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More books like this aka books about subliminal messages of man-love, penises, misinterpreted for it's surface level plot.
All of Shakespeare's works reflect his struggles with his homosexuality. From the raging ogre Caliborn to the more reflective "questing" bards and slam poets, his various characters are all gay in their own ways, and their lives are metaphors for gay relations. You may quote me.
Pretty much all of Hemingway's works are about repressed homosexuality.
>>8178949
Fuck off with this revisionist Shakesqueer reading trash
Hi guys I've been coming to 4chan for almost half a decade now, mostly /b/.
Lately, I've been pretty depressed and I think I need to create to get over. I've always dabbled in writing but I never really got into reading classic books, just fantasy/scifi drivel really.
I'm here to ask you all what are some books that changed your perspective, that opened your mind. Some books I've read that I've not only enjoyed but have changed my perspective are:
1984
Ender's Game
The Illiad
The Outsiders
Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer
Just a few I can think of off the top of my head. Thanks guys
never mind I just read the first post and it has what I'm asking for. Apologies. Mods, delete this
Luv u
>>8178930
Infinite Jest
Loved Ficciones, where should i go next with Borges?
His other work... theres not that much
Aleph?
>liking borges
Is this a new meme?
Has anyone ever been able to rebut Bertrand Russell's "Marriage and Morals"? Even Einstein said the work was brilliant.
>Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
>The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.
>Even in civilised mankind faint traces of a monogamic instinct can sometimes be perceived.
>I should not hold it desirable that either a man or a woman should enter upon the serious business of a marriage intended to lead to children without having had previous sexual experience.
>Science enables us to realise our purposes, and if our purposes are evil, the result is disaster.
>Gluttony is regarded by the Catholic Church as one of the seven deadly sins, and those who practise it are placed by Dante in one of the deeper circles of hell; but it is a somewhat vague sin, since it is hard to say where a legitimate interest in food ceases and guilt begins to be incurred. Is it wicked to eat anything that is not nourishing? If so, with every salted almond we risk damnation.
Russell's father allowed Russell's mother to sleep with Russell's tutor, and Bertrand Russell grew up to be a genius and win the Nobel Peace Prize.
>>8178909
>Russell's father allowed Russell's mother to sleep with Russell's tutor, and Bertrand Russell grew up to be a genius and win the Nobel Peace Prize.
correlation =/ causation, anecdotal, etc.
Yes, pic related
>>8178909
>Spalding suffered from tuberculosis and was thus considered unfit for marriage. Lord Amberley felt that there was nevertheless no reason to condemn Spalding to celibacy and, after a discussion with his wife, allowed them to engage in a sexual relationship.
What an absolute bro.
>book was written by a woman
Into the trash it goes.
Quads checked
Women rekt
how can roasties ever recover from this?
>>8178888
>those quads
well I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor and if your quads compel me to throw her in the trash I hope there's enough room in there for me bc I'm feelin this shit
Is there a better book tracking site to satiate my autism than this piece of shit? Something like letterboxd for example?
goodreads has a bad community but great functionality
how on earth is it a 'piece of shit'
I don't use goodreads since you can glean a lot about me from my choice in literature.
>>8178877
Are you using it for social media or cataloging? If you're looking for better cataloging features, use LibraryThing.
This is fucking tedious and horrible. I know this isn't a joke either. I know that some gentleman finds this book genuinely compelling, it must be really good if you like to muddle over inane details of a man's contradictory rambling for hours on end. I made it past chapter 3, this is... no.
>>8178799
>chapter 3
finish it you fucking pleb. the last chapter is a strong, if not justifying, resolution.
>>>goodreads
Yes, yes, well done, Wagner, well done
HOWEVER
MUSIC
my dear Wagner
IS
hold on please ahem
DIONYSIAN
Wagner was the Dave Mustaine of that time
>>8178790
Oh my teacher was talking about that letter bromantinc
Overrated book
Blak peple
muh name teacake
me beat u woman
muh dik
Literally the worst book I've ever read.
>>8178821
What's the best book you ever read?
Yes yes, well done Tolkien, well done Tolkien
HOWEVER
>dies before completing his life's work because he's a disgusting fat bastard
HAHAHAHAHHA
I can't wait
I don't get what dumbledore has to do with this.
Personally I thought the R.A. Salvatore adaptions of the LOTR movies were better than the books.
A simpler but more emotional and well rounded plot than LOTR, one of the most fleshed out and beautiful worlds in all of literature, wonderful characters and some of the best passages in all of literature. Share thoughts on this masterpiece/Adams' other work.
>>8178760
why was Lord of the Rings your comparative reference?
>>8178773
first fantasy epic that came to mind
>>8178760
one of my favourite books of my childhood. the sections about the black rabbit of inle give me a tingle even now.
for a while i lived not far from the real world watership down. the first time i went there and saw the sign with the name on it i was speechless for a moment.
What do you know of HyperReel and New Media ?
>>8178582
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4oo16m/what_does_rbooks_think_of_lit/
Fancy yourself a cyberpunk ?
...Way past the Desert of the Real....
I start
>Drugs
>Toxic relationships
>Luddism
>Expressing opinions out loud in public instead of in a private circle
>Bigotry
>Choosing sides
You can point out sources if you want, like what books made you come to that decision and so on
>inb4 it's all a big spook
>Toxic relationships
>Expressing opinions out loud in public instead of in a private circle
>Bigotry
>Choosing sides
Would you please expand on those ideas, like what books you read or how you changed your opinion from one to the other?
>>8178568
Funny, literature made my drug use worse. All that time spent alone reading, the drugs took away the increasing levels of depression until the addiction started having BAD effects, now I'm permanently fucked.
>>8178568
>Expressing opinions out loud in public instead of in a private circle
>Bigotry
>Choosing sides
Weak cuck faggot fuck.
You tell me what to read.
29 neet american
gay jewish
have trouble finishing a lot of books, they pace slowly for me. My favorite read as a kid was The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. I really enjoy coming of age stories and the Roman A Clef format. I like reading things that reflect the author's culture and personal story, and have a tough time with most fiction, but appreciate imaginative informative variants like Madeline L'Engle.
>>8178476
Oh and I usually read history and true crime books but I'd like to find fiction I would enjoy. I am however, very picky with my aesthetic and most seem not to prefer my aesthetic.
A Confederacy of Dunces you kike
kys faggot
>Little by little
>could of
>>8178471
>could care less
>based off
