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what is babbies first book?
mine is a 20 volume (800 page per book) novel.
Dude, WTF??
I bought The Book of Disquiet and it was a trimmed version. Some faggot took some of the pieces and built it's own version...
How is not that fucking ilegal?
I don't even have a receipt.
>>7655084
You think that's bad? There's an overpriced edition of Pale Fire that's literally just a booklet with the poem and some index cards with the poem on it inside a box
Caveat emptor, pal.
Hello /lit/, trying to read more and have by listening to audiobooks while I commute to and from work. I have been using Librivox for my free audiobook downloads but and slowly running out of interesting books on that site. Any good sites with free audiobook downloads (no subscription) someone can point me in the direction of? Picture completely unrelated.
jewtube
>>7655045
I believe bookz (in the wiki/sticky) has some, I remember listening to Lolita by Jeremy Irons (e.g. Scar in The Lion King) and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Stephen Fry and I'm certain I got at least one of them off IRC. They're both fantastic, by the way--I especially enjoyed Irons' reading, though I sadly ended up straying from the audiobook and went back to the written word. I would check bookz on IRC though, and any other audiobook channel.
Additionally, you can always go for TPB, stream from...
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What's the shittiest book that you've ever read, /lit/?
My knee jerk reaction would be Twilight. However I have read Dime Novels that are much shitter than sparkly vampire high.
"Los ojos del perro siberiano"
Reminder it took Joyce 9 years to get Dubliners published
Makes sense. It's garbage.but seriously, there were some really conservative years in the way
What does /lit/ think about Oblomov?
I got it as a Christmas present but I'm currently reading The Brothers Karamazov and I thought about checking this out after.
>>7654617
good stuff, sad though. not as emotionally involving as bros k, i would say. it's pretty much a description of the superfluous man, or the NEET.
I liked it, but didn't think it was great or recommendable, really. I feel like if someone stumbles upon it they'll probably enjoy it, but it otherwise lacks general appeal.
I try to read as often as possible. I've never been a fast reader. Are there ways to get better, and is there a guilt I should feel when using audiobooks? I love them, but am not sure.
>>7654541
information is information. Though reading shorter books might help.
Recommend me the most amazing shit to read /lit/
I'm into that classic, fucks your mind up stuff.
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.
plebmaximus
Macaulay's review of Boswell is pure gold:
Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phænomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have...
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That such a man should have written one of the best books in the world is strange enough. But this is not all. Many persons who have conducted themselves foolishly in active life, and whose conversation has indicated no superior powers of mind, have left us valuable works. Goldsmith was very justly described by one of his contemporaries as an inspired idiot, and by another as a being
"Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll."
La Fontaine was in society a mere simpleton. His blunders would not come in amiss among the stories of Hierocles....
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Which do you think the most interesting piece of the Earthsea series (including short stories)? Any observations on different subplots or themes? Discussion about the animation movie is also welcome.
intrigued. thinking about writing a conference paper about something along these lines. Scholarly works and sources appreciated family.
Bump. Should extend this to a general LeGuin thread to see how that helps get people interested.
The theme of Irish heritage is literally the most boring thing you could talk about in any of Joyce's works.
>>7654134
>And all of the least-boring things about Joyce? Never mind any of that.
Happy Birthday to Jimmy Joy by the way.
Is this guy worth reading?
What did the Ainur look like before they took material form?
Did Tolkien every describe how they looked in either state, physical or ethereal?
Cinnabons
I have the computer knowledge of chicken, I'm also poor as dirt.
I need to get my hands on Fundamentals of Statistics: Informed decisions using data, 4th edition, by Michael Sullivan
>>7654100
>How to
use libgen, google
>Fundamentals of Statistics
seems only 2d edition is around
Couldn't find a pdf of it. Try bookfinder.com for a cheap used copy.
Anyone got the pdf they can share?
>>7653282
i needed this for my english class but couldn't find it so i read all the stuff online
