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>>9931340
>Any of you guys ever thought about limiting your reading to a few specific authors and works that you would read and reread over and over in order to improve your writing?
no

>posting women and gay jews
kill yourself

those are classic books and all, but you probably won't sell much by picking up their habits. That isn't what sells, aka it isn't what normies want. Read some Pynchon or Stephen King or some shit like that, not the ancient works people study for school.

>>9931360
>literally one woman

>>9931211
>'normies'

>>>/r9k/

Fuck, me too OP. And I hate myself for it. I'm going to read a few important classics then only what I enjoy

>>9931359
>not enjoying classics

>>9931188
I WILL MAKE A JOKE ABOUT SHAKESPEARE WAS BLACK

THEN YOU SAY 'WE WAS A KING'

OP

DID U KNOW

SHAKESPEARE WAS BLACK WOMEN AND WHITE DESTROY HER LEGACY THROUGH RIGHT WING??

HEHE MAKE THE MEME

>>9931198

Don't EVER post in my thread without my permission again.

The Marlowe theory is my favourite. Makes for a good story.

>>9931178
Other than logic, the only exercises would be actually understanding the concepts offered. Try to think of objections to them, and how theyy woyld be recieved by the author. Try to think of examples in life, reword the concepts yourself.

>>9931178

Flip through some tai chi or qi gong books, seriously

>>9931178
Ouspensky's The Fourth Way, and his In Search of the Miraculous (Ouspensky pretty obviously and significantly influenced RAW btw) contain general and important exercises in the Gurdjieff system RAW mentions (in terms of self-remembering, self-observation, and abstaining from expressing negative emotions). Idries Shah in a sense also has philosophy books containing exercises, because he says that reading the Sufi teaching-stories he gives and pondering them from all given angles, focusing on the ones the interest you less purposely and seeing why they don't interest you as much, trying to unravel the more opaque ones, etc., etc., is itself a Sufi exercise.

>>9931149
This thread is now about how superior the white race is!
Alert /pol/, alert /r9k/. Let's show this cuck what's up. Bring your best infographics and your best insults.

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>>9931157
Fuck off

>>9931149

Worst Murakami

>hurr durr rehashing the same exact ideas book after book at least Nabokov only got his little girl fixation after one book
>ha ha look at this kitty cat that has magical fucking powers and shit

Go read Coin Locker Babies and Almost Transparent Blue

And this is the well.

The best book ever written by man or woman

Basically this:
Well, ah'm at one. Ah'll see ye back here at two. Ah'll gie ye ma tie tae pit oan, n some speed. Buck ye up a bit, let ye sell yirsel, ken? So let's get tae work oan they appos.

They placed the application forms on the table in front of them. Renton's was already half- completed. A few entries caught Spud's eye.

- Hey. . . what's this man, likesay? George Heriots . . you went tae Leithy man .

- It's a well-known fact thit ye nivir stand a fuckin chance ay gittin anything decent in this city if ye didnae go tae a posh school. Nae wey though, will they offer a George Heriots FP a porterin joab in a hotel. That's only fir us plebs; so pit doon something like that. If they see Augies or Craigy oan your form, the cunts 'Il offer ye the joab. . . fuck, ah'd better go. Whatever ye dae, dinnae be late. See ye back here in a bit.

>>9931101
I can't read that shite.

Fuck off

>>9931075
lale kidneytriggered name ale trolled to death based and gay

>>9931070

I'm skint.

>>9931070

I don't care enough

If they shut down another site will offer the exact same service for the exact same cost to me, which is free

If it doesn't, too bad, the trajectory of my life remains nearly unchanged either way, I'd rather use my limited funds on anime figurines

Wikipedia is wholly funded by the CIA, this is just a ruse.

nobody gives a fuck go back to /tv/

>>9931068
who

>>9931068
You aren't on le redpill boards

Has anyone read Gemma Files' Book of Tongues
>wild west priest is magic
>has sex with a legit psychopath gunslinger
>kill a bunch of people
>fuck around
>Ancient aztec goddess stirs shit up.
>shit goes down
>accidentally doom the whole goddamn world.
and that's only book one
I fucking love it. I haven't seen anyone mention it.

Hello I'm kaladin wow it sure sucks to lift bridges those damn light borns I don't like them one bit. I miss my daaad
How can brandon fill up so many pages with so little?

>>9939046
I'm skeptical, Gemma sounds like a female name

>>9931065

Sunbather by Deafheaven.

>>9931065
https://youtu.be/b45jpDpXCtI

len steal my sunshine

>>9931051
woAh no WAYy

hey outis

glad to see you here

i gonna study philosophy at the university, but your posts make me think that it's empty ..


give me some recs

>>9938952
For philosophy? Parmenides, Heraclitus, Plotinus.

For religion, On the Acquisition of the Holy Spirit, The Ascetic Homilies of Isaac the Syrian, and The Way of a Pilgrim

>>9931047
For genre fiction and such, sure.
For literature, no.

Overall not good. Reading and listening are very different activities. There is the problem of comprehension w audiobooks in that you miss a lot by naturally zoning out periodically but more abstractly I think you also miss a deeper connection with the text and its poetic elements by not reading the words for yourself.

I listen to pop lit like autobiographies while I exercise if the author/subject is narrating though.

>>9931049
It depends on the literature. KJV was written to be heard, as was Shakespeare.

But OP it is definitely not a substitute. It's a different experience. You can say reading a play is no substitute for seeing a play, and you can also say seeing a play is no substitute for reading a play.