Just finished this. I really enjoyed it, but I think it made me too empathetic to the blight of the downtrodden. Am I a goddamn red now?
i fucking hate the downtrodden, say...are there any pro-capitalist novels that are canon approved by jew professors? i mean other than the bible
>>7841215
ayn rand
>>7841223
This. I think she takes too long to get to two overly simplified point, but lots of young libertarians get a conservative boner from Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. I can sum her books up for you... >Workaholism is the only civic duty and the ends justify the means.
Am I a dumbass for not understanding Kubla Khan?
>>7841202
yes
got u famalam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuOoMprDqg
>>7841211
What
What the fuck did I just read? I got strong existential vibes
ralph ellison beast mode
I prefer H G Wells version. :^)
>>7841158
Everyone is out to fuck you. Quite literally in the case of the bbc fetishist broad
>get to the final 30 pages
>book slips from under my arm and I don't realize its gone until later
>don't get to finish
The irony.
What do you guys think about Calvino?
also shout out to Danvino, imma try to summon him
Who is the best Italian writer other than Dante?
>>7841243
Petrarca and Bocaccio
>>7841157
>What do you guys think about Calvino?
not even the best writer named 'italo'
Are spooks always negative notions? Or can they be positive? Is the concept of a spook more about unveiling the truth of the external forces around you?
>>7841071
Noyesyes.
>>7841071
"Spooks" is used a catchall for unexamined influences on us all.
Kinda like "privilege" or "ideology" except for internet wanna-be alt-right tough guys.
>>7841188
check ur spooks shitlord
I'll just leave this here
>>7841065
Book turned me gay.
>>7841065
this book changed my outlook on everything when I was 14. It got me into reading
>>7841109
fagg
I found this masterpiece, read by the most appropriate voice. I still have goosebumps after ten minutes it was over. Do you feel the same?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2630L1DpPU
>>7841023
This is cool
It was nice.
I've always liked audiobooks with sound effects. I find it hard to listen to them without.
If you guys liked that then you'll love this channel https://youtu.be/3iZBH2rEops
hey, hard science fiction fan here in a bit of a jam
im looking for LARRY NIVEN'S FOOTFALL and THE EXPANSE series in audibook format but im having a hard time finding any kind of torrent for it. I tried pirateproxy and rutracker but all i got is one shitty torrent with no seeders
is there like a good place to illegaly download pirate audiobooks particularly science fiction ones?
one cubic parsec of thanks to everyone
I found them all on WhatCD but I don't have a big enough buffer to download them.
Maybe someone else that does will be kind enough to give then to you.
>>7841008
how do i get an account? is it invite only or is there a special day to log in?
>>7841008
what are tehse secret torrent kind of places called? are there more?
is there anyone else that prefers Proust over than Joyce?
I personally think that La recherche is the best book wrote in the 20th century
Yeh, you woude
gay vs straight
>>7841146
>gay
>Joyce
Have you even read his personal letters?
Hey /lit/ I started reading gravity's Rainbow, got to page 73, but only understand about 40% of it. It is honestly a drag but feels like I am missing alot if I skip it. At this point, should I just give up?
you won't understand most of it but i promise it's worth it. i'm on my second read through and it's one of the most beautiful things i've read.
there's no shortcut to this. you have to struggle through it and someday when you come back to it, it will have been worth it
>>7840943
>wahh thing is hard wahhh me wan quit wahhhhh
fucking millennials
>>7840959
Man its not that, its just I have other hard shit to read like finances and this is supposed to be my fiction free read so I don't want to spend so much time on it. Guess its not for me.
Histories, worth reading? y/n - and why
Yes; if you need a justification to read a classic Greek book you need to lurk more.
>>7840942
Yes. Get the annotated version, it's cheap as fuck on Amazon.
>>7841039
The question; why?
What is the difference between Stirner's spooks and Marx's ideology?
>Stirner
Literally the greatest thinker of all time. Destroys all spooks, will turn you into a 200 IQ 6'3" alpha male with an 8" penis.
>Marx
Some German faggot who thought you could predict the future with economics and a love of unsubstantiated speculation.
Stirner was autistic and Marx was a fatass.
That's about it.
th-th-th-th-th-thats all folks!
Thoughts on this masterpiece?
Heavy-handed and it will always be high school-core but it's not a bad read. It's definitely memorable.
A little heavy handed with the symbolism.
I don't like how it demonized the survival instinct, and the desire to seek out and destroy things you're afraid of. Parables like this always feel really flimsy and unsatisfying to me; you can 'prove' anything in a fiction where you're pulling all the strings.
island of doctor moreau 1000 times better
>It's a poem about how your accomplishments won't matter when you're dead
>>7840886
>It's a "my love will never die as long as my words survive" poem
>it's a poem about nature
WE'VE ALL BEEN OUTSIDE
STOP
>>7840924
nature poem authors btfo
Reading all the poetry critique threads is hurting my head, not that none of you have talent. But I want delicious, beautiful language. Post poems you really love, poems you read over and over again.
Pied Beauty, Hopkins:
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
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THIS FRIDAY I WOKE UP AT 2PM
started drinking alcohol at 3pm
at 11pm i went to a party wearing the same clothes i wore on thursday
at 12:30am the guy i lost my virginity to told me he is having a baby
at 1:30am i ate drugs in the bathroom without telling anyone
i don't know how to maintain relationships
most of the people i've had sex with have negative feelings about me now
starving to death during sex is something i would like to do this week
every time i look at my computer
i fight the urge to open a word document and list everything i ate that day
here is what i ate today:
coffee, curry vegetable thing from whole foods, plum
i am most comfortable around people who criticize me because
i feel like anyone who isn't constantly criticizing me is lying
or expecting me to be something different
seems insane that you need money to do things like
develop a drug addiction, or move across the country
i don't identify as 'depressed' even though i feel depressed
seems unfair that i only get to feel a finite amount of things in my life
lately i have been assuming that dried fruit has more calories than regular fruit
i feel like 400 dead jellyfish in the middle of a freeway
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
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