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and but so I think it was terrible. here is why [1] [2]

[1] too long. too many footnotes.
[2] author killed themselves

preddy gud

garbage book, hack author, bloom was right

>>7660882
>edited by Kaufmann

Nietzsche was a staunch Nazi, and libcuck Kauffman (Jewish cultural marxist btw) tries to make him out as some sort of progressive liberal to help breed out whiteness.

Don't fall for it.

How badly was this thing fucked by those editors? Was an original never recovered?

You can skip the book if you read about it.

Fuck off

depends on how left

>>7664673
I don't want to start a /pol/ thread, I just want a list of books.

It was shit and you thought that it was a book for children

>>7661816
I don't know you fucking retard, why don't youtell us since you just read it?

what a coincidence i just read the two towers.

was it a book?

What is that, some kind of Holst for plebs?

>pluto

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>holst
>not scriabin
>not mahler

>>7661243
>>7661250
>Holst
Pleb fags.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLDWKpAkRHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lqc8Ttep6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpXpgjUT2k

>>7659761
in retrospect daria is not that good as I first thought

Id rather play with me cock

>>7659761
>implying I'm not forced to do so for my major's program

>>7664268
0/9

Exhausted a century ago

Only interesting because the productive Russian spirit, in the 19th century, was the sparks and fire that resulted when the monolithic West and Old Russia grinded up against one another

Instead of birthing something from that fire, Russia descended into Chinese barbarism, and the minds that had kindled the original sparks were absorbed into the West

>>7664268
This literally looks like if Christians had Asian-style sacral buildings.
Which actually they are - Asian. Hm.

>literally autism the book

nice

he looks like a qt

>the inner voice of a thirteen year old boy with autism
Good for him, but I won't read it

It's okay. Regurgitates the obligatory amount of motivational ideology. Very short, not much to it.

>>7663144
Never heard of it before but it seems interesting, what do you like about it?

>>7663144
I read it about two years ago, but it's stuck with me pretty heavily. There's something about Bolaño's writing, a certain flavour of melancholy and disentchantment that sits beneath (or hangs above) the text. Definitely my favourite author, and Savage Detectives is his best, though I need to see if it holds up on re-reads (I think it will). It sounds cliché'd as all hell, but I can't put a Bolaño novel down when I start one. Except maybe Monsieur Pain, that did nothing for me.

Have you gotten to the part where Belano meets with the literary critic at the beach? Not gonna spoil it for you, but if you've read it, you'll which part I mean. That scene has been haunting me for the last two years.

Bolaño power Ranking (the ones I've read at least)
>The Savage Detectives
>2666
>The Third Reich
>Antwerp
>Nazi Literature in the Americas
>Distant Star
>Amulet
>Monsieur Pain

>>7663159
Bolaño is great, but don't fall for the Mariachi Pynchon meme, they are not similar at all. I found his prose to be very clear and even quite simple at times, even when it is poetic. But that might be due to Wimmer's and Andrews' translations (it is here that I admit I don't speak Spanish and had to read him in English).

See for yourself.

>“It was raining in the quadrangle, and the quadrangular sky looked like a grimace of a robot or a god made in our own likeness. The oblique drops of rain slid down the blades of grass in the park, but it would have made no difference if they had slid up. Then the oblique (drops) turned round (drops), swallowed up by the earth underpinning the grass, and the grass and the earth seemed to talk, no, not talk, argue, their comprehensible words like crystallized spiderwebs or the briefest crystallized vomitings, a barely audible rustling, as if instead of drinking tea that afternoon, Norton had drunk a steaming cup of peyote.”

>>7663144
>Is anything better
Everything by Gass, Gaddis, Hawkes, McElroy, and Orlovitz.

it's older, and there's more of it, so there's a higher absolute number of good literature vs other, younger media

in general, words and spoken language are our most direct and heavily developed means of symbolic expression and representation

it's the same reason we talk to each other and have conversations rather than dancing about and painting together

It takes discipline to both create & consume it.

It can be enjoyed by anyone, anywhere (assuming literate) no matter who they are.

It conveys information with a density that other art forms simply cannot do.

It can simultaneously teach & promote intense, visceral emotive states.

It requires a depth of imagination & visualization other mediums do not.

>on a lark

Fuck off, this is America

I don't like being reminded of my birth either, OP.

>over the top
>over the moon
>overjoyed
>happy-go-lucky
>bleak day
>miserable weather
>tiny room
>cramped apartment
>my college days
>in love
>under the weather

>>7664027
I'm prettt sure Stormfront has a good guide to Mein Kampf. 14/88

>>7664050
>a rightwing biased shithole that tries to propagate itself has a good guide to it's main propaganda source

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>>7664151

A leftist

>>7663872

No I don't, and if I lived in Poland I'd kill myself, not my parents.

Still, she is one of the greater edgelords. Of the same caliber of edge as Varg Vikernes, and ahead of Brett Easton.

Bernd?

What book did she write?

Link?

>>7663062
Agree. Felt like something a highschool drama student would come up with.

>>7663085
After they explained how they committed their murders I felt as if the ten little Indians poem spoiled everything. By chapter 3 everything was so fucking predictable

Endless Night is my favorite t͏͏b͏͏h.

Yeah.

>>7662983
/thread

Probably not. I value the social aspect of reading, being able to discuss plot and characters with people like you guys.