Books I've read so far this year:>Blood Meridian - McCarthy>Run for the Hills - Kevin Wilson >White Nights - Dostoevsky>Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky>This Is How You Lose the Time War - El-Mohtar & Gladstone> The Death of Ivan Ilyich - TolstoyAlso I have never read a book over 500 pages and is retarded
>>25237405There Is No Anti-Memetics? What is that?
>>25237409There Is No Antimemetics Division. It came out last year but it's highly praised, and I've heard multiple people say it "broke their brain" but in a good way. Other than that I know nothing about it, but that and Sirens of Titan are the most recent ones I picked up.
>>25237412Give it a shot, I'll do the same.
>>25237423Alright, I am anchoring my unwavering trust in you, anon.
>>25237405You should bump up Confederacy of Dunces in your reading order. One of the funniest books I've ever read. Most accurate depiction of 4channers despite being written decades before the internet was even invented.
>>25237443I'll read that next after Antimimetics, which is pretty short and also pretty damn good thus far.
>>25237405I refuse to believe this isn't photoshop or AI.
>>25237727Why would it be?
>>25237405>The Woman In MeMay i ask why?
>>25237828No
>>25237405I couldn't finish A Confederacy of Dunces. It felt like I was reading the thoughts of my stupid-ass father.
>>25237837That's fair. I haven't read it, but I was under the impression the reader is supposed to think Ignatius is kind of a buffoon, despite technically being an intellectual.
>>25237841As far as I'm concerned, he was just a buffoon who thinks he's an intellectual.
>>25237405a bunch of shite. do better.
>>25237864I'm rubber and you're glue, so...
>>25237405Op, this is a great selection of books. Unpretentious, authentic, legitimately well rounded. I am irrationally happy about this.Personally, I'm most interested in Slewfoot.
>>25237884>Unpretentiousfuck off
>>25237884Gerald Brom has written a lot of gothic fantasy over the years, and he does his own illustrations, which are pretty cool. I'm thinking I'll hold off on Slewfoot until closer to Halloween time, though.
>>25237894Sorry, dispretentious
>>25237894impretentious
>>25237409>>25237412>There Is No Antimemetics Division>Originally a web serial on the SCP wikiInto the trash it goes.
>>25238298I'm a few chapters in. So far it's alright.
>>25237405Read Confederacy of Dunces. Burn the rest.
Of your choices, I personally deliberately would read Anti-Mimetics or DumasIf I were stuck in a hotel room and these were on the shelf, I would skim the celebrity stuff out of weakness, start in on DFW or Anti-Mimetics, and then read the Tarentino shlock instead. Ghostwritten celebrity memoirs: hard passMcConaughey: maybe. Worth a skimStraub, King, and I hate to say it, Vonnegut: all fun to read, and I wouldn't deny the pleasure to anyone, but if I were living my life over, I'd passWilliam Cooper: hard pass. I used to enjoy conspiracy theory semi-ironically but there's just no there there. Sub the Illuminatus! trilogy or the highbrow take of Foucault's Pendulum, then give it a restAnti-Mimetics: maybe I should, it seems to have some odd cultural currencyDumas: oddly, on my listConfederacy of Dunces: overrated but I should rereadWallace: my "I really should read something mid-to-high-brow written after 1990" selectionSusanna Clark: I still haven't read her other book on the shelf here, and I would read that firstSlewfoot just looks terribleOnce upon a Time in Hollywood: does anyone need to read that if they've seen the movie? I remember seeing a "this is good for a novelization" take when it came out, thoughTom's Crossing: maybe, looks fun, maybe?
>>25237405I'd read the Britney one
>>25237826The britney spears book. No way anyone with a dick actually bought that.
>>25237405Since I can't recommend a translation of Dumas, it has to be The Woman in Me by the great poet Spears.
>>25237405There is no antimemetics division, obviously.Tumblr created dramione, dramione created Alchemised.4chan created SCP, SCP created There is no antimemetics division.Old /lit/ would have drooled over it. It's the first true 4chan novel, not larping shit like the Honor Levi novel.
>>25238339>The Illuminatus! trilogyIs this really more worth reading than Behold a Pale Horse? I did buy it out of sheer curiosity. Pale Horse is one of the oldest (maybe the oldest?) book in my collection that I still haven't read. I'm not a big conspiracy theorist myself, but I do find them interesting sometimes.
>>25238655I specifically got the clothbound edition for the Robin Buss translation, which I'd heard was the best, but I understand if you're a Dumas purist who can read French.
>>25238750Intriguing.
>>25237835very well then, good luck on your transistion
>>25237405Piranesi. Throw Infinite Jest and the Brittney Spears book in the fucking trash.
>>25239386What is wrong with IJ? I haven't read it but I'm curious.
>>25239510Smegma sucking author who blew his brains out because remote controlled TVs meant you no longer had to get up off your ass to turn it on and he thought that was such a nightmare future that he killed himself over it.
>>25239513Did he really suck smegma? That's pretty discerning.
