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>>9810864
The only topic he knows anything about is rock music

>>9810872
>implying implications
at the very least he's also one of the world's foremost AI experts. I like how he's constantly blowing singularity faggots the fuck out. His writing on the history of computers is just as interesting as his rock reviews.

1. Unknown: The Birds, The Frogs, & The Mosquitoes (Unknown)
2. Various: The Holy Bible (Various)
3. Various (Anonymous): The Legacy of Totalitarianism In A Tundra (2014)
4. Milton, John: Paradise Lost (1667)
5. Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick (1851)
6. Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis (1915)
7. de Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote (1605)
8. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
9. Al Karkhi, R.: Who Blew The Whistle? (2017)
10. Easton Ellis, Bret: American Psycho (1991)

Bump, I have the same interest.

>>9810793
pic reminds me of a dream I had where I was playing a video game (or maybe it was really happening in the dream idk) where I had to run away from Godzilla who would spawn in a random place in the city and I had to survive. City was like some Japanese city meets LA.

>>9810837

Sounds adrenaline-filled. Closest I've had to a dream like that was being in a three story big midatlantic house in a generic midatlantic neighborhood, but at night and the darkness was so overwhelming that you couldn't see anything, and there were a bunch of silent humanoid creatures that were rustling outside, trying desperately to get in and devour us, while we barricaded doors and monitored the house.

>>9810767
The bible

>>9810767
Begin with Hegel's phenomenology of spirit.

But seriously here are some books.

>An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis. Hospers
>The Central Questions of Philosophy. Ayer
>Meditations. Decartes
>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Hume
>Obligatory start with the Greeks.

>>9810771
Already read parts of the New Testament, and a one or two books from the Old Testament. I enjoyed it, actually really enjoyed reading the New Testament. Especially following the birth and death of Christ, of course it got a bit boring after his death and then it turns into the Apostles preaching on and on.

Revelations had the most imagery though, and really enjoyed reading it.

It's happened before, but not often

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>>9810746
over 60% of the books i own aren't read

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>>9810743
I have about 60 unread books and just yesterday I bought three more

>>9810600
Another masterful tweet for the next "Selected Tweets".

>>9810600
She'll probably keep tweeting very original and nice tweets about John McCain and his brain cancer.

>>9810600
Total fucking manface

>>9810587
>it's another "nords try to take credit for meds creating western civilization" episode

This is a stupidly broad topic, you ought to be ashamed. Why do neither the phrase "proto-Indo-European" nor a synonym ever appear in your post?

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>>9810603
Oh shove it, there's redheads all over Europe.

>>9810558
First half of Crime and Punishment

Olive Kitteridge

All of them

t. Freud

Let me read some funny shit!

Or crackfics.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12562738/1/Star-Vs-the-Forces-of-Arlen
This is funny

The Neuromancer one is bretty good

>>9810388
>slumming
Art bubbles up from the bottom as well.
Look at the Library of America series they've has worse choices.

>>9811214
No they haven't. Name them.

>>9810356

I dunno, there's something about it that gives it like no energy or momentum at all. Like, I read a few sentences, read on, and on, and there's very little energy directing me forward. Much like paintings of lines of direction to bring the viewer's eyes to different parts of composition, the novel should have (more figurative) lines of direction that pressure the reader forward, because it's either easy and there's little resistance, or because it's hard and the resistance is interesting enough to overcome. There's no resistance in reading your work, but it's also lacking enough energy for the reader to even overcome that.

I won't copy and quote your work here, but for example, the fourth paragraph has a decent amount of dialogue and action (temperature, then window/owl, then talking, then "comical" confusion) for a paragraph, but it feels completely empty because there is no style whatsoever. It's workmanlike. Which is fine, but you'd better have some compelling and quick momentum then, like Hemingway tended to (not that you're Hemingway ofc).

>>9810638
I'm hoping to put more action into the next few chapters, as this was just an introductory chapter.

>>9810666
O fuk a wasted trips. Oh well.

You haven't read past the first page. It's called style. Love it or leave it. Would you rather some Dreiser?

>>9810395
*write like shit*
*say its my style*
>This is now okay

>>9810404
No one said good style.

>>9810297
>reading reddit tier shit
kys my man

You've read the bulk of the book, why not finish it? It's a funny book, nothing more

Cracked

are sections of pulp written in latin?

>>9810280
latin is basic bitch tier

Your dichotomy is both false and juveniele but it's a well loved piece of American literature that is also science fiction. Read it.

I kind of wish Faulkner had a book cover with him stapling something to his chest

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Finally got around to reading /ourguy/ Norm's memoir last night - phenomenal. I always see it get brought up around here so if you haven't already done so, I recommend reading it.
The ending was honest-to-god the hardest I've laughed at something in a long time.

>>9810340
ok, thanks publisher's employee.

I liked the book, but the ending was easily the worst part of it.

Nice philosophy.
>Inb4 the legitimate arguments that I already know completely undermine my position.

>tfw no one will ever like you because you're small
Nature is evil

>>9810228
Nietzsche is an artist. He's one of the best prose stylists out there.