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> that encounter with the comanches where only The Kid and a few others survived
> that encounter with Toadvine and The Kid in the mud
> Toadvine in the hotel
> the Mexican bartender that annoys the Kid
Shit, people weren't kidding about the violence in this, everything is so ugly in this book (and I'm loving it).
It gets worse, huh?
It's a brutal book without being edgy about it. The violence is just part of the environment.
Remind me again, why does Toadvine burn the hotel, some guy stole his horse?
There is also a lot more brutality in the book. Babies getting fucked up and all.
>>8113795
> It gets worse, huh?
Yeah, a lot worse. But don't read it solely for the disturbing violence because you'll probably grow tired of the book if that's all you read it for.
Does this offer insight about the writer's psyche?
Has anyone read it?
>>8113769
Yes, but you can also read 'The Judgment' that tells you enough about his daddy issues.
Literally nobody has read it.
>>8114124
His father certainly didn't
>Five God-Tier books
I will start:
Ulysses - James Joyce
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Ulysses
war and peace
crime and punishment
blood meridien
in search of lost time
Ulysses - Jamba Juice
The Cannibal- John Hawkes
JR - Willy G
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - Willy G
Gravity's Rainbow - Tommy Pinecone
>It's a "boys pretend that they like Ulysses" chapter.
what book was it where one of the characters has a diabetic or epileptic seizure of some sort getting into or out of a taxi?
i feel like it was the main character's brother or some estranged friend/family member, also that it is written from the perspective of the person having the attack and all we get is fragmentary dialogue from the people trying to restrain him
something tells me it might have been Infinite Jest or Underworld but i haven't read either in a while
i apologize if this isn't from a book and i am remembering a scene from something...
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>>8113267
Poor Tony Krause from IJ, in a bus
>>8113273
are you sure? that doesn't sound right to me ...
i remember poor tony dopesick and shitting his pants, is this separate?
>>8113276
That's another part. He goes into a seizure from alcohol withdrawal after spending days in a public bathroom trying to ease his heroin withdrawal with codeine/alcohol cough syrup, AFAIR. He has visions of his father, I think, and nearly swallows his tongue.
What's it like? Why did you like it if you've read it? What's so special about it?
Gassposter? Plz explain me, senpai.
What the fuck do I care if you read it or not. What a shit fucking thread. I hope you feel bad about being this fucking reliant on other people to do any fucking thing that you can't even pick up a fucking book by yourself.
It's not a book you'll be likely to enjoy unless the (original) meme trilogy was compelling for you.
>>8113253
summer
I read fast (not very fast, but fast) and tend to skip words (and sometimes whole lines) that I don't understand.
I tried forcing myself to slow down, and read "carefully" but it turned reading into a painful exercise.
Am I a bad reader if I skip things that I don't understand while reading?
Y E S
But who care? You just wont progress as fast as someone who put in more efforts,thats all.
Of course you are. Not only that, generally reading fast also makes you a bad reader. How can a metaphorical sentence affect you, if you read on immediately. How can the image a writer paints emerge in your head if you skip ahead just to get by with the story?
>>8113016
It's fine. Don't listen to the autists.
The majority of older novels aren't worth line by line scrutiny. And weren't written with it in mind.
Is there a literary version of Frank Zappa?
I'd like to read it.
>>8112817
You mean fart jokes elevated by purple prose? I wouldn't recommend.
>>8112817
The hypersphere by anon
>>8112826
So Pynchon
Gimme a list of Greek and Roman philosophers relevant to understand recent western philosophy.
I'm tired of postponing starting with the greeks
>Roman philosophers relevant to understand recent western philosophy.
N/A. You're supposed to move on to Medieval philosophers after the Greeks.
All of them tbqhwyf
>>8112230
marcus aurelius man
Can we all agree that this is objectively the greatest book of the 21st century?
Nah.
>>8112198
hahahahahhahahahhahahahaha
>>8112198
Yeah, if you're a purple haired androgynous college girl who only likes the book because you heard it was all just vaginal symbolism
> I got all these books for ONLY $14.54!!
You overpaid. Dogshit condition. Shop smarter.
>paperbacks
>cracked spines
>not even facing up
>>8112179
All I care about is the content senpai
write whats on your mind
cocks
write hats off your mind
>>8111778
Write, not type.
which one lit
>>8111437
Live Classically
>>8111437
mohism
logical positivism is not that and asia is more than china.
I wish to memorize the iliad and odyssey in original ionian. I am going to learn attican greek first then ionian. what is a good version with facing translation and transliteration and commentary?
The Loeb editions have the Greek and English face to face. There are no good commentaries on Homer besides the ones in the Cambridge Greek and Latin (Greek and Yellow) series which only cover a few books of each poem. There's also Geoffrey Steadman's editions of 6 & 22 of Iliad and 6-12 of Odyssey, which have the vocab and grammar on the same page or facing the text.
Also the Homeric dialect is just an older form of Attic/Ionic with a few differences in inflection.
>>8111510
thanks. I went with Mastronarde's Introduction to Attic Greek and got a facing copy of plato's symposium with translation by John Burnet and commentary by steadman. and the loeb book 1-12 of the illiad.
I figure symposium is as good a place as any to start.
How long would it take someone to recite the entire thing from memory? Each one takes several hours just to read, I can't imagine saying them all at once
If you actually manage to learn it that'll be cool as fuck op
Was it autism?
>Understood the human condition better than anyone else before him
>Had a mental disorder that prevents sufferers from understanding the human condition
>>8111360
>Had a mental disorder that prevents sufferers from understanding the human condition
Not autism.
Looks like he had down syndrome.
Perhaps that might explain why he was so fucking out of touch with humanity.
>'''mocking''' jews
>actually has a poo in the loo sequence
lol
Tropic of Cancer was in a Seinfeld episode. Baked beens teeth "Can't stand ya" dddddddddddddhanajkaskjeakjaef
>>8111310
are you ok
>>8111310
Wtf to that. Is this book any good?
