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Literally 10th grade tier

The guy's pretentious, but he has a right to be. The reason it's so short is because he pours his qualitiy toughts into it, excluding all the unnecessary. Not story oriented, leaving only his version of eastern philosophy and values. In ways similar to The Stranger, only with heavier writing (not so fluent, it required a higher dose of concentration to read than Camus).

>>7358924
Isn't Steppenwolf his best anyway?

Oh excellent choice OP.

Tarkovsky's Stalker is up there too.

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>>7358897

>>7358993
Is it? I watched Tarkovsky's "Mirror" and liked it. I'm down for more by him, ty anon

The Holy Bible.

Augustine's Confessions
Cicero's complete philosophical works

>>7358843
Its called "quit antidepressants"

Looking For Jake has a nice selection of different ideas and styles. His longer works can be a bit atonal. I liked The City & The City; Kraken was entertaining at times but a bit long and just yet more Gaimanesque urban fantasy, King Rat was stupid for a number of reasons, Embassytown and Railsea are stylistically flawed, the scar trilogy or whatever it's good is a bit like a pseudo-serious Discworld.

I liked Embassytown, The City & The City, and Perdido Street Station. The Kraken was way to Gaimanesque for my taste.

>>7358829
His best books:
1) Perdido Street Station
2) The City and the City
3) Embassytown

His best short stories:
Looking for Jake

His best comic book:
Dial H

>>7358836
Comparing Embassytown(superior) to Railsea (inferior)
What is wrong with you?

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>>7358758

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>>7358760

>>7358758
Consider apostrophes

>>7358755
m8 you got it the wrong way round
Signifier = word
Signified = concept
referent = actual thing
That's really all I remember from some critical theory books on strucuralism and post-structuralism soz

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>>7358775

Is there some sort of Semiotics 101 book I can pick up somewhere? It sounds interesting but I just can't seem to see how there can be a whole branch of philosophy attached to symbols.

>>7358788
Ya I get the feeling from semiotics that someone realized symbols had a semi regular anatomy, began naming all the bits they could differentiate, and then quit without doing anything interesting

that you *found

>>7358689
>decadent
Yeah you definitely didn't understand anything

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>>7358689
>fun
Pic related. I hate myself and existence makes me sick.

>>7358632
I write in second person :^)

>>7358632

Because, as you can see, the first person is a non-white woman, the worst kind of woman.

The second woman is too pretty for her own good and has already sold her innocence for the cutest football player already.

The third person, she has obviously lived a hard life of isolation, like me. I would love her and she would love me.

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>>7358632
I believed third person was the standard and that's how I was taught at school. Many times I attempted writing and it always turned out shit. I hated it. I stopped.

Lately I began reading existentialist fiction (Camus, Sartre, Dostoevsky etc.) and they all utilised first person. After seeing the depth of expression it affords, I attempted writing again for the first time in years. It has changed everything for me. The quality of my work has improved 1000x and it doesn't feel clunky and awkward at all any more.

I would bet on Cthulhu because he's a deathless interdimensional ... thing, whereas the other one is just a really big dragon.
Tolkein is more popular in general whereas Lovecraft is perhaps more subtly influential through other writers who are fans of his. Lovecraft seemed to have more original ideas but Tolkein is the greater researcher and put in significantly more actual work into his world building. I guess weighing those up, Tolkein comes out on top although I find him terribly dreary myself.
Stupid thing to argue about really. They have their own strengths and weaknesses, they're very different.

Nobody gives a flying fuck.

>>7358477
>using 'redpill' as a verb

I don't know for at least three reasons:
i] Not being an American, I don't know what ages 6th-12th grades are.
ii] I read a tonne of books, there's no possible way I could list all the ones from any given year.
iii] I left school about ten years ago.

>>7358473
my list is exactly the same as yours

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>>7358473
>The Sable
>The Taggerung
>Triss
>Rakkety Tam
>Mattimeo
>Mossflower
>Martin the Warrior
>Salamandastron
>Redwall
>The Bellmaker
>Mariel of Redwall
>Outcast of Redwall
>Lord Brocktree
>Marlfox
>Eulalia
>Legend of Luke
>The Rogue Crew
>Doomwyte
>High Rhulain
>Pearls of Lutra
>The Long Patrol
>Loamhedge
>and pic related

Did you even try in high school?

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>>7358426

2 Kings 2:23-24

23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

>>7358426

Matthew 7:6

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

I'm Gay right now and it's dope. What ass i w ank?

Anal bukoki discussion and questions ITT

>book on Bukowski
Bookowski?

http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukowski-william-burroughs-and-the-computer/

I found this pretty interesting, doesn't detail much about his actual work though.

The Bible.

>>7358329
Clever but looking for more recent. I'm fine with maybe 700s to now, preferably closer to now.

are there any books about a kek getting his revenge? Besides Lolita that is

>>7358254
Bookdepository.com - great range, discounted, free shipping everywhere. I've used it many times.

>>7358258
this and thriftbooks.

the motherfucking library

>>7358231
el no tiene talento disernible.

>>7358231
most boring book ever
tasteless, even. guy unashamedly mentions some character's cock size and everything

i don't recall ever thinking about communism when i read this