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>>8874942
Why

I fucking hate progress too, pham, why can't we all just live in mud huts

>>8874947
Since the rise of the e-book/e-reader we have seen a decline in readership. They also serve to devalue books, to the point where many authors have to essentially follow the music industry format (artists release music for free/nearly free, only make profit from shows and merch).

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First

Reminder that charts

>>8874393
can kill?

Is there a good chart/list for military SF?

women

>>8873815
I guessed the 1 reply was this, on this cucked to hell board. Kys, he was right.

You redditpolr9k go back, this is lit.

Yeah, the world being will and presentation.

>>8873272
are you just using the word spurd because it looks like a good derogatory word to add there or do you think of yourself as a wad of cum with fecal matter in it?

>>8873272
also, i did the same thing with the portable nietzsche

>>8873272
>reading in public
>ever

I can't read books outside the quiet comfort of my moms basement

"But which 'I' is the self which refuses the purely dialectical mode of doing? For by doing nothing the self has accepted his suffering and is this in despair and this despair is indeed a less dangerous despair than the despair experienced by the self refusing to acknowledge the self. The cogent act of doing nothing, the conscious choice to be content with the act of nothingness is in this sense a self recognizing its own self and, one shutters to think of it, embraces his despair."

>>8873181
Post more

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>>8873163
"I would prefer not to."
-Bartleby

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>read book about depressed mediocre academic who isn't sure of his place in life
>this is amazing! someone out there GETS m
>character spends 80% of the book schtupping his hot wife that he got by touching her shoulders once at a party

>>8873016
>>Find out he still isn't a virgin
Fuck a prostitute then, that's what most of the characters in literature do.

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>Main character is depressed
>Main character also happens to have stable job, secure finances, nice wife and kids, is surrounded by people concerned about his depression, is probably physically attractive and is able to articulate his thoughts (without any prep) into half-page speeches that would make Churchill blush

So much of literary fiction is just glorified YA

You really think THIS is the most overrated book?

>>8872542
i don't think this book is overrated, its just utter shit

it isn't fun, it isn't smart, it isn't real literature AND the story is bad

i'd literally pick John Green over Douglar Adams any day of the week

>>8872562
He just wanted to insult the book.

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Make me.

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>>8869798
stressed out dumb normie scum

The struggle to acquire syphilis?

I would, but what authors are you thinking of? I would suggest to read an author of a different nationality each week so that it becomes varied, and even alternate between male author and female author each week. Perhaps even do 2-3 stories from different authors each week and compare them.

>>8868029
>author
>female
lol

>>8868029
I was thinking something from

Chekhov
Tolstoy
Nabokov
Carver
O'Connor
Munro
Hemingway
Maupassant

To start with

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Only one enemy and so on.

CRASHcakes, golden retriever, etc.

The weather beaten trail wound ahead into the dust racked climes of the baren land which dominates large portions of the Norgolian empire. Age worn hoof prints smothered by the sifting sands of time shone dully against the dust splattered crust of earth.

kekeroni

>>8880596
Learn Russian m8

>HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO GUAGE THE WORK OF DOSTOYEVSKY

Here is the root of your problem. Why do you want to guage Dostoevsky? So you shitpost about him? Just read the book and see of it makes you feel something, see if it sparks any ideas in you. Yes, it won't be the same experience as reading it in Russian but you can't fucking speak Russian so stop crying. Stop viewing books through the prism of how many stars you're gonna give it on goodreads or what you're gonna say to accompany a pepe when someone on /lit/ says they like it.

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>>8880407
Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade

>>8880407
kek
just noticed that filename.
Merry Christmas anon

>>8880525
>Merry Christmas

Bah, humbug!

Thanks, you too dude

Not sure but man I love those
Are they known in murrica?

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>>8880365
I love Corto Maltese, but I'm the only English speaker I know who enjoys them, they've only recently been translated but I saw the film of Corto Maltese: La Cour secrète des Arcanes and I was hooked.

>>8880371
I figured that to an american its aesthetic may seem almost caricaturally "eruopean". But I love it too. Really well-drawn and stylish and well-writen. In my eyes it's "literature" yes, certainly great art.

But left is hotter

>>8880301
Such is the struggle of life

>>8880286
i don't read

im down

It's a pretty quick read. I finished it off over the last two days

Kind of mediocre. Good on ideas not good on everything else

i hate reading clubs