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>>9007652
I know, you're right, I hate myself for this. I want to learn German but I can't be fucked among all the other shit I have to do day to day.

Already speak in three tongues, know a fourth.

Not even an anglo, I know 3 languages. Language learning is vastly overrated (thats why mostly women do it), if you want to learn a language, study a programming one. It actually trains your logical thinking instead of replacing one set of words and grammatical rules with another.

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sup

probably gass. but honestly i don't know why we are so obsessed with prose style. i wouldn't put gass in the top 5 best american writers of prose fictions even though he's probably way ahead as a stylist

>>9006546
yes

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>>9006546
I have the money to spend on it and prefer paper aesthetically. Enjoyment is all the reason you need.

I also routinely swap books with friends, which isn't as easy with normal ebooks.

>>9006546
No, for retention.

Can anyone here tell me if Sleeping Giants eventually becomes a full mecha anime? I don't want to read about fucking voltron

>>9006410
the character is a scientist at heart who has seen geometries and geographies which defy rational explanation and wants to apply Foglio's law to them (any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science)

An entity decided to invest in her quest by giving her a set of glasses with a pair of knobs at the end. turning them allows her to rotate and displace her vision in any dimension (including time and hyperspace). She believes there's a rational explanation for how it works but given that she has no way to take it apart without breaking it she uses it in her research

Later she finds out that it doesn't work with other people, which she brushes off as some kind of biometric device.

Evnetually she loses the glasses, much to her dismay. However, when she goes to turn the knob subconsciously it works anyway, revealing that the glasses were just a magic feather. it was always her power to begin with.

Unfortunately, this kind of implies that it's magic and/or something she can't explain

>>9006494
why do the glasses have to be a magic feather? can't they just be "strange glasses" and her power is producing the effect through the lens of the glasses? maybe they're just an amplifier of her power

Last time i was here you guys had some good web fiction recommendations. Finished Worm and luminosity. Throw me another bone.

>>9004385
Pig disgusting

>>9000282

2666-Roberto Bolano(2/3rds of the way done)
The Ice Trilogy-Sorokin
The Little Demon-Sologub
Samarkand-Amin Maalouf
White Noise-Don Delilo
City and the City-China Melvile
Samuel Becket-Complete shorter plays

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Not pictured, the Complete Works of Machiavelli.

>>9000282
Why anyone would buy a "portable reader" is beyond me.

>>9000300
I'm not opinionated enough to be against this group or that group, I just like history.
>>9000308
how do you like 2666?

>>8997190

There were two chickens left in the place where chickens are kept.

I do mean to imply that two is a number lower than what the space had been used to previously. And I do not intend to call it a coop.

This is the tale of an encounter that changes nothing. When the sun shines on a snowy day, the whole world bursts and gleams and everyone must think that the snow will melt. But it doesn't. That night, the snow falls again, and nothing has changed.

Meeting Olivia should and could have changed everything, but it didn't. In a few months, she would be dead and forgotten and I would be back in Alaska, transcribing young adult novels for John Green to steal from.

This tale changes nothing.

-

>>8997413
Is that it?

If dubs we just watch Lost in La Mancha and discuss that

I propose that we start on the 25th and use the Grossman or the OJB translation. We should also read 50 pages a day

>>8995290
No strong opinions regarding translation or start date but I feel like 40-50 a day is a good range.

By not being an autist with no imagination. And I'm in STEM.

>>9015966
I only read 300 or less page YA or space opera books these days because I sick of all the self-masturbatory pseudointellectual "literature" people shit out constantly. And I'm having much more fun with books because of it. That's what it's all about for me now. Not reading some trash by some fag who took a few creative writing courses and thinks they have something deep and meaningful to tell everyone.

>>9015969
Thanks but I can't change what I am
>>9015982
I'll try some of those, thanks

Honestly senpai just leave.

>>9015851
theyre like 30 plus years old, wearing mascara. the lyrics to their songs are on a 3rd grader reading level. I know its bait but still, theyre fucking trash

whiny juvenile pseudo-edgy bullshit

extatic pleasure
perfect first encounters

>galloping abs
>as red as the communist manifesto

>actually reading erotica

my favorite bit from Wilderness which I bought when I was 17:

She looked so sad in her sleep
Like a friendly hand
just out of reach
A candle stranded on
a beach
While the sun sinks low
an H-bomb in reverse

no.

lyracists and poets are two seperate things.

Theres plenty of essays explaining the diffrrence.

>>9015802
Link one

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>>9015712
I wanted to read something like that to get a general idea of how the world has progressed in its different parts, but at the same time most of them have writings that seem utterly bland and boring.

I am going for the picture related instead.

Best single volume: History of the World by J.M. Roberts
2nd best: A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich

Best various volumes: History of the Ancient World / Medieval World / Renaissance World by Susan Wise Bauer, followed by A History of the Modern World by R.R. Palmer.

>>9015733
It is a good book but you show be aware of some strong flaws. I recommend you read this review: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1735

Take the red pill, cuck.

>>9015677
Dumb animeposter

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>>9015910

you forgot to say what book it was

>>9015600
>into my otherwise cold and grey world
is a bit tryhard/cringe/fedora

using the word summer twice is a bit iffy as well replace the first one with something else

maybe something like

For the person who brought a touch of color into my world; for my summer girl

if you get a few more syllables in the second line you can get a slant rhyme off world/girl which is always a little cute

I hope you have nice handwriting!

Do not do this you fucking faggot I've done this before and you will look like a monstrous retard the choice is yours