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do you have to be american to get this guy

i'd never heard of him pre-/lit/

>>7472939
Nah he's good to go for you too

Also holy shit new Pynchon! Never seen that one b4

OP is just butthurt that pynchon can write a book with coprophagia and he gets published. OP wrote a story about shit-eating for the school magazine and he got into trouble.

>>7472743
/lit/ has a way of making you unhappier

>>7472743

Epictetus' Discourses.

tao te ching
marcus aurelius meditations
leslie marmon silko ceremony

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>>7472723
>hard science

>>7472734
>implying without argument

>>7472723
This is the most spooked, ignorant post I've ever seen. Hard sage.

the plains - gerald murnane

>>7472538
Gilbert Hernandez, the Palomar stories from Love and Rockets
E. R. Eddison
Saki, Lord Dunsany
Horror, e.g. M. R. James and H. P. Lovecraft

>>7472539
can't find much on this but I'll keep looking
>>7472546
reada lot of Lovecraft as well, should have included him, E.R. Eddison ooks cool, what's the Worm Ouroboros like?

Yeh

>>7472529
He's great. Journey to the East is a short read but is well worth it, Under the Wheel is another short one that I never hear talked about but it's also worth the read. Haven't read Demian or Narcissus and Goldmund (they're both on my shelf waiting to be read) but the other two you mentioned are both good as well.

steppenwolfe is the best, goldmund second, siddhartha is the pleb book.

read steppenwolfe.

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>>7471817
That picture...

>tfw he's probably still happier than you are and whoever wrote that just did it to feel better about himself

Utter Faggotry by DFW is pretty close

if you come HERE of all places and you ask THAT question expecting a real answer you are already beyond hope of being what most people would consider moderately intelligent. I don't say this to upset you.

The Mortal Instruments

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>>7471711
try smoking some weed

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>>7471518

This thread can't be good.

Poe

>>7471518
You're wrong
>>7471522
You're wrong

I don't think that is a real Socrates quote. It doesn't really match with the character either.

That aside I have a regime of bodyweight exercise (core holds, handstand practice, pull-ups, dips, deep step-ups, L-sits, push-ups, rows) and cardio (swimming, hill-sprints, long distance, etcetera).

It makes me feel great holistically, and I find it balances my mind for a more focused read.

>>7471194
>he can only bench half his bodyweight

>>7471170
I total 540 currently, run a program given by my coach.

It doesn't really affect anything other than it being a fun hobby.

Remember, Kant caused the Holocaust.

>>7470224
what

>>7470224
That kant be true

>>7469980
Overpriced desu

A lot of them are excerpts from larger works.

>>7469980
Of all those books, the only good ones are Antigone, Socrates' Defence and the Communist Manifesto. The rest are either not worth reading or an arbitrary selection of stories/poems from a much larger collection.

>>7469919
Conflicting read for me. Parts of it I loved (especially when Kid starts to mingle with the Bellonan intelligentsia), though the whole story-arch, albeit cyclical and therefore interesting in its own right, lacked sufficient structure to keep my reading (I stopped after about 650 pages, a few dozen pages into that famous final section 'Palimpsest' that contains bits and pieces of disjunct ramblings of a mad-man (I heard Delany would just compulsively write whatever came to his mind, then he'd just pare down the non-nonsense)). Anyway, overall, the book functions as a cultural mule or compactor; that is, it does a great job of capturing, supporting on its back, and most importantly, encapsulating 70's (counter-)culture, what with all the anti-capitalist bands of hooligans, the consistent threat of cataclysm, sexual exploration, tinges of the beat gen., etc. But it also is a great portraiture of insanity, that whole unreliable narrator thing, which actually ties in nicely with the phantasmagorically hallucinogenic anarchical mist that shrouds not only the city in the story and the tides of the times, but Kid's mind as well.

>>7469919
Iiit's the prettiest book on my tbr

>>7469919
it was written by a pedophile.

Movements are spook ideologies desu senpai

ideologylit is my favorite literary movement :^)

>>7468870
because it's symbolism

>>7468196
>>Original Spanish of course
go fuck yourself, mexifag

>I'm a monolingual pleb
don't worry bud I'm master race like you but I took spanish in highschool.

>>7468206
and you think that qualifies you to appreciate literature in spanish?

>>7467224
I think Sci-Fi/Fantasy has an equal amount of literary merit versus pretty much any other genre, not because it's so good, but because 90% of everything is shit.

You have authors like Harlan Ellison and you have novels like Dune and 2001 that are Sci-Fi/Fantasy and are very fine pieces of work, and I assure you that the number of good Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels is equal to the number of good Romance/War/everything else novels.

>>7467224

Lem. And he's legitimately literary, not just 'close.'

>>7467224
isn't all literature posed to become science fiction due to the way technology has become so integrated into our lives?