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So I just finished Matter by Iain M Banks earlier today.
That ending.
THAT
FUCKING
ENDING
Hory sheet.
Why is Banks/The Culture so good?
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How did Matter end again? Was itthe sister getting beheaded by defense drone things in the core of the planetor was there more after that? It's been ages.
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>>8400537
Just the whole latter segmentsthe evil robot nuking everyonethe culture ship blowing up along with the defense shipthe sister detonating her antimatter to kill the evil robot
Shit was fucking intense, much more so than the other Culture books i've read.
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You will never kiss asentient Iln machine unleashed by idiot archaeologists and intent on the destruction of your homeworld and those like it in the Glasgow manner.
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What happened to Ishmael after chapter 21 of Genesis?
Is his life ever covered in depth in other texts?
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>>8400513
Ishmael begat Islam, so there
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>>8400513
He joined the Pequod gang.
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Trying to think of a decent Moby dick joke
>Sonne bräunte seine lichten Schultern am Flußufer, beim Bade...
>...Schatten floß in seine schwarzen Augen im Mangohain...
>...wenn sie ihn sah, Siddhartha, den Starken, den Schönen, den auf schlanken Beinen Schreitenden...
I didn't know this was a homoerotic novel. First page and already he's jerking off to him bathing and having nice legs and dark eyes. He fucks that nigga Govinda at the end, doesn't he?
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>projecting this hard
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>>8400684
i dont know about you, but i certainly am hard and i will soon be projecting
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>>8400684
Don't have anything against all that stuff, I was just surprised it was gay.
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This book worth reading?
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>>8400464
yes of course it fucking is
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>>8400464
no of course it fucking isn't
>muh decay
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>muh entropy
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>muh death
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>Much selfishness.
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>it's written boring on purpose because that's life, man!
What a bunch of shit. At least his short stories are like, 5 pages long.
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>>8400431
It's a bit like my diary desu.
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>The Sun Also Rises is so boring, man!
What a bunch of shit.
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>>8400469
There was some cool parts but most of it was
>We walked over here and then we ate at this cafe and then we talked to this dude and then it started raining....
I don't get it.
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I know Hollywood screws a lot of books but I still hope they'll adopt "x" book into a good movie or tv show. Are there any you want?
I'm still waiting for a good, accurate Oz movie. Animated or live action, I don't mind. I would like a series of adaptations. The first book, Ozma of Oz, maybe Glinda of Oz...The Mysterious Benedict Society is also another series that would work well for adaptations.
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I wish they would make more original screenplays and stop leaching off books, comics, sequels and remakes.
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More xenofiction books should be adapted. The problem is, most fall into the category of "Okay for children's literature but not children's films".
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>>8400601
my dick is curious
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these are the only 4 philosophers that matter
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>>8400324
Nah
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Who's the 4th? I only see 3.
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>>8400324
Karl Marx was not a philosopher.
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what kind of books should I give my precocious budding niece who is an avid reader
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>>8400214
Lolita
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Gormenghast
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What is the best annotated version of Ulysses?
Could I get by using just the notes provided in the Oxford edition?
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>>8400210
yep
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>>8400210
depends on what you mean by "get by"
desu don't use notes on the first read
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>>8400210
This and Penguin's Annotated Student Edition
Did you have more or less respect for Obama after reading his book, Dreams from my Father?
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Exact same amount of respect after not reading his book, Dreams from my Father
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Fuck Barry Soetoro and his Islamic communism.
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I'm a poltard but I think Obama's audacity book showed him as reasonable.
Are any political memoirs worth reading? Tony Blair's ones weren't hugely interesting.
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Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.
I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.
History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU (as long as it doesn't stir up too much shit), applied psychology, the education system, diversity (as long as people aren't treated badly), Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.
Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.
I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.
I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment
And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.
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>Economics.
>Applied common sense.
You have a lot to learn my friend. Its anything but that.
Try reading real nigga macro/microeconomic theory rather than supply and demand bullshit and political treatises by hacks.
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>Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting
Idiot. Didn't read the rest.
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>>8400158
Reading just made me want to fish, it seems fun and relaxing.
You need to stop taking yourself so seriously, you're the pseudo intellectual one.
I thought this series would be embarrassing furry trash but it's actually pretty dang good. And dark, much darker than I thought.
Anyone else like Warriors? I'm only reading the original Firestar books for now.
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underage
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can I read this as an adult
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>>8400165
Sure, unless your mental faculties have somehow deteriorated to a preschool level.
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Do you judge books by the cover?
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Well, I don't judge a book by its cover, but it is natural to prefer a book with an aesthetic pleasant cover. Like when being in a library and I see a book with an attractive spine, I will be automatically called to pick it up to check the cover, and if the cover is attractive, I will be interested in learning about it.
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Literally or figuratively? Either way, yes. Some heuristic is necessary.
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>>8400110
i'd read that book judging by its cover.
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How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony (inb4 dismissed for being like Holden)?
Literary theory is bs made up so that people can leech off of academia and get easy degrees.
Social scientists are idiots and weaponised by dishonest journalists as the new secular prophets telling people what to think / why they're shit.
Morality is never practised. A politician who kills innocent people is more popular than one who says politically incorrect things.
So many current novels are merely narcissistic barely disguised memoirs or written by people with zero life experience.
Science and maths are practised mostly within hideously subsidised and bloated academic institutions.
Sex and portrayals of success are shoved in your face wherever you go through songs and pictures. But you're not allowed to say you want any of it.
90+ % of jobs could be done by everyone and only recruit based on looks and personality.
Literature is not an oasis, not one bit.
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Hmm maybe OP has a point. That first sentence was a bit edgy, let's give him a chance.
>Literary theory is bs
Stopped reading.
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Sounds like the rant from the first episode of Mr. Robot
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>>8400099
By laughing at it.