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>>8025765

I don't know. The version I have I've never been able to find again. I'm not sure if that should concern me.

>>8025765
I have the epub off libgen (IIRC), but I would not recommend it, personally.

>reading a book with that pretentious of a title

>>8025583
why is he trash

>>8025583
bacon is not the only thing that is cured by hanging from a string

kill yourself

He was an INFP and INFP is the best class you can spawn as so you're just objectively wrong

>>8025402
>they

I'm thinking in movie terms again. I meant him, as in Mario Puzo.

I really like it. Maybe not very explicitly, but it raises interesting ethical questions, it's fun and written well enough. Except for that vagina chapter, of course.

>>8025426
This is a very slow board, you don't have to bump every 5 minutes.

>>8025449
I'm not op, sorry

You might like Dracula, which pretty much started the whole vampire novel trend.

Also I'm pretty sure Meyer's work is also inspired by the novel Wuthering Heights, so you should check that out as well.

>>8025386
>>8025396
I think I'd like these, been meaning to get around to both

I think I'd quite like something romantic and easy to read
I liked the twilight books but Midnight sun seeing it through Edward's eyes and being a part of his mind was something I enjoyed, especially because in the twilight books he's quite mysterious and it was to see his much more complex point of view

if that helps define a bit more why I liked it
probably not

because you touch yourself at night

>>8025327
Confucius wasn't profound. He formulated a way of life that kept the going social order intact and so has persisted.

>>8025327
Who said that Confucius is profound? I have never heard this.

>>8025282
I read it for a world lit course. Not sure who the translator was since it was in an anthology, but I liked it quite a bit. I've heard the Mahabharata is even better, but I haven't read it. Look around for what is the best translation and then go for it OP.

Is it OK to just watch the 2008 TV adaptation instead?

>>8025282
Yeah but don't read the Hari Krishna translation, they clandestinely added their own Hari Krishna agenda to their version.

What do I do if I'm trying but very shitty at it?
Reading it I just individually translate every word into English in my head, and hearing it I miss 90% of what's being said unless it goes one word at a time. Am I too stupid to be multilingual?

>>8025271
how long have you been "trying"

best way to learn italian on my own?

Is ANYONE reading it?

Why /x/?

>>8025358
Last time I posted something here I was told to put it in a critique thread, which I could not find this time, so I posted it on ecks instead. You can read it from the archive, though. Are you bothered to? Its reasonably long.

I don't know why I chose ecks. People always upload "creepypastas" so I presumed they would just mistake it for one or think that it is close enough to being one.

I think ecks reads. There are many Christians and Pagans on the board, which requires knowledge pertaining to literature.

if i say drinking and shitting will the thread die

verb 1: shitpost

verb 2: /lit/

>>8025128
>/lit/
>verb
What are you doing??????

>>8025110
>why is everyone so pissed caddys a whore?
she got pregnant by someone other than her intended husband
>why is Jason stealing all her money?
because he thinks of it as recompensing him for when she left her job jason helped her get. also to pay for her kid
>what the fuck was quentins problem?
nothing in particular
>why did he bone his sister?
he didn't. read it again
>why doesn't benjy speak up about all the shit going on?
he can't. did you understand that he's a retard? again, read it again

this is bait, don't respond faggots

>>8025127
what incest did he committed? !?!?

you will quickly realise why they're third world countries and then you will want to leave immediately

>>8024919
this dude knows what's up...now i haven't been to a third world country, but i have lived with ppl fresh off the boat from the 3rd world and they are filthy, lazy, yet greedy, overprividged and entitled but quick to pull the struggling immigrant card...makes you realize once the WASPs who built America die off it's gonna turn into some horrible mash-up of India and Mexico within the century...which is to say horrible inequality and no human rights mixed with completely corrupt state run by literal criminals

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>>8024917
How third world are we talking? I spent some time in Mexico City, as did Pynchon, but there are comfy neighborhoods and educated professionals there so I don't know if that counts in your book.

The part that's not a meme is that you can make a comfortable living doing part time teaching in much of the third world. I was offered a teaching job by someone I met on the street on my second day in DF. If you don't have a trust fund or skills that are highly valuable in the first world, it's a way to live and have time to write, though you could possibly do the same by doing seasonal tourist work in the states and living in a cheap rural area.

For me, the main drawback of moving somewhere like that was the social isolation. I just didn't jive with a lot of Mexicans and started to feel like I was being stared at everywhere I went.

I know the guy who wrote Life of Pi did the first draft in the mountains in India, and the Boston University MFA program grants travel funding to all graduates to do something similar, so there may be something to it.

I mean, lets recommend each other spoopy books

or whatever will make this board not be slow as shit

i like this board slow. i'll be back with a good recommendation in 11 hours

The Wasp Factory, Ian Banks has some frights.

Get the compilation of short texts, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth

why do people read philosophy as if it was some casual activity?

>>8024769
Discipline and Punish
>>8024821
Cause they're filthy casuals, why else?

>>8024635

Your idiosyncracies are contrived and inauthentic.

>>8024642
rekt

your prose is shallow and pedantic.

Moron. You'll end up dead anyways. Why not have some fun and experience some things before you die. There is no promise of anything after death. It would be a shame if this is all there is and you've wasted it. Life has no purpose, you create that purpose.

>>brother killed himself last year. Still mad how dumb it was. Miss him everyday.

>>8024631

I'm with this anon. Sums up my feelings on the subject nicely.

so go on disability and wack it for 50 years...speaking of which i just nutted and now my right ball aches wtf