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Kek

can I post a picture of myself?

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>>describes book from lit canon
Lulz ensured!

>>7830261
Secret agent goes to a hotel to find a person with secret documents holding government secrets. He has to go through all the different leads as he searches different rooms interrogates people talks to informants and fellow agents and engages in intense espionage action. The first chapter opens with him poisoning an old woman's soup. From there it gets more intricate as we realize that his motives might not be so noble. The major sub plot in the novel revolves around him chasing his rival/arch nemesis who works for another organization. About halfway through the book a showdown occurs on the roof that flips the tables and it's a big twist because now we know that both sides have double agents in their midst and a lot of the information being exchanged is completely bogus. But this is obvious to anyone reading closely.

All my ideas are my worst.

All the books I actually wrote:

A novella adaptation of a series of dreams I had about a interdimensional travelling scythian enaree.

A shitty autobiography-ish thing.

A novella about a complete idiot whose lover is shot by police who subsequently falls in and then out with an anarchist club before stumbling into a plot involving a stolen AI.

Books I haven't written:

Immortal people living in a VR environment and the bizarre practices and culture they've developed from having so much free time. Side plot about the flesh and blood people who make it possible and the outside world's socioeconomics and stuff.

Some british guy and a dystopia... something about a mega-tsunami? I don't really remember.

Book of Dragons: A collection of short stories from the perspectives of famous mythological dragons, focusing on themes of alienation, the dubious value of inner strength without community or companionship, violence, and free choice and conditioning.

>>7834799
Play Dante's Inferno.

I'm not even meming, you'll gain a decent amount of foundational knowledge if you can get past the horrible gameplay mechanics

>>7834812

thanks boss

>>7834736
Well shit, that's a shame. Probably the saddest thing in the world to be honest.

>>7834744
Not if you're a true dead tree enthusiast.

Kindlefuckers get burnt.

>>7834751
The thing is, trees are more expensive as a resource than electricity.

are you fucking retarded

Don't believe the hype OP. IJ is NOT difficult at all. People who say it's overly-intellectual, pretentious, too difficult, boring, etc are either literally retarded or haven't read it. Just have a basic understanding of French (or just use Google Translate, I guess) and you'll be fine. You'll finish it between a couple of day and two weeks depending on how much free time you have and your level of autism.

That being said I wouldn't recommend this as your first DFW work. The Pale King or Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (or even A Supposedly Fun Thing, I guess) are easier ways to get into his work.

Have fun.

>>7834196
>What should I do before and as I read the book?
Grow up in middle class america. Thats literally all you need.

>What is beauty to you, /lit/?
bussy

>Do you ever encounter beauty in your reading?
no :(

>>7834097
beauty is looking at a girl sleeping on my bed with my cum dried on her face.

So no, I don't encounter it in literature very often. I mostly read to appear intelligent, picking up quotes by famous authors and ancient wise men to drop on people in debate IRL. America's amazing like that, even in the lower echelons of academia people actually think you are intelligent if you can cite shit you've read offhand because nobody reads books here.

something that doesn't make sense in the logical world, not nonsensical but indescribable

yes

>>7832890
>that pic

Are we approaching the age when we'll be speaking exclusively through dank maymays?

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>>7832890

Fuck that picture has me in tears

>>7832890
>Implying sophists weren't BTFO by Plato

There's nothing to be proud of when what you do becomes a synonym for fallacies and tricks three thousand years later.

What is some easy literature for a learner to start off with?

What is the German equivalent of Camus e.g.?

>>7832449
I´d suggest you Poems by Friedrich G-ttlieb Klopstock. Otherwise maybe something by Erich Kästner. We could skype and you just could ask about difficult sentences or stuff like that. I am not a teacher though, so I don´t really know if Klopstockis appropriate.

Are there any good /lit/-esque German literature forums?

>>7830398
>literally nothing happens
1. false
2. what's your point?

I swear i've seen this exact thread before

what's your game, op

>reading for plot

>>7830373
:,(

nice to hear

depends how you define "famous author"

>>7830237
Nooooope. They are EBIG

>>7830237
good thing I only shitpost so i can say i was only making fun of the community

hank green
baby shoos never worn

>>7830237
No because they are relatively tame compared to my fiction.

>>7825668
Mindfulness in plain english

>>7825672
Found it, thanks. Seems applicable for non-Buddhists as well, right?

>>7825718
Yes. It is made for all people.

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>>7835474
Proud to be redpilled

probably one of the best children's books tbqh

if we're going to have literal threads about literal children's books, i'd rather it this than artemis fowl or goosebumps. yuck.

The Cay

Really ask /co/, but I like most stuff by Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan by him and Sandman by Neil Gaiman being my favourites.

Maus, fun home

I want to hear the pages turn and smell that book smell, you know what I mean

Socrates and those other greek faggots would have preferred audiobooks, reading text is vulgar shit for scribes

Also: does the brain retain information if a person is doing something while listening to an audiobook? What if the person sleeps while listening?