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>>8317694
Nancy Farmer, who wrote The House of The Scorpion, and The Lord of Opium, lives in Arizona's Chiricauhua mountains near where.I'm from. I like her Sea of Trolls novels much better, though.

Ulysses I guess

Is the New Erotic Photography book any good?

>>8317301
>Taschen

ah those books are the only books worth having.

10/10.

>downrating Stiedl

In my experience, the TBASS collections are kind of a mixed bag. Some of the stories are good, some are shit.

Ray Bradbury has dozens of short story collections, though I don't know how modern you're looking for. My personal favorite from him is The October Country.

Harold Brodkey, John Cheever, William Trevor, Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor (dunno if too old, but she's still too great to ignore)

>>8317362
I think I have this huge collection of Trevor's stories lying around. I'll take a look at it. I enjoyed one of O'Connor's stories a while back. The Geranium. for the longest time I confused her with Shirley Jackson which I also read frm time to time.

upboated :^)

can anybody recommend a good study on mythology? Not the stories themselves, just a deep analysis of them. No Joseph Campbell please.

>>8317278
y

>>8317000
Red Rising is loosely inspired by the Year of the Four Emperors, 68 AD when Emperor Nero died and caused the first civil war since Marc Antony, causing other colonies (or whatever Roman term for outer territory is) to rebel

>>8317000
Did you see Rome on HBO? You'd enjoy it

>>8317976
yes, and the cunts cancelled it. could have totally continued into the reigns of augustus, tiberius, caligula, clau-clau-claudius

It's interesting. You are wrong about him being a great writer, and wrong in your estimation that this is poor treatment.
Pretty cool.

I don't think the skeleton cares too much.

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>be a great writer
>this is how you are remembered

betterthanfood book reviews reviewed big sir and said it was pretty good, pick up that one.

What?

Read it if you want, don't if you don't.

>>8316565
its pretty short, you could read it in an afternoon

Paul Celan, René Char, Tomas Tranströmer, etc ...

James Merrill and Anne Sexton are favorites. To a lesser extent Saul Williams.

>>8316327
>>8316396
Thanks for the proofs.

muh sun

It was hot af man

Refugees raped his mother before she died

>short is better

If I lost so much time on writing as Proust, I too would be searching for it.

>>8315827
In probably every case, yes.

From the beginning

But in his second book he does make a mention that its cool to start there if you couldnt make it through Beelzebub (id double check though)

Also you might want to research Ouspensky too and see how he relates to Gurdjieff

>>8315817
thank you anon

>>8315798
http://ggurdjieff.com/books/

I'll bite.

1. Reading Swann's Way right now aswell but I'm not quite sold yet. I think the sentimental nature of Proust's prose can easily get a bit frustrating and over-the-top and I find myself overloaded with information when I've read for a longer while. It is very much possible that I'm not quite literary mature enough for a work of this magnitude but I'm intending to finish this one before deciding whether to continue or let Proust wait for a while.

2. Don't really care if it isn't reflected in his writing. It hopefully makes for a broader view if he actually was gay

3. I guess he's not very discussed here because it's a big task to read all of the volumes of In Search Of A Lost Time. I guess only that is a bit off-putting and his rambling, sentimental style of writing may also turn people away

>>8315551
Because /lit/ has moved on from the le 3000 pages gay Lacan man.

Read Beckett instead.

>>8315551
>I feel like he and In Search of Lost Time are not discussed nearly enough on this board
Ya. three threads a day is entirely too few.

His name's Ron, he's like 60 and has no teeth but dresses like a wizard gangster and sometimes tries to sell you RCs as tabs of mescaline but his weed, speed, acid and MD are as good as anything I've got online.

>>8314064
>tfw want to buy the goodies on the darknet but am way too big of a pussy

>>8314047
I don't know what you mean by this 'your guy' (are you Bane?) but I'd just like to add that Lovecraft was a NEET before NEETs became a thing. He was a trendsetter.

Nice b8

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>>8314017
I'm not baiting, even if that fact makes me a philistine. Can you answer my question, now? I just finished Gorgias.

>implying the work is at fault
>implying is not because you are a pleb

How about you start paying attention and actually trying to understand him instead of just skimming through it and then complaining on /lit/? Either way, if you can't even understand his shorter dialogues I doubt you will even begin to understand the Republic.

Someone who reads has a broader understanding of the world and is a lot less likely to act uncivilized like nignogs do in public. So yes It is easy to tell who is uncultured swine and who isn't.

>>8313713

>define "believe"
>define "reading"
>define "better"
>define "people"

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>>8313713
Yes, because I'm pretentious. But taking into account the fact that I'm old, never had a job, never had a gf, no friends in the last 10 years and many other things, I am objectively worse than other people, I'd say worse than most people out there.