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yfw all books will be just emojis in 10 years. ,':^)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01H5GRJVO
it's already happening.
https://memewallstreet.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/man-makes-living-translating-literary-classics-into-emoji/
>>8198768
I will probably be able to read faster. Symbols/characters>letters/words
>>8200029
It's a superior prose.
>>8198768
>3 posters
I dread the day inane teenagers convinced themselves emojis are hieroglyphs
What was your childhood defining book? Mine was this. A survival story about being lost in an alien wilderness
GOAT
I read almost all of his other books too. Doesn't the protagonist become the slave of qt girl? I wished that had happened to me at that age.
>>8198750
He did. She became his waifu too unless i remembered incorrectly
>There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
>We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Is this philosophy?
>>8198683
>There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
What did he mean by this?
He has a toddler's understanding of the teenage philosophy known as existentialism, and doesn't know what 'atheism' means.
There's a reason why deists are not technically atheists.
>>8198758
Are you a deist, Anon?
And if so, what convinced you of the deistic position?
>he fell for the categorical imperative meme
>>8198624
>he fell for the virtue ethics meme
>he fell for the ethics meme
>he fell for the analytical philosophy meme
What are some books that have Traveling as a main theme...international travel is what i had in mind, where it is meditated on etc. etc.
>>8198535
the book where I traveled around the world with your mom and fucked her silly (in all her orifices)
Eat Pray Love you faggot.
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Doees /lit/ like THE BOOKS?
>>8198440
>liking anything book related
>ever
gb2reddit
>>8198440
wait you mean the band The Books they are my favourite band yes OP /lit/ does
>>8198440
what the fuck did he mean by this
What are some entertaining YouTube channels related to literature?
They can be interesting/good or laughably awful.
>>8198414
>entertainment
>literature
you're the reason the big d an hero'd
>>8198414
This lil qt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUr_69RFoUU
Every series has that one book that pretty much kills the franchise after said book was published. With Captain Underpants in the news (Movie), what do you think was the book that made the series go downhill?
Why are they making a movie? That shit is so old.
Is it my imagination, or are more and more movies being based off of books?
Am I the only one who didn't read that bullshit?
Gonna dive into Murakami for the first time and see what the fuss is. Do you have a favorite? Might start with A Wild Sheep Chase.
>>8198303
Japanese John Green.
>>8198303
/lit/ hates a lot but that is an outstanding (and hilarious) book. If murakami has a flaw it's that he likes to write the same book. This can be overcome by limiting yourself to Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World, Norwegian Wood and if you need one more Kaftka on the Shore.
>>8198323
I see, thanks anon. A lot of reviews have said similar things about him liking to write the same book
What's the point of literature?
It is the point
L'art pour l'art, you pleb.
>>8198140
wilde pls go. formalism has been debunked for ages
ITT: Anarchism without adjectives
let us focus on our common goals rather than our differences:
>Voltarine sought conciliation between the various schools, and said in her essay Anarchism, "There is nothing un-Anarchistic about any of [these systems] until the element of compulsion enters and obliges unwilling persons to remain in a community whose economic arrangements they do not agree to. (When I say 'do not agree to' I do not mean that they have a mere distaste for...I mean serious differences which in their opinion threaten...
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Epic.
Ancaps have nothing in common with other anarchists.
>>8198058
2nded. All they want is to replace the mechanisms of the state with private corps. that accomplish the same unethical actions.
>inb4 voluntaryists get butthurt
What's the best .epub reading software for PC?
anyone?
>>8198041
Calibre.
It's a bit slow to boot, but it's wonderfully complete.
SumatraPDF
It's small, simple and can read mobi, epub, pdfs...
I barely care about Metro 2033 the game, but the first book (Metro 2033) is supposed to be decent. If I where to find Metro 2033 to be just bearable enough to get through would I think 2034 is bad? I've only heard bad things about it from people who liked the first one.
>>8197948
I loved the first one. I read it before I knew of the games. I've managed about two chapters of 2034. My memory card on which it was saved was lost (along with ~250 other books).
From what I read it seemed alright, nothing very engaging. At least not enough to download it again. I do need to pick it back up though.
>metpo
>>8197948
I heard bad things about Metro 2034 too but I've always been curious about checking it out for myself since I enjoyed 2033 a lot more than I expected I would (I'm not usually keen on video games or genre fiction).
What other works would you recommend if I liked Metro 2033, apart from Roadside Picnic?
How do I get into musicology?
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>>8198045
His philosophy of music is extremely outdated.
>>8197906
I'm a classical musician, and every musicologist I've ever known has autism. just el skip-o that bullcrap fαm.
What do you guys think or Cory Doctorow?
I enjoyed pirate cinema and little brother, but found pirate cinema to be overly preachy
Boing Boing was a good site back in the day. Then they all decided to become internet famous and spewed out a bunch of crappy content and left their website by the wayside.
RU Sirius and old Mondo 2000 issues from 1997 are more relevant right now than anything Cory wrote. Sorry bud.
Never said his stuff was particularly relevant, just that they were enjoyable.
It's pretty decent YA
>>8197726
>decent
>YA
