Way cool anon

In before "existential nihilistic dredging" and "Hemingway is da bessst!!!"

Celine had some stark views about reality coming from the madness of war, but dammit if his writing wasn't spot on! Bukowski was right to choose this man as an intellectual muse.

disgusting

kowski was a shitty fat hack

>>8227185
If you're all about Buk quotes, then you've missed the point.

>>8227185
>Work sucks

As a NEET its kind of my Credo

Emerson is a very challenging writer, and primarily an essayist and poet. Whitman is also challenging but Whitman has a layer of accessibility covering all his mystical esoterism and mystery. Whitman is not typically classed among the transcendentalists, though he was influenced and knew many of them.

>>8227183
>What sort of "prerequisites" do I need to have erad before getting into the transcendentalists

bad taste

>>8227183

(cont.) both authors will give of themselves in proportion to the commitment you give them as a reader.

>>8227169
My diary t.b.h

>>8227169
The Tunnel by William Gaddis

Notes from the underground, but Crime and punishment to some degree as well.

Go to a doctor and take SSRI for your social anxiety, Anon.

CORNYMAC YE TORTILLAS MCCOBBLER

Why did you turn me on?

>>8227133
lmao

Isn't this some troll copypasta or something?

>>8227111
The pasta is fresh, my friend. Never copied.

I was completely serious in that post.

>>8227111
Why would you even assume it's a troll? What about this seems like trolling to you?

Shelley's thing is interesting because Prometheus Bound was probably one part of a complete story that saw a reconciliation and synthesis of the completely unyielding pride of Prometheus with the necessity of duty and piety etc., but Shelley reads the fragmentary remaining "thesis" (i.e. lacking its antithesis and synthesis) as a very romantic FUCK YEAH PRIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! story

>>8227046
Hm, interesting, I didn't get the feeling he was leading there at all, it read more as a "bloodied but unbowed" sort of theme. (Don't some people even think it was a later author misattributed to Aeschylus because of the Zeus prophecy stuff?).

>>8227046

>durr i read the wiki article on hegel and now I'm a dialectician :^)

there was a similar thread recently.

basically i go with owc if i can because i find their quality is a lot better. the black penguin classics have had bad glue/stitching, easy ink smearing, and the black flakes off. they can both look great though, usually do imo.

Oxford over penguin, almost always.
This is true both for quality and translators.

Oxfords usually have notes in them. So Oxfords, though Penguins are better if I don't care so much for translation or notes and just want a cheap book

So said the anon who will never publish a book

>its a pseuds pretend to be patrician by shitting on the nobel prize episode

t. Butthurt pynchonfag

>>8226893
I don't know, does it?

What is that book about?

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>>8226893
pretty good novel, different from what I expected. Oe tries not to be a Japanese-style writer.

Mishima and him hated each other though, I guess just a classic ideological hatred.

>>8226970
"Kenzaburo Oe has reached a new pinnacle in postwar japanese fiction" - Mishima

but yeah I could see that, seeing as Oe sort of just shat all over japanese tradition.

>>8226799
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.

I'm just thankful he didn't die prematurely from his sickness. I had a friend who got seizures once in a while . One time he was riding a subway and got one, fell down and hit his head and dead.

>>8226804
For u

Young Adult books like Hunger Games, John Green and Harry Potter. The characters need to be relatable to be an interesting read :^)

Anything written by american blacks thats only about muh nigga dick struggles like between the world and me. Satisfies the anti western and bbc fetishes both these groups share

>>8226793
>Someone made this image because they were angry about the shallow personalities of these women but probably fantasize about the perfect woman every day.

Anyway, the modern fun readers and attention readers enjoy books that they can relate to. They don't have to be just like the main character, they just require a simple theme dialogue and story. They enjoy gimmick bullshit like adding gay or minority characters as well as just adding a genre to a soap opera like twilight did.
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what we talk about when we talk about love. title had me so hyped up. book was shit.

I've never read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but I want to based on the title alone. I think the incongruity of 'lightness' with the rest of the phrase intrigues me.

some titles i've admired
>the autobiography of alice b. toklas, the memoir by gertrude stein
>in the heart of the heart of the country
>one hundred years of solitude
>on the road
>the age of innocence
>down and out in paris and london
>great expectations
>lit by mary karr, a book about both alcoholism and literature

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>>8226765
I uh.. I ran out of shelf

>>8226781
Wow my laptop takes terrible quality photos

why not save yourself the time and just starve yourself to death now

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>>8226755
that is the wrong diogenes!

>>8226755
Not enough of it left to write books about, laddo.