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shes a cutie

>>9904066

Actually a fan. Play it As it Lays and Year of Magical Thinking are both solid

I'm reading her omnibus right now, actually. I've already read Slouching Toward Bethlehem and The White Album. She's the clear-eyed lucid foil to Gonzo journalism and absolutely hypnotizing to read.

She apparently wrote most of the essays in Slouching Toward Bethlehem while drunk and popping uppers, which is interesting to me.

>>9903943
>God left
>tfw only one enemy remained

>>9903943
i like that in his cartoons he has hair

>>9903943
pleb
this is ideal sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcHc54Z_b3w

>>9903807
>some of the people on Goodreads said it's really not good
That's a good sign you should read it.

>>9903807
>For fans of John Dies at the End
Fucking sold! Thanks op

unironically ask reddit. i mean this as an insult and display of my erudition of course, but /r/ books is also more likely to give you a helpful response than /lit/ which reads almost exclusively canon works ie not contemporary

>>9903716
i go to graveyards and pick names at random

>>9903716
some of the best characters in literature have plain names. this isn't due to any secret, it's just because people are called things.

don't aim for cool

>>9903716
1) ethnic makeup of the area of the character's origin / their family
2) class
3) mythological resonance (the more oblique the better)

>>9903705
He means that the attack was a powerful expression that seduced the entire world, and hence art.

>>9903705
Stockhausen was always interested in systems and formulae, that these would later mutate for him into catechisms, mantras, rituals etc. is no surprise. He was fascinated in and devoted to the idea of practising music as a religion, of course he was impressed that people could orchestrate something so devastating. He did later clarify this statement, which he claimed was misquoted and out of context, to say that it was Lucifer's greatest work of art, related to a question concerning the Lucifer character in his Licht opera cycle.

it means the chickens came home to roost on the fascist american empire by striking at both its military power in the pengaton and capitalist power in the wall street towers

>>9903593
The closing arguments in TBK. Also the chapter preceding The Grand Inquisitor has always stuck with me because of the fact that Dostoevsky took actual Russian court cases as examples.

>>9903593
Tropic of Cancer.
When he describes various pieces of Art.

Time Passes in To The Lighthouse

>>9903492
I read /pol/ and breitbart. You can shove the rest up your judaic ass, cuck

where will i get all these?

>>9903509
Ok.
>>9903569
Internet.

Is this shitpost any good? I read other rpo shitposts and I liked them but I don't want to read them again, if you know what I mean.

>>9903410
>pls spoil the ending of the book for me
>it's babby's first prose novel
you're really not getting this "enjoying literature" idea, are you?

>>9903418
I'm a movies guy, and in the movie doesn't show that part.

>>9903410
He got put into a jail/mental institution and dies before trial of coronary thrombosis. Around the same time, Dolores dies giving childbirth.

>>9903407
Unequivocally yes.

Yeah, absolutely.

>inb4 culture is critique anti jew obsessed anon comes here to blast that everyone in the world except him and McDonald are ignorant and uneducated.

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BTFO

>>9903392
>basically all philosophy and a fair portion of poetry
>Proverbs, Ecclesiastes (I'm assuming you're aware of these by the image)
>Plato (start with Republic, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo)
>Aristotle (start with whatever - I read Poetics and Rhetoric first)
>The Golden Sayings, Epictetus
>Seneca
>Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
>Cicero
>Shakespeare
>Tao te Ching, Lao Tze
>The rest of the Bible
>The poetry of Tennyson, Yeats, Eliot, Byron, and many others.
>most well-known philosophers (Kant, Kierkegaard, Russell, Berkeley, yada, yada, yada)

Should make for a start. Hopefully you can intuit other resources beyond this.

>>9903712
Forgot:

>Francis Bacon (New Atlantis and Essays)
>Essays of Michel de Montaigne
>Certain political philosophers (Hannah Arendt, Alexis de Tocqueville, etc.)

>>9903365

First tell me what you thought of late-22nd century Chinese short stories

>>9903388
The doasist renaissance caused by the mass population thinning and Japanese exodus really made for some impressive works. Namely 夢胞腫夢, and 無理予期.

OP should've started with the greeks

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>>9903336

Truly no
https://charliechitty.wixsite.com/theaxemancometh
This seemed promising even though it's named after an episode of American Horror Story
but yeah, no

Make music instead.
And fuck California.

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>>9903299
Keep looking until it stops hurting and you start to enjoy it.

>The product of over a decade's research, the 1,344-page published text is Vollmann's longest single-volume work.
Also a good option: death

>>9903143
All of Willy t is worth it.

>>9903143
he writes like an ugly faggot