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How many physical books do you own right now?
>>8157742
1,225.
I've got three more coming in the mail in a couple of hours.
>>8157742
one bookshelf of fiction and another of textbooks at my house.
another three bookshelves worth of fiction boxed up at my mom's boyfriends house.
~100 books
I feel like this place needs a thread to discuss theatre.
>what plays have you read/reading/want to read
Currently reading Angels in America (part 1). Surrealism is always a fickle thing; trying to imagine how the characters move without seeing the play prior to reading it is left to the imagination (which I have non)
>>8157676
Hitler and the Nazi party considered surrealism degenerate art.
If you want to be redpilled, you have to stop with that sort of subversive shit
>>8157682
Ahaha, being a stormfag is not the same of being redpilled. Being redpilled in the arts means that you can differentiate self-congratulatory,rehearsed lies masquerading as art and real art. From the sounds of it you don't know either.
>>8157689
There are some pretty obvious links from psychoanalysis and Freud (Jew "science" and a Jew respectively) to surrealism.
Educate yourself, sheep
So, how many of you have actually read "the ego and his own"
and what is your honest opinion about it?
>>8157604
I'm a redpilled white supremacist National Socialist who thinks the most important things in life are the traditional family, race-purity, and nationalism.
He didn't spook me one bit.
He has become a meme because it serves the cultural marxist globalist agenda.
>>8157604
I have.
It seems flawless logic to me, but I'm suspicious by the fact that not many people seem to agree with him.
The book forms a nice whole outlined by the first three pages. It's a "must read" of philosophy, even if you disagree.
>>8157604
funny pic
"Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal... If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters..... All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, yet our women rule us." - Cato The Elder (around 195BC ; Rome)
Best books about this based patrician?
>>8157508
/lit/ is a mostly liberal board. All for the liberation of womyn. Needless to say you aren't getting recommendations.
>CAREFUL WITH THE EDGE FAMOUS ANCIENT SENATUR AND HISTORIAN XDDXD!!1!1!
>>8157508
he kill hisself
>>8157962
No he didn't
In what books do I find what cannot be expressed?
troll'd
Tractatus
>>8157052
No, serious. Could not find appropriate picture and unicycle frog already taken so posted inappropriate picture
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Recommendations
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
Thread Question:
What's your favorite work of Sci-Fi or Fantasy not written in your native language? What foreign...
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>>8155979Tokyo Ravens.
It's like Japanese Harry Potter except Harry is actually Voldemort's reincarnation and Hogwarts was secretly run by Death Eaters from the beginning.
30 days until The Great Ordeal
Get hyped!
>>8156002
Also, not saying it was well-written by any means or that the fans who translated it into English from a Chinese translation were better prose stylists than your average hobo. It really did capture my imagination, though.
has a book ever given you a boner.
>those books
What a waste. What a shame. Pity.
>>8155959
Lolita
The saoilor who fell from grace with the sea
Story of the eye
Also:
>8% battery life
kys
>>8155959
i tend to get a boner while reading, even if i'm reading something that's not exciting or even really that interesting.
What makes this good literature?
Whales are fucking sick, and any whale-related media is golden by default.
>>8155629
correct
>>8155623
The accurate digressions about whaling culture of the 19th century.
As you would in a novel
even if you're not gay
Hung
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs
>>8155209
Someone who could show me that men actually care
What are you currently writing? Novel, short story, poem, screenplay etc.
I'm working on a shitpost, I'm twelve words in (started in January).
>>8154962
high altitude kek
>>8154958
I am prewriting an apology from the point of view of Ivan IV as he sits in this chair. I want to channel marquez in The General in His Labyrinth and make ivan an unreliable narrator.
