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my diary desu

>>8319528
Send me the MOBI

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harry potter

If you're past 20 and still a robot it really is too late, I'm sorry to say it. Look at the life of any great individual and their essential character will have formed by at least their mid-teens, and from then on their conduct and disposition will have followed a rather predictable course, in most cases being one of gradually greater success in their chosen field. Laziness and apathy are each signs of an easily contented individual. While a genius will be burning internally with a fire that will not quell until he meets a standard of perfection he ruthlessly pursues, the average lumpenprole will go through life either whimsically unaware of anything beyond their stable routine and culturally inherited pleasures, or will otherwise succumb to the most base forms of self-pity and self-loathing, each of which is largely a sign of a narcissistic and entitled personality. And that's why I don't date white "men".

>>8319497
So should I just off myself?

>it really is too late
for what exactly?
>great individual
well good for them.. I just want to to see the results of someone who had lack of confidence, but did something about it somehow

>>8319507
Yes you should. Again, confidence or no confidence, if you haven't asserted yourself on the world by the age of 20 in some form there is zero hope for you. Either you possess that inner drive or you don't. Even the most sensitive and pathetic-seeming writer is in actual fact a very narcissistic and selfish individual determined to humiliate their competition.

>>8319444
Soulseek (p2p), Gutenberg, Libgen, bookzz.

Gutenberg is a real treasure if you are a new reader.

>>8319451
Gutenberg's main shortcoming is that for German and Russian texts the translations are always done by the worst fucking translators with no availability of more than one translator in most cases. Gutenberg's great for entry level but Soulseek is where it's at. A lot of Libgen files of good translated German and Russian works unfortunately are ugly as fuck because they're just manuscripts put under a scanner.

>>8319365
Macbeth

>>8319365
No because such people in reality don't exist or if they do a strong period of characterisation where failure and reevaluation would've been rampant had occurred. maybe fucking marvel comics

G-doy, American Psycho.

Dimitri Dimitriyevich Shostakovich, Elena Evseyevna Konstantinovskaya, and Nina Vasilyevna Varzar.

Howard Roark, Dominique Francon, and Gail Wynand.

Begin with Edith Wharton imo. End: never.

Just read Edith Hamilton

but for some sources:

The Iliad & Odyssey - Homer
Theogony - Hesiod
The Argonautica - Apollonius
Pretty much every Greek tragedy
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
Life of Perseus - Plutarch

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>>8319332

>>8319340
>Edith Wharton
Subtle troll

>>8319328
With a copy of Loeb's Civil Wars and Wheelock's latin primer I learned to read latin very poorly in a few months. German is far closer to English so I imagine if you get one of those dual language books and a good German primer you can do the same.

Alternately, move to Germany.

>>8319335
*Ceaser's Civil War published by Loed.

>>8319328
>I'm already semi-fluent in a Germanic language (Swedish), which has some similarities...

they're similar by being apart of the same language group but it's not like it will take minimal effort to pick up German as it would be Danish. they're still pretty different languages

Edgy and shit, kys

lol'd

A tin teardrop.

>>8319282
/lit/ is not a place for homework assistance.

>>8319288
Fuck you faggot.

Someone recently posted a 68k word novel on /r9k/ in greentext form.

>>8319213
Do you mean some sort of avant-garde medium or just something else like in your image?

>>8319225
Probably something else like a comic or interactive computer program, etc

not sure he is worth the time really. most people on lit seem to have read him and i wouldn't trade places with them if i had cancer.

too bad the writing is horrendous

>>8319165
>most people here are kids, millennials
little bit off
some are millenials, almost nobody is a 'kid'

the book's main premise is the issue with entertainment and irony, something your average college sophomore isn't too interested in

/lit/'s obsession, on the other hand, comes from IJ being 1. the big hot thing, 2. a funny, quirky and 'challenging' (theoretically speaking) novel, and 3. the magnum opus of a very, very memetastic author.

>>8319131
Does anyone unironically like this fat, ugly fuck?

>>8319131
academics don't write masterpieces

the gass build up gonna make me explode!

>>8319124
I hate women and I'm fucking proud of it

>>8319126
They hate you too, faggot. Congrats.

>>8319148
Fuck off, roastwhore. You don't belong here

>>8319045
Not to my knowledge. Surely you would remember if you just finished reading it?

>>8319107
Thats what i was thinkning. Although it seems expected that Rick would quit, but i dont think he does. Mercer tells him that he should do what he does in order to attain the repect for android lives, and no where does it explicitly say, or really even suggest, that he does quit his job.

>>8319211
Maybe they read the sequel where he Spoiler Alert! quits his job.

>>8319044
A bunch of Hitler ones and some from Schopenhauer's 'On Women'.

>>8319059
Know any off the top of your head?

>>8319064
>'women might be talented but cannot be genius as they are always subjective'

This one blew my mind