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Aside from your local bookstores, where are some other literary places readers and writers congregate at?

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A substantial amount of what I've been reading in the past year or so has been fiction.

I have 2 weeks off of work as of today, and I would like some recommendations for non-fiction books, I've compiled a list of about five books so far, but my goal is fifteen by the end of the break.

What are you favorite non-fiction books /lit/?

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Considering all philosophical questions have now been answered with graceful, powerful logic is it too far a stretch to say he has started a new era, a second enlightenment?

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we post our favorite albums and others give the book equivalent

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How many pages do you typically read a day?

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Im actually writing my own novel, im planning it to be huge, with a universe and with its own mithos. I can write dozens of stories out of it, but im inexperienced with fantasy books. The main novel occurs in a present time, but the society is kind of different; it interacts with different species, inteligent species, like gnomes, lizards, wizards and normal people. But then a war begins nobody knows where. I want to depict giant beings, like interstellar beings, divine and demons from other universes, but i dont really know how. The characters are a team, loosely inspired in japanese shit, and fantasy stories ive read though the years.
What are your thoughs, /lit/? What should i do to begin with?

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In Crito Socrates makes the argument that because he had enjoyed the citizenship of Athens for 70 years and all the benefits that came with it, he could not now, disobey its laws, since to disobey one law is to disobey the entire body of laws and to disobey the entire body of laws is to destroy the city.

This argument rests on the idea that injustice cannot be met with injustice (and that to now disobey the law of the city he had gained benefit from would be injustice.) But if the law itself is unjust and one still obtains benefit, for example if one is a slaveowner, or if one is the son of a fascist dictator, or if one is the relative of a corrupt politician, is it then sill injustice to disobey the law if one believes that the law is unjust?

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Is she right /lit/?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/

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Not sure if it necessarily applies here but has anyone reviewed the bible (King james version) like an actual book? Not like some bible study crap but an honest book review like one would review any other book.

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China bros

Im looking to pick up my Chinese skills. Ive been reading these texts with their ping yin on top as aid. Id really want something like the condor heros since i just watched 神雕侠侣 2006 version. But i think my skills are too low for that, so any recommendations for wuxia genre with a beautiful warm love story weaved in? Thanks!

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What's so great about this guy's struggle? Anyone read it

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>tfw you've read Infinite Jest twice, and yet, you now lack the attention to read ten pages in one sitting

ITT: Post literary feels.

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Looking for recommendations for far-leftist writings. So far I read all 3 volumes of das Kapital, the communist manifesto and the conquest of bread. What's next? Bordiga? Adorno? If so which specific works?

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What is the best The Brothers Karamazov translation? Never read a Dostoevsky book (yeah yeah better late than never) so im wondering if this book is also a good starting point for his works?

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It was my tenth birthday. My family and I were going to Chuck E Cheese for my birthday. As we pulled into the driveway I unbuckled my seatbelt and jumped out the moving, landing my fat, jiggling, shit stained ass directly on a homeless man’s mouth. He tried to push me off but the weight of my checks was too much for him to lift. He fell lying down with the putrid smell of my unwiped ass suffocating him until he lay dead in an endless eternity of my stinky ass. I thought nothing of this. As I stood up and walked away from the dead shit covered homeless man, my father pulled up in the car.I jumped in the car, leaving a trail of fallen shit crusts from my ass, and my father drove the rest of the way to Chuck E Cheese. Leaving exit twenty-four, my father started to accelerate at full speed, driving down a street. Swerving, he hit a baby stroller with his car at ninety miles an hour. We pulled up in the driveway, leaving the bloody remains of an infant behind us. We got out the car and made our way into Chuck E Cheese. Walking through the door, I looked to my left and saw a table with a rotting corpse of a deer laying on it. Looking back at my father, he was buying our tickets from an old lady with saggy tits. My father then gave me my coins, and I walked over to a deer hunting game, passing some people shoving shards of glass up their asses. I pressed start and started shooting away.I started to notice something grab my two shit covered ass cheeks. I looked behind me to see a naked, black, midget grabbing my tight ass with his chubby little fingers. I got upset and kicked him into a 80 year lady. The midget ran away giggling. I left the game and went over to the birthday table where my dad was waiting. I then heard that Chuck E Cheese would show up soon. I shoved cake into my mouth and looked around to see if I could spot Chuck E Cheese, but all I could see were two cats giving birth directly on someone pizza. I felt sad that Chuck E Cheese wasn’t here yet, but then I started to smell something. A scent that could never be mistaken, the scent smelled of many things, children piss, and horse placenta. I knew what this smell meant, Chucky E Cheese is here. I turned around to see this life-giving creation staring directly at me with his dark green eyes. I was filled with joy, that this mouse would brighten up my day with it’s fun behavior. I got up and hugged it, feeling the piss leave his costume and into my ears. I felt like this day couldn’t get any better, but when I looked up, it just looked at me. I tried to back away, but it moved with me. I kept stepping back, but I stopped to feel the table directly behind me. I was trapped, but out of the blue, the naked, black midget appeared and started to ejaculate all over Chuck E Cheese’s leg. The midget then climbed up his body, rubbing his lice-infested pubes all the way up. I had a chance to escape, I hopped over the table and made my way to the exit door. I never went there ever again.