>yfw you can order Hypersphere from B&N
What's going on anymore?
>>9060637
Woah, you're right wtf
>>9060856
This isn't the future I wanted.
>what's going on anymore?
Rate my reading area.
Post yours.
>>9060550
I sat there for about an hour today until I started shaking. Why does snow have to be this cold? But yeah, I spend a lot of time reading outdoors.
>>9060550
That chair cannot be comfortable, there's no way someone could just sit in that for even an hour and not want to kill himself hoyl shit
90% of my reading is on the toilet
David Bowie the kind of cat to bring a copy of James Joyce Ulyssess to a dinner with Iggy pop lmao what a cool dude.
>>9060468
also wtf edition is that
>>9060468
You know those huge cases of books they bring to schools? He used to bring loads of books with on tour in those
>>9060468
Rock music is degenerate and rock musicians are dysgenic
Are books on how to write worth reading, or should you just start writing?
>>9060407
if you are thinking about writing, why aren't you doing it already? there is no secret to writing. the only thing that helps you is experience. so write, write, write!
also, yes, read books on writing. they'll help you understand the craft.
>>9060407
Just read a lot novels and try to figure out how they work. The lessons you learn yourself are more valuable than the ones others teach you
There's no definitive method of writing, nor a definitive way of teaching it. Read a lot, write a lot. It's all about study and practice.
Who was in the wrong here?
nobody, its a damn interview
>>9060263
You there was no conflict you mong
>>9060263
There was no conflict here
This interview on the other hand...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwfQl2LGhwc
I am reading Either/Or and 100 pages in he is just talking about how he likes Mozart's plays and music. What exegesis am I missing here?
Mozart is pretty sweet.
>>9060084
Idiot
>>9060084
Go watch any production of Don Giovanni on YouTube and you'll understand why Kierkegaard had such a hard on for Mozart.
>sitting on the public transporter
>a beautiful Nubian queen sits next to me and asks me what I'm reading
>Nigger of the Narcissus
>Ay yo white boy! What the fuck you is?
>Why you ain't say nuffing?
>What you doing? You readin or some ol' bullshit!
>Ay yo! E'rbody! Look dis white boy reading like a damn ol' fag!
>Gimme dat shit! *snatches book, throws it out the window*
>Giggles like a crazed chimp.
>Dat's right white boy, fuck Trump.
>Bitch ass cracka mufucka, shit!
>Aww...damn, looks you, just lookin all mopey and shit now. You gonna cry, booty ass bitch?
>Shit...ya'll white niggas ain't shit.
>Ay yo, lemme get 'bout fi'dolla from ya.
>>9060072
>Back in highschool
>Reading on a bench
>qt black girl walks up and asks me what I'm reading
>be a dumbass edgy teen with dumbass edgy teen reactions
>HURR YES ITS A BOOK, YES I READ, IM NOT SOME IGNORANT PIECE OF SHIT etc. etc. something to that effect
>She looks at me like I'm retarded
>Start to feel retarded
>She still wants to know what book it is and if it's any good
>It was some YA garbage
thanks for reminding me of that fun time OP
>>9060091
cringe
Who would win in a philosophy right
Fight*
>>9059804
nietzsche since he dismantles the ego as nothing but nihilism and the dialectics as hacks, while creating a system fit to deal with nihilism.
I get to choose between a course in German and a course in French. Which one would you think is more beneficial?
Picture unrelated
Uzbek is better than these two
>>9059134
French, of course.
>>9059134
German, no doubt.
no, don't refute anarchism, or my thoughts as a way of organizing society. just my personal philosophy. go on. i'll wait.
>me
But we don't even know who you are or what worldview you have. Upload your manifesto or something.
>>9059046
>worldview
spook
'That was a sad birthday, but she more than made up for it, she was already three after all.'
Am I fluent in English yet?
>>9058915
change 'that' into 'it', you'll do fine
>>9059090
why?
>>9060792
Because language
I'm halfway through this book and it's bad, what gives? Also, why does he use "and" so frequently. Literally unreadable.
It's literally readable, as many have. It's awesome btw.
>Corncob Tortillas YeCarthy
>>9058846
Corncob is a pretengious faggot who thinks writing without most forms of punctuation gives his books a "biblical" quality. Naturally, pseuds eat that kind of shit up.
Do you have a library card, /lit/?
It was the first thing I got when I moved city, have used it once in 6 months. It's good to have though as I'm running out of bought books and I'm poor af.
Banned for returning like 10 Grateful Dead cds late because I was traveling out of state. Somehow fitting
Yes. It's a piece of cardboard that has the number 530, and the signature of the only librarian in town, so she can ID me.
Books can be on hold for how long you like, but must be returned before the 24. December.
Joining is free one week per year. I abuse the shit outta the library.
Can we talk about this book? I just finished it early Friday morning. The language is beautiful and the story of Henry and Catherine's love for each other is one of the most touching and heartbreaking things I've read in ages. The ending made me tear up. I loved how the writing was simple and concise while at the same time conveying subtle and aching colour and beauty. The characterization and descriptions of what's going on is just so vivid despite Hemingway using short and clipped wording. I read The Old Man and the Sea last Fall and this was my second book by Hemingway and my first of this year. I really liked this book. Can we get some discussion about it?
Honestly I thought the dialogue between them was clunky. Really overblown romantic nonsense.
The Swiss part of the book is comfy as fuck though.
>>9057974
Not that good. I read the Sun Also Rises first and it was a lot better. I loved the passage about the army retreating but I didn't care about the love story. Catherine just didn't feel like a person to me.
>>9058567
Agreed. She's just a bunch of weak tropes tied together. Crazy woman, maternal figure, doting lover with absolutely nothing else going on for her.
Brett on the other hand. Oh boy I fucking hated her. Hemingway did well when he wrote her.
what book really made you laugh (out loud)?
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