I'm probably going to get this because it recommended and has interesting cover, but is it actually good or some prehistoric LOTR, Dune Sci-fi novel?
why is it good if it is?
it's at my library btw
it has better prose than both LOTR and dune
it isn't proto anything
You can read it for the beauty of the language, the philosophical discussions within, or the clever and subversive story.
>"Fundamental and definitive statement: I will NOT read ANYTHING for free. You HAVE TO pay me. Period."
>"You can find out more about me by watching all of my reviews, and that is all I care to share on the subject."
>"Want my attention? Give me money. I will not read his/her work for free, ever, ever, ever."
>"I cannot afford to waste my time. My time is very, very valuable."
>"Novels $1/page, short material $50/hr (no guarantee of review)"
Oh boy, looks like those 10k subscribers got to his head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUZTXHUSBU
Why does he think his opinion or time is worth anything? He does booktubing; that tells me he has a lot of time to waste tbhwy blood relative
Is this Sam Hyde of /lit?
>booktuber
:/
Are there any good books based on the lives of conquerors? It can be either fiction or nonfiction.
Lives of the Twelve Caesars - Suetonius
Lives of Eminent Romans and Greeks - Plutarch
Quran or bible
The Conquerer series by Conn Iggulden. It's a five-book series about Genghis Khan. Absolutely superb.
Going on a backpacking trip through Colorado next week and I'm out of books to read
I'm looking for any good horror or adventure book. Any recommendations?
>>8418518
Ulysses, by Virginia Joyce
How about some classic adventure authors like Jules Verne or Robert Louis Stevenson? Not exactly high-brow but fun anyway.
If you go travelling for a long time, get yourself an e-reader. Made the mistake of bringing too many books before and I had to mail some home.
>>8418587
>get yourself an e-reader
This.
With the Anniversary update, many people are having trouble connecting the Kobo to their computer.
First, I'd like you to stick it in.
Then, go to this page and follow the instructions if you're prompted to format it after 15-30 seconds: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=276349&page=4
>using botnet
its your fault, desu
>>8418502
>First, I'd like you to stick it in
That's what she said, amirite guise.
>>8418502
hi, daily kobo shill!
You told me this is good. It seems like an over-written children's book. I got about 170 pages in, and I can't follow it, because I don't care about anything that is going on. Why is this considered a masterpiece?
That's like asking why Lord of the Rings is considered a masterpiece despite it being about elves and midgets and shit. It's because in 1965 nobody had written books like this before and it changed the soft sci-fi genre. There probably wouldn't have been a Star Wars if there wasn't a Dune.
>>8418486
So did Herbert write poofy hocus pocus because he needed to compensate for his shit prose?
>>8418499
Guy was a political speechwriter at some point, as far as I recall the whole point of the Dune books was that even tens of thousands of years into the future people are still going to be power-hungry bastards fighting each other while putting their faith into leaders who really, REALLY don't deserve to be on a pedestal.
So am I crazy if I think there might be something more between Elena and Lila than just friendship?
I meanjust the way Elena describes Lila's body when she washes her before the wedding with Stefano Carracci. Or how fucking obsessed they are with each other.
>>8418417
inb4 /lit/ only reads male Ferrante, Knausgaard
>>8418417
I've been thinking about reading Ferrante but the covers (at least in the UK) are just so bloody awful.
>>8418419
They're nothing alike. They suck in completely different ways.
>start reading pic related
>entire thing revolves around a wild 1000% exaggeration of the casualties of the Dresden bombings
>into the trash it goes
Nah, I'm just about to finish it and it's good, I suppose. But does anyone else detect a slight smugness/arrogance in that sort of 60s-70s American sci-fi? I got the same sense reading Foundation.
>>8418365
I'm currently reading Stranger in a Strange Land, an I get what you mean.
It was a tough time to be a rational thinking person. Society was going crazy with anti communist Red Scare bullshit while totally oblivious to its own problems and misdeeds and Christian values, and Protestant ones at that, had a strangle hold on culture. This was a time when questioning the Bible, even old testament shit, would have you ostracized.
Of course there was a certain amount of arrogance from those who asked questions.
>>8418365
Google says between 22000 and 25000. What does Vonnegut say?
Who's the Diogenes of contemporary culture?
Yo momma.
World Peace is the only good show on TV rn btw.
>>8418364
I made I a point of remembering all day yesterday to turn in and see what all the fuss was about only to forget and miss it.
Was it gud?
Hello /lit/
My plans got cancelled for tonight and now I have an entire day free to read. What is a good book of the Bible that would take about a day to read thoroughly by checking multiple translations and commentaries?
>>8418301
Ecclesiastes? Job?
You don't need multiple translations, friend. If you want to learn to live biblically, just read the NIV
>>8418311
these, or one of the gospels.
What wallpaper does /lit/ use?
>>8418298
>>8418298
gib source img
>>8418392
http://imgur.com/a/TBhDF
Had to upload somewhere else due to 4mb limit.
Is pic related actually worth the read? I'm 6 chapters in and I'm about to give up.
It's been decently interesting, but so far Jobs is the most reprehensible, cringeworthy piece of shit I've ever read. He's not even a sophomore in college yet and the biography has both extolled him as a wunderkind genius (despite having accomplished nothing in his life so far to indicate this except for having an interest in engineering) and laid out a huge rap-sheet of absolutely despicable behavior (of which neither the biographer nor future Jobs seem to even hint at being regrettable).
I picked this up as a sort of modern history book/perspective into tech business politics. I knew that, being Jobs' biography, there was going to be a lot of dick sucking, but I was not prepared for such a belligerently unsupportable narrative. Does it get better? Is it actually worth it?
Absolutely not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackling_House
he was a fucking turd
>>8418292
No.
Do you keep shit you wrote a long time ago? Just found some short histories and dream's report back from 2007. People say I like home decoration because I'm getting old but surprisingly I was writing about architecture and decoration since forever. Some very short histories are autistic. 5% is something happening and 95% is interior description (poorly done).
Also though I liked X and Y because of peer influence and media exposition but again, I liked what I like today since a long time ago.
delete this
2007 is "a long time ago" for kids, eh?
I have stuff I wrote in 1987 within arm's reach.
It doesn't matter, but I love to destroy all my work, my writing. It's as close as I get to self-harm...otherwise I'm too squeamish. I get to hit delete and *gone* -- I'm reset. It's kind of like a baptism, in a weird way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-QNxD56p_U
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
Is there just a bot that automatically posts this every week? Why do I keep seeing this
>>8418262
>bot
LMAO
>>8418262
it's the hivermind
Everyone post your favorite word
i'll start
>Lügenpresse
Fantastic real world applications with just enough NatSoc flair to make it interesting
>>8418249
Tossup between shibboleth and malaise
>>8418254
>shibboleth
ooooo good word famalam
i really fancy the word mongoloid