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Hey /lit/, quick question: when you buy a collection of short stories from the same author, do you usually read them all at once, as in, you finish one, digest it, and then read the next one, or do you prefer to change things up a little with different authors at the same time? I've just read one of Katherine Mansfield's collection of short stories and started thinking about this.
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My qt patrician gf and I read one at a time aloud to each other over a hot bath and discuss. We read other authors outside of this arrangement.
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I normally do one a day. I tend to always have a short story collection on the go and a longer book and I'll tend to read one short story and some of my long book every night.
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>>8608210
never ever all at once, can take years
only read anthologies straight through
Yo fags, what's a good way of squeezing a little cash out of writing abilities?
Seriously, if musicians can earn a bunch by doing weddings etc., and painters can sell their paintings, what can I do if I'm a competent writer?
Also, don't short stories pay like shit, before someone suggests that (huge amounts of effort if you take it seriously, with very little reward)
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>>8608188
Blogging, articles, clickbait stuff
Prodigious amount of hack genre writing + smart promotion on amazon
Will make under min wage for all
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Advertising.
What is the most /lit/ non-comic picture book?
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Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss has strong existential themes.
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Anything from the Taschen collection
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Anything by this dude
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I'm a complete secularist with an interest in the book that seems to have guided western civilization for 2000 years.
Should I get the KJV or the Oxford Annotated? Assuming I get the KJV, which translation is best?
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>>8608153
>KJV
>which translation
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I just bought Oxford. Someone else was posting about buying it too. We should start a study group.
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What's the best spiritual book you've ever read? Is the Ramayana any good?
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Huxley's Perennial Philosophy is fantastic. It is one of a select group of books I can honestly describe as lifechanging. Huxley draws from a broad variety of traditions to form a complete picture of spirituality and mysticism.
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zen mind, beginner's mind - shunryu suzuki
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>>8608068
Make sure to get the unabridged version :^)
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So I live in Mexico and there's not a lot of books in English I was wondering if you could check this page http://www.gandhi.com.mx/libros/libros-en-ingles
and tell me what books are worth reading!
Thanks! I really need something new to read.
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Are those prices in pesos?
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>>8608053
Don't waste your money on public domain books. You can get them from Project Gutenberg.
Eg. Great Expectations:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400
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Order them either from Book Depository or Amazon mx, albeit the former takes fucking forever to deliver.
I also recommend getting a Kindle or other e-reader. Créeme wey, se pagan solos y es tu mejor opción a la hora de libros en inglés.
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Does there exist a more based author than George Orwell?
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He sure as hell wasn't libertarian. That is for sure.
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>>8607994
traitor scum
over rated novels
read his non-fiction
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Orwell was a liberal, nothing else. He still beats Ay Lmao by far but he wasn't a communist.
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Discuss your favourite Catholic authors.
Who did you read recently? Who do you recommend?
I'm reading Copleston's History of Philosophy, volume II, covering everything from Augustine to, but not including, Ockam. He's the best author on the subject I could think of, grateful to /lit/ for the recommendation.
Alasdair MacIntyre has also been an amazing discovery. After Virtue and Whose Justice Which Rationality are seminal works of ethics.
Interesting article on Flannery O'Connor
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/10/flannery-oconnors-genius-and-grace
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Alasdair MacIntiye is excellent. Read After Virtue and everything else by him
Also read Edward Feser's blog
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>>8607995
There's some fun philosophy drama up right now on his blog.
I'll have to read some more of him, Scholastic Metaphysics is up next. Read 4 works already.
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I don't love this idea of generals on /lit/ (SFF only serves as containment) but I am glad to see the christposters return.
Does Tolkien count as Catholic or fantasy? Is he both? "God" bless.
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Hello /lit/, I want to read Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" which translation would you recommend?
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>>8607958
The translation to a beetle.
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The German one.
Your favorite part of Ham on Rye?
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>>8607915
If it's quality meat then it's the ham for me, Clive
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>>8607928
>not the mustard
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>>8607915
I'm vegan so I don't eat meat. Bukowski is great though.
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Hey fellow Anons.
So I am coming up on one year of sobriety, and at my local AA group I am having a one year medallion ceremony. During the meeting I get to choose people to read a piece of prose or poem of my choosing. I was thinking about using a passage from Infinite Jest because it is what planted the seed for my sobriety. Was going to use “... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”
If you guys have any other suggesting that would be great:)
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nice choice
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>>8607898
good choice
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Sounds good to me anon, especially since you have a personal connection to it.
where the fuck am i supposed to stop reading?
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>he didn't read JR in a single sitting
this board used to be good
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JR Ewing from Dallas?
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when the scene changes
what is "is"?
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the third person singular present form of to be
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>>8607902
and what does "be" mean?
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>>8607909
it is used to indicate the existence of something
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Pls /lit/
I'm looking to buy a good edition of Blake's poetry but I'm lost among all them on Amazon. I'd like to read them with the illuminated works. But they are so many editions with contradictory commentaries, thanks to Amazon shitty system which sometimes mixes different editions with other editions commentaries.
I'd like to begin with Songs of Innoncence & Experience but a complete works edition is fine too, as long as the illuminated stuff is in.
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bumpin
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This is good
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Poetry-Prose-William-Revised/dp/0520044738/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1462919045&sr=1-2
Can probably find more scholarly editions as well though.
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>>8607993
Some commentaries on amazon UK/France are saying it doesn't have much of the illuminated stuff, true or not ?
Is it the same as this ? https://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Poetry-Prose-William-Blake/dp/0385152132/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1476217888&sr=8-6&keywords=blake+poetry
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Considering a subscription, is it any good?
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I have someone else's subscription due to some sort of mailing error. It's not bad, but there's just better things you can subscribe to, like Harper's.
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>>8607864
I don't know, but thanks for asking.
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No. If you're looking for fiction, get Granta instead. If you're looking for lit criticism, get Times Literary Supplement instead. If you're looking for in depth analysis of current events, get New York Review of Books instead.
The New Yorker has been shit since Tina Brown took over.