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What's /lit/s thoughts on printing out pdfs/ebooks?
>inb4 buy a kindle
I can't read literature on screens fuck you
>>8235444
underage b8.
>>8235448
>implying not wanting to buy a kindle makes someone underage
>>8235450
Have you ever read from something with e-ink? It's nothing like reading from a phone.
How can I know whether my decisions are actually "mine"?
How can I know my decisions aren't the consequences of some incidents lodged in my unconscious?
What can I do about it (or any suggested readings)? How can I (re)claim "myself"?
>inb4 'majin syphilis happy
>inb4 spooks
There is no "self" to do any of this.
Sorry.
>>8235265
/thread
>>8235246
https://www.amazon.de/Das-Handwerk-Freiheit-Entdeckung-eigenen/dp/3596156475 Have fun.
What's a comfy book I can read so I don't feel like offing myself?
Sun and Steel.
Moby Dick
Nietzsche and the Horror of Existence
Does anyone else book blog? I'm at pbbpb.wordpress.com. Also, pulp sci-fi cover art thread.
>>8235148
For years, the publisher of this book had allowed this book to feature a gorilla on the cover, even though it was about space bears. Clearly the guy wasn't getting paid much to redo it.
What writer most closely resembles Hank Moody?
Bukowski desu
>Watch Californication
>Hanks creeping through some pictures of a girl
>He sees a picture of her with a stack of Vonnegut books
>He says, "Vonnegut, hmm, great taste, she's perfect."
>Think Californication is well written so far
>Convinced good writers must look up to Vonnegut
>Stop watching Californication half way through
>Lie...
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>>8235132
Dan Brown
Books to cope with the fact that youth is transient and we're all going to grow old and wither?
CORNCOBBERS GET OFF MY BOARD
The sound and the fury?
Anything Taoist.
Sum up /lit/ in one post. This anon here has heard good things about Soseki's prose in Japanese, I presume).
kek.
>>8235115
I take screenshots of whatever makes me chuckle
1/3
>>8235141
2/3
![exopolZZZZZZZK_10[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bmzrEPL.jpg "exopolZZZZZZZK_10[1].jpg")
Someone close to me is dipping their feet in to reading more and has requested some books (fiction) regarding alien, alien abduction, and the like.
Unfortunately outside my area of expertise. I had a few titles in mind to gift them but I don't really know. What's the general lit consensus on: Arthur Clarke's "Childhood's End" vs Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker's etc" for the book they'll be given? Like I said they're a bit of a novice, so denser things probably won't be a good introduction to reading and should...
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say no more senpai
Rendezvous with Rama
>>8235116
>hard sci-fi for a pleb
Is love the only source of meaning in life?
>>8235013
/lit/ - literature
Nein.
On a sidenote, that painting always reminds me of The Waves for some reason.
>>8235025
Philosophy?
>>8235428
discussing philosophical literature is /lit/. asking a vague question and claiming it's 'philosophising' is /his/
Is this true?
at an emotional level, yes.
literally, obviously not.
>>8235005
Like /lit/ would know, kek
>>8235005
i don't understand the question
Why do people thing being pretentious about reading validates their opinion?
Whenever I hear people claim something is "plebeian" or "beyond your level" I cringe so hard.
>>8235002
Read Dan Fox's Pretentiousness: Why It Matters.
>>8235002
because people like to feel important and intelligent, when deep down they know they are not.
>>8235002
>thing
How appropriate.
How is literature useful, and what payoff, if any, is there in reading?
I recently stumbled upon a research group whose goal it is to identify how literature is useful, and what readers actually get out of reading. Even reading popular things such as A Song of Ice And Fire; what is the purpose and the ultimate payoff? Would people really trudge through thousands of pages about dragons and swords if there wasn't some kind of payoff slightly greater than "I was entertained"?
what?
It's a brain exercise
>>8234953
>being this utilitarian
degrading the time spent enjoying yourself to "I was entertained" is weak.
if anything, you're degrading yourself moreso than the activity you're engaged in.
How much do you read, /lit/? Do you set a certain amount per day for yourself?
Depends. Some days i get 10, some 50. Sometimes i sit down and read shit in one sit down before work like The Tempest
i have a minimum of writing a page a day on a project, but i usually end up writing more than that or additionally write poems or edit.
i track myself with a calendar where i put an x on every day i write the page. after a few weeks it's harder to not get to mark the x than writing a page.
I read while preparing and eating each of my meals, and then for several hours before I fall asleep.
I fail to see how this information creates discussion or provides you with anything, though. Are you looking to feel inferior so as to motivate you to read more?
Anyone smoke marijuana before writing?
no but on days off, when I set an entire day for writing aside, I take adderall.
no, it makes me too content with life. i drink instead.
It gives makes me think dumb thoughts that end up noiding me every time
>dude what if i actually took acid and just forgot
>no
>but what if
I've got a love hate relationship with it
Is there any potential in this shoddily thrown together short story type thing?
http://txt.do/5idoq
After reading the first sentence, no.
>>8234799
I'll give you that, the first sentence is shit.
lost interest at 'One day I was', skimmed the rest. you have a beginning and ending joined by nothing and a ton of cliched language to clean up, but without any dialogue i can't see it being anything more than an entertaining but awkwardly long summary. also don't refer to people as 4chan boards, please, it's cringey.
all in all, there is potential, needs a lot of polish and a better sense of structure and pacing. that said, almost everything has potential.
