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>>7817024
if you're trying to into Kerouac I wouldn't start with OTR t b h senpai

>In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
>Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
>The Trial by Franz Kafka
>Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

>>7817024
Only one of those I've read is On the Road. I really wanted to like it more than I did, but there were a lot of parts where was losing interest because he was just describing hitchhiking and saying random American place names as he did it.

>>7817024
>>7817070
Go for the Vonnegut. His novels are all short enough that you should be able to breeze through them in a few days, if not one sitting. A lot of folks on /lit/ shit on him, but just as many love him, and if you happen to be among the latter, the return on investment in reading one of his novels is unmatched.

>>7816852
Each one of them have their own wonderful character.

...Prisoner of Askaban. or however it's worded

I know this is a troll thread, but since you ask it's Half-Blood Prince.

>>7816852
Not /lit/. Sage and report.

(you)

>>7816825
Easily the worst book I've read in the last five years.

>>7816845
alongside with the martian

>>7816806
No, I don't, It may be an autistic reason, but I don't want to the songs to add a mood, that probably doesn't fit, to the scenes I'm reading.

>>7816806
I don't often listen to music while reading, unless it's the newspaper or something. I find it distracting.

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>No, sir, I’ll make sure it’s just Ron and Hermione. Good night.”
>DUN TUN TIN DUN TUN
>He turned away again, and was almost at the door when he-
>IIIIIIIIIII LOOOOVE YOU JEEESUS CHRRRRIIIIST

fucking Signet Classics, they release decent covers but that shitty logo on the top triggers me so much jesus christ

Isaac Asimov

>>7816718
Really? From what I've heard Asimov always seems like the opposite of what I want to read. Aren't his books all about world-building and inter-faction politics?

>>7819478
just read it faggot, how the fuck could anyone know if you would enjoy it

>>7819478
>Kurt Vonnegut's
Kill self lmao @u

>>7819483
You are supposed to make comparisons between Kurt Vonnegut's novels and this one, I didn't name my interest in him for no reason. Also you can see if satire and black comedy is a variable in the novel of discussion.

>>7816588
https://medium.com/@kunaljasty/a-lost-1996-interview-with-david-foster-wallace-63987d93c2c#.b6ikc2w4k

check out this one senpai

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/a-conversation-with-david-foster-wallace-by-larry-mccaffery/

you should already know this one too

http://www.smallbytes.net/~bobkat/jesterlist.html

>>7816488
Pretty Reddit, dude. But what do I know, I'm only reading Joyce and Ulysses right now.

>>7816569
I tried looking for Ulysses in the store and couldn't find it. I searched high and low.

>>7816569
>Reddit
But wait, what makes a book Reddit tier or not?

shitposting

with

your mom

Well, although people can definitely have lesser inclinations to intellectual hobbies than other people, a serious repulsion to them definitely doesn't come naturally. I'm not athletic in the least, but I can appreciate the immense work athletes into their chosen sports. Like you pointed out, this doesn't seem to be the case with anything intellectual--it's seen as snobby, as a mere attempt to garner praise from other people. This is often not the case (though there are quite a few people who pretend to like those things to for that very reason.)

But honestly: not everyone has received the same level of education or guidance as you have. Perhaps you didn't even have these things--but still ended up hearing things from other people, whether in real life or online, that boosted your confidence to learn more. Perhaps you are just naturally ambitious and self-assured, and didn't need anyone to tell you that you that you're smart enough to learn.

But what I see very frequently among people who seem to hate anything "intellectual" is that they have a very deep, but hidden desire to be "smart." Maybe they had a rough time at school, making them believe they just couldn't learn. Or they were taught genuinely good authors in such a mind-numbing way that they can't even be reminded of them without reliving high-school.

Be sympathetic. Try to educate these people rather than simply jeer at them, as if you were somehow superior. Expose them to new material, gently. Let them know that they too can learn.

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People need to stop buying into social ideologies. Despising intellectual endeavors because they are believed to be high-brow or too upper-crust is idiotic. Only when people start to see ideology for what it is, will this pass. But, then, once the main-stream does begin seeing ideology for what it is, god knows what that would do to society on a mass-scale.

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>>7816451
Democracy made it profitable to pander to the tastes and opinions of proles.

That and fundamentalist Christianity defending itself against a world that's made it untenable intellectually

ferrante

>>7818460
Middle C is the best novel of this century.

>>7818460
>America
>good
>Britain
>good
>Israel
>neutral
>Russia
>evil
>China
>evil

Triggered.

>>7816412
I have read it. I really love The Name of the Wind, the 2nd book, that's called "The Wise Man's Fear".

I think you have to finish it (as every book) to know if you'll like it at all or not. Personally, as I said, I love it, it's one of my favourites books and authors. I really like the way he tells the things, and he is, imo, very original. Hope you enjoy it too.

The little boy is perfect. He can do everything. Its annoying. But it was fun.

It's the lack of originality that kills this type of story. A young boy orphaned after he witnesses his parents and friends brutally murdered grows up rough and street smart fending for himself, swearing revenge. He has many whacky adventures each becoming more increasingly serious adult time now, until he finally faces his enemy only to lose the one person he cares about most. Oh, there also isn't any magic it is all ancient technology or something, because religion and faith is bad.

I basically described all 3 books there, predicting the plot of the third.

Each character falls right out of some terrible anime trope, including the gay tsundere shota apprentice, the sacrificing hero who never gets the girl, the mysterious magical girl, the goofy sidekicks, the wise old hermit that teaches the hero, the cucked best friend girl who he never notices.

It's something you read and forget about 2 months later. All I remember is 60% of the story is filler describing current Kvothe sweeping around his inn and being all forlorn and sad, looking out windows and sighing, arranging bottles on shelves with trembling hands. It's so gringe, it reads like an 15 year old girl's romantic wishlist. He's so wounded by what happened, much scars and pain, not even Bast's boypussy could heal his broken emotion.

>>7816378
>>>/hw/

a white boy and a black man go for a boat ride
sadly they don't fuck

>>7816387

His dad tries to fuck him in a cabin in the woods, though.

I think that is where Salinger got his inspiration for Holden raping his little sister.

True, but she did suck a real philosophers dick.

> she
> philosopher

>>7816353
You don't know shit about philosophy though

>>7818196
Some time ago tbqh.

>implying Wewgenstein isn't one of /lit/s most highly spoken of philosophers

>says a bunch of shit
>says a bunch of other shit that contradicts the former shit
Yeah it fits.