What books would have this effect on me
a book that dramatically improved photographic technology in the span of a few years? idk go ask canon
>>8214776
The Recognitions
Women and Men
The Public Burning
Milkbottle H
The Tunnel
>>8214776
Why don't people look like this anymore?
Did they get fatter or what?
Really weird face structure.
>>8214776
Les Miserables
Moravagine
The stories of Breece DJ Pancake
the death of a salesman
>>8214789
what are you talking about?
i know plenty of old dudes that look at like that
>>8214789
its been like 150 years we've evolved a bunch since then
The History of the Peloponnesian War
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus.
Tore out my insides, replaced them with barbed wire, and shoved them back in through my throat.
>>8214789
Abraham Lincoln was just a weird looking guy
>>8214884
>me on the right
>>8214789
I think about this constantly
Even in films from the 30s people just look different. It's as if male face shape has changed.
>>8214789
He had marfan syndrome.
>>8214891
Or maybe standards of beauty have changed. The likelihood of anyone ever getting in front of a camera in the 30's was slim and certainly influenced by privilege and beauty, as it was defined at the time. Today you can see any old fuck's picture, not to mention your understanding of what a typical face looks like based on who you've met and lived around throughout your life.
>>8214891
>>8214906
what happened to those weird high pitched naval voiced nerd guys from the 50s
![peter-matthiessen[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/m4Az9Hp.jpg "peter-matthiessen[1].jpg")
>you will never be an old man with a sunken, warped, haunted face
![samuel-beckett[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/YfGHM7n.jpg "samuel-beckett[1].jpg")
>>8215054
>>8215054
If nothing else we'll all be that.
>>8214776
my diary desu
>>8214776
A book so long by the end of it you grow a beard.
>>8216393
fuck off with this
>>8214776
Moby Dick obviously
>>8214906
not to mention trends and styles that could emphasize certain characteristics over others. hairstyles, fit of clothing, glasses
>>8216787
Can a newbie to literature comprehend this novel? I picked it up the other day for a few dollars. I've been reading through the /lit/ starter pack without much difficulty at all.
Check it out now or wait a few months after i've hit some easier novels?
>>8216799
>Check it out now or wait a few months after i've hit some easier novels?
That's not how literature works.
>>8216799
you simply have encountered a novel that is quite difficult. You either take your time and slowly chew on it while breaking down or go pick out an easier book.
>>8216799
>I picked it up the other day for a few dollars.
Why do you need to ask then? Just read the first chapter.
>>8216882
This. You power level up by volume and time and the knowledge acquired therein not by some neat progression of difficulty
Complete works of John Hawkes
his books are very short, but they're like rape tornadoes
>>8217566
Fuck man. His wedding ring doesn't even fit anymore.
>>8217566
Atlas did not shrug.
>>8217566
The weird thing is how his skin got darker
>>8216799
i think this is much more a thing for modernist novels and later.
>>8217941
Dark skin has long been a sign of spiritual decay
>>8214776
Growth of the Soil by Hamsun.you'll still be a below average T nu-male after reading it, no amount of reading will purge the environmental xenoestrogens that have poisoned you since you were in the womb.
>>8217990
I literally have hair running up the shaft of my dick. Don't be giving me shit about my T level
>>8217990
>you'll still be a below average T nu-male after reading it
why, i thought hamsun was manly.
also, how does it compare to Hunger?
abraham lincoln was black
>>8218009
were they lincoln and shit?
>>8218003
Less frenetic, more conventionally structured. Unlike Hunger and much of Hamsuns other work, it does not center as much around rootlessness, but goes in the opposite direction. It is widely considered his greatest work, and was also cited as one of the main reasons he got the Nobel prize.
It's Hamsuns REEEEEE towards modernity, industrialization and urbanization, and a celebration of self-reliance, atavism and nature itself. In this respect, it's sort of superficially similar to Walden, just very, very much better IMO.
>>8218022
no i'm serious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljI22fZHcHM
>>8218107
literally pic related
>>8217941
He lives in the South, not Illinois.
>>8214804
Thucydides made me realise the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were completely justified, and that America has an obligation to step up and act like the world's policeman.
>>8219396
>the world's policeman
more like the world's crooked cops, thanks for killing gaddafi and starting the refugee crisis
t. europe
>>8214776
Old Man and the Sea by Hemingay
>>8214802
>150 years
>evolved
hahahahaha
>>8217566
I want this
I think it'd be so amazing to be able to age like that and look that good looking old
goddamn
>>8219396
How exactly? I'm always looking for ways to defend my irrationally partisan political beliefs.
