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>>8404292
>reading translations

bump. I wanna know this too.

I refuse to read his books because they look shitty and he's an ugly fag.

>>8404290
Is this one of those boring-ass books about a boring-ass middle class American family where one spouse is cheating and the other is pining for the good old days while wasting away in some yuppie profession?

>>8404307
Close.

It's one family has issues with son getting red pilled while eighty pages are dedicated to the wife's wild college sex life.

>>8404279
The autumn of the patriarch desu

>>8404279
I don't care if it's a cliché, but fucking Lolita. The description of the Annabel tryst in the beginning had me shaking

Tropic of Cancer

>>8404222
Read it when it first came out, around 25 years ago.

Good fun, but the writer didn't know how it was all going to end. The second volume is amazingly good at tying up the loose ends.

>>8404242
>The second volume is amazingly good at tying up the loose ends.

ppl are gonna shit on your for this but i enjoyed it too

way too much MUH JOHN KEATS in both books tho

>The left side of my brain had been shut down like a damaged section of a spinship being sealed off, airtight doors leaving the doomed compartments open to vacuum. I could still think. Control of the right side of my body soon returned. Only the language centers had been damaged beyond simple repair. The marvelous organic computer wedged in my skull had dumped its language content like a flawed program. The right hemisphere was not without some language - but only the most emotionally charged units of communication could lodge in that affective hemisphere; my vocabulary was now down to nine words. (This, I learned later, was exceptional, many victims of CVAs retain only two or three.) For the record, here is my entire vocabulary of manageable words: fuck, shit, piss, cunt, goddamn, motherfucker, asshole, peepee, and poopoo.

>I soon found that among my intimate acquaintances - Old Sludge, the scoop-shovel foreman; Unk, the slum-yard bully to whom I paid my protection bribes; Kiti, the lice-ridden crib doxy whom I slept with when I could afford it - my vocabulary served me well. 'Shit-fuck,' I would grunt, gesticulating. 'Asshole cunt peepec fuck."
>'Ah,' grinned Old Sludge, showing his one tooth, 'going to the company store to get some algae chewies, huh?"
>'Goddamn poopoo,' I would grin back at him.

>>8404209
>tfw too smart for both STEM and humanities
They didn't tell me it'd be this lonely at the top

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>>8404209
>tfw too smart for intelligence

>tfw too smart to exis

>>8404006
Gardens of the Moon - meh with bits of awesomeness
Deadhouse Gates - some of the greatest fantasy ever written
Memories of Ice - half meh half awesome
House of Chains - the first half is some of the greatest fantasy ever written
Midnight Tides - a weird departure, not necessarily bad
The Bonehunters - dip in quality
Reaper's Gale - even worse
Toll the Hounds - not a good book
Dust of Dreams - bad book
The Crippled God - garbage

>>8404037
This guy gets it more or less right. I cant say a word about last two books in the series since I didn't even care about them.

The second book (dont get scared by the first one, it's mostly chaos, but I personally liked it) in the series is more than worth of reading. So fucking awesome, imho one of the best fantasy things ever written. And then it goes slightly downwards with each consequent book till the fifth one (counting it in, this one is actually weird, didn't like it at first, but it grows with time), after that huge quality drop (liked a bits on each on of those, but in their entirety, they are bad).

>>8404006
Next LB is in October so calibrate accordingly

This post

>>8403930
Anything by The New Atheists or anything fantasy.

>>8403930
infinite jest
the martian

He thought it would be fun. It was.

>>8403928
the judge didn't follow glanton's orders
glanton followed the judge's orders

>>8403928
Glanton was a true dancer

psychedelics

It doesn't happen overnight.

It's the pursuit that sets you free.

>>8403914
radical freedom

Siddhartha really opened me up to learn more about Hindu culture, it's staggering how advanced their thinking was.

>>8403924
Siddhartha was an excellent read, but I always assumed it was a Westernized bastardization of actual Eastern schools of thought. I wouldn't know where to begin with primary texts.

>>8403892
Hi, OP. I would start with the history of Europe/the western world if I were you. I know some sjw idiot will attack me for eurocentrism, but there is no denying the richness of western culture and its historical metamorphosis.

Now, when studying history there are no single volume work that will give you a deep and nuanced appreciation. You are going to have to spend a lot of time reading on many different times and many different topics. Of course you can look for an overall survey of European history as a starting point, but it will only provide you a very thin basis for further study (but this basis is important too; a sketch of the bigger picture before diving into the particular).

I would start sketching out history by dividing it into time eras, and then immerse myself chronologically. A basic outline (by me), would look something like:

Classical Antiquity (before 350)
The Middle Ages (350-1350)
Renaissance (1350-1600)
The Birth of Modernity (1600-1700)
The Enlightenment (1700-1789)
Revolution & Romanticism (1789-1857)
Industrialization & Imperialism (1857-1914)
The World Wars (1914-1973)
The Information Age & Globalization (1973-now)

Now, you can study the standard geo-politic aspects of history, and that is important for an understanding; but it is not the complete picture. For a truly deep understanding, you need to look at history from many different angles. That could be looking at philosophy, literature & art, religion & theology, the technology, the 'sciences', ideas and structures about and of society.

Taking antiquity as an example, you could study the geopolitical struggles (the persian & pelopponesian wars, Alexander the great, birth, expansion and fall of the roman empire etc.), but you could also look at classical philosophy (from presocratics to Aristotle), the works of poets like Homer, Sophocles & Aischylos and the sculpture and art of antiquity, religion (greek mythology, judaism and the birth of christianity), the technologies of the classical world, the pythagorean school of science and euclidean geometry, the structure of the greek society and the thoughts of philosophers about said society (Plato, Aristotle for example), and the same with the roman empire.

So there is definetely lots to read and discover, anon. I don't have time to give you a comprehensive curriculum, but if you are dedicated and willing to spend time, sweat, tears on this stuff, you can learn about the story of civilization and gain a deeper appreciation of the world around you. It is worth it, anon. Do it.

Good question.

To me I have to think of all the past memories good and bad. Everything that got me here to this moment before i start reading.

I want to read every book I own. I have read most but I have twenty to go. My mom brought me Twilight and New Moon years ago but I never touched them. I am trying to get through them though. I just tell myself to read one chapter a day.

Not authors such as Ayn Rand. I put the book down after reading the very first sentence of Atlas shrugged

Taipei

>>8403821
Guys, do you know if a movement that promotes Active Abstention exist in your country? Really interested about that .

Here in Spain we have the MCRC, more stronger than ever with the sight of our 3rd general elections in one year, and with the chance of another one after that if the situation remains the same.
For you op, read the Myth of Sisyphus

Time to cleanse my friend. Not your soul, not your spirit. I mean your skin. You have been blighted by the pigment of dark sun. Take a two hour walk every day. Hit me up in a week.

>>8403782
Now imagine how embarrassing you'd look to others if they were to find out that you post 'feels' on an anime imageboard while in your 20s.

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>move across country as a kid
>go to new elementary school
>shy and don't know anybody so just read all recess
>ostracized as the "gay new kid who reads all recess"
>decide to accept my ostracism and just read books on a rock all recess
>huge group of kids doing laps around a field passes my rock
>lucas among them
>was briefly my friend before betraying me and joining the others in hating me
>runs by
>mocks me for reading my book on the rock
>calls me a loser for being alone and having no friends
>catches me off guard
>he's running by
>i don't have much time
>i'll look like a bitch if i don't a comeback
>panic
>call him an "assbutt"

>>8403782
read sentimental education or anything by flaubert

have fun cringing at yourself in flawless prose

No because you didn't read the book retard

>>8403713
So going by your logic, you can't say that you read this book if you don't read the chapter titles.

>>>/reddit/

So who here has actually read it and can tell me if it lives up to the hype? Thinking of starting it soon but I'm afraid it'll be boring. I've read long-ass books before but DQ sounds kind of repetitive and uneventful

>>8403688

>Is there a single novel or film that shows empathy towards an ugly male?

The Elephant Man

>Arent autists displaying an advanced form of empathy, the ability to empathise with ideas as abstract as fictional empires and fictional magic?

no because empathy is not a hierarchy, there is no 'advanced form', you either get laid or you are an autist. you either empathize with people or you stay away from literature and invent me some more computers and shit. just live with it.

>>8403709
Cyrano de Bergerac