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The first book I read properly was Homer's Iliad

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>he didn't grow up with orthodox Christianity

I didn't read it in my youth, my brother took the book from my hands and said he was going to burn it for it's portrayal of witch craft.

>>7585144
How would it make it harder to get into more dense literature? That doesn't make any sense

Kafka and Lovecraft are so reddit every time I try to read them I black out and make some tacos XDD

>>7585105
>uses ascii smileys while trying to insult reddit

go back to reddit.

>>7585118
>missing the irony in the post

>>7584951
fucking, that picture
all those people in the background looking, the guy in the cap, the guy in the back seemingly smiling

anyway anon, idk

>>7584951
Justice is dealt only once, revenge is a neverending circle

Depend if emotions are involved.

>not forging your own identity in the crucible of ennui that is modern society

Do you even want to make it?

>>7584653

Have you heard about meme arrows xD?

Shitposting aside, I just read White Noise a few days ago. Greatly enjoyed it. So much so that I've got Mao II and Underworld on the way in the mail. I hear great things about Libra as well.

The entire airborne toxic event and the ostensible simulacra nature of the event is hilariously relevant to the entire imgur influx phenomenon here.

Shitposters are creating the hyperreality.

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>>7584755
1/2 way through White Noise at the moment. It's good but not great. I have to say I found Mao II & Libra significantly better, although Libra was mainly the shock of how much 'homage' Oliver Stone was paying in JFK.

I think White Noise hasn't aged too well. Not badly, just not great. Obviously it's a study of modern life & trivia & can be read as a snapshot that's still relevant, but the white noise of modern life is portrayed in a very similar way to American Psycho, just less skilfullly. Overall, DeLillo's style is naturally a lot less developed than his later novels.

The existential crises of the main characters seems very similar to a character out of a Junichiro novel (or similar Japanese author), but again not as skillful.

>getting laid
That's a cute euphemism for 'getting his boypussy ravaged by prusian soldiers'

All memes aside, I've had a pretty interesting life so far for someone who's on the internet so much. Drink, drugs, travel, crime, digital intrigue, women, meeting interesting characters, doing strange things in stranger places. I'm no genius but it's all good stuff for my writing.

>>7584841
Cool blog, subscribed.

he would still have no discernible talent

What a wonderful world. We could have a /lit/ where people didn't just parrot the same shit all the time.

DFW studied in the humanities, why are you bringing up math? Is it the figuratively autistic writing style?
If it's because of his essay or the passages about statistics in his novels, anyone who has more than passing knowledge of these fields knows that he just dabbled and gave no signs of having any particular talent for them.

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okay oops I checked too
anyways dive in, just remember it was first serialized separately

once you have read it once then you can get something to study it with

>reading ulysses first
he literally references multiple characters from earlier books he had written.

>>7583830
it's a good novel. worthy of the booker prize, whatever that means

pretty good

>>7583830
very solid
read it; come back, we'll have a chat

No, but the anime was fucking dope.

So Tatami was basically, 'What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'?

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>>7583914
You got it.

A simple story done well. Same with Ping Pong.

>>7583482
This is at least two levels of hell deeper than even
>>7583447

>>7583482
>facebook
>twitter
there's a reason I avoid those places

>>7583482
>read a book for eight hours straight everyday
I couldn't do this.

>>7583447
Post the second monologue.

>>7583447
I want to defend this to be contrary to the e/lit/ist circlejerk, but this time I just can't find it in me

>>7583447
Saw this at a Chapters

Does this shit even sell?

>>7583342
The repetitive 90's party/hookup shit got really old really fast, I didn't really buy the overall gimmick. It eould have been better as a short story about a house thst grew, everything eles felt unnecessary.

That said I did like the letters from the mother to the son.

>>7583342
I can't find it anywhere in bookstores or libraries in my country. One e-shop has it but it has to be some limited rare edition because they are asking a shitload of cash for it :(

I also heard e-book is not good. Is there a scan or something out there?

>>7583357
definitely requires a physical copy dude

literally the greeks

also gaddis

>>7583339
>Any other options?

go back to reddit

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>>7583341
mfw the "go back to reddit" posts are almost becoming as cancerous as the reddit-like posts themselves

>>7583056
Why don't you just read the entire Bible and find out yourself OP?

Either which way you look at it, its impossible to deny that the Holy Bible is basically one of the most major pieces of literature in not only the England language, but all of Europe.

>>7583056
no read the god delusion

For literary merit it is also the differences in the new testament books that makes any closer readers able to draw out a personal Jesus. That in itself is quite interesting.

>>7582622
Nice thumbnail.
Also it is funny.
Maybe even enjoyable.
Calling it even the greatest book of the month it came out is a laugh though.

>>7582622
>>7582639
Hello Reddit!

>>7582622
>>7582639
>>7582642
Hello, Reddit!