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post your books that are effay, only post books that YOU own, rate other's books
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3edgy5me m800
Based Bulgakov
>>10995729
>Book on a closeted homosexual
Yes it really is /fa/
infinite pussy
This book is probably my most prized possession.
Books in my room,
Rate my taste /lit/
>/fa/ books
end yourself.
The Bonfire of Vanities.
When I was living in LA a few years ago I saw Bret Easton Ellis in a West Hollywood 7-11 eating a hot dog.
>>10997139
was he fat?
copped from dope little used bookstore in San Luis Obispo, great conversation starter
>>10997145
Yeah. He looked like shit - sloppy as fuck, strung out, and overweight. It was kind of sad, t b h.
>>10997208
Those go for around $50-$70 nowadays
>>10997264
thats because long ago he realised long ago that he'd only be remembered for A.P. nobody knows any of his other works
>>10997264
that is sad t h o
>>10997272
neat. I paid $10, but it had some grime and mold.
>>10997334
"long ago" twice. . . yes i do have autism.
>>10995729
You buy books to be /fa/? Pathetic
>>10997334
Which sucks, because his other works are genuinely good. American Psycho is arguably an outlier to what is a bigger theme of wealthy ennui in his books.
While I'm sure he felt some weird sense of loneliness after the popularity of American Psycho waxed and waned, I suspect a lot of his more depressive swings come from his personality. His work and his background match up scarily well (even ignoring Lunar Park), which indicates to me that he has a pretty negative view of the world in general.
Finished it a week ago, started off really slow but intense halfway through.
>>10995949
Literature undergrad book-list tier.
>>10995891
fuck, that edition is very nice. i just have some average B&N hardcover copy
>>10995949
Is this a meme
>>10995949
>i'm a 14 yr old dumbass who thinks any rand has any literary merit whatsoever
YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE BEST SHAKESPEAREAN HISTORY
>>10995875
Love love love this. The second book is probably my favorite of the seven.
You really ought to read the translation that Christopher Prendergast oversaw for Penguin. It's a brilliant update and I think it should replace Moncrieff as the standard.
>>10995949
I took some college classes once/10
>>10998121
oh, forgot to post a book
this is probably my favorite of all time
This piece
>>10998105
>muh literature
Not all books have to be art you know. Just like not all enjoyable music has to be good or all like able movies have to be cinema-tier
>>10995949
looks like books you would be assigned in high school.
keep trying to look smart anon
>>10998194
Robert Green is god tier. Mastery is also a great book.
>>10995729
owning books is not effay
downloading epubs and pdfs to put on your ereader is effay
currently reading this
>>10997891
>>10998121
I'm actually a stem undergrad final year. I haven't really had any notable books in college other than Slaughterhouse-5
>>10998077
No, unless you mean the photo quality, then yes shitty iphone cameras are a meme anon.
>>10998105
I bought the rand novel on recommendation of a friend, I try to stay open minded despite the negative connotation you and others give the author. Also I only buy books on sale so its just whatever Shakespeare I picked up for a dollar or two a book/ some are not in my current room.
>>10998221
I read Heart of Darkness, Frankenstein, The Pearl, & Tale of Two Cities.
Are you implying HoD isn't fa?
>>10998221
>Trying to look smart
What are you even implying with this?
I get how Dostoevsky and Ayn Rand might be seen as pseudo-intellectual, but just those two in this mix doesn't really feel like I'm trying that hard. If you're implying reading Shakespeare is trying to look smart you are a pleb.
>>10995949
pleb
>>10995729
>Bret Easton Ellis
>/fa/
>>10999508
Nothing is /fa/ about the gadget soccer moms use to read Chuck Tingle.
>>10995729
Recently bought the dries book
>>11001007
Conrad might be more /fa/ than Chinua Achebe, but that's not saying much.
>>11001039
New trip talking shit? Who could have guessed.
Post some recommendations then.
As your post is now is why everyone ridicules tripcodes.
>>11001051
>Chinua Achebe
What are you getting at?
Because the setting is in Africa this is relevant?
>>11001059
I just wanted to pick the author who called Conrad a bloody racist, which he probably was. What he wasn't (and isn't) was /fa/.
>>11001089
I get the complaint he poses, that Conrad dehumanized the Africans and treated Africa as a lost world. He exaggerates qualities of the tertiary characters and setting to create progression in the story, this isn't uncommon in fiction. Its not like the main antagonist Kurtz is a black guy demonizing them further. To be clear even if the book racist, but the story really isn't about that.
Besides, a story about introspection, solitude and madness seems pretty aligned with fa to me. I do appreciate Apocalypse Now though so I'm pretty biased. Not to reemphasize this was a book chosen by my high school, not one of my own personal taste.
>>10998126
This is a truly worthy book
>>10997743
fucking superb trilogy...
>>10997743
Read The Man Who Came in from the Cold. It's very good.
>>11001158
Trump undisputed king of /fa/
This was pretty /fa/ I thought
Just finished Norwegian Wood (which I thoroughly enjoyed), and am currently reading Eating Animals
I really want to have a go at a Noam Chomsky book soon too
>>11004243
>>11004248
>>10995752
my nigga
>>10995729
plebe
>>10995752
ascendent plebe
>>10995875
plebe
>>10995891
incorrigible plebe
>>10997208
patrician, shows signs of refined taste
>>10997743
patrician
>>10998126
patrician
>>10998194
plebe, recommended for gulag
>>10999610
likely plebe
>>11001158
psychohistorian, or plebe.
>>11002358
>>11003494
>>11004243
unbelievably plebe
>>11003525
>>11004210
>>11004248
>>11004252
patrician
>>11004287
>On Liberty
>pleb
Get the fuck off this board, you dirty fucking communist.
>>10995846
Honestly it's basically 4 chan: the book
>>10997208
What book store? I live in SLO would love to visit it.
Any of Camus' fiction
>>10995875
read it ten times; not a god book
>>11004243
actual trash
>>11004287
Eh, Don Delillo is like a slightly less terrible Jonathan Franzen.
>>11004300
Go back to /pol/, cuck.
>>11005658
Honestly, the fact that some of you faggots, on a capitalistic board such as /fa/, where individual choice should be one of the highest virtues think it's something bad just proves what a bunch of underage morons you are.
>cuck
Right back at'cha!
>>11005629
Good or God? The difference matters to me
>>11005686
Sir, do you know how mad you were going?
>>11005695
Right back at'cha!
Rate the books next to my bed /fa/
Martin Heidegger - Being and Time
Hans-Georg Gadamer - Truth and Method
John Dewey - Art as Experience
Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self
Samuel Beckett - Collected Poems
Gerard Reve - De Avonden
>>11005747
>The End Of History
Fukuyama is a hack
>>11005793
Haven't read it yet. How so?
>>10995975
tell me more about that cover?
>>11005765
> Being and Time instead of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event)
fucking kill yourself pleb
