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>>8099418
post the epub pls

>>8099418
There are two translations, one aims to be a more direct translation while the other is more "modern"

I speak Irish but I've yet to read it. If you're Irish I'd say get the more direct translation, the hiberno-english won't bother you

>>8099431
I got Graveyard Clay as opposed to the Dirty Dust. Which one is preferred for non Irish friends?

>>8099336
no but stay woke my lil nigga

>>8099336
>reading shit

Keep it up OP

>>8099199

I only read the Eisenhorn obmnibus by Dan Abnett, but that was a pretty entertaining read

>>8099206
So I'm going to guess it was a good read?

Warhammer fantasy too!

New to franchise but the new game has inspired me

>>8099033
Thanks, trying out the z reading style

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>>8099033
>So guys, do you think it's possible to read with the tenacity of Roosevelt?

It's probably genetics.

Teddy obviously had good working memory and processing speed. He could absorb information extremely rapidly and most importantly store a high volume of it, able to recall it at a later date.

I am the opposite. I have goldfish brain. I struggle to process what I'm reading and barely remember any of it. It's made the whole exercise of reading...almost pointless for me. All those great novels and essays I've read are...just gone. Not there.

Perhpas it can be improved? I think it's a genetic defect though. Either way, good luck with your quest buddy.

>>8099238
I have this same problem. But not just with books. I can watch a movie and only remember the basic plot and maybe a few scenes by the next day. In the long term, I can forget up to 90% of most material. I guess it's just a poor memory.

>>8099021
He's high school English class-tier at best. Don't let anyone meme you into thinking otherwise.

>>8099025
More like entry college tier.

>>8099021
I love hemingway and no it's not an iceberg. Everything is laid out on the surface

also he is a giant poser

but then faggots like this >>8099025 somehow can't understand good prose when it is staring them in the face and hate him for the wrong reasons
probably because they had to read him in high school and as they hate actual reading or things that disagree with their accepted in-crowd in the literary community they have to make threads moaning about him

Just read a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man first

The first three chapters and the end deal with the protag from that book, so you realllly need that to appreciate it.

You'll never pick up everything tho.

It's a 10/10 GOAT, so just have fun and let a master do his thing

Its great. I've just been reading literature for about a year and some chapters are harder than others but the prose is enjoyable the whole way through.

read the first chapter and you will surely be hooked

>cover spoils the ending
wooooooow

I work in publishing and I have no idea. Not sure why you think someone would need to work in publishing to answer this, just someone who knows stuff about fonts.

http://fontsinuse.com/tags/526/Penguin+Books

>>8098906
I was just wondering if anyone worked at Penguin publishing. Should have specified.
>>8098917
Thanks! Cheers m8.

Post excerpts

>>8098830
Yes. I oscillate between thinking I'm writing vapid shit and thinking I'm the second coming of Joyce every few days during the process of writing my books. I'm just a bit over halfway through the second one now. It'll either be an all-time masterpiece or will never get published.

>>8098840
This is the part I just finished reading over. The story itself is written with an unreliable narrator and most of this scene was meant to imply that.

http://pastebin.com/egVrVCpB

Also keep in mind this is about halfway through Chapter 5 of the story itself.

final bump

>>8098793
it's fucking shit

do it. too many people end up with this book on hold and end up never finishing it. its kind of irritating when you are doing things like constantly looking at your page number wishing it were shorter but you should just take it easy and read another book on the side if you want

>>8098705
that's judith butler's favorite short story as well

congrats, you're third-wave

That's not a short story.

It's too short.

>>8098705
http://www.tkinter.smig.net/outings/rosemountghosts/babylon.htm

7th grade teacher read it to me 20 years ago. Never forgot it.

This probably breaks some TOS as it's basically piracy. Also, how do we now you won't just take the money and piss off?

>>8098581
i just want cheap books i am not doing this for the money

15 dollar a book??? lool

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bump

iktf ;_;

>>8098499
where is the literature discussion in this post?

>write an entire book about a fictional game
>author is so unimaginative the game and its rules are never described outside of sweeping phrases in purple prose about how magnificent it is and how it "synthesizes" so many fields

>>8098453
The rest of your life.
Kill yourself for making this thread, my man.

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>>8098453
Lord of the Flies and Bell Jar should each take you about two sittings to read. They're light but engrossing.
The Luminaries took me a month-long slog to finish, and I'm still not convinced it was worth it.

I've recently become enamoured with the idea of Dickinson. I read through Fear and Loathing in one sitting and am currently rereading La vida breve.

>>8098477
Very nice handwriting anon.

im interested also. bump

>>8098450
Yes. It's like Starship Troopers without the jingoism.

>>8098450
this was an extremely quick read.

Bret Easton Ellis is right and the reason is because David Wallace is simply long winded and it's a little ironic because while I like Ellis, he tends to pull sentences like taffy with the overuse of the word 'and' and even in his review, he does this and while I've only read Less Than Zero, I assumed that how all of his books were written and even though it's a short book, by the end I was exhausted from the run-on sentences and

>>8098426
He was right - the film sold a DFW caricature
>Seagal slow mo dancing in a church with a bunch of grannies
>Heisenberg: "He's free"

>>8098426
>https://medium.com/@breteastonellis/thoughts-on-david-foster-wallace-and-the-end-of-the-tour-by-bret-easton-ellis-fc9ba2d76d84#.igcsupjkj
I haven't seen the movie but this is a very interesting and nuanced evaluation of DFW