I have written a free ebook that is on smash words.com
It is called Seeking Sophia by Adam R. Shipley
Doesn't anyone want a free book?
What value do you believe it will add to my life
Pretty good stuff
Why is this board listed under Other instead of under Creative or Interests? It feels out of place and bothers me.
>>8110802
Why does "Other" exist at all? Put 'em all under Interests.
>>8110802
Maybe because this board is slow as hell.
It's actually a godsend that this board is relatively obscure, considering /his/ absorbs the christfags that otherwise would shill here.
>>8110802
>literature
>creative
>interesting
kek
Wolfster edition
Recommendation
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
>favorite Wolfe novel
>favorite Wolfe short story
First for Brent Weeks, Patrick Rothfuss and Brandon Sanderson
Any good new books that are not a series and like <400 pages?
I know that's asking for a lot, not expecting any replies.
When Gregor has transformed into a giant cockroach, why is his family so damned uninterested? I mean, sure, they treat him like crap in the first place, I get that. But if somebody in my family had turned into a giant insect for no discernible reason, I would lose any disinterest in that person. Shouldn't they be thinking of the money they could make exhibiting him, especially considering how financially dependent they are on him to begin with? At the end, they have his huge insect-corpse taken out with the trash. An entomologist at Charles University would pay big bucks for that, ensuring the monetary well-being of the Samsas for some time.
Anyway, if you're worried about Gregor's family getting off too easily for their terrible behavior, just keep in mind how much they'll suffer (smaller apartment or not) for not exploiting their son's transformation.
>>8110635
He didn't really turn into a bug. He was just insane. The story and his family's reactions makes more sense if you think of it this way.
i know man, it's totally kafkaesque
>>8110635
They simply thought he was going through a turkish phase
Books about nothing
>>8110401
Books about everything
pic related
Recommend me more books about nothing
who was the biggest tool in this novel?
I think franzen because he wrote it
joke 6/10
post 1/10
you're wasting space on a board that can have a limited number of topics. you don't deserve an entire thread just for this quip.
>>8110371
srs question though
>>8110377
remind me of the characters, there was the dad with the trains, the lesbian daughter chef, stockbroker and dude who fell for some scam?
I'm the best stream of consciousness writer (Read: Shit-poster.) on this whole damn board. I bet everyone here is too beta to challenge me, and I'll have to stop and read one my patrish <l:^) special booky books.
who wants to fuckin duel.
>patrish
>booky books
Choose one
There's some rancid comfort to this bowl of rice crispies asleep in my palm. I feel the flex of my wrist so differently than when I found myself committing adultery with an unfamiliar grasp. Reading attic poetry while watching dota streams is a perfect blend of high brow and low brow, like Shakespeare, or so I see myself seeing. But you don't know see the seeing, which is where Descartes was wrong.
>>8110353
pic
>>8110361
Today I found a large spider inside of my pool. Motherfucker had a million babies crawling all over him. I grabbed my net to drown them in the deep of the pool, because you see the mother was so light she could walk on the surface of the water. As I approached I suddenly lost sight of her. She probably was able to climb up the walls of the pool; I was secretly hoping she wouldn't do that. I started heaving the 12 foot metal net to make waves to crash and pull the spider mother and her babies out to open water where it would be easier to drown them. Finally I saw her huddled in a corner farther to the left than I expected to see her, and was able to direct my neptunian wrath upon her and her spawn. Quickly as she fell back in the water I dunked her with the net and swung the net to the middle of the pool. I was afraid she might crawl up back the handle of the net, and escape davey jones locker to ruthlessly rape me with all eight of her furry dicks. So obviously I like, dropped the net in the pool and watched it sink to the bottom. As I saw my dad coming out to smoke a cigarette I (who wants a cigarette at 9 am? Squidward?) approached him to let him know that later I would get the net out of the pool. shit i guess my bad at stream of consciousness >>8110361
this guy is the new /lit/ champion
Reminder that Shylock did nothing wrong.
Reminder that you've done nothing right.
reminder to brush your teeth regularly
If this play focused more on Shylock it would be great, but it spends so much fucking time with Bassanio trying to get marry some princess by picking the right box or whatever shit, it's boring and predictable.
what do you think about Book of the New Meme?
>>8110218
mid-tier genre fiction. Not offensive but certainly overrated by trolls and the easily led on here.
It was okay. Well written but kind of boring. Severian and his friends are boring. People say I need to read it twice to get the full story but I don't really care desu.
#27 on the meme chart. decent meme rank if im honest
Why is The Stranger so beloved? It poses the central conundrum of existentialism, but doesn't offer much in the way of a solution. Is it just because Albert Camus was early to the existentialist party?
On an unrelated note, I love the cover. It's so harsh on the eyes. It gives you a good feeling for the ideas in the book.
If you want solutions, read a self-help book.
>>8109901
All I'm saying is that philosophers like Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and the like offered solutions to mans existential crisis.
In The Stranger, Mersault just edgelords himself to death. When he killed the Arab guy, he basically dies too. When he comes to the realization that life is meaningless, he becomes a non-entity.
Why did Camus write the ending like he did? Obviously, if he had the same mentality as Mersault he would never have written anything in the first place.
>>8109949
>Nietzsche
Shitty 'Ãœbermensch' that has been discredited to Hell and back.
>Kierkegaard
>Le leap of faith
>Le find a truth that is true for you
What are some novels with realistic homosexual women in them?
They don't have to be the main characters, I'd just like to read a story with non-romanticized lesbians in it.
>>8109831
thats donald trump?
>>8109831
A lot of Tove Jansson's short stories/novels. Check out Fair Play and A Winter Book.
>realistic homosexual women
All of them, since lesbianism doesn't exist.
How do i know of i enjoy literature because i like it or because i have inferiority complex and i want to get knowledge or seem smart in front of others.
I was dropped out from school at 16, to give you some context. But I made some advances since then.
I really really really want that for my shower
>>8109783
>How do i know of i enjoy literature because i like it
>or because i have inferiority complex
probably both, and satisfying the latter fuels the former
>>8109783
Do you read books that only others would know?
Also,
>that pic
Why not just make a water proof kindle?
>tfw too stupid to read non fiction
I just get bored, i feel like fucking nothing happens.
Im the only one?
>too stupid for non fiction
no anon that's called being smart
I feel that way about most, but not all, biographies. Something about biographies bores me immensely, even if the subject is interesting. Barring that, I tend to find non-fiction more engaging than all but the best fiction. I can't stand mediocre fiction.
This is sort of unrelated, but does anyone else hate how non-fiction books that have photos and illustrations tend to shove them all in the middle? I'm not saying I need pictures to keep my interest, but I think it would be better if, say, a portrait of the subject as a young man appeared at the beginning when the author is actually talking about that point in the subject's life.Maki = best
>>8109780
You'll be a great Liberal Arts Major.
Out of the way, plebs. Patrician coming through.
Doesn anyone think Vollmann would have better meme status here if he had a definitive meme book? Every one of his books is a doorstopper and they all seem to be pretty equally acclaimed by critics, I think. If one of them stood out it would fit nicely in the new meme trilogy.
>>8109471
Not really: The Rifles stands far above most of his work. I think it's just the sheer volume of writing he's done that keeps him from achieving popularity here.
>>8109471
Europe Central should probably be his meme book. It isn't part of the Seven Dreams but is still a behemoth. He's got a great persona for a meme author: fucked prostitutes in the shittiest part of San Francisco, traveled over the world to do war correspondence and hated it, kind of killed his little sister, cross dresses, and was a unabomber suspect. Oh and he loves guns and is one of the ugliest people I've ever seen.
>there are people on this board RIGHT NOW who unironically believe in metaphysics
>>8109391
What the fuck do you mean "believe in" metaphysics?
That's a meaningless statement.
>>8109391
No metaphysics = no physics dumbshit.
This is good bait if it's actually bait. I suspect you might genuinely just be some stem undergrad who looked at a wiki article and has the most shallow understanding of metaphysics possible.