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>>7993215
I'd buy it just for the cover tbqhwy famicon

It's a good book, although it's not easy to read and it's better if you have a little background on post WW2 Germany.

It's also not especially reader-friendly, but a good experience overall. I'd recommend it.

>>7993229
which one ?

>>7993207
how have you not already?

>>7993207
Yes. It's very good. You don't really need to read Dubliners first, despite what the memes say.

But Portrait is necessary if you want to tackle Ulysses.

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Oh, and check 'em.

>>7993200
start with history books on the holocaust

Jetson, Griffin, Flintstone, most of the post premodern metaists

>>7993158
Because he was a scientist I think and I'm pretty sure that he didnt mean that what he said was experimental as in different but more progressive and thinking about fiction.

>>7993158
Note that Wallace specifically said Witgenstein's Mistress -- not Markson in general -- was pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in the US.

Markson is well known for his mixing aphorisms, quotations, and other ephemera by and about famous authors rather than writing in the usual style. However, Witgenstein's Mistress doesn't really do this. There are lots of cultural references, yes, but there's a proper narrator and some sort of obvious progression. I think that book is a much greater accomplishment than the rest of his work.

>>7993158
Because he hadn't read McElroy

>>7993119
From a writing or editing standpoint?

I wrote a piece for a Christmas anthology of inanimate transformation fetish stories in 2014. It was organized by three trannies. One of them killed himself last year.

>>7994665
Editing mostly

>>7994675
Neat

>>7993057
That he does not read lit fic

I guess he thinks that lit fiction has become just as commercialized as other genres

>>7993061
he might not be wrong actually

>>7993030
kys

Post an excerpt before you go to bed

>>7993030
cum emergere, pater dupicat?

If I could understand his speech I'd probably listen to him more.

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>>7993013
read his book.

He is very intelligent if you get passed his nuanced way of speaking.

>>7992986
I should clarify, speech like "faggot" or "nigger"

>>7992986
Can you clarify further for plebs like me who don't know what you're talking about

>>7992986
Yes. They consider everything a "text". But who cares? They're full of shit.

>>7992966
Only in places. People have always exploited pity.

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>>7992950
I read it in a collection of short stories, I would do that. The Trial is what I plan on reading next.

>>7992921
milo yiannopoulosus the triggering

You've got a slice of scifi history there - if you want an order, chronologically only makes sense.

ie - BNW first

throw brave new world in the trash and read the rest in any order

Popper is a fag. Read Heisenberg's physics and philosophy. Or Thomas Kuhn.

>>7992920
>Popper is a fag.
pls expand

>>7992929
Quoted the wrong, you get the idea.

It's amazing how quickly Henry James can go from shit to genius and back again. He does it almost sentence by sentence.

ITT times you dropped a book after the first line?

>It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

>>7992952
That's actually a good opening line though

>>7992800
Church leadership would fuck him up if he said otherwise. That's all the reason Cathocucks need.

None of this is incorrect. Try harder, Orthofriend.

>>7992800

Why ask someone else to defend him when he defends himself in the very text you linked?

Why not begin by explaining what you think is wrong with his arguments for these conclusions?