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where to startwith nietzsche?
his major collected works in a single volume, start from page 1, flip through the aphorisms, most importantly read Zarathusta.
the portable neitzsche
Also sprach Zarathustra
Have you ever been cucked by a book?
What was his name?
>using male pronouns
Literally kill yourself, you transphobic piece of shit.
the ethical sluthahahahahahahhahahahahaha!
Has the average IQ of /lit/ users dropped by like 15 points in the past few months or am I imagining it?
How do I write about delicate and unusual subject matter (like gay butt sex) without really getting into the details? I don't want to write anything titillating or smutty but I also don't want it to be vanilla and boring. Here's what I got so far
>He was taken again late into the night as Herr Fulman's lust was unquenchable. Herr is what he was addressed as on set and everyone knew well enough to continue the farce off set. Michael was to be Herr's conquest tonight, and every other night requested. Herr's lovemaking was a brief, yet painful affair, a display of power and little else. Michael had become accustomed to this style of frustration-release yet he continuously longed for the tenderness and delicacy of the female form, a thought he could not train himself to relinquish into the crevice of the dark dank cave that is his mind along with the rest of his battered broken-down dreams and desires.
>It had been almost two entire years Michael had spent on the picture, peripatetic and unable to establish a firm, needed presence on set. He was absolutely and hopelessly trivial in the production of Fulman's vast new epic until only very recently yet now it seemed his desperate ploys for relevancy had finally borne fruit. Fifteen days ago, he was little more than an errand boy underling barely skimming the surface of the production's own intimate milieu but tonight he was confident he could and would make a first and grand step through Herr's ear and orifice.
Cock is one of my favorite tastes. Not only that, but balls smell amazing. It makes me go a little crazy on it to be honest. Like, I cannot get it far enough down my throat to be satisfied. I’m only satisfied when I feel those intense, powerful, salty, hot pumps of cum down my throat. When I sit back on my heels, look up at you with cum all over my mouth and slobber running down my neck, hair all fucked up and wipe my mouth with the back of my arm and ask you if I did a good job and you cannot even speak because I’ve drained all of your energy out the tip of your dick….. That’s when I’m satisfied.
i think you're being subtle enough. focus more on the psychology of it i suppose? your writing in general needs improvement however
Make it a learning experience for the reader. Explain in scientific detail what is chemically happening during the scene.
Any /lit/ recommendations for a first year university student majoring in both Philosophy and Computer Science?
Gotta give us more than that.
>>8088586
Thinking rationally, clarity of thoughts, logic, etc.
>>8088586
5'11", brown eyes, raised by single mother, shaved my moustache last week, prefer coffee and tea without milk or sugar
>I majored in stories.
lol loser
>I will never have a qt blind wife to read Borges and Shakespeare to
Killll meee
>>8088560
I'm eighteen, going to a mediocre instate school in august, starting a a sophomore because of dual credits
thinking of double majoring in neurobiology and linguistics with a minor in philosophy
am i fucking myself lit? be honest....
I have 2 dollars in my paypal account, what can i order from here?
Maybe Dover Thrift Edition of Tao Te Ching
how long is the wait for the books to arrive considering i'm in australia?
>>8088898
Usually about 2 weeks.
Hello,
I never rely on you and rarely frequent this kind of thread but I've made an unexpected acquisition (I'm a book dealer) and I would like your opinion about it. It's an early print of the 1932 third edition of James Joyce's “Ulysses”, barely used, with the famous “Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A.” mention. It's a limited press luxury copy, with the two volumes and its case, the whole with no flaw or handwritten notes. I don't trade this kind of book, and I would like to know how much you would evaluate it. I'm considering selling it between 100$ and 250$. Is it a reasonable price? It really is in a perfect condition. No stain, no torn/folded pages. The case still have its original lace.
Also, acquisition thread.
I don't have a god damn clue but that sure does look neat and I wish it was mine
>>8088484
burn it.
trump 2016
If I can't sell it back, at least I would have finally read this book.
Hey /lit/, I'm ordering infinite jest and I need to add $4 of books to qualify for free shipping. Any recommendations?
Gargantua and Pantagruel
>>8088423
East River by Sholem Asch
You know you want to
>>8088423
Make Way For Ducklings
Dubs confirms it
How does one train themselves to read a difficult book?
Like, do you just not be a pussy and spend all year on it, make notes and shit? Or do you just read other, less difficult books to head your head around unconventional techniques?
I just keep chugging along and after a certain number of pages it just clicks and I breeze through the rest of the book. I am entry level though, I don't touch most of the shit people rave about here.
You push through it, even if you don't understand. Put it down after you finish, let it be for some time, then come back a week or two later to piece it together. Discuss it with others.
>>8088231
It's a vague recommendation (rather than for dealing with any one specific book), but this is honestly why people recommend starting with the Greeks. You get a foothold in most genres of literature, and can build on it either chronologically or in terms of difficulty (although those arguably go hand in hand for a while).
Having trouble with Shakespeare? Go back to Chaucer, to the Bible, to Roman drama, to Greek drama.
Having trouble with Milton? Go back to Dante, to Virgil, to Homer.
New to history? Watch the genre be born and start to evolve alongside Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, and Tacitus.
And although there's no direct "Greek" foundation for novels, getting at least a taste of ancient (christian and pre-christian) history and morality will give you some of the tools you need to approach increasingly difficult books, both in terms of references and simply practicing reading books that didn't immediately come easily to you.
Stuff that this utterly patrician board would crucify you for reading but you enjoy anyway.
>RLM mixed with Max Payne
Yes
More
I want to see Vinnie Goniti as Jack
wicked
The Meme Trilogy. They want you to read it, they don't want you to enjoy it, and they want you to understand it, they also want you to enjoy it, they want you to get prepared first, they tell you this. "Don't read them yet, get prepared, Anon." They say this over and over. Start with the Greeks.
should I dedicate 12 hours a day to reading this?
will it still take forever to finish?
will this method give me autism?
>>8087956
you would finish it in a day and a half
just started reading it
have patience, give it a fair amount of time to grab you
if it doesn't, if you dont like it, just drop it, life's too short
correction: just start* reading it
Alright /lit/, this is the thread you writers have been waiting for. I want to know about your novel or memoir or whatever book you're writing. What you should post:
1. The cover, with the name changed if you want.
2. An explanation of the title.
3. Plot summary.
4. Main character's name and personality.
5. Do you plan to get it published?
hmmm
how about this
/mu/ has those threads where they combine random elements through wikipedia and stuff to make albums
somebody come up with a way to do this here with books
i cant do it im dumb
>>8087885
What about books we've already written?
How about books we are currently writing?
ITT: Books that no on here has actually read
>>8087865
I've read it twice.
>>8087865
I just purchased it today. I wonder how long it'll take me to get through.
>>8087865
If this is bait, decent. If serious go back to where ya came from guy
Are politics and economics the same thing?
No, politics is the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power, and economics is the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. They're different things.
Political economy is the thing
No but they overlap each other.
What do you think of Stephen King?
>>8087696
Cool guy; bad author.
An intelligent and dedicated man who used his efforts in an overtly self serving fashion and helped start a really bad trend in literature, of which he is still the figurehead.
>>8087696
i don't think about him at all.
