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>>7889943
the trial is probably the easiest

>>7889943
But Crime and Punishment was amazing and horrifying. Also, The Count of Monte Cristo is the best book I have ever read

Just pick one you faggot

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>>7889875

Rimbaud

more like

RIMJOB

>>7889882

Are you br?

>>7889882
lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol!

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>>7889843

>>7889843

Nice rhyme my friend

>>7889843
What's the Wordsworth Ulysses cover like?

He's the best rebuttal in regards to Mandela-lovers.

Spent years in a Gulag; never once resorted to, or advocated, violent resistance.

He'd spend his free time writing in his cell, only for the guards to come in and invariably destroy his work at the end of day. Then he'd do the same all over again the next day.

>>7889825
Mandela accomplished something politically. What did this sack of fat shit do other than write tripe?

>>7889831
I don't know, just put his name into the archive search and you'll probably find something.

Just crap in general. It's a "thriller". Airport tier.

>>7889818
that's not a book, that was a movie

>>7889818
it's not feminist, the author just felt bad cuz he saw a rape once and didn't do anything. I'd feel pretty bad too. very poorly written

feminist books are cool tho

The next morning we hit the road again, eager to get to Portland, Oregon! The day before we drove for 12 hours so today we just had to drove 8 hours. It was fun, we bought some old Weird “Al” Yankovich CD’s. Our favorite! We listened to them in the car and laughed the whole way there. When we crossed the state line into Oregon, we knew our journey was almost over. When we got to Portland, we pulled into a gas station parking lot where we read a map and decided where we should go. I went into the FoodMart and bought Red Vines and a Judas Priest live album I hadn’t heard before so we could rock out in the car. As we were sitting in the car, my friend Foster said “remeber that old haunted house that we used to live by that all the kids said it was haunted?” I said yes “well haven’t you ever wondered what is inside of that place?” I was hesitant but I said yes “I think we should spend the night there, just to prove that we can do it. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity!” I said “no way!”, but he convinced me.

We drove to the haunted house, I was so nervous the whole way there I forgot to even listen to the Judas Priest live album I bought or eat the Red Vines I got. When we got to the haunted house I remembered how scary it was to us when we were kids. But you know what? It wasn’t so bad now that I was an adult. Just dirty with broken things on the lawn. We hopped the fence with our sleeping bags and luggage bags over our backs. We walked to the front door and then I rung the doorbell and knocked the door. “What are you doing?” said Foster “There’s no one home we can just walk right in!” We opened the door. It was unlocked. Inside it was pretty dark, and any light that did shine through the window made big beams of light because there was so much dust in the air. We walked around in the house for a little bit to get familiar with it. There were a lot of rooms, most of them completely empty. Except for some chairs but they weren’t interesting. We got tired and decided to get some sleep.

That night we put our sleeping bags in the bedroom and layed down. We turned off our lantern. We were just falling asleep when I jolted upright. I heard footsteps upstairs, really soft footsteps. We walked up stairs with the lantern. We were both pretty fucking worried, I don’t we had really anticipated how creepy the house could be at night. The shadows were messing with my eyes, I kept swearing that I saw monsters. When we made it to the top of the stairs we stopped to listen for sounds. We heard something that almost sounded like…… muffled singing? We walked to a room. There was a faint glow coming out from under the door. I looked at Foster worriedly. We slowly opened the door. We stepped inside. Inside it was dark so I turned on the lantern. There was a little girl in a pretty blue dress. I took a knee. “Hello, little girl. Why are you here? Do you need help?” she looked at me with big eyes “follow me….” We followed her to a door outside. We stepped out into the back yard. As we walked me and Foster exchanged worried looks. She took us to a little shed with an eerie glow coming out from under the door.

Either post this in /x/ like it's real or post it in a critique thread for feedback.

This is fucking awful but I'm pretty sure that's the joke, which is simply epic

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>>7889727
Gunna assume this is sincere, and if it is, well if she's pleb enough to enjoy Wavves she'll probably at least enjoy your objectively shitty recomposition of an already shitty song. Can't speak on if this will win her back though. The thing about the straw that broke the proverbial camels back, is that there are a million other straws underneath it.

>>7889730
This isn't a joke. I thought it was a good idea and I've gotten some positive feedback on it already

>Writers
George RR Martin
Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams

>Poets
Ernest Hemingway (his one about shoes was really sad)
idk the rest desu

>Philosophers
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Terry Pratchett

>>7889720

How could you miss Bukowkski off the poet's list?

Otherwise decent /fedora/ primer

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>>7889717
>writers
Yasunari Kawabata, Richard Brautigan, Tove Jansson
>poets
Ryokan, Piet Hein, Oliverio Girondo
>philosophers
Dogen, Bachelard, Max Picard

>>7889700
caligula by aloys winterling...offers a different look, and the possibility that caligula was not a bad dude

>>7889855
Caligula was a bad dude

>>7889855
I should of clarified when I said fun I meant I want to read about the sinister side. I'd prefer if it wasn't Marques De Sades tier.

>>7889665
>The Unconsoled
>Reception[edit]
>The Unconsoled was described as a "sprawling, almost indecipherable 500-page work"[1] that "left readers and reviewers baffled".[2] It received strong negative reviews with a few positive ones. Literary critic James Wood said that the novel had "invented its own category of badness". However, a 2006 poll of various literary critics voted the novel as the third "best British, Irish, or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005",[3] tied with Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Ian McEwan's Atonement, and Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower. John Carey, book critic for the Sunday Times, also placed the novel on his list of the 20th century's 50 most enjoyable books, later published as Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books.

>>7889786
yea i don't think people really "got" the unconsoled when it first released. critical attitude towards the book has been trending consistently upwards since then however.

>>7889786
James Wood fuckin sucks. I'm not sure if I agree with the assessment that The Unconsoled is his masterpiece (The Remains of the Day is unparalleled imo) but it is far more interesting than critics at the time made it out to be.

Check out Ishiguro answering a question about The Unconsoled https://youtu.be/Wg88dMl2d6s?t=52m43s from when he was doing interviews for The Buried Giant

>>7889649
>he doesn't understand that the book is a maze and you have to differentiate which parts of it are dead ends that contribute nothing to the plot and which are.
I suggest you go back to reading YA.

>>7889649
I agree totally, everything about Truant seemed like a disingenuous attempt to make it a "postmodern" book by including totally contrived youthfulness and vulgarity alongside all the footnotes and scholarly references

>>7889649
>A FUCKING LEAF

>>7889622
*edit
*hunter s thompson OR henry rollins

>>7889622
>that pic
>Hunter S Thompson and Henry Rollins
It all adds up

>>7889634
>>pic not related


..happy now ?

>>7889544
because the people who "wrote" them were just writing things that had been chronicled by other people over generations

>>7889544
I guess it's similar to Aesop's fables - they're tales shared and passed on through generations and nobody actually really knows where they came from.

>>7889544
they do. very often.

harry bloom wrote book of j as just one of many examples

stop making stupid threads and read more faggot

Judging from the few pages I've read, that's just how it's written in the original also.

I hope you never get to read saramago m8

You got tricked, you got his lesser known novel called "Longer Human".

>>7889368
>theistic religions
As Opposed to?

Practically all pagan and animistic religions have no problem with evil, neither does Hinduism or Buddhism. Or Zoroastrianism, Manicheism, or Gnosticism. In fact I think you could say almost all religions don't have a problem with it.

>>7890020
I agree with this post. Subjective morality allows the existence of evil.

>>7889368
Augustine solved it with an irrufutable argumen so it's not a big problem really, not sure why people cling to it so much.
You can dislike the argument, but it doesn't mean it hasn't been solved.