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>>7719302
This book is great
>short
>funny
>still a masterpiece
would love other similar recommendations
and no Cat's Cradle is not as good or better than it

this was my 11th english teachers favorite book of all time

he was 55, not sure if that means hes based or retarded

Le juvenile xd

Who is your favorite Pynchon character and why is it Roger Mexico?

>>7710368
Wallace is a meme author. literally genre tier fiction. no discernible talent.

are people really still reading translations in 2016?

>>7723232
Are you really a faggot?

>>7723219
>>7723260
Yes.

>>7723016
bad, we mostly just read shakespeare. it was patronizing

Elementary-middle school, awful. I remember having the same nigger african teacher for 3 years straight and she hated all white people.

High school was pretty great though. First two years had a pretty good female teacher, last two I had a fifty year old englishman that was relaxed and pretty straightforward. His favorite novel of all time was slaughterhouse 5, which is pretty based.

penis

>Anyone else enjoy this book?
Yes, Reddit enjoys it quite a bit

>>7722209
Why is any genre fiction popular?

Because it is easily digested and offers an escape from reality.

>>7722209
Things that are popular are bad.
More news at 11 folks

>>7722209
>Inferno
If read as a parody of Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code it is comedy gold; all the twists can be seen a mile away, and is even more insane and convoluted than the first two.

I'd recommend Dagon first. Pretty short, really nice imagery.

Don't just read straight through the whole book, you'll burn yourself out. I have the Barnes and Noble complete fiction and I save it for rainy days or spooky nights, mostly because I don't want to run out of Lovecraft to read

Haha! Looks like we bagged another one boys!!

Lovecraft is a meme

>>7721630
If you don't like giant spoopy monsters you can get the fuck out of my face fool

>>7719905
it's YA, right?
my mother bought this for my brother; he didn't seem pleased
how are books marketed that a mother buys they for her generally non-reader son?
that's the interesting question

It's YA that tries super hard to not be YA

YA garbage

>>7719691
Probably all the classics. To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men.

The Stranger is french but the translation seemed pretty easy to me so that might be good too

>>7719691
what's your native language?

>>7719691
Agatha Christie's whodunits. I would recommend "Ten little niggers" (known today as "And there were") or "The crooked house".

>>7719247

Good lord, had the cover artist ever even seen a black person in his life?

no because unlike catholic and mohamedan invaders, african-americans did not choose to come to america voluntarily. are you retarded?

>>7719247
It sounds like you just want to rebrand something from he 19th Century.

Don't buy books from Barnes and Noble, buy them online

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This thread pops up every couple weeks. Is this some stealth marketing hustle from B&N?

why don't you use a magical site called google and find out

because i'm a pussy and i feel bad when im not nice to people

sam harris
richard dawkins

Sartre

She was kind of whiny, to be honest.

>>7722851
I hated English in school. Our teacher was so shit. Sylvia Plath and Robert Frost were the only things I enjoyed. There was a particular poem from her I liked. I can't remember the name of it because I'm drunk but there was a part about looking into a pond. I remember making a parallel with Narcissus in an essay to sound smart.

europe central

i haven't read anything by him but that's where i want to start

you're welcome

Probably the Atlas or the Rainbow Stories

After that you could give his historical fiction a go

what could go wrong?

>>7722845
Europe Central is an attention-whore. It used WWII as a backdrop to fairly banal issues, trying to elevate them - and, in my eyes, failing. Hate to be a memer, but the same thing in GR doesn't feel as cheap.

But it is beautifully researched, I admit.

>>7722067
Fun fact, that whole part (John 7:53 - 8:11) is non-canon as it was not actually included in the earliest manuscripts.

nobody can honestly say they are without sin, so nobody can cast the first stone so you should not shit all over someone who you know has sinned and should instead focus on your own repentance

>>7722345
>guy kills someone
>d-don't judge him, we are all s-sinners!

shit logic