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>Ecclesiastics
>Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
>The Trial

>>7865387
Mein Kampf

Anything that has a lot of sex or violence

>>7865386
>What are your plans for raising your children into being academic and literary scholars?

None of your fucking business, anime faggot.

Im going to let them decide that for themselves

>>7865386
Teach them the basic shit & let him go alone in this world. Leave the kids alone or you would have the classic "None care of your stupid classics literature, dad. Yezz"

Who buys these? Is it ironic like The National Enquirer?

>>7865200
hipsters or the mentally unstable

Tenant, The - Roland Topor.epub
u.pomf.is/yiayed.epub

You'll probably get more money selling it online, but check that bookstore anyway.

I'd like to add a question to that. Does anyone have experience selling high value books in English online from outside of US and UK?

That particular edition commands good prices because of the Thomas Ligotti introduction (cult author, his own books can sell for hundreds). Ask in the library, see what you can get there. But if you want at least 90 bucks for it, you might want to sell it to someone who collects Ligotti books.

>>7865516
I live by selling books in english... in mexico.

Why is it in a wrapper? It s a book

>>7865100
It's a mint condition collectible book

>>7865085
>did i fell

back to /r9k/, kid

>>7865068

Are you reading it for uni?
It's useful but not very exciting.
Eagleton forces his Marxist views in an annoying manner.

The first chapter is the best thing about it. Theory is bad, an intellectual fad of the late 20th c thats unfortunately still stinking up universities with profs whove been teaching it for so long and dont want to let go. eagleton himself abandoned it. See: after theory.

>>7865089
for me marxists are brainwashed and delusional. marxism has failed

Dfw. Handsome for a man.

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>>7865022
There's a nice word.
Seriously though, i fucking hate you.

>dfw and but so this thread gave me the howling fantods

Stoner
The Brothers Karamazov
Even some of Infinite Jest t b h

Most novels i read move me to emotion at one point or another.

I also cried during Grown Ups 2

Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal. It did something peculiar to me that I can't quite explain, because I don't even know which part of the text had the effect. It evokes a sense of lucidity and purpose that somehow bleeds into your own life, or rather you identify it with those events or feelings in your life that have been particularly meaningful. Again I don't know how this happens because the story itself is across between political intrigue and romance, with bits of war/action thrown in. The prose is beautiful, but it's not like there are any remarkable passages of metaphor or anything exactly.

There's a little inscription on the back of my book from Balzac that says 'M. Beyle a fait un livre ou le sublime éclate de chapitre en chapitre', and that's about the best description of it I have found.

>Alien language which is even remotely similar to human language and can even be spoken by humans

>Alien language that isn't the fluting of amorphous luminescent gasses contained within transparent bladders, meaning conveyed through altering the wavelength of said gas at spectra outside human sight

>Alien language

>Alien language that isn't reminiscent of cricket song

>Alien language that doesn't consist entirely of the olfactory sense

>Alien language that doesn't revolve around the radioactive decay of common isotopes

>Alien language that doesn't consist of at least 7 primary colors

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>aliens language is math

any sci-fi reccomendations where the author wrote good aliens ???

what's with you people and thinking the library is an appropriate place for picking up

>>7864758

I don't. I fully accept that the only acceptable non-rapey places to meet women are through dating apps where you post pictures of yourself and where a picture of a man in a wig gets more matches with men than a picture of a 5/10 male who wants women

>>7864767
met my current gf through tinder and I'm nothing special

Arria by Pliny the younger

Obviously Meditations. This should be like the Bible for Stoics, read a couple of pages every day.

Cringiest post of the year

P.S. i'm a beginner

>the great gatsby
no...

Give Brothers Karamazov a try. Both entertaining and a classic.

Read the sticky

D_s_o_v_k_

>>7864388
That's not how you spell Tolstoy.

all of them. why do people keep insisting reading isn't fun?
>>7864393
You mean Lermontov?

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>>7864154
>he reads books he's never read before

why do you feel the need to make such a worthless thread you retard

>>7864168
why do you feel the need to make such a worthless post you retard

Henry James

I still don't understand Colin Wilson.

At a very young age he wrote an amazing, if flawed (lots of misquotes) treatise on the Outsider in literature, then he spent the rest of his life writing dreck like Space Vampires.

>>7864057
Wasn't Infinite Jest the greatest genre fiction book ever written?