I have 2 dollars in my paypal account, what can i order from here?
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Maybe Dover Thrift Edition of Tao Te Ching
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how long is the wait for the books to arrive considering i'm in australia?
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>>8088898
Usually about 2 weeks.
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Hello,
I never rely on you and rarely frequent this kind of thread but I've made an unexpected acquisition (I'm a book dealer) and I would like your opinion about it. It's an early print of the 1932 third edition of James Joyce's “Ulysses”, barely used, with the famous “Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A.” mention. It's a limited press luxury copy, with the two volumes and its case, the whole with no flaw or handwritten notes. I don't trade this kind of book, and I would like to know how much you would evaluate it. I'm considering selling it between 100$ and 250$. Is it a reasonable price? It really is in a perfect condition. No stain, no torn/folded pages. The case still have its original lace.
Also, acquisition thread.
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I don't have a god damn clue but that sure does look neat and I wish it was mine
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>>8088484
burn it.
trump 2016
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If I can't sell it back, at least I would have finally read this book.
Hey /lit/, I'm ordering infinite jest and I need to add $4 of books to qualify for free shipping. Any recommendations?
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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>>8088423
East River by Sholem Asch
You know you want to
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>>8088423
Make Way For Ducklings
Dubs confirms it
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How does one train themselves to read a difficult book?
Like, do you just not be a pussy and spend all year on it, make notes and shit? Or do you just read other, less difficult books to head your head around unconventional techniques?
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I just keep chugging along and after a certain number of pages it just clicks and I breeze through the rest of the book. I am entry level though, I don't touch most of the shit people rave about here.
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You push through it, even if you don't understand. Put it down after you finish, let it be for some time, then come back a week or two later to piece it together. Discuss it with others.
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>>8088231
It's a vague recommendation (rather than for dealing with any one specific book), but this is honestly why people recommend starting with the Greeks. You get a foothold in most genres of literature, and can build on it either chronologically or in terms of difficulty (although those arguably go hand in hand for a while).
Having trouble with Shakespeare? Go back to Chaucer, to the Bible, to Roman drama, to Greek drama.
Having trouble with Milton? Go back to Dante, to Virgil, to Homer.
New to history? Watch the genre be born and start to evolve alongside Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, and Tacitus.
And although there's no direct "Greek" foundation for novels, getting at least a taste of ancient (christian and pre-christian) history and morality will give you some of the tools you need to approach increasingly difficult books, both in terms of references and simply practicing reading books that didn't immediately come easily to you.
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Stuff that this utterly patrician board would crucify you for reading but you enjoy anyway.
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>RLM mixed with Max Payne
Yes
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I want to see Vinnie Goniti as Jack
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wicked
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The Meme Trilogy. They want you to read it, they don't want you to enjoy it, and they want you to understand it, they also want you to enjoy it, they want you to get prepared first, they tell you this. "Don't read them yet, get prepared, Anon." They say this over and over. Start with the Greeks.
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should I dedicate 12 hours a day to reading this?
will it still take forever to finish?
will this method give me autism?
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>>8087956
you would finish it in a day and a half
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just started reading it
have patience, give it a fair amount of time to grab you
if it doesn't, if you dont like it, just drop it, life's too short
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correction: just start* reading it
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Alright /lit/, this is the thread you writers have been waiting for. I want to know about your novel or memoir or whatever book you're writing. What you should post:
1. The cover, with the name changed if you want.
2. An explanation of the title.
3. Plot summary.
4. Main character's name and personality.
5. Do you plan to get it published?
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hmmm
how about this
/mu/ has those threads where they combine random elements through wikipedia and stuff to make albums
somebody come up with a way to do this here with books
i cant do it im dumb
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>>8087885
What about books we've already written?
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How about books we are currently writing?
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ITT: Books that no on here has actually read
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>>8087865
I've read it twice.
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>>8087865
I just purchased it today. I wonder how long it'll take me to get through.
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>>8087865
If this is bait, decent. If serious go back to where ya came from guy
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Are politics and economics the same thing?
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No, politics is the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power, and economics is the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. They're different things.
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Political economy is the thing
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No but they overlap each other.
What do you think of Stephen King?
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>>8087696
Cool guy; bad author.
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An intelligent and dedicated man who used his efforts in an overtly self serving fashion and helped start a really bad trend in literature, of which he is still the figurehead.
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>>8087696
i don't think about him at all.
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Wie wundervoll
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I want to fuck her as she becomes a woman
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>>8087688
I want to put my dick into that secret place no one dares to go.
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>>8087698
in the notches of her spine
Sup, /lit/
Hit me with your irrefutably fantastic philosophical book recommendations that I can pick up this summer.
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Seth Benardete - Herodotean Inquiries
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>>8087581
how far into the canon are you?
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>>8088247
I just got to Stirner
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i fucking hate books
its 2016 why cant we move onto superior mediums like video games?
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>>8087570
I fell for b8
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why does this shitty thread get replies and mine never do
fuck this board
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What is the best edition to begin reading Milton's Paradise Lost? What are its merits?
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What's a book you would recommend to someone who's gone through almost all of the /lit/ starter kit and enjoyed none of it?
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>>8087551
Given that, this should do.
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>>8087527
I'm borrowing the one edited by Alastair Fowler
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
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That's solid advice, thanks anon
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>>8087488
Nice dubs! And thanks for the great advice.
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