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>>7975755
Wrote a 35 page essay on Whitman's "Song of Myself." Got an A, but I don't think my professor read it all.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

>>7975741
people shit on this book needlessly, mostly out of some mistaken idea, given that they've never read it, that it's a machiavellian book, and even though it's common sense, it's still good.

>>7975738
Models by Mark Manson.
No more Mr nice guy for self esteem and self respect

the once and future king

Ulysses, Middlemarch, Emma, Bleak House, Tom Jones, Great Expectations, Vanity Fair

>>7975724
Contemporary: The Remains of the Day
Classics: These >>7975737

>Ulysses
Brownshirt pls go

>>7975653
Is this worth reading? It's on my night table, but haven't opened it yet. Feel like returning it to the library and forgetting about it.

Is it a book?

It's bright and colourful and sitting on my serving tray it looks just as if it were made of icing.

Have I inadvertantly bought the cake of the book?

Just got it from library today along with some Céline, Joyce, Pessoa and Wallace. Pretty hyped.

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>Being able to read these with almost no preconceived social/cultural/etc. biases was an experience I can never have again.
What's the tl;dr of the stories and what are the aspects that you now (would) read differently?

And how long do you take from taking your cock in the hand for the first time till coming?

>>7975620
Sun and Shadow is about a guy who flashes his penis at a photographer because he doesn't want his picture taken. He does it because he doesn't want his shitty life to be simplified into a single picture that people will see with no context. When I was a kid I may not have been able to elucidate my understand that well but I think my inclination to be suspicious by default of everything stems from this story. This is the better and more "literary" of the two so if you only want to read one, read this one.

The Long Rain is about a group of spacemen stranded on a planet where it never stops raining. Bradbury maintains a striking omnipresent dread hopelessness throughout that gives me chills. It is a horror story with no horror.

>>7975674
If you like the Long Rain check out the Walls of Eryx by Lovecraft. Very similar and extremely unnerving story.

>muslim reading

Are literature studies just agenda inputs at this point?

>feminist reading
>muslim reading
>queer reading
>queer muslim reading

etc

Any worth in that diploma? Not talking market wise.

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>____ pussy vagina

It finished.

>reading cucknegut

>>7975543
FPBP

>>7975535
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>>7975535
>I've never seen any threads on the subject
Use the archive then, ive never seen the catalog without one.

The answer is >>7975553 if you dont like Amazon, Paperwhite if you dont care one way or the other although pirating onto an amazon device hurts amazon more.

Had kobo aura HD and now have a paperwhite.
Go with Kindle.
The small inconvenience of converting to moby doesn't outweigh the other advantages.

>>7975526
>sci-fi
>translated from japanese
Anon.the book probably sucks.

>>7975526
>there isn't much written that didn't translate into English well.

Nigger don't pretend you speak moon.

>>7975559

> decides it sucks

> hasn't read it

God? is that you? why did you put guys' G-spots up their asses?

I read The Old Man and the Bureaucrats which was pretty good. Short too. Eternal return is his recommended starting place for his research.

i date rich teenagers who go to prep schools and i understand why john green is a thing

imagine an entire high school full of thousands of self-important rich people who get their political opinions from youtube channels and embody john green characters

>>7975567
how did this end up in the mircea eliade thread instead of the john green thread

well whatever i am also a crypto-fascist and eliade is pretty good

I read the Oxford translation. No fucks given. I've read selections of him in the original and it's not that special. He's a storyteller, not a good poet.

>>7975492
I had to read all of the Canterbury tales for my senior year high school English class, it was closer to the original text.

>>7975492
I read the Penguin. I believe that for the most part only the gh and th symbols were transcribed? Plus linebreaks and punctuation I guess

anyone?

maybe you saw the movie at least?

HELLO IT'S ME

I've come to the conclusion that's is true, it's not a joke. you guys actually don't read.

because you lack the vocabulary

Swede here, I read it without any problem.

Lovecraft is just about the purplest prose around though.

>>7975439
Had the same problem just use Google Translator and lean the words while translating them

>>7975438
If that's your impression we probably can't help you. Too many biases.

-0/10

How could a walking corpse be so articulate?

>As for me, I am a watercolor.
>I wash off.

Anne Sexton, from "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"

>For want of me the world's course will not fail:
>When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
>The truth is great, and shall prevail,
>When none cares whether is prevail or not.

Coventry Patmore, from "Magna Est Veritas"

>Yet if you should forget me for a while
>And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
>For if the darkness and corruption leave
>A vestige of the thoughts that I once had,
>Better by far that you should forget and smile
>Than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina Rossetti, from "Remember"

>I shall not see the shadows,
>I shall not feel the rain;
>I shall not hear the nightingale
>Sing on, as if in pain:
>And dreaming through the twilight
>That doth not rise nor set,
>Haply I may remember,
>And haply I may forget.

Christina Rossetti, from "Song"

>I am tired of tears and laughter,
>And men that laugh and weep,
>Of what may come hereafter
>For men that sow to reap;
>I am weary of days and hours,
>Blown buds of barren flowers,
>Desires and dreams and powers
>And everything but sleep.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, from "The Garden of Proserpine"

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>Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If life—the craving for which is the very essence of our being—were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

― Arthur Schopenhauer


I want to read schopenhauer so fucking bad because a lot of I've read about him and how he thought is relevant to quite a few things that I've been dealing with lately. Unfortunately I'm still on the greeks and have to study 2000 years worth of canon before getting to him.