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What is the Motörhead of literature?
>>7517886
any book used as a beer coaster
When you find it let me know.
>>7517886
Hunter S. Thompson
>rock fan
>rock and roll lifestyle
>anti authority
If a smart person pretends to be dumb during his entire life, just for the sake of it. Could he be considered smart or dumb?
For example, if he always knew that smoking would kill him, yet still smoked (and he doesnt want to die).
Sorry if my english is not great, i just want to know your opinions on this subject.
Of course he can. What makes behavior likely to reduce your lifespan dumb?
Dumb/autist
>>7517855
Yeah no, sorry, this doesn't make much sense.
Could you try elaborating a bit?
>you're out of town, reading gaddis
>he fucked your girl, cumstains on your mattress
>shitpost
>shitpost
>>7517831
NO FUN ALLOWED UNLESS ITS A PICTURE OF A CERTAIN BUCKTOOTHED AUTHOR AND GREEN MAYMAY ARROWS THAT SAY "SUBVOCALIZERS"
>He's outta town
>reading his Pynchon
>I'm with his gf
>slipping my inch in
Is there another word in the English language as versatile as 'fuck'?
I'm asking seriously. 'Fuck' can be a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb, and in the right circumstances even a pronoun. Are there any other words like that?
>swearing in /r/books
OP, you can do better. Don't pepper your writing with expletives.
Cunt is both harsher & more versatile.
Just try & sat cunt at your workplace. People will look & get mad.
whats the easy rider of /lit/?
looking for some 60s70s counterculture realist fiction
(please no on the road ive read it)
>>7517772
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test maybe? Haven't read it.
Hell's Angels maybe? Not really fiction but whatever.
>the prince
>communist manifesto
>less than zero
>living in the end times (žižek)
Which book should I read first, /lit/?
fuck you
>>7517505
The communist manifesto then right after some Ludwig Von Mises and Friedrich Hayek to cure you of autism
>>7517505
WWW.reddit.com
![Donquixote[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mhkWYLK.jpg "Donquixote[1].jpg")
What's the best translation of Don Quixote?
I'm sure I saw an infographic once with classic authors and /lit/'s preferred translations, if anyone has that I'll be very grateful.
>>7517392
Grossman is highly favored
>>7517392
The Spanish translation
Grossman is overly mannered and fails to convey the humour imo. Rutherford is better.
What's your favorite Kurt Vonnegut book?
I'm reading Galapagos right now, but I'd say it's one of my least favorite so far that I've read. Mother Night and Cat's Cradle are my favorite of his, and Mother Night.
>>7517374
*and Mother Night seems pretty different for Kurt Vonnegut; not as silly or whimsical as his other stuff.
>>7517374
i'm half way through cat's cradle at the moment. really enjoying it. maybe i should start finding my karass
>>7517385
That's all anyone could hope for.
>you will never cuddle with Bloom while he reads you some Shakespeare
Why even live?
>>7517115
Is that a recent picture?
He is wasting away.
Gass is ready for action tho
>>7517115
> cuddle while he reads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLBXe3z9zx8
yeah, i'll pass
Hi anons,
I just finished 1984 by Orwell and I´am ready to go on.The only question is : Which book now ?
I´am struggling to decide between :
- The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music / Friedrich Nietzsche
- Animal Farm / George Orwell
- Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
Thanks in advance !
>>7517107
How about you read Animal Farm? Animal Farm.
>>7517118
just read this before you read any of the others, it's pretty short but quite good.
>>7517107
Not Nietzsche, that's for sure.
Animal Farm is literally just a slightly mushed up history of the Russian revolution with added bacon.
F451 is pretty mediocre, but that's just me.
I'd advise Orwell's essays, honestly.
what authors make you feel?
not authors that make your cry or depressed but just make you bitter and unsatisfiedfor me its Stefan Zwieg, his descriptions of a traditional, cultural central Europe before the horrors of war and modernism spoil it all. as a northern Irish person living in a province that has for its whole existence been nothing but a tribal killing ground, I feel disappointed I will never experience such a world
>>7517087
all of them
im a sensitive guy
Herodotus,
>tfw will never live an aesthetic life in 5th century Greece
>>7517110
>iktf bro
>mfw I will never travel around detailing the weird religions and peoples of the ancient world
Is this book any good?
It's some good.
Any good in particular you're looking for?
>>7517079
Uh, is it better than American Psycho?
Yes. Or at least, I liked it. Pretty chill, for a p-man book. It's cyberpunkey. A bit.
Hey /lit/ cucks, what app do you use for reading on mobile?
>>7517058
wait a sec, has hiro finally grown bored of the wordfilter
hiro a cuck
cuck my shit
fbreader is good
UB Reader. It's decent.
Looking for books about life in rural America during the 20's and 30's that isn't straight southern gothic stuff. Been listening to a lot of delta blues and would really like to know more about life in that place and time.
Fiction is good, non-fiction would be great but not really interested in stuffy academic texts about the blues.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
bump! basically looking for a book equivalent to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music or any of John Fahey's work on American Primitivism
>>7516928
The Education of Little Tree is about a young Cherokee growing up in the 30's, if that counts.
>>7516971
that sounds really cool, not exactly what I was looking for but I'll be sure to give it a look anyway!
Is this the best edition of Brave New World beside the original 1932 (Chatto & Windus) edition?
The oppression of the Sith will never return.
>>7516935
Pardon me?
OP here.
…or shall buy some other edition? Also, recommend if there's any better edition, thanks.
