Absinthe.

>>7512722
Alcohol gives me chest pain

>>7512722
I prefer vodka but tbqh its because I'm also a /fit/izen and try my best to keep my calories in check even when I want to get shitfaced.

I should go to sleep. Why am I wasting my time here?

Traveling during my winter break and getting away from everyone hasn't solved my problems.

>>7507129
>went in to comp sci because stem meme
>was shit at math
>given up and going into English
>hope to be a teacher and probably a virgin for the rest of my life
>I regret everything

>>7507129
>Uni

That slang is still detestable, even in current year.

>live in a country where university is completely free
>everyone slowly study whatever they want in the rhythm they can (both considering their smarts and if they have to keep a job or a family or whatever)
>80% don't finish it anyway.
it's strange, maybe people don't really feel like having higher education if they can live without it.

I like Pinker. He is a legit contributor to his fields while also being very good at writing readable books for a general audience. There seems to be a fair amount of overlap between his books. I liked Words and Rules a lot, and I think it is a great starting point for anyone interested in linguistics. I disagree with him about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

hes' very problematic

ass

Schindler's Gist

It's the cliff-notes version.

Finnegan's Wake

:^)

Pale hire

>lonely older woman is impressed by my taste and tries to strike up a conversation
>i ignore her

> not stealing books that are in the public domain

>>7514671
> not adapting famous books in the public domain for television or film, making millions by not having to pay for the rights

curiosity bump

>meme

You don't even know what the fuck that means.

>>7513482
It truly is the forgotten trilogy.

Ho Ho Ho

We had a goodreads thread like a week ago

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20574145-will

>>7506644

It's like 12 at noon in Germany Sebastian. Drunk already?

Read more.

>>7516565
>best/fastest reader
two conflicting goals

don't know if you read physical or not, but i usually highlight things in the .pdfs i read and write notes in the margins. it slows me down a shit ton but i feel like i grasp more and when i come back later having forgotten a bunch, i have a bunch of notes to look back on to refresh myself. i know that that's too much work for a lot of people, but i enjoy it

>>7516565
just B.E yourself

>>7516503
What do you mean by 'aesthetic', anon? Can you give an example and why are you interested?

>>7516503
i try to be myself.
cultivating an aesthetic is how you end up sounding try-hard or otherwise hackish

>>7516503
v a p o u r

>there will never be anyone quite on his level writing novels

I know he died recently, but David Foster Wallace was arguably better than Pynchon, since he combined Pynchon's icy braininess with warmth and a beating heart.

lmao

delillo is better
not that it's saying much

>>7516490
>icy braininess
cofnirmed for not having read pynchon
RUGGLES was a Lovin' Spoonful of a writer (is)

David Federast Wallops is a sterile computer with contrived emotion that resorts to the biological actions of the emotion centers to explain wow does it get any more detatched and icy than that?

you wont hear abstracted descriptions of organs in work in T.R.P. (unless the organs are SEXUAL(

there's no payoff if that's what you're asking. it's more of the same, though he has a small epiphany at the end I guess.

>>7516356
>he fell for a meme

>>7516356
I think it's safe to assume he's "kind of bad at writing". I've read most of what he's written, and never in any of those works did he display a talent for writing. There's really no reason for you to continue reading.

A closet case of what.

>>7516264
He was a hack.

If there was a choice to be made between having Burroughs never live or have Hitler never live, I'd choose Burroughs. Because at least Hitler was competent in his craft and advanced it forward by about 40 years while the rest of the world was standing in bread lines.

Burroughs however, thanks to edgy teenagers, regressed the act of literature by about...oh, I don't know, a good 6500 years.

I only wish AIDS was killing faggots thirty years earlier.

>>7516290
>Hitler was competent
No he wasn't.

>>7516037
>Is the Iliad worth reading?
Yes.
>Does it still hold up today in terms of complexity or depth of thought/ideas
Yes.

You know the answer already. but lets use this thread to talk about its importance anyway.

>>7516037

No, it's just a bunch of boring descriptions of people fighting. Before they had action movies, that's what people back then got for excitement.

>>7515851
because i literally just started with the greeks a few days ago

>>7516136
Same. Just got the iliad. I'm starting the greeks at the VERY beginning

Commencing with the Chinese