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>>7995088
you need to put the stories in context
they were intended for a mainstream audience, the readership of a popular magazine (i.e. The Strand).
also consider the date. in the late 19th century the detective genre was still relatively new and not as developed as it became later

SACD knew his readership and targeted the stories accordingly.

pic related: best holmes

About as good as the Hunger Games.

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>>7995119
>pic related: best holmes

well that was an elementary mistake

>>7995073
No, it is actually a pretty solid idea to follow. A spook is anything that attempts to possess you or manifest itself through your corporeal life. Religion is a spook because it keeps you obedient to it and its doctrines suppress you physically and affect the physical world. The State is a spook because it imposes laws on you and attempts to control you inadvertently and sometimes directly manifesting itself through the physical by causing people to do things that aren't beneficial to them and clouding their individual egoistic judgement.

>>7995084
wow man, this is just a shitpost thread, I didn't actually want a thoughtful reply

>>7995084
>religion is a spook
No it's not.

>>7995056
It hasn't aged well, but its a good read

>Thoughts on "The Dice Man"?
Jack and Jill went up the hill
Each with a buck and a quartah
Jill came down with two-fifty

OH

I read it a long time ago but I enjoyed it.

However, the ebook version I downloaded had no line breaks, paragraphs, or page breaks, which gave the book the feeling of a constant stream of lunacy that didn't really make any sense.

The bits I could comprehend were pretty good though.

>>7995026
Yep

>>7995026
It's very well written; you have no excuse.

Read a synopsis then flick through and find some bits that appeal to you which you can discuss in more detail so it looks like you did read it.

I wouldn't agree with performed but certainly it should be heard aloud.
I read poems aloud when I'm at my apartment and if I like it I'll read it silently.

READ THE STICKY

I recommend you to read the fucking sticky

>>7994967
David Peace - GB84
RUB?

>>7995062
What does RUB mean?

>>7995062

And thank you very much :)

In a word...

no.

>>7994942
I haven't read it yet, it's fiction though. Just dive in, there is nothing you need to know before doing that other than knowing how to read.

>>7994942
Don't read any guide before you read it, read them as you go if you're confused or need some illumination.

>>7994908
>people are fucking stupid
oh no

>>7994908
>taking part in something shitty so you can complain to papa /lit/

how about you go read a couple of pages instead, huh? be a good boy for daddy?

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>OP browses booktuber comments
>on-the-go because he has to get his fix
>screenshots and shitposts
you could have read a chapter of a book OP. jfc

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>>7994891
julian huxley
start with essays of a humanist or sumat like that

also try the optimist's tour of the future by mark stevenson

pic unrelated (but it is a trans human)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto

my fave

>>7994922
alision is my waifu!

Yukio Mishima I guess. He was a nationalist that, failing to succeed in overthrowing the regime at the time, committed sudoku.

>>7994890

Ah yeah, one of the most prolific poltards. I haven't read anything of him yet, but his nobel prize winning book looks definitely very interesting. His view on Hitler was pretty naive though, he only saw his facade and not his nihilistic tendencies. His obituary to Hitler:

>I'm not worthy to speak up for Adolf Hitler, and to any sentimental rousing his life and deeds do not invite.

>Hitler was a warrior, a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations. He was a reforming character of the highest order, and his historical fate was that he functioned in a time of exampleless [unequalled] brutality, which in the end felled him.

>Thus may the ordinary Western European look at Adolf Hitler. And we, his close followers, bow our heads at his death.

kazuo ishiguro

Books

>>7994841
Nice, will read him.

British too, so good for me.

>>7994843
(you)

>>7994816
I have a DeLillo and Ellis from them, but not really intentionally.

>>7994816

I have 2 and read 1

They sure seem comfy to hold in your hands, but are they really that amazing? They just seem like an average collection of acclaimed contemporary authors, but I've only read 1 so I dunno.

>>7994828
I've really enjoyed Thomas mcguane and Steve Erikson. Authors that really don't get much attention these days. Barry Hannah's Airships was amazing but he's more well known

because the play isnt about caesar, it's about caesar's influence on the people and events around him.

Too generic, tufur.

Brutus did literally nothing wrong

Orwell, Woolf, Chesterton, Twain, and Bacon are some of the great essayists of the English language. Just pick any.

>>7994774
the problem with these essays is that they do not follow the strict rules that university essays require

Famous essays don't usually follow the "hamburger" format they push in schools. They're usually personal essays with lists, or experimental formats etc. All in all reading famous essays won't make your homework easier, but writing essays and then sitting down with your teacher or university's writing centre will.

If you're still insistant you can try

"Why I write" - George Orwell
"Black men in public spaces" - Brent Staples
"The origins of inequality" - J-J. Rosseau
"The Rebel" - Albert Cammu