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>>7694615
Is there really even a point these days? Your friend can just self-publish on Amazon and spend the money that'd go into establishing a company into promoting the fucking thing. Buy a review from Kirkus or something. Every major publisher does that.

>>7694536
>greatest king of the bongs
>cucked by best friend
lol bongs

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Wow, that was easy.

>>7694564
Pft only has 3.9 on goodreads with 800 votes. Pleb shit.

Sartre's novels?

>>7694563
Anything not from french existentialists?

>>7694523
What are your thoughts on the books, OP? I have read The Stranger recently and I really don't know what to make of it.

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Someone say...
Meme Trilogy?

>>7694521

Meme was a meta arbiter, and had no discernible value. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier meaning. clearly a juvenile device.

Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest— it's all one novel, albeit by different authors.

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This one?

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>>7694479
>mfw I've read at least one book from every level in that chart

11 philosophy charts please family.

The wall is truth you can't just existentially will away, but which you don't have to make peace with. Like the atheist in hell mentioned in The Brothers Karamazov.

>>7694485
hmm what do you mean by "can't just existenially will away"? thanks

>>7694513
Not him, but he is talking about concrete laws.
I think the exact term in the book is "the laws of nature."

You can't chance the laws of gravity just by wanting things to float. That kind of thing.
The fact that upsets him in the book is that people have no free will. All the anger and effort will not change this fact.

If he were to rage against these laws he would be metaphorically banging his fists on the wall (which of course would not damage the wall in any way).

>>7694393
>that image
Dear God, why?

>>7694393
ketchup was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.

>>7694488
>why not ketchup was a meme fondue, and had no discernible flavor. He was shitflowing, and is literally genre tier nutrition. clearly a juvenile condiment.

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not specifically loneliness, but there is some of that

>>7694302
of human bondage

>>7694302
No Longer Human is about as good as it gets

Let me guess, The Idiot is the only other book you read.

It is just a bad book with an unoriginal story and bad writing. Something that is easily sold to kids/"YA readers".
It is the average crap you can expect from mainstream literature.

Of the young adult books I've read I thought they were some of the worst, and then quality when downhill dramatically with the last book

>>7694267
Seconding.

>>7694267
If you want more intimate familiarity with the myths, read them again from a new source; Hamilton is really only a primer to sow those first seeds of recognition, which won't help too much with rereading the same text.

Consider Graves' mythology, Apollodorus' library of mythology (available from Oxford), and possibly skim some of the relevant (early) books of Diodorus Siculus for alternate tellings of the myths based on culture and geographical region, e.g., Greek connections with earlier Egyptian myth, Roman Latinized adaptations, etc.

But you really don't need to be that familiar with the myths for early philosophy. PS read Homer before the pre Socratics, especially since you want to understand references. You may also wish to read Apollonius' "Argonautica" about the golden fleece, although it was written long after the pre socratics.

And please blame any of my typos on my phone.

>>7694405
Oh and read Hesiod for creation myths. But don't even try keeping track of what's what and who's who; let the unnecessary content fall away from your mind as it ceases to be relevant by lack of reference in later texts. For example, there are about a thousand fucking nymphs mentioned; pretty much the only important one is the mother of Achilles, and even she remains relatively minor.

Bud light lime

And what about a ridiculously messianic character?

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ridiculous?

>blood*
>tears*
>cobra venom

*bonus points for baby/child or virgin maiden

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honorable mention

Is Philip K. Dick's novels -- particularly Ubik and A Scanner Darkly -- worth getting?

>>7694231
are* im retarded

resurrection - tolstoy
infinite jest - dfw
the plague - camus

>buy interesting books
>never get around to reading them
>put them on your bookshelf anyway

I am become fraud, destroyer of wallet.

>>7694246
Everybody does this when enthusiastic about books, just try to mellow it down to your reading habit...

>>7694118
Nabokov was a postmodernist.

>>7694118
Closed the tab when I saw Brecht's name. Fuckin' hack. Also, you left out some of the most bets modernist writers, you fucking pleb.

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Hey, I did a survey too 2 days ago (central European time)

Bro,

Get a life

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>>7694102

Excellent reply

>>7690689 check the catalog before making duplicate threads