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>>9482611
>Reading Tolkeins shitty rings series

>>9482573
My motherfucking cell phone motherfucker/

BASED black man

>>9482542
Please elaborate

>>9482542
Please get another smart pic. You aren't fooling anyone with the monkey in your pic.

>>9482523
You don't need to read the whole bible just the New Testament

>>9482523
read the KJV New Testament
or better yet the whole thing you indolent whelp

>>9482523
First go through Moses books. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, Deuteronomii, slightly longer pack, but nearly as vital as New testament for western literature. Gospels are short as fuck, and you may even bluff your way by reading only one of them, still go with all of them. I'd also also add Apocalypsis and Acts. The former is widely used today. Go through this, and you'll have the all the basics covered fairly quickly. The masses of text that scare most people away are the historical books and prophets. If you go for the expanded package you'll need to go through major prophets, and at least major psalms if not all of them, and round it off with what's left from New Testament.

>>9482412
bonus question:
What is your favorite type of poetry? (haiku, et cetera)

nice poem faggot

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>>9482433
its a haiku

Nah. Gaddis is a faggot when it comes to shit like this. It's obvious to anyone. Occasionally he's even a defeatist faggot.

We're all writers. This post is literature.

this led me this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgDwaJ0WCVE

i thought you clowns had been fucking around about john green, but holy shit. this dude is the largest faggot i have ever seen

lol you never had sex

>>9482283
Which threads? The one about genders?
>>9482288
Pretty meta desu.

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>>9482283

The Yellow Wallpaper
The Turn of the Screw
Mountains of Madness

Not necessarily ghoulish, but check out Noon Wine by Catherine Anne Porter for some eerie/disturbing literature.

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>>9482141
thanks, friend.

M.R. James is a classic of the genre. If you want something a little more experimental, check out Ramsey Campbell.

>>9482077
The application of strict scrutiny is a false dichotomy of the supreme court's ability to distinguish between fundamental rights and the general needs of the masses.

https://twitter.com/hisperic

>>9482077
>"God isn't real but anyways God is stupid."

Thank you, PKD.

I listen to them on my commute and when I run.

It's nice. Lets me feel like I'm doing something useful with otherwise wasted time.

>>9482064
I love audiobooks but at least for me, it's not at all like reading. Feels like I delve in less, pass over things faster, and I certainly don't pay as much attention to whether an argument holds up or how nice the prose is.

It's decent for getting the general "mood" and for following the "action". It's perfect for something like Monte Cristo or Dune but not for something like Kafka or Kraus or Hoffmann, to me.

>>9482126
>>9482147
good points. I haven't gotten into the routine of reading regularly and now that I've listened to ~7 books over the last 1,5 week I have "read" more than I have over the last 5 years. What's your tips for staying on it when I get my cognitive capacity back? How do you stay on the grind, keeping on reading? I know that I will enjoy it when I've gotten into it but first I feel like I'll have to get used to the slower tempo of reading, in comparison to burning through an entire night on like youtube or in front of movies

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bhagavadgita

Fanged Noumena

Hegels PoS

>>9481947
Reach as far up your ass as you possibly can

>>9481947
Read the stuff he read, I suppose - Thomas Paine, Orwell essays, etc. But really you should be looking for a style of your own, not imitating someone.

If you don't haughtily reminisce about how you realized there "was no God" at the age of eleven already, you haven't got a shot.

>>9481934
You're not a very good memer if you have to include a dictionary and zibaldone in your big boy books pic

It's a random picture from the internet. You think I'd spend 50 quid on half the Rainforest without consulting /lit/ first?

>>9481986
Oh. The answer is no, but you might someday, so I'd go ahead and pick it up if you can, because it seems like the kind of book that'll run out of print and not be renewed. Read some other Schmidt first though, and FW.

nice ad hominem

>>9481939

>All insults are part of an argument

No.

Our mod is having a temper tantrum because his leftypol fantasy of /lit/ is being displaced by new immigrants to the board.

I have been buying the dialogues more or less separately.

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you dont understand Ion

>>9481914
But why?

http://morrisedition DOT lib DOT uiowa.edu/ DO NOT INSERT THIS odyssey1887text DOT html

its not there senpai

>>9481940
Unless it really is mArris not mOrris

>>9481949
No it is Marris https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Odyssey_Translated_by_Sir_William_Ma.html?id=8LoSMwEACAAJ