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Henderson the Rain King is better

is it more enjoyable than herzog?

Isn't Bellow Canadian? What would you guys recommend to start with for someone unacquainted with Bellow? Seize The Day? Herzog? Who would you compare him to?

yeah get a journal and write in it.

>>9042476

I'd agree. This sounds pretty good,

Realize that it's personal

It takes most people awhile to learn how to get their mind on paper because they're so accustomed to filtering themselves around others

It may take some time of forcing yourself before you really flow out on the page

>that guy who says one 5 is better than two 5s

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>That one guy who dreamed of having an artistic career but he was so afraid of potential failure that he jumped into a STEM career he really doesn't like because it's safe and respected by people on the internet
>He keeps telling himself he's going to write his amazing literary masterpiece even though he's too overburdened with work to even dream of having the free time to do such a thing

lol what a loser

>>9042455
whatever, buttplug

that's actually what I tried to do all through Dubliners
it only really worked when I read The Dead which is good because that story was 10/10

I just read him out loud. The musicality of his prose becomes even more evident, and his writing is so semantically dense and grammatically elliptic that I couldn't hope to read him faster than I can speak anyway (about 280 wpm).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOQi7xspRc

>Not being poor as shit
Enjoy not living the literary lifestyle

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boy I sure do love reduced prices!

>>9042405
This is America, get out nigger.

We don't like it.

bleak settings with capricious characters. I suppose I've learnt more from his short stories but I'd recommend this over all his other works

>>9042387
wow a marathon ten pages, good going my man

I have a older Kindle with the keyboard I got years ago. It's pretty nice, the eink display is basically the same as reading paper.

Primary drawbacks I'd note: Inconsistent formatting on some books (ie, layout, footnotes), poor support for images in books (ie, if you're buying a book on military history with a lot of maps in it, get the print version), poor PDF support, sorting tools leave a lot to be desired.

Mainly I'd recommend one if you read a lot of fiction, because you won't have to deal with tons of paperbacks.

>>9042360
They do eventually cover the cost of physical books. Get Kobo, Kindle is a scam.

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>>9042360
I got one, now everyone wants a piece of me.
with a 300ppi resolution, the Kindle Paperwhite is a no-brainer purchase for the avid book reader.

Its always in the /int/ language learning threads.

>>9042410
i think it's in the int sticky too

>>9042319
Look in the /his/ library of Alexandria general thread

Will there be much of a break between part one and part two? I'm gonna join for the second part

http://www.strawpoll.me/12237645

Also, please fill out this fun and exciting poll

>>9042324
Probably one or two days, I would hope that we start up again on the 19

>>9042290
Any goodd overviews of marxist tphilosophy?

>>9042290
adorno dialectics of enlightenment

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>>9043246
didn't you forget some1

>>9042271
>I am going into pre-law this fall
first of all fuck you you stupid gunner

second, pre-law is one of the worst majors for aspiring law students. do math phil econ or even polisci instead.

third, underageb&

>>9042301
Why is pre law a bad choice?

Lawyer here. Obviously, it depends on where you live. I am going to assume the Anglosphere. One of the best is probably The Common Law by O.W. Holmes, which traces the main theories of tort, criminal, civil, etc. areas of law; although over a hundred years old, Holmes is one of the three most cited scholars of the 20th century. Another, simpler book to start out with is the Ages of American Law by Grant Gilmore.

If you are looking for the applicable rules, Barbri is a course that helps law students prepare for the bar and they have an outline called the Conviser Mini Review that simplifies things greatly.

If you want to be super intense and wade into Roman law and its civil progeny, there is the Corpus Juris Civilis of the emperor Justinian.

>>9042254
I'd wait until after puberty

>>9042254
>The politics are mostly background noise, but Hugo clearly supported the progressives of his era (he was anti-prostitution and pro-education, most other issues take a back seat)
>It's romantic in the sense of Watt's definition: "things that don't happen to your neighbor." Romantic love comes across as important in LM, but so does love for family, friends, country, etc.
>Definitely worth the read (if you have the stamina, it's quite long).
>I only speak English, but I enjoyed the translation I read. Ask somebody who speaks French for more information.

>>9042254
Forgot to add, this is ultimately a tale of redemption, of a man who was rejected completely but found God and made the world a much better place. There is also fighting, and muskets, and con-men, and basically a little bit for anyone. There is even an entire chapter about the sewer system of Paris. And a huge chapter about the battle of Waterloo.

>>9042191
>But after I really don't want to read any other Ayn Rand book for a while

Why? Atlas Shrugged is pretty good. It's very strawmanish and completely ignores any sort of fault in her own philosophy, but it's a decent story and has a lot of good points.

>>9042201
I'm really enjoying this book, don't get me wrong. But I want to settle some time to let the "I was just thoroughly convinced of an opinion" feeling to go away to gauge what I've read in a more object light, you feel.

>>9042219
Well then you don't want to read something similar, you'd want to read something different.

Read Les Miserables. It has a lot of similarities with Ayn Rand's philosophy, but some fundamental, almost socialistic differences. It's very sympathetic to the plight of the poor, though, and really focuses on the importance of charity and second chances. It's actually Ayn Rand's favorite book, which is a little interesting given how far of a right winger she is.

Homer is overrated
Science fiction can have lots of signifigant literary merit.
There are lots of obscure writers out there that might be better than many lit-tier authors but will never be discovered cause everyone is such a fag and is afraid of going out their pre constructed backlog

>>9042275
I am quite triggered

/lit/ is absolute garbage full of memes, shitposting, and circlejerking about how smart they are for reading books
There's almost no discussion with any substance or value

And most of the posters don't seem particularly smart, more so just really excited about being a little smarter than average. Kinda embarrassing desu

His point is better stated without the use of arithmetic at all. But he's right. J.S. Mill was a great writer, so sad he was agnostic.

In all seriousness the point that one does not equal one doesn't make any sense in a strictly fundamental geometrical or arithmetical sense. But in the theoretical way he uses it, maybe that's why it's so effective.

What is it, exactly, you think Mill is saying here, OP?

In your own words.

>>9042315
Not OP but I think he's saying math is useless as a foundation for epistemology, because even though it's coherent you can't draw any real-world conclusions from it.

compare with the Bible, which is flawless and gives us a practical reference point by which we can come to know truths.