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I really enjoyed both American Psycho and a Clockwork Orange, particularly the psychotic narrators and violent themes, so what do I read now?

>> No.16903694

>>16903671
You have to be 18 to post here, bucko.

>> No.16903696

>>16903671
A hero of our time

>> No.16903726

>>16903671
The Butcher Boy
Very violent and psychotic, it's a stream of consciousness from a kid's POV in Ireland in the 60s. It also has the same kind of vibe where a lot of it might have been completely imagined.

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>>16903671

Better yourself.

>> No.16903929

>>16903694
I am 18 you worthless prole

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>>16903929
>he's 18
NGMI

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Enjoy

>> No.16904002

>>16903671
Dennis Cooper, Frisk

>> No.16904033

>>16903929
>18 and still haven't read the Greeks
what the fuck are you doing with your life?

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>>16903671
(Un)ironically, Harassment Architecture, it’s pretty short, so no time wasted if you don’t like it, but it’s as if an esoteric Pat Bateman lurked /fit/ and /bestpol/.

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>>16903938
s-shut up I am too

>> No.16904070

>>16904033
enjoying the experience of reading and not needing to enter into dick measuring competitions with strangers online over books you probably haven't read

>> No.16904077

>>16903929
lol sure. log off

>> No.16904078

>>16903671
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Plato's complete works
Aristotle's complete works
The Aeneid
The Bible
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare's complete works
Paradise Lost
The Critique of Pure Reason
The Phenomenology of Spirit
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
V.
The Crying of Lot 49
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

>> No.16904096

>>16904070
you can't comprehend any book before you've read the Greeks. Fact.

>> No.16904097

>>16904078
Don’t bother with the translations, so start by learning Ancient Greek. Then you should consider picking up a book.

>> No.16904134

>>16904078
>>16904096
>>16904097
very funny boys, I can see you ugly hogs behind your monitors now, slurping white grape Shloer, smirking at your own shit joke. please hang yourself

>> No.16904152

>>16904134
I'm not joking though... I'm trying to enlighten you, but you reject it. You're almost like a dog that I'm trying to explain higher pleasures to, except that you can actually achieve these pleasures too, if you listen.

>> No.16904180

>>16903671
I just started reading The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. It is from 1952, but it has stuff that is about as shocking as American Psycho, and a self aware first person narration by a murderer. Stanley Kubrick was a fan of it and there are certain lines in the book that he clearly reappropriated for his movies.

>> No.16904204

painted bird is very violent and disturbing.

>> No.16904211

>>16903671
>reading american airport trash

>> No.16904738

>>16903671
Pale Fire

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>>16904134
>>16904152
I was joking however, not sure why you’d start calling names; I’m only having a little jest haha :)
I even made a good suggestion in a different reply haha :)

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>>16903696

>> No.16905807

>>16904096
Sadly true. You just can't 'get' Dr Seuss without a rudimentary foundation in the pre-socratics.

>> No.16905824

>>16904078
Fucking schitzoid list. Skip the hegel, kant till later, and honestly any of the non fiction if you ask me, save those which are historically relevant.

>> No.16905846

>>16903671
Also ignore the NGMI faggots. Those are fine books and I'm glad you've enjoyed them. Dip your toes into philosophy if you've found the ideas explored in those books interesting. The greeks are unironically a good place to start. Alternatively nietzsche is a good read, not too heavy, and some romans / stoics can be good too.