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gravity's rainbow

>le purposefully unkempt hair
>le grossly outdated spectacle frames
>le playing an elementary-tier instrument on youtube for attention

I put my fist through the wall just looking at this sorry ass picture

>>8022794
>>8022794
>>le playing an elementary-tier instrument on youtube for attention

oh, and here me thinking she fellated a mic

There are a whole host of charts in sticky:

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

Please do not fill up the board.

>>8022628
But I'm asking specifically for books that are fine to read before reading the Greeks.

Epic of Gilgamesh

>>>/b/

>>8022585
Hermione is /lit/, fuck off retard

there should be a separate board for genre fiction and ya shit

>>8022510
first non-american non-genre fiction book I've ever read when I was 20 or so. I liked a lot the first time, most of it went over my head but I've never read anything so introspective or existential; I was accustomed to American ham-fisted good vs evil psychologically devoid stuff.
I guess my brain was hungry for complexity because even though I didn't understand it I powered through it. luckily it wasn't so long. It's the book that really got me into reading.

Second time around I understood it better but that was a while ago, don't remember much.
There's a shit ton of studies on it, so it's a good starting point for existentialism.
Best novel by Camus imo

It's entry-level material given as reading assignment in most middle/high schools in French speaking countries, and as far as I know not much respected. “The Stranger” (Albert Camus), “No Exit” (Jean-Paul Sartre), “The Bald Soprano” (Eugène Ionesco) and “Endgame” (Samuel Beckett) are frequently the four compulsory readings when existentialism/absurdism is taught.

Its very eloquent in how it delivers its message. As a work of art its excellent

>>8022497

he was ugly

>>8022497
He was r9k tier

>>8022497
dr. frankenstein was the real monster lol

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>>8022476
oops wrong image

His car is limping, and the last long gap is the hardest.

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>>8022476
quick delete it and start again!

>>8022407
it was me

>>8022407
even though I consider seapunk and to a lesser extent vapor wave marginally relevant to my interests, I am choosing not to click that link because of the other words in it

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>>8022407
>Stirner, through his dialectics of spooks [...]

Disregard Freud. He's merely a stepping stone to get to Jung's psychoanalytic conception of the psyche and collective unconscious.

>>8022369
>Disregard Freud.

t. freshman psychology major meme guy totally won't change his mind in a semester or two

>>8022563
Goyium guy sheckle obviously haven't read civilization of discontent.... Gee weez is it summer already?

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>>8022359
>the prose was amazingly crafted

>>8022381
Anti-Wallace trolls can fuck right off and resume eating shit as per usual.

>>8022386
jesus christ you are a faggot pleb

>>8022336
>Why is existentialism just a bourgeois philosophy for the wealthy to feel good about all of muh freedoms they have?

Its about coping with the anxiety that comes from higher level thinking which is something that transcends class.

>Not only does the prole not have the privilege or time to think what he is truly free or not free to do, these conclusions won't do him any good if he decides to walk away from the life of the factory and leave his family to starve.

Its not the 18th Century Mate the welfare state and post industrial economy are a reality.

>Easy to say your existence is your responsibility when your life was handed to you on a silver platter.

Easier to say that you are victim of mechanical function of society than deal with the ugly truth of individual agency.

But hey that revolution is just around the corner so no need to get off your arse

>>8022336
I don't care OP. How do I fuck a lewd nun?

>>8022336
>Why is existentialism a joke?
It's easy to get over, for one.

>>8022435
That's just a cartoon.

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idk but this is the uni building named after him pretty shit right lol

>>8022348
>Brutalist building
I will never not hate these nor understand why they were ever put up and still have their defenders

A nation pays its workers to be able to live life with all the "necessaries and conveniences", and those necessaries and conveniences are either made or manufactured in that nation or imported.

And those things (Necessaries and conveniences) I assume are things like enforcement of law and bureaucratic tasks, all the way down to agriculture and manufacturing. All the things a government needs to function.

>wwi thread

Anyone read Albertini's 3 volume "Origins of the war of 1914"? I hear it's a must for wwi but if possible I'd like some input before spending $200+ on an out of print text.

slightly less comfy but infinitely less alarming than a storm of spiders

Think of the new Battlefield trailer except as a book.

>>8022125
Hey, you, get back to pumping gas or shoveling chicken shit or whatever it is flyover proles do!

>>8022125
You're not. That's what suicide and modal realism is for

>tfw I fucked a 22 year old in a hallway in a big city three days ago and I'm a published poet

It looks like a cat dong so i do say yes too

Better question: Is the colon the most beautiful symbol in the English language? Answer: yes, it is.

>>8022086
No it looks like a tadpole. How are you getting cat?

>>8021967
Poetry with poetic metre, like Shakespeare's sonnets.

>>8021967
I liked poetic designs by Stephan Adams

literally any book ever