>>8270951
Sadly, it's probably the Martian guy, or maybe Doctorow - SF has gone up its own arse rehashing tropes, practically none of it is about plausible near-future tech anymore.

>>8270951

There is no modern Jules Verne, partly because the world (including reading market) is incomparably different today
Fortunately there's plenty of Verne to read

>>8271005
I can tell you that world today is bigger than it has ever been. I would gladly read exploration of Alpha Centauri or something like that.

Or just anything with a really hard vocabulary.

>>8270859
FW for the most complicated

>>8271028
>Fins Wake
>complicated
More like retarded and randumb xDD.

It's not complicated.

>>8270807
I missed this unpacking the book meme.

>>8270807
What can it possibly be...

>>8270807
Oh! Oh! Pick me, OP!

Is it a book?

>>8270716
this is bait.

*slow claps*
*steps out of the shadows*
Heh... not bad, kid. Not bad at all. Your meme, I mean. It's not bad. A good first attempt. It's plenty dank... I can tell it's got some thought behind it... lots of quotable material...
But memeing isn't all sunshine and rainbows, kid. You're skilled... that much I can tell. But do you have what it takes to be a Memester? To join those esteemed meme ranks? To call yourself a member of the Ruseman's Corps? Memeing takes talent, that much is true. But more than that it takes heart. The world-class Memesters - I mean the big guys, like Johnny Hammersticks and Billy Kuahana - they're out there day and night, burning the midnight meme-oil, working tirelessly to craft that next big meme.
And you know what, kid? 99 times out of a hundred, that new meme fails. Someone dismisses it as bait, or says it's "tryhard," or ignores it as they copy/paste the latest shitpost copypasta dreamt up by those sorry excuses for cut-rate memers over at reddit. The Meme Game is rough, kid, and I don't just mean the one you just lost :^). It's a rough business, and for every artisan meme you craft in your meme bakery, some cocksucker at 9gag has a picture of a duck or some shit that a million different Johnny No-Names will attach a milion different captions to. Chin up, kid. Don't get all mopey on me. You've got skill. You've got talent. You just need to show your drive.
See you on the boards...

Bait, but props for LotGH.

Weird, read that in Elliot's voice.

Weird show.

Get yourself a cup of black coffee and slowly sip it while reading your book, far away from any computers or cellphones. Force yourself to just get through 10-15 pages without stopping. When you get there you'll have "broken through" -- it's just like running. Ask any runner. The first mile is the hardest. Then the brain gives up fighting you on it, resigns itself to the task at hand, and sends endorphins shooting through the body.

Using your brain is like exercise. There's nothing *wrong* with it per se. You're just out of shape. Now do some calisthenics, force yourself to break the barrier. We believe in you OP.

>>8270723
>>8270726

Hey, thanks guys. You're right, the best option is to stop whining about it and actually try and make some progress.

/lit/ seems leaps and bounds above other boards in terms of its ability to relate to people. Thanks.

>says he likes to read
>reads with footnotes that aren't from the author

>>8270661
how do you have time to read an entire book in one day every day.
i can do this from time to time, but one a day?

>>8270731
think of how many hours you are spending not reading
convert them to hours spent reading

voila.

it's almost like magic

bcuz its for smart ppl breh, just like suits n shit

>>8270602

Probably something like the tyrannical soul comes from a democratic society

Maybe you're putting more thought into it than the person who made it did.

i have been saying this for ages. I think it's vitally important for the socially impaired or high functioning autistics to be forced to read and evaluate literary fiction at a young age as a part of therapy and etc.

My theory is that the inclination to read is an evolved coping mechanism to being an autist, almost like if men with micropenises were drawn naturally to finger-banging manuals. Therefore this board.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814029243

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>>8270578
>pic related
You speak roach?

>>8270586
turkish, yes

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>>8270578
Learning Russian so I can read Dostoevsky in a comfy apartment living in Yekaterinburg

is that the malnourished jew from the big bang theory?

>>8270564
no its manny fresh

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What's this guy's IQ? Must be at least 180.

Also, what's his endgame?

>>8270494
Paradoxes of Defence by George Silver is a fun read

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html

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>>8270494
Basics/Start here:
1)Sun Tzu - The Art of War
1b)Zhuge Liang's and Liu Ji - Commentaries on the Art of War
2)Niccolo Machiavelli - The Art of War
3)Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
4)Jomini - The Art of War
5)Clausewitz - On War
6)Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings

Urban/Guerilla Warfare:
7)Che - Guerrilla Warfare
8)Mao - On Guerrilla Warfare
8b)Mao - Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan
9)David Kilcullen - Counterinsurgency
9b)David Kilcullen -...
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I agree.

>>8270490
What is the context? I don't have the book with me.

Anyway, she seems to say she is, or would be, devoted to her living family above all else, especially those who depend on her for their survival (children), and only then would she perform her duties to the dead. She is adamant in her resolve to bury her brother only because she doesn't have anything more important than her life to lose, like a nuclear family. She also mentions the will of the people whom she wouldn't break, had she had something...
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Take a look at the lines up to 1005 that are after what you greentexted, without the "etc.":

Never, I tell you.
if I had been the mother of children
or if my husband died, exposed and rotting--
I'd never have taken this ordeal upon myself,
never defied our people's will. What law,
you ask, do I satisfy with what I say?
A husband dead, there might have been another.
A child by another too, if I had lost the first.
But mother and father both lost in the halls of Death,
no brother could ever spring to light again.
For this...
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/lit/ lists usually have good books. Ignore shit like "starter" kit. I like pic related, but none of it matters - just read good shit. Don't rely on on anonymous anime picture board to tell you what to think.

one of the GOATs

plebs can't into him cause he's "boring"

hardly ever discussed here cause people are too busy memeing murakami and mishima

read master of go senpai.

>>8270408
Master of Go is next on my list

I've read most of Murakami, Soseki, and Mishima at this point, who else am I missing?

>>8270516
A fuck load. Tanizaki, Inoue, Dazai, Akutagawa, Abe, Oe, Eiji, Endo and Hearn (not Japanese but pretty much). That's more than enough to keep you going. All of them are good, all are worth reading. Tanizaki, Inoue, Dazai write like Kawabata (Tanizaki and Inoue especially). Akutagawa wrote wonderfully imaginative and strange short stories in his early career before settling into semi-autobiographical stories later on. Abe is known as the Japanese Kafka. I don't even know how to describe Oe. He has one novella...
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You can always give him Harry Potter, it's a shit, but fine for children
or some of Terry Pratchet's books

>>8270363
The Hobbit

>>8270363
Redwall series
My Side of the Mountain
Where the Red Fern Grows
Stuart Little
Charlotte's Web
Goosebumps
Harry Potter