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Best novel by Mario Vargas Llosa?

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How much of a philosophical background do I need to read and understand this?

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I'm making a chart of books one should read to understand the allusions and references in Ulysses.

I have seen plenty of anons asking what they should read before Ulysses, so I figured we should just make a handy chart.

Please post suggestions ITT and I will add them to the chart in a few hours.

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So, either Jonathan Blow browses /lit/ or people actually read Tommy 'shit teeth' Pinecone outside of meme websites.

Discuss.

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I decided while reading (pic related) to cast people I know as the characters in the book. As in I'd envision those real people saying and doing what the characters were up to. Has anyone else tried this? With what book/characters?

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Anybody else like Chuck Bowden? I got into him by chance after finding 'Blue Desert' on a $1 bookshelf and picked it up because I liked the cover.

Really one of the coolest guys ever to put ink on paper.

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I just published a poetry collection specifically aimed for the "4Chan" demographic. It's a poetry collection I describe as part decadent travel journal, part sci-fi/fantasy nightmare & part nihilistic daydream.

One cool thing is I describe some of the whoremonger experience in places like Amsterdam & Bangkok if you've ever been curious. Dominant themes are debauchery, madness, loneliness & death.

Check it out if you will (you can view the first 3-4 poems for free to see if you like it): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B51ZNN6?ref_=pe_2427780_160035660

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Hey, /lit/. My friend is describing a book he read in school in 8th grade, but it's been over 10 years and he can't remember what it was called.

He was saying it was like A Wrinkle in Time with unstable dimensions. At some point, the heroine sees a group of stones in a shop, and the keeper asks her to pick just one. Each resembles powers or something like that. He also remembers a black lake where that girl meets another version of herself, who tells her all the things she's doing wrong. There's also a guy who leads her through these fantasy worlds. Sound familiar to anyone?

We're good friends so I can ask more questions if you guys come up with something to ask. OH, and the book MIGHT have had "blue" in the title.

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How much does the cover of a book influence the way you read it? Are you willing to pay more for the same book but with a better cover? Are you more likely to read a book if it has an intriguing cover?

General discussion about the physical appearance of books

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Can anyone help me? I'm trying to remember the name of a historian who was pretty fucking based.
>Lived life of a crusader on pilgrimage, traveling on horse through the middle east
>sailed an authentically recreated ship to see if it was possible for aboriginals to reach far off islands
Only vaguely helpful information I can remember is that he was in an article on cracked.com before the site turned to shit. I think he had a Scandinavian name as well.

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Wow he's... great, just great, a joy to ride and an incrediby intelligent man.

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>the warosu archive will be back they said
>he's just on vacation they said

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Hello Lit, in my book club we have one member who believes in critical theory, very much a postmodernist. Which makes it very hard to discuss books due to her using these arguments of critical theory. She is a lesbian and wants to look at every book through a lesbian, female or feminist viewpoint. What is the best arguments to take on critical theory and in particular, post modernism? Counter examples maybe? Or maybe a few philosophers have argued against it? Let me know the best way to attack as it is driving me mad....

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>people who criticize a book because they can't identify with any of the characters
>people who write a book off as "too confusing"
>people who call a book pretentious
What triggers you, /lit/?

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Enlighten me.