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ITT we post our fav books and try to guess stuff about those who post 'em.
>Demons by Dostoyevsky
>Yes by Thomas Bernhard
>Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner
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>>7447314
You have a large extended family composed of eccentrics.
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>>7447324
ok, see. here's a problem: why did you include the word "composed" there? "a large extended family of eccentrics" means the same thing. tell me—do you have many friends? any at all?
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>>7447314
You appreciate tradition and things that are simple but elegant

Here's me:
The Recognitions by Gaddis
Gravity's Rainbow by Pinecone
Under the Volcano by Lowry
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>Moby Dick
>Don Quijote
>Crime and Punishment
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>>7447324
Damn, son, I better don't tell you how right you're.
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>>7447350
You should spend less time on /lit/
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>>7447350
You hide a deep despair behind a thin and abrasive veil of humor.
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>>7447314
>The Old Man and the Sea
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>Discourses by Epictetus
Only 1 book of the 3 is fiction but eh, whatever.
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>>7447314
>>7447336
>>7447350

None of you have actually read these. You just have them on your bookshelf and pretend you have, so you can shit post here and shit post in real life conversation.
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>>7447366
Found the edgy
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>>7447366
But I have read them, friend. :^)
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>>7447366
This is literally projection, can people who like reading not like reading big,complex books? Or is it just because you don't?
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>>7447331
No, I don't have friends, and haven't had any since middle school. I'm nearly 30 now. If you can tell by that sentence why I haven't been able to make friends my whole life, feel free to do some assumin'. I'm always trying to improve.

>>7447352
It was only based on Faulkner. But if you haven't read it, I think you'd like Little, Big.
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>>7447366
Seriously!! Don Quixote and Moby Dick?! Talk about pretentious!!

Also, 4chan captcha gets worse every time I come back, holy shit.
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The Iliad
Ulysses
To The Lighthouse

:^)
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>>7447373
>>7447374
>>7447375

Still don't believe you.
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>>7447379
>No, I don't have friends, and haven't had any since middle school. I'm nearly 30 now.
Are you that guy who said he was 30 and incited confrontations so he could 'defend' himself and stared at drapes for hours?
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>>7447350
You are young, a bit of a loner and slightly conservative
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Paradise Lost
Macbeth
The Count of Monte Cristo
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>>7447387
Okay. I'm not going to bother proving I have because I don't care what someone on the internet thinks of me.
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I'll participate with some better known favorites:

Cosmicomics
The Once and Future King
The Last Unicorn

>>7447392
No, I did say I'm only nearly 30. I only start arguments on 4chan, but in all my time on this site I've never resorted to name-calling.

I've actually never bought drapes for any apartment/home I've lived in. It's one of those things I just never get around to. So, I am not that person.
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>>7447386
You started with the Greeks.
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the stranger
2666
the tartar steppe
last exit to brooklyn
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>>7447415
You are reddit
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>>7447415
>So, I am not that person.
ah,ok

>Cosmicomics
>The Once and Future King
>The Last Unicorn
The only one I've read out of those is The Once and Future King so I'm assuming you prefer the simple,comfy pleasures of life?
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>>7447410

Every time you speak, I believe you less.
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>>7447428
Okay. I'm happy you are so set in your beliefs.
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>>7447357
I have read all of those for school or simply decided to, not influenced by /lit/. Those are all classics anyway, ffs.

>>7447360
Not bad. Not really correct, but not bad. (I don't really hide my edginess with anything.)

>>7447393
>You are young,
True
>a bit of a loner
True, but everyone on /lit/ is
>and slightly conservative
Nah

>>7447408
You are edgy but romantic and idealistic at the same time
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>>7447423
Which one of those do you think has to do with reddit?

>>7447425
Definitely do. Most of my favorites are fairly plotless and meandering novellas that I can reread in a short sitting.
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>>7447432
Just let it go. He probably feels insecure or something. If you truly read them, then you don't have to prove it to anyone. Reading for others is idiotic anyway.
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>>7447362
You are a good person, likely helpful to others.

For me:
>Picture of Dorian Gray.
>On the Heights of Despair.
>Peace.
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>>7447432
>>7447436

Oh God. I bet you guys wish you could just give each other so many upvotes right now.
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>k bros.
>invisible cities
>saving the appearances
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>>7447440
You are pessimistic and cynical but not suicidal?
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>>7447442
yes :3
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Atlas Shrugged
Infinite Jest
Mein Kampf
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>Ulysses
>The Recognitions
>Mason & Dixon
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>>7447440
>You are a good person, likely helpful to others.
I try to be a good person and I'm pretty helpful, spot-on 2bh.

which book gave you the good person impression, though?
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Catch-22
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

Pleb and proud.
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>>7447442
I would give you a downvote desu.
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>>7447449
You haven't touched many women
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>>7447449
You feel alienated from modern politics,and society in general, so you have taken an interest in more extreme ideologies to shake things up and destroy the monotony in your life?
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>>7447455
All 3.
>>7447445
Pretty much.
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>>7447462
No, I just like shitposting
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>Brothers K
>Count of Monte Cristo
>either Don Quixote or Petersburg
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>>7447452
You are introverted and quiet around people but hide a very playful personality
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Demons - Dostoevsky
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Discourse on Livy - Machiavelli
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>>7447469
Pretty much to a T
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>>7447433
>You are edgy but romantic and idealistic at the same time
More or less correct
Good job
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>>7447467
You like french fries. ;)
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>>7447489
you're god damn right i do.
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>The very hungry caterpillar
>Stinky cheese man
>Captain underpants
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>>7447467
You want to be a supreme gentleman that transcends petty materialism with mastery of himself and a rationalistic attitude.
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>>7447494
no calvin and hobbes?
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>>7447498
ah, if only, if only. all that, just stifled by indecision and fear.
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>>7447464
>alienation
>shitposting
yes blurblargh basically want attention so yea blurp waterfalls
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Blood Meridian
War and Peace
Heart of Darkness
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>>7447494
You like chicken noodle soup. ;)
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>>7447515
you think life is boring and want adventure, but are both unaware of how to find it and too much of a pussy to actually pursue it
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>>7447515
you are a meanie pants -_-
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>>7447515
You believe pain is a constant,and pleasure is just the absence of it, and that soft,modern society is a far cry from the true nature of man; violent and war-like.
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Pilgrim's Progress
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone
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>>7447540
you are older than 18 :/
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>>7447522
I don't find it boring but I would love to explore...but I'm afraid of what effects this will have on my life. Good insight.
>>7447527
Nah I'm very friendly.
>>7447528
I don't agree with any of that.
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>>7447570
>friendly
oh so you're a meanie and a liar :o
but if you're a liar then your pants are on fire so you aren't a meanie pants :s
good job ;)
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Suttree
The Sound and the Fury
The Pale King
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Animal Farm
Dante's Inferno
Any HP Lovecraft tale
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>>7447587
you are catholic >_>
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>>7447456
>Machado de Assis
If you are not brazilian/portuguese, i am a little impressed.
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>>7447593
Nah, try agnostic
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>>7447600
<_<
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1. The Confusions of Young Törless by Musil
2. The Crying of Lot 49 (almost done) by Pynchon
3. Frankenstein by Shelley (haven't read it in a long time though)
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>Lazarillo De Tormes
>journey to the west
>The Portrait (gogol)
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>>7447558
>tfw I can drink beer while watching an R-rated movie
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>No Longer Human
>Hyperion
>Looking for Alaska
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>>7447707
You are fascinated by the human condition, no matter how depraved or how majestic it can become.
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>>7447314

The Brothers Karamazov
Ficciones
Infinite Jest
Solaris
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On the Road
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Things They Carried
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>>7447764
You find deeper meanings in the mundanity of everyday experiences of life and of the habits of people.
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>>7447962
actually true surprisingly i usually find these threads to be bs
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mein kampf
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>>7447476
pls rate me
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I've read quite a few books but I've never found anything I like nearly as much as Heart of Darkness. does this make me patrician?
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>>7447971
You like things that are "big" and to tackle projects that are intimidating. You also are a big picture kind of guy.
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>>7447971
u r a big guy 4 me
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>>7447992
I suppose you could say, he's a big guy?
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>>7447616
rate me pls.
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>>7447331
juses chrost, froend
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>>7447962
>>7447964
whatever dude that was a broad-ass statement that could be applied to almost anyone with half a brain
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>>7447314
Collected Poems by Larkin
Collected Poems by Auden
Wasteland and Poems by Eliot
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Crime and Punishment
The Sound and the Fury
Suttree
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>eugene onegin
>lolita
>antony and cleopatra
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>>7448085
you are a compulsive masturbator.
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>>7448088
not accurate but essentially correct
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>>7448081
you sit in your room all day with a notebook and a skim-milk latte
>>7448082
you believe modern fiction is rubbish and try to find spiritual depth in dostoyevsky
>>7448085
you love discussing why pedarasty should be legalized
>>7448088
keks
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The Brothers Karamazov
Bible
Hobbit (nostalgia mostly)
Moby Dick (currently reading and loving)
And almost anything by Saramago
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Mason & Dixon by the Pych
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec
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>>7448109
wow, look at those big and famous books you just listed
>reading the bible in this day and age
>loving moby dick
>brothers karamazov
lemme guess you don't have access to a circle of literary friends and you'll read anything from the 1950s list of best literary works

I mean i'm trying not to judge you too hard but your FAVORITE books are literally so basic
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>>7448104
>you love discussing why pedarasty should be legalized

nope
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confederacy of dunces - toole
labyrinths - borges
trainspotting - welsh
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>>7447314
>>7447350
>>7447467
>>7447476
>>7447744
>>7448082
>>7448109
dostoyevsky is practically meme-tier. I swear all these edgy, sexually repressed, intellectually-euphoric gentlemen are swarming /lit/. he's not even enlightening, his philosophy is high-school level. everyone who reads him probably sees themselves in smerdyakov
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>>7447314
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Against the Grain - Huysmans
The death of ivan ilyitch - Tolstoy
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>>7448175
eh, who cares what you think, really? so what if people like dostoevsky. he spoke to a lot of people because of an emotional connection. and no, i don't see myself as anyone but the Ridiculous Man.
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>>7448175
>he thinks people read Dostoevsky for philosophy
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>>7448187
he's not even emotional though, his characters are just depraved, which is something else entirely. one has little empathy for his characters. people read him because he's the edgy alternative to Tolstoy.
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>Count of Monte Cristo
>Lord of The Flies
>Gunslinger
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>>7448175

middling b8 tƅh, numerous old worms along with some wacky tries like >euphoric and >smerdy. I'll give it a 4 since it got a brief >mfw from me and caused me to defy the word filter in my reply
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>>7448175
the most part of lit is about 17, of course they enjoy dostoevsky. they enjoy stephen king too.
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>>7448197
yeah well what do they read him for then? his characters are very 2-dimensional, and his depiction of depravity and mental illness just gets tiring. just how much can you absorb of the human condition by looking at murder and rape? of all his books, I like the House of the Dead the most... and even then, solzhenitsyn does it better.
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>>7448215
>his characters are very 2-dimensional

modern /lit/, everyone
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>Medea --Euripides
>Antigone --Sophocles
>Frankenstein --Shelley
>The Trial --Kafka
>Pale Fire --Nabokov
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>>7448215
the fact they're 2-dimensional is not necessarily a problem.
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>>7448217
I stand by what I said, and if you wanna make an argument for the depth of his characters feel free. and anyway you're posting here which makes you /lit/ too
>>7448222
yeah it is, especially when there are so many other writers who do characterization better. do y'all just cling to a hope that dostoyevsky is still relevant? cause he's really not, except as a study in psychology or existentialism
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>>7448234
someone's got a major hate on for dostoevsky. why can't you just be happy that some people like him? i like him because i have an emotional connection with some of his work, i found it entertaining and interesting. i also found other authors entertaining and interesting that you probably wouldnt like. what does that matter at all? besides, house of the dead was fucking boring. you just don't like him because you prefer semi-historical or non-fictional accounts. Poor Folk was a much better work than house of the dead.
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>>7448221
Smart dude, not too many friends. A little edgy. Lack confidence in self, but can reasonable fake it.

>Dream of a Ridiculous Man
>Book of Disquiet
>The Fountainhead
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>>7448415
I don't hate him but I don't find him worthwhile either. so what's wrong with having a discussion about it? why's this gotta be about me and you? why are we not discussing the novels?
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I... I don't think I have any favorite books.


OH MEIN GOTT
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>>7448433
wow, someone else who loved the dream of a ridiculous man? bout fuckin time, wasnt that shit amazing? just a tiny lie..

>>7448415
well, if you want a discussion, why do you think a character like raskolnikov is 2 dimensional? I felt like he was connectable, his loneliness, his feeling socially disconnected, his choices leading up to a vile deed, his mind torn apart by guilt, the thing i like about dostoevsky is that he doesnt fill it all in, it's there because the character is alive, and maybe not all of it is clear just from a description, but the emotion is there, the personality bleeds through, i guess. I just dislike being told what a character is feeling or thinking at all walks and let me figure it out from their monologues, or their acts, the way their faces twist, like i would a normal person. i don't get some narrator telling me, i figure it out for myself. i might be a simp and a pleb, but i don't really mind all that.
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>>7448175
Agreed
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>>7448463
>wow, someone else who loved the dream of a ridiculous man? bout fuckin time, wasnt that shit amazing? just a tiny lie..

Damn straight. My favorite Dostoevsky piece.
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>>7448484
you know what's funny about it though? i feel like ricky gervais stole a lot of the premise with his "the invention of lying". i still wonder if he did it on purpose.
have you read any gogol? specifically the portrait?
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>>7448496
Unfortunately, no. I read Dead Souls, and I couldn't get past the first few pages. I was really disappointed with the prose; it just didn't hook me like Dostoevsky's did.
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>>7448519
try his shorts, the nose, the overcoat, and DEFINITELY the portrait. i didnt like dead souls either, but mostly because i felt like he didnt start it with a definite ending in mind, you can kind of tell when an author is writing with an open ended plot waiting to resolve itself.. but his shorts are gems. up to you, but i think you'll really like the portrait. in the words of dostoevsky, "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'."
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>>7448529
I'll definitely give it a roll. Thanks for the recommendation!
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>>7448559
absolutely, i really hope you like them! it'd be awesome to talk about gogol on a thread.
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The three Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex in particular) by Sophocles
On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Calvino
Billy Budd, Sailor - Melville
The Things They Carried - O'Brien
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>>7447410
>I don't care what someone on the internet thinks of me.
>Posted in a /soc/ thread.
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>>7447314
Silence - Shusaku Endo
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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go to bed Tao.
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>Infinite Meme by David Foster-Wallace
>Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
>Inherent Vice by Tommy Pynchon
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>>7447366
you're the dumb kid in the back of class who thinks we are laughing with you.
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>>7447366
Lurk more.
Also: there is Batman coming out soon. That is when your people traditional go kill a bunch of people. Do us all a solid and go out like an hero, ok?
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>>7448722
You spent most of your time in that dry eyes, tired joints, post-weed kind of mood
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>Slaughterhouse Five
>Let the Great World Spin
>The Man who went up in Smoke
>The Big Sleep
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>House of Leaves-Danielewski
>Catch-22-Heller
>Being There-Kosiński
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Watership Down
Grapes of Wrath
White Noise
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>The Waves - Virginia Woolf
>Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
>After Dark - Haruki Murakami
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So now the trend is "hurrr everyone who likes dostoyevsky is a pleb or an edgy teen notice the books i read they deepa i bet yall dont know em only me knows em"
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Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
The Cannibal by John Hawkes
The Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann
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The Three Musketeers by Dumas
The City of Thieves by Benioff
Emotionally Weird by Atkinson
Shogun by Clavell
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Mason and Dixon
Snow Country
Invisible Cities
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The Brothers Karamazov
Stoner
Lolita
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>>7448433
>Smart dude, not too many friends. A little edgy. Lack confidence in self, but can reasonable fake it.

Not very smart I'm afraid.
That aside, this is absurdly accurate.
I'm scared now.
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How do I stay motivated to read? I have a huge pile of books on my shelf that I want to read, but I always end up distracted after around 30 minutes. It's mainly the urge to go on Steam or to check my phone which results in me sitting on the internet for an hour. I love reading, I have all my life, but I feel like my attention span is quickly diminishing. Does anyone else get this?
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>>7449441

He just described 90% of people who go on 4chan. Low fruit bro.

Guess you're right about the smart part :^)
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>Ficciones
>Un Tal Lucas
>Catch-22
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>>7449495
you live in the shadow of your father
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>>7449498

I really don't. My father is more like a friend than a father figure to me.
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Tristram Shandy
Moby Dick
Lanark
The Essays of Elia
Paradise Lost
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>>7449495
You actually like eating asparagus but don't actually do it that often.

>>7448872
You tried a dating site once but soon became self-conscious and deleted your profile.

>>7448855
Has a beard.

>>7448847
Very bad at math.

>>7448843
As a teenager you liked Hunter S. Thompson but think that you've "grown out" of him now.

>>7448765
Actually has a gf who reads, or a loving mother who recommends him good books.

>>7448761
Has at least one tattoo.

>>7448751
Sometimes thinks racist thoughts but feels guilty about it.

>>7448743
Another one who's bad at math.

>>7448722
Will spend too much on Christmas presents because he loves his family and friends.

>>7448709
Does not watch anime.

>>7448658
Watches anime.

>>7448221
Yet another one who's bad at math.

>>7448199
Reads for "fun".

>>7448178
NEET

>>7448163
Likes to read on the subway train.

>>7448116
Drinks a bit too much.
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>>7449522
>Very bad at math.
Read the OP post again.
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>>7449522
I'm more of a broccoli man than asparagus, but I think it's not too bad. Kinda too juicy for my tastes.
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>>7449449
Yeah. Using RescueTime helped me a lot with killing my procrastination.
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>>7449528
I'll eat a lot of cooked broccoli make me gag.
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>>7449526
Oh fuck, disregard that. I'm the retard here.
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>>7449522
Your review is a fucking cop-out.
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>>7449465
>my feels
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>>7449536
Review?
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>>7449522
>Yet another one who's bad at math.
Math grad student.
Not very good, but not bad either.
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>>7449535
Everyone just seemed to follow OP. Quite sweet actually :3
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>Bouvard and Pécuchet, Flaubert
>Death of Ivan ilych, Tolstoy
>Notes from the underground
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>>7449542
He thought that OP said post 3. He got all fucking uppity and smug.
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>>7449511
You like reading books.
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>>7449554
How did you know?
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>>7449548
I'm sorry.
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>Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, P.K. Dick
>Collected poems, William Blake
>The Trouble With Being Born, Emil Cioran
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CANNN SOMEBODY GIVE ME ATTENTIOM PLEASE QUANTO QURIJO É MUOTK QUEIJOM???
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>>7449557
Ok. I forgive you.
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>>7449597
queijo nunca é demais
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>The Bible
>Confessions (Saint Augustine)
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Frankenstein
>Lolita
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>>7449618
gay, but doesn't want to be/thinks it's bad.
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>King Lear
>Ulysses
>Name of the Rose
>Catcher in the Rye
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>>7449616
Obrigado.
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>>7449653
rofl, you're so full of shit. You're a generic banwagon jumping little fag, who genuinely admire 4chan users. Its impossible to fully understand ulysses and appreciate catcher in the rye at the same time.
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>>7449985
> Its impossible to fully understand ulysses and appreciate catcher in the rye at the same time.

this is what plebs actually think
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>>7449985
>You're a generic banwagon jumping little fag

That hurts my feelings, anon.

>Its impossible to fully understand ulysses and appreciate catcher in the rye at the same time.

Why? Both Catcher and Ulysses are works of genius.
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>>7449547
Would like to live out in the middle of a Russian forest

>>7449578
Often stares at people and tries to intimidate, but once they lock eyes, you turn away in spite.

>>7449618
Frequently posts >fedora to any argument that contradicts his beliefs.

>>7449653
Still in high school.

Mine:
>Nazi Literature of the Americas - Bolano
>Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys - Self
>JR - Gaddis
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>>7450078
>Still in high school.

Is this about Catcher in the Rye again? First time I ever read it was when I was 21. Not all of us are Americans here m8.
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>>7450093
amerifags are unable to appreciate salinger because they were exposed to it too early.
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>Moby Dick
>1984
>American Psycho
>Dune
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>>7447331
calm down dude, it's just a word and he used it correctly.
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>>7447422
Good taste.

You're a loner at work and you hate most of your co-workers but there is one that you actually get along with but not quite friend level.
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>The man without qualities
>Eugene Onegin
>Swann's way
>Magic mountain
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>>7450135
You read for obsession. Perhaps you have an unholy lust for something unhealthy. Drugs? Food? What?

Also you are lonely - simultaneously in awe of the capabilities of people.

Am I right?
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>>7450309

You like big books
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On the road
Lolita
The waves
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>>7450316
Jesus fucking Christ, you are. And yes, I have an unhealthy obsession with unhealthy food.

God damn, how'd you know?
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>>7452059
fat faggot we can tell you're a god dammn blob just from textual analysis
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>>7447362

You are a stoic!
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>>7450305
Describes me well
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>The Western Lands (Burroughs)
>Job: A Comedy of Justice (Heinlein)
>The Idiot (Dostoevsky)
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>>7452157
if you liked Job, (which i did as well) you might like jurgen by cabell, which if i'm not mistaken was the direct inspiration for job.
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>>7452157
You were Christian but aren't anymore.
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The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
Loser (Spinelli)
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>>7447314
>Petronius' Satyricon
>120 Days of Sodom
>Fifty Shades of Grey
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

>>7452245
You're a college dropout
>>7452254
Your job pays slightly over minimum wage.
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>>7452082
Just because I have an obsession with unhealthy food doesn't mean I'm fat. I work out daily to burn off those carbs.
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Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek by Annie Dillard
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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>>7452287
You don't like contemporaries who consider themselves poets and can be reactionary. You also do not read as much as you wish you did.
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The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati

Lit:
Hunger - Knut Hanson
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Motorman - David Ohle
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil

Phil:

Being Singular Plural - Jean Luc Nancy
Being and Time - Martin Heidegger
Minima Moralia - Theodor Andorno
Beyond Good & Evil - Fred
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>>7452325

<3 Fifth Business

I am guessing you love fantasy but feel a little under stimulated by the average fantasy novel.
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>>7452287
>your job pays slightly over minimum wage.
I am a stripper. : / I'm in it more for the fun than the money.
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>>7452787
DEGENERATE
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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Floating Clouds by Fumiko Hayashi
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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>>7452357
>I'll take literally everyone for 500 alex
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Crime and Punishment
The Prince
Brave New World
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>>7452923
You're fairly new to literature or underage
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Tao Te Ching
Alice in Wonderland
1984
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Beton - Bernhard
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
The Trial - Kafka
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>>7447314
Hitler is born.
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The Master and Margherita
Darkness at Noon
Dune
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>>7452831
There's nothing wrong with it. The moneys good. It gets me connections with the local men. I was very popular. I was the first girl in my High School to lose my virginity. Everyone liked me for it. You just have to be more accepting. ;^))
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>>7448175
back to reddit m8
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>>7453059
You drink whisky with at least one ice cube in it.

>>7453041
Masturbates at least once a day.

>>7452976
You have a serious face and look much older than you are.

>>7452891
You enjoy the films of Andrei Tarkovsky.

>>7452350
Likes to walk around naked when no one else is around.
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The Savage Detectives - Bolaño
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Calvino
Not a book per se but Cortázar's short stories
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Gravity's Rainbow
V.
JR (only about 200 pages left, this book is fucking amazing)

judge me fgts
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>>7450078
>Would like to live out in the middle of a Russian forest
Damn right.
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Tomorrow When the War Began (series) - John Marsden
Contest - Matthew Reilly
and any poetry by John Dryden, because hes a funny dickhead but also a good writer.
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The duplicated man - Saramago
I Am Legend - Matheson
The Hobbit - Tolkien

Yes, i'm pretty pleb. Not even browsing /lit/ for a long time.
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>>7453641
You're American.
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>Hagakure: the way of the samurai
>The Odyssey
>Lolita

Just started reading last year, so i'm going into the classics first
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Blood Meridian
Gravity's Rainbow
MacBeth
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>Petersburg-Andrei Bely
>Titus Groan-Meryvyn Peak
>V.Thomas Pynchon
>In Search of Lost Time-Proust
The Transylvanian Trilogy-Banffy
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Paradise Lost
Orlando Furioso
Moby Dick
Brothers Karamazov
War and Peace

Probably
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>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>The Tempest
>The Grapes of Wrath
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>>7453563
gross desu
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>>7447314

>Island
>War and Peace
>The Opposing Shore
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>>7453765
Nice selections, I never see the Transylvanian Trilogy on here.

You probably enjoy foggy, dimly lit streets and drinking bitter coffee, and have difficult being sincere in your relationships.
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>>7454131

It's such an underrated trilogy, I originally went in expecting to read something like Proust but got a very interesting history book instead, though Prae is supposedly the Hungarian equivalent of ISOLT but I haven't got round to that yet. Hungarian literature is pretty great.
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>>7447314
Fiction: TBK - Dostoyevsky
Non-Fiction: Orthodoxy - Chesterton
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>>7447314

Amsterdam Stories - Nescio
Pretty much everything I've read by Borges

There's a lot I've read that I really enjoyed, but those 2 are my favorites.
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>>7453744
>>7453669
>>7453660
>>7453600
>>7454137
>>7454182
You guys are all INtelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor
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Brothers Karamazov
Book of the New Sun
Collected Aquinas
Divine Comedy
Sickness Onto Death
Chekhov and Gogols shorts.
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>>7454189
How can i be nihilistic if i love Chesterton? It doesn't makes sense.
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>>7447382

do dat legacy capcha then son. dam, it's like you don't know how to 4chan.
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>>7454332
Newfag
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>>7454205
Your name is Ivan
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>>7454628
It is
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>>7454332

its a meme you dip
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>>7453586
But I rarely masturbate
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Ulysses
Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn
Dr Zhivago - Pasternak
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>>7453586
>You have a serious face and look much older than you are.

People tell me I look like the main Jesse Eisenberg all the time. Good guess.
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>>7454998
he has a p young face (or is it the jewfro that makes him seem kiddish)
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>>7454848
go away
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blanket guess for all responses: you are a white male.
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>>7455004
Yeah, he does have a young face. But he does seem to always look serious. Especially in The Social Network
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>>7453849
There's nothing gross about loving who you are. Are we not all cut from the same cloth?
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The Joke - Milan Kundera
Borges and I
A Confession - Tolstoy
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>>7447314
Have at it, bros:
Iliad by Homer
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
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Democracy: The God That Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Not necessarily because of any literary quality, it's simply the book I most open; it is used as a reference guide for Paleolibertarian thought)
The Ego and His Own - Max Stirner
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
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Hey I feel really bad that no one responded to mine but I don't want to point out which one is mine because it will make people call me a fag or pleb or whatever so if people just wanna go through the thread and do one for each post that hasn't been analyzed yet I'm sure myself and some other people would appreciate it.
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>>7447393
90% of 4chan desu
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>>7455863
If you're American, the presidential election is pissing you off daily.
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>>7455849
You fancy yourself an adventurer
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