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/lit/ I've recently collected about 10 or so thick ass, dense, good books on philosophy, political economy, capitalism, the deep state, CIA counter-intelligence etc. etc. (each 400+ pages) online for free in PDF form. However, I fucking hate reading books on a screen because the glare hurts my eyes over long periods and it's just not /comfy/
>inb4 blind oldfag
So.... are there shops or warehouse stores or any places I can go to just print MegaShitLoad of pages I've saved on a USB drive and they will bind the pages together...
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bumperinooo
Just get an e-reader senpai
>>7479146
This. I'm exactly like you OP and though my paperwhite pisses me of sometimes it's fucktons better than my phone
The only correct course for humanity is to collectively contribute 100% of time and energy into unlocking immortality
prove me wrong
I don't want to be immortal; we weren't meant to be immortal.
>>7479076
the meaning of life is just to be yourself; if you do that you unlock true happiness
Reminder that Shelley was, by some distance, the greatest Romantic poet.
>>7479013
And a fugging beast in bed.
agreed desu
Was just reading Orpheus, one of his lesser-known fragments:
It is the wandering voice of Orpheus' lyre,
Borne by the winds, who sigh that their rude king
Hurries them fast from these air-feeding notes;
But in their speed they bear along with them
The waning sound, scattering it like dew
Upon the startled sense.
If he (and Keats too) hadn't died so young his achievements would have pissed all over Shakespeare.
>>7479037
source?
Can someone crit an excerpt from a short I am writing? I am a schizophrenic and i think the disorganization comes across in my writing. That's the only time it's actually interesting in my opinion, and not debilitating. I can post something better if anyones interested this is just a first draft.
This will be the second part, the first is about a framed dead scorpion i was given as a gift coming to life in my dreams and then me becoming obsessed with the image and seeing it everywhere. Here is the second part, based somewhat on past experience...
>>7478950
Now I'll tell you the story of the first time I killed a man.
It was a warm December, when I was much younger, and a big drinker. My friends at the time shared my passion for intoxication, but at only 18 years old we were pressured to find accomodating locales. Nicholas tipped us off, “why not try church street? We can pretend to be young couples.” Church street was of course the gay district of the city and we never had a problem getting inside. About a block away from our destination we would begin walking...
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>>7478952
So now I can tell you about the man I murdered.
He was a black fellow that approached me as I was leaning on a pillar, in the middle of the dance floor. Blacker and bigger than I had ever seen in this place. He introduced himself with a dreamy sentence, like so many before him, with brevity that I came to admire of old lecherous vampires like him. He said, “Can I buy you a drink, handsome?” The prize of alcohol always claimed my enthusiasm, something that has never left me, except on depressed and hungover evenings, when the moon glares through my window and I am so alone.
My friends had left me with my date, making off with their own stash, or chugging unattended drinks, sometimes boldly swallowing a man's drink, batting a cat like smile and shrugging outside for a cigarette. My reservation was dangerously waning this evening, and when the man suggested we take a walk, I bartered a drink for when we got back and agreed to leave with him, knowing without a child's doubt what he was looking for. He passed me a ten on our way out the door, and I took it without looking his way.
The alleyway next to the bar was long and deserted, illuminated by one street light beside a rusted iron door. The man started kissing my face, passionately, but gentle. I dreamed I was his daughter and I became extremely comfortable in his presence, thinking excitedly of my new titanium switchblade. He slowly made his way down and began to feel for my limp cock. I took out the knife from my back pocket, moaning heavily with a cigarette in my mouth, and shoved the rainbow blade behind his temple. I pushed it in with such speed that he fell sideways to the ground, as if I had simply punched him. His bald head shook and he gurgled, as his hand shook and levitated over my knife and my stomach hurt no more than a shoplifter feels with a pack of earphones under his coat and I felt I could not reach down to retrieve my knife. It was his now. It was all his. When I got back to the bar my friends smiled at me, they were so drunk. Asking where I had been. I showed them my tenner and bought myself a vodka and tonic.
self-diagnosed? what medication are you on?
Do you consider Soumission pro-islamic?
I've heard it argued that Houellebecq approves of Islam because, while not being perfect, it's at least a healthy alternative to liberalism.
>>7478949
It's definitely not anti-islam, the only thing it's against is pussy whipped liberals.
>>7478993
also seems anti-socialist
He is so fucking nasty looking. he has to try to look that bad..
ITT: Bitch about a classic that does absolutely nothing for you.
What the fuck is up with pic related? I was told Joyce was going to be Shakespeare-tier genius that would change my life forever, but this is the most boring book I've read in a long, long time.
I'm 300 pages through, and I can safely say I don't care what happens to Dedalus at all.
>>7478822
It had its moments, but I'm not a big fan of it either.
Ulysses was a different matter, also Dubliners, but I cannot see the genius in Portrait.
>>7478897
it contains the best prose ever written in the english language
Any books about the sales and/or usage of cocaine?
hey, birds
>>7478813
Goodbye, sausage.
Pusha T - Darkest Before the Dawn
Mom and Dad want books for Christmas.
>mfw buying books for people who don't read
What would you get your parents for Christmas, /lit/?
some legitimately good and literary work which also achieved widespread success
like Atonement by Ian McEwan
>>7478798
>A book about rape accusation!
>Merry Christmas!
honestly, anon
Dad: (auto)biography of someone he would find interesting (see anyone considered a major positive historical figure in the west, esp. USA, and esp. moderate conservative types), or else a "leadership" type book like 7 habits
Mom: a book she can read with her 2 year old granddaughter (my brother's kid, I'm not stupid or cruel enough to have kids of my own)
>tfw I'm writing a novel, some poems, a philosophical essay, some short stories and a tragedy while planning other two novels and a political/historic essay, and reading at the same time Dostoyevsky's "A writer's diary" and Mallarmé's collection of works
Living the literary life
(yes, I know, I won't finish them all and I would write better if I choose just the novel and maybe poems, but I can't fucus on a single work)
>tfw writing collection of poems and new testament fanfic with mischievous Jesus and reading the Bible and Yeats' collected works
proper patrish desu
>tfw I'm writing poems and a novella, learning everything about american modernism while listening to Gaspard de la nuit by ravel and eating poptarts
>>7478776
>eating poptarts
patrish AF, especially if they're the unfrosted ones -- no gelatin, baby
Has anyone here read this? Recommend me similar books /lit/
>>7478691
Yes I have. I love the period so I was an easy sell though. I understand the author did some similar works, "The Etruscan" and "The Roman", but I didn't read either of those.
>>7478691
I love ancient Egyptian stuff. What is this about? Is it a novel or what?
>>7478691
I haven't heard of it. If you want Egyptian lit, http://wisdomlib.org/egypt/book/the-literature-of-the-ancient-egyptians/index.html
Lets start out relatively simple:
>3 linear stories
>red line indicates a change in Time, Perception, or State of Reality different from that of the work as a whole
These are the only mechanics so far in focus over time line graph, give a title.There is no right answer, just an intended one, whatever story you can give that follows the portrayal of the graph will suffice
>>7478638
me in the middle tbqh family
hamlet for the first one
>>7478638
Moby-Dick for the third one
Is the penguin Translation of Capital the best out there?
Their translations generally get a bad wrap here but there doesn't seem to be any other unabridged competition in physical format.
>>7478444
>Translation
Just get the mexican manga hombre
pls
Does it live up to the hype?
no hype
>>7478529
yeah, no hype
only people who might hype that book are people who have read less than 10 books since high school
and maybe john green fans
>>7478365
Only if you are 14 and have pleb taste.
>Guilty pleasure reads thread?
>Guilty pleasure reads thread!
I'll start: Lovecraft
4chan.org/lit/catalog
>>7478342
yeah k
>>64310038
m89, if you consider de Sade porn then you have something seriously off about you.
He was pushing the limits of shock writing, just like Cooper is doing now!
>oh noez the heterosexual gender roles are inverted in my writing
>fight club
I assumed you never acutally read anything by Palahniuk
>>64310047
>good...
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>>7478358
>good books don't exist
Only a Chuck Palahniuk fan would believe something as stupid as this.
One book you want santa to leave under your christmas tree this year
a book of Rob Browning's poems
>>7478313
New York 1927 by Aleksander Alekhine.
