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Reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings kind of did this for me. I know this kind of sucked for the characters in those books (particularly lotr) but the descriptions of the fantastical lands were goddamn enthralling.

well i mean hard to go past "on the road" and "heart of dankness". Fantasy not for me.

>>9441168
huck finn

>>9441039
Like, never?

Whenever you feel like it. Death will come anyway, the years in between are utterly meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

>>9441039
yesterday

How about I just name some poets and you can look through their work:

T.S. Eliot
Wallace Stevens
Seamus Heaney
Robert Frost
W.B. Yeats
Ranier Maria Rilke
William Carlos Williams
D.H. Lawrence
Elizabeth Bishop
Hart Crane
Paul Valéry
Thomas Hardy
Robert Lowell

>>9440940
>>9440954
all trash

>>9440954
I've looked at most of those poets' work, but I never found anything that I thought was clearly better than Dylan's stuff.

>>9440929
kerouac has a poor reputation round these parts, but i'm pretty sure that's a result of most of us only having read the edited version of on the road. dharma bums is a beautiful work that captures something transcendent.

>>9440929
he was a racist white man

Loved Dharma Bums. His story about spending a couple of months as a lookout made me want to dedicate a summer to forestry, since I'm actually from Washington State.

>>9440916
He was a king in his own right, so his sitting out and letting Agamemnon get his ass handed to him wasn't exactly treason or anything. In fact, the whole war was over Agamemnon's brother getting cucked - would you fight by someone's side to get revenge for them when they did the exact same thing to you?

>>9440916
he does whatever he wants and if you don't like, then good luck trying to win the war
he is the epitome of a superman (can't get the 2 points above U on this keyboard), and he reflects that
It's like:
>I fucking know I can win this war alone, but I'm su pissed I won't do shit until I want

Sadly, things didn't turn out as expected for him and had to pay for his arrogance, sort of. Some could say that he was a spoiled bitch, but I think arrogance was looked as a sign of strenght for ancient greeks.

>>9440916

Why didn't every army dip their soldiers in the immortality river so they can have an immortal army?

>>9440885

Only after I've read it once or twice

no, I don't have bad memory

>>9441129
everyone has a bad memory desu.

What do you expect? it's a mainstream website.

>>9440823
When it became the only go-to book cataloging site several years ago.

>>9440823

Do you have friends on goodreads? That's the best way to use it. Lists are for fags unless they are niche ones like "Best books by Author X"

The Epistle of Forgiveness by Al Ma'arri

>>9440818
The Yacoubian Building.

>>9440818
Not the Arabian Nights. Actual Arabs consider the Arabian Nights shitty pop trash for women and children.

P&V

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>>9440778
Learn Russian desu

Garnett Is the most readable. It's nothing like a real translation. Her Tolstoy sounds like Dostoevsky, etc. it's all smoothed out and incredibly inaccurate. P&V or don't even bother.

>Main character is a college student or young hipster artist or yuppie
>Prose is apathetic or uses present tense

my novel in progress is guilty of both of these. is that such a big deal, though?

What makes mustaches and bicycles hipster; what makes bowties, glasses, and a pipe vector?

>>9440704
Desire to adopt "classiness" or "gentleman" aura solely through superficial visual cues. Identity/culture as commodity. See also: craft brews, music on vinyl

>>9440665
>mfw I read about 20-30 pages a day

But that's just me being a phone-addicted faggot, Would second OP on his question.

>>9440665
go on excel, make a graph with date on x axis and hours of reading on y axis. As the days go on, record how much you're reading per day (in hours) and get an idea as to how well you're doing. If you're neet, 8 hours is ideal. if you are in employment of some kind, 9 to 5, then 2 to 4 hours

and if you do work 9 to 5, then 80 pages, assuming ~45 pages an hour, isn't too bad.

If you're not doing as well as you could be, then just try to increase over time and use the excel chart as a guide as to if you're doing good or bad - remember progress becomes easier over time

the most important thing is self discipline and there is not easy fix for that, it has to come from within.

I worry that I'm not reading well rather than enough. I tear through books but don't really retain anything and miss most of the subtext.

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>>9440522
You already know the answer.

Age of King.

>>9440522
Poetry's dead.

>>9440425
my diary desu

The Pretty Little Liars books. The ones I got through, anyway, till I couldn't take it anymore.

I was disappointed by Mere Christianity; right from the moment he stated that Christians shouldn't fight each other because then none of them will get converts

>>9440403
Well it might get better

I don't know if death is better

>>9440409
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