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It's too late if you're 22. Sorry.

>>9455557
desu going to the library is a bad way to start. a lot of people check out the book and then have to return it, and that can be an excuse for not reading it. if you buy it, you have to put some money down, and you have a physical copy forever, both of which make you more likely to actually read it

>>9455712
or you know, just have discipline and brain and do the right thing, which is reading a book and doing lots of hard sweat work

interlibrary loan.
scan.
upload.
do it for the plebs.

>>9455371

They're keeping the secrets of writing bestselling fiction to themselves, so the plebs won't realize how easy it is and quit their wageslave jobs to write trash.

>>9455443
It's not easy though. It essentially comes down to luck, as it's all about your connections and marketing.

There are loads of interesting things going on right now, you're just too busy navel-gazing to appreciate them.

>>9455369
>it's
I stopped reading there. On /lit/ of all places...

>>9455374
You missed the whole point and cherry picked one element of what I said to make a half baked response.

>>9455085
With books distance does not make the heart grow fonder. I read enders game probably 10x between 10 and 15, and ever after included it in my list of favorite books. I re-read it at like 30, and it did not age well.

I have always loved The Call of the Wild and White Fang, but right now I feel the most intensely towards Laurus, and before that it was Brief History of Seven Killings, and before that it was Blood Meridian, and before that For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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>>9454847
just read burgin oconnor like multiple people suggested you faggot and stop making this thread over and over

the time you spent making threads you couldve finished half the book already

>>9455321
I did order the O'connor version. I was just curious to know multiple opinions. It needs to arrive first before I can read it, which could be tomorrow.

>>9454847
P&V suck in general. They have no style or talent, you might as well use google translate

Is it a new trend to have terrible news article titles? The title itself screams clickbait

Reported for advertising. Archive link or fuck off.

Remember when vice was on the cutting edge of things for like twelve minutes about 5 years ago?

ANIME
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I
M
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Anime is God.
Because it is dead

If all voices are valid, and they all say different things, does that mean no voices are valid?

Nigger

>>9454513
Kinfolk
Hoolet
Orangutan

guppy

The experience machine with the adequate complexity of simulation would be ontologically equivalent to the "real" world, because the only thing that's real is the structure of relationships between its elements. But what's the point of such a machine? Omnipotence would lead to insanity and not to happiness.

>>9454494
That's the point, that it would be equivalent to the real world, but it would not be real. Everyone else would still be out there hoping to make something out of their shitty lives while you are inside, guaranteed to succeed no matter what you do.

>Omnipotence would lead to insanity and not to happiness
You don't have to opt for omnipotence inside the machine. You could choose to become a writer or to have a gf.

>>9454464

>Philosophers all over history questioned whether what we experience is self-induced.
>Me is American, will repeat with new catchy modern words ('machine') [1]
>Me is now philosopher

[1] For further reference, see also Putnam's 'Brain in a Vet' hypothesis, also called the 'Why stick to Plato's cave when you can refer to a way more sexy sci-fi imagery?' hypothesis

>>9454235
Did he go on about Rabelais?

I really love some of Herzog's films, but it seems to me like his film school stuff is just a bunch of bullshit he spews out to convince gullible young filmmakers so he can fund his lifestyle of making commercially un-viable films.

I was listening to him being interviewed on the radio once, and he just couldn't fucking stop mentioning his film making class even though it was largely unrelated to the questions he was being asked.

>>9454235
Is it like My Side of the Mountain?

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Who cares what he says? His films are brilliant.

are we getting raided by reddit whats up with all these plebby niggas

>>9454029
What do you mean?

>>9454029
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVlXQej5ZRc

Death Of A Salesman probably

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I read this awhile back. Makes me feel good that I'm just as dumb as the teacher in the play

Start with the Greeks. No really, read Aeschylus, Sophocles and euripides

finnegans wake

>>9453848
actually sounds kinda interesting ill have to check it out

shades children

What religious writings should I cop?

Also after reading Resurrection what short stories are best? Already read W&P, AK, Ivan Ilyich and The Kreutzer Sonata.

get a job

>>9453870
>What religious writings should I cop?
What I Believe + The Kingdom of God Is Within You

>Also after reading Resurrection what short stories are best?
I really like Master and Man, Father Sergius, God Sees the Truth, But Waits, Wisdom of Children, Alyosha the Pot and How Much Land Does a Man Need?.

I doubt I've read any fanfics longer than Atlas Shrugged, but some are probably up there. Those /mlp/ generals can run for a long time.

>>9453716
>read Fallout Equestria and some of Pink Eyes
That shit is literally longer than War and Peace, I could've been putting my efforts towards pvre literatvre

>>9453696
The Percy Jackson books were my favorite works of literature up until, like, the eighth grade.

I have also read and enjoyed My Little Pony fanfictions. None longer than Don Quixote, thank God.