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>>9654287
The appeal is discomfort and comfort. Humans get bored of doting, comfort, niceness. They also like feeling superior, and the idea of progression, so a historical setting being brutish eases their discomfort in the real world.

The story moves at a good pace, dialog is witty and it doesnt require much concentration to follow the plot. Ideal to spend some time being entertained without investing much thought.

>>9654287
They are popular because, whether you like it or not, they are a breath of fresh air. You can no longer assume that ANY character will survive.

I used to be completely autistic about it. then i realized it's insane and i was driving myself insane, so I stopped. now I'll read trash if the words are legible.

I leave books in worse condition every time.

>>9652810
this is me

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>>9652356
Followed by Metamorphoses

>>9652356
mein kampf

fiction? Moby-Dick
history? The Iliad
philosophy? The Bible

>>9652025
To disspell some bullshit one may come up with regarding the above:
Seeking happiness wouldn't mean doing a bunch of heroin, for example. Heroin addiction would ultimately lead to a very unhappy outcome.

Seeking mastery over other people wouldn't mean doing so in a way that makes people hate you, as that ultimately wouldn't give you mastery over them.

Bump

Is this not good enough to get a reply?
OP pic is from a .gov site on a project the preceded MKULTRA

>>9652025
>one would benefit
>>one

there's your problem.

>>9649086
Pic unrelated

>>9649086
The Waste Land

Graham Greene

>>9645648
As a native spanish speaker I find english much more flexible, but I still preffer spanish

>>9645656
>I find english much more flexible
What makes it more flexible?

>>9645648
>How long do you think it would take an Anglophone to be able to read Don Quijote in Spanish?
I've studied Spanish for 2 years and can read contemporary works fluently. I still can barely understand a thing in Don Quijote. To use an analogy: Don Qujiote is to modern Spanish what Shakespeare is to modern English. It can be difficult to read even for native speakers.

You are better off reading a translation if that is your only goal for learning Spanish. Or, look at the other good authors of Latin America and see if they interest you enough to bother learning it.

As for your other question: I find Spanish more pleasing to read, but it is very frustrating to write in. You are basically a slave to the dictionary, and, after being raised on English, it is annoying to not have as much freedom. English is called the language of ideas for a reason. I have no idea wtf >>9645656
is talking about

as long as you're asking questions like this, you will always be a pleb.

>>9645483
>How do I get in shape when I ONLY want to eat sweets?

I've no pleb attitude, I picked up reading seriously only 1-2 years ago. Any suggestions?

>>9660677
the definition

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>>9660721
Is sound propagating through space a process or an object?

>>9660721
Whoa, we got Mr. Aristotle in person over here.

>>9660593
Anthropocene is a term which has kind of been hijakced (arguably for good reasons) to try and help convince the public of the seriousness of climate change. It's not really a geological epoch, although the "anthropocene extinction" is very, very real and is set to be one of the biggest loss of species in the planets history.

The words misuse annoys me too.

>>9660593
Oh wow, that's almost as egregious a reading of Hegel as the frogmen from /pol/

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>>9660593
>a new term, "anthropocene",

how is your community college summer reading course going?

>>9660482

People prefer reading things that at least somewhat apply to their lives, or have relevance to the time they're living and the experiences therein.

The last century has been pretty shit in most parts of the world, some more so than others, so there's been plenty of shit to write about, coming from people with mainly shit attitudes brought about by the shittiness of the world they've lived in.

>>9660482
>personal demons
>current year

just be a hipster

>>9660482

It hasn't. "Madness" and other obsessions just make for a more dramatic story. The real thing that's happening is that literature with a more dramatic backstory gets promoted more by the masses, who have become increasingly literate and educated over the course of the 20th century.

It used to be that the leisure and scholarly and religious classes were the primary audiences for literature. Now literature is a commodity for mass consumption. (I mean literature as distinct from genre stories. People want to feel smart without having the refined faculties and leisure for the consumption of genuinely challenging and intellectual literature, like, say, Milton.)

The quiet and contemplative or difficult strain of literature persists, it's just fallen considerably into the background. Look at how John Williams was neglected. Look at how the high modernists and postmodernists have been received versus The Joy Luck Club and that kind of garbage.

just use the adjective 'good' to describe things, like Hemingway did

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>mfw words are socially constructed so they don't exist
>mfw people don't speak, they just wail, scream, babble and sputter in slow motion for 80 years

>>9660299
Words are a metaphor for your described phenomena.

read em both and decide for yourself

both to be honest. if you can find the more recent one that restores her original where percy edited it, get that too. 1818 if you can only get one, because the 1831 one is designed for normies (literally, the story was shifted for what was meant to be a popular edition)

>>9660483
>>9660515
Will do, I'll start with the 1818 one. Would it be better to read the one with Percy's edits as opposed to the raw Shelly version?

I listen to audiobooks while washing the dishes
I listen to the sound a blood pumping through my massive glowing brain while reading

>>9660135
I'm currently going through Re:Joyce while reading Ulysses, but that's because I don't want to miss out on any of the dank references I'm missing.

Besides that, the sweet sounds of silence.

>anyone else need someone to read the book for them to combat their ADHD
>>>>>>/v/ is that way friend!

>implying Don Quixote wasn't bullshitting everyone the entire time

>>9660082

>implying the narrator wasnt bullshitting everyone the entire time

>>9660082
>>9660310
>implying those things matter in regards to op's question

Probably.

>>9660008
Adult coloring books are where the money is at

>>9660008
Ken Nordine is fucking based and he released a picture book.

And Palahackniuk was a hack from day one, he's the sloppy second, the left overs, the scraps of Bret Easton Ellis at his best and absolutely adolescent trash at his worst.