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>The part where a giant tonsil takes over the city and they appease it by shovelling cratefuls of cocaine into it

what the fuck is happening?

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so hey there /lit/. My first time visiting this board.
I've recently gotten back in reading. Something that I haven't done since the Harry Potter series. Having picked up Ready Player One, I immidently fell in love with books again.
After having ready RPO, I got the first two Summoner books (The Novice, The Inquisition).

I was wondering if anyone could suggest to me some good Young Adult Fantasy books? I've tried Googling, but I keep getting results for romantic fantasy. I'm fine with some romance in my books as long as it's not the focus.
So yeah... Any suggestions?

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Need interesting things to read.

I find myself waiting for the bank to open in the mornings alot and as a result eat breakfast often at a nearby place. Would love recommendations for books to read, preferably non fiction, doesn't have to be nerd shit but I'll take it if it is.

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what's your favorite book written by who the fuck knows

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I didn't like and couldn't understand why this is considered great, am I dumb?

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I know a girl who reads John Green. I would like to try and save her. What are some books I can use to wean her off his books and toward good ones? Bonus points if I can convince her that not only is John Green not that good, he's also quite awful.

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meeting this autist tomorrow, any questions you would like me to ask?

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Let's talk about Kafka.

I've just finished Das Schloss, in German which is my mother tongue, and liked it, although it was, partly, an exhausting read. Somehow, his prose is awkward and clumsy yet at the same time very beautiful to read. It took about 100 pages, though, until the atmosphere really got me. My favorite scene was the one in which he is in Bürgels office.

What should I read next? I already read and somewhat, but not as much as Das Schloss, liked Die Verwandlung, and some short stories, e.g. Ein Hungerkünstler.
How is Amerika?

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Why do women have no interest in philosophy?

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Does anyone of you know a good book about colours and symbolism behind them?

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How accurate is this video in what it says about Ulysses? Is that really the message Joyce intended his book to have?

Starts at 03:10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SuHkY2wAQA

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What does "by grit and mettle" mean?

I'm trying to translate a document into my language but it's the first time I've ever see this expression and I don't know what it means. Google's not being helpful.

What does "by grit and mettle" mean?

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How important is human experience to a writer? Is it more important than study of literature?
In his TV interview Borges states that the goal of a writer lies in describing and transforming the reality around him into beautiful, memorable forms, but the man himself had objectively spent his entire life in academic circles, reading fucking books all day long, what could he possibly tell me that I couldn't get myself had I picked the same tomes?
I hate the notion of nothing being new under the sun, of course it's new, every human carves a unique track throughout his life, so shouldn't a writer strive to move around and wander off as much s possible?

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Can anything else give me the same sense of a classic adventure story? This novel was just perfect for what it was and I'm having a hard time finding anything else like it.

Other adventure novels like this usually have a protagonist that is too smart, witty, charming, lucky, etc. I loved in Shogun how the protagonist was just a fish out of water doing whatever he could to survive.

Does anybody have any recommendations? It doesn't have to be historical fiction, set in Japan, etc. I just want to read an easy, sprawling page turning adventure story.

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Here's a random passage from FW. What do you think it means?


Infernal machinery (serial number: Bullysacre, dig care a dig) having thus passed the buck to billy back from jack (finder the keeper) as the baffling yarn sailed in circles it was now high tide for the reminding pair of snipers to be suitably punished till they had, like the pervious oelkenner done, liquorally no more powers to their elbow.
Ignorinsers' bliss, therefore, their not to say rifle butt target, none too wisefolly, poor fish, (he is eating, he is spun, is milked, he dives) upholding a lampthorne of lawstift as wand of welcome to all men in bonafay, (and the corollas he so has saved gainsts the virus he has thus injected!) discoastedself to that kipsie point of its Dublin bar there, breaking and entering, from the outback's dead heart, Glasthule Bourne or Boehernapark Nolagh, by wattsismade or bianconi, astraylians in island, a wellknown tall hat blown in between houses by a nightcap of that silk or it might be a black velvet and a kiber galler dragging his hunker, were signalling gael warnings towards Wazwollenzee Haven to give them their beerings, east circular route or elegant central highway. Open, 'tis luck will have it! Lifeboat Alloe, Noeman's Woe, Hircups Emptybolly! With winkles whelks and cocklesent jelks. Let be
buttercup eve lit by night in the Phoenix! Music. And old lotts have funn at Flammagen's ball. Till Irinwakes from Slumber Deep. How they succeeded by courting daylight in saving darkness he who loves will see.
Business. His bestness. Copeman helpen.
Contrescene.
He cupped his years to catch me's to you in what's yours as minest to hissent, giel as gail, geil as gaul, Odorozone, now ourmenial servent, blanding rum, milk and toddy with I hand it to you. Saying whiches, see his bow on the hapence, with a pattedyr but digit here, he scooped the hens, hounds and horses biddy by bunny, with an arc of his covethand, saved from the drohnings they might oncounter, untill his cubid long, to hide in dry. Aside. Your sows tin the topple, dodgers, trink me dregs! Zoot!