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The worth in seeing is measured by those ephemeral economies of pleasure that only we know.

The person you should be asking is you after you have seen them.

>>8002169
Wrong board, unless you are going to Cannes you are wasting your time. Also

>paying money to see capeshit

>>8002169
Son of Saul is great. It is not anything close to oscar bait.

And don't go see Captain America. Capeshit is cancer of our society.

>>8002137
Diary of a country priest.
On the marblre cliffs.
A Sleeping man.

>but there is no twist
How about false flagging or "left-wing" threads ring-wing spammers posts when someone suspects to pretend nothing is happening, that way they keep the sheep calm. Good enough?

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What in fuck is this post supposed to mean?
How often do you re-purchase Mein Kampf?

nicomachean ethics

You're definitely not alone cause the Vonnegut hate on lit is near constant though I would say your expectations were too high. I quite like Slaughterhouse 5. The bit where he describes the war in reverse is very affecting.

You should at least read Sirens of Titan before giving up on him, it's his best. Just don't expect too much. It's very good existential science fiction, not Moby Dick or Shakespeare.

>>8002024
journey to the end of the night, snow country, a passage to india, the real story of ah-q, red cavalry, madame bovary, man without qualities

>>8002024
Vonnegut is overly praised in some circles, his writing is OK but it's not a masterpiece as it is claimed in some circles. His early stuff is better.

You should get some Dostoevsky.

Cool blog, how to subscribe????

>>8001876
>sux4u that london's where everything is then dunnit

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>>8001876
what were you trying to find?
if you couldn't find it in london, you just didn't know where to look
you know the british library has every book published in the uk, right?

Did you like The Pearl?

I love Of Mice & Men and Grapes of Wrath, but my literature teacher in high school told me The Pearl was trash, so I skipped it. Not that I took her word as law but I don't like spending too much time on one author anyway

The Pearl is a great read. It's about the noble savages and the evil white people so maybe your teacher had problems with that.
It's was better than Cannery Row and Travels with Charly which was the only other S.beck I have read

>>8001169
>The Pearl is a great read. It's about the noble savages and the evil white people

You're an idiot, quit spreading your lies.

>reading a translation
Sweetheart, you have to learn French then read the quote to get the author's true intent.

>>8000958
is not like you couldn't enclose the author's intention in other language with a proper translation.
For me this looks like something that was translated from french to other (a third) language and then it was translated to english by someone that wasn't too familiar with the language in the first place.

>>8000958
I find that you have to be fluent in the original language to translate it yourself into Latin before fully appreciating its meaning.

>>7998242
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of paine,
My Crop of corne is but a field of tares,
And al my good is but vaine hope of gaine.
The day is past, and yet I saw no sunne,
And now I live, and now my life is done.

My tale was heard, and yet it was not told,
My fruite is falne, & yet my leaves are greene:
My youth is spent, and yet I am not old,
I saw the world, and yet I was not seene.
My thred is cut, and yet it is not spunne,
And now I live, and now my life is done.

I sought my death, and found it in my wombe,
I lookt for life, and saw it was a shade:
I trod the earth, and knew it was my Tombe,
And now I die, and now I was but made.
My glasse is full, and now my glasse is runne,
And now I live, and now my life is done.

Le Morte d'Arthur

Mallory had quite an interesting albeit only loosely chronicled life. He probably wrote Arthur in prison for a string of robberies, rapes, break-ins, theft, extortions etc. AFTER he was a member of parliament.

>>7997143
Serial Experiments Lain?
It ain't a novel but it's there.
You'd have to be very creative to make an internet community interesting

homestuck was this early on but then the trolls were introduced and it turned to shit

>>7997408
>>7998928
4chan "/lit/" everyone

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>>7995472 #
Recommend Riyria its good

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Old Man's War is a good knock off of Starship Troopers

Also reminder authors with Terry in their name are shit, do not read.

>bad HBO writers
But the books's author is also bad.

are the books any good?

never even watched the show. I don't usually like fantasy shit

I've read all of the books and the show is honestly superior. At least with the show I can get my mindless entertainment delivered in discrete chunks. I'll probably finish the series (yeah right, he'll never get around to wrapping it up) but only because I've been cucked by the sunk cost fallacy.

Ouch, the old edition.

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>>7991673
It's 9/10 breddy gud.

>>7991683
lol this bear make me laugh

Sorry for the fucked up greentext in some spots, I rewrote it in the box a bit and guess I fucked up. O well. Also anyone jerk it to the thought of lollys getting raped 50 times by commoners or was that just me?

Nothing personnel, Westeros