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>>7741883
Read it and tell us. You'll be the second person here to read it.

>>7741883
memed. to death.

>>7741883
It's the most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime.

>>7753395
being written by Gene Wolfe makes a book good.

>>>/sci/

>>7753405
Those autists wouldn't know a good book if it slapped them in the face.

This has to be bait right?


Like, someone in the position to ask this question would have google research skills to find better information that 3 shitty vauge posts on /lit/, right?

>>7756134
no way thats real

who is the goose with the spruce caboose?

What's Rebel Without a Cause?

>>7755863
An Old Movie made in the 1950's about living as a troubled teenager. The main character had some problems in his life cause he thought he grew up without a father figure but thats only because his dad did the cooking and cleaning. Personally I don't see much of a comparison between Rebel without a Cause and Catcher in the Rye but it's one of least censored and only films made about teenagers back then but I did like how the bad guy in the movie was more than just a Greaser asshole and was given a bit more character which is a bit like Catcher in the Rye, I guess.

Read his short stories.

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
A Clean Well-Lighted Place
The Killers

>>7755724
How do they differ?

>>7755708
The Sun Also Rises is just young people drinking too much - the book
some witty lines here and there
some nice descriptions
the fishing trip part was a fun read and a nice break from the Paris drinks dinner then more drinks routine
a lot of beta orbiter cuck feels
Bret's a drunk slut basically

How old were you when I pulled out of your mom's ass, and a bunch of brown fluid came out and stained her mattress, and she still sleeps on the stain today but tells your dad it's a period blood stain?

>>7754966

lulzzz

>>7754952
Sounds quite plausible really. I have very frequent deja vu with perfect clarity and detail. Who said this?

>20 pages
Not interested

>>7753630
Relax, anon. I'll read it.

Girls should be allowed to go around topless. In fact, they should be required to.

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Why the fuck would you read Tristes tropiques if youre interested in theory, check out his "pensée sauvage" or something similar instead

Structuralism was superseded by post-structuralism and postmodern deconstructionism. Strauss’ theories are interesting, but no longer accepted by most academic establishments.

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This is a much better read.

Nobody?

Star Bellied Sneeches.

>>7750557
What a gaylord

>spits and eats beans
truly the greatest author of our time

>>7749227
>they rode on
goddamn poetic

>>7749224
Why are they the state roads?
Because they used to belong to the states. What used to be called the states.
But there’s not any more states?
No.
What happened to them?
I dont know exactly. That’s a good question.
But the roads are still there.
Yes. For a while.
How long a while?
I dont know. Maybe quite a while. There’s nothing to uproot them so they should be okay for a while.
But there wont be any cars or trucks on them.
No.
Okay.
Are you ready?
The boy nodded. He wiped his nose on his sleeve and shouldered up his small pack and the man folded away the map sections and rose and the boy followed him out through the gray palings of the trees to the road.

Hemmingway fully realized.

>>7755399
Meditation is for trendy western dweebs. Only vacuous denominations of Buddhism practice it more than ten minutes daily.

>>7755399
>relevent
Relevent? Relevent to what? You as a westerner? To a beginner? To a modern lifestyle? To spiritual attainment? Gonna need some more info on what you're after, buddy.

I wrote about beginner texts here:
>>7753278

>>7755432
I'm not sure what you're basing this on but all the major denominations in Asia meditate far more than this in a monastic routine. If you're talking about the large swathes of de facto Buddhists due to it being the national religion or whatever, then sure. But that's because they adhere more to the traditional rites and rituals of the religious aspect (which the Buddha actually teaches against clinging to in the suttas).

>>7755489
>I'm not sure what you're basing this on but all the major denominations in Asia meditate far more than this in a monastic routine.
This is just factually wrong.

>be me, david lagercrantz
>get dumbass idea to revive dead cohort's series
>make it a book about 1337hacking skillz
>have a super autisitic kid as a main character
>ignore autism as a severe developmental impairment and make it a superpower for some awful reason
>provide backstory into why lisbeth salander is "the wasp" because marvel comics bullshit
>remind the reader that mikael blomkvist is still a womanizer somehow and erika berger still occasionally hate-fucks him
>write lots of sentences like 'blomkvist narrowed his way down the snowy alley toward saltsjobaden and into a meeting with gunnar shyokelhelm and then went to minnarksguborrow to find hans grandballs and then to sahtuaoewumlaut emporium to aufinadsofnuasfigadyu5ujtrhaba
>include bunch of bullshit about zalachenko's past
>somehow convinced that the plot isn't retarded enough, feel the need to include artificial intelligence as a plot device
>have salander get shot, even though she spent nearly the entire previous book recuperating from her injuries
>only have 2 'suspenseful' events in the first 400 pages
>salander somehow teaches the autistic wonder kid how to factor massive prime numbers in minutes

don't read this.

>>7755860
kek

And then you turn on a light. The End.

>>7754749
You take advantage of the darkness to fap in secrecy...

How do I know I've woken up if it's dark?

It must not be so dark as you say it is.

Otherwise, there are other key details you're leaving out which suggest I've woken up and that my current experience is not a dream. That is, OP is deliberately (and maliciously!) withholding information from me which could completely and incontrovertibly establish my current consciousness.

Thanks, asshole.

>>7754670
>only to realize that in he had been dragging them down his whole life
Just plain wrong nigga
Hes been sustaining the whole damn family
It is a modern "protocols if the elders of Zion"

>>7754684
>Hes been sustaining the whole damn family
Did you even read the book? After he dies the family goes on better than they were before he was normal.
>It is a modern "protocols if the elders of Zion"
What the fuck are you on about?

>>7754684
>It is a modern "protocols if the elders of Zion"
Aside from everything else that's retarded about this, they were published 12 years apart.