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Do you realize how much "highbrow" stuff there is? Enough for a lifetime.

>>8456098
I switch between high and low brow to give my brain a break.

>>8456098
If I'm not reading "highbrow" books, I'm reading fantasy novels. They're pretty light reads with no real themes.

The history of philosopy without any gaps (with some gaps)
Radiolab
Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce (haven't listened to it myself, but I suppose it's helpful when reading Ulysses)
Dan Carlin's hardcore history is decent for giving a good overview of big historical events

For history, In Our Time is the best.

>>8455598
Yes. MELVIN BRAGG.
This is proper BBC stuff, none of than Yankee codswallop.

>peel off bookstore price sticker
>it rips the book

>go to bookstore
>immediately begin passing gas combined with an overwhelming need to take a shit

It's not that big a deal though. I can just order online.

I've never actually found a book I've wanted in a typical bookstore. Most are genre trash and a smattering of classics. Occasionally I'll go into some old, privately owned shop and find a really good copy of Journey to the West or something cool, but I'm never looking for it.

No but you did, lurk moar or fuck off

>>8455506
>>8455527
newfags

Anyone who doesn't force themselves to agree with everything Bloom writes is trash

Who?
Where?
When?
Why?

>>8455471
he should be holding a piece of fried chciken.

>>8455479
Paapa Essiedu
Royal Shakespeare Company
2016

>>8454524
Brazil

Eraserhead


If television counts, The Prisoner

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>>8454524

i didn't get the point of spending 3/4 of the closing trial re-capping the book

>>8454338
sounds like bad reading comprehension

>>8454322
I disagree, I can't think of one part that could be removed.

>>8453927
Nigger this, nigger that.
All I want is bigger ass.
Cunt pussy.

For sale: baby shoes (baby died BEFORE we could put them on)

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Baby be cry stately across the sky - today maman has dead channel

It's going to be my first time self-publishing, but I have a short 46k word SFF novel I'm publishing soon. It's a sort of 'prologue' that introduces the narrator of my planned series. Although I'm aiming towards writing all the books in this series as semi-independent sequels that can all be read on their own.

This is not so much a monetary thing as it is a building of my discipline, as these books (hopefully) won't feel like your average pulpy SFF books. Along the way I will hopefully learn the craft better.


Also OP, what publishing sites are you using? I'm using Createspace at the moment.

>>8453732
I've got 21 k words so far on a novel, what do I do once I finish it? Looking for 35k words, should be finished in about a month

>Every day I force myself to write a novella between 5 - 15 thousand words which I then self-publish on Amazon

>every day

Jesus are you turbo NEET? I'm calling shenanigans.

Idk

Magic

>>8453173
Well isn't that the question of the day

infinite jest

>>8453042
Splain

>>8453042
'no'
>>8453039
and how about you explain how the style or structure or themes etc. of Tarkovsky appear to you, or which elements of his approach you perceive and aesthetically enjoy the most. would be a big help here.

>Wake up bouncing on bed as if I was dropped
>Entire neighborhood is gone
>See kangaroo stare and walk (not normal cuz not in Ausfailia)
>Call police but no answer
>Run to car but theres creepy koalas in the way
>Gtfo of town to try and find civilization
>Turns out aliens abducted everyone and disguised themselves as marsupials because Australia was the last place they visited and they thought people liked them

>>8452821
ayy

How do I do it if the narrative is non-linear?

Confound with proof yet no belief
the ghost who condemns youth to flame,
to compost, sapling – care for it; an oak
is promised by a leaf.
In winter acorn bread will fill you;

drink juice from the sun's bitter fruit
brewed warm to heart's content, and with
an heir's pride of nigh estate watch dawn
paint green on copper leaves, and from
the wind's first breath catch secrets in
a birchbark chest to bury when
it's summer and the tree is bare.

>>8452467
>an oak is promised by a leaf
>not a seed

I skimmed through foundations edge. Its the closest ive ever come to finishing a book. I like how theres a machine thaf calculates particles to predict the distant future.

Go Jhana or go home, fagit.

Also daily reminder to incorporate an aspect of all day mindfulness (whether by simply being aware of sense impression all the time, or using an object as an anchor to awareness) next to your 'formal' sitting sessions for best meditation gains.

How 2 meditate for beginners? Recommended reading?

>>8451107

I dunno. Close your eyes, focus on your breathing, empty your minds?

first for Meina Gladstone

posted at very end of last thread so want to repost for an answer.

I'm looking for a specific genre of historical fantasy where its in feudal Japan but takes place where the mythology of the time actually exists. Demons and such. Are there any novels like that?

What do you guys think of the lost fleet series? Are they good past the first book?
Is there anything similar to it? Sci-fi aimed at military culture and space fleets with battles, etc?