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I remember the first time I heard someone reference the "Red Pill". I was embarrassed for them.

To willfully admit that your ideology is as shallow as a late 90s blockbuster seemed as though it had to be a joke, but no. The cultural illiterates have taken over and this was simply the lowest common denominator. Something with which all the lost souls dealing with their inadequacies in an uncaring world could identify.

I cherish the days before I knew such depths of human idiocy existed, the days when I associated intelligent thoughtful figures like Eliot, Yeats or Goethe with conservatism only to now have them replaced with Yiannopoulos, Spencer and Jones, true intellectual midgets.

I yearn for the time when debates were Buckley vs Chomsky and not Sanders vs Cruz.

I do not understand this parallel timeline and I want it to end, in nuclear twilight if it must.

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How do you remember what page you were on for next time you pick up the book and resume reading?

I have tried memorizing the page I was last on, but often forget the next day. Then I started writing down the page number on the inside cover of the book, but there are a lot of numbers there and it gets confusing (especially if I am reading the book for a second time).

How do you keep track of this?

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*blocks your path*

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Given his personality, do you think Lovecraft would be fine with some of the more tongue in cheek treatments of his stories (Cthulhu plushies, Munchkin Cthulhu games, etc) or would he sperg about people not taking his stuff seriously?

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what is the literary equivalent of this album?

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What's the bare minimal books one should read to have a basic understanding of politics?

>inb4 my fight from Mr. adolfo

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You're getting locked inside a prison for the rest of your life, you're only allowed to take 1 book with you. What will it be /lit/?

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I tried to read a Cormac McCarthy book and thought, why doesn’t this cocksucker use quotation marks?

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Who's the David Lynch of literature?

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I'm trying to get a fair view on christianity. I'm trying to understand it but also understand the view of its opponents. Here's the list of books I have right now:

>Religious books
The Bible
Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
The City of God by Augustine of Hippo

>Atheist books
Works from Hume maybe?
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche


Modern:

The God delusion by Richard Dawkins
The greatest show on earth by Richard Dawkins

God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens( This one might not be as relevant)


What are the most essential works missing from that list?

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Finished the Hobbit.
100 pages into Fellowship.

I'm absolutely loving these books. It's so fucking comfy. His writing is simple, relaxing, easy, and fun.

I've sipping tea and coffee enjoying rainy days reading these books.

I just have one question tho? What other Tolkien books do you recommend. I just got a good deal buying The Children of Húrin (hardcover).

But am I suppose to read some of his works in order? Should I read the The Silmarillion first?

I have put off reading Tolkien for so long, and now I'm finally reading him and I don't regret a second of it.

It's... wonderful comfy reading actually.

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I've made a mistake, /lit/. My university has an agreement with the Department of Energy to share time on a joint supercomputing project, and one of the professors I do research for was recently cleared to request time on it. The only spot we get is incredibly early in the morning, so last week I was supposed to supervise the output, but I uploaded this shitty program I wrote in python to procedurally generate books instead. I had been able to get paragraphs off of my laptop if I let it run long enough, but this thing wrote 50,000 fucking words in 20 seconds.

I was able to upload and run the research just fine, but I emailed the book to the head of the English department, and he asked me to come to his office and preceded to lose it. I had used "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as the input texts, just because they sounded interesting together, and evidently he had a problem with either one or both. He threatened to tell the dean about the supercomputer misuse, which could be a felony, and I'm pretty much guaranteed to lose my scholarship (which I only got in the first place because I have ADHD.)

I'm scared shitless because I had already posted it to Amazon, with a cutesy title and topical description and some meme tier cover art, really laughing it up, before he freaked out, and now amazon support has locked my account without removing it from the store. Is it going to be worse that I tried to monetize it, should I still try to take it down, or does it not matter at this point? What the fuck do I do?

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ITT:
>we mention our biggest problem(s)
>recommend books (non-fiction/fiction, whatever) on how to help others with their problem

I'll start:
>Zero execution. I do a ton of research, I dream of writing and stuff, but I don't have the discipline to execute on these things.
>Is The War of Art a good book for this? Other recommendations welcomed

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How does one go about seeing reading as a hobby rather than a chore? I do not read enough literature, never have, and anytime I pick up a book and try to read it, I only get a few chapters in before I start feeling anxiety over the large amount of pages left to read. I enjoy TV and video games, as well as mindlessly surfing the web, but when it comes to reading a novel, I just cannot stay focused. Any advice? I want to read, and I want to enjoy it. Sometimes I feel as though I have some ADD, though I have never been diagnosed. I aced all my English courses in high school and college, and I am a decent writer and actually enjoy writing when I have to. But I cannot and never have enjoyed reading. What is wrong with me?

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Post 'em my lads.