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>>8883921
wrong board this isn't tv

He's been writing SOIAF for years...and It took him HOW LONG to get published? He's going to be dead before he even gets a chance to enjoy those royalties.

Imagine how comfy it must be when you're a hack and have your old fantasy series get picked up by a major television company and realize that you won't have to write or do shit ever again. Just get more and more fat and waste money until you die of heart failure. The dream.

>tfw almost had sex but performance anxiety
feels meh man

>>8883873

i had that my first time too

luckily im a homosexual bottom though, so we could have sex anyway

>>8883873
I'm afraid this is gonna happen to me

>>8883829
I find it easy to have a novel and a fiction book on the go at the same time. If you're a decent reader it's not hard to read multiple books concurrently it just doesn't suit some people though

>>8883829
fuck I wish I could grow a beard. why don't his friends and family tell him how stupid he looks.

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>>8883845

>>8883803
You are a gigantic faggot

BRAAAP

>>8883803
>>8883803
>...
>Mmm...? Ahhh..
>Why.. hello.

i also liked dark souls

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>>8883695
Guinness book of world records 2004

>>8883695
Murakami's 19q4

>>8883719

You shouldn't have read it in 2016

Is this a new meme?

>>8883702
Have you read it?

>>8883682
Give some examples of what's so great

Starving man: "Hahaha, food... how banal."

Na, it was alright. More like autismo

>>8883662

What aspects of the book make you think it might or might not be pomo?

>>8883662
is that a freud?

>>8883640
I would go without my man. but I am a boring person.

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>>8883657
Thanks.

>>8883640
>>8883657
Me too, on both accounts.

>>8883611

I got that exact same one last Christmas

>>8883611
I just got given the necronomicon collection today.

Bamp for interest

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>>8883501
I'm pretty sure /lit/ is split on Jung. Half of people seem to value him for his contribution to literary theory and whatnot, and the other half just think he's pseudoscience bullshit. At least that's what i've seen.

There's definitely been a big rise in discussion about him recently, probably because of Jordan Peterson.

I kind of fall into the camp where I enjoy reading him so that I can study Archetypes and see what other knowledge I can squeeze out of his writing.

>>8883579
>Half of people seem to value him for his contribution to literary theory and whatnot, and the other half just think he's pseudoscience bullshit.

So nobody thinks his idea of the archetypes has any merit?

>Writers cba to write new books as no-one buys anymore

>>8883492
>implying any books written past 1960 are good
i hope the medium dries up for good so we're only left with the classics

>>8883469
It's a costly vice.

>>8883565
There's a clear drop in talent since the 60s, but don't exaggerate.

Pasolini, Jünger, Debord, Gómez Dávila, Calvino, Perec, Borges... wrote good things.

Already a number of xmas threads but what the hell. Merry Christmas Anons, I hope you all had fantastic days.

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Merry Christmas friends

>tfw totally alone and don't give a fuck

I got an e-reader for christmas - always been staunchly against them but here we are and it's kind of neat.

Anyone know a good place to get free epubs for it? I exclusively read historical non-fiction.

>>8883415
I have one, would recommend.
There's probably some Chinese rip offs that are good but like always its a gamble with them

>>8883415
If you can get on either bibliotik or myanonamouse then you will have every book you could ever want at your fingertips.
Myanon has pretty much no ratio because they straight up give you upload/fl tokens like every week so you never have to contribute. Bib you need an overdrive library account, but if you do have one (and most libraries support it), you can hit the 100 upload requirement in a few days and then download to your heart's content.

Halp. How do i seperate my porn from rest of my kindle crap?

Im using this primarily for school but read porn while travelling. I want to just avoid a situation where my shitty fetishes get seen by normies.

P.S. Merry Christmas

>>8883388

I haven't read Euclid, but from what I've been told, Spinoza merely borrows his form and lays out his argument the way you'd lay out a geometrical proof, starting with definitions and axioms, then a host of propositions which follow from these.

I'd recommend you familiarize yourself with Descartes before reading Spinoza. Spinoza's thought is directly related to Descartes'. What Spinoza does is that he rejects a glaring inconsistency in the Cartesian conception of substance, namely a definition of substance as being wholly independent, and a distinction between substance proper and created substance, where the former is independent (God) and the latter are dependent only on God (res cogitans and res extensa).

Spinoza accepts the definition of substance as being independent and takes this definition to its logical conclusion, eschewing the pseudosubstances that Descartes operates with.

As for a book, The Principles of Philosophy has most of the juicy parts of Cartesian philosophy.

>>8883412
Thank you for your helpful answer!