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Any philosopher born after ~1910

>>18453789
Any philosopher born after ~0

>>18453846
Any philsopher

I say this as a person who loves the pretentious, the best option is probably Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, and the author of it, John Lyly, Lyly is the dude who people like Shakespeare ape when they’re trying to write a pretentious character, he’s the absolute paragon of purple prose.

>>18453779
Any book and western author from the western canon.

>>18453779
Harry Potter

>>18453779
>tattoo

>>18453779
Goosebumps

My diary
Desu

>>18453779
Infinite Jest

>>18454544
This, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest should come with a disclaimed for massive pretentiousness contained.

Frankenstein by far

>>18453779
Das capital

Test

guenon, heidegger

DeLillo.

>>18453779
Cormac McCarthy.

>>18453779
Any one of those New Atheists

>>18453779
diary of a wimpy kid Rodrick rules

Hermann Hesse. Mountains of pseudo-mystic drivel with nothing to say.
Steppenwolf is by far the worst book ever written to be considered a classic.

>>18454598
Mad?

Why is this even a question?

>>18455278
Only extremely so, read 1100 pages of utter autism written by a schizo who's worshipped by pseuds like yourself

last of the mohicans.

>>18453779
Any holy book. Imagine writing a book and then telling people it was literally written by god.

>>18453779
my diary desu by me

>>18454610
Interesting choice.

>>18453779
Anything I've ever written.

Alternatively, most academic philosophy (which is what I read).

>>18455265
Based opinion

>>18453789
>>18453846
>>18453866

>>18456467
That's just the quran though

godel escher bach although I did not read all of it. Fiction wise Foucault's pendulum is rather pretentious. i didn't like it at all despite remember kinda liking the name of the rose when i read it at 20 or so which is also rather pretentious.
>>18455207
I did read through the portable atheist put together by Hitchens when I went through my new atheist phase

>>18455207
Theist writers are FAR more pretentious

>>18453779
Keeping in mind that pretention is primarily the act of obfuscating one's intellectual deficiencies, I'd have to vote for Lacan. By all accounts he was not nearly so intelligent as he would like to give the impression of.

>>18454646
Why? I’ve never read his books but I’ve seen him give interviews and I liked listening to him.

>>18453894
Idiotic post

>>18453779
>Science of Logic
>Hegel

>>18453779
I dont read many books like that, will say The Alchemist Novel by Paulo Coelho

>>18454544
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>>18453779
Book: To the Lighthouse (it's still good though).
Writer: Margaret Atwood (the worst part is she uses pretense to dress up midwit level takes for normie pseuds).

>>18462885
Was just about to say this

Specific book is hard to say, but I'm tempted to go with the Timaeus. Just pages and pages of nonsensical conjecture regarding the origin of the cosmos and the fabric of reality, none of which the author had any way of knowing in any real way. Alongside this, he makes no effort to actually verify the stupendous, sweeping claims that he makes, but rather just emotes and asserts the whole way along. I generally like Plato, but this one was kind of a miss for me. That said, I only read the dialogue because I wanted to see what he had to say about Atlantis in the original source, so maybe my disappointment colours my opinion of the text somewhat.

As for most pretentious author, probably Nietzsche. Again, I actually like him a lot and appreciate his ideas, but his sentences are so scattered and congested by weird puns and allusions that it makes an already difficult subject extremely hard to follow, most if not all of the time for seemingly no reason. If the focus of his books was poetry or fiction, it wouldn't matter, but the fact of their being philosophy kinda makes me say that he strayed the course to much, and was guided by his ego this end. In Beyond Good and Evil I feel like this is especially apparent, where in one paragraph he'll jump from irrelevant allusions to Parsifal, Tartuffe, the Tempest and so on.

>>18454505
Why do you care about a tattoo when there's bigger problems, like the high likelihood of the portrayed to be a tranny?

>>18453779
I always felt like Derrida was a pretentious charlatan

>>18453779
most (really all) pomo books and authors

>>18462997
Timaeus is a sublime work and you don't know what pretentious means.

>>18454617
I think you meant der kapitel

>>18462997
Holy filtré. On another note, I'm not sure if you're actually aware of this, but Timaeus builds on everything already established prior in Plato's dialogues. If you don't have a fluid and working knowledge of Plato's entire corpus (especially Republic, given the fact that ,in the chronology, it occurred the day before Timaeus), there is no doubt that Timaeus would seem nonsensical.

Any good tips for keeping the flourish and flowery writing flowing when writing?

>>18453779
This passage.
>Jack looked to his mother, she was out of her chair, walking along the beach, her sundress flowing and her hat nearly flying off her head. Jack noticed his father appearing out of the tree line. How was he not sweating in his suit? Jack didn't know. His father began to talk with his mother. It seemed like he was giving really bad news. His mother waved for Jack to get ready to leave.
>Jack was ready, the sun was really hot and he felt his skin beginning to burn. He reached into the ocean one last time before going home. Hoping to find something fun, perhaps another toy like last time. His hand dug through the sand, pluming the water with white. His fingers grasped onto something warm but smooth. He pulled it out, a cylindrical brass tube, tapered at the top. On the bottom was a silver button. Jack knew what this was, he always found them at the beach, nothing fun. He dropped the rifle casing and made his way to his mother, who was now crying.