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First for Poul Anderson's Broken Sword is the epitome of fantasy.

*unsheathes shardblade*

>>8271141
*windruns behind u*

the greeks were ripped dude

not my taste

>no homo

EL BICHOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>8270912
47. Vathek by William Beckford
48. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
49. The Professional Secret & Other Texts by Jean Cocteau
50. The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by Thomas de Quincey
51. Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
52. The Thousand and One Nights
53. New Arabian Nights and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
54. Salvation of the Jews, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by Léon Bloy
55. The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh
56. Fantastic Stories by Juan José Arreola
57. Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor’s Return by David Garnett
58. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
59. Literary Criticism by Paul Groussac
60. The Idols by Manuel Mujica Láinez
61. The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
62. Complete Poetry by William Blake
63. Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
64. Poetical Works by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
65. Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
66. The Aeneid by Virgil
67. Stories by Voltaire
68. An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne
69. An Essay on Orlando Furioso by Atilio Momigliano
70. & 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by William James
72. Egil’s Saga by Snorri Sturluson
73. The Book of the Dead
74. & 75. The Problem of Time by J. Alexander Gunn

>>8270912

Why do some take up two numbers and others have like three on one number?

Where are the women writers?

>>8270754
those who shitpost, and normies

>opening paragraph is just the narrator being ambivalent

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>>8270754

Those who post literary trope threads, and those who post in literary trope threads.

Has this been officially released in the States yet, or are there just advance copies floating around?

>>8270713

Bakker worth getting into? I've heard more comparisons towards Dune than ASOIAF and I have the first two of the first trilogy and The Judging Eye.

>>8270740

It's absolutely worth getting into, if you like fantasy lit of the more "sophisticated" sort - there's a lot of philosophical themes, and a Bakker usually has a heavy focus on neuroscience and philosophy of the mind. It's not light reading, that's for sure.

It's not really like ASOIAF at all, a lot closer to the Dune books and especially to Tolkien's Silmarillion. It's in the same dark-and-edgy genre as ASOIAF (the torture-porn in these books is a lot more extreme than Martin's), but this is the only thing they have in common.

Oh, and make sure to read the first three in a row. The Judging Eye takes place after a time-skip of 20 years, and doesn't make sense unless you've read the whole first trilogy.

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>>8270310

>Too intellectual for fun

FTFY

See, that's how you think it works, but in actuality you've simply been overcome by a sort of conceit.

>>8270310
>outing yourself as a pseud

Absolute madman.

How often do you think they fucked? I bet Joyce was the top.

>>8270259
James Joyce..possibly the most overrated novelist in history.

The “greatness” he is accused of is that he is the first “stream of consciousness” writer; IE he writes EVERYTHING that passes through someone’s mind in a single day in “Ulysses”. He called it “Ulysses” because in his opinion his story is also a great epic; that’s how pretentious he is. To compare his crap to the Iliad!!!

That’s it. That literary trick is his “great” contribution to literature. Forget about Shakespeare! This man is the shit eh!

People often jump on the “praise” bandwagon for Joyce; knowing that many “intellectuals” are supposed to highly regard him they think if they do the same they’ll look clever.

His stories are awful. Boring crap. His characters are forgettable and one dimensional. They think terrible things in their stream of consciousness; as it includes all things, it includes thinking about taking a shit and in one case a woman thinking about what it would be like to have a stallion’s penis inside her.

I suspect you’ve never even read his books.

Joyce sucks; ALL his stories (Well – the ones I read anyway – Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake, Portrait of the artist as a young man – are boring crap.

Try reading a real masterpiece, like Les Miserables, then you might change your mind about Joyce.

>>8270223
>best
all of them
>worst
none of them

ps marlowe poster preemptive kill yourself your meme is forced and not funny

>>8270235
:^)

'tis unnecessary since you yourself already said "all of them"

>>8270235
> marlowe poster

Who?

>>8269865

Particular patterns of brain chemicals.

>>8269888
Why do we place importance in them then? If that's brain chemicals too then how did humanity get here and what should anybody's purpose to live be?

>>8269893
>live to be

ftfy

>>8268627
ur mum

It stands in the axis bellowing, vexing it's own existence
it screams for the decimation of the decimators. Peace in his own consideration, is a deluge of ravenous howls, a spasmodic shrill of complete lividity.
It's lusts after the blood of the wicked, it yearns for the agony of the iniquitous. When dark covers the world it's insatiable hate masked as a growl will brim the ears of all who proclaim themselves to be predators, all who submit them selves to the nefarious path. Their utter destruction will be that of ten-fold of that of which they gave.

I want to have sex with my ex gf and die right after, before I remember how sad I am

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>>8268423
WELL!

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i'll take it but i'm a little disappointed desu

>>8268449
>>8268453
Now I'm starting to feel bad I dropped out of college.

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.

Some say yes, some say no. I'd say read V. If you like it, it'll give you good will toward Pynchon that will help getting through the slow parts of GR. And if you end up hating Pynchon, then at least you found that out after reading a 500 page book, not a 1000 page one.

>>8268334
No. The only hurdle of GR is that people who just dive into it knowing nothing about Pynchon get turned off by his quirks. The book is probably a lot more easier to read than you think it is.

go back to reading YA novels

It will all become clear once you finish the book

>reading moby dick for the plot

I bet you read Shakespeare for the narrative, pl00b

Read aloud.

laminate and a waterproof flashlight

>>8268286
I've found philosophy helps. It gives you some tools to put things together and if the philosopher is prominent enough they are will probably be referenced by many major works

Quit sucking the fun out of anonymity.

Le Underground Man.

>>8268264
Alright satan.