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>>8770157
that kid looks like shit

my diary desu

>>8770160
This meme is so uninspired.

Read Oblivion instead.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is very hit-and-miss, definitely not as good as some of his other works.

i also like Infinite Jest, but didn't enjoy the Brief Interviews. i've read all his collections, but his short fiction isn't artful or genuine like the essays. i'd skip Wallace's short stories. i didn't like Girl With Curious Hair at all. bad-spirited parody and esoteric literary techniques.

the real gems of Wallace's contribution to literature are the essay collections.

I haven't read it, but the essays in Consider the Lobster were completely embarrassing.

Are "nice" versions of anything worth it?

>>8769917
Guess it depends on the person really.

>>8769910
you're going to buy a darwin book without even having looked into ancient megalithic sites or history for that matter

No doubt.

fucked.

>>8769447
begins.

>>8769398
Evernote is a nice cloud based one

>>8769398
>notepad

What's notepad like? Why do you want to use a different word processor?

vim

Don't sweat it. The medium doesn't really matter if you absorb the content. Also some narrators\voice actors voices just sound better than the inner monologue you might have for that particular book.

I stock shelves at night in a supermarket and escape the drudgery with audiobooks. Any time where the hands work while the mind wanders is good:chores,commuting,curled up in bed with the lights out and the headphones on. And a good reader makes a book come alive through characterizations with voice and accents. After a night's work,reading conventionally is a struggle to stay awake,and finding the time to invest in a book impossible,so I consider the audio route not a cheat but a necessity.

>>8770962
Ma nigga! My 5 years of retail nights would have killed me if I didn't have audiobooks and podcasts. Keep it real, just hope for your sake you don't work frozen or produce.

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>"Boo Radley truly was a(n) To Kill A Mockingbird"

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>and that is The History of The Peloponnesian War™
Thucydides you fucking hack

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>"Such a drawn out joke."
>"Truly, it is an Infinite Jest."

Are you shitting me, Walrus?

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halp me find it, for the love of love

bum

maybe today somebody knows?

what is fiction?

your camus a shit

>>8768540
You literally missed the entire point.

>>8767505
Hegel

>>8767505
diogenes

>>8767505
Sam Harris

Start
With
The
Greeks.

>>8767131
which books and which philosophers?

>>8767146
Plato. Now go read.

has anyone got the 1 star review of faust with all of the bad tumblr gifs in it

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>>8767024
not really rage but more of a "wut?" sometimes people say correct things with wrong words/in a wrong way

>>8767028
I've noticed there never has been a 'actually good goodreads reviews' thread because people here are too negative

do you mean to say MEGA as in a HEAVY LOAD of books or what

>>8766962
MEGA as in mega.co.nz the cloud storage service

>>8766935
>Does anyone have a MEGA link with books?
Yes.
>If so, dump your links
Don't think /lit/ should access it.

>>8766805
/bread

So, is it worth it to read this in English? I've read it in Spanish and I get the feeling that the translation sucks, really shitty, as in you realized when the translator missed a play with words, and threw away a good joke. Shitty shit m8

>>8766801
His ideology reminds me of /pol/. He digs up old failed ideas from the medieval era and tries to warp them into a system for modern living. He's the ultimate reactionary.

It's too bad Toole offed himself, the guy practically had a crystal ball for internet era social politics

>>8766754
Haven't read anything but I've heard a lot of people (Jacom Grimm) say that Serbian Epic Poetry is some of the best and most touching.

>>8766811
Goethe loved it, too, if I am right. Must be good.

>>8766845
All serbian epic poetry is written in decasyllabic verse, usually no rhyming, but it's filled with allegories, metaphors, anaphoras, epiphoras, etc...

Here's Hasanaginica, my favorite.

What's so white upon yon verdant forest?
Snow perhaps it is or swans assembled?
Snow would surely long ago have melted.
And a flight of swans would have departed.
No! not swans, not snow it is you see there,
'Tis the tent of Aga, Hasan Aga;
On his couch he lies, severely wounded.
And his mother seeks him, and his sister,
But for very shame his wife is absent.

When the misery of his wounds was softened,
Hasan thus his faithful wife commanded:
"In my house thou shalt abide no longer—
Thou shalt dwell no more among my kindred."
When his wife had heard this awful sentence,
Numbed with dread she stood and full of sorrow.
When outside she heard the tramp of horses,
To the highest window of the tower
Rushed the faithful Hasanaginica,
Would have thrown herself into the courtyard,
But her two beloved daughters followed.
Crying after her in tearful anguish—

"Do come back to us, oh, mother, mother!
These are not our father Hasan's coursers,
'Tis our uncle Pintorovich coming."
Then, returning, Hasanaginica
Threw her arms in misery round her brother—
"See the sorrow, brother, of thy sister:
He would tear me from my helpless children."
He was silent—but from out his pocket.
Safely wrapped in silk of deepest scarlet.
Letters of divorce he drew, and bid her
Seek again her aged mother's dwelling—
Free to win and wed another husband.
When she saw the letter of divorcement,
Parting-kisses on her two boys' foreheads,
On her girls' red cheeks she pressed in sorrow.
But she could not tear herself from baby
Crowing at his mother from the cradle.
But at last her brother with an effort
Tore the mother from her tender infant,
Put her close behind him on his courser.
Hastened with her to the white-hued homestead.

But a short while dwelt she with her people—
Not a single week had been completed,
When a host of suitors wooed the lady
Of a noble family the flower;
One of them Imoski's mighty Cadi.
Said the noble lady, trembling greatly,
"I entreat thee, I implore thee, brother,
Do not give me to another husband.
For the sight of my poor orphan'd children
Sure would break the spirit of thy sister!"

Little cared her brother for her sorrows;
He had sworn she should espouse the Cadi.
Then his sister asked of him a favour:
"Write on snow-white paper, O, my brother.
To the Cadi as a bridal message,
'Friendly greetings from the youthful woman.
And she begs thee bring her as a present.
When thy wedding-guests and thou art coming
Hither to her peoples' white-hued homestead,
Such a long and flowing veil that passing
Aga's home she need not see her orphans.'
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