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I want to talk about Star Wars novels.
I'm learning some languages right now and want to get reading practice in by reading some schlock. I hear reading stuff you've already read in your native tongue is best, and I've read most of these books. Is this a good idea? Tell me your favorite Star Wars novel and there's a chance I'll read it in German.
The empire wins in all the german versions.
>>8148260
Lol
Traitor
Well /lit/, it finally arrived. After reading about half of it I'm pretty sure it's Ruggles. Anyone have any reason it's not, aside from "He denied it"?
>>8146914
can you post a few pics
i have read a few of "her" things and seem like p-kun
and does it say if the letters were sent in on graph papper
>>8146914
please fuck off with this shit
>>8147379
Pls stop posting literature discussion on the literature board
t. Pleb
Even though I spend most of my time reading and contemplating metaphysical philosophy, but all I want to do is write exciting pulp styled action adventure stories about larger than life archetypal heroes and sinister villains. I'd lightly weave my philosophical beliefs into the framework of my stories, but for the most part I just want to write about eccentric ship captains battling ancient sea monsters and savvy archaeologists battling greedy treasure hunters at the sites of ancient ruins. '
I want someone to share this sentiment and talk about their pulp adventure...
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>>8146693
do you boo
>>8146702
Fair enough I guess.
>>8146693
Sometimes I think about how much I'd enjoy writing a straight up Y.A. trash novel for teens
most important poet who ever lived
discuss
>>8146666
Nice quads, but that's not even Vaclav Havel
>>8146666
let's discuss those quads senpai
I know it probably gets asked a lot, and you're probably tired of hearing it by now, but PLEASE, I want to know more like The Book of Disquiet. I just love the writing style, the writing just has so much complexity and depth. I know you're probably thinking "hah pleb, that's not complexy or depthy" good! Let me know something better! I beg of thee!!! I already plan on ordering his poems too.
>>8146173
Is asking for Book of Disquiet recs a new meme or something
somebody posts this exact shit every single day
>>8146182
this is maybe the second or third time I've posted this thread, but no one's given me a real response yet. I buy a lot of books, so your responses aren't for naught.
>>8146173
Cioran is the closest, I think. Notes from Underground too, although that one is so obligatory I cannot imagine anyone has to even recommend it.
Some people like that Jap book, 'No longer human' or something; I don't, but it could be described as similar by its proponents
Post your recent purchases m80s
I'm moving soon and don't have a post box at my new location, ordered a bunch of books so i don't have to drive back home for them in a few months.
>>8145022
Cool choices. I've read none of them, but have heard really interesting things about Carlyle's book on the revolution (which I only heard about when I stumbled on Sartor Resartus), and I picked up but haven't yet read my first Stendhal book a few weeks ago (Charterhouse of Parma).
Have you started any of these? I've only talked to one person on this board who had read Carlyle on France, and he said he was totally lost without previous knowledge of France.
>>8146484
I haven't read it yet but I keep running into it so much and hearing about it that I knew i had to get it one day, it's supposed to be a landmark, I wanted to get a few more carlyle books to introduce me to his style and ideals.
I can tell you it looks "hard" from the excerpt i read from prose alone kek, it's very poetic.
The stendhal one is supposed to an unfinished masterpiece of sorts for an autobiography of himself, I'm excited to read it since he was a semi elusive...
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Why do people do this?
Why not?
It leaves a pleasant reminder years down the line. Why not? Maybe it's a cultural thing. In my country people would do this in literally every book that was a gift.
>>8144610
>you've always been my Pheobe
Uh oh
![1280px-Flag_of_France.svg[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/e6uNE12.png "1280px-Flag_of_France.svg[1].png")
My goal is to teach myself French to the level I could read their literature in the original language. What routine should I follow? I've already started the Duolingo course.
>>8143843
Do yourself a favor and just give up now. French people hate non-native speakers and mock them for entertainment, why put yourself through that? You'll never get the accent right and everybody will hate you. But who cares? it's a dying language in 2016, nobody will speak it in a couple centuries. Do yourself a favor and learn an actual language like Latin where nobody is educated enough to call you out on your mispronunciations
>>8143855
good thing you don't need an accent to read
>>8143865
You can't appreciate literature properly if you can't subvocalize. Sorry but it's just a fact. Language is based upon spoken communication, and if you learn French, you won't be able to communicate i.e. your understanding of the language will be inferior and gross
I Just turned 29 and I'm reading Siddhartha by Hermen Hesse and Dirk Diggler by Douglas Adams. The next books on my list are Dune by Herbert and Introduction to Epistemology by Robert Dildos.
Should I just kill myself at this point? Am I even redeemable at as a pleb?
>In b4 read Stiner or Camus
low quality pepe, bad post... kys
well you're a frogposter so that's not a good sign
anyway start with the greeks
>>8142318
i read these in high school lmao
>mfw this was even easier than Dubliners
>reading is a competition between the author and the reader
are you dumb lad
>>8139380
That's what Joyce is famous for
>>8139399
Only among plebs
>Actually decide to read the Ego and its Own
>Realize that Stirner is a superior Nietzsche, whose philosophy is sound even in spite of all the memes
>Realize that 'spook' is a philosophically priceless concept
Does anyone else know this feel? It doesn't surprise me that he scared the living shit out of Marx.
>>8136858
But Anon. Stirner is a meme himself.
>>8136858
I liked it, but I can't how his philosophy would work; or where it would lead.
His general idea, that we shouldn't sacrifice our individuality to anything, is good. Our goals and desires should be subservient to us (or technically 'I', since society is also a spook) - not the other way around.
There is no greater spook than the cause, or thing, for which one would die; for this is quite literally a sacrifice of the self to something else.
This is much more noble than /lit/'s...
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>>8136892
Fucking this. Stirner doesn't imply that morality/etc is make-believe; simply that 'spooks' should ultimately have no power over us.
Egoism, in Stirner's sense, is essentially metaphysical self-mastery.
I still like the memes, though.
Vol 2 - Paradise Lost by John Milton
>Previous thread
>>8098520
I have no idea what the duration of discussion or any of the other important dates put in the previous thread are. Seeing the new thread was supposed to be up yesterday and nobody made a new thread I made one without them.
>>8136016
Relevant links
Paradise Lost and other Milton works
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/contents/text.shtml
Searchable Paradise Lost
http://www.paradiselost.org/8-Search-All.html
>>8136016
The last one was two weeks long right?
Basically one book of PL a day.
>>8136350
Two weeks long for plays that can be read in a few hours.
This is where the club dies.
Daily bookshelves thread
>>8134367
that shelf full of shitty paperbacks looks like you pulled them out of a dumpster
>>8134367
Reminds me of mine a little bit in taste and presentation. Not a whole lot, but enough.
Books on the left are ones I own that I've read to completion.
>>8134367
I am going away for a little while, don't miss me too much.
>>8129299
I would never hit you mom.
Misery loves company and I am so very lonely.
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DAVID FOSTER WALLAAAACE
>>8152018
Post it please desu.
post the video
