Plagiarism?

>neetsche
>not just edgy plagiarism of Dostoevsky and emerson

From Notes from Underground

>you say, science itself will teach man (though this is really a luxury in my opinion) that in fact he has neither will nor caprice, and never did have any, and that he himself is nothing but a sort of piano key or a sprig in an organ; and that, furthermore, there also exist in the world the laws of nature; so that whatever he does is done not at all according to his own wanting, but of itself, according to the laws of nature. Consequently, these laws of nature need only be discovered, and then man will no longer be answerable for his actions, and his life will become extremely easy. Needless to say, all human actions will then be calculated according to these laws, mathematically, like a table of logarithms, up to 108,000, and entered into a calendar; or, better still, some well-meaning publications will appear, like the present-day encyclopaedic dictionaries, in which everything will be so precisely calculated and designated that there will no longer be any actions or adventures in the world.

....

>I, for example, would not be the least bit surprised if suddenly, out of the blue, amid the universal future reasonableness, some gentleman of ignoble, or, better, of retrograde and jeering physiognomy, should emerge, set his arms akimbo, and say to us all: “Well, gentlemen, why don't we reduce all this reasonableness to dust with one good kick, for the sole purpose of sending all these logarithms to the devil and living once more according to our own stupid will!”

cont

Personal favourites are Firestarter, Dreamcatcher, The Tommyknockers

>>7366584
tommyknockers legit spooked me as a child

there are a couple scenes from that book i still have branded in my memory, i don't think theyre going away

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>>7366573
11/22/63 is easily his best. Back me up, ppl.

'It' is definitely notable.

The rest aren't as solid. I haven't disliked anything, though.

>>7366533
Not so good on it's grasp of cognition and neurosciences (split brains don't work like that and advanced proprioception not only relates to intelligent species, it relates to the most intelligent individuals within a specie). Hinges on pessimistic.

You could read his other stuff available online.

If you want to go even harder, try Greg Egan.

>>7366617
OP here, I agree with the brain stuff. I sort of took a lot of that with a grain of salt, but I got the idea of what he was trying to do for the story/characters.

What is good by Egan if you don't mind me asking?

hi bc

If you want Christian anarchy, Tolstoi

>I think I might be interested in anarchism
You and every fifteen year old out there

Classical anarchism: Proudhon, Bakunin, Stirner, Kropotkin, Tolstoi
Post-anarchism: David Graeber, Todd May, Saul Newman.

>>7366452
slid of the dust of the ground, down lower and forced his tongue and breathed into his nostrils the into his daddy's asshole. He could breath of life; and man became taste the shit left behind from a living soul. 8 And the Lord his last dump. Feeling like a God planted a garden eastward in dirty little girl, he explored deeper Eden; and there he put the into his ass, every time he man whom he had formed. 9 And wiggled his tongue deeper, his dad out of the ground made the muttered, "eat my dirty ass you Lord God to grow every tree little sissy slut. "Every time his that is pleasant continues to swell the heavens and of the earth in panties as he licked. He when they were created, in the said,"mmmm, good girl keep licking my day that the Lord God made balls." obeyed, and lapped up the the earth and the heavens, 5 And hairy stretched balls while his Daddy every plant of the field before moaned with delight. He worked the it was in the earth, and front and underneath them, then he every herb of the field before curled his tongue to work behind it grew: for the Lord God his balls, "mmmmmmm yes."His father groaned. had not caused it to rain He raised his legs and licked upon the earth, and there was nastiness from the bottom of his not a man to till the balls, the scent of left over ground. 6 But there went up a shit arose from his hairy backside. With both hands, he tilted, heads Thus the heavens and the earth upward offering him a full view were finished, and all the host his son's smooth young face, "You of them. 2 And on the seventh better lick my balls, and learn day God ended his work which to be a respectable young girl, he had made; and he rested or else you'll be a complete on the seventh day from all failure at both being a man, his work which he had made. 3 and a sissy, which is it?" And God blessed the seventh day, He pulled head forward once more. and sanctified it: because that in opened his mouth held out his it he had rested from all tongue, he licked salty sweat from his work which God created and his daddy's balls, he felt nauseous made. 4 These are the generations of but his cock

>>7366505
And saying, We have piped like...a bitch. Was that me, I unto you, and ye have not couldn't believe it, here I was danced; we have mourned unto you, getting assfucked by my coach dressed and ye have not lamented. 18 For up like a gothic whore and John came neither eating nor drinking, I was moaning like a girl. and they say, He hath a devil. 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children....
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i have no words on this this is too good everything i knew has been destroyed way to go dood i will now lift my lowered self esteem by going for a ride on my scooter

>>7366378
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Wouldn't recommend it but if you're really into the premise...

>>7366378
whats the point u cant even understand whats going on lol

>>7366456
There are translations, silly frog.

No. Read the Qur'an with full tafseer

>>7366365
Depends on how you feel about toilets.

>>7366365
Yes.

However that translation is a Hare Krishna hackjob.

>>7366341
You got it :^)

You might be the single most obnoxious person on this board

>>7366407
No, that title belongs to me.

I've actually never read anything from him, but I was thinking of checking out a Christmas carol for the holiday season

>>7366213

Dickens is great. Maybe he gets slighted around here because of how prolific a writer he was and how wordy (as opposed to dense, subtle, etc.) his writing is. He was a master at creating characters, and of giving them memorable names. He was also influential in influencing real-world concerns (i.e., the terrible child-labor conditions he experienced). And his writing is as cozy as anything around.

>>7366213
Tale of Two Cities has an extremely powerful last 100 pages, the rest are filler.

Christmas Carol is a masterpiece.

Oliver Twist became an excellent musical.

His sympathy for the working class is admirable.

Otherwise he is a typical sentimentalist victorian author getting paid by the word, who absolutely does not deserve to be pushed on hs students as part of the canon. Youd be better off reading Walter Scott.

>>7366200
I'd say just keep sniffing books and it'll come to you, but what sorts of writing mistakes do you make?

>>7366224
I tend to "Dutchify" my sentences by putting them into Dutch grammatical order and sometimes even make the mistake of directly translating a Dutch saying into English. They aren't major mistakes and often English people read over it, but it annoys me once I find out. Oh and I tend to make my sentences way too long by using commas, but I am working on it.

>>7366200
>Got any tips
You're not Beckett; write in your first language.

In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology from the Pali Canon - Bhikku Bodhi
The Kybalion - Three Initiates
Phaedo - Plato
On the Origin of the Species - Charles Darwin
Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe

The Kingdom of God is Within You - Tolstoy

The Book: On the Taboo of Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts

Why do you want to read Pynchon and Kafka?

>Do I really need to read philosophy before starting with the classics and more popular books such as Infinite Jest and Pynchon? It was once suggested to me that I should read philosophy to get the most out of these books

What kind of retard told you that?

>>7366202
I did. Want to fight about it.

I found Demons pretty funny at times. Can't remember TBK, need to reread it.

I laughed numerous times while reading McDuff's translation of Karamazov.

Constance Gardner's dry shit.

why? i liked it.

>>7366137

I'm not saying I didn't like it, it's more that the book evoked.... very real, angry emotions in me. It wasn't cathartic anger but Coetzee's writing (which I like, Youth is a very good read) to create such a scenario, characters and settings evoked a very strong reaction in me.

>>7366164
If anything, I felt frustrated occasionally by the increasing impotence embodied by the narrator, which didn't really feel earned. I can't think of any specific examples, but it seemed like Coetzee had him do things that didn't make any sense just to move the plot along, which in being so plainly allegorical felt more like an argument than a story for me to get emotionally involved in. But ultimately there was just so much going on figuratively and there's so much suspense throughout that I was...
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>>7366019
I will if you use the word please.

>>7366054
Please! It would really be appreciated.

>>7366019
If it was at all /lit/ related, I would.