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>TL;DR need some stoic books to help me study
/lit/ I need some books on stoicism or by stoics to help me revise. I guess I'm generally a stoic but if I'm in stoic hyperdrive I revise and read much better. ive been shifting away from it procrastinating and whatnot so I need to get pumped up by some stoics to increase my virtue towards academia. otherwise I end up masturbating and playing video games and end up only reading or studying for about 2 hours rather than more.
help me be like Pliny the elder
pls
Arria by Pliny the younger
Obviously Meditations. This should be like the Bible for Stoics, read a couple of pages every day.
Cringiest post of the year
Hey, so recently I started to read serious books and now i'm reading Swann's way by M. Proust. I think that this book is a little bit to hard for me and sometimes a bit boring. I still think that Proust is amazing but i'm not experienced enough for him. Do you have any suggestion on Classic novels by legendary writers? I'm thinking about The Great Gatsby or James Joyce books. what do you think fellas?
P.S. i'm a beginner
>the great gatsby
no...
Give Brothers Karamazov a try. Both entertaining and a classic.
Read the sticky
Are there any books that are perceived as patrician by others but are pageturners between the covers?
D_s_o_v_k_
>>7864388
That's not how you spell Tolstoy.
all of them. why do people keep insisting reading isn't fun?
>>7864393
You mean Lermontov?
>introduction
>"now for this next part I will assume you've already read the book"
>>7864154
>he reads books he's never read before
why do you feel the need to make such a worthless thread you retard
>>7864168
why do you feel the need to make such a worthless post you retard
Is there any author who wrote both literary and genre fiction?
Pic unrelated.
Henry James
I still don't understand Colin Wilson.
At a very young age he wrote an amazing, if flawed (lots of misquotes) treatise on the Outsider in literature, then he spent the rest of his life writing dreck like Space Vampires.
>>7864057
Wasn't Infinite Jest the greatest genre fiction book ever written?
whats the opinion of this?
I really liked the Coppola movie, but seems like it sacrificed a lot for aesthetic
should I read it?
>>7863658
My only Vampire experience.
It's a really nice book.
Really nice.
I liked everything about it.
>>7863658
Also my only vampire book, but it's great. The travels across Europe, the hunt and capture at the end. Some great moments and tension.
It was unexpectedly fun, v. aesthetic. It's not a masterpiece, but it's worth a read.
How well can you write from a father's perspective without actually being one?
Is it enough to know your father (whatever that means), or a father(s)?
No, you can only write autobiographically.
>>7863557
jk rowling is a wizard, tolkien was a dwarf, and george rr martin really is a pedophile
Just use Homer Simpson as a template.
Why are white authors lagging behind since modern times?
Modern times being post 2000
modern times are cool
and we KNOW that white guys aren't cool
>>7863237
Because they waste their time on /pol/
>>7863237
Blacks are superior.
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Thanks for the advice
>>7863219
Well memed
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...
What are the relevance of the hunting segment and that little get-together that follows? Was it meant to indicate the transition Natasha made from loli-tier to woman?she still a little ho-ho
>>7863093
I really don't know but that is one of the finest pieces of writing I've ever had the pleasure to read
>>7863093
Validation of their aristocratic way of life
>>7863119
But Tolstoy had already done that a bunch of times previous to the hunting part. Was he intentionally trying to make the book as long and bloated as possible?
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great novel thus far, and it does stress some interesting themes, albeit unwieldy because of the book's magnitude. However, I can't help to feel a strong sense of familiarity about certain events. After a while it seems vague details are being repeated.
Who else is working on something that could never be traditionally published by an unknown? Not because of lack of quality, but because of the nature of the work.
>writing horror novel
>vampires were originally used as a metaphor for sexually predatory men
>my "monster" is a sexual predator who is written with strong vampire motifs
>he lures in and drugs females into compliance (hypnotizes them), has them perform taboo sexual acts(his bite),...
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>>7863083
You never know
Someone published that book about the pedophile trucker that pisses himself
>>7863100
lolwut
>>7863083
Eh, you can always self publish an ebook.
Try to avoid the cheesy low budget commissioned cover art trap.
Go for simple geometric patterns or symbols arranged in a manner symbolic to your story or something.
Your fanbase is probably going to be very teenaged and very female, so steady yourself.
Are you comfortable with publishing under a female pseudonym?
how can I read this without wasting loads of money?
>>7862964
torrent it?
>>7862964
steal it from your local university rare book collection
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E0593B4F413E01C0543495D0E5A7F8A6
Laurence Binyon or John D. Sinclair?
Where is the epub senpai?
john ciardi
mandelbaum
>>7862927
there is no best translation because it is impossible to translate optimally while maintaining terza rima - the english language just doesn't rhyme well.
Best you can do is read a good terza rima translation and a good prose translation. Read each canto one at a time in both translations and you'll get the best feel for what Dante intended.
So lucky you, ya posted a prose translation and a terza rima. Read both. I am also partial to ciardi even though his terza rima is imperfect, he bends the...
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Anyone here still think about what happened to John Campbell? I find myself thinking about it every now and again. I wonder what he is doing now.
>>7862800
bump
according to wikipedia, he died in 1333.
>>7862840
ayy lmao.
No, this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_for_Sad_Children
It has been awhile. I suppose most people will have forgotten.
granted i'm pretty dyslexic, but does /lit/ have any advice on how to concentrate and read fairly fast?
be patient
>>7862737
Speed readers look at the space between two lines one on top of each other and see the words from there.
Smoke less weed, seriously nigga. I'm not some Nancy Reagan, just smoke a little less. Scanning rows of text is something more difficult to do when you're high, the mind becomes too flighty.
Get more exercise.
Drink more water, and not tap water, at least buy a filter. There could be trace amounts of lead, mercury, and or copper in your tap water from old pipes. There's enormous evidence that correlates those elements to mental degradation.
Make sure you're getting enough sleep.
Eat some real goddamn fruit and vegetables from time to time.
Most people aren't actually stupid, they have the capacity to easily excel, they're just sick/unhealthy and don't know it.
