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Is there a better book tracking site to satiate my autism than this piece of shit? Something like letterboxd for example?
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goodreads has a bad community but great functionality
how on earth is it a 'piece of shit'
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I don't use goodreads since you can glean a lot about me from my choice in literature.
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>>8178877
Are you using it for social media or cataloging? If you're looking for better cataloging features, use LibraryThing.
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This is fucking tedious and horrible. I know this isn't a joke either. I know that some gentleman finds this book genuinely compelling, it must be really good if you like to muddle over inane details of a man's contradictory rambling for hours on end. I made it past chapter 3, this is... no.
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>>8178799
>chapter 3
finish it you fucking pleb. the last chapter is a strong, if not justifying, resolution.
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>>>goodreads
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Yes, yes, well done, Wagner, well done
HOWEVER
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MUSIC
my dear Wagner
IS
hold on please ahem
DIONYSIAN
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Wagner was the Dave Mustaine of that time
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>>8178790
Oh my teacher was talking about that letter bromantinc
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Overrated book
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Blak peple
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muh name teacake
me beat u woman
muh dik
Literally the worst book I've ever read.
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>>8178821
What's the best book you ever read?
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Yes yes, well done Tolkien, well done Tolkien
HOWEVER
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>dies before completing his life's work because he's a disgusting fat bastard
HAHAHAHAHHA
I can't wait
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I don't get what dumbledore has to do with this.
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Personally I thought the R.A. Salvatore adaptions of the LOTR movies were better than the books.
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Watership down appreciation thread 2016-06-19 00:21:21 Post No.8178760
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Watership down appreciation thread
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A simpler but more emotional and well rounded plot than LOTR, one of the most fleshed out and beautiful worlds in all of literature, wonderful characters and some of the best passages in all of literature. Share thoughts on this masterpiece/Adams' other work.
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>>8178760
why was Lord of the Rings your comparative reference?
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>>8178773
first fantasy epic that came to mind
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>>8178760
one of my favourite books of my childhood. the sections about the black rabbit of inle give me a tingle even now.
for a while i lived not far from the real world watership down. the first time i went there and saw the sign with the name on it i was speechless for a moment.
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What do you know of HyperReel and New Media ?
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>>8178582
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4oo16m/what_does_rbooks_think_of_lit/
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Fancy yourself a cyberpunk ?
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...Way past the Desert of the Real....
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Things for plebs that Literature somehow helped you avoid or overcome 2016-06-18 23:33:14 Post No.8178568
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Things for plebs that Literature somehow helped you avoid or overcome
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I start
>Drugs
>Toxic relationships
>Luddism
>Expressing opinions out loud in public instead of in a private circle
>Bigotry
>Choosing sides
You can point out sources if you want, like what books made you come to that decision and so on
>inb4 it's all a big spook
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>Toxic relationships
>Expressing opinions out loud in public instead of in a private circle
>Bigotry
>Choosing sides
Would you please expand on those ideas, like what books you read or how you changed your opinion from one to the other?
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>>8178568
Funny, literature made my drug use worse. All that time spent alone reading, the drugs took away the increasing levels of depression until the addiction started having BAD effects, now I'm permanently fucked.
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>>8178568
>Expressing opinions out loud in public instead of in a private circle
>Bigotry
>Choosing sides
Weak cuck faggot fuck.
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You tell me what to read.
29 neet american
gay jewish
have trouble finishing a lot of books, they pace slowly for me. My favorite read as a kid was The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. I really enjoy coming of age stories and the Roman A Clef format. I like reading things that reflect the author's culture and personal story, and have a tough time with most fiction, but appreciate imaginative informative variants like Madeline L'Engle.
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Oh and I usually read history and true crime books but I'd like to find fiction I would enjoy. I am however, very picky with my aesthetic and most seem not to prefer my aesthetic.
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A Confederacy of Dunces you kike
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kys faggot
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>Little by little
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>could of
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>>8178471
>could care less
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>based off
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How do you read books? As in how do you get most out of the experience e.g. learning new words etc. As someone who hasn't read much before (and going through the lit starter kit) should I highlight the phrases/words or maybe write them out in a separate notebook?
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>>8178419
Bump
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My recommendation is not to use the starter kit but just buy books that you are interested don't slog through a book you don't like just cause it's classic get shit you like.
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Read every book twice, make a small amount of notes the second time. Write an essay on it when done.
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Is this novel worth reading? 2016-06-18 22:52:02 Post No.8178399
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Is this novel worth reading?
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Is 'On the Road' an interesting and/or philosophical read? Or is it just another meme-tier novel?
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>>8178399
>it's a post a meme and ask if it's a meme thread
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This usage of the word meme applied to books is really frustrating. Is it worth reading? It's a classic of the 20th century, and a pretty short one too: I'd suggest you take the initiative to read the book and decide for yourself whether it's a good one or not. From my experience, even the lesser classics are worth reading just to know what the fuss is about.
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It's worth reading, especially considering how short it is. You should be able to finish it in a couple hours.
I personally enjoyed reading it and found it interesting
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Football Season is Over 2016-06-18 21:42:15 Post No.8178083
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No More Games.
No More Bombs.
No More Walking.
No More Fun.
No More Swimming.
67.
That is 17 years past 50. .
17 more than I needed or wanted.
Boring.
I am always bitchy.
No Fun – for anybody.
67.
You are getting Greedy.
Act your old age.
Relax – This won’t hurt.
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>>8178083
>Football Season is Over
The Euros are still on m9
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I kicked the foot ball,
Adrena Lynne, that old whore, crashing through my glutes.
Like a guitarist but with feet.
Like a sculptor with grass and time.
A conductor of rage.
Foot ball.
They call it a game,
A great performance,
I say, foot ball is life
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what are the best suicide notes
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I'm reading H.P.Lovecraft novels actually, and I wish read it with a good music which coordinates with the atmosphere of L.
Same case of Allan Edgar Poe.
Also, perhaps do you have reading records references?
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>>690274769
Why do you read with music playing?
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>>8178051
Why do you see a movie with a soundtrack? Because it can increases the feeling when you read something.
Some people can't be concentrated when music is played, but it can be great.
For example one day I read Dante's Divine Comedy with gangsta rap instrumentals, it was so great I read aloud some extracts and few of my friends liked it.
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>>8178129
>Why do you see a movie with a soundtrack?
Film is art in totality, it brings together visual and auditory art. The emotional scope of film is almost boundless. It's much the follow through of Wagnerian drama.
Music is to be enjoyed as music
Literature is to be enjoyed as literature.
The only patrician way to listen to music while reading is to read the novel and its corresponding tone poem. Pausing from the book to enjoy some of the tone poem, to then pause the music and return to the book.
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Guys, I study film.
I am alos intersted in philosophy and have read some philosophy books here and there as well as reading in different online ecycopledias about different authors.
I am especialy interested in deleuze and have read parts of bergsonism, movement image and a thousand plateous.
I have also read an introductory book to lacan and again, the articles about him in online ecyclopedias.
I know this is no way to truly study philosophy however I feel that a TRUE study of philosophy involves actually producing content, as in writing books or writings.
Only though that process of comentary on other writers and producing works can you truly be philosopher and fully engage with philosophers and their ideas.
But, I study film and want to make films(I am studying at a film school), so as i am not a philosopher nor intend to be I feel it is not my job to fully understand and engage with philosophers but instead, get inspiration from them.
Understand in feelting their most important concepts and especially modes of thinking.
The absorbtion of these general modes so they become natural to me seems the thing i need to subconsiously use them as i write and make films.
So what I understand of lacan in very very general terms is his understanding of how we try to structure reality but can never pin point it. We grow as kids and are introduced to the symbolic order that is language and through it, through the languages of others we get out place within this order.
This is how we construct who we are.
He divides it into 3 main levels.
Real imaginary and symbolic.
The real is the thing we can never fully grasp but we try to which is the symbolic levle and the imaginary is our misconceptions based on our perception of ourselves whci is essentialy how others percieve us.
Then to live our lives properly we must aknolwedge our inherent desire(petit object) to grasp that ungraspable part that we miss through the structuring of reality through language that can never be quenched.
Now what i understand of deleuze in very general terms is a certain a desire to breakdown ideas of some sort of source.
To stop thinking of knowlede and life in the form of a tree with a trunk, with one source and instead focus on the details and think of everything as connected with other things.
Rhisomatic perticular thinking with focus points where things converge and spread on..
Reminding me of facault's ideas about inspecting points of convergence in their right and specific place, analyzing everything around these focal points using all the standards and realities of the time of these points...
Am I way off? What do you think? What would you say are the most inspiring or key concepts about deleuze and lacan?
I know many here hate lacan but I find his ideas to be much more in line with my interests as oppose to some of freuds which i find, after lacan, to be juvenile(not freuds fault of course).
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This very sober explanation zizec gives of his understanding of lacan is very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiEeON3bq8A
What I still fail to clearly understand is the virtual as expressed by zizek and deleuze.
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>>8177857
If you want to make films, drop film school and go to the films.
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>>8177888
Not him, but easy there Tarantino. I'm also a film school idiot, and while it is true that you really don't need a theoretical class as long as you can meticulously analyze cinematography, I think that the main advantage of film school is connection-building.