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I mean, we left it to him and no one really contributed anything of note after that, so I elect we should try someone else next time

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>>9751064
Leave translations to me

>leave overrated YA fantasy to me

You mean beside from the fact that they are impervious to a blackout?

No, but I enjoy the tangibility of the physical.

I genuinely thinking about buying a blu-ray. Something I haven't contemplated doing since the DVD-era almost a decade ago.

>>9750841
>no

the sheer idiocy of this statement causes me physical pain. Explain yourself.

It's his best book.

Suttree does have the most meandering plot of McCarthy's novels. The Road, No Country for Old Men are much more conventionally plotted (but the Sherrifs stories about the old days can meander a bit).

While you're reading it Child of God seems to meander but in hindsight it depicts Lester becoming progressively more alienated from society.

>>9750837
There are words, but they don't say anything. Go watch TV or do something else that matches your intellectual power.

>>9750846
Child of God was my favorite. It had the bleakness and grey veil of every McCarthy book without being so vapid as NCFOM was (I liked that too, but it was different from everything else. The critics said it was "the most accessible" of his books.

????

No one???

the milking begins

I thought all stormtroopers were male, how can it be a female?
Is it like Jurassic Park?

>>9750771
48 cheerios

Damn. Nobody?
I wanted to speculate what the title is about

>>9750771
Turtles hatch from eggs and have to crawl down the sand. All the way down, while seagulls try to kill them.
Turtles all the way down..

Really makes you think

>>9750703
No. It's just words on a page and if you can somehow find it in yourself to move past the fact that children are fucking (as they sometimes do) you will see that it makes sense in the context of the story.

It's obviously a nod to the razing of Belarus.

Some bonds...
...can't be broken.

More like social and philosophical reasons, there is little spirituality involved
And reading books and papers is the only thing which keeps me alive

>>9750740
I would put philosophy under the umbrella of spirituality myself. Do you listen to music? If I didn't have music I probably would have killed myself a long time ago.

>I don't mean some basement dwelling autist jacking off to anime and playing video games all day but someone who has chosen to opt out of this hellish culture for spiritual reasons
The only difference is the greater honesty of the former

Duolingo is trash.
Google is your friend.

Grammar Book
Memrise/Anki
Children's programs/books
Pen pal
Audio courses

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Try this,
Or short stories, easier to stay focused than with long texts. Even translations of stuff you've read in your native language or in English a long time ago.

Not OP but I figured this might be a good place to ask. How do I prevent my stories from becoming thinly veiled autobiographies?

>>9750456
This is simple. Don't write thinly veiled autobiographies. It isn't something that happens by accident.

>>9750452
Progymnasmata. Learn by steps and by imitation. You'll always have material to work with, and then you can make it your own as you practice.

what would JC read?

>>9750396
JC doesn't read, he just has people talk to him about what they've read and then they let him decide what sounds the most reasonable

>>9750380

Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman

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>>9750214
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>>9750214

We don't.

Literature is like a friend gifting you a tool to ensnarl your imagination and build your own understanding of a world. It is a free experience.

Video-gaming is like a friend inviting you at a party in his home. He is master of the experience. A guided one.

The boundaries aren't the same and both serves different purposes.

Medias are not competing with each other. They are complementary.

Now fuck off, litlet

literature drawbacks:
~~fo' real~~
>there's a fiery desire to read everything, but you must take one step at the time.
~~baity~~
>you get pretentious af
>knowledge = power

videogame drawbacks:
~~fo'real~~
>you become trapped in a skinner's box, spending countless hours doing the same shit (for fun, they say...)
>online games take too long to end (MOBAS, MMO's,)
>can get really expensive to start up
>can get really expensive to upkeep (if you play AAA frequently)
>games are longer than a book, usually. And they're very inefficient at delivering new experiences. Since it has to sacrifice gameplay for this.
>being addicted to video game must suck ass. (These chinese VG addiction centers are serious business, tho.)
~~baity~~
>not really popular with the ladies
>anime + vidya = ultimate degeneracy
>school shooter's favourite hobbie

Kys

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>Deus Ex

>>9750193
>9750193

that's my favorite video game

>>9749964

>recruiting fuckups and retards on 4chan
desperation.exe

>Not doing both
Enjoy living an unfulfilled life, anon.

Why can't I read and go into stem? I mean sure right now I'm 25 and work at Burger King but if I wanted to I could like enroll in classes at a community college.

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>>9749778
follow this

>>9749801
Thank you, Senpai.

>>9749801
>Sea of Fertility last

If anything you should start there

>>9749721
its not

you have to be 18 to post here

Ulysses is the greatest book ever written my parents have been fighting alot