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it's the best one in english yes.

>>8184587

I heard there was a 5 volume set that's really expensive, is that worth investing in or is the 4 volume set fine for the average reader?

>>8184592

not familiar but this one is more than sufficient for the typical english reader. there's also a recent one from Tuttle that i heard was good.

as far as i know all other translations are either incomplete or old and superseded by this one.

Book is the first film but with different character dynamics. Daughter from the movie is a nosy neighbor with a crush in the book - still the protagonist. If you read weird subtext into the movie's dialogue it's because the character relationships were changed but the dialogue remained direct from the source. Some other plot details are just the same. "Pinhead" and fellow Cenobites are more scary in the books if you haven't seen the movie, because more is either left to the imagination or more nutty details are described than in the movie series.

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>>8184446
Pinhead is a sex ambiguous chick in The Hellbound Heart. That should have been in Hellraiser.

>>8184754
>>8184775
how's the writing though, I'm typical elitist scum

>>8184371
>importanter

>>8184371
It's acutally "more important," not "importanter."

One of the many oddities of the English language!


Edit: Thank you for the gold, my good sirs (and madams)!
Edit 2: RIP inbox!!

I appreciate your rhyme scheme, OP.

>>8184044
>could Gene Wolfe's Book of The New Sun be filmed? who should be the director? who should play Severian?


Yes, that guy who directed the Warcraft movie, that guy who plays Jon Snow.

>>8184044

the road to be filmed how it was set by the witcher it's to have a successful game made after it first (:

also who knows what they film in the future

p.s. though the witcher apparently was filmed in poland way back too, before the game was made, i bet it was a shitty movie

James Franco should direct it and should play all the characters except for a few who will be played by Jonah Hill Seth Rogen and Zac Efron

quality post OP
absolutely and utterly epic haha!

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>>8184053
Let me tell you about quadrangles and pentangles that will totally blow your feeble little mind, kiddo

The landscape of this terrorverse is literally so difficult to comprehend it defies logic! Behold and despair...

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>take geometry class
>fucking angles how do they work
>fail out
>this must be the work of the fishmen
>forever vilify the subject in your future works

War and Piece, Galapagos, Letters from Seneca, The Ego and His Own, and currently reading Van Gogh's letters

I, Claudius
Pictor's Metamorphosis and other stories
Tales of ETA Hoffman
Silence
Orfeo

>>8183864
Everything in the culture argues against the novel, particularly the novel that tries to be equal to the complexities and excesses of the culture. This is why books such as JR and Harlot’s Ghost and Gravity’s Rainbow and The Public Burning are important—to name just four. They offer many pleasures without making concessions to the middle-range reader, and they absorb and incorporate the culture instead of catering to it.

These books and writers show us that the novel is still spacious enough and brave enough to encompass enormous areas of experience. We have a rich literature. But sometimes it’s a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.

>>8183864
>where created
>salon as a legitimate source

The CIA is a bureaucracy that is given far too much credit, based purely off of its bumbling handling of some muddled assassinations in the 70s and its shitty handling of MKULTRA. It is a denuded organization that has been usurped by the NSA and has not and does not greatly effect American culture, except for a mythology propagated by tinfoilers.

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>>8183864
>Salon

>>8183558
>I don't have any particularly distracting habits
>is on 4chan
top lol

>>8183562
Yeah, I know. But to be honest, this is basically the only website I waste my time on. Usually I browse a few threads on sci and sometimes here, but that's it. I don't know if there would be a considerable impact if I cut off 4chan completely, I guess I could try it for a few weeks.

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bump

"My cultural baggage consists entirely of reading yogurt labels and watching people scream at each other on the beach or the fire station."

>>8183535
The Air Conditioned Nightmare is basically Miller driving across America and lambasting everything he sees

I don't personally like Miller but a lot of people do

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>>8183535

bump for hating America

desert solitaire
blood meridian

didion
faulkner

>>8183627
>faulkner
this, Light in August

>>8183470
Start with the Hindus

>>8183470
Who put the stupid needless text above that hilarious picture? I hope they get shot.

Good and evil do in fact exist. *Raises left fist.* This is Good. *Punches you.*

*Raises right fist* And this is Evil. *Punches you with other fist.*

>>8183365
That picture is really weird.

That is all.

It blows my mind that It blows the minds of people who don't get that people don't get this

>2000 + 20 - 4
>not owning a kindle

luddite/10

>>8183340
>patrician
>all those sci-fi books

yeah.. more like man child. should just get yourself a kindle and download 100000000 of books for free.

Jesus christ how long is battlefield earth?

One of the best writers post-war Japan has yet produced. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an undisputed masterpiece.

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>>8183260

>>8183248
he should have killed himself sooner, the fag.

Sometimes i dont think at all and it feels weird

>>8183206
Fun to read. I like his short stories a lot.

>>8183213
I actually like that