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do people actually look into the nationality of the authors of their books? jesus

>>8238805
generally yes

its not that important but whats the harm of having a themed thread

>>8238801
I've always wondered, why does the fagbow have six colors instead of seven? Any story behind this?

Ambition. Lady Macbeth doesn't help.

>reading for plot

>>8238789

I imagine the combination of mental illness and being a blue blood does quite a number on someone. I mean just look at Elliot Rodger, he shot up a sorority house and he wasn't even noble, just was just rich and crazy.

>>Hurts others for their own gain
>>Unfairly viewed

Okay

>>8233069
Implying anyone really makes a choice. If a person is governed by their biology, and they don't feel that hurting people is wrong, doesn't that mean that they lack the ability to feel that hurting people is wrong? How can you say that a person has a choice in anything, how can you say that having a choice determines whether or not someone deserves to be punished or chastised? It doesn't, and this is one of the reasons why our society as a whole can barely cope with our own existence, is because of this pervasive self righteousness.

>>8233078

There is a difference between perceived self righteousness (Held equally by the SJWs and the religious right) and what is actually right.

What is right and moral, is just the "the golden rule".

Do you want to be raped? No.
Do you want your belongings taken? No.
Do you want to be murdered? No.
Do you want you child to be molested or for you to have been molested as a child? Fuck no


Doing these shows a weakness of character and of self restraint, and they deserve to be treated as the worst of our kind, because they are.

Suicide by You

>>8232708
The Picture Of Dorian Gray.

>>8232708
lmao my God America sucks balls.

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What did Coca-Cola™ mean by this?

Work. Raise kids. Write. Watch cartoons. Travel.
#wow
#woah

he was a fuckin qt i tell ya what

>>7628174

>>8241724
o shit sorry
i never read stickies

>>8241726
the wiki's better than most anons for recommendation charts.

don't bother reading /lit/ itself if you want books, it's just niggers who couldn't be fucked to read the sticky either.

0/10. Your writing is too small. I can't discern it.

>>8241563
Beautifully written and crafted, like a game of chess.

Nonetheless, none of it will ever happen.

All the self-congratulation and "insider speak" of Tom Clancy, and with about as many hard facts involved.

bc paraliterature gives anyone w a fetish for modernity (old (white) men)) an opportunity for alternate worlds where something impossible can apologize for them confessionally through violence

>>8241475
>Race wasn't even mentioned in OP
>Immediately go to raceb8ing

nice

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>>8241475
>immediately blames old white men
>mfw

Happy interdependence day!

I'm on page 442, and I had been enjoying it. That film description is pretty fun.

pol pls go

Yeah, I saw Air Force One on TV today too, OP.

Bump. So I'm thinking of reading the Adam Thorpe translation.

Here's an example.

>Donc, elle reporta sur lui seul la haine nombreuse qui résultait de ses ennuis, et chaque effort pour l'amoindrir ne servait qu'àl'augmenter; car cette peine inutile s'ajoutait aux autres motifs de désespoir et contribuait encore plus à l'écartement. Sa propre douceur à elle-même lui donnait des rébellions.

This is an accounting metaphor.

Here's Marx, missing it:

>On him alone, then, she concentrated all the various hatreds that resulted from her boredom, and every effort to diminish only augmented it; for this useless trouble was added to the other reasons for despair, and contributed still more to the separation between them. Her own gentleness to herself made her rebel against him.

Here's Thorpe:

>So she carried over to him alone the sum of hatred which resulted from her vexation, and each effort to lessen it merely served to increase it; for this needless pain would be added to other counts of despair and contribute even further to the separation.

David misses it:

>And so she directed at him alone the manifold hatred born of her troubles, and every attempt she made to lessen that hatred only increased it; for her useless effort gave her yet another reason for despair and contributed even more to her estrangement from him.

>>8241306
It doesn't matter because the book is irredeemable shit

>>8241446
Que voulait-il dire par là?

That was a lot of bullshit

I'm currently romantically involved with a woman who reads plebshit and patricianshit so I guess yes.

>>8241295
Why does she read the trashier books? Is it for a quick light read?

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>>8241276
>tfw slowly influencing my gf to read more patrician books

Well, if you read magazines, you would know that they do, all the time.

>I’ve only ever read one Stephen King book. That’s the one set in the hotel—The Shining—with the boy who has the second-sight. And the thing that struck me instantly, about 80 pages in, is I realized that the hotel is alive, that it contains the psychic memory of all the people who’ve died there, committed suicide there, done something destructive there, that the building is sort of seething with dark and negative energy, that it will take some of the characters over and destroy them, and that it will be the result, and probably it will blow up at the end. I suddenly realized “I’ve got to page 80,” because actually it’s 460 before you actually get to that moment. And it came to my mind that King is extending a short story out across 500 pages because his editor has told him “You’ve got to have a novel length, not a short story,”

from Jonathan Bowden's lecture on H.P. Lovecraft.

>>8241085
No because you didn't "read" it. You listened to it, so you tell people that you listened to the audiobook. Of course you can do whatever you want, you can read the sparknotes of meme books and tell people you read those too.

no its not okay. dissociate yourself from people who would care about you saying you listened to an audiobook, and dissociate yourself from this compulsion to paint a face that isnt really you

>>8241093
I agree with this

I would disagree with the emphasis, to kvetch about sitting or lying down and staring a stack of paper to listening to someone talk, of reading of paper books over all other mediums beyond the significance of the personal preference to the reader.