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Don Quixote

>>8250726
Latin American magical realism. Garcia Marquez, Asturias, Borges, Cortázar...

Also, this >>8250734

Wanna read it in spanish, or translated to english?

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Best book ever

>Atlas Shrugged
>Atlas doesn't shrug

>The Divine Comedy
>It's not funny

>infinite jest
>ends

>>8250639
>a special introduction from the game's executive producer

It wasn't even that good of a game

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This is the edition I bought.

Here you go honey, have fun showing your powers off at show-and-tell next September.
http://www.esotericarchives.com/

The Vatican.

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>>8250635
>all dat Bruno
ty anon, not an occultist as such but still find him fascinating

>>8250622
i already read the fountainhead, and if its the better of the two (which I believe it probably is), i dont want to read the other

>>8250622

Fountainhead was fantastic
Atlas Shrug was meh

>>8250622
Fountainhead

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This isn't even a competition. There is quite literally zero chance of anyone beating Rushdie.

>>8251517
/thread.

>>8250590
Harry Potter and His Big Ol Stones

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell

Its a series, that's the first book

It's a historical fiction story about King Arthur(1st person though hes not the narrator) that accurately depicts the British Isles in the early dark ages.

Merlin in this story is the most badass motherfucking wizard ive ever seen In fiction. He doesnt show up til halfway through the story and is built up mythically then he keeps dissapearing and showing up enigmatically, often as a dues ex but not always. His personality is just fantastically done, even though there is no actual magic.

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>>8250592

>>8250514
It's good enough I'm sure, how heavily is it edited? I've never even heard the story of how the "originals" were dug up. I love the "narrow fellow" poem. Also, Emily is proof that even shut-ins can be great poets. This is inspiring for people like myself.

>>8250525
>Emily is proof that even shut-ins can be great poets. This is inspiring for people like myself.
Every time I go to bed after a night of writing without an agent... I know that feel. I know it hard.

>>8250514
I'm not an expert, but the existing poems got scrubbed of her unorthodox punctuation, and some of her more intense stuff didn't get published.

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will dump

>>8250295
>twenty thousand leagues under the sea
kek

>>8250295
Cosmos by carl sagan.

>>8250337
Journey to the Center of the Earth is far more deep.

The electric kool aid acid test

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>>8250240
inherent vice, no joke

the novel is structured according to pet sounds, look it up

>>8250240
Vineland by Pinecone.

Turns out it wasn't so nice after all.

>>8250234
stirner, novatore, filippi

>>8250234
Pepe: Thomas Pynchon
Wojak: David Foster Wallace

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Stirner and Nietzsche are the smuggest fucks philosophy has yet produced. French guys who took after them were too busy fucking kids and other men to attain the same level of smugness.

read

>>8250210
This, and also download a good dictionary app. Every time I come across a word I don't know I can just look it up, add it to my list, and move on. Learned a lot of great words that way. Like badinage.

>>8250210
oh bother

Seek help, you're depressed.

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>been experiencing a bout of anhedonia for the past ten years

>>8250166
i don't even feel that bad or sad though, certainly not like i did a few years ago. just incapable of enjoying things as deeply as i once did and chronically bored.

kafka's good. try the illustrated man by bradbury too. if you're snooty about genre you could read nabokov's shorts which tend to be dark too

A Perfect Day For Bananafish - J. D Salinger

Good Old Neon - David Foster Wallace

Signs and Symbols - Vladimir Nabokov

Boule De Suif - Guy De Maupassant

A Report To An Academy - Franz Kafka

On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Jorge Luis Borges

Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro

Flowers - Alice Walker

A Temporary Matter - Jhumpa Lahiri

>>8250089
Any of these in book collections worth buying?