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>>7887281
guess all the christposters found a new fad

>>7887281
gene wolfe, book of the new sun

the grifter

Phenomenology of Spirit

gravity's rainbow
the book of lies
illuminatus
prometheus rising
principia discordia

valis
transmigration of timothy archer
the exegesis of philip k dick
the gnostic bible
the ego and its own
finnegans wake

>>7887181
madame zubumba cant write for shit.

>>7887184
>it bad

okay. now how did you arrive to that conclusion? genuinely curious.

Fantastic. Would put it in the top 10 books released so far this century. Each section is better than the last - by the time you get to the younger generation in the last two sections there's so much built-up momentum and symbology that the last 200 pages are just a blast.

check the archive. this has been asked countless times before.

>>7887122
Can I get a link, senpai?

>>7887123
Better yet, a chart for the wiki.

Amazing. Read it in one day. If you're a recluse or shut-in you will relate. Especially if you suffer from mental illness.

The book also ends great. No one improves, there is no fairytale ending.

>>7887039
oh! I forgot to mention. Go to this site called rightstuf. It's a weeaboo store that sells japanese novels/manga/anime/figures. They sell it for like 10-15 bucks there. I bought it for like twice as much on amazon =[

>>7887004
PDFs anon
that's how I read it. It's a one day buckle up and go for the ride type of book like >>7887039 says so there's no real need for a physical copy

dont talk about shitty authors or give them attention

>>7886986
>Brandon Sanderson


literally, who? don't make me look him up on wikipedia.

Brandon Sanderson is my least favorite sort of author: one whose works leave me with the strong suspicion that I could have done a better job myself.

>>>/tg/

>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc.

The classic beginner chess book (after you've learned the moves and very basic strategies) is Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev. Made me a few hundred points better.

The Luneburg Variation was quite good.

>>7886839
First make your picture something that isn't uninspired trash.

>>7886839
Read some philosophy tracts, Nietzsche is always popularly divisive, he's always worth reading just to figure out if you think he's brillo, nuts or some combination thereof.

Beyond good and evil is an accessible enough starter text

Also "deep" is a contemptible term.

It's bitterly ironic that people use such a meaningless filler word as a descriptor for relatively complex or difficult books.

>>7886849
>brillo
stopped reading
u cant write u cant think

>>7886665
Not being concise.

I fcking hate empty romantic triangles.

Writing anything Nabokov disliked: fat books of lazy ideas, socially-minded allegories, derivative and lifeless claptrap, hopeless mires of misunderstood mythology and facile symbolism.

my favourite short story desu familia.

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> Toward the end she had compared me to some piece of ultra-expensive new medical or diagnostic equipment that can discern more about you in one quick scan than you could ever know about yourself — but the equipment doesn’t care about you, you’re just a sequence of processes and codes. What the machine understands about you doesn’t actually mean anything to it. Even though it’s really good at what it does.

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>>7886566

>completely unnecessary mathematical notation
>people don't think David is talking about himself in this story about a fraud who needs to impress people
>people are still impressed with David's writing

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>caring about covers
fuck off poser fraud

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>Not getting the movie tie-in edition

Learn 2 postmodern irony you pleb.

>>7886534
> actually not caring about covers
> pseudopatrician

>>7886480
*tibs phaedra*

>>7886667
It's quite shit, even by Austrian school standards.

>>7886688
Why do you think?

>>7886464
I'm not a big fan of Wikipedia, but their article doesn't present her as someone I'd like to study under.

>>7886808
Why is that?

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>>7886895
>human pain
>human values
>nuclear weapons
>plane crashes
>Elaine scarry is an American essayist and professor of English and American literature and language

she's sounds like a dilettante, a less accomplished female version of Malcolm Gladwell

plebs write for plebs
patricians write for patricians

>>7886378
That picture is some really juicy bait. 8/10

Barth

I listen to audio books and podcasts while doing tasks that don't require much thought

if you're blind, or if your brain has that dyslexic disconnect with words, audiobooks are a godsend.

i can't stand them because my regular reading pace is entire paragraphs at a glance, and audiobooks are too slow.

So you're saying that your attention span is so poor that you can't even commit to reading words off of a page? End yourself.