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Is this a good or full version of the stand online? Where does /lit/ get online books for free?
>http://www.dienhanhvanhoaquocte.org/chao/files/Stephen%20King%20The%20Stand.pdf
>>8057889
pdf is automatically bad, get with the times gramps.
What I do is just a google site search on mobilism with the authors name and "book title"
>>8057913
thanks, what's the acceptable way of reading em on a cellphone? or monitor
>>8057889
I torrent my books off kat.cr
>well murakami's popularity came from norwegian wood which is basically a bad eroge so it's understandable
Is かすっち(ふり: kastelpls)@highimpactsex right about Norwegian Wood and Murakami's popularity?
Just finised Norwegian Wood. I cant summarize it as a bad eroge at all. It has like... 3 sex scenes which are brief and unimaginative. Its an ok story if you like characters who have issues.
>>8057870
>3 sex scenes which are brief and unimaginative.
That's why it's a
>bad
eroge.
who cares what a weaboo thinks about books
though he is right that norwegian wood was the first novel which made him well-known, mostly because young adults loved it
I'm not at all a reader but wanted to get into it. Can I get some recs on books that are depressive? No happy ending, no light at the end of the tunnel, just pessimistic and bleak all the way through.
>>8057720
Your diary.
>>8057720
biography of your life
>>8057725
>>8057726
Hey /lit/, what do you think of my poetry?
Arms so pale, you can see the veins
Mind so numb, I can't feel the blade
The blood is pooling at my feet
One cut for every promise I couldn't keep
Therapists don't understand
The pain inflicted by my hand
I need to stripe my pallid skin
Because I can't stop thinking about him
ironic shitposting is still shitposting
>>8057717
>It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearance of freedom and caprice.
>>8057721
Oh my gosh that's so beautiful. And... it's me, sad to say.
Was he the last Romantic poet?
Hopefully.
ted hughes seems like a romantic
Romanticism will never die.
Where do I go with Gass? The Tunnel was excellent.
>“He hated not being heard, having to shout at the insides of himself, having to live in his dreams the way he lived in one of his rented rooms, being opposed, denied, neglected, refused. Kicked out.”
is Gass the new meme
>>8057651
ive read fanfiction better than this
off a fucking bridge memester
How do I get the motivation to read? I find it easier to play video games and I hate myself for it.
just play video games then. why force yourself to do something you don't enjoy?
reading will make you smarter
that's about all i can say
>>8057656
Playing video games = stupid manchild "hobby"
Reading books = v patrician
What do you think about this book and the works of Michio Kaku? Is it worth the read. I hear it's better than most popular science books.
>>8057587
Never read it, but based on the sub-sub-title, I'm calling bullshit.
Understand - fine
Enhance and empower - gtfo deepak chopra
>Has anybody on /lit/ read this?
no
>>8057587
Wasn't he a physicist? I'm not saying he can't have other interests, but what are the chances that he actually wrote something meaningful on the subject of mind and not just Sci-Fi daydreams?
I'm going to disconnect my internet for one month. Feel like I waste my days and nights away on 4chan. By cutting out my primary source of procrastination I hope to get some reading and writing done. So I ask you, o my brothers and only friends, what book do you recommend I read during this time of reflection? Looking for 3 or 4 solid choices.
And if you've ever done something like this tell me what you thought of it/how it benefited you.
>>8057447
I've been away from the internet before. It's awesome and you get so much more done.
Now I'm addicted again and feel like a piece of shit, but I'm weaning off of 4chan. Do it dude.
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
>>8057451
Yeah I barely got on here at all last year and ended up reading 20000+ pages, then I got back into vidya in December and started coming around here again.
I've finished one book so far this year. I gotta get out of here.
Do you buy the book you're going to read?
Like, say you've never read a book before but you want to. Do you heed the lofty praise from others (perhaps on /lit/) and impulse buy it? Surely, it can only benefit the frugal reader to absolutely never purchase books unless he or she has read it before and longs for a physical copy for the purpose of convenience for future rereads.
But there's something about building up a collection that's quite nice really. I have the fantasy that I'll grow a small library of my favorites and pass it on to...
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>>8057418
>pick book from goodreads want to read list
>dl an epub
>use calibre to convert and send to kindle
>read book
>>8058158
nice, my thread finally got bumped at 4 AM
>>8058158
FYI: I recently realized that the calibre epub->azw3 conversion is worlds better than the epub->mobi conversion, mostly because azw3 supports weirder features like colored/marked tables etc.
Post the comfiest books you know. I'm on vacation and it's been raining in my city and all I really wanna do now is read a comfy book while drinking hot chocolate or some shit. You know, those books that make you feel part of the story. Dont really care the genre or if its happy, sad or if it has philosophical innuendos or if its just a stupid story.
>tl;dr: post books that make you feel comfy
>pic related: HP 7 made me feel extremely comfy desu
>>8057355
tbhfamMoby Dick
>>8057359
it's very comfy but it's a slow read and you can't "turn your brain off"
I have to read like 5 minutes a page trying to decipher some of his more complex analogies or musings, but that's just me
>>8057355
who is your favorite character and why
>>8057296
Andrew Wiggins
I guess just because, out of all the characters in books I have ever read, he was the most relate-able.
is this book really the best work by Dostoyevsky
I only ever see this book being posted.
Kilgore Trout
HOW BIG DO YOUR BALLS HAVE TO BE to start your book like this?
"By the time you finish reading this book you will be a different person. I am not claiming that this book will change the way you think and act. I am simply referring to the fact that the cells in your body, including the neurons of your brain, are continuously changing. By the time you finish reading this book you will "literally" be a different body and a different brain. Every word that you read is having an effect on the connections between your neurons. And every breath you take is pacing...
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>>8057272
i guess big? there's no context
Starting by assuming a shit theory of personal identity (and identity of bodies and brains). Yeah, I guess that's ballsy.
>>8057272
That's honestly embarrassing, also why did he write "literally" in quotes when he just ment "literally"?
ohhh haha I get it, they're all hipsters. holy shit does the world really never change? they go to the art party for a picture that no one looks at and all they do is just gab about how smart and artsy fartsy they all are. some bitch is wearing a formal dress paired with a mickey mouse watch. a quarter of them are gay. the rest of them are painters or writers (gasp! like you guys) or pseuds.
I like this book. gaddis is right. hipsters are hilarious.
Aight.
what should you read before reading this?
i read somewhere that it's one of the hardest novels to 'get' if that means something.
>>8057273
Nah. Just read it.
What is /lit/'s opinion of this novel? Or Pirsig in general?
my diary desu
>>8057185
pretentious garbage
Shit. Shit.
