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The Sword and the Crucible
>A History of the Metallurgy of European Swords up to the 16th Century
>Alan Williams

>Meditations on Quixote
by José Ortega y Gasset
>The Queue
by Vladimir Sorokin
>Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
by William H. Gass
>Anything by Unica Zürn

Nueva historia general de mexico - many authors, dunno who's listed, publisher is colegio de mexico

>>7825509

virgil & milton

the fucking sticky

>>7825509
Greeks should at the very least consist of Iliad, Odyssey and Plato's Dialogues

Bible doesn't need to be KJV- good luck getting through an complete KJV bible.

Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear at the very least for Shakespeare

You probably should also read Quixote

Also Dante's Inferno at the very least.

Goethe's Faust and Gogol's story "The Overcoat" are a bit of a stretch for 'essentials' but are pillars in their respective language that were crucial to the development of modern German and Russian literature respectively

That should give you a decent bare bones understanding of most modern literature

This isn't /b/, you twat.

>>7832203
Shut up faggot. Fun things are fun. You will never achieve gnosis and everything you write will be trite garbage.

I'm just posting here to let you know the thread subject made me kek

>>7828134
How do you want to control your mood? Do you get angry too easy? Or are you depressed all the time? Or are you too impulsive. Details help send pie.

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>>7828153
I think my biggest fear is to waste time.
I have some goals, career and life, and I sometimes get thrown back if I get into some non-life treating trouble (like unexpectedly having to pay 400 bucks for this and that thing - it doesn't actually matter to me but such things take off too much of my mental energy).
I want to be stoic about certain things, say.
It's probably one of the main reason I read into philosophy.

>>7817579
Because Franzen's a low-rent DFW without any of the things that made DFW interesting. He'll never escape his dead buddy's shadow.

>>7817579

Probably because people resent Franzen's insistence on returning to Victorian-style storytelling; his rejection and mockery of postmodernist aesthetics. I'm with you though, OP, I recently tore through it with great pleasure and rapidity. Franzen's sentences don't try to do too much and are enjoyable to read (this is not a bad thing: they are also very carefully written--this style is not accidental or easy to master). Franzen's dichotomy of "difficult fiction" vs fun fiction and his preference for the latter, as alluded to before, is the main reason I think why /lit/ doesn't like him. We here like to think that we like "difficult" books. But if you want to read an interesting response to Franzen's "Mr. Difficult" essay, Ben Marcus has good essay that makes the case for "difficult" books.

Anyways, I agree with you OP. I'm starting to think that Franzen was a much more mature writer than his show-offy and angsty pal dfw (who I also love btw).

>>7817595

Any chance of you being able to locate the Ben Marcus essay? Harper's won't let me read it without a subscription.

overrated talentless virgin

>>7831856
like /lit/ in general

>>7831849
On the contrary, i've heard lots of people here praise him. And i do think he is one of the best current writers.

>>7829424
Its not good. Gave this to a friend as a joke. She said it was written like shit.

I have a sincere question

(Though I am tickled pink you posted this - this is very funny)

On what grounds do you call this a meme?

>>7827491
sincerity is a meme and has become ironic again

once you're deep enough into the rabbit hole sincerity ceases to exist and there's only manually assigned values of pseudo-conviction left

we live in dark times my friend

this post is 55% ironic and 45% sincere

>'Despite all he had been through, he would never be anything more than simply the old man and the sea.'

Hemmingway you hack

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Please don't. Take it from an ex.idiot who went that rout of trying to make an image of that cool artsy guy.
You will get addicted to it faster than you know
You will spend thousands on cigarettes
It will be a pain in the ass to quit
Most aren't able to ever quit
You will destroy your body with that bullshit
Nothing external is worth risking your health for

Please take this from somebody who was a smoker for 2 years starting when i was 19 and naive.

Or just do it you will do whatever you want to anyways. Look at this pic doesn't he look cool?

I wish i had your clean lungs OP :(

Don't become one of us

You can if you want to. Smoking kills the same amount of people every year as being fat. I'll stop smoking when they put pictures of dead fat kids on KFC buckets.

It won't help your writing abilities though.

>>7831647
>were

>>7831647

no one claimed that it was "really deep shit".
Although it still is a really good piece of literature which normie high school scum like you will be unable to appreciate.

>>7831661
yeah well people like the book and the book comes off as pretentious. No one would sit down and write about what's going on inside their head unless they're trying to be deep. Yeah, the guy himself said that he's not trying to impress you, but what he's saying is fucking incoherent. I got to chapter 3 after reading 2 extremely frustrating paragraph, and one meme worthy sentence that had like 2 semicolons, and I'm just wondering what I'm even supposed to "get"? Yeah, it's a mind fuck, I couldn't sleep last night I spent so much time trying to make a single lick of sense out of chapter 2, it wired me and I only slept for 4 hours. So yeah I'm fucking mad.

He fucked a sexy nymph for 7 years. Went to another island and fucked a hotter nymph for another year. He did pretty well.

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>>7828895
>implying women can UNJUST

>>7828883
>senpai

>>7830602
I really can't think of any. Snowcrash is a masterpiece.

>>7830644
my favorite character is uncle enzo

>>7830602
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace.

>>7828773
As a creepy kid who often wrote in notebooks at school, yes please

Go on

Yeah

Read Nine Stories

Try light novels. They're like manga, but with words. Kino's Journey is decently literary and a good place to start. You may also want to look into Fate/Zero, and Welcome to the NHK.

>>7828725
I already saw their anime adaptations. Are the light novels different?

it's ok.

>>7828554
How much time did it take you to read it?

>>7828586
But it's the best novel dude.

>>7828591
Like 3 or 4 months, give or take. I'm not too sure.