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>>7784142
didn't like it either. read lazarillo de tormes. infinitely more rewarding

>I am assuming that there is more to this book than simply irony and snarkiness that is somewhat entertaining but ultimately doesn't lead anywhere

There isn't. It's not a philosophical treatise. If the humor flew over your head that's probably why you didn't enjoy it

I thought it was really funny. Read an annotated version

Dead Souls. It's good.

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it's great can't wait to continue

The Idiot. It's good.

We pirate Word.

>>7784028
Well usually I pirate most things, but I just couldn't seem to get Word to work pirated at all

>>7784031
Grab an older version like 2010.

Jolly nice!

then tomato meet cocumber

Cocumber say "tomat, you are fruit of gay"

then tomato say "no, I cant decide if fruit or vegetable"

Cocumber say "vegetable? You aren't the dead"

Tomato say "until I saw your mom"

Then cocumber became pickel

>>7784169
oh snap

Poking a dead frog and Here's the kicker by Mike Sacks.

semen demon?

Catch-22 will always be the funniest book

Post your favorite passage then.

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>no eternal return demon gf

>>7783855

Didn't he get cucked?

>>7783816

Read the following:

Ted Hughes; Dylan Thomas; Seamus Heaney; John Berryman.
For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
The Truth the Dead Know by Anne Sexton
Farm Implements & Rutabagas in a Landscape by John Ashbery
Emperor of Ice-Cream & Snowman by Wallace Stevens
Ezra Pound & T.S. Eliot
Hart Crane
This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin
The Waking by Theodore Roethke

>>7783827
Thanks anon. Are these all fairly simple/easy to understand poems?

At what level would you say 'Paradise Lost' is at? How long would it take me to reach that level?

You can just read PL desu. It's Heroic verse, aka it does not ryhme, it just sounds good.
The punctuation is good enough if you can't understand a part read it out loud and you will understand.

It's also a great read. Go read it now.

DFW and Pynchon is pleb lit, son.

Nobody reads at my library as far as I know, so its alright cause Im buddy with the librarians and ask them to buy me stuff and they usually do if its academic enough

>>7783713
>patrish

youre not patrician kid. not only are you a trendy fag but like the other guy said dfw and pynchon are not patrician.

come back when you have some taste and finish your freshman year.

yep. i'm a cashier and i get most of my reading done during downtime.

>>7783688
what kind of store has that few customers?
do you work the night shift?
does management care that you read or do they even know?

>>7783737
it's a local grocery store, pretty small place. i work afternoons through night. usually have a pretty steady flow of customers until about 4pm, afterwards they arrive sparingly, giving me a few hours of reading time. my bosses are great people and don't like to see their employees doing any more work than is necessary, so they have no problem with what i do. they understand that night shifts have a lot of downtime and don't care how i pass it as long as i'm not ignoring customers.

i love the rowling copypasta

I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.
But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?
It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."
Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I'm 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I've seen the study of literature debased. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

>>7783818
The most fascinating thing about the whole story: Yale University bookstore is selling Harry Potter!?
Isn't it a children's book?

I agree with him, though, that it is silly to say children should just read any book, doesn't matter _what_ they read, as long as they just do.

>>7783502
What movie

keep /tv/ in /tv/

the young vampire is such a qt in that movie
the old one too actually

>>7783422
>quibbling over inconsequential formatting
fuck em and feed em fish

>>7783422
wot since when has that ever been bad?

>>7783429
that was pretty much my reaction as well. i just like the way it looks, but i wasn't sure if it was repellant to most readers or not. i would imagine not, since books are formatted the same way...

>>7783369
thank god he didn't and solidified his immortality then.

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>>7783373

>>7783369
Gene Wolfe wrote short stories and they sure as hell are nowhere near Borges's.

>>7783160
Orust is an island in western Sweden.

It has no translation, it is a name.

>>7783165
Did I ask "What does the word 'Orust' name?"? No, I didn't.

Learn to read.

City of god. Paulo lins

infinite jest

Finnegan's Wake
Infinite Jest
2666
Ulysses
The Fault in Our Stars
Gravity's Rainbow