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i wasnt aware that dostoyevsky had bad translations, interested to hear if anyone has strong opinions on that

>>9360218
Idk I was looking over google and read a ton of opinions on every translation being good or bad. Figured I'd just come here and finish the search.

I read Wilkes
I have nothing to judge it against, but it was well-written

Sounds a good. Hamlet reminds me of your description.

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>>9360202
Why do I read every Shakespeare play as a comedy? I didn't get dark undertone at all until I read other people's opinions on it and then it made so much sense. Probably because I read Twelfth Night first, right?

you are a gay, gay little man

>>9360174
>watching capeshit

>watching marvel quipshit instead of DC capekino

If you're 12, yes. If you're an adult, skip the starter pack bullshit. You can thank me later.

If you want to enjoy Pynchon and Wallace better work your way through this stuff first

I personally didn't either. I might be influenced by my peers (in Uni currently) who all love these two books. I'm a bit of a contrarian by nature.

>>9360132
>tfw I start going to another gym because the receptionist at the one I went to started greeting me by name

I have/ have had this. Out of interest what have your experiences with drugs been like? If you've had any that is.

>>9360417
Weed heightens the feeling to an unbearable degree. Psychs heighten it too but there's so much else going on that it's never central to the experience. Alcohol dulls it satisfactorily.

>>9360128
how the fuck do you do that?

>>9360136
cum got inside my computer

it's ok Tristam Shandy, we have backups

>>9360038
You don't have to say its your first time o lit, we can tell.

Don't bog down your story with genre trash conventions-- there doesn't need to be hundreds of pages of fluff with the alien's backstory and for the love of god don't add a love interest.

Focus on the struggle of a man whose pulled between logic and his feelings. Get us really intimate with the guy and make it fucking beautiful when he dies.

Why would the aliens save us when they could just give zero fucks and harvest raw materials w/o rescuing humanity? Also second the no love interest thing; it's unnecessary because your main character will already be conflicted about his decision as you described, and will therefore probably feel forced and stereotypical.

>>9360124
well the idea was that they are not the classical "cold unfeeling destructive aliens"
they value intelligent life and believe that different species can add new ideas and its their mission to save as much intelligent life as they can.

death

has to blow the whole extended family as punishment

Not desirable, but likely isolation.

indivisible particles of your physical form will merge with the universe

it's where we all go friend the universe, we never leave the multidimensional universe!

speak for yourself, faggot. my shit is infinite

>>9360011
Yes, yes, but how do you deal with it without Joe Rogen drug induced hallucinatory new age bullshit.

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as your introuction to the world of non fiction, i would start with against method by feyerabend, you will discover that science is a spook and consequences will never be the same

>>9359995
my diary, desu

the urantia book

uhhh what kind of stuff do u want to read

this board is full of philfags, but you dont have to read their stuff, read whatever you like, post more specifically for tips

>>9359993
So far this year I've read;
>Candide
>1984
>Halfway through The invisible man

I want to start with the popular stuff before I get into more obscure literature. I like sci-fi, mystery and horror.

>>9359984
Honestly, regarding reading as a discipline that you have to learn is the first pitfall you should avoid. Reading for the sake of reading is the most boring thing ever.

What you should do is find a book (no matter how pleb tier it is) that doesn't bore you and that no matter how lazy you are you can't put down. From there, you may or may not seek out similar things with more complexity, until you're accustomed to the action itself.

You'll see that when you truly want to read something your reading becomes more in-depth.

There's nothing to understand, really.

>>9359841
A single thing? Surely you're exaggerating

>>9359841
read more random shit on wikipedia, GR reads like a postmodern encyclopedia

>verbosely

>scrubbing a ferret soapily

>Soapily slipping your slippery hands through the ferret's fur thoroughly

>>9359787
Yeah, looks like homework, you stupid floppy cock

>>9359787
It's a sentence

Also
>having radically to rethink
should be
>having to radically rethink
also >>9359796

>>9359796
Lmao, it's not

i don't think they had pdf back then

>>9359775
Eat my fuckin diarrhea, loser

>>9359778
Not with that attitude