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>>8103674
He killed the arab in "the heat of the moment"

It's often looked down on on /lit/ because it's accessible, so you probably won't see much worthwhile discussion. I kinda liked it, it did exactly what Camus set out to do, which is just give a glimpse into how a man aware of absurdity lives with it. The only other Camus I've read is The Plague, and I enjoyed that one a lot more. It has an underlying hope that was absent in The Stranger and seems to make the book a lot more emotional. I suggest that next.

>>8103674
I first read the book when I was 17 and I can admit that I didn't get some parts of it myself. I'm hearing Bohemian Rhapsody and I can imagine the song applying to this book.

Sounds like "think outside the box!"-style management buzzwords that will do absolutely nothing.
Anything, book or investment or infomercial fitness gadget, that claims it can turn you into a success with no effort is lying to you.

TED/Gladwell -esque bullshit, plus a few fun facts thrown in for good measure. 2/10

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Just finished the first two chapter last night. The book said the three hardest words in the English language is ''I dont't know''. Do you agree?

>>8103568
There isn't even a practical reason to choose life over death, you fedora tipping ape

>>8103568
>Why should I spend my time reading any fiction?
why should you read? is the question you should first answer

You're right.
You shouldn't read any fiction.
No fun for you.
Go away now.

>>8103560
>needing chapters

>>8103560
It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't keep repeating himself.

>>8103570
It's so fucking boring. I just feel like I've got the point of the whole letter in the first 30 pages.

0% lit thanks to unbearable shitposters like you

good thread

if by lit you mean drunk, literally all the fucking time buddy

>>8103508
If we're so fake why do you think we would actually read a work that size instead of attaining an insufficient knowledge of its content from tertiary sources?

I want to read JR first tho

>>8103508
Just as fake as you are

The privileges of nobility are not in their origin concessions or favours; on the contrary, they are conquests. And their maintenance supposes, in principle, that the privileged individual is capable of reconquering them, at any moment, if it were necessary, and anyone were to dispute them.… It is annoying to see the degeneration suffered in ordinary speech by a word so inspiring as "nobility." For, by coming to mean for many people hereditary "noble blood," it is changed into something similar to common rights, into a static, passive quality which is received and transmitted like something inert. But the strict sense, the etymon of the word nobility is essentially dynamic. Noble means the "well known," that is, known by everyone, famous, he who has made himself known by excelling the anonymous mass.… "Nobility" does not appear as a formal expression until the Roman Empire, and then precisely in opposition to the hereditary nobles, then in decadence.

Nietzsche was a passionate snob who saw some worthwhile things in aristocracy but by no means thinks aristocrats are overmen or even "advocates" aristocracy. You might be confused by what he means by "noble."

>>8103485
>actually Nietzschean in character
I'm unironically going to ask: what do you mean by this? What are you referring to - the concept of ubermensch, of necessary culture, religion, etc.?

Homer: Odyssey & Iliad (Chapman trans.)
Shakespeare: R3, 1H4, JC, TGV
Hardy: Mayor of Casterbridge
James: Portrait of a Lady
Augustine: Consolations of Philosophy
Eliot: Mill on the Floss

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Why people like OP who obviously just started reading and strictly following 4chan recommendations are always making this shit threads?

>>8103471
>Soumission
why?

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>>8103248
>What is missing?
Good taste.

Only Lolita is a must read in that list

>all dead white men

Kraznahorkai

>>8103216
Latness

Krasznahorkai

Has Mr. Bloom been shown this yet? By email or otherwise?

>>8103206
I am Harold Bloom

>>8103210
Hey Harold how the fuck are you you sonnuvabitch? You believe these kids these days?

when he transcended humanity and became a meme

tomorrow

Whether or not a writer is 'hip' is a preoccupation of posers who delight in taking pictures of the unread books on their shelves.

>>8103060
>http://evangelicalbible.com/

please

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195289609/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687762&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1565637399&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=05CWXKRRSKYCZ1GQJ229

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version 4th ed. Edition

Cambridge clarion kjv or gtfo

>>8103083
That's actually what I have, but it's a NKJV

that's 4 books you retard

>>8102972
no

>>8102972
>four books
>trilogy

Faust faustet 'Phist: Fausten mit der Faust, nicht Dich

>>8102953
in english. the best translation in english

>>8102953
kek