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It also has hilariously violent descriptions, and there are funny parts where Bateman is just a straight up silly bastard

>>8111700
checkem

>>8111700
American Psycho has the same kind of nihilistic navel gazing in its ruminations which 4chan's userbase has come to adopt, and has a main character who is at once affluent and suffering immensely, an image many 4channers wouldn't mind projecting themselves onto. Its the Evagelion of books in that sense.

An annotated version would be incredibly helpful to a first time reader.

>>8111671
I initially tried reading it with notes but quickly became over-reliant on them. I decided it was best to put the notes away and use google if something was really bugging me.

But honestly, Ulysses isn't that difficult. The only people who are going to have problems are those who read it with the, "I have to prove my intelligence," mentality.

>>8111698
That's interesting that you feel notes were actually a burden. I can imagine that, if you mean you didn't like your reading being interrupted all the time, or felt like you didn't give yourself enough time to think about things because the "answers" in the back were too tempting to resist.

You said that Ulysses isn't that difficult. Are you from the UK? I imagine the language and the references are less of a problem if you're from that area. I'm American.

>>8111668
>I don't have time to loose
>time to loose
>to loose
Buddy, you seem like a real positive negativist. I'm sure it'll be worth every second of your time.

>>8111668
>hey /lit/ are these works by a classic, highly respected author worth my time?

>>8111668

just read the 4 foundation books if you like the first one.

>>8111564
Yea.. you gonna have to expand on that Mr Vidal

"9/11 was an inside job." - Gore Vidal irl

>>8111867
And he wasn't even wrong.

>>8111559
Why did you attach a picture of a frog u weirdo ;))

more like spook

>>8111639
Are you trying to flirt with me?

>>8111520
did esme say that?

>>8111520
Willie BTFOs everyone in that book. I just got past the part where he fucking reams How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Lad was the absolute maddest man of em all.

>>8111520
Get your rare Gaddises here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Czd7GwNy4

>>8111512
I'm new. What is it?

>>8111515
I'll break it down. The final quarter of last year witnessed a lot of Googledocs projects trying to recreate the Totalitarian book (or make a sequel, either). These efforts were almost always met with hecklers and people who'd delete all the effort out of spite (some people thought it was in accord with something called anarchic-synergism which they dubbed their "movement"). Miraculously, the book you see before you managed to reach a good 400 pages and was published by the end of December.

There are other /lit/ projects similar, but I forget which.

>>8111526
Wrong
>>8111515
It's reddit: the book. someone posted about it on r/4chan and Reddit came here and "helped"
it's shit and legacy of totalitarianism was shit but it was original shit
it's better than photos of David Foster Wallace or whatever the next "project" was

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Why is everyone obsessed with this fucking word?

>>8111507
Which word?

me

The NRx is the dumbest shit.

>>8111220
/thread

>>8111184
A paper about which board? Is it the /fit/ one or the old /b/?

>>8111473
About 4chan in general and its users. I forgot to save the link. It was well written, so definitely not /b/.

>>8111482
That's sort of a vague description, do you at least know what website supplied the article?

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>>8111165
>beats
not even once

fuck the beats and everyone who loves them

Allen did nothing wrong.

Mihai Eminescu
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Verner von Heidenstam
Ion Creangă
Duiliu Zamfirescu
Rudyard Kipling
Saki
Knut Hamsun
Luigi Pirandello
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Saunders Lewis
Cyriel Verschaeve
Josef Weinhaber
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Paul Morand
Jacques Chardonne
Marcel Jouhandeau
Jacques Laurent
Yukio Mishima
Jean Raspail
Michel Déon
Futurists
Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola
Junger heinlein

Sir Oswald Mosley
Julius Evola
Léon Degrelle
Cornelius Codreanu
Giovanni Gentile
Oswald Spengler
Mussolini
Giovanni Papini
Celine
Houellebecq

>>8111188
Celine
Houellebecq
Knut Hamsun
-

Those are the 3 i've read from this list. None of them fit whatsoever. Can you atleast give an explanation for the names?

>>8111202

do you want me to read them for you too?

>>8111053
Unless you want to dedicate 2000 hours to deciphering cock jokes written in English that seems to be (and probably was) written by an Irishman with 30 beers and a PhD in Literature I rec you read another book

>>8111075
That would be fine by me, I already have a reading list and late era Joyce is maybe a couple of notches too hard for me just yet.

http://fractiousfiction.com/finnegans_wake.html

It's what I used.

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>>8110990
>Jose Saramago
>white
i hope he kills himself

>>8110993
So do I. I was going to make a thread raging about this, but I kept my calm.

Saramago only had his 1st shoes in his teens, and his country was really poor in the rural areas at that time.

>>8110920
if by "practice reading" you mean "abuse amphetamines" then yes

>>8110920
yes

getting to like 8- 10 is pretty easy. 16 might be rough but it's prossible.

>>8110920

When I was meditating regularly I could do 8 hours straight at most, and only with certain types of books, mostly ones with frenetic pace.