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Is To The Lighthouse an ok place to start Woolf with or do I really need to read some her earlier works? Should I go straight to The Waves instead?
How long is it?
200 pages, It's a good place to start, but you can go straight ahead to the waves if you want to
It doesn't matter what order you read books. They're not part of a series.
>How long is it?
are you too retarded to google?
>>7881942
Google search doesn't really tell you how many pages a book has desu
Currently I read from four different books a day, two philosophical, one fiction and one historical. Currently I am reading The Apology and Euthyphro, Crime and Punishment, and The Expedition of Cyrus, is this a good path?
lmao 4book
>not reading six books a day
make a thread when you've actually read a book and want to discuss it. until then FUCK OFF
No. The path to becoming patrician is reading 'the half-book' (that is, a book torn into two halves: you must use your bare strength of your hands and forearms to do this otherwise you risk never reaching the heights of a true patrician) of a book, obeying three conditions: it must be read while you are naked, your reading speed must not exceed 1 word per minute, and finally, which is of paramount importance, you must blink your left eyelid 3.43817 times per minute.
Is ugliness a spook?
>tfw fuggo
>tfw hide my face in public behind a book
>tfw will never arouse desire in anyone ever
>tfw keep reading all these love stories
>>7881740
thats rudolf steiner you dipshit
>>7881917
you got spook'd
Why doesn't literature ever try to advance now that we have reached the point where we communicate by meme?
We have powerful meaning operators that go unused. Nobody still codes in assembly these days, it takes too long so they use Python (a higher level language), with its inbuilt libraries (stores of meaning). I'm not saying assembly isn't useful in some situations, it is. Just not all.
As one example: We live in a time where the entire epoch of existentialist literature can be brought up and expressed solely with the word "DUDE".
memes are the decay of language, not the growth.
memes destroy literature, not create it.
>>7881730
Wrong, memes are a potent store of value that are more powerful than words could ever be when used correctly
who is that semon demon with an ugly face?
what are some good books on the history of the greatest country on earth?
>>7881416
Azerbaijan: A Political History
Ancient Azerbaijan: what do we know?
Ancient history of Azerbaijan in the cuneiform sources
Ancient Sources on the History of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Since Independence (Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus)
Azerbaijan: With Excursions To Georgia
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, 10th Year Anniversary Edition, Revised and Updated
>>7881453
niiice
What are some good non-fiction books about the russian revolution or the soviet union?
>>7881370
Pasting from an imageboard which shall not be named
General works on the USSR:
* https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfTheU.S.S.R. (be sure to add the dot at the end otherwise URL won't work)
* http://www.plp.org/books/ ("The Stalin Era" by Anna Louise Strong and "Fraud, Famine & Fascism" in that same link concerning the Ukrainian famine)
* https://archive.org/details/TheSovietsAlbertRhysWilliams
* https://archive.org/details/ThePatternOfSovietPower
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>>7881381
thanks anon
Ten Days that Shook the World
trust me :^>
I had to drag myself to finish this novel for an assignment. What the fuck are women's problems with themselves? How is Heathcliff an ideal guy?
I was raging most of the time I was reading this book. Catherine was Heathcliff's equal - THIS is true love? What the fuck, man. Did I miss something? This is a well-written novel with absolutely shit characters. Am I supposed to like this?
>>7881063
Some women are retards. That's not news.
>>7881063
>shit characters
did the characters hurt your feelings? did you feel you could not relate to you bland little life? :((((
>>7881063
>Women are retards
Tale as old as time
I'm looking for some good religious fiction (not fiction set within an existing religion but the creation of a new one, perhaps a fictional holy text or something like that). Is there anything worthwhile out there? I'm currently reading American Gods and I love the sections such as men first arriving in America written as if they're in the bible.
All religious texts are fictional, at least to a certain extent
>>7881068
*dibs*
:DDDD
>>7881068
>in my opinion
I've had two people read my script. One is a guy who actually funded his own movie (let's call him Dude 1) and the other is a guy who recently finished film school and currently reads and critiques scripts for his current job (Dude 2).
Dude 1 reads only 30 pages of my script and absolutely hates it. He says it's fundamentally broken and that's the only critique he gives. Nothing else.
Dude 2 reads my script and actually gives me notes page by page, says that he likes my writing and that my script is better than a lot of the scripts he has...
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so dude 1 is basically the kind of person who self-publishes?
>>7880856
Basically
>>7880863
i wouldn't worry about him
What are some good books dealing with terminal illnesses and the like?
>inb4 The Fault in Our Stars
The Star in Our Faults by Green John
>>7880743
looks like you've found The Fault In Our Thread
Don't mind me, just the magnum opus of Dostoevsky's oeuvre.
It is. People overlook it because it's first part drags a lot introducing the characters and all.
>>7881204
I started this book like 3 times and I never managed to get past 200 pages. Is it worth it?
Who are the best conservative essayists? Novelists?
If you only want to read about ideas you already agree with, you've reached the nadir of your intellectual life.
I know you're not a liberal humanist, because liberal humanists already know their opponents' arguments to a T.
tl;dr reconsider your thought processes
>>7880584
I'm a liberal humanist who's just getting into reading. Fuck yourself.
>>7880584
Good to see that /lit/ is full of bigots.
Should I pirate ebooks?
Why?
If you want.
>>7880539
Why do you think I'm a fag?
Based on true events
That cardio thou
https://youtu.be/fK_zwl-lnmc
...Can I be close to you...
>Seed Germination
Bloom
https://youtu.be/8inJtTG_DuU
>>7880522
Spring time dubs
Can somebody redpill me on this guy?
For all I know he was a science fiction writer, but there are people who literally believe his writtings to be true and developed almost a Crowley tier cult around him and his books?
While looking for his works to start reading I've found several weird books with titles like 'Rite of Yog Sothoth' and other shit that seemed 'serious' from the point of the author.
What's the deal with Lovecraft? Was he crazy?
I'm asking here and not /x/ because I'm approaching this from a...
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>>7880508
>redpill
fuck off. He was a fiction writer who wanted to portray the utter insignificance of humanity in the greater scheme of things. The great old ones were just a metaphor for forces beyond the control of humans. That's why he seldom described his monsters in detail, the details weren't important. The monsters were in many senses just abstract entities outside the realm of human perception who could destroy reality in a wink.
I have a book of his short stories. I try to read one once in a while but I find his writing so awful.
Esotericism and occultism were bigger in the first half of the 20th and especially around Lovecraft's time. Colin Wilson, known occultist and phenomenologist, wrote a Lovecraftian story at the behest of Derleth (called The Mind Parasites actually rules) where Lovecraft turns out to have been right about everything like some kind of seer.. sort of. Gurdjieff is in there, Jung, a hundred other little occult and sorta-occulty things. Wilson is a good example of that milieu.
>>7880541
Form your own opinions, random...
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