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>>8783060

Portuguese is the most beautiful language, in all honesty.

But don't.

The book section of the online store I use has more books in latin than in portuguese. How irrelevant can one language be?

>>8783071
>t. Have never read Assis, Euclides da Cunha, Guimarães Rosa

nice bookstore moron

>>8783045
So when can something be said to be true? Only when it has happened?

>>8783055
I'm not quite sure what you mean.
Put simply, there is always one true future state of affairs [for, say, a year from now]. This state of affairs is not infallibly known by humans, and so cannot be infallibly asserted to be true. But it is true regardless, since it will come to pass.

>>8783088

But because humans have free will, though we agree only one future state can occur, it is not set in stone, because a person has a choice, whether to do this or this or this or this or this or that, right now the future in which one of those thises was the one chosen does not exist, because humans have the ability to choose out of multiple choices, the future is crafted by choice.

>>8783011
Get a Kindle Paperwhite & read the sticky for how to get books. High upfront cost, but it will pay for itself in a few months if you actually read. I also read physical books, pdfs on my computer, etc. People argue this topic endlessly, but to me it doesn't really matter.

Given the choice, I would read on my kindle. Several reasons:

1. backlit
2. tap to define words
3. easier to hold & manipulate in hand than any book over 300 pgs.

Comes down to personal preference.

>>8783011
In all honesty, I enjoy reading physical books WAAAAAAAY more. I always buy them in second-hand bookstores so they are always very cheap.
Although I don't like much reading e-books, sometimes I do read them in my phone or in my computer, because they have undeniable advantages, like being free, being able to take with you in your phone several books at once, not needing a font of light to read, etc, so I don't know, maybe try reading few books on Kindle App for your cellhpone, you can find several free books, if you feel comfortable, I guess go for the an e-reader,

>>8783072
Any dedicated site for torrenting books?

>>8783005
>newfag discovers Nabokov's meme opinion
Nice cancer thread, retard.

sage

>>8783005
but what if he was meming? :s

Nabokov, Vladimir. Loathe him. A paltry fantasist and fraudulent ringmaster. Detest his overuse of the unreliable narrator gimmick. Pnin is a joy to read.

No, I read Plato

no i can barely read i only come for the reddit threads

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Yes and no. I consider myself an intelligent person but I don't really jive with the general stereotype of intellectuals, that being snooty, high handed, elitist, etc.

I have my intelligent friends who read Joyce, Nabakov, Coover, etc etc who I can sperg out with. Then I have my friends who like to pound beers and do coke off the hot sluts we party with.

>>8782871
you don't really need to know any philosophy to read him. If anything he's doing poetry in philosophical prose

>>8782871
Aphorisms: Trouble with being born
Longer: Short history of decay

>How far down the philosophy meme rabbit hole do I need to be for him?
Unnecessary. You'll get more out of his occasional "reading journal"-type jests if you're familiar with the thinkers he's referencing, but it's almost marginal stuff.

>>8782897
>longer
>short history

how much of a memer was he?

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>>8782739

>>8782746
thx

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>>8782751
np bby

>>8782723
Carl Sagan - Cosmos

Anything by Sagan really.

Feynman in a lecture recommends Huxley's Brave New World, as an illustration of new social problems to arise with new biological knowledge.

There is a great fiction 90s book, written by a physicist, titled Einstein's Dreams.

The physicist who discovered the quark, got the spelling "quark" from Finnegans Wake ("three quarks for muster Mark").

Physics students also tend to love Tolkien.

Landau&Lifshitz

Derek Raymond's Factory novels are very good.

>>8782716
i'm starting to read I Was Dora Suarez, thank you

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>>8782710
If you want cold war Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is pretty great, as are the first 10 or so Bond books.

Alistair Maclean has some great stuff, The Guns of Navarone and pic related being my favorite, while his later stuff is much more pulpy.

Robert Ludlum's stuff was always good, the first Bourne novel being excellent and The Holcroft Covenant being a good one. Trevanian's Eiger Sanction is one of my all time favorites as well.

Graham Greene's Gun for Hire is my favorite pure noir book. The Mask of Dimitrios and The Man from St. Petersburg are other decent ones.

I hammered out 33k before I ran out of steam, I'll definitely be trying next year.

Only broke 10,000 but published in zine format for limited distro and editing. Going to try and do another 10,000 over holidays.

Finished yday but just used it to draft sections of novel and counted redrafting those sections towards word count.

>>8782461
I live on a mountain lake so I prefer either high summer or fall in my hammock.

Winter in the mountains is more for drinking IMO

>>8782574
What are some /lit/ drinks? Getting bored of scotch and I wanna try something new.

Pastis? Mezcal? Bitters?

>>8782644
I'm /fit/ so I prefer Titos or Greygoose on the rocks with a couple limes. If I am feeling feisty, goldschlager or other cinamon schnapps and dry cider with some allspice.

Or Chianti

You think you need a book to get this shit down? Trust me, you really don't. I work in a high power corporate office and basically learned everything I know about business strategy and negotiations (which is quite a damn bit, FYI) on the job. What you need is life experience, not yet another book.

>>8782452
Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People is applicable to negotiations.

>>8782452
Learn about Game Theory, friendo.

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>>8782384
All the women that I've met that's even heard of these works, have only watched the movies.

Not to say that they aren't capable of understanding the prose, but films are marketed in such a way that entices them into submission in a way that only a woman could fall under.

Why does this board hate women so much? I've had my fair share of getting fucked over by women, believe me, but I have never developed such pathological feelings towards women such as this board does.

>>8782766
>literally only women are dumb enough to be so swayed under the influence of a dumb movie
>lol why do you guys hate women so much haha?

>>8782766
/r9k/ infestation.
Two years or so ago we could have threads on women writers with little to no trolling.

>>8782340
>pic
that's not supposed to be related, is it?

Is literary criticism something you studied in school? I am too ignorant about it to even attempt discussion, sorry OP.

>>8782340
we don't discuss it because of plebs like you who make shitty OPs like this without having read at the minimum the norton anthology of theory and criticism and instead just want a soapbox for your showerthoughts-tier "insights"

>>8782292
>Reading multiple books at the same time.

Fucking whore.

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>>8782294
I eventually get bored reading a book once I hit around 100 pages so I have to switch to another. It's a cycle until I finish.

there's nothing wrong about being a whore

>>8782296
>john green cereal quote