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>>8245594
>having friends who would argue over your positions on social media

Truly, a normie.

>>8245594
Pynchon doesn't exist. He's a fine mist of a myth conjured by a loose collective of engineering majors who have friends in the humanities.

>>8245594
one of his former friends he cucked authored a buttmad article in playboy, you can find the first half online quite easily

>>8245552
>1. don't know anything
>2. take the redpill
>3. ???????
>4 PROFIT!

>>8245552
Accept that everyone else is in the same situation. Accept that this will never change. Don't pretend like you know more than you do. Move along.

And why does Accumulation of knowledge matter so much to you? If you cared more about quality than about quantity you wouldn't make idiotic threads like this one.

>>8245540
shutup faggot lol

>>8245540
youd literally need a machine that calculates what everyone else is gonna do and predicts market variations and fucking political changes etc... All this things ultimately change ur life greatly, then itd have to determine based on this predicted changes whats better for u.

chances are the best u can do is know ur skills and needs and to just hone them so you dont suck as a person. If you dont know what you're good at or what you want then chances are youre a retard.

It aint that complicated nigga.

Tao te Ching

>>8245490
What's your opinion on My Twisted World and Mein Kampf?

>>8245490
>almost Shakespearean
>almost
Don't hold back anon, we all know Rand is the second coming of Shakespeare. Did you see the film adaptation? A fucking classic.

I have some issues with the book, both in an artistic sense and a social sense, but I notice its harshest critics are meme-spouting liberals who never even read it.

Ron Paul for president.

>>8245454
Ulyssess

>>8245789
go to hell where you belong, you ass sniffing cunt. and for gods sake, use some fucking listerine, turd-breathed monkey.

>>8245454
gravity's rainbow

"Earlier in this game she was nervous, constipated,
wondering if this was anything like male impotence. But
thoughtful Pointsman, anticipating this, has been sending
laxative pills with her meals. Now her intestines whine softly,
and she feels shit begin to slide down and out. He kneels
with his arms up holding the rich cape. A dark turd appears
out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her
white buttocks. He spreads his knees, awkwardly, until he
can feel the leather of her boots. He leans forward to
surround the hot turd with his lips, sucking on it tenderly,
licking along its lower side . . . he is thinking, he’s sorry, he
can’t help it, thinking of a Negro’s penis, yes he knows it
abrogates part of the conditions set, but it will not be
denied, the image of a brute African who will make him
behave. . . . The stink of shit floods his nose, gathering him,
surrounding. It is the smell of Passchendaele, of the Salient.
Mixed with the mud, and the putrefaction of corpses, it was
the sovereign smell of their first meeting, and her emblem.
The turd slides into his mouth, down to his gullet. He gags,
but bravely clamps his teeth shut. Bread that would only
have floated in porcelain waters somewhere, unseen,
untasted—risen now and baked in the bitter intestinal Oven
to bread we know, bread that’s light as domestic comfort,
secret as death in bed . . . Spasms in his throat continue.
The pain is terrible. With his tongue he mashes shit against
the roof of his mouth and begins to chew, thickly now, the
only sound in the room. . . .
There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has
eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays
that she’ll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed,
in the silk-lined darkness, to stay a while longer with his
submissive tongue straining upward into her asshole. But
she moves away. The fur evaporates from his hands. She
orders him to masturbate for her."

>>8245419
Op here
"right"
I'll go kill myself for that mistake when this thread dies.

>>8245420
You were write to correct your mistake.

>>8245450
kek

Jesus christ. There's nothing wrong with asking. But check the catalog. Go to the sffg. And don't ask people to give you information about several hundred series.

Ya what this anon said >>8245436

Also, just a warning, Stormlight was so good that I had to stop reading for 1 week because everything else paled in comparison.

>>8245436
Sorry, I wasn't expecting people to give me feedback on EVERY series I listed. I just wanted feedback on the series that they have read, or at least heard of. Didn't mean to overwhelm anyone, just if you read the series then some feedback on it would be good, that's all.

I don't come on /lit/ whatsoever so I didn't think to check the catalog first, my mistake.

>>8245446
Yeah I've also heard that Stormlight is a phenomenal fictional/fantasy work, just sucks the first book is over 1,000 pages or something like that.

>>8245369
If you haven't read the canon by age 15 then there's no hope. Why aspire at anything when you've already failed at a literary life? Forget about literature and continue living your pleb life in bliss, you'll only live in misery and suffering if you don't; or just kill your self.

Catcher in the Rye
Old man and the sea
Of Mice and men
For whom the bell tolls

Once you finished those, read Notes from the underground

Then if you so wish to, dive deeper. We will be here waiting for you.

>>8245398
Surprisingly I've read 2 out of the first 4. Thank you for your suggestions.

>>8245268
Portrait before Ulysses. The other way around doesn't make much sense. Haven't ever read Auster, so couldn't tell.

>>8245268
>tfw took an Auster class where we read 7 of his books

One trick pony, really. The New York Trilogy and Book of Illusions are decent reads, though.

That book ends in a very strange way.

Should've read the New York Trilogy first, your reading of Brooklyn Follies would have been more critical. His books after 2000 are very slice-of-life, which was the pleasure I derived from Brooklyn Follies.

Major /lit/

3 > 2 > 1 > disciple

Haven't read the last two yet.

>>8245169
>disciple
What do you mean?
Also my bad, it was supposed to be 3 > 4 > 5 > 1 > 2 but in my edition of the book Gargantua's adventures are the first book, and Pantagruel's first adventures are the second.

>>8245178
>>disciple
>What do you mean?
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Disciple_de_Pantagruel/1875
Like 4 & 5 it may or may not be by Rabelais (though detractors' arguments are IMO the weakest in that they all boil down to it not being literary)
>1 > 2
Right, I mistakenly went by internal chronology instead of publication too

>>8245156
Andrew Źdroniew

>>8245156

Richard Johnson

Friends call me Dick for short

>>8245156

Don Quikong

>>8245052
Something something random walks something something

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>>8245052
>>/biz/
But for kindness purposes I´m gonna help you out, also see pic related.
Do you want to invest and hold over a short period, i.e. day-trading?
>your average day-trading/TA book (hint: DT/TA is absolute shit)
Or do you want to invest and hold over a long period?
>Buffet
>generally everything about value investing/ETFs
>André Kostolany (extreeeemely underrated investor, had a very unique and charming approach to money and life in general, a must read!)

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pic related, the only right answer

>>8245004
Harry Mulisch

>>8245004
I never read the books, but when I was a teenager watching The Two Towers and Aragorn/King Whatshisname went on their last ride through the army or Mordor to die fighting when Gandalf showed up out of nowhere with the Riders of Rohan I just about jizzed my pants.

>does that count as DeM?

>>8245040
No because Gandalf told them beforehand "On the morning of the Third Day look to the East".

>>8244996
context OP context not all of us have read his shit

>>8244996
The astrabilarious squelettes, naturally

>>8244996
The screaming meemies. Not meme'ing here.

>>8244986
>>8244986
The Yellow King is pretty good

Lovecraft and Poe. Cant really go wrong with starting with them. Ambrose Bierce is a little more unknown. If you must read Stephen King read his short stories only.

>>8245085
I tried to read IT but it got so boring that i quit