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What is the best cyberpunk novel you know guys? I really like reading one.
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Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon
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ITT Read, Expected, Got
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What I read: Chesterton
What I expected: Woah really serious noir shit.
What I got: le absurdist humour
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What are some authors who you suspect ''write more than they actually read"?
Is this ALWAYS a bad thing?
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>What are some authors who you suspect ''write more than they actually read"?
king
>Is this ALWAYS a bad thing?
not if you're reading philosophy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMTERytCNAU
:DDDDDDDDDD
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I want to cut off John Green's lower jaw and force him to eat my pussy with his tongue hanging out of his head like Darth Malak.
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A great satire series about the British empire in the Victorian era.
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"I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong letter by mistake!
But in the second line was a reference to Achilles, and another to Ajax, so I understood she was just addressing me in terms which she accounted fitting for a martial paladin; she knew no better. It was a common custom at that time, in the more romantic females, to see their soldier husbands and sweethearts as Greek heroes, instead of the whore-mongering, drunken clowns most of them were. However, the Greek heroes were probably no better, so it was not far off the mark."
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I read The Gunslinger like a year or two ago.
don't remember feeling it that much and it taking me a while to get through.
is it worth continuing with the series or is the fact that I wasn't feeling it that much with the first book a good indication I won't be feeling the rest?
is it one of those series that gets better as you go along
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No, The Gunslinger is the best book of the series, and if you don't like it you shouldn't read the others as they slowly devolve into bullshit and only people who really enjoyed the story/characters up until that point should read them. Also how did it take you a while to get through? It's like 200 pages
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>Also how did it take you a while to get through? It's like 200 pages
I don't know. I guess because I wasn't really feeling it
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I'm looking for a book filled with cold, philosophical speaking, like in A Picture Of Dorian Grey, but not so flowery, but cold and spine chilling.
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The King in Yellow is a bit spine chilling. Not exactly philosophical though.
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the conspiracy against the human race
the master of the day of judgment
Does anyone know of any Thomist or Aristotelian approaches to Althusserian structural causality or effectivity?
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Uh... Start with the greeks?
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Is it better to read the Discworld books in release order, or in one of the several different convoluted orders that fans of the series suggest?
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You should probably read any of the series focused on individual characters in that order but which one you choose isn't all that important.
I'd go Rincewind - Death - Witches - Watch - Lipwig, skip the science and read the others whenever. Presumably you're not going to sit down and read them all sequentially anyway.
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Why was it so good?
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I'm reading the sequel now, really disappointed.
Pillars was great because of how easily it flowed from event to event, with the educational lulls in between. It also made me love each character, even William.
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What do you think of using word clouds to summarize and/or analyze books?
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Just read the book... what would reading a word cloud about it accomplish? Now comment sections on the other hand, word clouds for those can be pretty interesting.
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> Where's that girl? - there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with - 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' - might as well kill both birds at once
Why did no one warn me that this was a comedy.
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The book is surprisingly funny in gentle doses. The chapter regarding Queequeg and Ishmael's eating of chowder provided some laughter for me.
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who in this picture is not a meme author?
and what's the rankings regardless of memes
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It is obvious that he needed help
WE killed Dave
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tennis killed Dave... not you anon, not you
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What the fuck is this guys problem? 2016-06-30 02:16:37 Post No.8223139
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What the fuck is this guys problem?
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>make book series
>psuedo intellectual bullshit to cover their own pride and look humble, claims that Wiedzmen is his worst series
>games come out
>do better than the books
>make a shit ton of royalties and more advertising for the books thus even more readers
>goes on about how videogames are shit and books are the only true way a great narrative can be told , but flip flops every six months
Is he just jealous that the games are more popular than his original work? I thought the books were decent, almost finished with them.
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yea he's bitter that his decent books got trumped by great games
your average philosophy undergrad
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I love the idea of the friend zone.
Every time I have shared a bed with a friend I ended up having sex with them, but I am queer and faggots sleep with each other. I guess a friend zone is only a straight thing. Every other bi person I slept with had sex with me if we were in the same bed.