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God damn I'm an idiot, here's the pages
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f4vyIyyXfYSRP2W0qsb0Qv3auo09JpG05q4Xf9FdTSA/mobilebasic

>>7580399

>reads fantasy
>can't even write out an OP post

figures.

To go in hard? Or just enough to be ready?

>>7590046
I've read all the major 17th and 18th century philosophers before him ending with Hume. Though I do admit that I haven't read any philosophical work since then, which was late September I think.

>>7590080
you'll probably be fine, knowing Plato never hurts but otherwise just do it

I don't know about poetry, but I'd say that the main advantage prose literature has over visual art is the its psychological aspects. Its ability to give the reader an in-depth look into the mind of its characters. While film can achieve this as well, I don't think it can do it nearly as well as it's done in writing. And of course neither can painting or sculpting, or whatever achieve these psychological aspects.

i've had enough of all this gassposting

what about dfw?

The aural transcends both

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This actually sounds pretty good. Thanks, OP.

The Holy Bible my good man.

I love Burgess, think he was an incredible intellect, yet somehow the man's novels are the very definition of middlebrow.

Also... talk about a good book cover.

I've posted in a couple threads about this recently.

I thought it was good. There were some neat ideas. Some poor executions.
The actual story, Lost in the Funhouse, was the highlight of the book. So, for the 'average reader,' I'd only recommend the one story. Maybe Night-Sea Journey as well, for the clever 'twist.'
For a reader who is interested in literature for its own sake, I'd say read the whole thing to see a good and highly-praised piece of early (?) Post-Modernism. Or something like that.
Would also help to have read The Illiad first so the last two stories don't test your patience too much.

>>7589892

I read something interesting about this being Barth's response to Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, following the development of the artist/authorial-presence, from spermatozoon (primordial) and then the more conventional style of ambrose his mark, progressing up to lost in the funhouse, and then becoming increasingly metafictional until Anonymiad where the author disappears altogether into the text, becomes a disembodied voice.

But personally the Greek stuff I found sort of boring, if only structurally interesting. It would have been much cooler to see Ambrose one more time close to the ending.

Baron in the Trees for sure. Great balance between his weirdest stuff and his simple stories, and it's just his best overall book for entertainment value.

>>7589734
The Cosmicomics - awesome collection of short stories

If On A Winters Night A Traveller - best/most popular novella

>>7589734
>Where to start with this semen demon, and why is it Cosmicomics?
ftfy

OP, you monkey-drained bleb

>>7586822

>>7589608
Ah... also thanks in advance!

Try a bookstore or your local library. Try to not be a sad sack of shit. Try to make a thread worthwhile.

>>7589611
She's not a savant. She's an enthusiastic, well-marketed amateur.

If she played in an orchestra, people would fucking laugh in her face.

I'd recommend "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories" which I read it a good few years back; There's a couple of decent short stories tagged on at the end, one of which is kind of a biopoic, from what I can recall...

The only other HST I've read is Hell's Angels, I think that's also pretty well renowned - I thought it was decent but not as good as Fear & Loathing.

None of that qualifies me to pass comment on your idea of tackling all his works in order.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is my favorite book of his, absolutely one of the funniest books I've ever read. Hell's Angels is good, the Rum Diary is good, and I've heard Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is another good one.

>>7589597
>Are all his works decent
decent? i suppose, but i wouldn't read the ones that were merely decent unless you become a super fan. his best stuff is excellent.

>should I just from the first published to the last in chronological order?
that would make the Rum Diary first and that is merely decent, so no.

i'd rec The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved to start, which is both great and short~ish. this will give you an idea of if he's for you and a good intro style wise and chronologically. Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are the other two musts that i've read (if you're not into drugs even in passing, FaLiLV may not click with you as much, tho.) /lit/ usualy also recs FaL on the Campaign Trail but i've not read it yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GVJpOmaDyU

>>7589465

The good advice that you just didn't take.

Checkout Robert Spitzer, I saw him give a talk on how "euthanasia" creates a statist duty to die, I'm sure he has something on how killing to make it easier to get a diploma is a mistake.

>>7589181
Then why would you want to read books pro life? If you don't understand the pro choice viewpoint you should read up on that.

I think it's bad to kill babies.

>>7589162

As a fellow psychotic, I enjoyed The Divided Self by R.D. Laing. Unrelated to mental health books, I also enjoyed reading Joseph Campbell because I've found that "metaphorizing" my delusions is a good way of removing their destructiveness.

>>7589296
OP here, thanks for the suggestions. Speaking of metamorphizing, The Metamorphosis is pretty much exactly how I feel sometimes, it's the only book I've read so far that's really resonated with my illness.

>>7589309

There's always a theme or a motif, isn't there? Mine is dragons.