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The fact that it's unfinished makes me expect that it'll be completely unsatisfying when over, but I started it recently and the writing is miles and away above Infinite Jest. I loved DFW up to and including Girl with Curious Hair and then IJ just seemed to throw all talent out the window with a really awkward and poor Pynchon impression.

>>7436393
Felt more satisfied at the end of PK than IJ, TBQH.

>>7436393
If you think that it was a poor Pynchon impression then the book failed you. Nice bait though

>>7436318
This sum wild shit bra.

>www.somethingawful.com

lol that place it still around? remember when they had all the meme juice? blast from the past me, shit i think i'll check out ytmnd too

>>7436354
http://rainbowstalin.ytmnd.com/

gud times

>>7436265
i'd write about a russian ant, and the author would be myself.

>>7436265
I'd read Borges' take on a man turning into Borges

i write what i want to read

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>>7436224

I don't know if it's the character limit, but a lot of tweets look like they were written by sad, handicapped people.

>>7436250
It's what's "in"

absolute shit book

dude has an opportunity to rebuild civilization and spends all his time telling them bullshit stories instead of teaching them basic math and science what the actual fuck

>>7436190
I love it. Read it in a graduate course. Professor said the sequel was horrible, so I've not continued on.

>>7436476
Did you somehow not get the point of the book? Snowman isn't Crake. Because he was a "words" guy, he was never coveted. It's what and who he is, so yeah, he's going to do that.

Sherlock Holmes

>>7436172
Begin with the British

>>7436172
Embark with the Elizabethians.

>>7436152
I just recently learned to read French and read Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, and Madame de Lafayette. As far as comprehension goes, it is not very much better than English. But the flow of sound when reading French is certainly more pleasing than English, if you are into that stuff.

waste of time unless you are immersed in the language and living the country day in and day out.

Your french will be too slow and clumsy to ever enjoy reading anything moderately complex. You'll end up just reading the translation instead

>>7436606
shut up you pleb

anyone who has learnt a dead language can tell your entire post is bullshit

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>>7436065
Phillip K. Dick.

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>>7436118

> Noted
I'm a Dick head aswell. Kepp them coming anon

Borges

If you're that fucking stupid, stop now.

>>7436002

Edge with a hint of superiority, nice.

I don't understand what you're asking, been a while since I read the book, but yes, Rachel is in love with her Mg.

Reading the novelization of The Dark Knight Rises

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>>7435941

Literature that promotes:
Feminism
Communism
Atheism/Nihilism
Drug use
Racemixing


Pick your poison

Foucault

>anxious
Sounds fun to me

>>7435923
>get through 400 pages of mythology.
400 pages is nothing. It should only take you about a week. Just read it.

>>7435949
>a week
a day

>>7435896
Literary critic and scholar Bill Barbrady once famously stated upon completing the book, "At first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of crap, I am never reading again!"

I literally just got the title

KEK

>>7435902
that episode was on minutes ago

Not enough war chapters.

Fuck that boring scientist and his boring family.

>>7435630
While it was very daring in Khruschev's Soviet Union to come out and say that Stalin was just as repressive and blood thirsty as Hitler, it isn't exactly revelatory in the present day.

>>7435771
I forgot to say the parts about the Battle of Stalingrad were pretty intense. Particularly that one building the Germans couldn't drive them out of.

just focus on the sound of your breathing while reading, and you won't subvocalize. It works for me, but I still subvoc because I'm a plen

>>7435575
this may sound wild but if you keep reading you will get better at it

>I've heard "don't subvocalize"
For real, fuck off with this meme

>>7435509
/lit/ doesn't have a singular faith or political values. We're not a monolith.

>>7435509

>/lit/ is in a state of consensus
You probably liked The Road and Old Country, too

>>7435509
Christianity doesn't give a shit about the political spectrum