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The Brothers Karamazov

After that you really dont need to read anything else. Once you've reached the peak, the rest is anticlimax.

>>2179337
You made an incredibly ambiguous request, on the slowest board on 4chan, on a Friday night

come the fuck on man

>>2179340
What if I told you I've read that and pretty much all of Dostoevsky's major works?

I've been reading a lot of Steinbeck, Camus, Twain, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Flaubert, and just getting into Zola now.

>>2179344

I was kidding, but isnt BK a great book?

I like Kafka. I presume you've read Orwell and Huxley. If not get on it (and I'm not just saying that because of the threads about them on here)

Hunter S. Thompson's writing is fucking boss.

>>2179344
proust, read proust. also flan o'connor and hemingway

Yeah I read Hemingway, Kafka and the like back in high school.

I actually feel intimidated by Proust and Joyce, I think it's something about the whole artist/writer thing in the books that makes me want to stay away from them.

>>2179357
And Orwell*

Homage to Catalonia was my favourite.

ITT: we circlejerk about all the books we've read


OP, what about Kant?

On Writing by stephen king is very interesting.

William. Fucking. Blake.

>>2179357
proust is so good tho for real

also read john crowley, his book little, big

>>2179364
I heard Kant's more inaccessible than a cunt with bees swarming around it.

Seriously though, not big on deep philosophical texts like that, although I didn't mind some non-fiction stuff like The Prince, Art of War (Chinese one), The Communist Manifesto and maybe a handful of others.

I'm also not that big on poetry so that rules out a lot of Greek classics (which I have tried) and others. although I did check out Beowulf and Dante's Inferno, pretty boss.

I also grew up with my father reading me Wells, Verne, Dumas and other authors I wouldn't mind revisiting some time.

>I heard Kant's more inaccessible than a cunt with bees swarming around it.

Maybe if you're an idiot. Its really not that difficult a read. There is a small, maybe 80 page book (he didnt actually write but its attributed to him) made from his lecture notes called 'An Introduction to logic'

Pretty easy to get through and it presents his ideas in a much less oblique form. With kant, any philosopher really, it helps to understand what they're shooting for. He wrote in response to Hume's radical empiricism, he was trying to reconstruct everything.

I stand by the Hunter S. Thompson suggestion.

>>2179372
In my times lurking on /lit/ and from what I've read in the past (which had references to authors like Kant and Nietzsche) is that he's not an 'easy' philosopher to understand.

>>2179377
There is first the matter of “opacity of style” and “darkness of thought” which according to Mr. Cameron is also “obvious in the work of Kant.” This remark is of course terribly discouraging for any attempt at clarification. If Kant fails to satisfy Mr. Cameron on these accounts, who could? That the Critique of Pure Reason is not merely one of the greatest but also one of the clearest books ever written in philosophy seems to me “obvious,” but how could I convince Mr. Cameron of this—unless we had a chance to spend the better part of a year going over the text? For no doubt the work is difficult; it deals with difficult matters which were very obscure indeed before Kant went to the trouble of clearing them up. Kant’s prose is entirely adequate, and the “long-lasting ambiguities,” which Mr. Cameron half admires and half complains of, are either due to the subject matter or to the less clear and powerful minds of Kant’s commentators and readers.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1970/jan/01/distinctions/

To avoid starting a whole thread on this.
What, in your opinion, are the better Christopher Hitchens books to choose from?

>>2179384

Letters to a young contrarian

>working my way through /lit/'s essential charts

Son, you better not be ignoring the Australian one like everybody else fucking does.

>>2179421
You know I am, you fag, Patrick.

>>2179429

Good stuff.

Additional Note: I cannot find a picture of Patrick White not looking like he's going to punch some cunt's lights out.

I READ A NIGHT AT THE PINK POODLE.

>>2179435
I know this feeling.

Early 2012 will have me reading Voss, and if the opening pages are any indication I will love it.

Of course the opening of The Vivisector was amazing too, before it degenerated into a pile of Freudian tropes. But hey even a quarter book of great writing is worth something with so many uninteresting novels around.

>>2179654
OH HI THIRD

I DECIDED TO CHECK OUT SOME MORE LESSER KNOWN STUFF. NAMELY, CHROME YELLOW BY HUXLEY, HELL BY BARBUSSE, FANTOMAS BY ALLAIN, AND THE ENORMOUS ROOM BY CUMMINGS.

WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW THEY GO

the novella thread™
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