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Why don't 4chan users have sex?
Why don't white people excel at basketball?
Why don't people like OP think in anything other than blanket statements and generalities?

>>8109387
Why are you so negative?

>>8109379
what's an millennial and aren't you one?

Right about saving her in some sort of time machine smelling of semen, Anon.

How the fuck do you run out of ideas

Write Finnegans Wake if "it was in normal prose." Lots of people do this.

I know it defeats the purpose and so on, but you know, whatever, dude.

>>8109300
Heh, I remember being in high school and being as impressionable as you, kid.

Listen, do you genuinely think those books constitute good literature? Any mature intellectual laughs at the mere suggestion.

Now, sweetheart, listen closely: If you want to have your mind blown by the best literature ever written, you need to step up your game significantly.

You're but a kid; you won't 'get it' until you face the realities of life.

Come back and post on this board when you can handle and appreciate the genius of Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest

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>>8109300
>tfw the meme trilogy is a meme

>>8109300
Are you the one other poster I see here posting about The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. We should get a thread up, one of my favorites.

>>8109285
Nah, I'm redpilled. All I need is Hitler, Schopenhauer, Evola, Sam Harris, and Oswald Spengler.

>>8109285
>holy texts of all the world's major religions

No it's waste of time. Those are all dense af; I'll take the time to learn about all the major religions though and I'll read the holy books of the ones that seem most interesting.

What does them being major religions have to do with anything? Their popularity has no bearing on whether they're right or not.

>>8109260
Stop shitting up this board

>>8109260
>be russian
>be rich
>have nothing to do except studying
>have sex with whores and gamble a bit
>feel bad about it
>go to war eventually
>write about it
>?????
>profit

You don't, there was only one Tolstoy.

>>8109096
Terrible website design, first of all. What's a "convince store?" "Littered" is the wrong word for that sentence. Next sentence features the words hair and wind twice each, do something about that. "It is auburn tint."

First sentence of the second paragraph is incomplete, and should be joined with a comma to the second one. Cold cold colder harder stronger colder.

"Honked it is oddly low pitched horn." Smile smile smile. "Seemed to of never changed."

Some more general stuff: you fuck up possessives a lot. "Its" is the possessive of it, "it's" means it is. Put an 's after proper names though. You use to many descriptors, and in the end they don't add much. Terrible dialogue, difficult to believe. Not profound, just pretentious.

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>>8109149
My Friends are horrible editors

>>8109173
Do you have friends who write? Do you at least have friends who read books that aren't assigned to them? Get those friends to edit your shit. Also edit it yourself before posting it anywhere.

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War and Peace. I usually just go for 300 pagers.

>>8108918
IJ

The Mahabharata.

>>8108847
Except Nabokov loved Ulysses. What is Ulysses but a bunch of references? Joyce personally leaked two cheat sheets explaining the structure and themes of Ulysses to his friends.

It's the ur-text of Literature of Ideas.

Nabokov also hates Freud but loves Kafka, who is probably the most Freudian writer of the 20th century.

>>8109039

Cheat sheet you say?

>>8109039
But references =/= philosophical themes, dolt. Fite me irl, I'll fuck you up.

>>8108654
Augustine. Dante. That guy who made a Pilgrim's Progress.

Hell Plotinus and Boethius are well worth a read

Pinecone and DeLillo are both papist scum.

>>8108700
It certainly doesn't show.
>>8108654
Gene Wolfe
Hilaire Belloc
John Henry Newman
Thomas More
Thomas Merton
Shusaku Endo
G. K. Chesterton

There's a shitload, a year of diligent reading of Catholic only will only scratch the surface, assuming you want to read more than one work by each.

>>8107266
>getting triggered by words on a page

next you'll be getting your feelings hurt by people on the internet.

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>>8107266

the intro of that book is how he got the name of the book and it triggered me

>>8107241
No, not really. But someone is going to do it, and someone is going to take it seriously. So who cares. The only advantage is weeding out the absolute garbage.

is there any value in anything?

it's the only thing that gives art value. what's the point of a great book if you're just going to put it down and think to yourself "that was fun". might as well just watch tv.

My first reading in Buddhism was How To Practice by the current Dalai Lama. Not a bad place to start.

I later read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. That's a neat one.

I also liked Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa.

Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner

Zen Keys

What do you want to study in a secular-academic fashion? The Bible or The King James version of it?

>>8107222
yes

>>8107214
Gospels, Genesis, Exodus, Revelations, Ecclesiastes, Job. Then just explore from there, check out Psalms, Romans, Isaiah etc.

At first I thought you were having trouble with books which have been translated into English, in which case I should suggest to stick to English-original books for now, but since you mentioned 1984 I suppose you should just look up every word you don't know and try to summarise each page before continuing.

>>8106760
With more experience you'll find that struggle to be the best part of reading. If you don't struggle to understand what you're reading, you're reading the wrong book.

>>8106776
Dumb.

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Just picked this up the other day. Trying to learn Arabic with it. I've heard its actually better in Arabic.

Wish me luck.

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Got Breakdowns for $5 shipped off amazon and Dubliners for 50 cents at a thrift shop, I like the way the text is arranged in this edition - there's a lot of breathing room on the page

Pretty good, OP. Sportman's Sketches is the Turgenev masterpiece, you'll be not disappointed. I hate those Malevich covers though, I don't think his paintings fit as book covers.