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i read the commitments series by roddy doyle too OP. your picture needs more trumpets

>he has long-term goals and high aspirations, and isn't content to line up at the trough and eat the slop like the rest of the pigs

>he is unhappy because of the things he has done to himself
>he knows how to change things but doesn't bother because he lost his will to change somewhere when he self-inflicted depression on himself
>he believes that there will come a turning point, from within him or outside force, that will change him
>he believes that literature is making him smarter, and therefor sadder
>he doesn't see the correlation between his self-inflected misunderstanding and genuine hate of other's happiness

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What is a novel that is full of violence, obscenity, action, suspense, comedy, and horror?

this is not a good thread

>>9604223
The Neckless by Maupassant
the horla by Maupassant
La Peur by Maupassant
White nights by Dostoyevsky
a dream of a ridiculous man by Dostoyevsky
The Nose by Gogol

There are many.

>>9603835
We are living in a Pynchon novel

Good, hopefully I'll start getting laid more often now.

>>9603835

Donald Trump is already the Pynchonest thing to ever happen.

>>9603801
Well, it evolved from a variety of sources and influences in order to provide a metaphysical/existential background to human existence updated to the times they were living in. It's not like "Greek Mythology" was an isolated pantheon to whom people started attaching stories: the theme of monosandalism (eg. Oedipus, Hephaestus), for example, with its implications of demi-humanity and communication with the afterlife/inhuman, has evolved coherently across millennia from the steppe of Central Asia to Scythia to Athens to Subsaharan Africa; everytime, it took on the form and the names most adapted to the place "it" (this cultural theme/practice) found itself living. Same thing with this myth featuring parricide, geographical etiology and the common theme of the (de)generation of woman from the One Pure sex of the male (cfr. Artaud's Heliogabalus).

In short, start reading intellectual/religious histories of the Mediterrenean area and the "Ancient World". I recommend Carlo Ginzburg and Ernesto De Martino as authors on the theme.

>>9603801
>>9603852
Still not as good as Warhammer 40k

>>9603801
Read Maps of Meaning

It's a pretty good book, OP. Keep in mind, he does say "according to" rather than he literally believes in it. Stories, especially religious stories, don't necessarily need to be believed word for word, but they're meant to convey and epitomize why the religion believes in it.

The stuff about every white man being a white devil kind of gets my goat (I know 4chan isn't a good example but I do know white people who have hearts of gold) but that's kind of a staple for members of the nation of Islam (plus, he wrote it and followed the beliefs at a time when black people didn't have equal rights either - I'd probably call someone out nowadays if they called me a white devil but back then there was enough reason).

>>9603326
>I'd probably call someone out nowadays if they called me a white devil but back then there was enough reason
What a despicable boomer cuck attitude. You should be ashamed of yourself.

There's a reason this guy was promoted as America's black militant puppet over Farrakhan, but it has more to do with what he *didn't* talk about, and it's nothing you're going to read about in a book you probably only bought to virtue signal with.

>>9603326
>be white in civil rights era
>vote to help blacks get equal rights
>get called white devil by blacks

reactionary shit. only popular cause shes hot

i didnt read it but you know

>>9602730
>a 21-year-old girl understands the world

Yeah, I'm not reading this.

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>Buy this book before the liberals ban it

>>9602717
I hate you, mum.

God's real Mum, and there WILL be an afternoon waiting for you. One does not simply 'die and get put underground.' I hope you realize this in your later years.

>>9602774
afterlife* fucked that up

>>9601992
If you were still Gregor you'd know the best thing for everyone would be for you to leave this board and never come back. Do it for your family. We can't stand having you around.

>>9601992
hey I just finished reading the metamorphosis for the first time a couple minutes ago
that said this post sucks

>>9601992
Gregor, you look different. Did you get a haircut?

>The sun came suddenly from behind a rain cloud, flooding the room with glorious light that wavered on the walls like water.
>Camilla's face burst into glowing bloom. A terrible sweetness boiled up in me. Everything, for a moment – mirror, ceiling, floor – was unstable and radiant as a dream. I felt a fierce, nearly irresistible desire to seize Camilla by her bruised wrist, twist her arm behind her back until she cried out, throw her on my bed: strangle her, rape her, I don't know what. And then the cloud passed over the sun again, and the life went out of everything.

How does Donna understand the male mind so well?

>>9601563
huh
really makes you think

Bump. I know there are Secret History fags lurking.

I've encountered the criticism that much like how Henry manipulates Richard by appealing to his intellectual vanity, the novel, with its references and quotations and general literariness, gets the reader on side by making you feel smart for enjoying it. I don't agree but it's a nice thought.

>>9597528
Why doesn't he have a wife and kids?

>>9597538
pretty sure he does

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>>9597538
He does though. Obviously he doesn't talk about them much on his blog, that wouldn't be very safe.

>>9597182
The Strand or by any of the colleges/universities. Also visit public libraries.

NY sucks go to philly

Why are all the trees dying :(

Is it because of global warming?

>>9596720
Take the redpill instead, retard. Books are for fags and philosophy for numales

>>9596720
Covert to catholicism you faggot.

No, but do report back later

donald, because he's less black

>>9595923
>the size of his beak lips
>less black

>>9595919
>something is the product of a natural process that is reducible to materialist terminology
>therefore idealism is wrong
Shiggy diggy. I recently saw a documentary about the medieval mindset. One distinguishing aspect of this mindset was the fact that people resorted to naturalist descriptions and explanations of certain events (e.g. a solar eclipse) and at the same time held these events to be divinely inspired and miraculous, foreshadowing certain developments. We would be doing good of reminding ourselves that while the scientific method allows us to further our utilitarian understanding of the world (we are after all a race of engineers as Dostoevsky put it), there are certain elements to existence that are mythically beyond our rational grasp.

For any münchener krauts on here, behind Marienplatz (in die nähe vom Kuhbrunnen) There's a small Oxfam that sells only books. Pretty okay. Other than that, there's a CD, Records, Books and More on the Sendlinger Tor. Other than that, I don't know any second hand book stores. Somebody help me.

Why are germans so absolute fucking dogoshit at having second hand stores? They're a fucking nightmare to find, and 75% are used clothes stores. All I want is to buy a box of somebody's trash, why is this so fucking hard? I'm in hell.

>>9594588
In New York, I go to the Book Culture store on 112th street between Broadway and Amsterdam. They have their used books upstairs, which is also just a cool place to browse or meet people or hangout or whatever. Sometimes they have events there, like free wine and cheese on Fridays or something, I don't really know for sure. I found a first english edition of The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea there, which was published before his "coup" attempt and suppuku, so that was neat. It has a big picture of him smiling on the back cover.

Also the Strand is good I guess though I've only been there once or twice.

In Ann Arbor I got a bunch of books from a used book store that was close to campus, within a few blocks west of state street. I don't remember if it was the Dawn Treader or another. I got a collection of Gogol stories and I Claudius and Claudius the God there, plus other stuff I don't remember. I might have gotten an old edition of the Master and Margherita there too.

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>>9596113
I think I went to this one usually when I was in Ann Arbor.

>>9589768

I really love reading about Captain Trips laying waste to the world. Even after, the novel is pretty entertaining.

King is a faggot for using chocolate smudges from a Payday bar as a plot device, when Paydays aren't fucking chocolate.

>>9589768
Worth reading. It would have been the pinacle of post apocalypse fiction if it were not for the ending .

>>9589789
King can't write an ending to save his life.

That said it was pretty enjoyable.