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that's basically DFW.

>it's a young gentleman having sex and doing drugs but sometimes he has philosophical thoughts that must certainly make up for the tedium of hearing another description of a young woman's body told with pseudo-poetic prose as well as scenes that describe the dreamy feeling of heroin for the eight thousandth time episode

>experimental mammoth

Are you attractive?

Stuff by John Green probably

>>7652931
Fitzgerald

>>7652935
Bingo

Once and Future King by TH White combines most of the earlier versions. A lot of people read that and then are disappointed in the earlier renditions of the cycle.

>>7652823
I should have maybe clarified, I was looking for medieval works. But I'll look into it anyway, thanks!

>>7652855
Wow haha thanks for responding so quickly! People don't usually do that haha!

attention whore and seek approval/reproach here

>>7652300

no need to open your own thread faggot

You posted outside of a bookshelf thread so not doing very good to be honest.

>>7652716

Why did you encase your books behind glass? What if you want to read them?

Keep notes?

>>7652314
It wasn't that difficult. It's not in chronological order but it's easy to figure out.
It's very funny and I got into it immediately.
I say just start reading.

>>7652314
After every slow and boring bit there is sooner or later a funny bit, ebbs and flows.

>Some have even stopped reading and had to pick it back up at a later date.
That's the case with tons of such books.

Usually the characters you can't keep track of are the less important ones, and you will be easily able to differentiate between the 'important' ones

Don't stress it. It's a supremely funny book.

Got one. It's great. Looks like paper, eyes don't get tired, no trouble sleeping.
Battery life is ok I guess. Capacity is adequate.
Use caliber and you're golden.

>>7652053
I have one, its great but I very rarely use it out of personal preference for physical books.

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>>7652053
>ebooks

Women

Women

Women.

I'm no doctor, but I know enough about autism and enough about Tolkien to say that he was somewhere on the autism spectrum. I think it was a mild case of autism, but it was there.

>>7652774
>I'm no doctor
All you needed to say.

>>7652782
Sometimes it doesn't take a doctor. One doesn't need a medical degree to identify obvious signs and symptoms.

you can thank the useless fucking pencil pushers who make the required curriculum. my son's godfather is a middle school english teacher, and the shit that's forced into his program... drives him fucking crazy.

>>7641138
So what did your teachers do, exactly?

Freshman year of high school ruined English class for me. My teacher was this enormous SJW who forced 14 year old boys to read shit like The House on Mango Street and Things Fall Apart to "open our minds about different cultures."

From that point on I adopted the mindset that my taste in literature was far superior to that of my teachers, and proceeded to read absolutely nothing I was assigned and act like a pretentious dick 100% of the time.

Senior year was fun though, my teacher was really smart. He actually recommended Pynchon to me, which was cool.

I just think public education has a way of completely fucking kids who have intellectual interests up the ass. It's like putting a race horse on a treadmill.

Thank god I wrote good college essays and had excellent test scores, or I fear I'd be stuck in the same directional state college as the neanderthals who I labored through high school with.

Not as good as the black one.

Nobel-tier trash

cooties

Stop gaming.

>>7652556

If your attention is still held by video games you aren't emotionally mature enough to begin writing.

Read something fun. Those books, although interesting, are extremely dry.
Try reading some fiction first to get you in the habit of reading.

We're too patrician to read military SF therefore we prefer alcopops to single malt? You didn't think this bait through.

>>7652577

The point was that what you consider to -be- patrician is childish, retarded and just generally incorrect.

>>7652595
Okay. Well you just carry on drinking your single malt and reading about space battles on the grounds that you think it makes you look "patrician". That is your prerogative.

i don't read sideways nikka

>4 line stanza baby rhyme
Hope someone steals your mega blocks

>>7652489
Man, did they really had to print it flipped? I fucking hate this pseudo-pomo shit. Yeas, we get it, the lines are erect, dude, that's not that smart. The breaks represent short moments where the father has to recover has stamina. I guess that paints a pretty good picture - daddy is a savage fucker but still quickly runs out of breath, you know, because of whiskey and smokes - but this is a crude way to do it.

>>7652303
redpill
cultural marxism
Jews
Feminism
white genocide

Misoginy
Microagression
Trigger
Mansplaining
Manspreading

>>7652303

Make
America
Great
Again

Not if you're reading it in Moonspeak you dummy.

i think the process of "whats going on" is a topic of his books, so read slow and think about your thoughts while reading

>>7651768
>moonspeak
That was rude