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>free ebooks
>implying there's any other kind

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okay.

> want to read Bruce Sterling's new book "Pirate Utopia"
> none of the online booksellers will sell it to me because ausfag
> search for free download
> twenty scam sites that try to plant malware through popups
> all ask for your credit card details so they can provide a "free download"
> avast shits itself in panic, "jesus h fuck dude don't go to these sites, they are AIDS with cholera"
> calm down a bit
>
> buy the epub from Bruce Sterling's site

>>9425581
>>9425587
It's 2022-5 and you still can't use the internet to your advantage? lmao

Not much to say beyond yeah they're good books for early to mid adolescents. He's writing more in the same universe (well, multiverse) I believe.

>>9425510
The way Philip Pullman realizes the two characters and their journey was incredibly well done. You felt the psychology of their personality through various expressions (the daemon, the fantasy-like but oddly similar universes and interacting characters)

The concept of a daemon was incredibly new to me at the time. Harry Potter had a world of magic, but it was still used by humanoid creatures. A shape-shifting Jungian manifestation of your anima/animus. As a kid I spent a few nights reading the books wondering what sort of manifestations my own daemon would take. And that was indeed, a form of meditation.

>>9425517
I'll probably read them for the nostalgia factor, but I'm more interested in the BBC series that's been optioned. Hopefully they'll manage to popularise it again because it's a fantastic children's book.

it's a great book if you consider it fiction

I enjoyed it. Got any more Stirner erotica? It's a niche kink that doesn't get exposure anywhere else.

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>>9425353
>>9425369
Fucking narcissists, rrreeee

my diary desu

>>9425283
Yeah it's pretty shit. I hide everything at this point with rare exceptions.

So, wait: /lit/ wasn't always like this?

Honestly, I think philosophy or philosophizing is the most uniquely human thing to do.

No other creature, that we know of, can do it.

I will say though, that it can potentially obscure our experience if the abstractions reach a certain point.

>>9425294
>philosophizing is the most uniquely human thing to do.
how did you come to that conclusion? because...
>No other creature, that we know of, can do it.
there are countless things no other creature besides humans can do

>>9425308
>there are countless things no other creature besides humans can do

And? All of them require abstract thinking.

That sounds really stale. Go for the less fucked out option and introduce a child that's being educated in that culture. Gradually it and the reader become more ingrained

>>9425249
That seems kinda stale to me too. I mean how often do you see the "child grows up, parent dies, now they understand the world" thing?

>>9425256
Any way you spin it, you have to have somebody explain shit to the reader. People who need shit explained to them are outsiders, retards and children. I guess take your pick

>>9425239
>Ego and Its Own
Seriously, I threw it away after trying to read it. Maybe I'm just too stupid to understand Stirner.

>"Live From Golgotha" -Vidal
I don't specifically dislike Gore Vidal, but I ripped this book in half after a few chapters in. Who exactly is the target audience of religious satire?

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Junot Diaz

"One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.

In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited"

Do amerifats not learn basic cursive in school? Why?

>>9425233
white ones do.

They don't bother to teach it to anyone else.

Srsly.

Removed from the curriculum from sea to shining sea earlier this millenium because like keyboards or rather touchpads or rather voice activation or rather whatever's next is the future, like, you know? Never did a public issue rise then sink so quickly. Generally, at public schools here, cursive's no longer taught. It was deemed a waste of funding. Glad I was in and out before being robbed of this major source of self-identity.

>>9425228
I'm a beginner too, I learn to programm in Pure Data language. If I have a advice for you, you must to choose what language you want to learn. They are many language, if you define your you can find lot of tutorial in Net

SICP, TAOCP, everything by Tanenbaum, Ritchie's reference for C. Head First for Java, Any of the billion Python books.

>>9425228

Far better than reading a book
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-0001-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-in-python-fall-2016/

>>9425196
Buddhism is a sect of Hinduism, which is the oldest current religion in the world.

>>9425196
Buddhism is just a stepping-stone to Taoism, unless you're a retard.

>>9425196
>>9425207
>>9425234
Plebs.

made me kind of hungry for potato wedges, myself.

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>nickname is bug
>situation eerily similar to Gregor
>tfw the bug dies in the end and the family is happy and better off

>>9425152
your nickname is bug?

You're the fuckhead with the MA. Shouldn't YOU be the one who knows about writing opportunities?

>>9425105
Why should I? I've been off in my own little bubble reading Derrida and Walter Benjamin for two years. Notice that I didn't say MFA or MA in technical writing.

I'm already enthralled by your entitlement and writing style. I will give you a hundred thousand dollars to continue posting.

How the hell can you get "on-hold" for ebooks?

>>9424984
>i am a turd wrangler

>>9424987

They can't give infinite ebooks out or they would never be allowed to give out copies in the first place, so they have to pay the publishers for a set amt of copies like 2-8 usually

I'm waiting on dune, a brief history in time, and some other good classic I can't remember what CUZ ITS BEEN SO LONG

>>9424947
Marx, Engels, Althusser, Zizek, Eagleton has a good book on ideology, Jameson

>>9424947
Henry Miller, start with "Tropic of Cancer."


>>9425001
Some of those view ideology as a necessary and unavoidable thing or as a false consciousness from a better political ideology. OP is looking more for a quietism/adhering to nothing.

>>9424947
>taking a political ideology
what did he mean by this?

....

YEAAAAH DUUUDEEE...NATURE BRUHHHH WOOOOOOOOOOO FUCK YEAH WISDOM AND SHIT MAN WOOHOOOOOOOOOOO

Is it me or is stoicism becoming a meme philosophy because of all the people jumping in the bandwagon?