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What's a book that feels like walking around in a beautiful old foggy grave yard with no one around for miles, in beauty and tranquility, as if it was a dream?
>>8259532
Reader's Block by David Markson. The main character lives in a beautiful old foggy graveyard. Other than that though, not sure how much you'd like it.
>>8259823
I actually want something good, idk if this is good, but it sounds like you're only recommending it to me because it has an old foggy graveyard. I don't actually need a book that has that in it, I just want the book to have the feeling of walking through a beautiful foggy old graveyard with no one else around.
>>8259532
Dubliners
ITT: times being a patrician saved your life
>waking down the street
>approached by black man with a gun
>"TELL ME WHAT COLOR THE LIGHT ACROSS THE LAKE IS IN THE GREAT GATSBY WAS OR ILL KILL YOU"
>"It was green, my good man"
And you?
>>8259524
>Heading to the library to return a book in the middle of the night
>Kung-Fu Samurai Black Master appears out of the shadows with a katana and a switchblade
>"Ay yo Baka motherfucker, prepare to face dishonorable death by my strong ass hands cracker!"
>"I feel no pain, nor I feel fear or any disruptive emotions for I mentally prepared myself for this before I left my house knowing...
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Remembering the plot of high school reading assignments isn't patrician.
>on trial because accused of murder
>"I couldn't be the killer because I was reading "Too Kill a Mockingbird" at that time"
>judge says, "oh yeah, prove it. What kind of animal does Atticus shoot"
>"dog"
What is your opinion on National Geographic Magazine?
Do you still have a subscription? Did you enjoy the writing and pictures?
My uncle have me all his old National Geographic issues when I was a kid. They were my main fap material throughout my childhood.
I remember really enjoying looking at naked African men with those weird body paintings. I was telling myself that I'm enjoying the paintings but...
Anyway, yeah, it's really good. They had some great photos recently in a competition. http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/photographer-of-the-year-2016/
I bought 1962 - 2003 on Craigslist for $10. Now I have a whole book case of potential story material.
This is a perfect work of art.
>perfect
The text loaded on my screen before the picture and I already knew it would be Ulysses.
>>8259750
spooks are a spook against perfection, my friend
started reading this yesterday. holy fucking shit why haven't you guys read this yet.
this is a book that seems right up /lits ally. it is beautiful. go get this book!
>>8259364
the forced is strong in this one
>>8259370
??????????
>>8259364
You already know the answer, OP. It's because the author is a woman.
>reads Paradise Lost
>doesn't read Paradise Regained
This is as pleb-tier as reading Inferno but not the rest of the Divine Comedy
>reads Paradise Lost
>reads Paradise Regain'd
>doesn't read Samson Agonistes
oh shit what are you doing
>reads Ulysses
>didn't read Hamlet, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Dubliners, Portrait, and a few more Shakespeare plays, just to start, first
I'm 12 and my generation has stupid taste
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>>8259303
>This is as pleb-tier as reading Inferno but not the rest of the Divine Comedy
Memes by christians who cannot accept the best part was Inferno.
every day i open up iA writer and start typing out some bs until it takes up one full iPad portrait screen. Then I save it to evernote as a pdf.
the real secret is that every other day I press the tab key and make the entire entry an ironic shitpost.
ok here me out. whenever i keep any kind of diary I either don't use it or spend the whole time tearing myself down.
This way, I can at least cut down on the emo self-loathing by a full 50%.
what are your diary top tips?
>july 1st
>i am FUCKED. I AM FUCKED I AM FUCKED FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK i am incapable of doing anything I am FUCKED my whole life has been STONEWALLED i am FUCKED this is the life i chose this is the path i chose this is everything that lead up to it and more, there are no re-dos, it is hard to come to terms with the fact that this is real and this is my life and this is now,i look to the future always to the future to futures that never come this needs to end this needs to stop it needs to change...
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>>8259255
Real men keep commonplace books.
>>8260053
you've got the knack
Can learning the syntax of code help us become better at writing?
it could do
>>8259217
no.
well you can learn just the syntax of a language like C in like a day but you won't be able to understand or be able to code anything and I don't see how it would make you more creative or a better writer... artificial languages are noting like natural languages
>Start reading A Clockwork Orange.
>Three pages in.
>Pic related.
Yes i've had that, random pages from entirely different books accidentally added at manufacture. Just need to take it back to the shop I am sure they'll replace it.
Try this instead:
>>8259143
Ahhh yes, I remember high school!
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Don't want to start any debate here, i want to start a veganist diet in a near future but i want to inform myself first. The problem is that all the books i've seen so far try to guide the reader to one specific direction or opinion.
Can you guys recommend me any good objective non manipulative books about Veganism?
thank you anons
Just read any book about nutrition. A vegan diet isn't really a special diet.
Just watch your b12 that's the only thing you can't fuck around with
>>8258985
>Just read any book about nutrition. A vegan diet isn't really a special diet.
Ok, that sounds reasonable. Any good books about the subject?
I am a vegetarian, here's my diet.
Low fat greek yogurt
Whole wheat Tortilla wraps: with the grilled ingredients
-chopped bell peppers (called fajita mix at whole foods, it comes in boxes pre chopped. I get 2 boxes of that a week)
-avocados (however many I am going to use per week, around 6)
-big heaping helpings of leafy greens (I get one giant box of leafy greens and then one smaller box of leafy greens.)
Sweet potatoes
Dark amber honey
Decaf Coffee
Almond Milk
Bananas
Blueberries
Apples
Big bag of oatmeal oats
around 2 -...
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Girlfriend let me borrow these.
>>8258958
Not enough, borrow her virginity too.
>>8258958
Nice.
Marry her
All of his books are retarded blabbering. They make no sense and have contributed nothing to humanity.
When is /lit/ going to stop posting threads about this fuck?
>>8258957
>guy who indirectly inspired or directly informed pretty much every relevant political movement of the 20th century
>guy who flat out said the 20th century would be fucking cataclysmic and welcomed it with open arms
>lol hes just retarded and did nothing 4 humanity xD
/lit/ is not going to stop posting about him because he is not only not irrelevant, he is basically the most relevant thinker of the 20th century and...
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A perfect woman, knows that she IS woman.
>>8258973
Guy is nuts, his body of work is the result of his retarded thinking. His writing is unintelligible and nonsensical.
soo, do you guys enjoy this stuff? from Conan to Doc Savage and all that
any stories worth sharing?
>>8258934
bump
Only Conan and Lovecraft and Fritz Leiber's stuff.
Never interested in The Shadow or Doc Savage.
Thought about reading H.Rider Haggard, but have not yet.
Read first John Carter (meh).
Read Lost World by A.Conan Doyle and Land that Time Forgot by Burroughs, both enjoyable.
The King in Yellow.. ? Is that pulpy enough?
A lot of PK Dick is pulp, but I suspect that is not the era you are interested in.
Tbh the cover art for those things was more interesting than much of the writing.
>>8258934
I enjoy them so much I just used a ton of my PC's memory for them. If you enjoy it I would recommend the SciFi thread over in /t/.
Is a Kindle worth it ?
If you travel and don't want to take 2kg of books then yes
Also if you are looking for free books it's the way to go
>>8258787
Still worth it when i have an ipad ?
not sure, kindle's battery last longer (weeks) and I like the 'no light' thing, but I know some who don't
So, the dover thrift edition of this is way cheaper than other versions available online, but this one has 150 pages while the other version has like 288. I'm guessing it's not missing actual writing from nietzsche in the book, it probably just doesn't have long prefaces and annotations, right?
>>8258738
get the vintage, trans. Kaufmann. you don't know enough philosophy or Nietzsche for his alleged changes to be of concern to you
>>8258825
this. there's also a Nietzsche reader or something (not the Viking one) that has this and a bunch of other stuff too.
Never buy Dover you fucking retard. Pirate a decent version if you're poor.
