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>>9497306
That and Raskolnikov's delusion, yes.

>>9497306
I don't agree, but that Porfiry is quite a character.

I wonder if Porfiry could have arrested Raskolnikov. He said that he certainly would unless Raskolnikov confessed, but although he knew it didn't seem he had any proof whatsoever.

The two sides of raskolnikov -- the logical and the emotional/spiritual are in confusion and chaos at the start of the book.
These are reconciled by porfory and Sonia, respectively.
So it is a very important relationship in the book. And also very entertaining.

>>9497250
what is that image

>>9497250
Post-apocalyptic dystopian novel with a black and Indonesian transgender protagonist fighting against an evil white antagonist that has a suspiciously Jewish name and description but vague enough so that when someone inevitably accuses you of antisemitism you can safely say THEY are the racist and not you because you didn't give enough information to imply that

>>9497266
http://imgur.com/a/HvLju

>>9497223

Kobo Abe
Louis Aragon
Borges(more magic realism but he still counts)
Nezval

Apoliner
Rimbaud
Oskar Davičo
My diary desu

>>9497240

Also check out Karinthy's Metropole, something tells me you'd enjoy it a lot. Feels like it is slightly ripping off The Castle a little but still interesting in its own right.

>>9497163
>Shelfari
dead
>Librarything
costs money
>Goodreads
a piece of paper is enough to catalog the books you read.

>>9497176

This. Unless you are only reading so you can show others what you are reading. That's the behavior of teenage girls and you should stop.

>>9497176
>costs money
A one time fee of $20
>>9497210
Recommendations and lists and tags and local events

>>9497102
No, books have their place, and ebooks do too. You materialistic swine.

>>9497105
Have fun ruining your eyesight, retard.

Have fun not showing the people around you that you are cultured and intelligent because you read actual books

Have fun swiping right to turn the page as I hold a hefty hardcover book in my hand with a beautifully designed cover

c a t a l o g

>>9497001
who dat

>>9497784
mishima newfag

>>9497784
Yukio Mishima's cat.

I love Kant bot.

>>9496853
>le i can tell you what you can and cannot read for some reason
Crappy bot

>>9496853

Mishima to Carlyle to Sun Tzu is perfectly geometrical though.

From very good to utter shit to complete redundancy -- the perfect literary triangle wherein all works of literature are cointaned.

You're a moron.

Just urself

>>9496802
Is this a serious fucking question?

Ye

>>9496784
I write genre fiction and I'm 6', so it works!

>>9497763
pitch me your latest novel

go

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Pages mentioned. I'm deadly serious.

Go on, I'm mildly interested.

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>>9496871
p. 634: "Hal recalls his brother's late-in-college thing of seeing if he could take a girl out somewhere public and then meet and have covert sex with a whole different girl while still out with the first girl." He got better and better at doing this over his career.
Here's one of the two-page dictionary spreads from Both Flesh and Not, which are 1.) alphabetical 2.) all definitions I legitimately did not know, 3.) mostly nouns, none of which refer to any kind of living animal, except for a couple adjectives, all of which describe the definitions themselves, 4.) get increasingly energetic by the end of the page, with for instance here: a sleeveless undergarment followed by something to do with a bullet followed by some kind of IV device, followed by "canthus" which is about as close as a noun can get to being a body part without actually being a body part. Also notice how "capri pants," which who doesn't know what those are, is just an excuse to mention Mary Tyler Moore and use the words "Dick" and "Dyke."

>>9496625
The cost of actually getting people to know that your book exists is either

1. A lot of money
2. A lot of time

Pick one and start marketing anything you have, it doesn't matter how good it is...

Send it in to people who fit whatever kink you're pushing so they can review it.

>>9496625
No. The lawyer sounds too unlikeable for a protagonist. It won't sell, and sounds cliché. Come up with another idea.

>>9496625
>feminist

You mean a misandrist.

>>9496587
You thought it was an important and wide ranging continuation of philosophy's ACTUAL main purpose - to uncover that unchanging essence that exists of its own nature. You were especially impressed by his refutation of the twin tyrants Heraclitus and Protagoras and understand that their philosophies have been a blight on western civilization.

Is this a tough read?

>>9496587
You are obviously confused, because you are asking senpais on an anonymous image board to tell you what you thought of it. Just ponder a little more, baka. You will understand it. (I'm not 110% sure thoygh, cause ive never read it)

Maybe I'll give this a try someday.

>>9496583
It is crazy epic, so many books that connect and slowly start to paint a bigger picture. Highly suggest it

>>9496562
>it is the best I have read.
In what sense? It's a sprawling continuity, sure, but you could say that for superhero comics and they're (mostly) shit. I don't see any real themes in Sanderson, other than basic "good beats evil, the end" storybook stuff that Lewis or Tolkien did better.

>>9496518
Non-fiction is just fiction that hasn't happened yet.

>>9496525
this doesnt make any sense but has a really gross self congratulatory ring to it

>>9496518
What the fuck could you possibly learn from non-fiction?

project guttenberg

>>9496321
>Do you know of any good sites to download ebooks for free besides bookzz.org

Support the authors and publishers you read by buying the book, though.

>>9496827
kys faggot