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>>10016643
one of the better fantasy/scifi novels of the last couple decades

if you like it, read The Scar as well

>>10016643
Nice setting and atmosphere, the writing was decent but it seemed to me like the author wanted to put too many weird things in the book just for the sake of it, also a lot of the plot avenues lead nowhere which is moderately annoying.
The ending was fucking retarded in regards to what happens to one of the characters; I had the impression that the Chinaman was self-inserting his moral views into Grimnebulin because at the end he decides to act, borrowing some terms from the /pol lexicon, like a goddamn obnoxious numale cuck.

Overall decently enjoyable; I wouldn't read it again but I might check out the other books in the same setting.

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The City and the City is his best work IMO.

Start with the Greeks.

Jung

your diary desu

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>implying it's over

>>10016564
This. Even if postmodernism is technically a 'continuation' of modernism it has been a kind of trend recently to engage directly with modernist ideas. This is in itself postmodern but like, you know, whatever

Romanticism desu

please help

Diogenes Laertius
Plato
Aristotle
Plotinus
Poryphry
Iamblichus
Proclus
Augustine
Aquinas
Descartes
Spinoza
Leibniz
Berkeley
Hume
Locke
Kant
Schopenhauer
Hegel
Marx
Stirner
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard
Klages
Husserl
Heidegger
Freud
Frege
Wittgenstein
Russel
Whitehead
Schmitt
Strauss
Gadamer
Luhmann
Sartre
Camus
Levi-Strauss
Saussure
Lacan
Derrida
Debord
McLuhan
Deleuze
Delanda

A worthless gypsy shitskin wants the easiest way in, of course.

From this description, I just might have to read this book now.

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>In a bizarre flashback Judd admits to his stepmother that he has always found her attractive and used to masturbate, thinking about her; Judd then drops his trousers and does the deed right before her (flattered) eyes, having her clean him up afterwards! And then there's an even stranger scene where Nicolai, Sofia's KGB lover, is reunited with Sofia after a few years apart; he confronts her as she's in the tub, pours champagne on his "erect phallus," and delivers the unforgettable line: "You loved champagne and you loved my prick. Let's see if you remember. Now drink both of them!"

http://glorioustrash.blogspot.com/2011/03/descent-from-xanadu.html

>>10016702
yeah, I remember both of those scenes now that you've mentioned them.

I honestly jerked off to the book multiple times. The bathtub scene was pretty hot.

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THIS FORCED SJW HORSESHIT. Seriously black people are super entertaining but why is it that when they write it comes out super fucking boring? Or was that more just cause she was a woman than a nigger?

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This book sucked. It's the lowest of the low of holocaust suffering porn. We also read The Silver Sword and that was much better.

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This, looking back on it its fucking hilarious but it fucking sucked to get through in HS.

Just think about what he REALLY is. And you'll know the answer to your question

>>10016376
This raises more questions than answers.

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>>10016369
God tier, you might say.

>>10016382
/thread

>>10016382
>>10016384
why?

>>10016388

Why??? Nigga why would you even think so? Stupid ass

>>10016345
>How are you supposed to read this?

You look at the words and follow them from left to right

Also puffed up Zane Grey

i wouldn't use the word amazing. he really over does it at times.

>>10016345
>is there anything else to it besides "people are evil!!
Not really, thats as far as the themes really go, the rest is aesthetics

novels are not peer reviewed

published textbooks will always be peer reviewed

academic journals are hit/miss. you have to check them on a case-by-case basis.

although i believe jstor has a search option that allows you to exclude all results that are NOT peer reviewed, so give that a try.

>>10016316
Who is this beautiful lady?

>>10016504
camille claudel

>>10016279
delayed gratification enough to think that they are better than other people... no more

>>10016279
They want to feel clever and/or artistic without having to actually work at it, I guess. Or something they can gain social capital by being seen to read.

your novels need to be entertaining

>>10016166
You can teach abroad. That's not a bad gig at all depending on where you teach.

>>10016166
Make a choice on your own, little boy. It's amazing how the supposed brightest students of a nation need someone to tell them right from wrong and good from bad.

>>10016229
who're u callin little, old man! i gotta tell ya, mister, I've taken on fellas twice your size so u better back off!

>>10016163
no I don't think you can

>>10016165
why?

>>10016215
because you post cartoon frogs on the internet

>>10016134
Realize everything you've read was a spectacular image and you need to jam capitalist culture. So steal the book and burn without having read it.

It's pretty easy to get into. Lukacs would probably help, but nothing is necessary.

I'll summarize.

So take an event like Trayvon Martin. Basically nobody gives a shit about the truth of what happened with Trayvon Martin and the only thing people give a shit about is that their side "wins", because everyone is too emotionally invested. People want to feel good.

You only see small fragments of "important spectacles" or events and with the way media works, they are increasingly cut and chopped into fragments that sell a certain story. Also media and technology that appear to connect us push us farther from human interaction.

The context of what is "good and will make you happy" is constantly framed by media.

The author thinks of people as more sheepish, but in reality I think people know this stuff generally and don't care. Like all writers he killed himself masturbating to isolated smart-sadness and his own alcoholism or something because he was "too smart to be happy." or whatever the writer thing is.

Me, i am a genius

Kafka was not a nihilist.

>>10016124
I love when pretentious /lit/ comments become memes