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As a novice to the hobby, who until recently read not much more than fantasy and history non-fiction. I've become interested in gravity's rainbow purely from the synopsis and it being talked about all the time.
I only started reading some of the more classic literature in the past year, so is there anything I should know/read before diving in to it?
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>>7580246
Yeah, it'sshit
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>>7580246
Reading is a fucking HOBBY now?
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>>7580246
Maybe read some other Pinecone before going into it? I'd recommend the Frying of Latke 49.
Or just go for it, the worst thing that could happen is having a bad time.
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/lit/, what book should I read if I am seeking to find redemptive value in evil? To explain more, I am expecting to experience political oppression, and potential systematic extermination in a concentration camp, within a year or so. I say this because my studies of environmental science, have informed me that Earth is actually undergoing the 6th mass extinction, and it is undergoing abrupt climate change. The head of Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Peter Wadhams, has said that Arctic methane emissions, are so severe, that consequent absorption of solar radiation, will warm the interiors of large continents in a way that will inflict agricultural yield deficits.
Realistic group conflict theory states that in times of resource scarcity, human populations divide themselves into in-group, and out-group, and exterminate all out-group members to enable in-group members greater levels of consumption of scarce resources.
So I expect to be an out-group member. I am inspired by Saint Maximilian Kolbe's death in Auschwitz. I have just completed a short book written with the intention of decreasing as much fear as possible in as many readers as possible, to decrease the severity of impending extermination of out-group members. The book's main focus is on philosophy and spirituality. My journalist friend is currently giving it a proper editorial start.
So what book should I read in preparing for entering into the darkest of darkness, with my faith in, and love of God still intact? The book that I just wrote, was already all about that, but I'm looking for another example in fiction, something to base my life experience off.
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if you're going to shitpost at least learn how to properly use commas FFS
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>>7580077
If you're going to post in a book suggestion thread, at least leave a book suggestion.
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the satanic bible by anton La Vey
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ITT: funny names of erotic parodies
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I will start
>The Dunwich Whore
>Black Cock over Her Mouth
>The Cuckold out of time
>Butt Merdian or Evening Redness in the Ass
>The Great Cock Hunt
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>>7579981
The Back to Reddit: an inspirational story of your journey to a cancerous place where you should stay.
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Hairy Pooter and the half-chub prince
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>>7579989
Infinite Jizz
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What pronunciations or explanations did your High school English teacher botch the worst?
For me:
"Al-burt kay-muss"
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>>7579859
'Neetshee'
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>>7579865
"nee-chee"
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>>7579859
>camus ever
>camus in an english class
>camus in a high school english class
where the fuck did you go to school, OP? sounds like a garbage experience.
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>His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
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>tfw human god
even the gods philosophize...
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>>7579790
>Rejects postmodernism
stupid goat
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>>7579793
>Accepts postmodernism
stupid david
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Has ANYBODY put forward any form of literature worth reading that argues in favor of objective morality in a godless society, that is worth reading?
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>>7579703
You're gonna hate me for this but Sam Harris is the guy for you.
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>>7579703
richard dawkins
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>>7579715
This anon's diary desu
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Why did Tristan und Isolde have greater literary merit than it's peers? Why did Romanticism have to be such unsubtle, trite garbage in comparison?
Has there been any literature or music that has better touched the theme of longing better than Tristan und Isolde?
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Why are there so many autistic classicists on 4chan?
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>>7579566
Where is the classicism in my post?
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I want to create a NEW genre! FFFFFFFFFUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
I am >> I'm
He is >> He's
They are >> They're
Why the fuck people write shouldn't instead of should'nt? The latter contraction makes more fucking sense
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because the missing "o" sound affects pronunciation, not the missing " " sound
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>>7579438
>I am >> Iam >> I'm
>He is >> Heis >> He's
They are >> Theyare >> They're
the apostrophe replaces one letter and a space
you, meanwhile, are a fucking retard
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>>7579452
wait... fuk
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I'm about to start reading the Tanakh.
What should I expect?
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>>7579309
delusional nonsense
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>>7579313
this
read the god delusion instead
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Have you guys read this? What did you think of it? Been wanting to try out Denis Johnson for a bit and I heard this was his best work.
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Its a quick read. Well written. Funny in parts, but its about junkies, so dont get too attached to any characters
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It's been a number of years since I read it, but I remember enjoying it quite a bit. The prose is sparse in a good way, and the stories go from being funny to tragic, and vice-versa, in the blink of an eye.
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>>7579038
In a world of predictable fiction, Jesus' Son is a point-blank godsend.
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Has /lit/ read this? if you have what did you think?
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The quintessential masterpiece of the past 50 years. It's like Infinite Jest, but actually good.
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>>7579021
I'm tired of all these new-friends.
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nobody else reply to this thread
Which books pleasantly surprised you? What were you originally expecting before reading it?
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>>7578917
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was definitely better then I expected and surprisingly pleasant.
I was expecting a sort-of-boring novel that I could understand why people might think was interesting given the year it was written and how it compared to other books and the time and so forth. It turned out to be excellent.
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>>7578917
>that wart
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>>7579037
How would you feel if that was you and people made fun of you for it?
You should feel ashamed of yourself for posting that.
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what makes the greeks so great
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>>7578837
systemic eurocentricism
egyptians did it first and did it better
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>>7578837
When I read "History of the World" by Roberts he presented the theory that part of their inventiveness might have had to do with the fact that the geography of Greece made it likely that there would be tons of city-states that were connected by trade and travel to other city-states but that the land was too rugged for them to be united politically and under the same banner. Also because of the shitty soil you could only grow so much food from it so migration to Islands was inevitable.
Once you had dozens or hundreds of independent political structures who mostly spoke the same language and mostly had the same culture and were linked by regular trade you had a situation where ideas could spread really easily and because there were so many different city-states there were constantly new things happening and developments that each group reacted differently too. In that way it was a fertile ground for the exploration and exchange of ideas and concepts. Their Minoan heritage and trade with foreigners helped too.
It seemed like a good theory when I read it and I don't see why it wouldn't be.
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>>7578837
primacy
Honestly, what's the big deal with Atlas Shrugged? Why do women and rich snobs like it so much?
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Point B does not follow point A. Your two statements are unrelated.
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>>7578601
>Why do women like it?
Because it's written by a woman.
>Why do rich snobs like it?
Because they haven't actually read it (neither have the women btw).
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>>7578618
That's because im asking two seperate questions about a particular topic, you formula-fed virgin
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What are 3 books you'd bring with you if you were backpacking across Europe
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>>7578439
Depends on where I was going.
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>>7578439
mein kampf
turner diaries
the bible
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>>7578439
Ulysses
Peter the Great: His Life and Times
The Bible
Might be a bit heavy tbhdesuwa