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>>8444851
Who is that girl?

>>8444851
Those eyes are identical to my gfs

>>8444879

>girl

>>8444848
On the toilet.

Hell

>>8444862

Then just don't read with other people around, Sartre

>>8444816
you are just stupid.

>>8444816
Read it once, then come back to it a year later, you'll understand far more.

>>8444816
>struggling to understand what happens
Which part?

If you don't understand the text, wait till you get used to it and if that doesn't happen try later. If you do locally understand the text but still don't know what happens, you might be failing to contextualise what you're reading. Maybe you're used to visualising fast and easy reads?

>>8444726
I don't think it's wise to speed read; I find it better to just set aside more time to read.

Over the past 2 weeks I read 13 books, shortest of them being The Myth of Sisyphus or Heart of Darkness. I'm on break right now, so I can do that. But even setting aside 2 hours a day should be enough to read a non epic sized book (took me 2 days to read Dance Dance Dance which is about 400 pages)

>>8444740
I meant two hours a day a week so a total of 14 hours a week for one book (that's being kind of generous I think)

>>8444743
>>8444740

>I don't think it's wise to speed read

why do you think that? Does reading comprehension diminish if you speed read?

They don't look like antiques. Look early 20th century at the latest. Early 1900's stuff isn't worth anything more than modern printing unless it's a rare edition.

>>8444744
I made no claims about them being rare or expensive.

>>8444744

when I read the OP, I initially thought like this guy. But then I thought about it some more and then I realized that the OP >>8444751 is actually right.

Try actually going in an antique shop sometime. legit "antiques" start circa 50 years old and then go back from there, although of course there's plenty of things in antique shops that are younger than that. There's also a lot of common crap, just like any store. To the OP's point, just because something looks to be common crap (just like the OP's book collection) does not mean that it does not literally count as an antique, say.

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>should of

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>could of

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>could of

They see me bumpin they haaatttinnn

>>8444597
read the sticky you fucking parasite

>>8444709
I already did and did not find the books there. Maybe you shouldnt be such a kneejerk spiteful cunt rag.

>>8444595
My Twisted Infinite World Jest by David Rodger Wallace

Suicide, by Levé

the short stories of Frederick Barthelme

bump. Haven't read it yet but from the excerpts I read it looks pretty good

Mom-tier.

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>>8444583
Who are the five people?

>>8444566
>You can also join the unofficial official /lit/ group with some resemblance of activity!

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/196259-intelligent-or-book-related-song-texts this group

>>8444566
Hi Sebastian!

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6261192-bbrown

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7281407-jessica-evans

>>8444547

Haven't read, but heard it's far worse.

>>8444547
Got halfway through the first book and got bored with it. Maybe when it was written the fantasy was cool, but for me it was generic sword stuff.

Tolkein's a landmark author, but he's not quite the gold standard he's spun as.

Big name syndrome.

If you're highschool/college age, Plato's Republic.

But if you read it without many supplemental books or a teacher/professor your won't get much from it.

>>8444492
I was thinking about just getting plato's complete work, the one volume book. I think that has some stuff in it to help you understand, right?

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I found the The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing interesting.

He was a shithead anyway.

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If you speak you don't get It.

>>8444719
>tfw lobotomy scheduled for next week
I'll be in uncarved as fuck.

gr8 post op

Quality post keep them coming

Honestly pretty good and the podcast is quite enjoyable.

In the realm of popular pseudo-intellectual wankery, miles better than the likes of Malcolm Gladwell.

Hehehe hahaha nice.

PS I liked Heaney's (RIP)

>argh I come from a foreign land, giveth thine women unto me
>not so fast essai we'really getting riggity wreck'd by this trollsquid
> aite famalam let me at it
>he ripped its arm off the absolute madman
>thine women, fair Dane?
>kek, try the bottom of the lame
>if you saith so, companion, though it is a strange place to storeth thine maidens
>my god, what is that abomination, I had best destroy it with this conveniently located magical ax
>beowulf has returned! he has killed the trollsquid's mother
>then he shall be king

Right here, OP.

Tolkien