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Anonymous Mon Dec 13 01:45:58 2021 No.19562424 [Reply] [Original]

I'm looking for a book that will blow me away like Blood Meridian did. Doesn't need to be similar to BM, but I want the same feeling of having something in my hands that feels profound and beyond anything I could really understand.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 01:46:44 2021 No.19562429 File: 37 KB, 419x630, Culture_of_Critique.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19562424 Unironically.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 01:47:47 2021 No.19562434 >>19562429 "The Culture of Critique" is for the contemporary world what "The Origin of Species" was for biology. Nothing makes sense unless analyzed through it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 01:48:09 2021 No.19562435 Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 01:53:27 2021 No.19562446 >>19562429 I meant fiction

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 01:54:58 2021 No.19562453 >>19562424 Moby Dick had that effect for me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 02:00:34 2021 No.19562472 >>19562453 I had that feeling with Moby Dick too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 02:01:22 2021 No.19562474 Flowers for Algernon

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 02:03:19 2021 No.19562483 Infinite Jest Paradise Lost

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 02:09:20 2021 No.19562514 >>19562424 Outer dark. CM's nihilistic masterpiece

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 02:10:46 2021 No.19562518 >>19562429 It's actually pretty good, hot good reviews, then part two And three came out and they came after him

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 02:11:21 2021 No.19562522 >>19562424 The Divine Comedy, Moby-Dick, and Paradise Lost. I'd also suggest the Bible, but I have a feeling you wouldn't be particularly receptive to that idea (despite the fact it'd help you understand the books above and Blood Meridian better).

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 04:45:07 2021 No.19563072 >>19562424 Was it really that good? McCarthy is well... boring

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 05:35:21 2021 No.19563208 >>19562434 Whats the difference between The Culture of Critique, and Propaganda by Bernays

Anonymous Mon Dec 13 06:36:04 2021 No.19563361
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>>19562424
+ Death on Credit and Exile trilogy
Melancholy of Resistance
Moby Dick, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
The Man Without Qualities
The Golden Bowl
Joseph and His Brothers, Doctor Faustus
The Death of Virgil
Soul
The Street of Crocodiles

Also Suttree is better than BM.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 07:02:37 2021 No.19563425 File: 151 KB, 760x973, Tyll.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19562424 tyll is solid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 07:13:03 2021 No.19563443 >>19562424 I don't understand how people like this book. It's so badly written and the story is just boring.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 07:18:18 2021 No.19563455 >>19563443 Not all people are stupid, i guess.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 07:20:28 2021 No.19563460 >>19563455 Are you implying I'm stupid? If so, fuck you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 07:28:32 2021 No.19563481 >>19563460 No, of course not. I would never do that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 10:53:10 2021 No.19564420 >>19562424 Lazarillo de tormez?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 10:54:23 2021 No.19564426 >>19562424 mccarthy is ass

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 10:57:18 2021 No.19564438 >>19564426 He blasted your ass.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 10:57:33 2021 No.19564440 >>19562424 Absalom, Absalom!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 10:58:33 2021 No.19564443 >>19563072 Read it and find out :)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:01:13 2021 No.19564454 >>19563460 No. I am vouching for it now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 11:19:56 2021 No.19564552 >>19562453 >>19562474 >Moby's dick really blew me away

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 15:38:43 2021 No.19565941 >>19562424 >blow me away like Blood Meridian did Ishygdd

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 16:28:47 2021 No.19566258 >>19562514 Why is it so underrated

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 17:06:45 2021 No.19566498 >>19562424 How did Oprah convince him to give an interview?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 17:49:18 2021 No.19566741 File: 1.71 MB, 1944x2592, IMG_20211205_152642.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19562424 The Shitkickers

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 18:10:42 2021 No.19566877 The chapter, "The Grand Inquisitor" (which works just fine as a stand alone piece) in Brothers Karamazov made my hands shake while reading it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 18:14:58 2021 No.19566906 Valis

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 13 22:21:44 2021 No.19568237 >>19562434 Lysenko debunked darwin years ago kid.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 02:18:33 2021 No.19568959 >>19566877 lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 14 02:20:35 2021 No.19568963 >>19562424 Celine.

Anonymous Tue Dec 14 02:22:12 2021 No.19568966

>>19564552
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