what are the best discworld books?
>>9851281
>>>/reddit/
>>9851322
what?
If you get this joke, you are worthy.
Harper Lee's father, a great man, fought for negro rights throughout the segregation era, was said to have never said the word 'nigger' outloud.
One journilist was interviewing him on his death bed, and asked, "Is it true you never said the word 'nigger'?"
"Yes. Except Once. I was standing on my lawn, my neighbors had lit a cross, and were all standing their dressed in robes and hoods. I yelled,
'DO I LOOK LIKE A NIGGER TO YOU?!'"
>>9851245
Thank god I was never in the Civil Rights movement. I would have been such a downer. They would have had to call the whole thing off.
>>9851245
Huh, I didn't know Jimi Hendrix was Harper Lee's dad. Was he a time traveler too?
>>9851251
Its called unintentional irony, duh.
I want to be a writer again but a single story I can't finish has so consumed my psyche for so long that I can't think of any ideas unrelated to it that I legit care enough to write about
what do?
>>9851209
when in doubt, suicide.
Start another story. Keep writing. It will eventually make sense or you will die, and you would have died anyway, so keep on going. Promise me, anon, that you will keep on going. The only way we will survive modernity is if we write our way out.
>>9851209
Forget writing for a while and just .live your life until you find new inspiration. It will come eventually.
What are some novels that deal with paranoia or have paranoid main characters?
lolita
>>9851177
Anything by Tommy P
My Diary desu
How do you write like Aristotle?
In terms of articulacy.
>>9850945
>how do i write like a translation.
>>9851317
>implying
Aristotle did not write his books, those are notes from his lectures
Hello sophomores, has anyone here read this?
PATRICIAN MODE: Has anyone here ever read the entirity of the recommend reading list?
>>9850930
great book that will give you some inspiration to read. no I doubt anyone here has read the entire recommended reading list as that would take you a least a decade if you're not speed reading.
fun fact: mortimer j adler was born jewish but converted to catholicism
I have very mixed feelings about this book. It has good points but the way he explains them is jarring. It did not have to be 400 pages, although it's a very easy, and thus fast read. In the first +50 or so pages he's talking about how bad the school system (of 40s) is and he definitely keeps on rambling about stuff with no merit, also keeps on mentioning the same stuff over and over again, the excuse for this could be that this way you remember the rules etc easier.
If the only thing you want is the reading algorithm:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/dao/how_to_read_a_book/
>>9851934
I agree with everything you said. Part of me wishes I had just read what you posted (I found something similar on wikipedia). However, it was an easy read and rereading the same point so many times really ingrained into myself. Plus all the unnecessary info set the scene appropriately I suppose. At any rate, I'm very excited to use these new tools at my disposal. And thank you for the link, I was going to make something similar today, glad I don't have to!
>>9851527
>At least a decade
It's only around 200 books on the list though? At a measly average of a book a week it would only take 4 years (but, perhaps that is speed reading after all). But, it will likely take me around a decade as I will be meandering through many other books.
Are there any good age gap romance books that look at it in a way that's not just for smut purposes? Preferably mid-twenties woman and teenage boy, from either perspective. Smut isn't too big of a deal, but I'd prefer not.
I'm majoring in English starting this fall. What can I expect?
>European Novel: Crime and Punishment, The Trial, Grove, Steppenwolf, Unbearable Lightness
>Poetry Class: Not sure what they'll be teaching here
>Modern Poetry: Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Larkin, Stevie Smith, Warner
>Ancient Greek Philosophy
>Transition to Advanced Math: apparently a course that is divided into baby linear algebra, baby diff eqs, and intro to proofs
>>9850827
you have a bob dylan class at your school? take that.
>>9850839
yea sure. you definitely got me man. signing up now
I'd like to write something about the short, tragic and badass life of Wladyslaw III of Poland. But I am having trouble finding English sources on him. People tend to focus on his more impactful father, Wladyslaw II Jogaila, but I'd like to find an English thing on his eldest son instead. I know Jan Dlugosz wrote an unflattering history of the Jagellonian dynasty.
>>9850776
Is that bird shit dripping down his face?
>>9852049
Nigga that's a scar
What the fuck was his problem?
>>9850763
Autism.
>>9850763
Idk who this is but my guess is fetal alcohol syndrome. The unitard is okay I guess.
>>9850763
Colonialism.
>"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
or
>"Peace through tyranny."
Does this pose a valid dichotomy?
Freedom must be fought for an earned. We can talk about rights but the fact remains that those with the means can and will try to subvert you if it threatens their power structure.
yeah but you need to use words other than freedom and tyranny which have too many meanings/senses depending on who's using it
Megatron did nothing wrong
at what age do you get good in writing for real?
You know, you probably don't want to know.
>>9850595
Rimbaud wrote all of his poetry before he was 19. Keats died at 25. Plath was published at 15. Etc
Evidently, young.
>>9850595
five years after you start writing. (on the average.)
what did he mean by this?
>>9850507
There is a lot of homo and hebephile shit in the book but it is still greaf.
Truly the only patrician pairing. Leave to the Russians
>>9850478
>not knowing about the mirrors
libgen.io
>>9850503
not op, but thanks. I had that website bookmarked for so long, just using it if I ever wanted to find a book, and basically I became complacent
b-ok.org
I realize he's falling fast in the estimation of the Establishment Left, but Gore Vidal's essays remain some of the most lucid explorations of American politics and history. Compare his work to morons like Stephen King ("Show your taxes chickenshit NYAAAHHH") and you may really think we've reached a historical endpoint.
The whole thing about Gore Vidal is that he's horribly, overwhelmingly middlebrow. Or at least all his WORKS are, all his historical fiction, all his essays, his entire body of actual literary output. The most interesting thing about him was his persona, and, in fact, it's the persona that's survived in the minds of most people. He's a bit like Chesterton, really, except that it feels like Chesterton's stuck around a bit more than Vidal has, and Chesterton wound up influencing people who have stuck around a lot more than the people Vidal influenced.
>>9850452
You spend entirely too much time shut in and on this site, you goofy drone.
>>9850465
I get out into the world a fair amount and I know for a fact I'm right. Both Vidal and Chesterton were massive personalities in their day, and both, to a certain degree, have been passed by. However, Chesterton endures among a remnant in a way Vidal does not. There is an American Chesterton Society. Is there an American Vidal Society? A quick Google search tells me there is not.