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Maybe 5 - 10.

They are predominantly Asian though, which apparently doesn't score me any SJW-points.

Is Borges eurocentric?

Anyway I find it really bizarre when blacks are commended for only reading Afro-centric work and women only reading women writers but the notion that A european explore the identity of the vast continents of Eurasia is somehow narrow and problematic

>>7711788
None.

Greed.

>>7704456
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>>7704456
Marx was an early and important sociologist/economist/philosopher who tackled issues we still deal with today and influenced everyone after him.

Also Popper's "falsification" can't be used for his own social philosophies...

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>>7713986
>the book has no words

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>book

>I couldn't tell if the characters were supposed to be good guys or bad guys

>>7713344
The New York Trilogy

>>7713524

one of my favorite detective books but it's not fantasy and doesn't really have a twist....


I've never read it but Dresden files seems like something in your alley op

>tfw you peep the ass psychology of fascism

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this was fantastic. why is it shit on? is because >muh no talent

dude, muh philosophical, well-fit, charismatic, smart, funny, good-looking, LOSER VIRGIN that's attainable for the girl fanbase

dude modern music is bad LMAO
dude philosophy on life LMAO!

>>7713331
>looking at the book from such a shallow perspective
>implying you just cant see true literary genius

>>7712619
The people here dont tend to read it or like it, why dont you go discuss this at r/books or where ever you came from.

>>7712619
Why are you posting this again?

Everyone agreed it was shit last time you made this thread.

Max Brooks is the second coming of Joyce. He transcends the sublime, and every word is filled with weight and allegory. You can read this book from the perspective of any literary or critical theory and it JUST WORKS. The breadth of plot and the lushness of the world developed are outdone only by the masterful weaving of prose around characterization. At times the author veers into descriptions and tangents related to the mythos of the universe and then just when he begins to lose you he grasps you firmly and pulls you RIGHT BACK IN. It is so uncommon when a work of genre fiction crosses over to a literary masterpiece that it is almost jarring, but Brooks' only peers in this, Seth Grahame-Smith and David Foster Wallace, stand as children before a mighty equestrian statue, one that will no doubt stand firm against the sands of time and literary criticism. Nothing less than a master's masterwork.

Nah, this just proves that God is just

>God is some kind of sentient person controlling things from the outside


Hate this meme.

>>7711710
i only read the title essay and it was pretty clear that her audience was yale and yale only. is her other stuff any good?

Everything is golden, you can start with the Education Sentimentale, move on to Salammbô and make your way to Madame Bovary
Would be a shame reading him translated though, his real brilliance could only be expressed in French

>>7710838
I am currently learning French, but I feel I can at least get a grasp of his original brilliance in his translations and bhave a foundation for when I read them in French.

Also, thanks for the list based anon.

Three Tales --> Salammbô --> Sentimental Education --> Madame Bovary --> Bouvard and Pécuchet

Read The Temptation of Saint Anthony whenever you want

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Were they apes?

>>7714109
In the original French they were singes (monkeys)!

>>7714093
Nope, raisins.

>>7714065

A used bookstore you mongloid. Chances are a local library near you will occasionally sell off books for pretty cheap as well.

>>7714065
Libraries sometimes have book purging where they sell off a lot of books at once. The library near me basically charges 10 bucks for however many I can carry away in one trip.

You can also dedicate a lot of your weekend every month or so scrounging the goodwill. They usually have a large selection of 99 precent crap but once and a while you'll find something good.

Both of those options don't let you choose what you want though.

>>7714069
this desu

No, it was just hair from her nape

>>7714035
I thought it was hair from her ass?

>>7714046
No, she used Nair on her ass

>>7714017
*where

>>7714017

Yes, Anaïn Nin's diary.

>>7714025

Anaïs*, I mean, of course.

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>>7713900
His entire philosophy is literally "lol i only know what is good for me, you figure out what is good for you faggot"

Nietzsche is one of the few men who actually demands that his readers think. It's sad that most of them don't seem to pick up on that.

>>7713900
Ben Stiller doesn't really count as a philosopher.

>>7713946
what are you talking about

>>7713820

I wanked in the end.

I was more than willing to let go at the end, for I realized that I had wasted my time.

>>7713840
Why do you say that?