>>8091242
What's cringe about that?

>>8091261
Atheism is inherently cringe.

>>8091483
He's just recommending books by his pop author friends.

>>8091218

OP, are you me? I've read some of the books you've listed, but have read more postmodern literature as well and struggle with the same feeling.

I think what is best is to appreciate the evolution of literature and remember that any given book (especially the ones you listed) are representative of a particular style or school of thought at a certain point in time. Also, just because you might prefer postmodernism, does not necessarily mean that another piece of literature is not good and that you...
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>>8091218
>>The Catcher in the Rye
I never read that book even though I probably should've because it's a classic, I know it would be pointless to read it now though, because I outgrew it and I don't feel like I'd have anything to learn from it anymore because I'm too fucking old, plus we all already know the story. Yes, I think I'm too mature for it and don't want to read a book about some angsty edgelord from the 50s.

>>8091255
the way i see it you can keep coming back to the book as you get older and take away something new

1. "i identify with holden" -- edgy teenager
2. "i reject holden and those who identify with him" -- edgy young adult
3. "i have compassion for holden and empathize with the people who take care of him" -- not-so-edgy older adult

god knows what i will think of the book if i read it again at 40 or 80 or some shit, my reaction will probably be "i can't imagine...
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Big Book of Biases by L.L. Cool J

This picture is really awkward.

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Could cognitive biases dethrone informal fallacies as the king of shitty memes?

That honor goes to either Mason Verger or Ramsay Snow.

>>8091229
I refuse to believe someone posted this unironically

>>8091139
>is he the most unlikable, pyschopathic character in literary history

are you the most 12, underage character in 4chan/lit/ history?

I'm about to read this. But only after I found out that it's framed around / based on Vico's New Science. Read Vico way back. Thought it was cool joyce was into it.

See ya 'round m8.

>>8091133
Joyce was into pretty much everything, jsut saying.

>>8091120
don't get that editon if you're still looking to buy.

>>8090549
>having fun whilst knowing you shall never satiate the Will as long as you desire fun

Why someone want to read this trash?

>>8090558
idk, you'd have to know it's trash first in order to not want to read it.

>>8090321

I love the journal/diaryentry format. Any spooky supernatural story should be written like that.

Actually better than Lovecrafts first hand account rehash because you know that author survives to the end. But the journal entries could have been collected at a later date, and so you don't know who can die and live.

>>8090321
>there must be noun for words that are no longer used because new words have replaced those old words
archaism

>>8090321

A lot of archaic words are used, yes. But you don't need to use them in daily use. It would make you sound pretentious.

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>>8088579

>>8088579
Post it.
Maybe its not as bad as you think.

>>8088579
don't edit a first draft as you go. The 4 page edits are infuriating because you are evaluating in a vacuum with no larger text/story to base your edits on.

About a month

>>8087611
Can you give an example of a book? I'm interested in the number of words. I'd also like to know what your reading sessions are like.

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About a year.

>>8085685
Why are you starting this thread again? At least wait for the other one to leave the archives.

>>8067903

Actually, on second thought, go post in your SF/F containment thread.

>>8085694
What's the other one?

dem childbearing hips

In a choice between the two, Bakunin.

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>>8081585
I take a third choice, because I love Freedom and hate statism

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>>8081585
Neither.

>>8077114
>>THE FEMALE QUIXOTE - LENNOX

srs

>>8077127
what's the issue

>>8077130
it's a quixote-like parody of 18th century romance novels, are you a fancier of romance novels?

I also found this for those looking for a text

https://archive.org/details/playsofsophocles00sophiala

The Three Theban Plays in this collection are:
Antigone
Oedipus Tyrannus
Oedipus Coloneus

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>results and rollover period
Why? Just let the voting last until we finish the current book, giving everyone time enough to vote, and then we'll just continue with the book that's been selected. I agree on the rest thou

I give it 24 hours before this whimsical idea dies a cursed death.

Not bad. Whose style are you miming?

>>8068629

Cioran

>>8068629

I especially like copying the way the translator uses dashes. I find that for the fiction I write, it's a bit too much, but for lyrical ranting like Cioran it gives a nice cadence to all the caveats.

I was 16 when i found out that the world in all its sheer complexities does not succumb to any kind of dogma, generalization or fundamentalism but requires an open, pragmatic and unbiased approach in every singe case.

I was thirteen when I realized that OP was gay

Guess how I found out

>>8093434
Go back to tumblr you cultural Marxist pomo 'all is subjective' relativist cunt

Take the redpill already