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>>9802911
Probably about as long as you. Most of my day today was either spent reading, thinking about something I just read, or listening to music.

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I read about 5 min per 10 pages, but the word count, per page, can differ wildly and the substance itself can be easier or harder to understand. I mean it really is impossible to measure.
But your question isn't about how much I read, but how long I read. Always 1hr in the evening and usually half and hour or an hour in the morning with sporadic sessions during the afternoon. I guess it's about 2hrs.

Lately not much.
Generally I read around 2-3 hours a day.

This arugulasaladis quite kafkaesque, don't youthink?

>>9803185
I haven't been to /lit/ in weeks. What is this "easy on the carrots, bugs" meme? Redpill me, plz.

>>9802886
>Joycean

Start with the Greeks

philosophy is neither right nor wrong

>>9802833
Well, my froggy faggot friend. Most if what they believed was actually correct, including their beliefs on belief. For instance, your opinion actually has a truth value. Wild, isn't It? And guess what? It's wrong!

>>9802832
Confessions by Saint Augustine made me cry
Peer Gynt got really really close

>>9802832
Stoner was the saddest book I've ever read

>>9802832
I can share your feeling anon.
I am just a cold-hearted son of a bitch when it comes to books.

>>9802783
>he thinks fascism is bad

>>9802795
It's not the Fascism, it's the incorporation of his ideals into his characters, giving a subtle agenda that kind of annoys me.

You should be able not to be bothered by his ideological leanings and still appreciate his work. Or even better, to consider his ideology as part of his work, without accepting it but also without dismissing it outright.

>>9802743
>a lot less painless
what did she mean by this

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>>9802763

DFW has the habit of going off in a long tangents about minor or barely mentioned characters in the middle of prose which don't add much even to the context of the scenario but adds humanity to his work.

Which I get is like 3/4 of his shtick, but at parts of IJ it clearly went overboard and failed to add anything, to the point of being cringe or groan-worthy.

That being said I love DFW.

>>9802743
It's a great story, isn't it? I wish I could cry at books. I don't know why, but I do.

Honestly, the difference between the two is very vague, you could even say it's ambiguous.

>author mixes up indifferent and ambivalent

>>9802704
Are you that retard on /sci/ that was arguing some guy used the word vague wrong? They aren't completely separate from one another, you can nearly always interchange the two.

>>9802699
wew "best written" can mean a lot of different things, but let me take a complete stab in the dark and say you should read Blood Meridian

>>9802699
my diary desu

>>9802699
I believe the best places to start for any new adult reader is either Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy), Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse 5, Sirens of Titan) or John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men). YMMV on literally anything else.

>>9802690
Why the fuck would you put a hobby on a resume? Do you idiots really do this?

You don't even put that shit in the Cover letter unless it specifically pertains to the job.

You discuss it with the hiring manager/person after and you still only name drop hobbies you know will impress them and you have studied.

>>9802690
It lets me brag about how patrician I am to strangers on an electronic Tuvan coffee klatch.

covfefe

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>>9802635
G R E E K S
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my therapist has advised against it, he called me a gauche cunt. I called him a greedy jew. I intend to travel to california

>>9802635
There's more to being a patrician than you can imagine.

I come from old world aristocracy.

Luckily before the gommies destroyed my entire family my grandmother learned everything there was to learn passed down to her. And she passed that same knowledge down to my mother and myself.

There's so many nuances that go into it beyond just getting rid of stuff and getting rid of stuff is foolish in it's own merits.

>>9802620
No. it's a satirical character examination, not a self insert. maybe he did in his youth, maybe not, but the Underground Man was an exploration of the young nihilist character in Crime and Punishment.
It's a critique of the young self-absorbed nihilist "tortured soul" loner that he was seeing a lot of in Russia that time. Turgenev as well, with Fathers and Sons.
You can't fully understand Notes without reading Crime and Punishment

>>9802706
Notes From The Underground is about communism and utopia though? It was scrapped from another book he was writing explicitly against communism, and the character is to show that, while the man appears intelligent and structured, he often acts completely against his own self interest.

>>9802802
It seemed to me that the book was more about how consciousness leads to twisted lines of thinking that makes people act Creul and that people try hard to create structures to live perfectly and happy but the truth is we long ago abandoned true happiness by being corrupted by intelligence and embracing structures for enjoyment that we don't need. Basically the ending of the book says it all treat people how you want to be treated like karma , desu that whole dream sounded like a shroom trip, that's what I interrupted the book as, it really sounded like he was having a shroom trip the way he fell into it like he never was aware of falling asleep and then not being able to describe why truths were revealed to him and how etc and how everything was happy especially. Anyone else get that ??

Frankenstein takes the best parts from the corpses to form the ideal man.

>>9802574
Except he didn't. Unless the monster was just supposed to be a slave that did manual labor.

>>9802556
You mean Lord Byron, not Mary Shelly.

>>9802462
>implying autistic fics cant be literary classics
>paradise lost.jpg
>divine comedy.png
and so much more...

>>9802471
*feverishly starts writing Beyond Good and Evil (the video game, not the book) fan fiction*

>>9802481
Go for it.

I have a prejudice against the wanky references of the canon. Completely lifeless

>>9802447
you sound like a girl so i'll reply

I hate self-help books. They reek of self-pity and condescension. Interestingly, people who read and actually manage to finish these books end up hating the genre and the authors. So it's OK I guess. It's a self regulating cancer.

>>9802673
Oh, I too hold a particular prejudice against such books. Tho I never realy read any,

>>9802424
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