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yeah. you should read them all.

I don't see Blood Meridian there for some reason.

>>8233252
I also liked Black Elk Speaks

>>8233209
If you're interested in the history of cancer treatment, check out Siddhartha Mukherjee's Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

>>8233162
funniest part of GR

Grigori-kuuuuun...

I don't think I've ever dreamt about 4chan.

What does that mean?

>>8232903
I once dreamed I got killed multiple times in the same dream by my closest friends, then woke up crying

I dreamt I was walking wit a ffriend when we ccame across a girl. My friend sang to her, then we left. I later came across her and her mother at a funeral. She told me to come sing to her mother, and I told her it was my friend who sang so well. She pulled me into the graveyard, and I sang a tune that sounded like parts of Verdi's requiem. It was difficult to find pitch, and my voice cracked many times. Afterwards, her mother congratulated me and the girl asked me if I wanted sex. I said yes, and she took me to a cheaply wood-panelled room. She took out a condom and told me she was going to "put it in." I told her that was wrong, but she inserted it into herself like a female condom. Liquid, thick at first like lube, but then as clear and thin as water began flowing out of her vagina. I asked if she was okay and she said no. I helped her to the bathroom, but we could not get the water to stop.

You'd be wrong

>>8232761
No? Scratch that question mark, no. I only recall being given two or three books by women to read out of up to 30 or so (and as far as I remember I didn't read them because they were shit, so: double no).

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>>8232761
Honestly, I don't give a shit who wrote a book. As long as they're good. It's only natural that a society based on a various European cultures has plethora of white male authors that form the basis of its literature.

>>8232755
One of the best comedy/fantasy writers there ever was. Much love to him, and it's a shame he will be remembered alongside people like Gaiman.

>>8232755
It doesn't.

Eh. Pratchett is fun, and genuinely enjoyable, but for me at least it's hard to imagine sitting down and actually reading a Discworld novel. It's absolutely perfect for audiobooks, though, while you're working or walking or whatever, since there's not really any need to pay 100% attention all the time.

genre fiction garbage.

>/r/books
>scifi

it's trash

>>8232515
>Stein

(I haven't) but as you expect, this was marketed as fantasy shlock when it came out, and unless by some exceptional stroke of luck, it will have gotten the translator for that sort of job

>>8232306
True.

>the big dialogue of literature
Ahahahahahhah

>>8232306
False. The USA is a rich melting pot of settlers and migrants. They don't need to 'translate' because their literary culture is already one big translation from everywhere else

Also it's a little silly in an increasingly globalised world to make the claim that there is only one 'dialogue' of literature, instead of a massive variety of intersecting dialogues. To talk of big dialogues is to fall into the trap of generalising literary traditions

One involves blind beliefs in a all-encompassing system while ignoring obvious flaws and inconsistencies, the other involves fireballs

>>8232246
>If it was part of their world, would it not be considered science?

not if it suspends the laws of physics.

>Or by definition does it have to lack explanation?

you can have a vague explanation about energy or whatever but there has to be a void behind magic such that there can't be any methodological way of explaining how it works, its mechanism. you can't have a physics of magic. but you can have an understanding of how to use it, to further the metaphor, you can have engineering but not physics.

you should maybe read a couple of piers morgan's books, maybe one in the incarnations series. they're not terrible, or terribly good, but they delve into this.

>>8232246
most people don't know shit about science
most people aren't exposed to cutting edge science regularly
just use the magical equivalent of public transport and lamposts

>>8232228
shill please go

>>8232170

Start with the greeks, in this case Plato and Aristotle.

>>8232170
Read the Quran in Arabic.

>>8232175
Why

>>8232123
Based on your preferences and interests. Also the sticky helps a lot.

what a qt

>>8232123
authors give me hints when i read their books what i should read next. then I make a list and order it based on my current tastes, then I go and find similar works based on the ones the authors have shown me, to fill in the gaps. then I toss all that up and read whatever's on my wall.

Any book will help you improve your syntax just by reading it. Unless it includes stream of consciousness. Finneganns wake is a good place to start tho