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>>7623607
>tfw my grand-grandpa was alive when Ulysses was released

>>7623607
Same, but the worst part...
>year of the pig

pat yourself on the back

ear plugs, headphones with white noise, noise canceling headphone

OP I had this same problem and I had to switch colleges. Most people literally don't notice it, some enjoy it. Your grades are going to slip and your brain will always subconsciously associate loud noises with reading, whereas it should associate silence with reading.

Put on earphones and listen to some Beethoven.

What level?

>>7623383
Bachelor, with a specialization in neurophysiology. I'm freshman, so I only need one chapter of the book.

>>7623462
http://bookzz.org/book/1125511/1f9540

..ok?

>>7623279
Quine.

It takes a while.

I enjoyed the opening bits where Hencher is remembering living through the London Blitz.
The theft of the horse was meh.
I wasn't sure what the hell was going on during the murder in the steam bath.
And I enjoyed the bimbos.
All in all, enjoyed the atmosphere but felt it was a jumped up Graham Greene thriller where he left you guessing for art's sake as to what motives people had for what they did or who the hell the bimbos were

>>7623168
>Graham Greene thriller where he left you guessing for art's sake as to what motives people had for what they did or who the hell the bimbos were

That's pretty accurate, but for myself it was the good thing about it; sort of deconstruction of thriller genre; somewhat in the way what Robbe-Grillet would have done; and I think what Flannery O'connor said about this book (and it's, I believe, on the back of the cover): that one is suffering it like a dream, or nightmare.

Also somewhat reminded me of lucid daydream/ nightmare-ish soundscapes of Nurse with wound etc. But I think I enjoyed The Cannibal a little bit more.

>>7623059
Did the girl get buttfucked or what?

>>7623061
No, she was a repulsive girl with cushing's syndrom that was put in an underground lab and cybernetically lived in some beautiful organic doll-body, as a luxurious celebrity.

>>7623093
That sounds nice I wouldn't mind giving it a read, but does it have the 3 essentials that truly make a book a work of art?

I am talking about, the gay, rape and incest litcore. Is there any form of gay, rape and incest in the books?

Hogg, eye, etc are all great books because of these 3 things.

>>7623039
I read them when I was 12 or something and fucking loved them, but I can't remember much about them now. I imagine if I reread them I'd get huge waves of nostalgia which would interfere with any sort of literary criticism. They are certain to not be some sort of deep philosophical contemplation, though.

>>7623039
>I want to read the entire Deltora Quest saga.
Then do so.

>Is it good
As a kid, they were great fun. I'm sure they won't wouldn't be anything amazing now, but they are short and wouldn't take more than a few hours max for each one.

>>7623039
OP read whatever the fuck you want, once you enjoy it, and it gives you a will to continue reading, do it.

If you follow lit's advice , you might just give up reading altogether. First develop a love for reading then advance yourself.

Sometime in the future normal story based plots might not do it for you and you might enjoy wordplay, that is when you follow lit's advice.

I just spent the last week getting over mine. I'm still kind of bronchitis-y.

I recommend saline nasal spray to loosen up huge blockages for ejection, a strategic decision to stop blowing your nose and just start swallowing the endless mucous while sitting up during the phase of runniness, not being fooled by the mild bronchitis eye of the storm into thinking it's over, and lots of tea and Watership Down to prevent you from killing yourself.

The Prince by Machiavelli
Manufacturing Consent by Herman & Chomsky
How to make friends and Influenza People by Dale Carnegie

Water Margin

You are a sperg. Take it easy.

>>7622715
>Timaeus
Never heard of this...could please someone explain this to mee?

>>7622734
Buttmad Socratist detected.

>>7622738
Timaeus is a Socratic dialogue by Plato in which Timaeus describes the principles of cosmology. So far there have been some interesting points raised - for example an argument for the unique singularity of the universe, and an interesting account of space, being, and becoming - but it is held down by a bizarre speculative account of the ordering of the rotations of the planets and the creation of the universe.

After reading DFW.

>>7622585
after you've made a minimum 1,000 posts on /lit/

>>7622598
What differentiates a real intellectual from a pseudointellectual?

Nabokov just dropped a new novel about a love story between siblings.

Tom Wolfe

>>7622225
Charlie Manson is a groovy fuckin alpha

>>7622084
i would buy a dvd of this anime just to shit on it, and then sell pictures of it as modern art.

>>7622084
what did it say?

There seems to be an actually pretty decent taste in the thread.

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>>7621959
I should clarify—it's not that I don't understand what's going on at all. Only that the book, no more powerful than in that third episode, oscillates between a space of having a narrative foothold, of events and sensations to latch on to, and densely allusive free indirect discourse that I sometimes will have to go back and read two, three, four times to get anything. It's taxing, I'll admit. But it is rewarding already.

it is easier to read, especially if it's your first time, if you don't try to get every reference and just treat it like a novel. come back to it afterwards and analyze it to death with a million commentaries but the first time just turn your brain off lmao

>>7621959
other than the shape of his head maybe, that's an incredibly ugly face

>>7621893
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts

Like this.

>>7621893
>find those rare pieces of writing that shock or disgust you
>copy the style
?

>>7621893
don't look to other people for tips on how to write something jesus
if you knew how to write then writing a vulgar scene would come naturally
just write what you feel is real