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>>9620921
Suttree

>>9620936
This

>>9620921
You finished the only essential McCarthy although 'All the pretty horses' is quite fantastic

It's a self help book, its obsessive cult is a product of fan base fetishism. It's not a good book. Unless you want to become a business-man, a Jew, this is completely irrelevant to you. If you support Donald Trump, this will be completely irrelevant to why you would like him.

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Off the cuff shiggy diggy that we know and love Donnie for. Tasteful anecdotes which embody the simple yet effective goals and aspirations of the most prolific individual of the current age.
A modern Julius Caesar takes the world economic battlefields by storm and turns his family name brand into the gold standard of American wealth and high life. This book makes for a comfortably light read and is fulfilling to the modern reading with its humorous insight into
the myth, the man, the legend,
Donald J. Trump.

>>9620561
Simmer down little man

its a very poor self-help book for low test betas with no attention span.

tony schwartz even said its a shit.


its easy to download. make your own mind up.

do you need help tying your shoelaces you fucking villager?

>>9620021
most of those "books" are so funny. shit that kids get their dads for christmas. they are 600 pages, but could be read in 45 minutes

>>9620021
Someone write to him one the mailbag with the request that he show his bookshelf in detail.

>>9620021
Fuck off ben

>>9619382
why do people like eliot so much, seems pretty shit to me desu

>>9620569
t.rouser roll

It was Charles B(U-Cowski)

>>9619374
>intentionally making an non-photogenic selfie
This kid is just wallowing in his own filth.

How do I start with Houellebecq?

>>9619409
don't, you will become depressed

It was his subconscious.
And/or his suppressed anguish, tapping away his sanity.

>>9619289
it was a parrot in blackface. he escaped from an abusive owner. don't judge.

>>9619289
Just a normal raven whom the narrator is projecting his anguish onto as his sanity gets chipped away.

>>9619163
100 Years of Solitude.

Ulysses. It's not exclusively about solitude, but it represents it in a ver interesting way.

The Book of Disquiet

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>>9619108

This is personally one of my favorite photos, because he looks happy.
I personally really liked Runaway Horses. I think it embodies a certain moment of adolescence where you are somehow able to distinguish good and evil with a clarity you'll never have afterwards, without compromises.
Great writer and great man.

>>9619108
Am I wrong to not like Mishima? I read Sailor Who Lost Grace and thought it was pretty good, but then I read Temple of the Golden Pavilion and hated it. I don't like edginess, I like books that come from a nice moral place (and I also don't mind homoeroticism :^) ), so what books by Mishima should I try?

>>9619165

Temple of the Golden Pavillion is one of his bests, in my opinion, I'm sorry you hated it.
What do you mean with books coming from a 'nice moral place'?

>>9618593
maybe i'm just retarded but i couldn't even finish the first sentence

>>9618653
Thanks for replying though I know now to add some sort of introduction to my monologue. Especially considering the entire chapter is analogous of myself. I'm unsure whether the reader would have picked that up.

>i purchased a car

cars are for tacky ppl in flyover country, stopped reading right there

>>9618126
No one has ever given a shit about these numale cucks who hate capitalism and whiteness

>>9618168
Great post. This is why I come to /lit/.

do you think D and G ever made out?

Back to /mu/ or /tv/ you pleb

The opening is fucking enchanting

If you don't have the discipline to maintain focus either fucking way you should fuck the fuck off of my /lit/ pleb

>>9617976

I've found that the openings of Marquez books are the best parts (best meaning has the most emotional impact on me). That particular book doesn't change much, it's the same general structure for the whole thing so if you're not enjoying it just drop it

What the fuck is this thread? Are you mentally retarded? For a novel that's not half bad, it's fan-base attracts a wide community of shit.

Someone kindly explain this to me. In fucking English.

>>9618035

*its

Excuse my profanity, OP. Your post stopped making sense after three sentences and it reminded me that there's people who actually speak that way.

>>9617972

i did that on purpose

>>9617696
>objective statements
>real truths

Read 'On Truth and Lying in the Extra-Moral Sense'

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>>9617700
forgot this faggot

"things that exist" are only finite sets of accidental particulars

an infinite number of explanatory theories is possible to account for any these particulars once unknowable entities become necessary parts of these explanations

contingent historical forces are what determine which one of these theories is considered to be true at a given time

>>9615924
I am actually happy for her, she makes it easier to spot plebeians

She already came and went, she's not "here to stay"
All she writes now are obnoxious tweets

>>9615939
>She already came and went
And yet her cultural impact still has a hufe influence on the world. Ask any person on the street about who Harry Potter is. Then ask them about DFW or Pynchon or whatever new age faggot you guys worship at the moment. Face it, a woman has BTFO'd this male dominated culture.

data mining thread

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>>9615042
>age
>first name
>location
>last 4 digits of your mobile number
>current book you're reading and how you like it
>are you a fan of kellogs new cereal brand?

>25
>Brisbane
>Odd Thomas
It started off interesting, but I feel like the author goes off on too many tangents. Have to fill up those pages somehow.