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>>7718687

Just read them both.

>>7718872
I obviously will, but my queue is long and I'm a relatively slow/careful reader, so really my question is which of the above ought to be bumped up further in my queue?

>A newly edited, hardcover adaptation of Thoreau's masterpiece. Neither abridged nor dumbed down.

walden is a shitty book. it doesn't even deserve this treatment tbqh

>updating and simplifying a book that is already written in modern English

Jesus Christ

>>7725025
Proust

>>7725004
Take any chart and read those books. Kill yourself afterwards.

The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy

No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai

You shouldn't if you really don't want to. Why is this even a question? Nobody's forcing you.

Because life is meaningless.

So you can shitpost about the books you've read on /lit/

Frogs will never be /lit/ since we are all chads here

>You must be this patrician to ride

And from top to bottom there are little pictures of

>James Joyce
>Harold Bloom
>Thomas Pynchon
>David Foster Wallace
>Stephen King

Who's 'we'?

>prescriptivism in this thread

>>7724720
OP was elected Chairman of the Council of Correcting English Spelling's Deficiencies of Intuitive Pronunciation by unanimous vote and you've been appointed as his aide-de-camp in this unholy war against life's greatest and most dreadful evil. Saddle up.

Ellis

Sartre's Nausea
Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Freddy Nietzsche
My Twisted World by Elliot Rodgers

Well received.
You can leave now.

are you afraid people wont like you if you enjoy it without the /lit/ seal of approval?

's good

Run, don't walk, to Portis. Some of the best damn dialogue ever. Leonard's Westerns are all ace and top-notch. And Lonesome Dove is a shaggy dog, but one that quickly makes its home at your footside once you're settled in. You're in for a few good weeks. Gushes aside, good introductions are these:

'All the Pretty Horses,' by Cormac MemeCarthy (asides from 'Blood,' his best prose. Filament that shimmers and weaves)
'3:10 to Yuma and Other Stories,' by Elmore Leonard (these are tight, wirey, and rambling)
'True Grit,' by Charles Portis (neither film does justice does his dialogue [and thats saying something with how good those Cohen brothers are])
'Warlock,' by Oakley Hall (about the OK Corral gunfight, and a Pynchon rec., for whatever that's worth to ya)
'The Last Gunfight,' by Jeff Guinn (perhaps the best non-fiction overview of that same Corral shootout)

Indeed, you'll have trouble finding a good Western novel that hasn't already been adapted to film three or five times. Don't let that cheapen a genre that is at home among words like "cheap," as well as "passionate," "bloody," "mortal," "mythic." If anything, and if ya haven't already, you may just be set for a whole 'nother adventure with Western films (even tv shows. "The Rockford Files" plays like a western serial set and garnished in seventies everything). Enjoy

>>7722892
Very good post. This guy knows his stuff, even though he lays on the stereotypical Western lingo and persona a bit thick.

>>7722919

I'm sorry, don't listen to me. I'm on mescaline. I've been spaced out all day.

He should desu. His shit fits perfectly with 4chan.

>>7721415
Should we make him a meme?

>>7721650
I don't think we can, he ain't no english writer. We could post shittons of threads urging them niggas to read some of his stuff tho

But I don't think of it. And the more I read, the less I think.

I liked it, I don't care that most people consider it horrible. And I don't like it because I agree with its philosophy, but because I found it very enjoyable to read. The mystery of "Who is John Galt?" kept me incredibly curious.

I really love the book's sense of sprawl and majesty, when I read it, I really felt like I was reading some all-encompassing work. I dug the fancy chapter names like "The Moratorium on Brains" and "The Sacred and the Profrane".

Some parts of the book left a massive impression on me and IMO are extraordinarily written. I like when Dagny rides the John Galt Line for the first time: the sense of appreciation is incredible. And my favorite chapter is the one where the train gets destroyed, because everyone involved doesn't want to take blame for something going wrong, so they just pass the buck to someone else. That chapter had a really amazing sense of tension and tragedy.

People knock Rand for her prose but honestly I really enjoy how she wrote. Simple but very elegant.

>>7720604

:)

Read the Conan novels

>The Wiiizaaaaaaarddddd

/mu/ please leave

>>7724502
fuck off /mu/

>>7724306
You're

>>7724278
jesus *meditation

You don't even need a book. There are a million websites offering guidance on meditation. It's not magic, it's not complicated, if you want to find it go search.

>>7724290
Thanks