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The top two books and bin the rest.

>>9929393
Keep Kafka, Garcia Marquez, and Morrison and dump the rest.

>Aziz wrote a book
>was published
>someone bought it
Thanks, white guilt.

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>I want to drink this one drink to look intellectual, but I have taste buds of a child so I don't actually enjoy its taste and choose to drown it out with milk/sugar/honey/cream
Just stick to cola, pseud

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grande cold brew, no sugar or cream, from the local starbucks. ideally given to me by a new barista who doesn't know my name yet. then i'll sit in the corner with my macbook and write for about an hour drinking it before going in to work.

>>9929314

almond-coconut milk

>>9929023
why are you so goddamn assblasted?

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>>9929023

>caring about Ivy League graduates who still end up being witless middlebrows regardless

>>9929023
how does america not have laws against this kind of thing?

>>9928989
>Did the Holocaust really happen?
There's no evidence so no it didn't.

>>9928989
It happened but our current knowledge of it is viewed through a thick cultural bias.

http://holocausthandbooks.com/dl/08-t.pdf

Decide for yourself

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>>9928563

>twitter

please kill yourselves

>Translations
>Not even once
If you're feeling up to it read Pope's translation, but most would recommend you read another version at least once

>>9928224
you read the highschool version thats why

>>9928224
What are your criticisms?

>>9928208
I liked it.

>>9928208
If you're a 17 years old girl and a slut, yeah. You will like it.

fuck no

>>9927965
take a break from using the internet socially for a month

you'll be a lot better
and feel a lot better

trust me

I literally do this.

I currently have some steam going from my previous and current book, and with my choices for the next two books, hopefully I'll keep the engine going.

What's been working is trying to focus on the act of reading: the meditative state of looking at words, understanding their meaning, and picturing what's happening or linking together the concepts being talked about. Remember that *that* is what reading is and that it's pretty fun when it's with a book you're into.

>>9927965
No my problem is
>torrent hundreds of books
>be excited to read them all
>can't fucking decide which one to start with
>start reading nine books at once
>torrent more books
Free books have ruined me

Takes a while to get used to it, but it's not very difficult. It helps if you read it out loud to yourself.

I've got the 2nd edition and it's hard.
IIRC you've got 2 lines per page which have notes explaining what the line means in modern english and at the back there's notes on interpreting and explanation of the meaning of the line. There's also a lot of things which would only interest academics, about the text, etc that clutter up the notes and can make it difficult to read.
I was only able to get through the prologue and I still had to search up the meaning of words online.
I wouldn't recommend getting it new though, I got mine for $7 used shipped from america in perfect condition.

>>9927692
where do you buy used books in USA that get shipped outside?
Also I don't want to go to the back every time I don't get something. Any idea what's a better option for someone that just wants to read Chaucer? I'm ok with reading the original as long as I have the meaning of words right there.

>>9927536
>ywn lick her ass

>>9927536

not my diary desu

>>9927536
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust will depict this feeling better than any real life relationship ever will

>>9927527
>De Botton's Swiss-born mother was Ashkenazi, and his father was from a Sephardic Jewish family

ever considered taking the redpill?

the bourgeois king

>>9927527
He's an average philosophy/lit academic but a very good speaker, his insight is literally regurgitations of consensus academic opinion of many professors.

Take away the British accent and he makes George Costanza look like a catch

>>9927482
Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly P Hall

>>9927482
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment - Frances Yates
Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science - Robert Lomas

>>9927593
Yates' Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, for that matter
Fiction would include Huysmann's FABULOUS La Bas, and Meryinck's The Golem.

I'm starting with the Greeks I wanna talk about the GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-

>>9927398

Is there a definitive version of all the Greek myths not already contained in the Iliad and Odyssey?

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>>9927398
Hehe, don't tell me you fell for the greek meme

>>9927222
I don't care enough to read it

>>9927222

Pixar is responsible for some of the greatest films of all time.

But they make mass appeal animated films for children, which is a fundamentally different process than attempting to write something with literary merit, or for that matter, an art house film.

most writers could use more of this stuff, desu.

Judging from crit threads, the problem isn't too many rules, but too few.

I think they're pretty good. Like learning the basics of drawing. Someday you can cast them aside, but you have to learn them solidly first....

empty words, I'll never act on them

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My writing is going pretty well, overall. I actually just finished up a novel (albeit a fantasy novel) recently, and I also just recently got an essay accepted to a journal. Things are going well, but they could always be better. So I suppose that's the answer to the "are you improving" question, also. In addition, I'm experimenting with my prose again, trying to develop a style that will fit the satiric literary novel I'm planning to write.

I am actually incredibly arrogant and believe I am destined to go down in history as a great writer. Or, not "destined," but I know I have the talent and I'm determined to triumph. My goal is for my writing to be read a thousand years from now. I want to be in the Western Canon; I'll settle for nothing less.

Generally I enjoy writing. I often write deliberately, choosing words carefully to meet my overall prose style. It's fun to put words together to form sentences; they feel like puzzle pieces to me.

i'm horriblons

>>9927146
What's the fantasy book about? You can be general if you wish to remain anon.