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>>7581578
things to consider

1. Are you planning to ever hold a job there, do a lot of traveling there, or just live there?
2. Are you planning to get a wifey from there?
3. Are either relevant to your career or lifegoals
4. Which has literature that you enjoy more?

>>7581584
I have no real reason to do either lol

>>7581588
Strawberries and linen tbqh familia
Source: She is my gf

If you are generically interested in literature or philosophy or the humanities, German and French are (arguably) tied for the most economical, with German edging French out quite a bit (IMHO) unless you have specific reasons to learn French. Russian is cool but very niche by comparison. Don't learn it unless you have a specific reason - economic, family, or you know for sure you love Russian lit. And I don't mean you have some vague idea that you like it. You will seriously regret wasting time learning a fairly difficult language if you didn't commit to it going in.

>>7581588
Girls don't shit you fucking idiot.

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>>7581520

I gotchu senpai

lmao

>>7581541
thread/\/\

I like As I Lay Dying best.

As for where to start, I don't know. None of his stuff is "easy." I started with The Sound and the Fury.

sound of the fury

just dive right in

also dont come to /lit/ it's trash

>>7581453
Of the three I've read, As I Lay Dying was easiest- I'd start with that, then Sound and the Fury (definitely one of the best novels I've ever read), then Absalom, Absalom!

I haven't read Light in August though- that's generally named among his best, and I think it's supposed to be the easiest of the four.

His short stories could be another option. The Bear is the one I've seen getting critics hot and bothered.

He has to be some sort of rapist. Once they get cosby sorted out, shits going to come out about him.

>>7581448
He actually wears a replica chastity belt (based on the middle age designs) according to his blog.

one of the greater literary minds of the 20th and 21st century to be honest family

I'm of the opinion that it's Magnolia too, and I posted that here once, and you owe me money.

What's funny is that DFW actually hated PTA's Magnolia. He trashed it in a letter to DeLillo as pretentious and grad-schoolish. I thought, that's funny, since Magnolia is basically a cinematic Infinite Jest. Can't eat what you serve? Then I found out that PTA was actually one of DFW's students at Emerson. Yikes.

>>7581409
>pretentious and grad-schoolish

Wasn't that one of the more common criticisms levelled at DFW h(H)imself?
It don't detract from his books, though, in my opinion. Some of my friends are pretentious and grad-schoolish, and so am I.

/Lit/ most likely doesn't like him because of his incomplete and often inaccurate account of other writers and philosophers. However, I think he plays an important role in at the very least exposing the public to the people he documents.

I haven't read any of his books so I can't comment on that.

He was cucked bald

A long time ago I tried to read his Proust book and I could not get through it, and I don't put books down readily. Something about this guy rubs me the wrong way.

Do you too have to run when a passage gets too intense? I read Proust when I jog and Baudelaire's poems make for exhausting sprints through the woods.
My advice to you is to slow down intellectually and read each word separately. Glancing off the book to the scenery around you also helps (similarly to, when masturbating to pornography, you sometime have to click on the bottom right of your screen and in a moment hangs the possibility of your cumming to desktop icons).
Good luck.

>>7581281

go slow

>>7581281
MOM'S GONNA FREAK

I can't stand lit snobs who only read pynchon and joyce and whatever.

I read just about anything, it's all good. Life's too short to be a stuck up, unlikable faggot.

I think you can do an interesting analysis on something like the hunger games, even if you don't agree with it.
It's about a totalitarian system with many good characters, after all.

>>7581285
hello reddit

Kant's Pure Reason can be found for less than £5 online.

>>7581251
Wow, gee thanks for the insight.
>although my question was entirely different

>>7581183
i'd say that you kant

None of them are worth it at retail. Those things are everywhere. Just keep your pants on and go to a few library book sales.

Is someone trying to make a meme of this? I'm seeing a lot of Everyman threads -- they are very good though.

Really mate just buy the books that you want to read.

>>7581094
>>7581095

dat same time post action. I agree though, someone is definitely memeing this.

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I'm nearly a third of the way through the book, and I'm finding it to be a blissful experience. It's like talking to an old woman who has been traveling through history over the course of her lifetime.

It's not to be missed, but you'll find difficulty in taking notes at times!

>>7581178
nice handwriting and thick bitch, anon

>>7581178
Why do you mean by "find difficulty in taking notes at times"?

>>7581042
>The crying of Lot 49
>The Bell Jar
>¡Que Viva la Música!
>Speedboat

Why don't you try spending some time with them and observing how they act then writing characters on that basis?

>>7580993
Well first of all, I'm not gonna manipulate someone untill I'm a close enough friend to find out all their secrets and ways of thoughts n motivations
Second of all, you really don't learn much from day to day conversations about vapid shit. I might just act too autistic to notice that stuff.

>>7580993
This. Do you have to be spoonfed instructions on how to write every little thing that you don't immediately know how to write? Look at the women in your life and try to find something they all more in less have in common, then work from that. If you don't have any women in your life, look to women in literature and watch how the author treats female characters differently from male ones.

Think of all that money the editor is getting off of our work.

What's the book about?

>>7580874
shitposting. The book, not you.

Sure, just look at tommy wiseau

>>7580674
ehh that's a post-hoc explanation

>>7580659
sure, just look at my diary desu