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Is this better than 1YOS?
It's on par. His writing seems to be just as good with anything he writes.
>>7797272
Garcia Márquez is good in general, read doce cuentos peregrinos. Also, see this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-FUfty-2iA
On par with 100 Years of Solitude, but nowhere near as good as 1 Year of Solitude desu
How much influence do you believe the book On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life had on the ideologies of racial supremacy that found significant traction over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries?
Take this shit to /pol/
sage and report
>>7797095
It's a genuine literature related question
I think its an attempt to codify and validate the age old belief in racial supremacy, thereby gaining 'scientific' acceptance of England's shitty ways of doing things.
>mfw I realize the truth is either catholicism or orthodoxy
>mfw I'd just prefer no god
if you prefer it then wouldn't that work best for you? It would be completely irrelevant if you are right or not
>>7797062
What do you have against Catholicism, anon?
ITT: We settle this.
Book & prices are arbitrary.
>>7797060
In what do they compete?
Physical is fedora shit
cheap used paperback from online bookstores
This is an evil place. Flee while you can.
>>7797035
The gif is spookier
I came here on a boat in 44 OP, I know this place better than you
How much knowledge of philosophy is required to really get into literature?
>>7796950
about 7 or eight knowledge
zero
Depends on the literature. I know that answer isn't particularly useful, but it's the only one I can give, unless you wish to elaborate.
Probably a long shot, but do anyone knows where to buy books in english in mexico city? i only know pic related but the selection is too small.
>>7796941
Is there a specialized bookstore for learning foreign languages or medical books. I live in Guadalajara and we have Sandy's where they have a decent catalog but you can also ask them to bring anything from across the ocean or the states.
BUILD
>>7796941
*?
Also Gandhi is run by jews. You should better be buying used books downtown.
Starting another Critique thread because other one is dead. Post your shit and get butt blasted. No nice guys edition. Also you cannot post your own shit unless you critique someone else's shit. I'll start with my shit and I'll critique the first post.
http://pastebin.com/sEbHbvar
>>7796895
You can't write.
>starting 4 of the first 5 sentences with "The [noun] ..."
tears
>>7796901
This is the first time anyone bothered to critique my shit thank you
>>7796929
>it's peak
its
> The souls weren't on that mountain but could only hope to actually stare at from the top of a black ledge.
wut
>Some souls had to wait down below while the others struggled to take a single breath from the growing, morbid mass of souls.
is English your first language, my friend?
>souls
>souls
>souls
>souls
Stop
>She considered herself to be Emily's best and only friend, and right now she wanted to at least grant her job of trying to protect her
>you're breaking my concentration,” and at that her friend backed away with a pair of hurt eyes.
>but no one replied to the newcomer because, frankly, they didn't like him.
>etc
>etc
show, don't tell
>new comer
>newcomer
Have you even read this shit through?
Hey, armchair philosophers of /lit/.
I'm really curious about the idea of determinism. I know nothing whatsoever about philosophy really, but I've found it impossible to rationalize the idea of free will.
I was wondering if any of you could steer me in the direction of pro-free will arguments and more advanced arguments for determinism. Sorry in advance for the cancerous pic.
>>7796875
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
>>7796886
this is some good shit, cheers
>>7796907
thanks! hope we stay friends :)
What are some good atheist/agnostic arguments against religion? I'm a Muslim so preferably something that challenges Islam, or Abrahamic religions in general.
Not a fan of the new atheists like Sam Harris, Hitchens or Dawkins since their arguments are usually based on extremism rather than faith itself and morality. Who were they influenced by and what were their notable works?
If God Is So Smart, Why Do We Fart? -- Scott Adams (genius), The Religion War
nice bate mudslim fag, /pol/ is the other way
How are you an atheist and a Muslim at the same time?
I want to start reading books, but I have no idea where to get them from. Paying for them is out of the question, and I can't find most of them on torrent sites.
You should try this hot new thing called a library with your broke ass
...what books are you trying to read? if you'r ejust starting to read i can't imagine there are many super obscure books that you can't find online with relative ease
>>7796645
I have literally no idea what to read so I just looked in some threads and found one that looked pretty interesting although I cant' find it on tpb
How is your editing process? What do you do when you face a first draft?
Procrastinate
Get drunk, get high, open word, get distracted, get more drunk, get higher, close word, do something else.
I print it and read it with a red pen, underlining and annotating anything that can be corrected
Post the best /lit/ memesinb4 someone posts the guy yelling DFW from the car
Here it is.
>>7796480
not even the best one familia
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLAAAAAAAAAAACCEEE
What do you guys think of this book and Dostoyevsky's other non-major novels?
all his novels are major novels
major major major major
>>7796374
kek'd
Finished this recently. Thought it was great but I still preferred The Third Policeman.
Thoughts?
I managed to grasp this book a little bit better than The Third Policeman, that one was just fucking bonkers. This one you can freshen up your celtic mythology and somewhat make sense of it. It's also one of those books every wannabe writer should read.
Some fantastic and witty meta-fiction writing here, aside from the occasional segment composed of Epic Irish poetry, which tends to drag. At just over 200 pages I thought it was a great light read.
>>7796060
I dont see how people struggled more so with TTP, this book is far more layered.
The pookah was top tier
