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who /drinking/ and /reading/ here? what are you drinking and reading?
>pic related
>under the volcano - malcolm lowry
pretty fitting desu
>>8231328
>pic related
whyna juss drink yr cmen?
>>8231332
i am pretty fucking gay you're right
>Chateau Vieux Moulin, Bordeaux
>The Castle
How did I do?
They had a few other books I wanted but they were tarnished .
you spent $26 on something you're not even going to read
>>8231238
Bretty good entry-level meme haul
Not sure why you want the purpose of reading Verne is though.
>>8231241
Well, yes I am. I do admit Anna Karenina is a bit intimidating but eventually I will get to it after i'm done The Idiot. I just finished reading the Pearl by Steinbeck a few days ago and now i'm in the middle of The Catcher in the Rye . Might read The Great Gatsby before the Idiot.
Claim your literary waifu.
Katie
>>8231167
The fuck are you doing with pics of mai waifu on ur computer?
>>8231167
Flan
Why did he do it, why did he fucking do it? was it because >tfw no gf? was it because he smoked weed? was it autism?
yes. now fuck off
>>8230622
You write, but he's writer.
>>8230622
>tfw no gf?
He had a wife and could get pussy anytime he wanted. He even fucked his students a few times
Yves Bonnefoy just died.
That's a new fail for the Nobel Prize.
Good night sweet prince, you'll be missed.
rip.
Quelle triste nouvelle... Beaucoup de respect pour cet homme!
What's this fag's best short story, in your opinion?
I guess a big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us ... Since an ineluctable part of being a human self is suffering, part of what we humans .... We've all got this “literary” fiction that simply monotones that we're all ... &c.
A RADICALLY CONDENSED HISTORY OF POSTINDUSTRIAL LIFE :: A SHORT STORY BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed very hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
The man who’d introduced them didn’t much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.
[appears in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]
i liked Good old neon. It was his only short story i read, tho'
Give me your critique on Buddhism.
a projection of westerners to cry all their existential frustrations without directly exposing their social causes, which would be actually punished, while all this new market only keeps the machine running.
now, if you wanted a critique of the dharma itself i dont think anyone here can do a serious attempt, for you'd need to know its context and genuine practice. ie be from india or a western published scholar.
>>8229896
helped me a lot in dealing with life
kind of overdone as a literary theme.
>>8229955
I was thinking about things like the fact that they don't have the notion of creator, then who set the whole cycle of rebirth in motion? can karma exist without a will to act?
Doesn't the fact that you try to detach yourself of desires lead you to a certain apathy, and only the fact that it might hurt your rebirth stops you from claiming your life?
>>8229975
Did you use it to put your life back in order? Did you pratice? Or did the concept put certain things in perspective?
Plate Armor Edition
Recommendations
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
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Is the Sword of Shannara any good?
>tfw you blog has 1.3k followers but the one tim you post your writing it only gets 3 likes
I think it's time to give up
Hi, I'm interested in some good reading material on science. I have already done a little research and got a few suggestions on science, books I am wondering what your opinion on these books are.
E = MC^2 - David Bodanis
A Brief History of Space and Time - Stephen Hawking
In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat - John Gribbin
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Greene, Brian
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality - Tegmark, Max
The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R.Hofstadter
Consciousness Explained - Daniel C. Dennett
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence - Ray Kurzweil
Chaos: The Making of a New Science - James Gleick
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe - Dyson, George
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - Gleick, James
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - Mlodinow, Leonard
These all sound interesting to me. I am interested in science that is on the edge of human understanding, that explains things in a way that make you think differently about the world around you. I love opening my mind to new ideas and discovering things that change your perspective on the world. I am also a true blue atheist and not looking for spirituality, but I am very interested in what causes actual consciousness, and what consciousness is as a phenomena, because I think it's an extremely important question for philosophy. I personally believe we don't have free will, and that computer intelligence has the capability to become conscious with AI, but either way I believe there's no free will (an argument for another day, but it's just part of what has been fascinating me lately).
I am also very inspired by Carl Sagan, but I'm not sure which of his books, if any would be right for me to purchase.
>>8228773
Don't bother reading about science. It's a fundamentally flawed concept. Do research on philosophy if you want to search for the truth. Scientism is rampant enough.
>>8228786
dude this is one heavy duty pile of shit comment.
You sound like a fucktard.
Do you believe lyrics hold any literary value? Is there any example of albums or pieces of music that you find tell interesting stories?
this went too far
Hi there, /mu/tant here reporting in from the /metal/ general thread! It is pretty general knowledge on /mu/ tha Terminal Redux is shit tier black metal whereas Ghost Bath is superior in every way.
Google Hunter Hunt Hendrix. You won't be disappointed.
I wrote out a quality answer and accidentally hit the back button
I'm not typing it again
Who is the greater writer and why is it Tolstoy?
тaк глyпo
Tolstoy wrote best doge character
>>8226913
Toad Soy had a better way with words
Jet Ski had deeper spychological insight
so antinatalism is basically 'muh feels' right?
Overpopulation is currently destructive, and their is nothing inherently beneficial about life.
everything is ultimately 'muh feels'
logic is unable to do anything whatsoever without feels
that's what hume said anyways
>>8226821
There's nothing inherently problematic about destruction either.
And what else could you complain about being destructed except for life? Rocks/
Without googling name 3 books written by a black person. Limit to 1 book per author. Hard mode name 1 book written by a black
person that will be talked about 100 years from now.
>>8226659
You got us.
mama day
push
>>8226670
I'm adding city of god by paulo lins
I already own Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow, so I bought this to complete my "meme trilogy". I have no plans whatsoever to read it, I'm just going to crack the spine (I bought a new copy to avoid germs) and put it on my shelf. Has anyone actually read/enjoyed this?
Read it, didn't enjoy it.
Didn’t read it, enjoyed it.
Enjoy it, didn't read it
Books you read as a kid that you still think about and would read again. Pic related.
the stinky cheese man
dumb bunnies go to the beach
As if you didn't stick your little ruler into this book's spot in the library 20 times during 2nd grade
As if you didn't stick your little ruler into this book's spot in the library 20 times during 2nd grade.
