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Edgy

>>7622195
You got me

i
fucking
love
Arthur Russell

>>7622138
Evans Third Reich Trilogy for Nonfiction
The Black March
Panzer Leader, Guderians biography

>>7622138
this is a good question, all i can think of that i've read that was remotely relevant to ww2 was catch-22, but i doubt that's what you want. i wouldnt mind reading literature about ww2, but you know, thinking about it, that was a period in which literature lost a lot of meaning, not much after the 1950s is worth reading. that's just my opinion, but it's hard not to notice the significant dip in skill after that war. it was as if the innocence of art was no more and humanity suddenly became adult, sarcastic, cynical, and crude.

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Currently reading, pic related.

I also enjoyed "Enemy at the Gates". It is mostly about 6th armies struggle against the ruskies.

>be german, laying in a bunker with two bullets in leg
>surrounded by dead and dying germans left for the russians.
>feel something wet on shoulder
>look up to see a small hole above, with fuel being poured inside
>hear ivan asking for a lite
>collapse to the ground and crawl to the exit
>fireball behind you explodes, comrades burned alive
>make it out
>Feel iron barrel on the back of the head
>realize its a soviet soldier, with a pistol to your scalp
>hear another russian ask your would-be-killer
"what would comrade stalin do?"
>ruskie clicks pistol's safety back, leaving you alone on the street
>go on to survive a few years in a gulag and make it back to germany.

*is the best companion

fuck me

I'd like to know this too. I usually use the Wikipedia articles and SparkNotes for each dialogue just to make sure I didn't lose the Big Important Idea in a given dialogue, and I used to have this great .pdf a /lit/ user posted way back that gave historical context for each dialogue. Some great stuff in there, like how in the early dialogues, these aren't just random Athenians or random topics, they are eminent members of The Thirty Tyrants who met messy ends, either related to the dialogue's topic or to the interlocutor's failure to really grasp the point of a certain virtue. There is some eerie foreshadowing in there.

Cambridge.

It's pretty fucking clearly Hamlet, move on.

>>7621849
Hamlet.

>>7621849
Def Hamlet

>>7621791
Today anyone anytime can write something. Being an author, a writer, never been so easy like today, so it is more than common to be in contact with a lot of contemporary trash.

DUDE JUST TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF LMAO

it's not a very deep philosophical view you have there, delillo

Read Leaves of Grass you fucking idiot.

Song of Myself

Spend time memorizing it

when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd is shorter than song of myself/leaves of grass, and it's very pleasant to read

>you will never be american

>>7621707
What?

>>7621734
Barnes and Noble is a comfy bookstore

>>7621705
Flaubert

>>7621705
McCarthy.

>>7621705
Read the plebs and don't let your dreams be dreams

God is my accountant too?

>>7621534
God is the only truth. I knew this since i was like 9

>>7621527
you arent god because you arent anything but you which isnt god

>>7621342
If I recall the eagles weren't that invested in the war and only liked Gandalf enough to help him out a bit but not to fly into a volcano guarded by the most powerful being in the universe carrying the most powerful object in the universe. makes sense to me.

eagles need to drink a lot and there's not a lot of water in mordor so they can't do it

>>7621436
Yea that makes sense when you put it that way

powder*

>>7621311
what

>>7621311
>tfw mommy laughs and makes fun of you when she sees that you are posting on/lit/ again

sincere baiting nice. a new meta.

>>7620503
Pls this is not bait

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>>7620496
The Venn Diagram that displays whether infinite jest is a good book/a meme book is a circle.

Read some surrealism if you want to go in hard. Like Aragon or Breton. Paris Peasant is one I've got lined up, I've taken a peek and it looks like banter madness.

Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' blends first and third person narrative.

DOG'S
JJJUUUUSSSSTTT

>>7620050
Didn't aragon do the poetry about a girls cunt (literally?) I like surrealism but I wanted something more meta, I remember this short story a few years ago where the character had multiple personalities and the reader became one of them

Academia teaches skills, not processes. You don't truly learn how to read in the intuitive sense, just what the education board thinks will work for you. Most teachers are also shitty at what they do and don't know how to evaluate students placements correctly. The only decent education is saved for elites to place their kids in private schools.

>>7619893
In short, the only way to really be good at reading and language arts is to have your parents teach you from a really early age good vocabulary and reading you sufficient books, not dollar store shit. I believe this was the only way I ever was educated. I started kindergarten early and was always proficient in Lit classes.

>>7619873

if you suck at degree level than you probably just suck at literature.

high school/sixth form/etc. evaluations don't mean much.

>>7619761
Who is this cum guzzler?

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>>7619772
Patricia Highsmith
cutey eh

>>7619772
i can imagine her lips around my cock
glorius sss