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What did you think of Ubik?
It sure seems to do a lot of very different things
I always get chills reading that last chapter
75% of PK Dick was pulpy, almost unreadable garbage. This was a good experimental novel. I like this PK Dick; paranoid, Californian, druggie, Gnostic, Dick.
"If he be Mr. Hyde . . . I shall be Mr. Seek."
Bravo, RLS!
underappreciated thread
have a bump
>>8279047
I want him to smash my boicunt
![Howls.Moving.Castle.2004.720p.BluRay.x264-x0r.mkv_snapshot_01.20.36_[2016.05.16_22.47.25].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JD1xszB.jpg "Howls.Moving.Castle.2004.720p.BluRay.x264-x0r.mkv_snapshot_01.20.36_[2016.05.16_22.47.25].jpg")
A good book with a straight forward easy to follow plot, preferably in a sci-fi futuristic setting, with interesting characters.
>>8278993
Sirens of Titan
The Martian Chronicles
2001: a Space Odyssey
>>8278993
The Brothers Karamazov
Infinite Jest
What am I in for?
One of the best books ever written
>>8279087
This
Although I will say it gets quite a lot better if you have a passable knowledge of South American history to pick up some of the allegory. It's one of my favorites and you'll enjoy it regardless
>>8279092
What's some good books about passable knowledge about South American history?
"Little gay looking boy
So gay I can barely say it with a 'straight' face looking boy
You're witnessing a mass-occur like you're watching a church gathering
And take place looking boy
Oy vey, that boy's gay
That's all they say looking boy
You get a thumbs up, pat on the back
And a "way to go" from your label every day looking boy"
What did he mean by this?
>Eminem memes on lit
rock on
Im not a native english-speaker, but doesn't gay mean jolly, happy, etc?
>>8278869
It means cock-sucking now. I blame the homosexuals for that
Why do SJWs not realize that Ignatius J. Reilly is a parody of them, not of conservatives?
>narcissistic
>useless degree
>obese
>political "activist"
>sexually deranged
This is a parody of college SJWs decades before they came into full bloom. It's like they're too autistic to realize that Ignatius is just an upside down version of themselves meant to highlight the stupidity of collegiate idealism.
No, the girl whatserface is a parody of SJWs, Ignatius is a parody of us.
>>8278823
>implying they're not two parts of the same whole
>>8278811
Are you dense? Ignatius is literally /pol/ before the internet existed.
Are there any good anthologies on philosophy?
I don't want to read the tomes of dozens of philosophers. I can read a couple if they particularly interest me. But there are too many to study them all; I have other things going on in life. I would however enjoy reading lets say 100 pages on a particular philosopher, his life, his philosophy, and important quotes. Maybe there's a larger collection with something like what I'm talking about?
Think by Simon Blackburn is a good intro.
Nothing beats reading them though, even he admits that. You don't get the whole point across.
>>8278750
How about this site:
plato.stanford.edu
I personally prefer summaries.
Sophie's World
Hey bookworms
Third World faggot here
Where can I download good quality ebooks?
>>8278746
You can use open directories and they have huge treasure troves. Reddit opendirectories will get you started.
>>8278769
Thanks, anon. Do they have copyrighted stuff? I'm looking for Tolkien books and all I can find are shitty torrents with broken OCR copies of LOTR
>>8278746
Google sur.ly libgen (the system doesn't allow me to post the link because they think I'm spamming)
Just finished IJ. Big plot hole though, wondering if anyone noticed itHow does Orin know that entertainment is lethal?Joelle doesn't know about it until later, he wasn't close to his dad, he couldn't have watched it... maybe Mario knew, DFW mentions that no one really asks Mario about their Dad, but even then there's nothing to suggest that he knew about its purpose or its effects or even its existence really?
Prove me wrong /lit/, please do
It's implied that he can force information out of Mario, and that he was the one to dig it out of the grave. Mario is implied to have known that things were buried in place of his head (I think it says somewhere only Avril and him might've known this, not sure), and there's that whole section describing its first viewings, which establish the order in which it was sent: first to various catridge/film critics (right?), then Avril's various lovers (I think). The only real hole is why he would send it in the first place, to the first people, the various film...
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>intelligent
>well read
>try and debate someone and completely forget everything i've ever learned and get too emotional
how do I fix this
>>8278628
Leave society behind.
>>8278628
>try and debate someone
Don't.
why do you get emotional
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult...
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Oh hey it's this thread again lol!
I used to read hundred pages a day of light novels/isekai/wuxia. Then I just stopped reading.
10/10
>tfw you aren't a wagie
>tfw you get enough money to buy any books you want for doing absolutely nothing
>tfw you have all the free reading time in the world
I am the patrician reader.
>>8278564
>he doesn't have over 20,000 ebooks, free of charge
Lmao, nice one smartypants
>>8278564
>uses valuable neetbux to buy books
Get a gym membership and pirate dem books
>>8278564
>even their memes are lazier than wage-titan memes
The incompetent NEET sack of shit who made this couldn't even download PS; he just poorly mimicked the meme from memory inside Microsoft Paint
I just finished reading this. It was pretty good. But one thing I don't understand about the ending didPaul die or was that the effect of the shroom trip?Can someone explain this?
his ego died mannnnn
>>8278513
420
it was not an 'actual death.'
![metamorphosis[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3s7dtgC.jpg "metamorphosis[1].jpg")
Fug you guys. Just read this and I feel empty inside. Am I missing something or is it just an incredibly sad story?
At first I felt like becoming a cockroach would be the ultimate neet lifestyle, but then it impacts everyone and everything around you and everything turns to shit
What's wrong with it being an incredible sad story?
>>8278471
B-but i read to feel happy.
>>8278475
So you don't read literature?
hey guys Im looking for early to mid life essays of Theodor Adorno on aesthetics, music theory, film theory, etc.
Im not down for his late Aesthetic Theory book, too close to poststructuralism for my taste. thanks in advance for the help.
>>8278368
bump
Idiot.
