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Quite the dialectic you've got there. Highest form of aletheia(another greek word) really sheds light on the nature of shitposting as a whole.

>>7824540
The ends justify the means, basically.

>>7824563
>>7824540
these are really really really good posts

>>7824504
>human condition
when will this meme die

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>>7824504
I dunno. I don't read self-important garbage. I read genre fiction garbage.

More like a pop-sociological TV-series critique essay but whatever

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

Also Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel

>>7824459
>it seemed a little heavy handed with the main character's absurd ineptitude with human interaction. Thoughts?
never read dostoevsky

>>7824459

First of all OP, I want to unironically congratulate you on reading this source text, and also to state for the record that I have not read it (then why the congratulations?)

You don't sound too impressed with the book OP, but it opens up a multimedia discussion, mostly in movieland but I'll nod back to /lit territory.

If you haven't yet, you ABSOLUTELY SHOULD watch an old B/W movie based on what you've read, simply titled "The Haunting". It was directed by Robert Wise, an old popular Hollywood bigshot who later did The Sound of Music and the first Star Trek Movie, so he could work across multiple genres.

However, there are several other SIMILARLY-TITLED movies worth totally avoiding. The above film adaptation was later redone as an absolutely terrible CG-shitfest circa 1999, I think Catherine Zeta Jones was involved. Avoid avoid avoid, only watch the above.

On the other hand, there are a pair of similarly made-then-remade movies, with redeeming qualities. "The Haunted House on the Hill" is an unrelated work with Vincent Price, with high-camp value. It was later remade with Chris Kattan among others (the release dates, basic premises and titles among all four of these films are confusingly similar), and although also "cheap", it has some inspired/spooky stop-action art going on. Try these, maybe, but ABSOLUTELY NOT the wretched one above.

Finally, the OP got me thinking about female horror writers (Mary Shelley? Shirly Jackson?), but also of the Hellraiser novella The Hellbound Heart, which hews closely to my lit/tv crosspost. In the latter case, the author Barker actually directed a culturally important film deriving from his own novella. I'm not aware of any other career writer who has ever shepherded an original film work in such a unique way, usually it's handed off to someone else adapt, or at the very least direct.

Yes, I certainly thought while reading it that it had the potential to translate well into film. I was unaware that there were any adaptations, I'll have to check that out further.
The novel is quite dependent on the main character's inner monologue to drive the anxiety, claustrophobia, and paranoia that makes this a true example of 'horror' fiction, so again, would be interesting to see how that works in the medium of film.
It's an easy read, if you want to delve into the source text. It's short, simple, and frustrating.
It also has some half-hearted themes regarding suppressed sexuality that don't hold quite the same significance to today's reader as they would have in the 1950s.

>>7824435
Throw away 20 pages.

>>7824439
P much

>short story
>30 pages

>>7824439

Nah, too edgy. Don't know if that was on purpose or not.

>>7824332
Okay. Why? Please explain why you feel this is better without using buzzwords.

>>7824350
He probably only read it (reddit?) and not Gass's. I haven't read either one myself so I have no opinion on this atm, but I doubt he's actually read both.

>>7824276
>not solely subsisting on books published before
the advent of the internet

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>>7824276
>go to B&N
>intend on buying Fear And Loathing
>finally find it under Current Events of all things
>pull it off shelf
>movie poster is the cover
>mfw

>>7824795
>implying old things are the only good thing

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>>7824249
this film is good

Let the memes begin!

Consider reading more about Gass, and looking into his essays.

>>7824189
to the sound of my throbbing cock.

I listen to the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. Unless a new Common Sense by Dan Carlin episode has come out. Then that takes priority.

>>7824189
>Running

but /fit/ said cardio will kill my gains!

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>>7824112
No they are not, cinema is a childish waste of time.

>>7824117
epic, my friend
upboat

American Beauty is a really embarrassingly stupid screenplay. Just imagine what kind of asshole could watch, or even read, that bag scene with a straight face.

Anything Paddy Chayefsky wrote is patrish tho.

>>7824081
Book of the New Sun
Sons and lovers

The razors edge

>>7824097
That's that book about conmen right?

>>7824072
its called post cyberpunk

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>>7824078
Ok, if that's what it's called that's what I'm looking for. good stories within that realm.

Jeff noon - vurt

The only cyber punk worth reading

pseudo-philosphy

Essay disguised as a novel. It's painfully pretentious. You will skip pages A LOT. Pirsig is extremely self-involved. You will be thinking "Man, this guy is an asshole" the whole time.

Swill for cowards.

>>7823805
I started with The Lime Twig, which is now--after The Tunnel, of course--my favorite novel. On a side note, I found and bought a first edition hardcover copy of Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade recently, but I haven't started it yet.

>>7823840
Have you read Second Skin? If so was it good?

>>7823870
Not yet, though I do plan on making my way through all of Hawkes' works. If you want better answers, you'll have to summon he who has read more of Hawkes than anyone else on this board--Hawkesposter. I recommend a sacrificial offering.

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>reads Camus once

Reads Nietzsche once

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va9V1VcsyKU

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>read any Russian author once

Never read it, but it's definitely on my list. I'll bump your thread/give you an extra IP to samefag.

How does it compare to other voyage literature like Gulliver and Sinbad? More ribald, right? Actually, I read a short excerpt of it, concerning the weapon-growing plants. Rabelais clearly knows things deeply, so again, I'll try to read it entirely in the future.

Why again are they giants?

Also what's up with physicians being the greatest french authors
>Rabelais
>Celine

>>7823692
But not Moliere, Hugo, or Proust?