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>$15 per month.
>ONE, ONE free book.

What a fucking joke.

Just read books on your e-reader whenever stationary and listen to podcasts while on the go, mate.

It's the master race way of going about things.

>>8489412
Or visit audiobook bay and find dogens of audiobooks for free.

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ok

When is his next book coming out? I really enjoyed his previous works but Its been a while since he's written a new book.

>>8489182

He still hasn't finished The Pale King

i also wanna know

>>8489134
Wimmer translation is really bad. I remember this interview with her and this guy asks how she translated the puns one of the (German) characters was making. She had no clue there were puns.

She doesn't know the language.

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>>8489549
>tfw spaniardo
>read english books on original language
>heard about Bolaño
>all spanish editions are uber shit and look like cheap paperbacks with awful covers

Why are English editions always better? (aside from the translation, of course)

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST SHUT THE FUCK UP

Dhalgren isn't even fucking hard....its just weird as shit,

Ulysses you need a fucking companion book

How hadn't I heard of this before? Need to pick it up straight away.

>>8489140
It's pretty shitty and all the gay sex scenes are a little much

>>8489068
if you're a young adult, no.

If it's good YA than no, look for example at Erich Kästner. Otherwise yes.

>>8489068
yes. not inherently but most YA is very formulaic, even the book blurbs. They are not written or crafted, they are assembled in a factory

>>8489033
He's overrated in America, and appropriately rated in the rest of the world.

>>8489041
>people in america read
ha

>>8489041
>a no-nonsense kinda guy overrated in the land of the bullshitters
whoda thunk it

>>8488987
Are you some sort of utilitarian faggot?

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>>8488992
Wouldnt you like to be driving force in the progression of the human race? Or are you more interested in living in a meme fairy-tale land?

>>8489005
My roommate back in the day read only nonfiction

Had the most technical knowledge of anyone i'd really seen but never got anywhere because he was the single most boring person in existence and basically could not approach any problem from a creative/intuitive angle

This is the third thread in the upper half of the catalog about Moore digging DFW.

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his book comes out in 4 days...

whose getting it launch day

im hyped

>>8488981
Holding out for Christmas personally, though I did enter that shitty giveaway on Goodreads

*zer

>>8488939
sexuality fiction?

>speculative fiction is barred from speculating about gender-atypical societies
>politics limiting aesthetics
shiggity

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Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D.

Dr. Elizabeth Vandiver is Professor of Classics and Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She was formerly Director of the Honors Humanities program at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also taught in the Department of Classics

Elizabeth Vandiver's lectures on Classical Mythology

https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume1

Introduction
Classical Mythology
Professor Elizabeth Vandiver

https://archive.org/details/ClassicalMythologyvolume2

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Professor Andrew Newberg

The Spiritual Brain

http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-spiritual-brain-science-and-religious-experience.html

how the various parts and systems of the human brain work together to create and sustain different beliefs about the world;
the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have measurable, biological effects on the individuals who hold and engage in them

Join Dr. Newberg as he shares some game-changing discoveries coming out of the field of modern neuroscience, and perhaps on your thrilling voyage through these fascinating discoveries, you may reconsider some of your own beliefs along the way.

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Dr. Grant L. Voth is Professor Emeritus at Monterey Peninsula College in California

...learn more about them than you ever thought possible, and to discover how mythology has the power to shape human history...

An Engaging Tour, a Master Storyteller

Professor Voth celebrates the same enchanting oral tradition that helped to spread so many

With almost every myth in the course, he first tells it as a story to be listened to and savored. Then he explains how different readings and interpretations shed meaning on the myth's role in larger culture. And finally, he invites you to develop your own interpretations of these age-old tales, as well as to ponder the role that myths-both ancient and everyday-play in your own life

http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/myth-in-human-history.html

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Clearly you didn't

Fan fiction (and its discussion) has never been allowed here.

>>8488908
where did you come from? we seem to be in the middle of another huge influx of newfags, most from Reddit. I thought summer was over.

>>8488841
if you don't like to read you shouldn't have bought a book.

>>8488848
shuddap troll.

>>8488841
Is this Jerusalem? Looks pretty crazy.

>>8488820
teebeeaitch it would be easier to burn the whole computer, just say something about the fan running really loud then stopping, and it was on fire before you knew what was going on. Spray it with a fire extinguisher for added authenticity.
>>>/g/ may be more help though.

Also lol downloaded some cheese pizza, m80?

>>8488820
1. wipe a strong magnet over your hard drive.
2. say the computer's acting fucky.
3. get your shit together and stop sexualizing children.

Let's turn this into a /lit/ thread :

How do you come up with good stories to write about ? I personally think my writing style is fine and has potential, but I can't really practice it because I can never think of anything to write about. How do you do it ?

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>>8488801

What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

>>8488801
If you're perfect, why isn't your picture right side up?

>>8488801
if you're perfect, why aren't you me?

point of the sex was to keep you occupied so that you wouldn't make stupid threads.

i don't have my manga meme on this computer, but i still would like matching cufflinks.

is it true this book is harder to read than Ulysses?

>>8488825
No.