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I just read Animal Farm. You told me it's not about animals. It's about fucking animals.
read his nonfiction you fool
>>7624091
when do they fuck in the book?
never
>>7624091
>implying pigs are animals
I'm describing a beautiful monster which the characters in my story decide to save rather than slay. how do I make this an understandable decision? How can I convey beauty and danger?
>>7623980
Strength is beautiful. The ability to actualize one's will is beautiful. Being absolutely and perfectly free is beautiful. Being unstained by doubt, self-hatred, or misery is beautiful.
>>7624002
this is really good. I didn't know that this was what my story was about, but all my characters struggle with these things, and the monster is like that. Very cool, thanks. will post more monsters if people ask
Give me one good reason to read any of these trash books
expand minds eye
>>7623956
>these trash books
that is not very specific
>>7623956
because you might like them.
why should we make you read anything? it should be an activity that isnt compulsory. if you don't want to read, or need some specific reason to read books, then you don't have to.
it would be nice for you to read some of this literature, not all of it is worthwhile, but it can help you to see the world in a different way, relate to others better, and improve communication!
murray bookchin is the man!
please read this man's work neo-/lit/ or any of my friends from yrs ago
>>7623946
gay-tier statist rubbish. check out Hans Herman Hoppe, Moldbug or the austrian economist.
>>7623946
What do you recommend?
hello friends! hit me up with some mythology books, ive read the greek myths by robert graves and would like to read something like this but about egyptian/ mesopotamian/ etc. thanks in advance
Myths from Mesopotamia - Oxford World's Classics
also would like some chinese/japanese myths recs!
You'd probably enjoy Borge's Book of Imaginary Beings
>tfw infinite jest was released a year after you were born
>>7623607
>tfw my grand-grandpa was alive when Ulysses was released
>>7623607
Same, but the worst part...
>year of the pig
pat yourself on the back
/lit/ any tips for reading/concentrating in loud areas?
Since moving into the city center close to my university, I can't for the life of me concentrate enough to read with constant traffic, car horns, trams, sirens, drunk people, etc.
ear plugs, headphones with white noise, noise canceling headphone
OP I had this same problem and I had to switch colleges. Most people literally don't notice it, some enjoy it. Your grades are going to slip and your brain will always subconsciously associate loud noises with reading, whereas it should associate silence with reading.
Put on earphones and listen to some Beethoven.
Hello, I'm in dire need of a basic psychology book:
Martin, G. N., Carlson, N. R., Buskists, W. (2010). Psychology (4th edition)
With an exam coming up this week, I would appreciate a torrent or a .pdf file.
Thank you!
What level?
>>7623383
Bachelor, with a specialization in neurophysiology. I'm freshman, so I only need one chapter of the book.
>>7623462
http://bookzz.org/book/1125511/1f9540
>read the wikipedia summary/see a TV-adaption
>"yeah i've read it"
You can't stop me.
..ok?
Who else looks at philosophy as a cure to a psychological process rather than an attempt to find a reality or an object of knowledge?
>>7623279
Quine.
Do I need to be drunk off my ass to find this captivating or...?
It takes a while.
I enjoyed the opening bits where Hencher is remembering living through the London Blitz.
The theft of the horse was meh.
I wasn't sure what the hell was going on during the murder in the steam bath.
And I enjoyed the bimbos.
All in all, enjoyed the atmosphere but felt it was a jumped up Graham Greene thriller where he left you guessing for art's sake as to what motives people had for what they did or who the hell the bimbos were
>>7623168
>Graham Greene thriller where he left you guessing for art's sake as to what motives people had for what they did or who the hell the bimbos were
That's pretty accurate, but for myself it was the good thing about it; sort of deconstruction of thriller genre; somewhat in the way what Robbe-Grillet would have done; and I think what Flannery O'connor said about this book (and it's, I believe, on the back of the cover): that one is suffering it like a dream, or nightmare.
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Just read The Girl Who Was Plugged In and loved it. I want to read more of James Tiptree. What are her best works?
>>7623059
Did the girl get buttfucked or what?
>>7623061
No, she was a repulsive girl with cushing's syndrom that was put in an underground lab and cybernetically lived in some beautiful organic doll-body, as a luxurious celebrity.
>>7623093
That sounds nice I wouldn't mind giving it a read, but does it have the 3 essentials that truly make a book a work of art?
I am talking about, the gay, rape and incest litcore. Is there any form of gay, rape and incest in the books?
Hogg, eye, etc are all great books because of these 3 things.
I want to read the entire Deltora Quest saga. Is it good or these books are too childish?
>>7623039
I read them when I was 12 or something and fucking loved them, but I can't remember much about them now. I imagine if I reread them I'd get huge waves of nostalgia which would interfere with any sort of literary criticism. They are certain to not be some sort of deep philosophical contemplation, though.
>>7623039
>I want to read the entire Deltora Quest saga.
Then do so.
>Is it good
As a kid, they were great fun. I'm sure they won't wouldn't be anything amazing now, but they are short and wouldn't take more than a few hours max for each one.
>>7623039
OP read whatever the fuck you want, once you enjoy it, and it gives you a will to continue reading, do it.
If you follow lit's advice , you might just give up reading altogether. First develop a love for reading then advance yourself.
Sometime in the future normal story based plots might not do it for you and you might enjoy wordplay, that is when you follow lit's advice.
Recommend me books on influenza.
I just spent the last week getting over mine. I'm still kind of bronchitis-y.
I recommend saline nasal spray to loosen up huge blockages for ejection, a strategic decision to stop blowing your nose and just start swallowing the endless mucous while sitting up during the phase of runniness, not being fooled by the mild bronchitis eye of the storm into thinking it's over, and lots of tea and Watership Down to prevent you from killing yourself.
The Prince by Machiavelli
Manufacturing Consent by Herman & Chomsky
How to make friends and Influenza People by Dale Carnegie
Water Margin
>and then, like, he made strips of soul that he cut up and that was like the soul of the universe and shit and it controls the planets lol
Why the fuck am I bothering to read the Timaeus? Is Plato's cosmology worth anything at all? This is Myth of Er tier.
You are a sperg. Take it easy.
>>7622715
>Timaeus
Never heard of this...could please someone explain this to mee?
>>7622734
Buttmad Socratist detected.
>>7622738
Timaeus is a Socratic dialogue by Plato in which Timaeus describes the principles of cosmology. So far there have been some interesting points raised - for example an argument for the unique singularity of the universe, and an interesting account of space, being, and becoming - but it is held down by a bizarre speculative account of the ordering of the rotations of the planets and the creation of the universe.
