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In other words, confirm my hate
he is very bad at prose
he panders to the "i le fucking love science xD" neil degrasse tyson crowd to levels so nauseating that it spoils his stories
>>7871672
>he is very bad at prose
good thing you are too!
>>7871892
This is a 4chan post you pretentious fuck
Why haven't you won any awards like John Green /lit/?
after i'm dead my shitposts will be world famous
>>7871663
It's not like I published anything.
It's a race where he already ran a lap,and I still haven't moved an inch.
I will beat him in the race,just give me more time.
t.Turtle
>winning awards
>actual achievement
>thinking they are the same
I personally think JG writes what he does just to pay the bills. It's easy for him and he enjoys the process of writing, he can keep going to the bank, and he has scores of teen qt3.14s fawning over him. Why would he stop if that's why he's doing it in the first place?
It's like you don't understand that true achievement and fulfillment is an internal issue of virtue and no amount...
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Where do I start with the Marquis de Sade and similar philosophers?
He wasn't a philosopher
>him
>philosopher
At least not in the same sense of the word as it is applied to Plato, Kant and so forth, but I think his best 'philosophical' work was the one which was about philosophy in bedroom. I can't remember the title, but it was the less overly vulgar, edgy work that he crafted to shock everyone, most of it being pretty dry and boring once you get over the fact that much of it is extremely disgusting and abhorrent. I didn't even read most of 120 Days of Sodom as you could cut away...
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>>7871596
Alcohol!
Is this the "Death Grips" of /lit/? I'm not talking about similarities in terms of content, rather about how it's treated within the community.
Fuck off /mu/ your board is shit
Bitch please
>>7871489
But /mu/ is only my sideboard.
>download book online
>some guy has just taken photos of the book and uploaded it
That's what you get for pirating ;)
Nigger
>>7871454
Damn, beat me to it.
Stop being spoiled OP. The words are still legible yes? Read the goddamn book and stop whining on a japanese imageboard.
Nobel Laureat Imre Kertész is dead.
didnt he write taming riki?
Imre Kertész (Hungarian: [ˈimrɛ ˈkɛrteːs]; 9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was a Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He died on 31 March 2016 after suffering from Parkinson's disease for several years.
Literally who?
great books that explore alcoholism or unemployment ?
>>7871312
>alcoholism
raymond carver stories
>>7871312
Unemployment: Proust
>>7871312
Under the Volcano is pretty much the ultimate book about alcoholism.
I'm a starry veck, O my brothers. I viddy quite a good bit in my jeezny. I've got me a horrorshow gulliver and an alright rasoodock, O my brothers. I'm not any sammy sarky bratchny either, no, Your Humble Friend And Narrotr himself is a veshch with many sneeties, who will skazat you one veshch: it's all merzky, thine jeezny, O my brothers.
but op is a pidor
>>7871178
I'm not your brother, droog.
>>7871178
I wonder how the Russian translation looks. It must be very awkward.
ITT: Talentless hacks
>>7871150
>>7871150
Pic unrelated.
What would I do to continue reading, I've been only reading genre fiction (which is frowned upon here from what I understand), but it's very hard for me to continue to proper literature, I have 76 IQ, very bad attention span that meds help, but I can't follow or understand when I try to read those proper books, with genre fiction the plot is clear and everything goes linearly and smoothly
weak bait
kill yourself
>>7870962
It's not bait I got the IQ test by a psychologist 2 years ago.
>>7870956
19th century russians and kafka.
>reading house of leaves on a train
>fucking normies give me weird looks when i turn the book upside down.
The true patrician cares nothing for the petty opinions of the mindless plebeian rabble below him.
>reading house of leaves
They all patricians and couldn't believe they were in the same train with a plebein like you
>reading house of leaves
>going on trains
>caring what other people think
>posting on /lit/
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Are there any examples in Western literature of second-order irony (ironic irony) or higher, or is it just a meme?
>>7870793
nth order irony
>>7870835
Maybe if we actually took this seriously we could determine whether or not we've actually discovered the engine of culture through 4chan or we're just trying to justify our shitposting.
probably ulysses lol
Books that make leaders.
I have read Plato's Republic Books 1 & 2 Got 8 more left
Mein Kampf though it became a narrative of his life.
Communist Manifesto.
though are there any books you recommend to actually build a leader
inb4 your born a leader
>>7870608
Leadership is a spook, a corporate buzzword intended to wring money from people who dream of Americanized success because that's what they're instructed to do.
A book or program that claims to instill 'leadership' is a scam, promising power as a means of leeching it from the gullible
>>7870624
>Leadership is a spook, a corporate buzzword intended to wring money from people who dream of Americanized success because that's what they're instructed to do.
this, fuck, this kind of mentality has totally destroyed my country
>>7870624
>>7870633
Oh shit my bad i totally forgot to add ...
i dont want books on how to lead companies and manipulate people...
Im looking for books that teach us codes of honor and basic this things such a defining justice [The Republic]
ways to build a nation
no im also sick of greedy assholes who only look after money...
my cousin thought everything was money [objective [ayn rand] type of guy]. he has lost all social status in the whole...
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ITT: essential /lit/-kino core.
>>7870530
what is this kino mehymehy?
kino is not a /lit/ thing. /lit/ kino is just patrician /lit/
Madame Bovary (Davis translation)
Chekhov: About Love and other stories
Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground
Hamsun: Hunger
Kafka: The Castle, The Trial, stories
Joyce: Dubliners
The Sun Also Rises
The Book of Disquiet
Beckett trilogy
So I'm looking for a definitive, relatively unbiased book on the Vietnam War (it's origins, politics, military affairs, etc). Any suggestions?
>unbiased history book
Nice meme, lad.
>>7870402
>relatively unbiased
>>7870395
>on the Vietnam War (it's origins, politics, military affairs, etc)
Start with the French-Indochina war, this is pretty damn good.
