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Infinite Jest, In Search of Lost Time, Ulysses

I don't want to listen to AP kids bullshit about my favorites. I want them to want to read more, and I only want to assign books that are undoubtedly the best of the English language. And they can't be very long or we'd all lose our patience. So, in this order:


Hamlet / Macbeth
Selections from Dubliners -- Araby and the Dead, probably
Light in August
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
Beloved -- Toni Morrison
Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz

The essential high school books I'm hoping they're already covered (Odyssey Iliad Metamorphosis selections from the New Testament & the Inferno & Paradise Lost, skip forward to Lord of the Flies Heart of Darkness Catcher in the Rye Slaughterhouse V Catch-22 Great Gatsby Sun Also Rises / Farewell to Arms 100 Years of Solitude To kill a Mockingbird A Separate Peace fuck I'm forgetting a ton but you know what I mean, all the expected high school books)

>>9732948
havent read light in august or all the pretty horses, but that seems like a pretty good list honestly. what would you talk about with each book? im wondering specifically about oscar wao

Masturbating to hentai. I particularly like exhentai.org, the lolicon tag especially.

writing (short stories currently)

Getting tons of pussy by talking about books I've never read.

Freud Writes Frankenstein (stitched together from various lines in a critique thread, none of which was mine)

Let it be said
the time has come for me to say hello:
The Queen is dead
by blackmagic melodies and mellow

Platonic fiends hovering over Tokyo
made from the clouds in your dream
atop the eons of which we roam
broken only after it seems

their faces, those of gods or dogs,
discarded cutlery in the trash,
planet, tiger captains, and frogs,
pig eating pigs plump with cash

murder my personality
without all the advantages
so take some hospitality
a tumble of shiny images

or not quite anyway, except
that isn't Toni Morrison, silly–
for the sake of what was left
we shiver in this chilly

room with the amusement park attraction;
as days crawl with the impatient impasse
that is probably muddled in abstraction
I watched her wilt as days did pass

like the columnated ruins, dominoed,
for the nuance or the yolk
but in schematic pseudocode
colliding with the herb smoke

reminding us of its presence
Güte gräbt ein tiefes Loch
It makes no difference,
set me up upon a rock

with ourselves at the other end
to say something pithy and smart,
though the view does ascend,
this is really easy to pick apart.

Two feet hang over a busy street;
They are inert, dancing softly to a wind
That sway the languet laces to a primal desire.
Between the sfumato of a green and a red
A sole is hung to haunt the streets of sin and desire.
>>9712938
Needs more grammatical tools. Colons and semicolons could make this a thousand times better.

>father and his ilk
so... you? Odd choice., Try again
>and I adrenaline rubs my belly
jesus christ man
>cereal bowl meter
??

Blah. In my worthless opinion it's too boring and I don't have any care of your message nor for your prose/poetry thing but I'm also pretty against prose poetry

In all honesty it'll probably be submitted by a modern mag or something. Just aim a bit lower

>>9712938
no bitch no

>>9748948
peterson fag spotted

i agree with the first two but schopenhauer is for brainlets and i don't know who the last one is

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>>9748957

>calls other people brainlets
>has not taken the ug pill

hmmm

The better question is: how do you keep your books from accumulating dust on the top or sides? Do you windex the front and back cover?

>>9748601
>not throwing them in the bin

your local independent book store

powells.com

>>9748595

>don't want to support Amazon's growing influence over the publishing industry.

why?

>>9748783
Because he's not autistic

>>9748595
One place: bookdepository
It's the only place with free shipping that delivers everywhere. I'm positive. One is enough, honestly.
Maybe if you live in USA or some other big country you can get some cheaper used books or some good sales if there is no shipping price or it's minimal.

The Inferno is the most interesting part of the trilogy.

if you really like it read the other ones.

did you need to make a thread for this

>>9748522
>skipped to Inferno
Inferno is the first part my dude.

>>9748531
We really have to make QTDDTOT/fuccboi generals a thing

bump you fucks i know you talk about it all the time

>>9748307
King James Version, newfag

>>9748307
King James, Barnes and Noble 2012 edition is leather bound and a beautiful book to own, perhaps not the ideal study bible though.

>>9748277
About 5%, people who carefully structure their lives tend to be more successful. The rest is projection and whinging. If I had to guess a 17 year old /r9k/ poster made this, gave it a fancy typesetting to appear genuine and shitposted for other inadequates to circle jerk over.

I don't see any room in there for religion, so it's a trash schema.

>>9748277
0%
Beta = Reactionary
Delta = Semi-alphas
Alpha = Proactives
Omega = Can be both Reactionary/Proactive
People who heavily influenced history were most Omegas, alphas tend to be stubborn and thats backfires sometimes, they make the best war vets tho

>>9748174
This book title enforces bigoted binary gender theory and is problematically transphobic.

>>9748174
Why the fuck.wont they answer my emails

someone please explain this meme to me

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>just b yourself

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>>9748391
>just b yourself

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>>9748451
>just b uyourself

Say "Th-thanks, you too..." and walk away like a good Christian.

>>9747933
I walk right up to him and smack his ass and make eye contact to establish dominance.

>>9747933
>You're in the church
I get out.

>>9747926
I have the 1st edition. Pseuds like you could increase its value like you did with the GR first edition.

>>9747926
where?

>>9747926
literally who?

>>9747915
It's a know fact that you have to have read Ulysses before you can understand Don Quixote.

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What translation?

Its the foundational text to spanish/latin-american literature in the same way as hamlet is the foundational text to anglophone writing

>>9747931
please tell me you're memeing

>>9747946
not sure which translation i should read.

help? from what i've previewed, it seems beautiful. i want to begin but any tips would be appreciated. how was it for you?

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>>9747872
>kinghtmarez, would ye mute yer microphone

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>>9747872
This is something an angry high school sophomore would write. Are we having a cringe thread?

>>9747872

This is really, truly horrible. The aesthetic bankruptcy of my generation will never fail to amaze me. Identity politics and poetry are truly a nightmare combination.