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What is the Evangelion of literature?

>> No.8149734

>>8149731
what's that?

>> No.8149735

>comparing cartoons to literature

>> No.8149737

>>8149731
Gene Wolfe

>> No.8149738

Catcher in the Rye

>> No.8149743

>>8149735
they're both story telling mediums.

>> No.8149745

>>8149743
>plot retards
Go find a campfire.

>> No.8149747

>>8149735

Evangelion is an anime you dunce

>> No.8149752

I'd recommend Heaney's translation of Beowulf but then again I've never watched Evangelism.

>> No.8149754

>>8149743
>reading for the plot
>>8149747
Same thing

>> No.8149758
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8149758

>>8149754

>Same thing
>There are "people" that actually believe this

>> No.8149761

>>8149734
The greatest piece of animation ever made.

>> No.8149769

>>8149761
Why does it look like childrens horse cartoons ?

>> No.8149779

>>8149731
That picture just screams 'oedipal conflict. '

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>>8149731
Pic related

>> No.8149923

>>8149779
no shit sherlock

>> No.8149925

the bible

>> No.8149929
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8149929

Is Catch 22 the Cromartie High School of literature?

>> No.8149930

>>8149929
yes

>> No.8149958

>>8149731
Ulysses

>> No.8150045

I dunno, what's a book mostly about fighting with angst and pretentious religious symbolism in between?

>> No.8150058

>>8149731
My diary desu ;_;

>> No.8150060

>>8150045
the divine comedy
paradise lost
faust

:^)

>> No.8150111

>>8149731
the sickness unto death

>> No.8150112
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8150112

>>8149731
here

>> No.8150122

>>8149758
>There are "people" that actually have 14 DFW pics saved

>> No.8150146

>>8149731
Hypersphere by Anonymous

>> No.8150382

>>8149731
I cant really think of any literature that is good but overly comercialized and ffull of waifushit.

>> No.8150718

>>8149731
Can't think of any, so just write it yourself. To begin, go on an acid trip and write about how useless you and your life is and see how that turns out.

>> No.8150731

>>8150382

Murakami

>> No.8150739

Are we talking aesthetically, thematically, culturally, or plot?

>> No.8150873

>>8150731
> murakami
> good

>> No.8150917

>>8150873

>Evangelion
>Good

>> No.8151178

>>8149745
>he thinks story telling is about plot

>> No.8151725

100 Years Of Solitude

think about it

>> No.8151825

>>8149929
This is pretty accurate actually the styles are very similar

>> No.8151985

>>8150112
Best post

>> No.8152099

>>8150731
That's actually not a bad answer

>> No.8152291

the ending is similar to Childhood's End by Clark

>> No.8152415

>>8149731
So a book with a coward and pleb for main character? Fuck, I hated so much because of Shinji

>> No.8153254

>>8150112
>>8149913

>> No.8153558

>>8149913
i just read the eponymous story and "the mouse" yesterday and liked them both. this is a solid rec

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8153571

>>8149731
any of these
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/tang-dynasty