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yeah....there is.

It's sad.

>>9912013
l-link? Why's it sad?

You mean like /lit/?

Author of kitschy magical realism YA for girls you want to fuck in spite of their total lack of a personality

>>9911946
He looks like a teacher I once had.

One day when the students in his Japanese culture class managed to get him riled he burst out that Australia had no culture.

He was right but, what a cunt.

He writes YA but gets a free pass because of trendy magical realism

>>tfw haven't lost an online argument since 2012

ok lets test your skills, prove the holocaust happened

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Write a collection of aphorisms.

It's almost certainly not worth the effort, but it's fun regardless.

>>9911743

If you have to ask then the answer is no. You'll end up studying for a bit before quitting so don't bother.

>>9911759
Well I already speak Spanish and can learn languages very easily, I'm just seriously interested in the opportunity cost or cost:benefit of learning a new language to read/understand a text better vs. just reading the stuff translated in English.

I forgot:
>The Ascent of Money

Anything by Pat Buchanan

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>>9911670
Would you recommend Why Nations Fail, The origin of wealth and road to serfdom?

>>9911622

>omg it's le amazing powerful ring that let's people take over the world!
>all it does is make you invisible

Tolkien is a hack

>>9911624

>Tolkien
>hack

you're gonna have to try a bit harder than that

>>9911624
Have you read the book?

It also serves as a magic amplifier for wizards and elves

Fair warning to everyone. Don't post in this thread.

Mods you should probably delete this.

>>9911585
it should be a bible. there are so many different versions around. every so often one group or another releases a new edition where they've messed with the bomb recipes so they'll explode in your face if you try to make them.

>>9911771
>one group or another releases a new edition where they've messed with the bomb recipes so they'll explode in your face if you try to make them
why

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>>9911575

>>9911575
>"diagnosed" with special snowflake (aka le quirky xD) diseased

Actually grow the fuck up

You do realize I absolutely destroyed and squashed that diagnosis right? The only person who matters doesn't believe it anymore, I fucking win lol.

Yes, you should be asking if he really was a marxist.

>>9911535
More or less.
But these kinds of labels don't matter. He was one of the greatest minds we've ever had.

>>9911542
>if he really was a marxist
no
https://youtu.be/fBSgzsXARNY?t=1m19s

>faith is a reason to believe something
>faith
>a reason

i agree with the sentiment here but come on

You could have just said faith=belief and saved yourself some time.

>>9911484
True faith is reason
Reason negating reason. Faith is not to suspend the truth, faith is a trust in what you know to be true even if our limited reason itself fails it.

>>9911288
Oops wrong link here you go
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BTlNYdAz-v3DH35i14wpPk0zIcGAOrd-cdr6IIENZQs/edit?usp=sharing

>>9911288
This is just some code of conduct for the staff of a bar in Milwaukee

i stopped reading at the typo in the second sentence

>>9911264
Virgin detected. It has some of that stuff but its harrdly front and center. Some guy gets virgin shamed tho. He's like 35 too

>>9911270
>Virgin detected
You have to go back

>>9911264
It's pure dreck. There is no reason that this book even exists, other than a drunk trying to cash in on an already established literary movement after-the-fact. It's like Infinite Jest in the fact that it's an addict who thought his life was interesting enough to warrant dredging the artistic pond for rusted artifacts from 40 years ago.

Don't bother. I read it cover-to-cover and wholly regret it. I can get specific if you have questions. If you want to read something modernist, go for Miller, Joyce. If you want something elevating and difficult that's more modern, go for Krasz. Please listen to me so you don't waste any of your precious life on this like I did.

>>9911255
Begin with The Aspern Papers.

Just finished The Portrait of a Lady. Never seen so much good writing and trashy genre fiction-tier shit packed together in a single book.

>>9911541
It's early, rigid shit, man, and SHOULD NOT be required reading. It took him awhile to become a great novelist. But when he does, he's matchless. The early shorter stuff is hit or miss.

>>9911193
dude boobs lol

spoilers should be banworthy i h8 u

srsly i shood ring ur fucken neck. shit head

i really, really like him
war & war is my favourite, having read all of his stuff that's been translated into english so far

>>9911065
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did he write War & War in English? Or at least, I've always seen it tagged as his "second english novel"

>>9911014
I read Melancholy of Resistance whilst slumming it in North North Africa (Spain, France, Germany) and I found it to be simply amazing