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David Foster Wallace

>>7824067
he was a professor

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>>7824063
Stephen King

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>Protestantism

>>7823714
The difference between Catholics and Protestants is that Protestants have actually read the Bible.

>>7823722


I can actually tell you this is true. In 15 years of CCD and Church the only time I ever read the bible was in the very first few years. In Catholicism the actual bible is really downplayed in favor of the Priest's sermon and teachers guidance. From the age of maybe 13 to 19 when I became an atheist I didnt touch a bible despite going to church twice a week and volunteering at 2 different summer camps

>>7822145
Possible - obviously (see: most novels under 200 pages). Worth it? Probably not. I'd give myself 2-3 days to actually read and comprehend the text, maybe more. For longer books it's out of the question imho.

You dont need to read whole book bro :) no one does that :) you just open a book, read a wise sentence amd ta dam you got iт;)?

Without speed reading, probably if you have the time.
With speed reading, certainly, but I don't count it as true reading, which demands time for contemplation.

>>7821850
Auel's series was bretti gud. Also pretty hot

>>7821879
>auel
>muh psychic neandertals

>>7821850
William Golding had one which he considered his best work, I forget the name.

>>7821700
You mean dystopias?
1984, Brave New World, We(by Zamyatin),Fahrenheit 451, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,Infinite Jest

cyka bydlo

>>7821710
Yes! I didn't know that the genre is called dystopias in English. Thank you!

Oddly Ghost in the Shell [manga/anime] mentions the Yakuza in a fairly interesting and yet boring light; albeit set in the nearish future.

>no samurai shit
gay

>>7820700
Can we add samurai fiction to this list? Of course we can.

Unfortunately, I got nothing on all 3. But you've whetted my appetite, so I'll bump yo' thread.

>>7820185
short of, i can recommend you some but how is your spanish?

>>7820342
not op. But would very much appreciate recommendations in spanish

>>7820342
It's not very good

we've come across truer statements

>>7826176
>Objective normativity is just as mystical (if not more) than god
Yeah, it's called ideological power discourse. And it's all oppressive bullshit.

>No one has ever once proven a normative statement to be true.
Premise #1. Earth is not flat.
Conclusion: Therefore, Earth is not flat or OP should stop being a flaming homosexual.

Let "Earth is not flat." be P, and "OP should stop being a flaming homosexual." be Q. Then we have:

P
.:. P v Q

Proof of P v Q: Suppose ~(P v Q). Then, ~P and ~Q. But we have P and ~P. Contradiction. Thus we have proved P v Q. In other words, we have proved a normative statement which, as it happens, is true.

Now stop posting.

yes, it's great

>>7823762
hell yeah man. mann is a master. and the best part is after you finish that mammoth he has three other door-stopper masterpieces in Dr Faustus, Buddenbrooks, and Joseph & His Brothers.

>>7823762
Yes: it is one of the greatest masterpieces in all of history. William Gass, author of another one of the greatest masterpieces in all of history--The Tunnel--even put ranked 25 in his "Fifty Literary Pillars."

Vol de nuit (Exupéry)
Moderato Cantabile (Duras)
L'amant (Duras)
Short stories by Yourcenar are alright

>>7823103
Thanks !

>I'm learning French

eugh, enjoy slumming around the slum of Paris posing as an existentialist bohemian.. You're about 90-100 years too late. Spend this time learning Greek and Latin.

No hard feelings

>inb4 "I want to live in France"
>pleb

>>7825068
it's actually about 300 pages, certain stylistic choices mean that the text is 'spaced out' significantly.

>>7825076
Oh, then I'll read it, thank you. Did you like the book?

>>7825068
It was all right. I was pretty disappointed.

1. The Tunnel, 3 times
2. Agape Agape
3.The Lime Twig
4. Ulysses

>>7823793
1. The Call of Cthulhu
2. Any non-fiction type philosophy book (the kind were the author just tells you what they think rather than show it with a story)
3. Notes from Underground
4. The Call of Cthulhu because I read some interpretations and thought about these and so saw it as not just a story about a monster

>>7823793
1.The Illuminatus! Trilogy
2. Fuck you OP
3.The Illuminatus! Trilogy
4.The Illuminatus! Trilogy

King James read with Strong's Concordance

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

dead sea scrolls

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>>7808638
bumping with a few to start

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>>7808638