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Am I alone in thinking they're the best books in the world?
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ok
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nup
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are you 10 years old?
I am dying of cancer and have roughly half a year to live.
What book MUST I read before I pass?
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Great Expectations mate
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the death of ivan ilych
i wouldn't waste your time reading though. go do things.
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El Túnel
ayo where dat Ulysses reading group at?
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>>7717529
Page 7.
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>>7717580
??????
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>>7717529
right above you
>talking to someone today and he talks about how infinite jest is his favorite book and how it literally changed his life and views of the world
Did I just get meme'd IRL or is Infinite Jest really that good?
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>>7717105
Normies love it. How do you think it became a bestseller?
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why don't you read the fucking book and find out instead of shitposting
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>>7717105
hes prob some smug pseudo who's never actually read it and you should have stabbed him on the spot
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let's check how mature /lit/ truly is.
age poll: http://strawpoll.me/6859456
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>>7715574
>age
>maturity
>implications
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well now i know why you're all retarded
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>>7715574
omg we french now
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Was it autism?
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>>7715139
Lin is a meme author. literally genre tier fiction. no discernible talent.
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>>7715139
"No. It was just shit," I thought as I worked on some things on my Macbook while waiting for the pills to start working. After a while I gave up on waiting, masturbated, and smeared the results on a piece of organically produced paper. I was amazed at my own genius because I had just created a better work of fiction than Taipei.
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>>7715924
Tao?
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Pick a board on 4chan. Pretend that board is a person and their birthday is coming up, and you'd like to buy them a book as a gift.
What would you get them?
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/x/
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/r/ing /qa/
must be a book of literature.
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>>7713258
Probably Sculpting in Time or something for /tv/ they like Tarkovsky.
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>What you reading, Anon?
>What's it about?
Is there any way to answer this question without either saying essentially nothing, or the book sound retarded as fuck? I don't think I've ever managed it.
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>finally decide to read gravitys rainbow
>takes me close to three months of focused, diligent reading
>end up lugging that doorstopper around everywhere with me
>often get asked what its about
>frank miller edition, doesnt even have a summary on the back i can defer to
>make an idiot of myself, talking in circles about rockets, sex with strangers, pavlov, bananas
>"oh haha okay"
>eventually just say give up and say ww2, to the same effect
>at least it saves more time for me to devote to reading this fucking book
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See, most people only understand a plot which is easily summarized or defined by its genre.
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"its about teenage vampires in love at an academy for wizards who are forced to fight to the death for their districts"
"really that sounds awesome"
"yeah it is"
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Thoughts?
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A non-entity
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>>7717492
>Thoughts?
I used to have those, but it was quite a while ago.
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>>7717492
>asking on 4chan about female author
well done!
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just got a position working the front of a library, it gets kinda boring most days. Recc me some
/lit/ approved books to keep me from falling asleep on the job.
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>not reading the sticky
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>>7717513
who reads on /lit/?
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I just bought this, what are /lit/ thoughts about it, and about Knut Hamsun.
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Literally who
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>>7716625
Hunger was great, but I haven't read anything else.
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>>7716630
Literally kill urselfjk dont do it pls
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I'm looking for more books that have a sort of ethereal, other worldly sort of avant garde weirdness about them, without completely falling apart and becoming incomprehensible. I am a big fan of psychological sort of horror mystery suspenseful type stuff. I don't want short stories, I want something I can really sink my teeth into. I'm not sure what this book would look like yet, but I am eager to read something else. Thanks. Also, if someone would tell me a good place to start with h.p. lovecraft I would appreciate it, he has way to many published books.
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I'm looking for something deeply philosophical too, which really makes you look at what it means to be human.
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>>7716606
Pedro Paramo by Rulfo. Exactly what you are asking for.
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>>7716606
>HP Lovecraft
At the Mountains of Madness and The Call of Cthulhu
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Tell me about ideology
Why does he wear the mask?
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>>7716126
*sniff*
*rubs nose*
What does he mean by this? He does it more than anything else, every time he speaks. This must be the true core of his philosophy, the truth underlying his ideology. How can we decipher this to truly access the greatness his mind has to offer?
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Ideology is a mask that we aren't even aware we're wearing.
"They do not know it, but they are doing it." - Karl Marx
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>>7716148
Marx glugged ideology 24/7, and he loved it. He is a fedora. Don't make me post my tattered copies of Das Kapital and my stack of books from Haymarket Books dot org by posting "Oh, you probably don't even understand it!!"
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This felt like a sequel, or "companion piece" to The Names...American intelligence agencies, American interference in the middle east, film and filmmakers playing a big role, murder, violence first conceived abstractly that then horrifyingly becomes real. And the style is very similar, too...they both have a really hypnotic rhythm going.
So...what's the point of Point Omega? It came out 30 years later, but I don't think it adds much to what The Names did. Strip out the technology and references to Iraq and it could've been written in the 80s. Am I missing something?
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I think Point Omega is about the desire to abstract war and plays a lot with an examination of time as a parallel, like the abstracted violence of 24 hour psycho and the long timeless days of the desert. which is not what I got from the names.
i loved both books though, so even if there's a little retreading of ground, I'm glad point omega was written
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>>7715568
Delillo can describe cinema so damn well.
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>>7717488
yes this. he should be an avant garde filmmaker in his final days.
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What are your 10 fav books? Judge others and give recs.
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Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner
Complete Stories - Chekhov
Yes - Bernhard
Demons - Dostoyevsky
Ficciones - Borges
Wise Blood - O'Connor
Dead Souls - Gogol
Los siete locos/Los lanzallamas - Arlt
Lot 49 - Pynchon
Dubliners - Joyce
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The Fault in Our Stars
The Shining
Inherent Jest
Lolita
Norwegian Wood
Infinite Vice
Nos étoiles contraires
The Longest Ride
Ulysses
City of Bones
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