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>>9558558
I always enjoy rereading stuff when my perspective has radically changed.

>>9558558
this feel requires elaboration

>>9559085
Yes. Do go on, OP

Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo, I presume.

Babyfucker by Urs Alleman, I think.

>>9558489
is it good?

i suspect the best way to experience him would be at 3 am, just after a fistfight as you buy him a shot and a beer at a bar.

>>9558222
Most reddit post i've seen on this board.

>>9558252
Oh yeah? well you're a fucking reddit! shithead.

>>9558168
>paid job writing
Just go into technical writing. If you mean paid for writing shit you find interesting that's something else entirely.

>>9558177
yeah I have a friend who's a published writer and he basically did that but that's not what I mean

I already have a well paying job as a chemist, writing is my hobby but I want to know how to turn it into a career

do I just write the whole book then shill it?

curse you /lit/ give me your secrets

>>9558117
>When you can't refute it but you've been memed by others to hate it
>Going to /lit/ to shitpost about something to vindicate your feelings for it from others who also feel the same way

99% of our societal discourse really m8 (except in usa that would be protestant dogmas, of course)

>monarchism is the best political system?
>why?
>because they are bred from infancy to be leaders
>*point of the hundreds of cases of shit and corrupt monarchial leaders*
>communist!!!!

This anon doesn't even know The Prince is satirical and probably hasn't read Virtue

>>9558066
Saul Alinsky

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>>9558066

>best stories of dosto
>not including the gambler or the double
hm

you people will do anything to avoid actually reading
>what order should i read???
>where should i sit???
>what do i do???

>>9557990
It's a collection of short stories, I didn't get to pick them out. I'll add that, though.
>>9557996
I'm making a trip to the library soon. I just want to make sure I have a good list.

Such a clever cover. I've always loved it

Keep it in the containment board. Lem is nothing special.

>>9557949

Tarkovsky literally has a 30 minute highway traffic being stuck scene right on the beginning that is only there to filter the casuals who are too impatient to watch his movies. Take that as you will, but if you're going for the philosophy, stay on Stanislav.

Hadiths are extra-quranic fanfiction compiled by fanbois 200 years after Mohammad died.

You might ask for sura citations if what you want is from the Quran itself.

>>9557929
Who gives a shit about anything Mudshits have done.
The little benefit they have brought to this world is practically zero to the horrible ideas and backwards thoughts and ways of life they have introduced to this world.
Fucking morons ruined Persia what could have remaind perhaps as an educational and thinkers center of the Mddle East.

>>95580eightzero
Unread jahil, you deserve not even a (You)
If you truly believe islam is uniquely evil in world history you have never read the koran or even studied the base characteristics of the religion in a comparative sense
Don't you have a cable television news programme to be watching?

YA tier covers
anything about some big bad Other

Publisher.
Cited material.

>>9557739
The "business" section. 99% are filled with Harvard Business Review tier buzzwords, pop psych on leadership, and lazy case studies. I'm not referring to economics or finance books.

Lattimore.

>>9557591
Lagerlöf

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Read the first page of different translations and stick with the one you prefer.

There's no "best"

goodreads?

>>9557582
seems like a goodsite desu

are you books possibly leaving you?

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>>9557252
>a fucking phone poster

>>9557252
care to elaborate? first time I'm hearing of this book.

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>>9557252
Reading OP's book right, and he's absolutely right, it's changing how I view the world quite a bit

most people here i would imagine

Yes

Great to read both in short bursts while sitting on the toilet and in long stretches during a roadtrip.

I read most of it

Never finished up the last couple chapters because I really lost interest towards the end of the thing

MY

DIARY

DESU