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>>7518633
>infinite jest
>female feet

Haha epic picture, dude!!!!!!!
Upvoted!!!!!!!!!!!! B-)

>harry potter
>female feet

>>7517924
This year,I bought a whole bookshelf worth of new books.
Only read library check-outs.

I often copy-paste posts from r/books here. there is no discernible difference between the replies.

>>7517924
I forced myself to read Eugine Onegin and it blew

>reading for enjoyment

sure is reddit in here

Who here reads for the sake of tasting aesthetic flavors? For the sake of experiencing the attempt at preserving the sublime? :^)

dubliners is very dry and boring. i'm always surprised by the love it gets.

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Sweet cops, the Maudes are my favorite Tolstoy translators by a wide margin.

>BOOK HAUL GAISSS XD

>>7508173
Will that be your first foray into Kierkegaard?

Towering Pines
Fibonacci's Diary
Flowerbed
Ramblings of a NEET
Greytone Roses

The Impeccably Curious Writings of the Esteemed Ms. Henderson and Her Dog.

Just kidding, but it would probably be a best seller and then adapted into a Wes Anderson movie

C-c-c-combo Breaker: The end of an era

an ignorant piece of shit

Something at least worth reading

Fancy lady gets absolutely furious

A cold, wet, unfinished basement

useless, just like its readers

>erudite, cerebral, handsome, bold, trustworthy

>pushing of a man's limits

>one who changes fundamentally

>books, pills, bed, and windows

>glib, exaggerative, of questionable accuracy

>>7517929

>myself
profane
profound
indulgent
eccentric
narcissistic

>my ideal book
insightful
satirical
concise
dark
romantic

>my ideal protagonist
brilliant
just
witty
measured
magnanimous

>the room I'm sitting in
dim
chic
cluttered
clean
practical

>my post
honest
accurate
ironic
laconic
oxymoronic

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1. Lolita
2. Lolita
3. Lolita
4. Lolita
5. Lolita
6. Lolita
7. Lolita
8. Lolita
9. Lolita
10. Lolita

>>7514725
1) Gravity's Rainbow
2)The Castle
3)Infinite Jest
4)American Pastoral
5)The Pale King
6)Blood Meridian
7)Lolita
8)The Trial
9)studies in pessimism
10)Tai Pei

(havent finished moby dick yet but it would probably go between blood meridian and lolita, sorry Tao)

>>7514736
Try Lolita next. Based on your top 10, I think you will enjoy it.

spencer madsen
@sosadtoday

>>7514523

For the last time, please leave, Spencer.

>>7514595
im mira not spencer

Fight Club

>>7513806

No Country for Old Men.

Fight Club is universally accepted as a better movie than book.

Cloud Atlas - the book was trying way too hard, I liked the movie better.

Roadside Picnic - Tarkovsky adapted a bad Sci-fi novel into Stalker

Shawshank Redemption and pretty much all Stephen King

2001: space confusion

>be NEET master race
>read the classics for 12 hours a day

feelsgoodman

>>7512763
>NEET
>master race

we're going to have a problem here.

>>7512761
I don't play video games, I don't watch TV, I only have a few friends, and I avoid starting committed relationships.

Absinthe.

>>7512722
Alcohol gives me chest pain

>>7512722
I prefer vodka but tbqh its because I'm also a /fit/izen and try my best to keep my calories in check even when I want to get shitfaced.

I should go to sleep. Why am I wasting my time here?

Traveling during my winter break and getting away from everyone hasn't solved my problems.

>>7507129
>went in to comp sci because stem meme
>was shit at math
>given up and going into English
>hope to be a teacher and probably a virgin for the rest of my life
>I regret everything

>>7507129
>Uni

That slang is still detestable, even in current year.

>live in a country where university is completely free
>everyone slowly study whatever they want in the rhythm they can (both considering their smarts and if they have to keep a job or a family or whatever)
>80% don't finish it anyway.
it's strange, maybe people don't really feel like having higher education if they can live without it.

I like Pinker. He is a legit contributor to his fields while also being very good at writing readable books for a general audience. There seems to be a fair amount of overlap between his books. I liked Words and Rules a lot, and I think it is a great starting point for anyone interested in linguistics. I disagree with him about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

hes' very problematic

ass

Schindler's Gist

It's the cliff-notes version.

Finnegan's Wake

:^)

Pale hire