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>>7483226
simple, he isnt.

>>7483227
Who is better?

>>7483229
Joyce.

>>7483024
middlemarch n' shit.

Why not ask what she likes?

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>>7483032
she'll say something vague if I call her up
I just don't want to drive all the way to the Ozarks to find out she wont read high fantasy

arizona iced tea and rum

>>7482899
Sounds interesting. What are you reading though?

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drinking wild turkey honey... am in a bit of a somber mood, and haven't felt like reading lately unfortunately... I have a lot on my kindle, but feel no desire to read...

Currently doing Lolita, American Psycho, AntiFragile, my sleazy vince flynn book, and the book of disquiet....
meh meh to them all.

could try the brothers karamazov

depends on how good you are at writing publishable stuff and dependant on that how willing you are to relocate.

>>7482797

Why?

Just go teach at a rich white high school and make $120,000/year (those are 2002 numbers) and just put on documentaries all day.

That's what my high school teachers did. Just get tenure and work on your original work literally the rest of your life. Simple.

>>7482926
Wh-where? I went to a rich private school and know for a fact my teachers didn't make that much.

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>>7482607

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>>7482607
'Economics in one lesson' Henry Hazlitt
It's very simple but a bit biased towards the Austrian school of economics. Nevertheless is a helpful guide to general microeconomics and serves to premptively warn you about the various weaknesses of the Keynesian school.

After reading you can go off into Marxism or stay with more liberal economics.

If you do that then I suggest Milton Friedman's 'Capitalism and Freedom'. This will provide an intro into the Chicago School and so called 'neo-liberal' economics' of today. Further on, you can read up 'Human Action' by Ludwig Von Mises, but this is a heavy piece and I suggest reading Hayek's 'Road to Serfdom' first, (though this is by no means required, rather it serves to get you used to reading economics texts and to teach you the lingo).

>>7482639
i wonder if this worked for him. it certainly would if he lost 20lb, and even at his current weight it seems like he'd have an okay shot

>>7482557
There is no such thing.

The Color Purple

nietzsche

>>7482442

>falling for the chronological meme

Starting with the greeks is fine advice but wanting to read every single philosophical work in chronological order is a ridiculous idea. You don't gotta study Aristotle to understand, say, Descarte's Meditation, or Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus. Of course it's nice to know how past philosophers' influence whatever work you're reading, but doing a little research with, say Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, or just reading the introduction if it's a good edition should be sufficient.

>>7482471
yeah for sure a lot can be read independently.. descarte and camus and sartre are all pretty good, but if you want to read say nietzsche, in my optinion, this requires reading of socrates/plato/aristotle/descarte/kant and schopenhauer

and aristotle needs plato who needs socrates

kant you need hume, hume you should probably read locke and berkely...

>>7482442
I wanted to read this guide, but the formatting is so god-damned awful that I think I'm gonna pass...

Name five authors like that

>>7482431
They're all irrelevant, thankfully. But you'll encounter them if you frequent parties in NYC or attend creative writing workshops.

>>7482431
They exist

>>7482364

That's what you get when a writer whose main technique is "I'm just gonna make it up as I go along" tries to write an epic fantasy story.

>>7482364
stephen king is the literary form of tarantino anyway. your fault for getting your hopes up.

>>7482376
>the literary form of tarantino
>not palahniuk

lol

>>7482343
it means that anna karenina is a book that will only get you into trouble. dimestore romance drivel anyway. read something else, senpai

>>7482343
You want to cuck someone

>>7482343
Edyp syndrome as far as I can tell.

>>7482334
mark twain

>>7482334
Pinecone

Joshua Cohen

>>7482258
that cover is good imo

>>7482258
are you a "tragasables" OP?

>>7482288
Naaaah, I don't fuck with them muerdealmohadas mane

>>7482231
>Most of them had a very obvious, shallow message
>message

you're gonna be a pleb no matter what you read if you keep up this simplistic conception of literature.

>>7482237
Red pill us, bro! Is it too unnuanced to think that a book might have a moral? Let's hear your regurgitated thoughts on authorship, meaning, etc. pretentious cunt.

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>>7482340
>your regurgitated thoughts
>implying 'muh message' instrumentalism isn't regurgitation of middle school literary criticism

if you didn't want to talk to pretentious people why did you come here asking for their validation

OBLIVION ACCESS is a rejection of critique and analysis. Accepting only absolute destruction or absolute secession from the propaganda of reason. Demanding that all opinion is hyperbole. Looking upon the forced marriage of existence and meaning.science and fact/morality and righteousness. Looking upon them all as dogmatic totalitarian structures.

OBLIVION ACCESS is the nervous thud and roll of martial percussion in the march towards the abolition of the belief that political and philosophical spectrum vary in linear and non-linear morally adjacent / morally hierarchical polarities, qualities or attributes. Challenging this system with matched obstinacy by insisting that all beliefs are but a single cell, existing simultaneously as one. A cursed twisted tomb of microcosmic dark matter. A hysterical writhing pool of filth and etiquette folding in on itself with inconceivable geometry.

>>7482195
Seems like an unlikely man happened upon a thesaurus, tbqh.

>>7482195
This is the most pretentious thing I've read in a while.

>>7482109

Honestly it could mean either. The book store may never run out because nobody is buying it, obviously, or perhaps so many people purchase the book that they order an extremely large amount of copies to ensure that they always have at least a few available for purchase.

it means the publisher is fronting them a lot of copies in a promotional push which may or may not end up on ebay with remainder marks selling for a tiny fraction of the list price

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*sighs sadly*