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What are some books they truly filtered you, that you couldn't get your head around?

>> No.21553687
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>>21553648
This one, I need to sit down and try re-reading it

>> No.21553759

>>21553687
Lmao

>> No.21553760

John Ashbery made me go cross-eyed

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>>21553648
I have an easier time reading Kant.

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>>21553648
Thoughts on Machiavelli. I can't tell if Strauss is a babbling kike or simply too smart for me.

>> No.21554038

>>21553648
Oxen of the Sun in Ulysses. I just did not care about it anymore to sit through that shtick. I started reading it on Bloomsday 2016. I got to Oxen of the Sun a week or two later. I have not returned. I never will.

>> No.21554227

>>21553759
Not sure if you're serious
Most people here can't even grasp basic logic much less metalogic

>> No.21554356

>>21554227
>Metalogic?
What?

>> No.21554382

Cantos of Ezra Pound

>> No.21555058

>>21553648
To be honest, I would say the Bible in that it seems contradictory and not to mention, the main protagonist is a Gary sue.

>> No.21555083

>>21555058
>the main protagonist is a Gary sue
the whole point of Christ being both man and God is that God has written himself into the story as a man. It's a literal self-insert.

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>>21553648
Had a tough time with The Order of Things by Foucualt and then I thought why not do the exact same thing but even more impenetrable? (pic attached)

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>>21553648
There was that one crappy YA book about American youth and succubi, with a sexy redhead on the cover. The writing was atrocious. I never finished In the Search of Lost Time; I dropped it, or rather, haven't picked it up again after finishing the third book; it just wasn't that interesting. I think I've only read the poem part of the Pale Fire. I tend to finish the books I start.
>>21554038
Also Ulysses, although I think I dropped it earlier than you. I guess I just can't tolerate changes to the more traditional structure of a novel or an epic.

>> No.21555191

>>21555183
I love her so much bros

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>impossibly dense fusion of German Idealism and Scholasticism written by someone who admired Hegel's writing style but thought it was too easy to read

>> No.21555255

>>21553648
Human, All Too Human.