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nah Hugo's hard to find unabridged because he's too autistic to be worth extra 100g of book

>>7719825
I'm listening to Hunchback of Notre Dame now and the tangents he goes off on are so rich and captivating that I am becoming motivated to incorporate such a technique on the next book I work on. It's the scope that's impressive; I don't know what you imbeciles mean by 'autistic' but these men are immortalized because of their works.

>>7719836
I mean I learnt more about a defunct Paris sanitation network from that book that I thought you could learn about a sanitation network without becoming an engineer.

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"The Rise of the Islamic State" by Patrick Cockburn. It's the surreal story of how our lunatic allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia gave birth to a terrorist organization more powerful than al Qaeda at the height of its power.

The Communist Manifesto.

>>7718618
You have to have a PHD in math to read that.

try that one amazon bought for $150 mil a couple years ago, plebs love it, btw don't u think ur laying the amazon ads on a little hard buddy? this is a slow board, go spam twitch on those video game boards for a couple hours and come back, give it room to breath

goodreads is what most people use i think
notebook and pen works just as well tho

i use an excel file

one sheet per year. it's nice because you can sort by author, run basic analytics, and still have your record

>>7722036
I'd say Thus spoke Zarathustra, although I loathed it.
Derrida might have the worst

Nietzsche is fun to read. Hegel is not.

>>7722036
Either/Or is the best tbqh.

it would be but at least we drove out most of the shitty soft-left marxian clowns

GOD TIER
Progressive, tolerant atheists
Progressive, tolerant religious folk

Shit tier literally kill yourself
New Atheists
Religious Fundamentalists

Many new atheists were driven out of Reddit by the badphilosophy community and came here where people haven't realized how futile it is to debate edgy "cynical" teenagers

>>7718928
Do it like Derrida

>>7718970
How?

>>7718928
Start with the Greeks.

meh. /pol/ and /reddit/ are definitely more prevalent, which in turn leads to false flagging, which in turn leads to general shitposting

board quality declined compared to ~6 months ago imo.

/his/ split was fine, don't pin it on that.

i'm glad mccarthy and pynchon are finally out

>>7717607
if we can kick out wallace too that'd be great.

more people need to actually read ulysses insteadof just memeing about portrait.

>>7720557
>Isn't this really just semantics?

I'd have to see the text in the original language, and not some hack translation worth 'nada.'

I don't think you know what 'semantics' really means.

He's talking about the Law of non-contradiction and the principle of explosion in the first, and Modal Logic in the second. Basically, he was light-years a head of you in terms of intelligence and as you can see it for yourself, your pathetic "rebuttal" "Isn't this really just semantics" plus asking others for validating whether or not it really does rebut him, is laughable. So that you know, explicitly: No, it can't really be considered as an serious counterexample to Aristotle.

Now, please, choke yourself with the phrase "Isn't this really just semantics", and kill yourself.

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>>7720572
>>7720599
Wow, /lit/ got even more autistic while I was away.

F

The Stranger & The Metamorphosis should be a decent "literary" starterpack

If you want something more jumpy check out Dune

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>>7719813
thanks for the suggestion i appreciate it

>>7719820
No problem dude, have fun. Do check out the sticky's recommendation stuff when you have the time, lots of good stuff in there too.

Passion. I could feel my libido kick into overdrive and, for once, I was glad that my Voice hadn't chosen now to try and butt in with a stupid joke or comment.

Her neck was strong yet slim, her limbs graceful yet full, and her face...my god, how many poems had I written about her beauty? The fullness of her lips, the sweet shape of her face, the soft chocolate brown color of her eyes that...that...

“Wait, didn't her eyes change color or somethin' like that?” My Voice asked me breathlessly, even as her eyes did indeed darken in a whirl of black. I frowned, wondering at how he...it...I?...could know that. Her eyes were definitely dark now, and they moved about the room with a strange, patient power, a knowledge that I somehow lacked.

For whatever reason I found that slightly galling and, hanging onto that emotion, was able to find my angry side again. Puffing myself up to prepare for a verbal attack, full of questions, like why this woman was in my house, she instead cut me off with a strangely familiar manner, her speaking patterns even and without betraying a hint of emotion beyond that thinly-veiled sense of hidden knowledge.

"Thomas, why aren't you answering your phone?" Though her eyes were busy taking in the room in that slow, devouring manner, I somehow knew she was talking to me despite the name that clearly wasn't mine. I was Frank Todd, wasn't I? I zoned back in as she continued, "I've tried calling you all day. Daniel said he hasn't seen you since yesterday evening, and Abbacus has foreseen great danger to you. The bones warned me to come here," her eyes finally settled on me with a strange weight, as if her very gaze had a gravity all of its own, "and I'm starting to understand why."

After pulling my own gaze away from those raspberry-red lips of hers, I realized that she was wearing clothes - it was only those weird memories that made me think she was nude. Black leather pants, a long purple sleeveless shift with gold lace (no buttons, only those laces - some strange kinda old style?) that ended in a hoodie which she currently had up over what I knew would be dark, long cornrows. I could see the iron buckles at the tops of her collared boots, and tight gloves of black leather - the shift itself was barely a scrap of cloth, revealing interesting peeks at her well-shaped sides. A wide, black leather belt at her waist brought the long shift in tight against her luscious curves.

"Your aura is full of holes, Thomas."

I blinked, the desirable scent of her clogging my nose. I shook my head slightly and patted the back of it with the heel of my palm - something was up, and even as everything about me screamed to feel her in my arms, her lips against mine, the taste of her in my mouth, something equally as primal was telling me that she was as dangerous as they come.

A brotha could seriously fall for someone like her, and I was getting the sinking suspicion that brotha was me.

"Thomas, what's wrong? You haven't reacted like this since...well," she wet her lips with the tip of her tongue, an unconscious act, as she gazed back at me with slight confusion in her sweet eyes. My god, the look did adorable things for her, "Ever. Why is your aura so full of holes?"

I took a deep breath, centering myself in more ways than one and began my tirade, "Look, lady...I don't know who this Thomas guy is, but I think you've got me mistaken for someone else. Lucky bastard, whoever he is. I don't know who any of these people you're speakin' of are, but I'm certain that there's someone out there who can help you - I'm, sadly, not the guy for ya. Sorry. And my aura, or whatever, feels absolutely fine thanks - I'm just not who you think I am."

As I spoke, her eyes betrayed nothing until I mentioned that I wasn't the guy for her. For a moment quite a bit of hurt flashed through those dark eyes of hers before returning to their normal mode of grave consideration - it dawned on me suddenly that I really, REALLY wanted to be Thomas, if anything just to see that she didn't feel that kinda hurt again.

She frowned and suddenly the considering look turned into a disapproving one, and I bit back the urge to gulp as she growled in that velvety voice of hers, "Thomas, this isn't funny. Daniel is worried sick about you and besides - you left your gloves at the Hold. I came by to drop them off and find out what's going on myself only to find you gazing about the Shop as if you've never been here before!"

When did she draw so close to me? When did I think it was okay to let this strange woman get close to me the way she did, her legs moving her luscious form about as if on coiled springs?

Her arms came up around my neck and my body relaxed; she drew me down to her and kissed me deep, my eyes closing naturally even as she melted into my arms. Time stopped, completely and utterly, and I knew what was wrong.

La familia de Pascual Duarte is set in that time, and there are few allusions to it, but isn't really about it

>>7721871
To rip off college kids
Why dont you buy the last edition for 15% of the current edition price?

>>7721871
Its an industry with no competition and no alternatives.

>>7721871
Pirate your books faggot.

>>7720323

>/pol/sters shitting on Lee in my /lit/

Apparently in this day and age on 4chan you can get called a "SJW" for wanting all people to be treated equally and fairly like it's written in the goddamn fucking Constitution.

>>7720326

I have no idea what you're on about. All I was referring to is that she is a shit writer. But I guess you're living proof that oversensitive manchildren online will see what they want to see regardless of facts presented to them (or lack thereof). I mean, tell me, autist where in my post did I bash the content of the novel?

She seems like a nice person, but seriously, what's with the huge reaction to her death?
She wrote a children's book about racism, that's all.

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On Writing is better than anything Bloom put out.

Also, everyone in America knows King.

>>7720015
yes
king is not an idiot
he knows his place, the problem is with plebs that don't know king's place

>>7720019
Bloom's 'the visionary company' is better than anything king has ever written.
Not that it matters because /lit/ and the general public doesn't read poetry.