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"What is a book that has this song's feel?"
Post songs and other people will tell you what book best matches with that song.
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I'm the first interested. What book matches this song?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2xnDQQxKIaA
What book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNyG-xu-7SQ
>>7354761 "im not suffering from insanity, im enjoying every minute of it". The audiobook.
What book matches this?
http://youtu.be/4Q_KMFmAq0w
Is this worth reading? Is there anything substantial to get out of it?
>>7354724
I read it when I was 8. It's pretty easy
>>7354724 dont read it. I almost killed myself after reading it. Correlated for sure
>>7354756
Nabokov, please go.
Is this the best book of all time?
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
Are his works considered Russian literature?
who gives a shit
how good are the translations of his russian works? was he alive to approve them?
>>7354686
No, he's American.
>>7354686
I shelve my books by national literature and keep him in Russian literature.
If you want some random c/lit/'s opinion.
Anarcho-primitivist "Against His-story, Against Leviathan" led me to Debord. Thank you /lit/ for the recs!
Anyone have suggestions for further reading down this path?
>>7354675
Dialectic of Enlightenment and Negative Dialectics should be your next two.
Capital Vol. 1., Chapter 1.
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle - Debord
Has anyone made it through this? Snow Crash was great sci fi with minimal cringe, this shit is filled with boring map descriptions and lame metaphors. Is Stephenson a one hit wonder?
i prefer infinite jest
>>7354573
>Snow Crash was great sci fi
On the subject of Stephenson, is Quicksilver anything like 'Q' by Luther Blissett?
Is literature inherently fedora?
Is calling yourself patrician about the most fedora thing you can do?
is /lit/ the most fedora board?
How would you define 'fedora' as an aesthetic quality?
Pretty much, prose is fucking cringe
>>7354460
no fedora is all about pretension and delusions on grandeur, and poorly done pretension at that.
on second though yeah maybe /lit/ does qualify
>>7354460
Fedora things don't require effort.
How do you organize you bookshelf?
By ISBN
Too poor to buy phyical books.
I save them in a directory on my computer named `books/`. The naming convention I use is: <author>,<title>.<file extension> and I use hyphens to represent spaces. I do not capitalize anything, due to it making finding content more difficult.
From there I can use `bash` to easily sort through my documents.
Need all PDFs? `ls *.pdf`
Need anything by Wilson? `ls *wilson*`
I backup this directory regularly to a cloud service that I pay monthly for, and I encrypt each book using GPG prior to backing it...
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Isbn
Are bisexual people more powerful (manipulation, reading cues from both genders, etc)?
Or weaker? (fatal attraction to both genders and not just one, marginalization from society)?
Examples in literature? I want to read interpretations of this topic.
Is the overman bisexual?
pic related (i know tv is a peasant medium just roll with it)
>>7354179
>the overman
Get the fuck out.
>>7354179
bisexuals are usually just confused and emotionally imbalanced. I'm kinda worried at the rate this bisexual/transgender thing is expanding. maybe /pol/ is right about the hormones in our food feminizing men. well stay woke
>>7354179
Not really sure if sexuality has as much impact as "base stats" like charisma, confidence, general people reading
Bisexuals probably have it easier than gays though
Halp.
Has anyone actually got through this? About 50 pages in and wondering if continuing is worth the trouble. Also are there any resources to assist with its reading?
So that's a no then?
>>7354136
All I know is Book of Numbers is garbage and all the reviews were over the top shilling.
>>7354136 the end is heart breaking though. Keep reading anon. You wont regret it
Oi lit, I've recently only read big heavy tomes that have more pages then James Patterson has published books.
I'm tired of them, I want skinny books I can read on one commute.
What are the best and most /lit/ ±100 page books?
>>7354093
~100 pages will be hard, but "No Longer Human" and "A Hero of Our Time" are both sub-200 and really good. Some Kafka/Conrad, too? "Metamorphosis" and "Heart of Darkness".
>>7354093
The Old Man and The Sea
>>7354093
There is a novella chart in the sticky.
So /lit/, can you guys recommend me a couple of decent books where the protagonist happens to be gay, and it's actually written well?
I noticed when people write about gay characters tend to fall into the following categories:
1. the nihilist turbo-slut with more edges than an octagon
2. the flamboyant girly guy, always a mary sue
3. the closet case - where you don't realize the character you have been reading about had been gay the whole time until the last page or until reading an interview with the writer (I'm looking at you J.K. Rowling, bravo)
4....
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All of Nietszche
your diary desu
>>7354084
I meant like some sci-fi, fantasy.
How do you escape ironic humour when you're in so deep?
How can I enjoy simple things again?
How can I force new-sincerity?
Do I have to leave 4chan/the internet for an extended period of time?
halp
confront your unconscious. You're the puppet of your neuroses - undealt with unconscious complexes - and you stand no chance of unfeigned joy without understanding and overcoming your shadow in some sense
>>7354031
>tips fedora
but seriously that does make sense and I appreciate the advice despite feeling a strong desire to mask normal emotions and responses with humour, trying to break free form that
Having kids
They'll suck up all your time, your world will be consumed by them in both bad and very good ways, you will learn the true meanings of love and sacrifice; when in your scarce free time you are approached by something mildly funny, you will welcome it wholeheartedly, laugh sincerely, and move on.
Is it true that Wikipedia wouldn't exist if it weren't for Ayn Rand and NPOV is just Objectivism?
Yeah
>>7353997
The only thing that wouldn't exist if it weren't for Ayn Rand are Stirner threads on /lit/.
how much do you guys use Wikipedia?
how much do you read from Wikipedia?
how much of what you know is directly from Wikipedia?
when you hear about something, do you always look it up on Wikipedia first?
do you get the feeling that something is completely negligible if it is not already on Wikipedia?
do you feel the quality of Wikipedia is decreasing?
do you donate to Wikipedia?
Are there any good books about the rise of militant Islam in the Middle East? I'm looking for something other than "Hurr durr reLIEgon is evil!!!" (ie. Hitchens)
While not specifically about militant Islam, this pretty well describes the situation.
>>7354002
fuck
Why are you replying to your own question?
I can only vouch for the following. They
re specifically on Hizbullah:
Voice of Hezbollah
Hezbollah: A Short History
Also, this isn't a book, but it's interesting:
http://cpostdata.uchicago.edu/search_new.php
