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>>9815109
It doesn't hurt at all to read him before watching the plays live.

>>9815109
I definitely disagree but that's maybe just my inability to comprehend him immediately speaking for itself. I feel like something like Hamlet for example has to be read slowly first so you can understand every line. After you do that twice or so watching it you'll understand everything they're saying, which is a cool experience to work towards. I remember being convinced Shakespeare wasnt for me when I couldn't follow Hamlet live at all. Only when I invested hours into understanding it did I truly realize the greatness of Shakespeare.

>>9815109
I don't really see why reading Shakespeare's plays is mutually exclusive with seeing them on stage. In fact, I think that both activities should go hand in hand. If you just read the plays, unless your imagination is that fucking wild and vivid, you'll miss many details that the play on stage provides; if you just watch the play on stage, many details that the slow, careful reading of the lines rush by without you even noticing them.
What I do, if it has any value for someone else, is to read the play I'm interested on, then watch the play (the Globe on Stage productions are really good), and then I read the play again.

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>>9815060
>I am moving to my appartment finally and I would love to fill it up with books. Literally A LOT of books. I dont have that many at the moment so I am wondering wherw I can buy a lot of cheap books online. I dont care if they are used, I just want to find a relible site that ships wordwide and that has low prices so I can buy more books.
do this

>>9815060
Garage sale, goodwill

Abebooks.

You're probably not reading things you enjoy.

>>9814954
Is this always the case? For me, I'm having a hard time concentrating on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby, as the prose reads like thick fog, while I had an easier time concentrating while reading Infinite Jest.

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>>9814886

Yeah, I think they're fine.

Notice how this click bait scare article
https://newrepublic.com/article/144029/trump-ruining-book-sales

contains no statistics, but comments from people whose shitty books didn't sell as well as they hoped.

>>9814793
Wow

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>>9815111

start with the greeks

>>9814757
Le epic intellectual centrist with his horseshoe of justice and rationality!

Of course not.

>>9814853
What would you reccomend instead? Reasons To Vote For Republicans?

If you ask me, I'm gonna say 100% it would be exact copypaste with a few choice words replaced.

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Heidegger's lectures on Parmenides and Nietzsche

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>>9814723
silence of the lambs was a quantum leap in quality over red dragon, which was a solid, intermittently inspired thriller/horror/crime novel.

hannibal was readable, particularly in the context of jonesing for another hit o' dat sotl magic. but it was sub-red dragon quality-wise, if memory serves, though it certainly worked very hard at delivering up iconic scenes, and did have its moments. but it kind of made me give up on thos. harris. he shot his wad with sotl.

>for a crime novel
See pic related.

>>9814723
Red Dragon, I thought, was the most "fun" of the bunch, with Silence of the Lambs pretty comparable in quality, if not a little better, though a little less enjoyable.

Hannibal was Harris trying hard to replicate what he did on the previous two books, though it had its moments. The ending definitely squashed any hopes that people would have of it having any kind of legacy outside the movies.

And then there's Hannibal Rising, a turd from start to finish. He didn't even want to write it, but was bullied into it by a Hollywood producer who said he'd make the movie with or without a book to base it off of, and if Harris wrote the book he'd get to make money from the screenplay, as well. It's really, really bad, and I wouldn't recommend anyone read it unless they're masochists.

On a related note, has anyone here read Black Friday? I never got around to that one, but heard it's better than the last two Hannibal books.

>>9814557
Only if you want to understand the deceptive nature of the jewish mind. Globalism is a jewish system of control, it's bad for everyone who is not jewish.

>>9814493
Had Kobo Glo for a good year or so now and still enjoying reading pirated books on it. Please don't give your money to Amazon, Kindle or the Kobo store.

I never do, but it can supposedly browse the web too (probably without JavaScript nor cookies)

I tried for a little while(2 months). I couldn't stay consistent with the reading though. I assume it's because I'm used to browsing youtube/google on a tablet, thus I couldn't take the reading seriously.

May be different for others. Seems pretty good for traveling?

>>9814493
>I haven't seen this get axed here before, so I wanna hear y'alls opinions.

One of the best things I've ever bought. It pays for itself once you read 5 or 6 books and the reading experience is pretty good.

>Can I browse Facebook and text on a kindle paperwhite? I don't read much besides the Harry Potter Series but I like the black and white screen.

No, it's something you use solely for reading. Full stop. The browser is just for show.

If you want to do anything else besides reading just get an android tablet. If you're serious about reading then get a Kindle and install the app on your mobile phone.

>boring continental existential anxiety: the director
>needing a companion

start with his paris review interview

more like hanegay

>>9814399
don't use a permanent marker or it'll never come off.

>>9814399
Hollywood (read: jews) prevents any meaningful screenwriting from being produced.

>>9814399

Screenwriters who aren't directors as well will never get proper credit for their work because of auteur theory and because of the fact that screenplays aren't published for public consumption the way that play manuscripts are.

>>9814393
It definitely does if you read it in original. Not so sure about translations though.

>>9814393
Yes, it does.