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Fitzgerald's Odyssey is excellent. Arguably better than his Iliad.

>>7627960
true, but his best work is The Great Gatsby

>>7628083
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into Charybdis.

>>7627951

I've posted dreams of mine in the past--deeply meaningful and personal dreams--and gotten no response whatsoever.

>>7627970
Post them here, it's sort of the point of the thread.

>>7627970
Not explicitly but I imagine that the lurker-poster ratio is like 20:1 if not more and that it's those sort of nuggets of sincerity sifted through all the disaffected shitposting that keeps this place interesting enough to lurk despite itself. Or at least that's my justification for often getting no responses.

>>7627886
Ok found it

Dispatches by Michael Herr

Fredric Jameson comments on this book alot via postmodern lens.

>>7627328
youtube + some youtube unblocker if GEMA fucks around.

post excerpt

guaranteed it's shit

>>7626992

http://pastebin.com/QLxc5M8b

Historical Fiction set in 1929 around the evacuation of the Scottish Isle of St Kilda. The moment where the main character (Finn, 15 year old) realises it was his own people that agreed to the evacuation.

Pls be nice anon.

>>7627025

By the way, I'm aware it reads somewhat like unedited stream-of-consciousness but I thought that added to the raw emotion that the character was feeling.

The only editing I did was grammar.

literally the creation of the third reich

>>7626964
>literally the creation of the third reich

that's the purest misinterpretation of Nietzsche and complete bullshit.

I'm no expert and somebody will probably tell you better but: I'd pay close attention to words culture and morality. Together with his thoughts about 'present day' culture, education, together with his views about tragedy and greeks and so on.

>>7626957
it's ironic. it should be clear to anyone who knows Nietzsche that a situation where the desires and projects of the "race" override the "conflicting" wills of the individual is toxic. this is why birth of tragedy is his most important book: it is a meditation on and celebration of conflicting desires, and a damnation of the will to coalesce represented by Socrates and in the notion of the Greeks as a "pure race"

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>>7626393

A Novel

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Hypersurface architecture is a theory being developed

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Hypersurface architecture considers both the fluidity of information and the malleability of form or material as one, integrated and emergent design strategy

Hypersurface considers architecture as a node in a feedback-loop, as an element in a larger exchange. To achieve this, one needs to situate a concern within the middle of things and consider the emergent effects-outward. This tactic is utterly different from our typically linear problem solving methods. To make the shift to emergent or middle-out processes requires a theoretical shift.

Urs Alleman, he wrote a book (stream of consciousness) that I can't even mention here because mods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Allemann
i think it is just a stream of consciousness of a dog

generally today's fiction rated well on goodreads such as "15 days without a head", "The egg said nothing" etc, return to surrealism and absurdity
and of course William Peter Blatty

W.S. Burroughs
Osvaldo Lamborghini
de Sade?

>>7628453
Seconding this.

Also, Georges Bataille (story of the eye)
Henry Miller
Octave Mirbeau (the torture garden)
Carlton Melick III (Satan Burger)
Aleister Crowley
Chuck Palahniuk is fun if you like pulpy shit.

>>7625904
Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.

>>7625904
>EASY big fella!

fucking hack.

'He found a line and pulled on it, fighting toward the hatch to get himself below out of the storm, but a gust of wind knocked his feet from under him and a second slammed him into the rail and there he clung. Rain lashed at his face, blinding him. His mouth was full of blood again. The ship groaned and growled beneath him like a constipated fat man straining to shit'
-Moby Dick.

>>7628207
Good for you man

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yay for you have this gif my friend please bask in my unending and unyielding excitement for you success

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>>7628216
>>7628218
thanks lads, have a /lit/erary pepe on the house

9gag

I know that feeling all to well although I have ADHD which makes it kind of hard to concentrate for more than 15 minutes.

>>7626888
>>7626898
You're just tired. When you're sitting/lounging for more than 20 minutes, your bloodflow slows down and hence your brain works much more slowly and you're less willful/alert. If it's too late in the day to drink some coffee, either take a quick break to stretch your legs or call it a night.

>>7626888
I once stayed up for 72 hour.
I tried reading but my brain was finishing sentences for me in really stupid ways.
That probably sounds really weird, but I could not concentrate on the book for more that a few seconds.

It took me about an hour to read one page and even then I really did not have any idea what it was about.

The only fix was sleep.

read it and find out

I liked it. If it seems like "the kind of thing you'd like" you probably will, but it has some dramatic highs and lows, jeez. I couldn't decide whether I was enjoying myself for most of the read. There are way too many tonal shifts and hooks in the plot to feel like one unified book. Some parts are good and some are bad, the problem is when it's good, it's really good, but it's brought down by everything surrounding it. You read a really good human character sketch segment followed by cringingly bad humor and absurdities that make it hard to care about anything. It is constantly changing its own rules and to no good effect, imo.

It's fucking great Hagbard Celine is one of my favorite foctional characters ever.

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Hesiods Cosmos by Jenny Strauss Clay is a really great analysis of the early genesis of the Gods from the Titans to the first Olympians. It paints the picture of the Titans conspiring with their mother to punish their abusive father. It goes into the very underrated myth of Zeus facing down Typhon. We see how Gaea becomes a force of perpetual rebellion, always opposing the dominant authority in the cosmos regardless of who it is

>>7625650
Are you even serious right now?

So far it seems like it's just a satire of the USSR pretty much, most of the humour is derived from very Russian specific nuances which if you don't have you miss out on, which is the main point of the novel, to male you laugh.
Though you're not missing on much, the same old stick; USSR was badly governed, highly inefficient and induces apathy. It's always hyperbolized.
He doesn't have much to say really. Try another author OP, at least you tried reading something other than a classic, but alas you just picked a bad one.
You really have to extremely careful when trying out contemporary authors, so many of them so highly acclaimed and so highly shit at the same time.

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>>7624280
I think Omon Ra is Pelevin's weakest book.

Try Buddha's Little Finger, and if you feel like it's not for you, you should just drop Pelevin.

>>7624584
I think you might be right. Maybe I am trying to see what is not there. I just thought that Mitioks interrogation would have some higher meaning in connection to the speech on the red square. Also the last part with the twist made no sense really. I guess that after Tolstoy, Dosto and Chekov I was expecting all Russian books to follow suit.

>>7625860
I might, but I just went out and spent like 100 pounds on books so it will have to wait a little bit