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A story about the American slave trade

>>7846566
Not even close baby!
Now you post a title.

There's a quote from some operative on Operation Mockingbird calling journalists cheaper than whores, so I'm guessing that.

Are you twelve?

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Readers imagine a world where they sit in a garden at an iron table in the springtime with friends talking philosophically about the books they read.

>>7846336
Reading has been shown to improve empathy. There, one reason from at least three.

it sounds like you've procured the first three of joyce's major works

this gives you the option to read them chronologically

they're definitely joyce

enjoy

For a short story collection, a coming-of-age novel and one of the most wide-ranging novels in the English language. The former two are also useful to understand (more of) the latter.

>not starting with Finnegans Wake

casual as fuck

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>>7846242

>>7846249
Democracy is such an absolutely retarded idea

>>>/pol/

>>7846202
If it learns it from other peoples tweets then of course it would be racist. Twitter is full of alt-right

>All the tweets are super-generic affirmative responses with not even a hint of relation to the question posed

Sure you did a great job, STEMlords.

>>7846161
generally we don't care about dis nigga but it was noticed on this board (and even on me facebook, fwiw)
also, nigger

pleb author dies, no one gives a shit, the world is a slightly less pleb place.

>>7846161
Literally who?

No really, who is this guy? It won't let me reverse image search on this shitty kindle tablet.

>>7846109
Yes it is. Also Vespertine is a great album.

God bless you.

>>7846109
Nabokov's English is ridiculously pretty.

>>7846114
Vespertine is a shit album. It's way too banal for me. Almost as banal as religion.

>>7846046
What about them? Form a coherent sentence, you fucking moron or go back to /r9k/

>>7846048
you fucking moron, or go back to /r9k/*

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Listen Up Philip is great

was inspired by philip roth novels and it's about an asshole young author who gets published and then doesn't really know what to do with himself

minor character loosely based on dfw and lots of dope cover designs. give it a go

Ok?

>re-reading
>not grasping everything in a single reading

>>>/his/shitposting/

>>7845829
>>>/pol/
I'm not even trying to be an asshole. Your post simply belongs in /pol/ or /his/. Take it there please.

>>7845840
>>>reddit

You fell for it, Fagles is the best.

>>7845802
learn greek

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>>7845802
>>7845818
>Not reading the only good version

>who is harold bloom

>>7845768

was there any evidence of his "full retention", other than a case of "I promise - I can read 1000 pages per hour and understand it all in full."?

>>7845777
>doubting the patron saint

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It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world.

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niggerstoneguemanuslifereallyisfucamazingkingamazingsometothelibraryandsteponitmes

>>7845735
L'auteur est mort. What do you think?

>>7845745
I dunno I think talking to a corpse seems p wacky but then again maybe that's just how he's symbolically portraying his experience.

>>7845735
no darl was smarter than any of em

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>>7845697
*tips respectfully in your direction*

I too am a great lover of these books. I can really relate to Kvothe, and would go so far as to say as he is literally me, as I too am loved by all people (except haters ofc), and women as well, and have had QUITE a few conquests of exotic women if I may so say myself, ha ha

you wont find any love for these books here lol. one of the most annoying things ive read desu

>>7845697
>>>/reddit/