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>>7442011
I loved it as a kid (the ant parts at least) but it's pop trash, to be honest. And the three books get progressively worse and increasingly uninspired.
>a foreign language teacher, and one of the things he's interested in is French novels
You haven't specified the language (eg does he read French)

Im from Belgium and Werber is pleb, you might want to try some Wajid Mouawad, its ttheater but it's awesome

Dump this trash and get him a nice copy of “Toilers of the Sea” or “Wind, Sand and Stars”. Why would you buy a worthless modern fiction when you can rely on widely known, appreciated and highly esteemed work? Give him a fine hardover of “Against the Grain”, he will get the reference if he read Michel Houellebecq.

>>7441606
Genius and love.

Possibly towards little girls.

He began learning English from his governess as a young child.

>>7441606
He started with the Greeks.

>>7441279
https://bad-dragon.com/products

Neutral Milk Hotel

On Avery Island

>>7441279
Beethoven's 9th symphony.

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>>7439729
>that pic

>>7439729
lol no
>£20
what in the world?

>>7439729
You couldn't stop me from talking to that girl.

>h-hey are you an a-archeologist?

My diary t b h

Got the perfect book for ya mate:

In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses for from the Pali Canon

>>7437231
nice, thanks

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>>7436519

>Should I read the Quran?

There's no practical or intellectual reason to read it. Only do it if you are curious I guess.

>>7436519
Seyyed Hossein Nasr's The Study Qur'an is the best. If not the Cambridge Companion. If simple translation, then Arberry, Qara'i, or Pickthall.

>mfw we all have to read the quran now because people are blowing shit up
>mfw if scientologists were blowing shit up we'd have to read hubbard's sci-fi novels

>>7435309
cuz i read recognitions first. gaddis really is a damn genius.

>>7435316
>gaddis really is a damn genius.
This. Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot or a supreme contrarian. I'm uncertain if an author with such depth and foresight will ever live again.

>>7435326
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Czd7GwNy4

you ever watch this?

bump, is sculpting in time any good?

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mark cousins' the story of film (also adapted to documentary) provides a good though very biased overview of film history. a good comparison is russell's history of western philosohpy

the early parts are great and it gives you a real understanding of the different stages of film's development until around the 1960's when cousins basically just starts talking about his favorite directors

movements as big as the new wave/new hollywood are glossed over and then you get a big section on 80's bollywood junk nobody has ever cared about but cousins

overall a worthwhile read, just take everything with a grain of salt and use it as a springboard for further studies instead of an authority

>>7430357
only if you've an interest in tarkovsky's films specifically
his theories really don't apply to much else

BUYP

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The Flavor Of Your Name

I spoke to you in whispers,
Gentle words against your ear.
It was clear you were still sleeping
I knew in your dreams you'd hear.
I ran a finger through the space
Beneath your chin, your satin neck

I am a wreck, reciting memories
I'm soaking in regret

I remember slipping notes into your purse,
Before the dawn.
And breathing in your subtle scent
So deeply, fully I was drawn.
My hands fit firmly to your waist
As if designed to be connected

I've collected and rejected every second.
I've deflected blame,
I feel ashamed of wasted chances
Just about the same
As I remember second glances and the flavor of your name.

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The Gardener

I chose a rose of distant root
With petals pale and fair as snow
I did not look upon her shoot
whereon her thorns acute did grow

The rose I chose by sweetest scent
With emerald leaves at budding base
Did cause a blush to flush my face,
I bent to pluck, and I lament

I placed my rose within a vase;
A prison made of painted glass,
I watched her wilt as days did pass
As time ran out and I gave chase

>>7424054
>>7424067

not bad, but I don't like it....

>>7428317
biological

I cannot be assed to explain this in detail since the explanation would be so long but you can be assured that I am correct

polite sage since I'm not adding much to the thread

Here's how it was explained to me by a female friend who actually does read romance novels: she said a lot of women care far more about the feelings of attachment and longing that goes with it than they do the actual physical benis in bagina. I think this bears out because a lot of women don't seem to care if their men cheat, so long as side-stuff is just sex and nothing more.

Men, weirdly, don't seem to care if their women are longing for or have attachment to other guys, so long as it doesn't get physical. It's odd.

>>7428317
Romance novels are to females what pornography is to males.

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>>7415980
too bad i can only read the titles of like 8 books

from what i can see, pleb as fuck

>>7415980
What's with multiple copies of Gray's Anatomy?

>>7415980
reddit was a mistake

>>7445941
People have trouble reading serious novels in their own language, dude.

>>7445941
I am bilingual, but I can only seem to read well in one, and write well in the other. Languages and strange, you'd be better of learning memes.

>>7445941
Lol at jumping right into Buddenbrooks. Brah I could hardly comprehend that shit in English. Jumping into Mann is like jumping into Beckett for someone new to English. Read fuckin Grimm brothers then progress to YA garbage. Only after you are completely comfortable with that shit should you give Musil, Mann, Kafka, Goethe, Hesse, Roth, Broch, Boll, Grass and Bernhard.

>A novella about the Persecuted White Man is popular on a far-right political board

Quelle suprise.

I've been considering exploiting /pol/ for pecuniary gain like that too, although theoretically if I DID have a series of shitty /pol/ novellas that were actually popular/controversial, I'd end up "blue-pilling" the main character at the end just to piss /pol/ off.

>>7446050
also the kicker is I'm half jewish. It'd be hilarious.

It's exhausting trying to find someone who conforms to modern pc, when everybody you're looking at is at least 100 years old. People just need to fucking deal.

>>7445595
>It feels like cultural appropriation to me
Why?

>>7445595
We already discussed this several times. What's the point of bringing it up again? Check warosu if your intention is sincere.

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the vorrh

>>7445532

I was about to post Submission, but then saw you already had.

I also kind of enjoyed Purity, though I don't know I would say it was worthwhile.

>>7445840
Agree with what you said about Purity. I was comfortable the entire time. Though, I twitch a bit whenever koan gets through editing, it nearly always feels extremely forced and I see it all too often.