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Infinite Jest

I would read The Process over and over again until I fell asleep or the world ended.

I don't believe you and I'm not even in the library.

foucault

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Pretty much everything by Foucault later stuff in particular

Nietzsche

There's no such thing.
People in here will probably say Ulysses tho.

Read the sticky faggot and get out

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You Liss Seas

Also Gravity's Rainbow—not so much Endless Fun but hey, when in Rome!

>>7807781
There isn't such a thing. And, considering the fact that you are just getting into reading, it's probably unwise to jump straight into Ulysses or The Tunnel.

>>7807481

The fuck is that thing in the picture?

the jungle i guess

Nigger, just stop.

Gee, I don't know. What do you think?

>>7807438
The lowest, to be honest.

In Germany, everyone is sarcastic and ironic all the time, even in situations in which it doesn't make any sense. I fucking hate it. Good sarcasm can be funny, though, but most of the time, it's low humor for low people.

Grossman

I got the penguin classics version translated by Rutherford. It was coherent and I enjoyed it.

>tfw don't know Spanish so have to read shitty translations of books

What's the point of maximalism? Why write crap books when you can write good ones?

>>7807333
It's really just Delillo writing a nostalgic period piece and wrapping some high concept shit around it because he didn't want to come off as being sentimental and uncool. It's a decent read but it is nowhere near the level of GR.

>>7807341
You've answered it yourself.

>>7807287
Loved it, yes you should check out Augustus, my professor recommended it.

it was okay. i think the brilliance was a bit lost on me. i admit i cried at the end but it wasn't a very gripping ride overall.

im torn between thinking the flat and repetitive prose was annoying and thinking it was effective and necessary. i don't know. i guess i just walked away thinking it was bretty gud.

>>7807306
This was the same for me, but i also could really identify with William and his despair. So it was a really emotional ride for me.

atlas shrugged

The Tao Te Ching, probably

>>7806983
I'd post a photo of a girl with a transvestite's face

Fag

It doesn't have to be that way.

>>7806858
Only fedora tipping teens think it's good, and posters on an anonymous Vietcong vanilla smoothie factory imageboard.

The majority of actual philosophers think it's a joke.

I immensely enjoyed George Guidall's audiobooks of Kafka's major works, though I wouldn't reccomend audiobooking Kafka for a first time reader of him.

George Guidall has a great voice though.

I was really hoping that the girl in the pic was holding her erect penis in the photo

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>>7806553

listen to the alan partridge audiobook, one of the better ones.

and i will never understand dudes who like muscle chicks. shit taste 2bhonest.

Here's a tip: stop being an idiot.

>>7806574
Well sorry for trying to better myself. Any real advice? Please?

>>7806594
take breaks and don't stop

you have to force yourself through them

Which one is Beatrice? The one in red? I never noticed before that she seems to be looking right at him.

>Who's this creeper staring at me

>>7806444
no the one in yellow is Beatrice

why did beatrice reject him?

in any case dante is now a literary household name and beatrice is a literally who that amounted to nothing and probably became a generic housewife

remember that the next time you fawn over some interchangeable cooz like a beta

Get Strassler's edition of Herodotus.

Don't start with The Republic.

Get his complete works, or get these ones at least:

Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Meno, Symposium, Republic, Timaeus

>>7806365
What's wrong with George Rawlinson?

>>7806287
bump

OP
Check out YouTube for open Yale courses. There's a good intro lit 101 primer course worth watching.

Also research book options for some good lit criticism. I have none to offer but Mortimer Alders how to read a book which was my first exposure to the field. It's slightly outdated but still a good starting point.

For poetry I really enjoyed Haas 20th century pleasures. Good luck.

>>7806361
Thanks, friend. I'll check out that book. It's pretty overwhelming trying to get into an entire field of academics when you don't have any lecturers or whatever to guide you.