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I'm about halfway through, and there have been plenty of cool references. Best so far was Hari Seldon. Sweetness.

>> No.4193116

Come to think of it, what are some reference-heavy books? Apart from books by Pynchon and Diaz, obviously.

>> No.4193124

Boomer Bible

>> No.4193128

Freedom is pretty heavy on pop-culture references. It's not very good though.

I couldn't get past 40 pages of Telegraph Avenue. It sucked hard. 3hip5me.

>> No.4193133

Kill yourself.

>> No.4193137

>>4193128

I've read Freedom several times. It's an excellent novel, IMO, although this board has always disliked it very much.

Bleeding Edge has some good references, especially the more obscure ones. I don't think this board likes that book much, either, though.

>> No.4193177

>>4193128

>can't handle interracial underage homosexual relationships

Fuck off /pol/

>> No.4193186

>>4193177
wait, are YOU /pol/?

>> No.4193189

by now I don't know whether Sunhawk is one or sevral people. Such an autistic voice devoid of any personality traits

>> No.4193201

Telegraph Avenue is Franzen's new novel, right?

I liked Freedom a lot, maybe I'll like this.

>> No.4193220

>“Two things are infinite: the universe and Sunhawk's basicness; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

>> No.4193221

>“A Sunhawk without being basic is like a shitpost without a point.”
― Cicero

>> No.4193228

>We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now, I am become Sunhawk, the destroyer of books."
― Robbert Oppenheimer

>> No.4193230

>>4193228
>MY SIDES.jpg

>> No.4193240

>>4193228
I figuratively can't stop laughing.

>> No.4193241

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that Sunhawk isn't basic as hell.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

>> No.4193245

>“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that Sunhawk is basic as fuck.”
― Voltaire

>> No.4193250

>“Sunhawk is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be basic as hell.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>> No.4193259

>And again if it be true, that a wise man like a good refiner can gather gold out of the drossiest volume, and that a Sunhawk will be a Sunhawk with the best book, yea or without book, there is no reason that we should deprive a wise man of any advantage to his wisdome, while we seek to restrain from a Sunhawk, that which being restrain'd will be no hindrance to his folly
― John Milton, Areopagitica

>> No.4193302

>"The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say: Well, this is the way I am. I cannot be more basic. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their "I cannot be more basic" and lose their minds. Finally there are a one in each generation who in spite of all life's terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this "I cannot be more basic". he is the Sunhawk. Their "I cannot be more basic" is an infinite thought, for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought, he would lose his mind."
—Soren Kierkegaard

>> No.4193340

>“we accept the Sunhawk we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being Basic as hell

>> No.4193361

>"Sunhawk is a shit poster, very third rate."
― James Joyce

>> No.4193368

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that Sunhawks exist, but because they tell us that Sunhawks can be basic.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

>> No.4193387

>"Swa ða drihtguman dreamum lifdon eadiglice, oððæt an ongan shitpost fremman feond on helle. Wæs se basic gæst Sunhawk haten, mære mearcstapa, se þe thread heold, fen ond fæsten."
- Anonymous, Beowulf

>> No.4193609

>God damnit, Sunhawk...
― Anonymous

>> No.4193616

>That man of seventh planet, Sunhawk the / great faggot, making basic threads day out
William Shakespeare, written as an idle musing in his notebook which naturally came out as iambic pentameter

>> No.4193633

SUNHOCK IS A USED WHORE

>> No.4193972

>>4193228
top kek

>> No.4194015

>>4193186

Is /pol/ even /pol/ anymore? Where am I?

>> No.4194116

>>4193368
And by Neil Gaiman you mean Chesterton. Jesus.

>> No.4194119

>>4193107
The Sunhawk over the port was the color of television, tuned to a basic channel.