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depends. if you're reading fiction, then no

>>7571676
>then

I am just mad Bowie's dead.

>>7571676
More so than giving up entirely and not wanting to understand the book fully if it deals with themes you find most significant at that time in your life. You can always put it down with the intention of picking it up once you have more experience in the field it touches upon.

Not ashamed to say that some philosophy books took 10-15 re-reads before I understood it as much as I wanted to, I could tell on the first reading that I was novice though. And now after going through a lot of it I doubt I will get that feeling again or have to re-read a book that many times - don't get me wrong I would love it if that were the case because that would mean I have something new to explore and grow through it just depends on the book and reader.

I think you would be stupid to read it over again many times in a row just try and squeeze something extra out of your experience that isn't there, go and do something else along the same lines and use it for deliberate contrast for the next re-reading.

Hermione is a mudblood (nigger).

I fucked a dog once.

Google trolling somewhere else you /b/ tier piece of shit

Yes.

Yes, I bought a copy the same day I bought hypersphere and TLOTIAT, to have a meme section in my bookcase

Nicholas Nickleby is one of the best English novels I'll ever read, only real niggas know what I'm sayin.

The Signalman is pretty good, does ghostly stuff way better than Christmas Carol.

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Dumpster diving during insomniac nights + selling found items on eBay

Writing identical ideas while sober and while drunk and then compiling the results

Living in your office/bedroom

Never interacting with people

>>7571461
Read maybe 10 books a year while memeing about the books you've never read to seem smart.

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>>7571729
butthurt pleb detected

Read it if you want to know how it feels to be hungry and 75% dead for your entire fucking life. Read it if you don't like McCarthy. 10/10 novel would read again.

>>7571475
The road was an awful book. McCarthy is a complete hack.

>>7571459
is that a real picture, how is that dude so huge

What's with all this JG posting all of a sudden

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>>7571453
>91
>still writing the best prose since Joyce
I'm sure hell be fine

>>7571531
I'm pretty sure Shatner isn't 91 yet.

Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Gennet

>>7571344

The Holy Bible, because that degenerate is going straight to Hell.

>>7571542
>>7571542
Kek probably true

The Art of War is a timeless masterpiece on warfare. Similar to it's western equivalent "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz. Both examine how and why various strategies remain universally applicable regardless of era. The removal of an enemy's social/political support is a instrumental achievement for pursuing victory. These books are deeply rooted in examining human psychology.

In modern times it best not to take the book at face value, but rather as a series of life lessons to do with the different war time stratagies, or at least thats how I took it.

reading the 36 stratagems might be more immediately help tho op if you're a-wagin war

are you waging war op

cuz war is god and i am dancing dancing i will never die

>>7571224
Been meaning to read him. Good start?

>>7571224

i really really liked it but i enjoyed it, therefore it's PLEBEIAN TRASH

>>7571694
My boss recommended me American Tabloid. I thought it had decent prose but I never finished it. The last pulp-y American book I read was either Inherent Vice or the Stand, and I hated both (though I do like Pynchon's Against the Day, GR and M&D). I'd assume this is where to start.
>>7571813
OP here, if you really don't believe people get some enjoyment out of some of the more difficult works of literature, go back to Reddit.

>>7571204
Start with the Greeks.

Rhyme's Reason, or, An Ode Less Travelled

>>7571140
Kind of depressing, but I liked it.. Haven't read it in a few years might reread it one day.

>>7571140

harrowing

fine. surprisingly comfy.

What did OP mean by this?

#bookz duh

What happened to the archive?

no, I found all of the stories to be very dry "americana" (don't know what the irish/general equivalent of this is) type things at first. unless you really get into the nitty gritty literary stuff like pov/word choice/memory it's not really something that grabs you and shakes you.

>>7571137
pleb detected

>>7571138

when i first read dubliners, yeah absolutely.

retarded thread made by an actual retard

>why does this book board only talk about books?

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I don't read much but DFW is my favorite author.
It's hard to name a favorite director but I guess PTA. My favorite movie of all time is probably Fellowship of the Ring though

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