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Hey, i read a lot of books every month (mostly audio books) and that can get expensive so i figure out a way for all of us
to get access to quality audio books for a very small price.
Basically i set up a patreon page and share the audio books that i buy and if you want to donate
i will use that money to buy more books and them i share them online so that everyone can have access to them.
So if 15 patreons donate 1 dollar, i can buy a audio book for 15 dollars and we all get a audio book by just spending 1 dollar each.
How do we choose the audio book?
If...
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This probably breaks some TOS as it's basically piracy. Also, how do we now you won't just take the money and piss off?
>>8098581
i just want cheap books i am not doing this for the money
15 dollar a book??? lool
bump
>you will never play the glass bead game
iktf ;_;
>>8098499
where is the literature discussion in this post?
>write an entire book about a fictional game
>author is so unimaginative the game and its rules are never described outside of sweeping phrases in purple prose about how magnificent it is and how it "synthesizes" so many fields
Recent Purchases Thread.
Just returned from the bookstore. How long should it take me to get through all of this?
>>8098453
The rest of your life.Kill yourself for making this thread, my man.
>>8098453
Lord of the Flies and Bell Jar should each take you about two sittings to read. They're light but engrossing.
The Luminaries took me a month-long slog to finish, and I'm still not convinced it was worth it.
I've recently become enamoured with the idea of Dickinson. I read through Fear and Loathing in one sitting and am currently rereading La vida breve.
>>8098477
Very nice handwriting anon.
Is pic related any good?
im interested also. bump
>>8098450
Yes. It's like Starship Troopers without the jingoism.
>>8098450
this was an extremely quick read.
https://medium.com/@breteastonellis/thoughts-on-david-foster-wallace-and-the-end-of-the-tour-by-bret-easton-ellis-fc9ba2d76d84#.igcsupjkj
Was he right?
Bret Easton Ellis is right and the reason is because David Wallace is simply long winded and it's a little ironic because while I like Ellis, he tends to pull sentences like taffy with the overuse of the word 'and' and even in his review, he does this and while I've only read Less Than Zero, I assumed that how all of his books were written and even though it's a short book, by the end I was exhausted from the run-on sentences and
>>8098426
He was right - the film sold a DFW caricature
>Seagal slow mo dancing in a church with a bunch of grannies
>Heisenberg: "He's free"
>>8098426
>https://medium.com/@breteastonellis/thoughts-on-david-foster-wallace-and-the-end-of-the-tour-by-bret-easton-ellis-fc9ba2d76d84#.igcsupjkj
I haven't seen the movie but this is a very interesting and nuanced evaluation of DFW
So I'm really getting into noir/hardboiled detective stuff, and I need suggestions besides Hammett and Chandler.
James Ellroy
>>8098240
James M. Cain
Mickey Spillane
Jim Thompson
Ross Macdonald
John D. MacDonald
New York Trilogy, if you want postmodern detective metafiction.
This movie is adapted from a lost Pynchon novel. It has to be.
I noticed that. Especially at the part where he was drunk and swimming after the mermaids and stuff.
Is this movie about the kinds of nice guys who faggots on the internet get mad at
>>8098710
No, obviously
So, does /lit/ still refuse to accept that the King James Bible is the cornerstone of Western literature and the most important single text in the canon?
Don't tell me you haven't read the bible, anon, I thought you were 'well read'!
>>8097421
There's literally a Bible thread every day.
>>8097432
A bible thread and a Lovecraft thread, at least one of each everyday.
>reading anything written before 1700
>I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had.
C U C K
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C
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>>8097289
Oh boy I love these threads.
Here's another book in Cuckscript.
>he finally gets some pussy in the second book and stops being a beta male
>ends up having a fight with her for no good reason
>>8097327
What's cucky about it?
dude i was like what if i was a butterfly dreaming i was a man maaaan
A man can fly
But a man can't bird
for what purpose
What would post-post-postmodernism and post-post-post-postmodernism look like?
>>8096997
Just a reminder to report, hide & sage these /b/-tier summerfag threads.
>>8097004
Shut up reddit subhuman.Just by this post I can bet that I have been longer on this site.
>>8096997
It would look like something not so obtusely named
Animeedition.
What's /sffg/'s favourite tragedy of all time?
Snowcrashed.
>>8092089
R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
First for Brent Weeks, Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss
>>8096952
Sanderson is unironically the only good one here (only SA though)
![marcuse_1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/a99SzUW.jpg "marcuse_1[1].jpg")
Can you explain to me how Marcuse who's part of the Frankfurt School is so revered by the SJWs even though he's against the SJW bullshit and generally pretty reasonable?
>This sort of tolerance strengthens the tyranny of the majority against which authentic liberals protested. The political locus of tolerance has changed: while it is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies. Tolerance is turned from an active into a passive state, from practice...
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>>8096930
> The group that makes hysteria a relevant pathological category again is ignorant
Well I'll be...
>>8096966
I've actually seen him mentioned as the philosophical founder of SJW bullshit or something like that by people who don't like them too, and I just can't wrap my mind around it. Am I completely misunderstanding this shit or what?
>>8096969
If you're referring to Cultural Marxism conspiracy theorists, then you're pretty much searching for meaning in a barren wasteland filled with shit flinging monkeys. Forget about Youtube philosophers and just read the authors. The Frankfurt School pretty much considered identity politics insufficient compared to class struggle (however we may define it as) and opposed the degeneracy of cheap entertainment for the masses.
If you were to tell a person to read 1 book before committing suicide, what book would it be?
(The message of the book can be whatever - from "do it faggot" to "there's always hope" or anything else)
my diary desu
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
that way it's easier for them let go
i'm trying to be a nice person
The Holy Bible.
Is Carl Jung legit?
>>8096785
for psych, it's the long way round
for lit, yeah
>>8096785
Yep.
>>8096785
Sigmund Shlomo Fruad's bitch
