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i can learn more about you from 5 minutes in your hentai folder than 5 years at your office

>>8340982
ugh I feel like this is supposed to be from a rhyming couplet of fourteeners but there just isn't a meter to back up my intuition

>>8340988
And this is why no one should ever read Malcolm Gladwell.

>“Friedrich Nietzsche and Women’s Fashion of 1870”
>“The Composer Rossini‘s Favorite Dishes”
>“The Role of the Lapdog in the Lives of Great Courtesans”

pretty good, imo

>>8340980


Had pretty nice imagery.
I was afraid of it becoming a critique on those evil Europeans at first, but it quickly went deeper into the territory of general human savagery.
Of course I might have missed the full impact of the book by being exposed to tons of pessimistic books like this one. I think during the time it was published you might have had a better oportunity to be actually impressed with its message.
For me it was just confirming what I heard about it and its topic all along, no surprises there.

Still a worthwhile read, I really like Conrads style.

Pretty good. Don't read anything from modern academics on it, most miss the point imo.

This isn't a sjw boogieman post, but I do feel like the current political climate does not look kindly on this novella.

>>8340965
yes

ye

>>8340965
no

I hope to see a Mirror video first.

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>>8340941
4chan:
>c'mon man that was a special moment in the history of the board, we all want to remember that video. it's a sacred meme that should belong to all of us, stop being selfish and share it so we can all join in on the good times and great memories

me:

who's this sperm werm

>>8340934
I've had a few academic papers published as book chapters, and a few reviews (of books and an art exhibit). No creative writing, though.

some poems

>>8340934

Few times in a literary journal.
Nothing since.

>>8340900
Why is it a meme

>>8340942
why, it's over 700 pages of dank obfuscatory modernist philosophical wankery of course

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>>8340900
>eat prae love

>>8340862
>sack of constantinople nowhere to be found
#notallcrusaders

>>8340862
Books are for kikes

>>8340867
Yea that one battle really changes Any conclusions you can draw about that pic

ffffffuuuuuuuuu KILL IT BEFORE IT SMELLS THE BOOKS

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fishe

who let these turks in

No one?

I read most of his books in German and I am not a big fan. Im Krebsgang is his best work.

>>8340745
I don't know anything about this book, but I'll give you a little bump desu

>>8340720
>David Foster Wallace
>11
Pleb.

>Plato
>Goethe
>Shakespeare
I don't have a GoyReads but I'm pretty sure those are the top three.
I don't think you should count every single one of Kafka's texts the same way you would a play by Shakespeare btw.

>>8340790
>I don't think you should count every single one of Kafka's texts the same way you would a play by Shakespeare btw.

I rated some individual short stories, but I also read stuff like Blue Octavo Notebooks and lesser known works.

what did he mean by this?

Really makes you think

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

Go to your containment thread

roughly a dozen people here read it. I find it enjoyably simplistic like star wars, and am waiting for a literary science fiction of epic length to reach its stature.

ignore this idiot: >>8340828

>>8340956
Ya, and they're all in the thread specifically made for scifi and fantasy. Not only is that where you morons belong, it's where it makes the most sense to post about this book.

>>8340624
by reading*

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>>8340624
>Why do you read?
No particular reason, really. I enjoy it, there is always some interesting stories to be found out there. Kinda like those cheesy poster you see in grade school libraries, how you can discover a whole new world or that its an adventure.
>Why do you think people get so up in arms about fiction, in particular the idea that some fiction is for plebs? Does it matter?
Fuck if I know, I could care less what they think of my tastes. We're all wired differently.
>Does it seem like a lot of people on this board often read so they can say "I've read him therefore I'm superior?"
Yeah, definitely a lot of those guys around here, a lot of pseudo intellectuals. Not that I'm any smarter than most high school dropouts.


Travelling is a good way to gain a new perspective, or get you killed. Depends where you go.,

>>8340624
>1 - Why do you read?
1) Curiosity: up to a point that I get bored even frustrated if I do not get new infromation
2)To broaden my view, strenghten my ideology and to get red pilled
>2
Dunno, do not care.
>3
Same as 2.

I have a similar interest as you. We should start a natural history and enviromental science /lit/ thread soon. I will do it anyway tomorrow. It will likely fail, but whatever.

>>8340580
Not often because I have a Kindle, but when I do I just go on Amazon or to a used book store.

Several times a week, through amazon, amazon marketplace, bookfinder/abebooks, the local library sales and bookstores, free copies from university Eng depts, and so on.

>>8340580
I abstain from digital. I was a bit lachrymose when one of the local bookstores closed down. Call it haughtiness, but there is something special about the feeling of holding a book. Ebooks blight that feeling. They don't obfusticate or enshroud any information the book contains, but having books on your bookshelf is something that the plethora of credulous people need to think you're intelligent. The process of getting books, however, the opposite of tedium

>>8340530
Moliére mein gut man

>>8340552
>mein gut man
good thing i'm well versed in Dutch, and was able to understand your post

>>8340652
That post is in French and is making homosexual advances to you