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I don't hate it but i only read it so I could get the /lit/ pseudo intellectual cred. I would've given up otherwise. Bravo academia-media-publishing industrial complex. The first 50 pages are good but the rest just dissolves in to pointless shit. dracula's actions make absolutely no sense unless you read the book as some sort of fear of immigrants thing (buying property and cucking the men by taking their women) but who cares (even though I think pol is right)?

>>8279446
>Are there people here who hate this book?
no
it's great

It's dated, for historical reference only.

>>8279389
Just read before you go to bed, you haven't even started and you're already overthinking it

How much spare time do you need to read a chapter or so per day?

>>8279389

You don't become 'avid' without becoming a 'shut-in'. The key is to care about reading more than you care about what people who don't read say about you.

But that's wrong, the best novel written by an African-American is Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.

Hogg was pretty good though.

>>8279353
I like that Delany didn't go the muh oppression route with his novels.

>>8279353
Is Hogg the thing about the pedophile with the boy sex slaves or whatever?

The Iliad is worth mentioning.

>>8279337
True. Why that in particular though? Was (political) intrigue was as major in Iliad?

>>8279314

King Lear?

You really proved that you believe what you already believed before you read that book a.non.
I'm sure that everyone who agrees with you will agree with you.
Thanks for fixing all the problems;

>try to read book written by nigger
>bla bla bla muh slavery muh crack
>close book
Niggers are the worst race, they exist only to be dominated and enslaved.

Why don't they blame themselves? Literally sold themselves to whites and the first slave owner in the US was a black dude, Anthony Johnson.

>>8279260
Who? He looks like a fantasy author...

Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer

>implying people know him apart from the 3 of us Hungarians

What is the bicycle of dubstep?
What is the gelato of skateboards?
Who was the Budweiser beer of tectonic drift?

Artaud

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>>8279257

Probably Poe

>Relative to others in their profession, they were financial failures
>Only got their world-fame and success after they died
>Very entry-level of their respective genres, not very deep or complex, but with enough quality to entertain most with passing knowledge of Art/Literature

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Ever build a Mastermind ?

>>8279741
No. I do want to try one day though.

>>8279197
Because everything fails no matter what.

>>8279199
>truth bomb ends thread before it begins
>inb4 fags come to point out the inherent flaws of a human system while shilling their infallible economic strategies

>>8279199
Not capitalism

I've got some hot new info. It's kill yourself

>>8279142
The free ones my local bookstore won't stop giving me with every purchase even though those fuckers know I go there at least once a week.

>>8279142
>using a book mark
How about just remembering where you were in the book you brain-damaged sea creature?

No, I am literally steppenwolfe

>>8279117

That's the joy of literature in a sentence!

>>8279117
So were you born to be wild?

It sure seems to do a lot of very different things

I always get chills reading that last chapter

75% of PK Dick was pulpy, almost unreadable garbage. This was a good experimental novel. I like this PK Dick; paranoid, Californian, druggie, Gnostic, Dick.

underappreciated thread

have a bump

>>8279047
I want him to smash my boicunt

>>8278993
Sirens of Titan
The Martian Chronicles
2001: a Space Odyssey

>>8278993
The Brothers Karamazov

Infinite Jest

One of the best books ever written

>>8279087
This
Although I will say it gets quite a lot better if you have a passable knowledge of South American history to pick up some of the allegory. It's one of my favorites and you'll enjoy it regardless

>>8279092
What's some good books about passable knowledge about South American history?