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>>8099108
We already had this thread like TODAY -_-'

>>8099108
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

>>8099108
Already asked and answered: >>8098267

Read The Bible

>>8099084
What version? Bloom says the King James Bible iirc.

resume with the romans

>>8099002
Stop shitting up this board.

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HARD MODE: YOU CAN ONLY USE HITLERS

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Pynchon.

I'll take on your bait OP

>bland protagonist

What makes him bland?

>irrelevant adventures

literally every single one of those adventures served as a social criticism of America during that time

Huck Finn is pretty top-tier m8. If not for the satire but for the comfiness too. Above all you really get a sense for Mark Twain's intense love of his country. His descriptions of life on the river are memorable and beautifully written IMO.

>>8098632
This absolutely. Good bait-combat

>>8098609
I hate the way interracial relationship are forced upon us by such liberal subverters as Mark Twain.

When will people wake up?

>>8098598
it's called black humor, use the correct name.

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>>8098598

>>8098612
edgy

>reading DFW
When will you learn? HOLY SHIT

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>>8098587
I can imagine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OQXUnYvLgg

>>8098587
LM: Isn’t Armageddon the course you set sail for in “Westward”?

DFW: Metafiction’s real end has always been Armageddon. Art’s reflection on itself is terminal, is one big reason why the art world saw Duchamp as an Antichrist. But I still believe the move to involution had value: it helped writers break free of some long-standing flat-earth-type taboos. It was standing in line to happen. And for a while, stuff like “Pale Fire” and “The Universal Baseball Association” was valuable as a meta-aesthetic breakthrough the same way Duchamp’s urinal had been valuable.

>>8098563
>I actually find myself agreeing with themes and ideas

What themes or ideas?

>>8098573
libertarianism, individualism, anarchy-capitalism, objectivism

I've only read the fountainhead. I liked it a lot. The hate you see on here is just a meme. Everyone actually likes it.

>does love actually real

what did he mean by this?

>>8098491
did you really read the book, cause theirs that whole bit where he does nothing but rawdog that cutie.

>>8098491
Love is just a societal anchor. Without anchors it's harder to control the public. Love and the things that come with it (kids, fashion, housing, cars, food, ect) make it easier to maintain power over the commoners. The idea of someone wanting to spend their entire lives with you sounds like an amazing thing, but it's false.

Love is the greatest con on mankind.

>>8098400

Hm, a marxist of jewish extraction was obliged by a political party which represented everything he hated, to interrupt his life, work and academic career, leave his home country where he had a gratifying social life and career, skip out for a period of many years, and return to the country being rebuilt after these people who represented everything he hated had finally been defeated. I wonder if I could somehow imagine myself in someone else's shoes for discussion, regardless of whether I agree with their ideas.

Hm.

Hm..

>>8098930
Hm?

fascism and jazz

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If you're alright with nonfiction, this has some beautiful passages about nature.

not really

idyllic / pastoral poetry isn't childish, for example

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>>8098295
I'm fine with nonfiction. Just read pic related and whilst it isnt particularly flowery, it was informative.

Reason I ask is i enjoy writing about fictitious animals as i do people. I just wonder if people hear its a book about animals and immediately dismiss it as Disney-esque.

>>8098034
Some anon posted this >>8097766

>>8098034
It's definitely worth going for,however i am not certain of the penguin classic one.But i guess the original was written in english ,so it won;t matter much.

>>8098043
Well it's a good list indeed,say it before in an another post here.

However my concern is regarding this version(penguin classic),is this a decent one?

Popol Vuh

>>8098009


the books of chilam balam, the jaguar shaman, are the best

>>8098009

http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf

yw

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I've got this one.

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don't forget about my addition

does he even have a good book? i don't like his books

That's Madonna's favorite book.

>>8099151
This redounds to the credibility of my appraisal

The Rainbow and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

The Age of Innocence is the best.

Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles, Othello by Shakespeare, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James