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Hey /lit/.
How do you pick what book you'll read next? Out of all the possible books at your immediate or not so immediate disposal?
What does your process of researching a book before deciding to commit to it consist of?
>>7995260
complete random selection via random number generator
hey that's my library
and I mostly just pick the book that comes to mind from what I heard on /lit/
>>7995260
I stare at my unread books every morning while eating breakfast. By the time I need a new book one has usually stuck out for some reason.
Garden of Eden by Snu Voogelbreinder
Im looking for a digital version of this book.
I've had a look around but not come up with anything.
Can I get some help?
There's a pdf copy on libgen, but it's near 200mb.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3967CC69780B1E080D1DF517B01504D9
Is a meme a spook or is a spook a meme?
>>7995153
I don't know, but is a meme a meme?
a speme is a mook
>>7995163
I shot speme all over your mom's face last night
I'm buying this book for my future girlfriend's birthday, since she read the first part.
Is it as bad as it seems?
Bumping because I really need to know.
>>7995141
Depends, is she a pleb?
>>7995218
She's giving her first steps to become a patrician
![craig-smiling[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/3SQbYuj.png "craig-smiling[1].png")
Is this guy actually worth reading?
Not really. His better counterparts are Peter Kreeft for more pleb introductions and Edward Feser for the best contemporary Christian philosophy that isn't purely read by academics.
>>7995090
no of course he fucking isn't
Do you guys like Sherlock Holmes? I read all of his stuff and while the short stories were interesting and holmes was shown to be brilliant the explanation always felt like a copnout that the only person who could even hope to figure it out is Holmes. It's probably intentional but I prefer it when I have some semblance of a clue to go on or hints in the story before that leads to a conclusion.
I also found the stories too short to match for how complex the stories seemed. the full length books however I adored but the general short stories always felt similar. Person...
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>>7995088
you need to put the stories in context
they were intended for a mainstream audience, the readership of a popular magazine (i.e. The Strand).
also consider the date. in the late 19th century the detective genre was still relatively new and not as developed as it became later
SACD knew his readership and targeted the stories accordingly.
pic related: best holmes
About as good as the Hunger Games.
>>7995119
>pic related: best holmes
well that was an elementary mistake
What exactly is a spook? Is it just a scary philosophical concept?
>>7995073
No, it is actually a pretty solid idea to follow. A spook is anything that attempts to possess you or manifest itself through your corporeal life. Religion is a spook because it keeps you obedient to it and its doctrines suppress you physically and affect the physical world. The State is a spook because it imposes laws on you and attempts to control you inadvertently and sometimes directly manifesting itself through the physical by causing people to do things that aren't beneficial to them and clouding their individual...
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>>7995084
wow man, this is just a shitpost thread, I didn't actually want a thoughtful reply
>>7995084
>religion is a spook
No it's not.
Thoughts on "The Dice Man"?
Also, anything good to know before reading?
>>7995056
It hasn't aged well, but its a good read
>Thoughts on "The Dice Man"?
Jack and Jill went up the hill
Each with a buck and a quartah
Jill came down with two-fifty
OH
I read it a long time ago but I enjoyed it.
However, the ebook version I downloaded had no line breaks, paragraphs, or page breaks, which gave the book the feeling of a constant stream of lunacy that didn't really make any sense.
The bits I could comprehend were pretty good though.
Got a report due thursday, havent read the book. AM I screwed?
>>7995026
Yep
>>7995026
It's very well written; you have no excuse.
Read a synopsis then flick through and find some bits that appeal to you which you can discuss in more detail so it looks like you did read it.
Show us what you got. Classic, contemporary, or an original composition. English, Greek, Sanskrit or whatever.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1qxtWf9ZPTq
I wouldn't agree with performed but certainly it should be heard aloud.
I read poems aloud when I'm at my apartment and if I like it I'll read it silently.
Any recommendations for someone who's "new" to reading books
READ THE STICKY
I recommend you to read the fucking sticky
about the History of Great Britain between 1980 to 2000. I mostly care for politics and social issues, as well as the slice of lives. Novels fit me as well as actual history books. I am talking about events like the riots and strikes in Liverpool.
Thank you for your concern, please excuse my english.
>>7994967
David Peace - GB84
RUB?
>>7995062
What does RUB mean?
>>7995062
And thank you very much :)
I have some money that I can finally expend in buying more things to read.
Some friends recommended me Infinite Jest and it seems to get a lot of approval here.
Im really looking foward to reading it but I wanna know if there's any literally analysis or any other stuff that would be cool to know before start reading this thousand pages mammut?
In a word...
no.
>>7994942
I haven't read it yet, it's fiction though. Just dive in, there is nothing you need to know before doing that other than knowing how to read.
>>7994942
Don't read any guide before you read it, read them as you go if you're confused or need some illumination.
Booktubers, everyone
>>7994908
>people are fucking stupid
oh no
>>7994908
>taking part in something shitty so you can complain to papa /lit/
how about you go read a couple of pages instead, huh? be a good boy for daddy?
>OP browses booktuber comments
>on-the-go because he has to get his fix
>screenshots and shitposts
you could have read a chapter of a book OP. jfc
Can /lit/ recommend me any speculative futurist/transhuman nonfiction books beyond Alvin Toffler's work?
>>7994891
julian huxley
start with essays of a humanist or sumat like that
also try the optimist's tour of the future by mark stevenson
pic unrelated (but it is a trans human)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto
my fave
>>7994922
alision is my waifu!
