emulate and be familiar with the writing styles and motifs of that time period.

>>8397523
Well, Gothic is a big influence on Weird, but the latter does other things too (and imo is broader in scope)

Exactly 1000.

>>8397500
I'm one of the few authors who have actually written more books than they read

>>8397500
there´s no specific number
read 1000 50 shades of grey tier books and you will you will be worse of than if you read Ulysses once

>>8397452
What is that from?

>>8397459

Pride and Prejudice

I think it's a good idea. It helps, in a small way, to make sure that working-class and middle-class literature is still produced. People from those classes don't have the free time that the upper-class has, and free time is essential for writers because they need that time to read and to perfect their writing craft. Grants from stuff like the National Endowment for the Arts helps them get that free time.

>read some Mo Yan novel
>consider Chinese incapable of complex or original thought

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>>8397448

>>8397438
>finish Gravity's Rainbow
>started browsing /x/, get scared of lightbulbs

I don't want to leave cheap books to my sons, that's why i always buy new books.

>>8397410
Heh I always buy used books online, price is often really cheap like one euro, depends on the book though

I'd tell you about the site but it's not American and doesn't ship to the US so it wouldn't be useful to you anyway

abebooks.com is pretty solid based on the couple times I've used it

>>8397365
>You were the Critique of Pure Reason all this time.
You kant be serious...

>>8397365
Shut the fuck up you stupid fucking faggot

Very sturdy this frame is, whats it made of?
Why sir, thats some quality Norwegian Wood

>>8397304
its about sex and cuckoldry.How sex makes you evil, old guys are always after young pussy and how you sometimes have to pick between your job and your girl

Is this actually any good

>>8397304
The count is an edgelord that goes on about being a descendant of Atilla and how peasants are cowards.

>>8397287

Are you going to at least define the word and use it in a sentence?

>>8397287
Nignig as an endearing term for nigger

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"monder"