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In all seriousness, what is the best Borges translation? Is it this one? What would you recommend, and why?

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Took a trip to Half-Price Books. What does /lit/ think of my haul? http://imgur.com/a/dV5WS

Sorry for blurriness, my phone is a potato.

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What are some of the best gothic works? Good authors? etc

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It seems like my favorite books are ones that have wars or violence as main themes and settings. The Naked and the Dead, Slaughterhouse Five, and The Things They Carried are some of my favorite books. They're all literary fiction, with the war and violence only being prevalent for a few scenes, but used for the author's philosophical motives. I'm wondering what other books there might be along these lines. Any recommendations?

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Do you print your own books?

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Does anybody actually find Romeo and Juliet to be romantic? Did anybody actually care when they died?

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2666 but in Chinese
Rate

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Is there a libgen/bookzz for audiobooks? It seems like the only things those two have are e-books.

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1. What should I read next bros?
2. Roll thread.
3. How many have you read?
4. Who else here /readoneoftheseandsomethingfromthewesterncanonsidebyside+theoccasionalplatoandshakespearerevisit/?

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>he fell for the college meme

Daily reminder that Dickens, Twain and Borges never went to college.

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>finish reading blood meredian
>everything else is dissapointing by comparison
What are some other books that do this to you?

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Anyone read Pistis Sophia? This about the funniest shit ever. Does any of it make sense to you?

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Hey guys,

I've gotten an e-reader recently, but usually have trouble finding epubs/mobis/pdfs of a lot of books. Since I'm a new user, I'm a noob with ebooks.
Where do you guys download ebooks from?

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Someone on /lit/ mentioned Nick Land and I've been going through this rabbit hole for a little bit. On Amazon I found a book he was involved with called Writings 1993-2003, by the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. It sounds like a fun read, does anyone have an ebook?

Also in the suggestions I found Earthmare, with a description that implies it's a lost non-canon Bible book. It lists a bunch of weird shit as contributors, take a look.

Also there is this book called Amygdalatropolis. Read the description, sounds like a big meme book.

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>Hamlet is prince and demagogue, sagacious and extravagant, profound and frivolous, man and neuter. He has little faith in the sceptre, rails at the throne, has a student for his comrade, converses with any one passing by, argues with the first comer, understands the people, despises the mob, hates violence, distrusts success, questions obscurity, and is on speaking terms with mystery. He communicates to others maladies that he has not himself; his feigned madness inoculates his mistress with real madness. He is familiar with spectres and with actors. He jests, with the axe of Orestes in his hand. He talks literature, recites verses, composes a theatrical criticism, plays with bones in a churchyard, dumbfounds his mother, avenges his father, and closes the dread drama of life and death with a gigantic point of interrogation. He terrifies, and then disconcerts. Never has anything more overwhelming been dreamed.
>No figure among those that poets have created is more poignant and more disquieting. Doubt counselled by a ghost – such is Hamlet.
>He is tormented by that possible life, interwoven of reality and dream, concerning which we are all anxious. Somnambulism is diffused through all his actions. One might almost consider his brain as a formation: there is a layer of suffering, a layer of thought, then a layer of dream.
>It is through this layer of dream that he leefs, comprehends, learns, perceives, drinks, eats, frets, mocks, weeps, and reasons. There is between life and him a transparency – the wall of dreams; one sees beyond it, but cannot step over it. A kind of cloudy obstacle everywhere surrounds Hamlet. Have you never, while sleeping, had the nightmare of pursuit or flight, and tried to hasten on, and felt the anchylosis of your knees, the heaviness of your arms, the horrible paralysis of your benumbed hands? This nightmare Hamlet suffers while awake. Hamlet is not upon the spot where his life is. He has ever the air of a man who talks to you from the other side of a stream. He calls to you at the same time that he questions you. He is at a distance from the catastrophe in which he moves, from the passer-by he questions, from the thought he bears, from the action he performs. He seems not to touch even what he crushes. This is isolation carried to its highest power. It is the loneliness of a mind, even more than the unapproachableness of a prince. Indecision is, in fact, a solitude; you have not even your will to keep you company. It is as if your own self had departed and had left you there.

Is he on-point?