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Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:41:25 2016 No.8405157 [Reply] [Original]

What's the most pretentious book you've ever read?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:42:36 2016 No.8405162 >>8405157 finnegans wake joyce you're trying too hard

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:43:02 2016 No.8405165 >>8405157 Anything by Hitchens and Dawkins is absolutely insufferable, fuck Sagan too

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:43:11 2016 No.8405166 File: 1.16 MB, 671x672, qXwe07x.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What book will make me care about things?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:44:09 2016 No.8405168 Atlas Shrugged

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:44:30 2016 No.8405170 >>8405166 Siddhartha, or the New Testament

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:45:12 2016 No.8405174 >>8405166 The book of negroes

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:45:21 2016 No.8405175 >>8405157 2 years since that tweet and that guy hasn't change a bit https://twitter.com/lucasthemagnif?lang=es

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:50:36 2016 No.8405194 >>8405165 Hitchens wrote more than just that one book. His literary essays are top tier.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 16:55:15 2016 No.8405215 >>8405175 The guy's obviously trolling if you read his tweets.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 17:08:42 2016 No.8405263 do all fedoras suffer from dunning-kruger or something?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 17:32:07 2016 No.8405339 >>8405166 >>8405170 Hesse is good for this

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 17:40:43 2016 No.8405367 >>8405166 Sauce on pic. Looks neat.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 18:32:07 2016 No.8405528 >>8405157 Your diary, desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 18:34:25 2016 No.8405534 >>8405157 "How to Read and Why" by Harold Bloom.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 18:34:45 2016 No.8405536 >>8405367 >search image on google

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 18:36:56 2016 No.8405541 >>8405339 I was going to say Demian

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 18:56:17 2016 No.8405606 >>8405162 >trying too hard Translation: I'm fucking retarded

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 18:57:18 2016 No.8405609 >>8405165 Hey don't you lump Hitch and Dawq together, Hitch is a god.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 19:01:42 2016 No.8405631 >>8405609 >>8405194 >Hey guys check out this brutal HITCHSLAP

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 19:08:38 2016 No.8405665 >>8405367 Should've said it looks MEAT

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 20:39:57 2016 No.8406006 >>8405631 >Only watched his youtube videos.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 21:10:29 2016 No.8406112 >>8405606 >book full of gibberish >not pretentious

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 21:16:16 2016 No.8406132 >>8406112 >HURRR >Look at me mommy ima critic

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 21:17:43 2016 No.8406137 File: 89 KB, 427x623, 1471396663492.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i was tricked by this post-modern meme

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 21:24:27 2016 No.8406153 >>8406112 around here we just accept it was a work of genius that we will never be well read enough to comprehend

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 21:26:29 2016 No.8406159 >>8406132 >stick together random words from random languages >hurr im profound

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 16 21:27:14 2016 No.8406160 >>8406159 >hurr im profound You're getting closer anyway.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 02:09:59 2016 No.8406806 File: 19 KB, 330x435, House_of_leaves.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8405157

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 02:20:03 2016 No.8406816 >>8405631 You sound like a person who's desperately trying to fit in. Read some of his essays. The later ones he wrote on his own mortality for VF are fantastic.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 02:21:40 2016 No.8406818 >>8405165 There's nothing pretentious about Sagan. He was just an astronomer who liked to educate people and almost never addressed religion.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 02:24:14 2016 No.8406821 >>8405166 >You're in the wrong neighbourhood motherfucker

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 02:26:07 2016 No.8406827 >>8406137 We all were, anon

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 08:24:10 2016 No.8407297 >>8405166 The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius Fear and Trembling

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 08:35:54 2016 No.8407322 File: 2 KB, 244x226, 1348764844816.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8405215 Or he's just a fucking idiot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 08:45:39 2016 No.8407354 >>8405165 >fuck Sagan Pretty pretentious imo

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 08:51:02 2016 No.8407366 >>8405170 Good suggestions, I'd also add the Bhagavad Gita

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 08:51:59 2016 No.8407371 >>8405166 Meditations

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 08:53:03 2016 No.8407373 >>8405263 Yup

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 08:55:09 2016 No.8407381 >>8405263 yes but I excel at it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 09:06:28 2016 No.8407415 >>8405534 I generally like Bloom, but this is true.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 09:09:38 2016 No.8407425 >>8405157 I'd have to say Name of the Wind (a neckbeard who has delusions of literary grandure, but is actually just jerking off). Also, every part of Nee-Chan's aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 17 09:10:15 2016 No.8407427 Which brings me to fucking Reich http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/Listen,_Little_Man!