>But in the end, it was all just a portrait of the artist as a young man
Joyce you hack
LOOKS LIKE CHILI'S BACK ON THE BANE SHEEV
>>7550320
And but so, in the end when all was said and done [392], this is water.
>and but for ONAN and the tennis players, incandenza would've reveled in his infinite jest
FUCK YOU DAVID
What books do you see yourself reading a decade from now when you are done all the primary canon?
>>7549115
who is this pure whore
20th Century Philosophy.
I realize it may seem like I'm exaggerating for comic effect or something like that, but is anybody else in a position in life where looking at images like the one posted by OP has such an emotional impact that it's rather difficult to prevent yourself from allowing tears to fall from your eyes? Gosh adult life is so heartbreaking, its brevity is tragic and the scarcity of beauty can leave me so helplessly despondent. Despite all my analysing and logical reasoning and genuine efforts to attribute meaning to an objectively meaningless and purposeless university, I am forced to conclude, either by some form of reasoning I'vet yet to fully comprehend or some biological mechanism which forces me to think this way, that love, el oh vee eeh LOVE is the only redeeming virtue in existence. To live a life without affection, to exist as little more than a ghost, to have your heart beat so quickly for something you will never attain is just so depressing. There is a reason most song, books, movies and so on are all dedicated primarily to the near-ineffable emotion, or feeling or phenomena that is the love of an adult human being.
From your gut, just spill out your top 5 novels. Try not to think about it too much, lest you doubt yourself/worry about people calling you pleb, etc. Mine are, in no particular order
Mason & Dixon (Pynchon)
Les Miserables (Hugo)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami) -- inb4 pleb
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
Gravity's Rainbow
Blood Meridian
Angela's Ashes
Last and First Men
Roadside Picnic
The Sound and the Fury
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
>>7547048
The Hobbit
The Magician's Nephew
Dune
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
A Game of Thrones
Fuck Rothfuss edition
Recommendations:
Fantasy
>http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110612005642
Sci-Fi
>http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100710233344
>http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
>What you are you currently reading?
>Favorite New Wave novel?
>Favorite old fantasy author?
I'M HERE BECAUSE I LOVE ALIENS AND I WANT AN ALIEN GF
>>7522080
A girl hugged me today and we'll go see some classical concerts and balet.
Alien gf won't be necessary.
>>7522067
Do you know what break line is OP?
wtf is a pleb.
you
ITT: Redditor covertly attempts to glean our sacred knowledge
That's such a pleb question
Poast your desks litizens
>>7551697
desks are for faggots
>>7551697
Nice furniture, who chose it, your shareholders? Generic/10
>shelf collapses and severe blunt trauma to your sleeping head renders you a bed-ridden vegetable for the rest of your life
Opinions on this book(Stranger in a Strange Land).
I like it.
>>7549755
That Heineken dude was waay ahead of his time. SiaSL is the OG Neckbeard's bible.
*tips grok*
What are the best career paths that an English/Philosophy major can take? I would like to maybe be a fiction writer some day, but I don't want to be a poor fuck while I'm writing the damn book either.
By best, I mean careers with a decent salary/careers that don't take up all my time and ener so that I still have the ability to write
paralegal
teacher
>>7545783
Teach English in Asia, meet people, develop business contacts.
YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS
BAD BOOK COVERS THREAD
>>7544900
Im at my university library right now and its empty because most plebs arent in classes and they only come here to do class work
There is a MAJOR qt a the circulation desk
Somebody rec me a good book to check out to impress and strike up a conversation with the QT working at the desk.
Be quick pls
Les Chants de Maldoror
is that a girl or a boy? cute either way
>>7544337
>OP: Hey,,,, can i check ou thitis,, book its called.. "GUn GRITS AND STEEL BY" JERROD DIAMOND ha ha
>QT: ok sure. here you go. bye!
What writer had the most interesting life?
What writer had the most boring life?
Most interesting: David Foster Wallace
Least interesting: Thomas Pynchon
>>7548882
>now
ITT: Books series you read as a kid.
Fark this takes me back, I read this in 2004.
>>7539784
Ulysses
Was okay but I was writing better material myself anyway
I just got my first book published, Ask Me Anything
Other new authors also welcome
real publish or shit publish?
how much did you get? is it selling well?
>>7546655
I assume by shit publish you mean self publish. Yes, I got an actually publisher.
I get roughly a buck per copy sold. Slightly more for digital than physical, which was surprising I thought I'd end up getting less on the digital.
It's too early to tell if it's selling well, it only came out just before Christmas, and I won't know for sure how many copies have sold until six months time when I get my first cut of the profits.
>>7546651
Please tell me your pic is the name of the book
How do you pronounce the title?
Pain-gwen Ree-dares
Tisuću devetsto osamdeset i četiri.
1984
How can a brother flirt at libraries/bookstores?
>>7544721
by not being autistic
which would mean not browsing 4chan
>Expecting to find worthwhile women in a bookstore
Yeah, ok. Have fun in the YA section.
>>7544730
/thread