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Illuminatus!

Foucault's Pendulum, if you can put up with the dissonant second third of the book that has nothing to do with the main story

Consumed by Cronenberg

what books did you read?

>>9189589
>Am I burnt out

No you probably just subconsciously registered what a futile waste of time it was

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>>9189589
Maybe you discovered the superior medium.

Nice pipe and ring, where 2 cop?

>>9189546
Probably in the "Religion: Other" section beside Deepak Chopra

>>9189586
must suck being this retarded, wow!

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>>9189426
Outline on paper, generally a cheap, college-ruled spiral notebook.

I draft and edit in FocusWriter.

Compile and create final draft in Scrivener.

OSX

There is no best method.

You have Pulitzer Prize winners who draft using pen and paper, and then you have genre writers who need the latest Macbook Pro and Scrivener to even write a word.

>>9189579
Yeah yeah, we can argue semantics all day, buddy but you can go right back to ribbit if you want to have a useless argument.

>>9189537
Why do you separate the programs for Initial and Final draft?

Care to expand a little on your process, please?

>>9189419
p a l a t i n o b o y s

zapf dingbats

it makes sense if you stare at it long enough. only problem is, if you read at an airport you risk being tagged a Durkadurka and arrested.

>>9189419
Kobo and I use Georgia.

>>9189183
It's alright, reads like an old Twilight Zone episode more than anything. Just the right length so it doesn't overextend its basic idea.

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not his best, but his worst is better than a lot of other assholes' best.

check out his End of Time stories, in particular "Legends from the End of Time"

> distant future where people can create anything they want or look any way they want
> emo wants to experience true sin
> friend disguises herself as an innocent girlchild
> gains his confidence and seduces him
> guilt to the max, he goes full retard and throws himself off a tower
> they resurrect him and have a good laugh about it afterwards


Pic related, it's where the Emo lives.

>>9189183
This is a good read

>>9189121
Probably, if you learned about him from this place. But that's still no excuse not to read him

>>9189139
what about nick land?

Just remember that he's a Jew.

I just finished it. turns out he's a cuck

he saved Heidegger from the SJW:s

>>9189086
No, a cuck is differant

>>9189046
Got a two volume augustines confessions in good condition for £12
Was pretty happy w/that

>>9189053
is that the lowest price you've ever paid for one? the average one on amazon is like 15 or so. i'm wondering if i'll ever see that price much lower irl

>>9189060
Yeah they're £16 each new here and they're rare in the second hand shops i go to - if you can't get them on the internet i'd just look out alternative publishers

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IKbmQ4Cs08

>>9189042
>5'0"

Lmao

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>marriage is a contract on the mutual exclusive use of genitails for procreation only
>using genitails outside of this contract and for any other ends is a crime against nature and should be punished with death
>cuck cuck cuck

Con diez cañones por banda,
viento en popa, a toda vela,
no corta el mar, sino vuela,
un velero bergantín.
Bajel pirata que llaman,
por su bravura, El Temido,
en todo mar conocido,
del uno al otro confín.

La luna en el mar riela,
en la lona gime el viento,
y alza en blando movimiento
olas de plata y azul;
y ve el capitán pirata,
cantando alegre en la popa,
Asia a un lado, al otro Europa,
y allá a su frente Estambul:

«Navega, velero mío,
sin temor,
que ni enemigo navío
ni tormenta, ni bonanza
tu rumbo a torcer alcanza,
ni a sujetar tu valor.

Veinte presas
hemos hecho
a despecho
del inglés,
y han rendido
sus pendones
cien naciones
a mis pies.»

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

«Allá muevan feroz guerra,
ciegos reyes
por un palmo más de tierra;
que yo aquí tengo por mío
cuanto abarca el mar bravío,
a quien nadie impuso leyes.

Y no hay playa,
sea cualquiera,
ni bandera
de esplendor,
que no sienta
mi derecho
y dé pecho
a mi valor.»

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

>>9189127

A la voz de «¡barco viene!»
es de ver
como vira y se previene,
a todo trapo a escapar;
que yo soy el rey del mar,
y mi furia es de temer.

En las presas
yo divido
lo cogido
por igual;
sólo quiero
por riqueza
la belleza
sin rival.

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

¡Sentenciado estoy a muerte!
Yo me río;
no me abandone la suerte,
y al mismo que me condena,
colgaré de alguna entena,
quizá en su propio navío.

Y si caigo,
¿qué es la vida?
Por perdida
ya la di,
cuando el yugo
del esclavo,
como un bravo,
sacudí.

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

Son mi música mejor
aquilones,
el estrépito y temblor
de los cables sacudidos,
del negro mar los bramidos
y el rugir de mis cañones.

Y del trueno
al son violento,
y del viento
al rebramar,
yo me duermo
sosegado,
arrullado
por la mar.

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

with rue my heart is laden,
oh my good friends i had,
many a thick lipped maiden
and many a hairfooted lad.

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Probably because he was Ionian and it was a contrast of Greek culture and Semetic culture. If the Greeks placed more importance on helping the unfortunate it's an testament that they are capable of not being given over entirely to selfishness and impulse desires.

It's probably also a relative time thing. Today what you think of when you hear beggars in first world countries are people dressed up poor and then you see people deliver them food 2x a day and they drive away in their new Prius.

Back then, I'm imagining a lot of these beggars are elderly people who perhaps had homes destroyed by having children die in accidents/wars perhaps and they lost most everything, or maimed soldiers who couldn't continue in their trade. It's easier to see why you'd place value on beggars in that light to me.

probably because they are a people genetically incapable of paying their debt.

It probably has to do with xenia, which is a pretty major theme of the Odyssey.

>>9188940
Sage.

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I simply fucking hate all the shit that society and pseudo intellectuals say I should do.

I don't give a shit about gigantic boring as fuck paid by the word Victorian novels or trivial as fuck of their time ranting Russian novels or motivational speaker tier edgy philosophers who would never get away with their shit today by the same pseuds who praise them so much. And I can't believe that late 20th century PoMo has managed to be worse than all that came before, but I'm supposed to worship that as well.

This isn't 800 AD anymore. The pseuds pretend that wanking over the Greeks and Bible is 95 % of what an intellectual is. They never acknowledge anything that isn't academised. They note STEM as a trivial footnote while using it as a launching pad for their own contemporary flailing about within the infinitely large unfalsifiable space of ideas.

I don't care about psychology, macroeconomics, psychiatry, the Education system, wars in far away places, and lots of other stuff.

Life truly does end after university. Every fucking issue is sent through the prism of universities these days. Humanities and social sciences are all bullshit and they try to monopolise so much common sense and twist it. Of course you can't say that and /lit/ will defend them.

I am not entertained by TV shows, video games, or movies any more. Novels are mostly narcissistic barely disguised memoirs.

The working world is 1 % intelligence and 99 % a test of normieness.

Women have lives on easy mode and only go for Chads. People actively hate introverts. University prestige is the main factor for success in life. Most of culture is now too ephemeral to have any significance at all. Travelling is the new alternative to reading big books. Coffee is wagie fuel. I lift heavy weights but I can admit it's a sign of betaness. Working is horrific.

>>9188940
Why do you care that people think you're a pleb? Why waste your time doing something you hate? If The Brothers Karamazov is trivial, what do you find meaningful? What have you actually enjoyed reading? Why not read more stuff along those lines instead of old books that you have little interest in? Why did you even buy them in the first place?

The obvious answer to how you cope: just don't read them and forget about seeming cultivated. That's a hollow and vain pursuit and nobody fucking cares if you've read Nicholas Nickelby or not. They're praised because a lot of people have found them enjoyable over the years, and some of those people went on to write influential books as well.

Man who fucking cares

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>>9188917
>now a TV SHOW

>>9188917

>An original project by HBO

It is best to drop a book when you finish reading the last page.

wait for the last 4 chapters, the story takes an unexpected turn

I think its fine even on the first page. Its your fucking book after all.