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>>9225583
I'm a pretty casual reader. On an average week, I'll do about fourty pages a day. I spend most my energy trying to understand how an author has created a certain effect, how a writer can give me a vivid image of a bar it's zinc tables in just two lines. I'll often have about three books on the go at the same time, I don't have any trouble remembering the plots, and I can pick up a half-finished book (the shame of it) years later and remember where I left off pretty clearly. Once I read a book, I'll shelve it and think more about any emotional message. If I really enjoyed the book, I'll read more from the author or his influences, but really I'm conscious that I haven't read enough books to give me the kind of luxury of depth over width yet. I a book was really good, I'll end up taking it's writing style in a really annoying way mostly. I kept putting hyphens all over the place in some important essays after The Ego and It's Own.

For movies, I just pay a lot of attention to the dialogue, how it works or flows.

>>9225583
Depending on uni workload I read about 40 pages a day, reviewing dense chapters when needed. If I'm reading non-fiction I keep a slow pace and make notes

Heavy handed.
Didnt like it, sorry

>>9225523
How do you mean? Are we talking style?

>>9225500
You have metaphors all over the place.

> time passing, line 1
> drunk, line 2
> depths, line 2
> falling bodies, waves, masts, staircases

Choose one. Pick it apart, prove your point. Close it up.

It was useful pre-computers if you were looking for something in a large source of texts, but now that's negligible with how you can find most large research documents and other documents online and just F3 keywords.

If you're reading something for non-trivial intellectual purposes (philosophy, history, literature, ect) proficiency should be far more emphasized over speed. I never met or heard of a person actually speed-reading multiple books and sources for a subject and acquiring a somewhat meaningful proficiency in understanding it.

>>9225478
I cant F3 paper m8 I dont bring a notebook to college so after I've read everything I just speedread through my notes before the exam for fresh knowledge

>>9225478
Really? That's usually where I'd speed read the most. Sure, I'd make sure to comprehend it, but with novels I tend to take my time, because the brain is working overtime to construct scenery, props, characters' faces, voices, builds...

Notes and intellectual musings are a bit more taxing in other ways, but requires fewer imaginary constructs, so processor power doesn't lag.

So to speak.

Never, read Mary Anne Evans instead

Start with the Greeks and slowly work your way up to third base.

In her grave, defiling her corpse.

More /lit/ related then half the stuff posted here

>>9225340
Is mayonnaise literature?

only if you learn to understand the Holy Spirit which communicates in groans

>reading translations

>>9225237
It's by far my favorite from him, and a very well-loved modern novel in Japan.

His fetishes are a lot more subdued in it. You won't have outright footplay and femdom described, but there are slight hints in the background of all of it. The understatement makes it a lot more enticing imo.

>>9225259
>You won't have outright footplay and femdom described, but there are slight hints in the background of all of it
Wow, ok... I thought it would be this very polite, Ozu like, generational thing.

>>9225281
Sound of the Mountain by Kawabata is likely more what you're looking for.

Just read his investigative journalism on pornography and call it a day.

>>9225161
Just dive right into Infinite Jest. It's a great book, and it gets shit on a lot for really no constructive reasons I've seen

>>9225183
I'm saving it for summer lol. It just strikes me as a good summer book. I just want something to read in the meantime.

shit

>>9225119
trannies

ask me in another 80 years, but i'd hazard a guess that this century's literature will veer away from the limited-scope speculative science and psychology, human narratives, etc. and new authors will embrace a new renaissance ideal, with the masterpieces of the 21st century spanning the mastery of many technical disciplines, unprecedentedly wide nets of human experiences, abandonment of cyclical archetypes, etc.

>>9224984
When human beings found out about death

They sent the dog to Chukwu with a message:

They wanted to be let back to the house of life.

They didn’t want to end up lost forever

Like burnt wood disappearing into smoke

Or ashes that get blown away to nothing.

Instead they saw their souls in a flock at twilight

Cawing and headed back to the same old roosts

And the same bright airs and wing-stretchings

Each morning.

Death would be like a night spent in the wood:

At first light they’d be back in the house of life.

(The dog was meant to tell all this to Chukwu.)
But death and human beings took second place

When he trotted off the path and started barking

At an other dog in broad daylight just barking

Back at him from the far bank of a river.
And that is how the toad reached Chukwu first,

The toad who’d overheard in the beginning

What the dog was meant to tell.

‘Human beings,’ he said

(And here the toad was trusted absolutely),

‘Human beings want death to last forever.’
Then Chukwu saw the people’s souls in birds

Coming towards him like black spots off the sunset

To a place where there would be neither roosts

Not trees

Nor any way back to the house of life.

And his mind reddened and darkened all at once

And nothing that the dog would tell him later

Could change that vision. Great chiefs and great loves

In obliterated light, the toad in mud,

The dog crying out all night behind the corpse house.

>>9225045
This is from The Spirit Level, right? Definitely one of Heaney's better collections but I'd wager Human Chain is one of my favourites from him.

fuck I hate poetry so much

read Bleak House

>>9224803
who is that?

Whether you like his stories or not, Dickens is de facto the greatest prosaist in history

i've only found clipped nails, hair, really old bus tickets, candy wrappers, and one time i found a photograph of two ~20 year old girls for some reason.

>go to local used book store
>browse and then buy some books
>go home and read them
happened a few times

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>>9224736
Don't you ever approach the cutie girls whom go there to ostentatiously browse books, in hopes of meeting bookish fellows, such as yourself, anon?

>>9224649

Doors of perception? I would like a recommendation also

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Novel with Cocaine by M. Ageyev.
Title says it all.

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>>9224649
here ya go anon this book has it all

>jews
>nazis
>drugs
>lesbians

>>9224575
Does Land have any longer texts I can read? I find his website and articles interesting, but I'd like to find a more continuous version of his thinking.

I often feel like he's alluding to things I should have already read, things he wrote before.

>>9224586
sounds like a charlatan

>>9224586
his books are great

What is Kurt Vonnegut doing with Steve Bannon? Were they friends?

If prose is not consistently in Ciceronian periods, I refuse to touch it.

>>9225623
;)

>>9223935
lol, you too iliterate to read one?

>>9223896
>threw


>vomiting.gif

>>9225081

Wow go fuck yourself