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>DUDE, EVERYTHING AND MORE? I'M READING THAT
David foster wallace
it was the strangest thing, for a brief second ops post gave me the urge to kill myself, not even shitposting
That video sucks and the kid that screams out the window seems fucking insufferable. He is the reason people think DFW fans are faggots.
The Movie:
>kind of comfy
>old books that summon the devil? Sweet!
>subtle and ambiguous supernatural elements
>cool locations
The Book:
>assholes, assholes everywhere
>muh secret Dumas club
>this isnt really about that devil book
>>8023070
Woman in the Dunes
>>8023070
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Every Stephen King novel.
firstmonday.org/article/view/3665/3055
>>8022961
She's cute.
someone pastebin this shit
This is really detailed. Good job to the anon who wrote this.
Why is Dumas such an asshole? Holy shit.The story was so good up until the last 15 or so chapters. Like Aramis, I'm disgusted by what took place, and I don't even really want to read the sequels.
I really really really want to like this book, because it's exciting with lovable characters. I loved the Count of Monte Cristo, but the ending to this takes such a hard left. Help me understand, what am I missing? The John Felton thing I get. Had I been more informed on history, I probably would have liked that sequence a little better, because it was clever....
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>>8022818
i had read it ages ago so i visited wiki to refresh the plot
now, it's ridiculous, wiki has a part that milady de winter might be a tranny.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milady_de_Winter#Transgender_Theory
I'm sorry that a woman being a bad person and then getting her comeuppance triggers you OP.
>>8022895
I read that today too. It's probably the faggot that wrote it that put it up there. It's so beyond stupid.
>>8022900
What triggers me is that she is evil incarnate with the most horrible and selfish intentions, and she succeeds in her evil plots. She's Claude Frollo in a novel that up until the point where she takes center stage, is jovial and fun and full of hope. And at the end, she's given a dignified death, and Dumas even makes the characters...
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You're at a party. Yuppies, academics, writers. You don't fit in as well as you thought you would've a few years ago. You ask an unassuming guy who says he reads what his favorite works are.
What is the most impressive response you could recieve?
>>8022791
Lacan or Stiriner.
"reading is for the borgiouese"
"I don't know"
Anyone have a preferred giant list of great English-language novels? I would like a big one to work through. All the ones I find on a cursory Google search include garbage like Harry Potter.
infinite jest
ulysses
gravity's rainbow
>le purposefully unkempt hair
>le grossly outdated spectacle frames
>le playing an elementary-tier instrument on youtube for attention
I put my fist through the wall just looking at this sorry ass picture
what's some good literature that's fine for me to read before reading the Greeks?
There are a whole host of charts in sticky:
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading
Please do not fill up the board.
>>8022628
But I'm asking specifically for books that are fine to read before reading the Greeks.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Is Hermione retcon incoming?Did she become criminal because she's a nigger?
>>8022585
Hermione is /lit/, fuck off retard
there should be a separate board for genre fiction and ya shit
what does /lit/ think of this?
>>8022510
first non-american non-genre fiction book I've ever read when I was 20 or so. I liked a lot the first time, most of it went over my head but I've never read anything so introspective or existential; I was accustomed to American ham-fisted good vs evil psychologically devoid stuff.
I guess my brain was hungry for complexity because even though I didn't understand it I powered through it. luckily it wasn't so long. It's the book that really got me into reading.
Second time around I...
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It's entry-level material given as reading assignment in most middle/high schools in French speaking countries, and as far as I know not much respected. “The Stranger” (Albert Camus), “No Exit” (Jean-Paul Sartre), “The Bald Soprano” (Eugène Ionesco) and “Endgame” (Samuel Beckett) are frequently the four compulsory readings when existentialism/absurdism is taught.
Its very eloquent in how it delivers its message. As a work of art its excellent
The monster did nothing wrong.
>>8022497
he was ugly
>>8022497
He was r9k tier
>>8022497
dr. frankenstein was the real monster lol
What kind of car does your favorite author drive?
>>8022476
oops wrong image
His car is limping, and the last long gap is the hardest.
>>8022476
quick delete it and start again!
Oh my god which one of you wrote this
http://www.academia.edu/16215991/Philosophy_of_the_Meme_Translating_the_Vaporwave_and_Seapunk_Landscapes_as_Prophets_to_the_Arrival_of_the_Sacred_Omnipunk_contra_Theocidal_Aesthetic
It even has stirnerbird in it
>>8022407
it was me
>>8022407
even though I consider seapunk and to a lesser extent vapor wave marginally relevant to my interests, I am choosing not to click that link because of the other words in it
>>8022407
>Stirner, through his dialectics of spooks [...]
How is Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex applied in literary analysis?
Disregard Freud. He's merely a stepping stone to get to Jung's psychoanalytic conception of the psyche and collective unconscious.
>>8022369
>Disregard Freud.
t. freshman psychology major meme guy totally won't change his mind in a semester or two
>>8022563
Goyium guy sheckle obviously haven't read civilization of discontent.... Gee weez is it summer already?
Finished it one minute ago and my head is full of fucks.
I still haven't digested it, so I don't really know what to think of it except that I liked it. A lot of scenes hit me like a knee in the balls and the prose was amazingly crafted, but I have a few questions:
>Did Mike Pemulis have some connection to IJ?
>Did Gately die at the end?
>The fuck happened to Hal to make him so autistic in the beginning of the book?
>>8022359
>the prose was amazingly crafted
>>8022381
Anti-Wallace trolls can fuck right off and resume eating shit as per usual.
>>8022386
jesus christ you are a faggot pleb
Why is existentialism just a bourgeois philosophy for the wealthy to feel good about all of muh freedoms they have?
Not only does the prole not have the privilege or time to think what he is truly free or not free to do, these conclusions won't do him any good if he decides to walk away from the life of the factory and leave his family to starve.
Easy to say your existence is your responsibility when your life was handed to you on a silver platter.
>>8022336
>Why is existentialism just a bourgeois philosophy for the wealthy to feel good about all of muh freedoms they have?
Its about coping with the anxiety that comes from higher level thinking which is something that transcends class.
>Not only does the prole not have the privilege or time to think what he is truly free or not free to do, these conclusions won't do him any good if he decides to walk away from the life of the factory and leave his...
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>>8022336
I don't care OP. How do I fuck a lewd nun?
