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>>8311150
omg is that fucking nietzsche?!?!!??

>>8311150
Genealogy, then Beyond Good and Evil. Try to read a few of the Greek tragedies so you can make sense of Birth of Tragedy when you get to it.

>>8311150
My dear friend, when you reach your early twenties, as I have, you come to realize that life is short. We're allotted limited hours here on this pale blue dot we call Earth, so we best not waste them. That's why when it comes to reading, I read the best and only the best. And the best is David Foster Wallace. I strenuously urge everyone on this board who's reading this to pick up Infinite Jest when you get the chance. Just remember: Wallace said, "Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being." He didn't say, "Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking Witch-king of Angmar."

nah. read butcher's crossing- lets talk about that when youre done

no

thanks for asking me in particular

Just bought it waiting for it to ship. Not sure if I'll go for that next or Against the day

>>8311107
>big enough
for you

>>8311107
Probably some of his best work, if that tells you anything. It was a fun read, and if you are expecting anything but, you will be seriously letdown.

Gaimen gets shit on a lot, but he's always been a fun read to me.

They just released the trailer for the American Gods tv show this week I think. I don't have high hopes for it.

>>8311073
You are posting the feel man on 4chan. You'll never amount to anything

>>8311076
Pretty sure his name is Jok

>>8311073
If you look at the vast majority of authors today and for the previous few decades it should be abundantly clear that the current zeitgeist cares much more about plot than prose.

Also
>patrician writer and the plot is so simple

Are you reading Greek memefiction or what?

>>8311067
Bump

For a writer you sure have an awkward and confusing way of saying things.

nah he's just a loose-jowled intellectual that can write some pretty sentences and overly academic books

>>8311043
No he's a fat and ugly old meme.

Cuckold-tier

>>8311043
you seemed to be obsessed with this jabba the hut looking hog that wrote purple sentences to put a thrill down your leg.

You are a weakass reader

>>8311000
>validate me

Fuck off

>You need that many books to learn how to be a degenerate.

If you're going to smoke weed just do it. Don't be a massive faggot about it by reading that shit.

>>8311006
This

okay be carful i love you

be brave, /lit/tle one

>>8310931
the god delusion

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>>8310931
>2016
>believing in the Christian God

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>>8310931
>2016
>Not having a Nietzsche phone strap

>>8310922
Girls can't explain shit they're mentally inferior.

Ask a man, women don't know what they want, a strong man (what we call Chad)needs to tell them.

Come to /r9k/ and we'll redpill you on women. Read Schopenhauer's 'On Women' before spilling your guts first, though

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I'm not female. But I read a shitload of erotic fiction as a teenager (at least an hour a day). But these days I stick to erotic roleplay and barely read erotic fiction at all.

I don't understand why there is so much of it, and why there is so much horrible erotica, and what motivates people to write horrible erotica.

>>8310930
Take your sexist bullshit back to /b/ you limp-dicked faggot. 4chan is not your fucking playground.

>>8310922
>Do you guys actually fap to it?
Not always.

>>8310918
>does /lit/ like liberals

'No', kid

Yes, he's great.

"How to live" from Bakewell (Blakewell?) is a nice introduction but it's not like he's hard to read.

>>8310934
Do liberals like to cite Montaigne? I have no idea

>>8310863
I don't get your request.

if you want to learn to write good stories read The story by robert mckee and lajos egri dramatic writing and 36 plots book and also the hero's journey.

>>8311010

heh..ya don't actually read real books btw, listen to this guy he's got your back.

>>8310821
Ideally you should only read dead white males.

But what's the course, maybe there's a reason? If so, why did you pick it

>>8310821
Yes. That's a gutter trash reading list on every level.

YOU JUST GOT MEMED SON

>>8310808
Wow I hate women now

>>8310808
spoonheiser is a fucking nerd lmao

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Yeah, he really was.

I was lead to believe through memes and secondary sources that Schopenhauer was just having a petty misogynistic rant, but a lot of it is matter of fact. Some of it is actually sympathetic to the problems women do face due to the absence of polygamy.

Schopenhauer's reaction to women wasting their husband's money upon becoming a widow was the one part in 'on women' that was heavily laden with disgust. If he had the ability to discern how much modern marriage has now degenerated and the existence of alimony, I believe he would've advocated for the complete stripping of autonomy of females.

>>8310805
They probably all have largely the same words in the same order