Why do you want to read them?

And chronological order.

>>7605472
>he wants to into existentialism

wew lad are you 14

>>7605472
read the book descriptions and buy the one thats sounds most interesting to you.

It's one of the better childrens series (how should that be phrased?) out there.

Bloom thinks it's trash -- if he took a second look at it, now that the hype's died down, I'm sure he'd see the books as being decent. His statement that they condition young readers to get into digesting trash is false: I quickly advanced from Harry Potter to Oliver Twist.

If you're a teen or adult, there's much better light reads out there, of course. Not all the fiction you read has to be literature, but you should make some attempt.

>>7605141
Wish fulfillment crap.

Read Unfortunate Events instead, shit's like Pynchon for kids.

>>7605146
I agree with this guy. I read HP when I was a kid/teen and I liked it, as far as books aimed at young people go it's good, but not the best out there. I'm not sure if its appeal holds up to older audiences too, especially if you're accustomed to more literary fiction. You can give it a try, but if you're over 20 and going into Philosopher's Stone now I don't think you'll care much for it.

>>7604928
bump

Flattered that you think so highly of us, OP, but this would fit better in

>>/his/

Read: The Histories - Polybius

>fiction about writers
trashman.jpeg

>writers about fiction

This really sounds like a genre fiction rough draft.

lava .....ran in heavy cascades ... warped the metal and stone

commas are for separating these things into different parts, if you put them in it would be lava got cut up rock and bled over the metal and stone

>>7604814
Overwritten nonsense. I'll give it a completely unqualified try.
>Magma bled slowly from where the iron fixture separated in two, flotsam rock formations a perpetual drool sediment decorating its passage.
There are your two halves, the clearly defined subject and then the pointless wank after it.

That book inspired me than anything else i've read. The Road is good shit OP

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>>7604582

>proceed to peal Oprah's Book Club sticker off
>mfw it's not a sticker

>>7604582

I did not care for The Road.

Blood Meridian on the other hand is incredible.

What other McCarthy is god tier?

>self
>God
>freedom
>unhappy
>will
Spookiest thread in ages

>>7604463

is this in the fucking book?

I heard Dosto did bad pseudophilosophizing in his dumb novels but holy shit

>>7604487
>>7604463
I agree. I love Dostoyevsky but everyone has been saying Demons isn't that good. This passage seems pretty fookin good
>>7604487
Also it's just cool to hate Dostoyevsky I guess. He's pretty great though

>>7604254
Bolano

I am from south america and I have no idea about the books that were published in the last 15 years

>>7604257
Shit biscuits, how'd I forget Roberto?
I have brought shame upon my family.

>>7604204
Ernie was definitely a great one. I don't know if I would call it a lit profession, though. These days, it is totally corrupt. The time to be a journalist (or, better, a reporter) was in the 40s to the 70s. Woodward and Bernstein really destroyed it, not because they were wrong, but because they turned it into a collegiate level job. Give me the old beat reporter who raced around town chasing the cops and firemen covering the crime beat when they weren't stuck with sitting in a City Council meeting for four...
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Seems boring. What's great about this?
>muh brave men
Die cis scum

I like Peter Taylor, BBC correspondent who wrote a lot of critical material on the british states role in Northern Ireland. He also came out against censorship and bias in the BBC

Also Ed Maloney, probably the single most important investigator of the IRA alive.

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>Jimmy J went to a Jesuit school
>Tommy P hates Jesuits
>The Pope is a Jesuit
[noideth intensifies]

>If they ain't WASPs, they ain't human

That's basically what any WASP author would say 1900-1970. Jesuits were the "Da Joos!" of that era; you can find these kinds of Others everywhere throughout history if you look hard enough.

The Jesuits were building DARPA and a high speed worldwide non-public communications system before the Americans could fumble fuck things all basackwards for the next two hundred years.

Servitude et Grandeur Militaires isn't worth reading imo
Just read his poetry (which is absolutely fantastic)
Chatterton isn't that good but quite short so, yeah why not
One anon said that Cinq-Mars was good, but I haven't read it yet so I can't really confirm

>>7604024
Yes:

http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-de-Vigny/e/B001HPIX1A

>>7603610
T H E S T R A N G E R

>>7603610
Dubliners.

Made me pay more attention to the people around me and how they interact not to mention the beautiful prose.

>>7603610
the god delusion

>>7603478
Complete silence, unobtrusive ambient, or white/pink noise. Anything else distracts, and therefore detracts, from the reading experience.

>>7603478
I live next to a large street so I need to put something on to drown the noise of the cars. I usually put Steve Roden or something similar if I want to focus

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>>7603541
i never understood white/pink noise. they just make my ears ache and make me tense. what am i doing wrong?

Of course there are.

>>7603461
Can't find anything, tried Old Man's war, it sucked.

>>7603463
Most literature is 'philosophical'

I dunno, sure.

>>7603428
Cool thanks. I rather like how the foreign names look in their original state but I dont want to be super confusing to a reader, ( its not confusing to me though so i'm not sure)

>>7603441
alright, whatever.