What are some of your fav new Young Adult Fiction books? Preferably something new.
How do you read them in the bookstore without looking like a creep lol?
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>>9947966
>How do you read them in the bookstore without looking like a creep lol?
By not reading them in the bookstore
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>>9947966
Are you new here, OP?
YA fiction doesn't sit too well with people on /lit/ because it's seen as patronising and people would rather read classics here.
Saying that, I do see the His Dark Materials trilogy get some positive respect here, and you'll find a few people who do unironically enjoy the Harry Potter franchise (even if it is frowned down upon here).
Nothing wrong with reading a book in a bookstore, as long as you're just checking the first few paragraphs or the first chapter. Most bookstores will have chairs or seating areas for people to sit and read if it takes them a little while. As long as you're not breathing down people's necks, intentionally causing trouble or being immature, you're probably not being a "creep."
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I am currently reading through the Nag Hammadi codices, and just finished the theTripartite Tractate. Compared to the previous writings it was a lot more informative but also quite abstract and vague so I had trouble understanding a few things and would appreciate if anyone knowledgeable can help to clear out a few things.
What exactly is "the Word"? If I understood correctly it created the material world and the text said that it put the Demiurge as its ruler, and that it gave the humans made by the Demiurge life from the higher existence without him knowing. Thus it seems to be at fault for trapping us in this world but it isn't being accused or condemned for such actions so what's the deal here? It also seems to be in good relations with the All after it turned away from the deficiency and illusion described (which happened before the occurrences I mentioned above) which makes it even more confusing. And what is this "aeon of images" it created?
Also, what exactly are "the right" and "the life" that are mentioned after the creation of the world? The Demiurge regime and the forces in conflict with it (the devil maybe)? Or is it to do with the spiritual type of man and the psychical one?
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"the left"*
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Oh nice, which edition do you have?
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>>9947949
The word is the logos which gives structure to being
all the other emanations are almost like the pagan gods but less specialized and more fundamental
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A new project that I want to work alongside all of you:
Churbina
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Beginnings:
Every day of my life for the last couple of years have been defined by a constant emptiness, a dreadful boredom that makes everything painfully insufferable; nothing makes makes me exited anymore, there is nothing I look forward to, and everyone I interact with feels so normal, so boring and yet so willing to carry on with the banality of their lives. Having said that, I feel that I need to clarify that in the eyes of others I'm not an out cast, to be honest I'm quite friendly and dependable so people are naturally interested in my person, but I truly hate them all, and I hate myself for acting as a mirror to them. To inhabit this kind of perversion, this deviation of the normality, feels extremely lonely, especially since nobody dares to step inside and risk losing everything what they so carefully had forged. But the other option, that terrible nightmare, is to fully devote myself to that game of imitations and to become that shapeless blob that you need to be in order to find something besides solitude. Such thought is terrifying.
It's clear that I have toyed with the idea of killing myself before, but to act on such impulse is something that can't allow me to do, since it goes well against that one thing that I hold dear inside of me: The principle of reason.
And I know that sometimes the effect is much more interesting than the cause, the unexpected can, indeed, be quite exhilarating, but the reason I'm sharing this with all of you is because there is something I want to announce:
I have decided that on November 15 2018 I will kill myself.
This is a definitive date for me and for all intents and purposes it is set in stone. It is a decision that is well mediated, is not rushed and will not be based on the impulse of the moment.
And so, our daring Churbina stared a new and final life, and with only 443 days left he immediately thought that the waiting was far too long.
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Hello /lit/, this is just a proposition about an idea that has been prowling in my head for the last couple of years, and which I finally decided to turn it into a reality. Basically I just want you all to see how this story develops while I'm working on it. Every 1st and 11th for the next 15 months I will post an update on what is happening in the story, and no matter what events transpire during this period of time the project will be finished by November 15 of next year. I know that I'm not a very good writer so I will gladly accept any form of criticism that could help me improve. Thank you for your time, and I hope you have a nice day, m8s.
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>>9947931
Damn, I kind of want to see the result of this, but I should probably also discourage you from killing yourself.
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>>9947930
>to fully devote myself to that game of imitations and to become that shapeless blob that you need to be in order to find something besides solitude.
what makes you think that?
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https://leandrocoronel.blogspot.com/
A different kind of book
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>>9947871
How is this not considered advertisement but I get banned for linking my ebook
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Interesting non-fiction, saw Ackerman speak the other day and thought her book was interesting. Any other "science" books about strange subjects?
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>>9947824
Pic related: first page of The Religion of the Future by Unger
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>>9947824
https://www.amazon.com/Ants-Bert-Holldobler/dp/0674040759
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Ants-Story-Scientific-Exploration/dp/0674485262/ref=pd_bxgy_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ETKWWKERN21KY8F6TX17
Read a couple chapters if you like ants. They're one of the more interesting organisms.
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>>9947839
>$132
Jesus fucking christ, anon, this better be good
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J. K. Rowling > Your favorite writer
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Wow man that paradoxical though, JK Rowling is my favourite author ahaha
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Best thing about Rowling is the mountains of underage smut being written every day desu.
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who was in the wrong here?
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The fucking bell monkey
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>>9947776
Damn Frollo might be my favourite character of all time, although Notre Dame is not my favourite book.
I especially like the Disney adaptation, Hellfire in particular.
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>>9950665
And it's probably the only Disney movie in which characters aren't presented black and white.
The mosquito man
He's crashing this plane
Big guy
FOR YOU
The fire rises
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>>9947758
wrong board
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>>9947758
what did he mean by this
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>>9947763
It's a Nael poem idiot
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I'm sure this question gets asked a thousand times. How do I keep myself focused on reading? I want to read more, and I enjoy good books. But ever since I finished school, I can't read for longer than an hour or so without growing tired. I used to blast through three to five books a month or so, but now I can't even finish one.
tl;dr how do I focus on my books?
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>>9947737
reading should be important to you because you want to improve yourself not impress people stop wasting your time on 4plebs and start studying. good luck.
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>>9947737
change your diet and start reading more. if you get tired, nap. the more you read the easier it will be to stay awake while reading for long periods of time. also avoid fiction unless its thought provoking poetry (imo)
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Is this guy worth supporting? Or is there somebody that does what he does better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL-fOJuf7MY
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>>9947735
i havent seen any
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>>9947735
Don't think there are others like him in the English speaking world. I'd look east if I were to look for more.
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>>9947735
His Pentecost for the zombie apocalypse talk was really great.
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Why does it seem virtually all the greatest horror/gothic fantasy writers are English or American? Can anyone please recommend to me some non-anglophonic horror/gothic stories (besides faust)?
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ever heard of faust?
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>>9947732
do you read?
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What genre you like and read the most?
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>>9947721
Probably Fantasy
Least favorite is detective stories.
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everything that has a "real men" as protagonist
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>>9947721
I like Peter Levenda style Conspracy books, and of course nonfiction in general.
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Do you think it's possible to write a book using your 2nd language?
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>>9947704
Conrad. Nabokov. Ha Jin. Yakov Smirnoff. And now (you)
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I only read books in English, so why wouldn't I write in English.
It pretty much has become my first language.
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>>9947706
also hannu rajaniemi
>Nabokov
he was a native speaker, it doesn't matter who teaches you the language as soon as they do it early enough, hence why there exist even esperanto native speakers
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ITT:
>favorite author
>their weird sexual fetish/behaviors
>your weird sexual fetish/behaviors
>how you feel about your similarities or differences
>Proust
>His letters talk about himself being obsessed with masturbation. Many times a day he'd go at it. Like way more than you're average teenager, and it continued well into adulthood. (Plus if you include his homosexuality)
>Same as Proust, chronic addictive masturbator. But not homosexual. Way more than your average 4chan browser, like I'll do it in the bathroom at work. I did it on an airplane once just to see if it was different, but it wasn't.
>Learning about Proust's chronic masturbation was a breath of fresh air for me, not only did it make me feel like there were other people like me, but brilliant people. Sometimes after a clammy fap I'll shut my eyes and drift into half sleep, before I even clean myself up, and fantasize about being in heaven after I die and find a white marble castle. At the top of the highest tower, looking down his nose at God Himself, is Marcel Proust, turning and facing me, seeing my chafed palm and asymmetrically toned forearms, he'll shout "Lower the draw bridge, he's one of us!" And I will step forward, as if in going forward I had been gently displacing the liquid stream of happiness, and at the same time with a strange feeling of absolute power, and entering into my rightful place in eternity.
I am rock hard
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>>9947638
>favorite
Anyways, Willa Cather always wrote about male figures in her novels as best friends, but never as a romantic attachment, and if there is a legal one like marriage, it is one of formality. In her personal life she lived alone as presumably an asexual, or with a female room-mate, with little evidence towards a sexual relationship.
I feel her works are more honest for it.
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>>9947638
3/10
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Books you regrat reading 2017-08-28 04:08:17 Post No.9947549
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>buy cheap scifi book in gas station
>later find out it's written by a woman
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I bought the first Assassin's Creed book about 6 years ago and never actually read it.
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>>9947549
andre norton was a woman?
that explains.. well, quite a lot.
only book i ever regret spending money on was one of the fucking Dune Prequels. i can't even remember which one it was.
i left it on a park bench for the seagulls to shit on.
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I expected so much more, having fallen for the Murakami hype. Best part is the cover.