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Whats his best book for purely entertainment value?
Amazing fun
And it's NYRB too, so the pretentious fucks are allowed to like it too
>>7802996
I think you're in the wrong thread friendo
David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy. Basically an integrated narrative for all of his bullshit. Also he directly says the reptilian are Ashkenazic Jews but he was still determined to mean literal reptiles when he was detained in Canada which is top kek
>read a book written by a female
>has female main character
>all throughout book, author reminds us that MC is fucking badass assassin.
>She is the most feared assassin in the land
>Hunger games esc plot
>She can't pick between handsome prince charming and handsome rugged officer
>She is a tsundre
>she has a "sweet...
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>>7802959
It sounds like genreshit and it's entirely your own fault for listening to retards on YouTube.
>misspelling Japanese words
>reading genreshit
>booktubers
>/r9k/ tier muh womyn
ITT: pleb central
Read shit, get shit
>>7802959
Throne Of Glass?
Read that shit when I was 12 cause my mum worked for Bloomsbury so I got it free, thought it was awful, imagine the surprise years later when I find out that every thick cunt on booktube is raving about it.
Which book most closely simulates the feeling of being hugged
>>7802953
The ending always makes me tear up, even as an adult.
The book of get a life.
>>7803135
kys
Is it "yuleuh-seas" or "yule-ih-sis"
You LISS ees
ooliy - seez
>tfw you share a birthday with Kerouac
>>7802900
Happy Birthday, Sal Paradise!
>manlets
Happy birthday : )
Can anybody recommend me a good book on Shinto?
古事記
>>7802889
It seems like a great book but I cant read it if it's all in runes
>>7802879
It's a racial 'religion', using the term loosely. That's what I like about it.
You better not be thinking about becoming the weeaboo equivalent of a pagan LARP'er.
If you just want to study it, I can't help you there
If the opinions of agents and publishers are unreliable than how do you know if your work is any good, or if you have any talent at all?
Ask /lit/erate people
>>7802795
You don't, ever.
>>7802924
>asking /lit/
Nietzsche and Nietzsche-influenced reading thread.
r o l l
>>7802578
>roll thread
>on /lit/
>>7802585
i would like to see more roll on /lit desu
>he thinks he has to be depressed in order to become a good writer
maybe not but works with a depressing nature certainly are the greatest
the traits that would make you a good author would also help in getting into a depressed state
>>7802558
Stop with this meme. Just because your life is shitty doesn't mean you have talent for writing.
Has anyone read Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair"?
Thoughts about it? What did you particularly like about it? The style, the prose?
Is that a porsche 356? Is the book about porsches? I sure love porsches.
Sincerely, your env/o/y
>>7802519
It was fun. I have a small assignment on it due next week.inb4 we're at the same uni
I was gifted this book by an english teacher (neither of us are anglos) but never read it. Am I wrong?
What is the best app to read literature on your mobile device for FREE?
that's right for FREE!
I have an app on which I read the KJ Bible for free.
OP here.
I guees I have to read pdf files for now.
>>7802414
>KJV
Good job. Modern translations always seem so linguistically bankrupt by comparison.
Hi /lit/. I've heard that the best place to start with philosophy is the Greeks, and the most entry-level book of Greek philosophy is Plato's The Republic. I found a copy of C. D. C. Reeve's translation in a used bookstore and bought it. My question for you all: did I fuck up? Is it a quality translation? Is it very readable and understandable? Does it get its points across clearly and succinctly? If it isn't a good translation, what is?
Thanks, everyone.
>>7802373
Reeve's is fine.
You fucked up thinking it's entry level.
You'll probably misread it.
>>7802373
Dude, it realy isn't that hard. Go to Wikipedia, search for "ancient greek philosophy", learn what pre-socratic philosophy is and start with it.
Also, I don't recommend reading original texts. You don't know their intellectual and historical context, thus you'll probably misread them. If you really want to start with basics, read Copleston. It's no shame.
![tao-te-ching[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vDHxCFN.jpg "tao-te-ching[1].jpg")
Similar thread was started before but it died out.
Post easy to read "philosophy" books that are very entry-level (do not require prior knowledge).
Pic related, will post more below.
This is to help those interested in "philosophy" but intimidated by the dedication most guides for "getting into it" call for.
Pic related.
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Tao Te Ching I would highly recommend, the following I would too if you liked the former.
You might want to skip this one if you find it too intimidating though, but it shouldn't be too difficult either.
Pic related serves as a great introduction to Buddhism, but if you're not the kind to enjoy theology, then do skip it.
Still, it would make your bookshelf look exotic to most plebians.
![In%20The%20Buddha's%20Words[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lXT0dqt.jpg "In%20The%20Buddha's%20Words[1].jpg")
>>7802336
Woops.
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So /lit/, as you know to live the truly literary lifestyle (that is applicable for most people on this board) one must embrace solitude.
What compelled you to retreat from society, at an emotional if not literal level?
For me, it was the realization that a majority of people (including all of my friends and family) would lose interest in me, as a friend, if I did not enlist for military service in the time of war.
Really opened my eyes to how evolutionarily molded our psyches can be and therefore how their natural tendencies don't often work out in...
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Noone?
>>7802359
This thread is about solitude. Please keep it down, thank you.
>>7802316
Self-contempt, doubt, insecurity, performance anxiety, imposter syndrome, pre-empting the shame of being excluded by excluding myself.
There, now do you have enough of my weaknesses to build a game plan against?
>ITT 10/10 hot books
>>7802245
This translation any good?
