never lend books, because everybody treats books like shit. I don't break spines, why is that so hard for other people?

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What about this?

its because when you have a backlog of books you want to read why would you bother reading something a friend lends you that you barely want to read

>>8279672
That's a funny book.
Y'all are just jelly.

>>8279672
when you and everyone like you and everyone you like and everyone you've ever known are finally dead, the world will be less bad.

>>8279682
When I die, the world will sees to exist.

I opened it up, read a sentence, didn't like the sentence, closed the book, and never opened it again.

>found a copy of this in a tiny used bookstore for $7
>took it up to the woman running the place
>hey, you only accept cash here, right?
>mhmm
>okay! well in that case, i'll be riiiiight back ;-)
>left and never went back

i never read this stinky ol' book

Read it and enjoyed it. The consul was a memorable character but I didn't feel much attachment to the ex or his half-brother. There was some good writing in the book but I didn't feel it approached the Joycean heights it maybe aspired to?

It's worth the read and one of the better books I read these past few months. I might read it again when I have the time.

Oh, why didn't that railing give way? I ask myself.

>>8279492
It was reinforced by the sheer talent it was in contact with

>>8279490
What would their band name be?

I don't hate it but i only read it so I could get the /lit/ pseudo intellectual cred. I would've given up otherwise. Bravo academia-media-publishing industrial complex. The first 50 pages are good but the rest just dissolves in to pointless shit. dracula's actions make absolutely no sense unless you read the book as some sort of fear of immigrants thing (buying property and cucking the men by taking their women) but who cares (even though I think pol is right)?

>>8279446
>Are there people here who hate this book?
no
it's great

It's dated, for historical reference only.

>>8279389
Just read before you go to bed, you haven't even started and you're already overthinking it

How much spare time do you need to read a chapter or so per day?

>>8279389

You don't become 'avid' without becoming a 'shut-in'. The key is to care about reading more than you care about what people who don't read say about you.

But that's wrong, the best novel written by an African-American is Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.

Hogg was pretty good though.

>>8279353
I like that Delany didn't go the muh oppression route with his novels.

>>8279353
Is Hogg the thing about the pedophile with the boy sex slaves or whatever?

The Iliad is worth mentioning.

>>8279337
True. Why that in particular though? Was (political) intrigue was as major in Iliad?

>>8279314

King Lear?

You really proved that you believe what you already believed before you read that book a.non.
I'm sure that everyone who agrees with you will agree with you.
Thanks for fixing all the problems;

>try to read book written by nigger
>bla bla bla muh slavery muh crack
>close book
Niggers are the worst race, they exist only to be dominated and enslaved.

Why don't they blame themselves? Literally sold themselves to whites and the first slave owner in the US was a black dude, Anthony Johnson.

>>8279260
Who? He looks like a fantasy author...

Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer

>implying people know him apart from the 3 of us Hungarians

What is the bicycle of dubstep?
What is the gelato of skateboards?
Who was the Budweiser beer of tectonic drift?

Artaud

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>>8279257

Probably Poe

>Relative to others in their profession, they were financial failures
>Only got their world-fame and success after they died
>Very entry-level of their respective genres, not very deep or complex, but with enough quality to entertain most with passing knowledge of Art/Literature

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Ever build a Mastermind ?

>>8279741
No. I do want to try one day though.

>>8279197
Because everything fails no matter what.

>>8279199
>truth bomb ends thread before it begins
>inb4 fags come to point out the inherent flaws of a human system while shilling their infallible economic strategies

>>8279199
Not capitalism

I've got some hot new info. It's kill yourself

>>8279142
The free ones my local bookstore won't stop giving me with every purchase even though those fuckers know I go there at least once a week.

>>8279142
>using a book mark
How about just remembering where you were in the book you brain-damaged sea creature?

No, I am literally steppenwolfe

>>8279117

That's the joy of literature in a sentence!

>>8279117
So were you born to be wild?