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So I'm reading through the series for the first time and just finished this.
I fucking loved it and think it's easily as great as the first one, but I'm left wondering what makes it so divisive. Everyone either thinks it's a masterpiece or that it's garbage.
Thoughts?
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Because the narrative and setting feel too detached from those of the first three books?
Because it's the longest and has the least plot and the most philosophical ramblings and people who are not into that will find it meandering and boring?
I've also heard about people who were offended by the themes which are not different from those of the first three books but are most overt here.
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Children of Dune had me groaning at Herbert's prose a bit. I noticed him rely on the inexplicable or contradicting a little much in his descriptions, and he started to repeat his phrases a bit like "Wheels within wheels"... Is God Emperor better written? I'd like to hope so if it's his most heady Dune book yet.
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>yet
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Would it damage picture books to store them horizontally/stacked like this in a drawer? I'm out of space for them on shelves and need a way to store them but also keep them accessible for reading.
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>>9438943
Picture books are best preserved by submerging them in olive oil, seriously, the oil preserves the natural chemical bases of the ink and paper.
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>>9438955
t. olive oil
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>tfw you realise the failures of capitalism are due to the shortcomings of the state and its regulations, not of the system and true capitalism has never been attempted
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Well, yeah.
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>tfw you realize the failures of capitalism are due to the shortcomings of human beings, and biological capitalism van never be achieved
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>>9438906
jesus christ this bird kno my browser history
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>Waiting for Godot
>Waiting for God
>Godot never arrives
>God never arrives
>God doesn't exist!
Hurr durr, I expect this sort of shit reading postmodernist but I can't believe I wasted three days trying to understand this shit.
Retarded wastes of time thread?
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Add it to your Didnt-Get-It shelf on goodreads
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>Didn't get it
You can't not get Godot, it's all about the feeling of it, not about complex metaphors and OP's autism.
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>>9438912
OP didn't get the fact that it was about the feel of the piece, but seeks to condense it into silly wordplay of the title
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What the FUCK was his problem???
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>>9438876
Synesthesia
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>>9438876
Pedophilia
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Trilingual
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Going to read pic related straight through in one sitting, starting now.
Leave treats here for me when for when I finish.
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>>9438869
I did that when I was on acid at 16 and it was an almost transcendental experience. I did it again at 25 and was largely unmoved. Hope you have a good one.
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>>9438869
Summary: dude, do whatever, mang.
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still waiting for the follow-up where Siddharta finds Jesus.
pic unrelated
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You lied to me. You told me Lattimore's translations of Homer were the best. His Odyssey is clunky unpoetic shit. Fuck you faggots. Should have stuck with Fitzgerald.
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>>9438861
I think Lattimore's more literal, which is probably why. Fitzgerald and Fagles might be a better balance.
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>he hates the sound of greek
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Fitzgerald master race here! you fell for the lattimore meme.
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What are some good ones?
Crowley (pic)?
Blake?
What else?
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>>9438822
Milton is linked pretty directly to Blake. There's also a guy called Brust who wrote Lucifers revolt as an epic fantasy.
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>>9438822
Does Dante count?
Lagerkvist's Barrabas and Saramago's pretty much everything.
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>>9438822
Steel ball run and Mormonism in general
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What are some good books about wisdom or with wise advice? Something like pic related or the Wisdom Books.
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>>9438805
The consolations of philosophy by Alain de Botton
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Alan Bottom is a retard.
Read Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Prince and The Book of the Courtier are good for that too. Maybe Madame de Sevigny's letters if you need more.
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>>9438805
autobiographies of wise people or their journals
lots of lesser works like topical essays or collections of aphorisms(neitzsche, wittgenstein, bresson) have wise quips
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>am a slow as fuck reader
>on top of that I have to reread almost every sentence because I'm afraid that I might forget something
>pause after every chapter and skim through the major plot points of it again
What the fuck is wrong with me?
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I don't know. Your condition is unfamiliar for me.
Why is it bad if you forget something?
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>>9438798
Sounds like fried brain to me, let me guess you overused the internet? I'm afraid it can take years for that to turn back to normal state. Shut off the computer and meditate to get your ability to focus back, and dont turn it back on for a year
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>>9438798
If you're new to reading, then you're probably just not used to gathering all this information or following a complex story. You'll naturally get better over time.
However you might just simply be a brainlet and never get better. Pic related it's you.
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Where is a good place to purchase cheap physical books? The closest book store to my home is about 20 miles away and has a terrible selection.
I know abebooks is great. I just want to know if anyone had other sources.
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>>9438793
ThriftBooks
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Check the libraries in your local area for when they do their big sales. You're not guaranteed anything and there's a lot of crap to sort through but you do find a lot of gems and they're cheap as all fuck.
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>>9438802
Ya this app is amazing
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Yo /lit/, you're the creatives around here.
If you were to take an interview for someone who's into hiking (mountains, deserts, islands, everything), and you had to come up with 4 questions that lend themselves to an interesting interview... what would you go for?
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>how do you think Auschwitz ovens managed to burn human bodies two orders of magnitude faster than modern cremation ovens?
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>>9438745
have there been any border crossing incidents
what's the highest you've been
what was your scariest experience
do you travel alone or with others
have you hiked the AT or el camino de santiago
have you ever been eaten by a mountain lion
what do you pack with you (breakdown by %: food, water, gear, clothing, camp eq)
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>>9438782
>have you ever been eaten by a mountain lion
This
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White Tears by Hari Kunzru 2017-04-28 03:53:52 Post No.9438732
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White Tears by Hari Kunzru
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>Set in modern-day New York, a gentrifying retropolis where hirsute young men dress as “hobos and mountain men and Pony Express riders”, it tracks the relationship between two white arts college graduates.
>Kunzru’s novel skids and slaloms inexorably to Jackson, Mississippi, where Charlie Shaw may or may not have once sung. Its bandwidth gets increasingly congested with hysterical and urgent voices, as it deconstructs and unravels what it portrays as white privilege
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/28/white-tears-hari-kunzru-review
/LIT/ BLOWN THE F**K OUT
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>>9438732
lol gay boy
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>>9438732
this guy studied with nick land. he any good?
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FUCK TRUMP AND FUCK WHITE PEOPLE
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Diogenes | Get the fuck out of my sunlight 2017-04-28 03:53:47 Post No.9438731
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Diogenes | Get the fuck out of my sunlight
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I literally never see discussion on philosophers like Diogenes, aka philosophers that are born without a fuck to give out. and are passionately against giving a fuck. Diogenes invented Cynic Philosophy and is a much better philosopher than you can ever be
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>>9438731
I bet you've never read any of Diogenes' work
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>>9438744
I bet no one who wasn't alive 2200 years has either.
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mmm-mmm, love me some of the Dog
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>what does /lit/ think of x
>where should i start with x
>should i read x
>recommend me some x
>ITT post book titles on x theme instead of posting about the actual contents of the books
>tfw you realize the scifi and fantasy thread does the most actual book discussion on the entire board by several orders of magnitude because at least they actually read books instead of just planning to read books or asking how to plan to read books in the future
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Now why did you make this thread instead of posting about a book you like?
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>have a huge list of books I want to read
>reading 10-15 books simultaneously at any given time
>don't finish 75% of the books I start
>read 6-7 20,000+word fanfics a day
fucking end me
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>>9438860
at least you're honest