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I'll vouch for the quality of Oxford's pre-Socratics (first philosophers) edition and Hesiod's Theogony.

>>8435809
Duly noted. Both are available and the pre-Socratics one really caught my eye.
Thank you.

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I have the Oxford versions of all of Joyce's work and I love them. The spines are shit though, you have to be sort of careful to break them in properly. Ultimately I like modern library paperbacks more.

>>8435766
Coldsteel of literature
pfff, nothin personel maman

>>8435766
>>8435789
t. people who actually literally cried when their parents died.

I bet you still 'reminisce' with your siblings over mundane experiences.

>>8435825
>be orphan
>anon-kun talks shit
tb.h siblings and parents would've been nice

Bumping for ontological proofs

Fuck off pissboi

>>8436180
Why do you say this?

Not at all.

se seems like one but he wasnt
he just wanted people to give psychedelics a chance (specially shrooms, and DMT, he wasnt so liberal about acid iirc)
his talks had some pretty fun moments

When you check out Sheldrake and Ralph too you realize that they were a little bit more than new age bullshit, or at least the interesting part of it .

You can cover your tracks, but, the bear can still smell you. Sleep tight.

>>8435655
I need something witty, that sounds like some nursery tier type.

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>>8435671
if you cover your tracks ur gonna step in my traps

>>8435569
The house on mango street

I don't know I'm not from there. What is this though?

Kek those self-help books. Sad.

>>8435539
If I remember correctly Q10, and FocusWriter both have typewriter sounds as well. I used the latter for some time, it's pretty good.

You should focus on writing regardless of the word processor regardless of how bloated it might be. The most I do is bold italicized the title, bookman old style font, and 8 or 10 point font size, 1.0 spacing, and then write. It doesn't detract from the writing in the least.

>>8436206
No offense but if you don't enjoy playing around with fonts you're doing it wrong. No fun allowed, shit.

>>8435537
idk, he's just autistic or something. One of the few books I regret purchasing. He truly is best experienced through an interlocutor and he's about the only significant author I've found that I can really say that about. So much of the book is just pointless drivel while his core ideas about human civilization are fairly interesting.

The only author I've seen with worse tangents than him is Smith, who can go off on a digression for 70 fucking pages.

>>8435537

I'm working with the publisher to offer a "fresh" translation to reach out to readers like you....

Here's an excerpt:

"Yo dawg, dem bitches be decadent as fizuck nawimean?"

>>8435537
DUDE
PYTHAGOREAN METAPHYSICS
L M O A

>>8435520

Overall, it's probably shitty black coffee from a diner with free refills. The kind those goth kids in South Park drink 24/7.

This is retarded.

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>>8435520
>In Search of Lost Time would be a danish and sugary coffee
>danish
>coffee
Have a reminder
baka

>>8435515

The one that didn't get written.

>>8435515
prisoner of azkaban

>>8435522
Damn! Wow! haha you sure did show them lol

You didn't leave though.

i just want to shoot the shit with people who share the same interests as me, and occasionally talk about that interest

I want that but for film. /lit/ has some good discussions occasionally (still love u when yr bad baby) but /tv/ is garbage...

Littéralement qui?

>>8435517
Michel Butor. And if you don't know who he is/was, then you're lacking fair amount of knowledge. (Even though he was one of the less known writers of nouveau roman.)

Earlier there was a thread about him and his death. I commented: Sadly haven't read any of his fiction, but his essays in Repertoires is awesome. From Racine, Jules verne, over Balzac to Joyce, Pound, Roussel, Leiris and everytime he makes you see a whole new perspective. His long essay about Baudelaire is masterpiece as well.

Would like to read his book about USA (Mobile, I think), it seems really great.

Literally who?
Call me when Eco dies.

>>8435470
Contact Harvest I read in my teen years and remember being the best.

>>8435470
i remember the fall of reach being amazing when i started 7th grade. started taking science fiction more seriously after that.

>reading books about a video game series that barely has a story
I genuinely don't understand this. I've always gotten the impression from video game novels that they are related mainly just in name, maybe drawing a bit from the atmosphere and style of the source material. I haven't bothered to read one yet because they just seem, whether they really are or not, trashy, low-brow, shallow, etc., like they have just been shit out in an attempt to cash in on fans' interest in the game series itself.

Are there any such books that are actually worth bothering with?

Don't read Doctor Sleep, it's shit.

Good King books? Tough one. The Shining, The Long Walk, Carrie and Misery are okay. That's it.

The Gunslinger but only the first one.

Long walk, Running man, some of his short stories, Heart in Atlantis. That's about it. And I don't think these are great, they are okay.

The Stand has somewhat good first half, then it goes to shit. All the christianity; good (writers, painters, etc) vs evil (engineers, technicians etc) is really bad. And the ending itself, that's catastrophe.
I have recently read IT. It would be good book if it was more or less just about the children and their summer adventure (kind of Heart in Atlantis), adult heroes are meh, the chronicles of Derry is meh, the ending is weird. And of course the need for name what the evil is is unnecessary etc. I also didn't get why it had to be clown throughout the whole history, and why his name was Pennywise again?

The dark tower, if read further than The gunslinger, is going to shit. Although the first half of the series is okay-ish. I hated the 'romeo and juliett' book; and the whole second half (LOL at meta-fiction parts) is really bad, and the ending itself is really really really bad.

>>8435403
>he's still in the non-fiction phase
>he still thinks life can be learned
>he doesn't realize the knowledge meme is a bottomless hole

Hope this is bait OP, because you can't even spell

>>8435423
>>8435429
are you 4real?
this meme is older than the gonorrhea in my dick