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>>9872342
I have a cabinet for my books where I can "track" my progess in the most comfy way.

>>9872342
>quantify how much I read which includes what books, how many pages on each book I've read so far, amount of pages per day, and how many needed per day to hit my goal

On a further note, you probably have Autism. Non-ironiclly. It gives you pleasure to measure.

A lot of nazis on there

>being attracted to girls that had their first period, and are therefore in prime breeding age, is morally wrong
>this is what a nation cucked by christ believes
How does it feel? That feel that you feel when you see a hot 16 year old with perfectly smooth skin and firm tits, but you know you are not allowed to feel that feel so you have to suppress it?
Majority of girls loses their virginity between the age of 13-17 (more 17 though).

And don't start with "mental age" or something. Women will always have the mind of a child.

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>When someone says "I like the NRSV Edition."

No idea what you're talking about OP, Ayn Rand and Thomas Mann are on completely different ends of the spectrum of respected literature. To simplify for you, don't waste a thousand pages of your time on Atlas Shrugged that shills a shit and dangerous ideology

>>9872921
>To simplify for you, don't waste a thousand pages of your time on Atlas Shrugged that shills a shit and dangerous ideology
Not to mention really poor writing on a sentence-by-sentence level even if you might somewhat agree with that ideology otherwise

>>9872921
>shit and dangerous ideology
Anon, you're wrong.

>>9871929
That is the feeling I had when I learned that my edition of "Decline of the West" was a shorter version.

>reading nazi shit

stop being an edgelord

>>9872032
I read it for the operational and strategic insight. I swear.

>>9871719
master and margarita since it's based off faust.

m/f by burgess has an island carnivale iirc

The opening chapter of Daniel Deronda

>>9872131
Already read it
>>9872154
Nice

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>>9871637
wtf /b/ isn't even a problem

Ibn Battuta

Sir Richard Francis Burton's travelogue of the Hajj

>>9872057
any book by Burton, really.
Ossendowski's Beasts, Men and Gods.
Thesiger's works as per pic related.
Seabrook's Adventures in Arabia.
Marco Polo.
Travels of John Mandeville.
Sven Hedin's books.
Xavier de Maistre's Voyage around my Room.

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>>9871391

>>9871541
Thanks anon

google it fag
>>9871541
get out of /lit/

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>>9871192
You did it.

You just realized that the current phrase "platonic love" misinterprets and misapplies the platonic philosophy of love

Hope you enjoyed your revelation, now you can separate the two again as they have basically nothing to do with each other beyond the name

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>>9871192
This was me when I was a classicslet reading Mythology by Hamilton for the first time and realizing where all these words come from

Each book purchased for motion pictures has some individual quality, good or bad, that has made it remarkable. It is the work of a great array of highly paid and incompatible writers to distinguish this quality, separate it and obliterate it.

What kind of mental illness passes over somebody to say: "You know that extremely popular and beloved book series that was read by a generation of people? Let's make that into a movie, but we will race change the beloved main protagonist from a Clint Eastwood-looking gunslinger to a black guy for no real reason whatsoever".

>>9871150

JW: I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

NG: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.

JW: There's really no better way to put it.

- Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman

>>9870915
You're provably searching for 'the western canon'.
That would be way over 100 books though, so you may wanna read only the ones you are interested about.

>>9870915
Who cares? Just lurk moar and read books that interest you. Don't fall for the 'YOU MUST READ THE ENTIRE WESTERN CANON IN SEQUENTIAL ORDER' meme that's so popular around here. In the real world, you will never encounter someone who will flame you for not having read a specific classic so none of them are "must read" in that sense.

>>9870927
What this guy said. Read the ones you are interested in reading.

>>9870942
I'm not doing it to appear knowledgeable, I'm doing it because it interests me. I spend a lot of time reading generic fantasy doorstop trilogies, and I know there's a huge library of public domain classics for me to dig into. My problem is I'm not exactly sure where to start with it, and finding some sort of list that I can check off would help me a lot, even if I initially scratch half the list and stick to the titles that interest me.

I haven't read it

>>9870889
Neither have I.

>>9870892
>>9870895
wew, lads. Reddit is that way

>>9870808
This thread was already done before.
Also what's with the anime girl?

A man decides he wants to cover the earth with his sperm and builds a ballistic warhead to do so.

I mean, he obviously doesn't do so, that's just the plot.

>>9870808
It's about an absolute faggot who saves pictures of anime girls and then dies of AIDS after falling down the stairs and making a stupid thread

The wiki is a fine place to start. As for doing it, just try to relax and start reading. You'll probably lose focus throughout and "read" without actually reading. When you notice this, reread the section.
It will be frustrating and you'll think you're reading too slow for it to be worthwhile, but it will get easier.

>>9870710
I have become alienated in a world full of leftist degeneracy. Books about a past where natural hierarchy and traditional gender roles etc. gives a bit of consolation.

>>9870721
If you want hierarchy of nature and family values, Homer deals with these two respectively, and unsurpassed.

Anyone who hasn't memorized the complete works of Hamilton, Madison, Marshall, Story, and Holmes needs to get novalis'd the fuck off of this board

>>9870607
>speeches can totally move people to do the patriotic and right thing
>speeches can not move people to do vile things and actively fight the constitution

I suppose jihadist propaganda should be legal now.

>>9870621
Well, the Europeans certainly seem to believe so. They're more likely to arrest holocaust revisionists than radical imams.