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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby

Any early Bret Easton Ellis

>>7637927
That's true Mr. Giraffe. However, I can't blame them: I still got that huge doorstopper in my shelf and haven't got the courage to actually open it and dive in.

read it. pretty meh about it. not that good, but not atrocious. fountainhead is significantly better.

If a man bends over your plate, pulls down his pants, starts grunting and says dinner is almost ready, you are well within your right to go nah I'm not eating that even when he responds how do you know, you haven't tasted it yet.

>>7637383
Consciously, no, so I don't have any book inspiring me about that.
Unconsciously, of course, though it doesn't really deal with books

Hegel

>>7637333
Greeks

>>7637333
Hegel > Marx > Freud > Lacan > Zhee-zhek

http://www.elephantdungpaper.com/

Jon Franzen

>>7638749
Max Fucking Stirner

>>7638687
I don't understand what you're asking of us

Words.

>>7638675
It's pretty good. Capote was a little cunt irl, though.

>>7638675
Some fiction. Some non-fiction. Good prose.

>>7638553
>just started this
You started the book.
Why don't you tell us why do you think of the book so far?

>>7638566
well i've seen the movie, which i really liked, but i've always wanted to read the book, so far it's good, only on page 40 or so, not the best writing not the worst. more in it for the story.

>>7638571
Movie is significantly better. Don't bother with this garbage. Finch loves taking trash and making it the best mainstream film of the year.

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>>7638416
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2fUEYs3TsFA

>>7638609
Why is he rolling his rs?

>>7638626
To arouse your weenie anon.

I didn't read it.
I could've. I held it at B&N forever debating if I wanted to devote time into an almost thousand page novel that reviews told me had little plot and basically meme literature inside.
I put it back for The Vorrh by B. Catling, a kind of historical fiction/fantasy novel. I do not regret my purchase.

>>7638258
>meme-literature
what the hell is that?

Lit that's extra long and complicated for those who "don't read for plot". Books people carry around and talk about to feel smart and like they're part of the literary world.

>>7637849
Segawa's friend was a dyke, right?

>>7637849
What about JR?

the Recognitions is what IJ was based on you pleb

>>7637205
>It's OK
>Drummond, Nelson Rodrigues and Nassar
>I don't know

that guy looks funny.

>>7637375
Well, he had epilepsy

That's why we have capitalism, you sensitive faghole, to weed out the nerds.

> When art depended on solid construction and careful observance of rules, few could attempt to be artists,

That doesn't follow at all. If he means 'coincidentally, classicism coincided with the period of greatest social immobility', then he may have an arguable point, but I suspect he doesn't mean that.

>>7636336
>That doesn't follow at all.
You're going to have to elaborate. Simply saying "That doesn't follow" doesn't demonstrate that it doesn't follow.

>>7636324
Capitalism accelerates social progressivism in art though. Capitalism creates an audience and a purpose for mediocre art; namely, the acquisition of social and financial capital.

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>>7636102
this entire book is like a little work of art. the fonts, margin illustrations etc

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i have some nice illustrated Fasut copy by Harry Clarke

Anything illustrated by gustave dore

You can refer to yourself as published in a peer-reviewed undergraduate literary journal. Or just say "published", it's not a law, who cares?

>>7625734
Technically. May be a bit misleading.

>>7625734
What's a good book on the migration period of antiquity?

Should I read Dante's husbando, Virgil?