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the shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains by nicholas carr

zorba the greek might help

>>10003234
Bumping for interest

First, what is a man to you?

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>>10003156

Someone confident, that is in control of everything, basically a alpha.

Alphas don't read books.

>>10003175
Add The Secret to the list. Changed my life. Culture of Critique is excellent too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRFZ4VpREg0

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It's tied with a Man With a Movie Camara.

>>10003001
8 and a half.

Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, Hamilton, Samuel Johnson

>smart ideas
>conservative
Hmm no.

Sorry but I prefer bad conservative literature with a Marxist bias

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your memes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmNYWTpYj8M

>laurence ollivre
>no toothe
IS IT SAFE?

>>10002899
he's not. You're repeating what everyone who is being ironic about him says. Which is really sad.

>>10002899
Not really related to your question, but can someone please explain to me why exactly IJ is so highly acclaimed? I'm about 200 pages in and so far I'm not impressed. I constantly have to force myself not to just skip entire sections because he goes off on so many tangents and unnecessary details that don't add anything to the story. Am I missing something? Should I just keep reading?

>>10002931
A decently funny trap to set people up for considering DFW's thoughts on irony for its own sake

Oedipus was a sleepwalker; Hamlet was an insomniac.

>>10002884
Wtf why is Hamlet a woman? Fucking SJWs!

Legitimately one of the greatest cultural entities (play, story, or otherwise) in humanity's history.

I live in Japan so let's just say that my desire for whale steak inspired by Moby-Dick was soon satisfied by purchasing and eating some much to the delight of my tounge and belly.

>>10002880

How did it actually taste and we all agree Starbucks best boy, right?

>>10002828
"and in the end...his name really was moby dick."

He was an absurd hero
He refused to play a game he knew to be meaningless

>>10002803
Nigga, are you retarded?

He read too much philosophy of language for a kid his age. . . It fucked up his brain.

He was one of us

Anything related to sailing.

Anything described as "shapeless

you have to take the time to construct the landscape in your head. not just read and see it as if there was a photograph embedded in the text. take it one piece at a time.

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>>10002766
Joshi is obsessed with HPL, so it's probably very thorough and detailed. It depends whether that's what you look for in a biography, or if you'd prefer more of an easily-digestible overview. I read L. Spague De Camp's one, which seemed pretty decent, but I've heard people say it's outdated. There's also a popular book about him by Houellebecq.

racist

>>10002766
>I am Providence
I haven't read it but I can tell from the title that he knows what's up
Bowden understood him well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7qQ7A4rWM8

>The Golem & The Green Face, Gustav Meyrink
>The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

>>10002727

I usually don't back up the fist draft, but if I'm making a big revision that I'm unsure of I'll leave the original (this gets to be a problem when one version inevitably becomes more rewritten and edited than the other). I generally cannot help editing and rearranging as I write, so I almost never have a complete first draft that I then edit. Generally I try to complete a section before editing it, but I still change individual words or rewrite sentences as I go and as they occur to me.

My instinct is long paragraphs, but I now tend toward shorter ones, essentially one complete thought or subject, regardless of how many sentences it uses. I'm inclined to try to get out of this habit and look for a good middle ground between long and short paragraphs. I usually add far more than I remove, and almost never remove an entire idea (scene, plot point, w/e, I do remove whole lines sometimes if I think it's superfluous though), just put it somewhere else or rework it if I feel it needs to be changed.

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>>10002920
Thanks anon

>>10002727
I revise in a chapter-by-chapter basis. Usually edit whatever I wrote two times after I write it, and then do a general revision of the thing.

I look for excessive use of certain words, read the text aloud, try to keep cohesion, check up on the metaphors and similes, etc.. Finally, I send it to my editor, he sends the thing back, and I try to decide whether I like it or not.

As for paragraph lenght, it really depends on the voice and personality of my characters, unless I'm working on imagery or atmosphere; in that case, I try to make it varied by reading aloud what I wrote and trying to see how well it flows.

Also, Tae best girl.

>>10002655
>I'm an accomplished, award-winning novelist with several works in print.
Sure you are

>>10002655
why did you attach that video?

>>10002655
So what am I supposed to now? Stop liking things I like because it isn't good enough as decided by by some unknown objective standard?

Like 10 and nothing. Got static on the brain :(

>>10002527
Bout 50, also
>reading to learn

>>10002527
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Today I learned that the average wine is cheap as fuck
god bless Kaufland