How does it feel to know that your favorite author will never write something this amazing and world-changing?
Tara Gilesbie is truly not a woman, but a goddess who blessed our planet with her immaculate tale of vampirism and witchcraft; stitched together like a finely-woven tapestry made from the hair of unicorns and angels.
What?
Post your fav, and least fav. My most fav is pic related. My least fav is Harry Reid book. He devotes 3 sentance to the concept of limited government. Basically says "I'm a senator, part of the government, so why would I want it to be less powerful?" Mfw I read that and realized people still vote for him is very much pic related.
Someone red pill me on Michael Savage. I know a guy who listens to his entire show every day.
>>7976826
his talk show is great
i have 3 of his books on my shelf, havent read them yet but ive heard good things
>>7975375
Not /lit/. Take it back to /pol/.
I need help remembering a book title. The book is about a wealthy boy in the future, might be 14-16 years old and he lives in a world where New York City is not a place to live anymore for rich people, but you can visit for about a week. It's walled off and he gets sealed in when visiting one day. If you guys can help that would be perfect thank you
>>7975282
Escape from new york
>>7975286
No I searched that. I remember a character named Rex in the book I think. And the black gang in New York were called the Muslims
>>7975309
The rich white kid joins Rex and his gang I think they are called the wolf pack. The rich white kid has a crush on I think Rex's baby mama. No one in the city is older than 19 I think
Greetings my loyal fans and readers.
I, GRRM am going to give you what you've been waiting for all these long years.
I will finally reveal the grand plots and schemes which I have crafted for long years in chaste solitude. Every character's threads will be untangled and rewoven into a tapestry which will touch your very souls.
BUT FIRST...
So hilariously not funny with absolutely zero potential to be funny or entertaining. Well struck, plebtard tripboi.
>>7975227
...I'm going to have 9 different characters recount the events of "The Hand's Tournament, at Harrenhal, In the year of the false spring".
So I've been looking for The Histories and The Annals by Tacitus and I've only been able to find either overpriced penguin translated ones, or random german ones even though i do not live in germany. So does anyone have a translation to recommend? While we're at it, you could share your hate for penguin or your stories of trying to find (specific) translations at your local bookstore
>share your hate for penguin
why, i'm not a memeing retard
>>7975207
Penguin is really bad tho if you are planning to read anything about the classical world or philosophy in general, because they primarily use outdated translations (copyright expired) so they can cheaply mass produce it.
>>7975221
I'm reading their Lucian right now. The translation is very good and the notes are very helpful. Also The Tain they published had a very good translation by Ciaran Carson.
In terms of original Greek works (i.e. Plato and Aristotle), I agree though. Hackett, Focus, and Modern Library are much better
Why do kids and teenagers like video games better than books?
Not ME xDDDD
Can I get some recommendations on major/good/influential historians/historical works?
Figures in the general vein of Toynbee, Spengler, Gibbon, Macaulay, Hobwsbawm, AJP Taylor.
No particular subject/time, differing political bias, usually a larger scope, readable, with populist appeal.
*Hobsbawm
Did he predict the state of academia in the late 20th and 21st centuries?
>>7975145
what did he say would happen? BLM?
I don't care, but he was great in Die Hard.
>>7975145
They're not rocks, they're minerals, Marie!
Hey /lit/ I've been avoiding getting an e-reader for a long time but I'm going to be traveling for pretty much a year in South Asia and was wondering what the best e-reader is?
How many pages/books can they hold?
Can you torrent any e-book onto any model or which models can you add torrents onto?
Are they all backlilt and easy on the eyes?
Anything else I'm forgetting?
I've got a paperwhite. Don't know about other readers so can't really compare but it works.
Only downsides I've notices:
When selecting a word or sentence I find the touch screen is not accurate. Selecting a sentence below/above the one I'm trying to select happens quite often.
Other problem: It resets some of my books to page 1. Only happens to torrented books, not the onces I've bought on amazon. Anyone know how to fix this? It happens when I go back to home menu, or when I havent turned on my device a few days.
The Sony e-readers are generally good. The reason why you don't see them around much is because normies preferred developed "ecosystems" for their e-books; that is, being told what to buy in an all-in-one marketplace with variety and publisher marketing. This is probably why the Kindle is now ubiquitous, even though Sony's tech was just as good if not better. I will answer for my Sony PRS-T2, bought used for 50€ this year.
>How many pages/books can they hold?
1.2 GB of usable internal memory available plus microSD port for additional 32 GB. To give you an idea, I have 150 books on my e-reader in a variety of formats (from massive .pdf textbooks to slim .epubs) and they occupy 700 MB.
>Can you torrent any e-book onto any model or which models can you add torrents onto?
For Sony, yes. Natively it supports .epub, .pdf, and .txt but with calibre (third-party e-book software) you can convert Amazon's proprietary .mobi to .epub. I've never bought an e-book myself but since getting an e-reader, I've purchased more physical books than ever.
>Are they all backlilt and easy on the eyes?
Newer e-readers are pretty much all backlit, but my PRS-T2 is from 2013 and doesn't have it. I use the official Sony cover with a light hanging over the screen, much like one would traditionally use when reading in the dark.
>Anything else I'm forgetting?
Browse the classifieds of whatever your local reselling website is. A lot of people receive e-readers as gifts and never use them, and the kind of person to receive an e-reader as a gift is generally easy to deal with. You'll find everything from the latest Kindle to older Sony's like mine.
>>7975197
I have a kobo aura but the pdf support is terrible. Is the Sony really capable of handling massive textbooks?
What books should I read if I want to get a girlfriend?
No shit like The Game please
>>7975138
None of them will help with that
>>7975138
Read about emotional intelligence, body language, aesthetics. Also read whatever you're passionate about.
READ THE STICKY
What did he teach you /lot/?
How to get famous by shitposting
Probably everything I know
>>7975128
wear a bandana => create an image => die => famous
Any opinions on this Herr?
Bought to crack open Buddenbrooks
>>7975116
Maybe start with his short stories first? idk i haven't read him but i remember this qt in HS english who was a big fan, back when I was getting into real lit through joyce and kafka
gooood times
I love Buddenbrooks, so amazing what such a young person could write...
Magic Mountain was a bit more boring, but it's comfy as hell.
Most consistently good author I can think of.
“And all the spaces of our past moments of solitude, the spaces in which we have suffered from solitude, enjoyed, desired, and compromised solitude, remain indelible within us and precisely because the human being wants them to remain so. He knows instinctively that this space identified with his solitude is creative; that even when it is forever expunged from the present, when, henceforth, it is alien to all the promises of the future, even when we no longer have a garret, when the attic room is lost and gone, there remains the fact that we once loved a garret, once lived in an attic. We return to them in our night dreams. These retreats have the value of a shell. And when we reach the very end of the labyrinths of sleep, when we attain to the regions of deep slumber, we may perhaps experience a type of repose that is pre-human; pre-human, in this case, approaching the immemorial. But in the daydream itself, the recollection of moments of confined, simple, shut-in space are experiences of heartwarming space, of a space that does not seek to become extended, but would like above all still to be possessed. In the past, the attic may have seemed too small, it may have seemed cold in winter and hot in summer. Now, however, in memory recaptured through daydreams, it is hard to say through what syncretism the attic is at once small and large, warm and cool, always comforting.”
>>7975102
This is from The Poetics of Space, right? I've been looking to get into it.
>>7975110
Yes. Wonderful book.
There's a reason the Batcave and the Fortress of Solitude are the two most appealing facets of those two iconic characters.
Where should I start with Shakespeare?
also where can I learn about archaic form of words?
(pic not related)
>>7975082
and also can someone tell me where I should start with English classics in general?
>>7975082
>archaic form of words
>Shakespeare
oiamlaffin
If you want archaic words, Start with the Saxons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICiNbukog0
Jesus.
I bet he doesn't even mention Gaddis. Pleb.
>Post-modernism is about iconoclasm
Nigga, that was modernism.
The reason no one knows what post-modernism actually entails is because it's a fucking meme; it literally doesn't exist.
>>7975080
It exists. It's the cultural logic of late(st) capitalism.