I'll just leave this here
>>7841065
Book turned me gay.
>>7841065
this book changed my outlook on everything when I was 14. It got me into reading
>>7841109
fagg
I found this masterpiece, read by the most appropriate voice. I still have goosebumps after ten minutes it was over. Do you feel the same?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2630L1DpPU
>>7841023
This is cool
It was nice.
I've always liked audiobooks with sound effects. I find it hard to listen to them without.
If you guys liked that then you'll love this channel https://youtu.be/3iZBH2rEops
hey, hard science fiction fan here in a bit of a jam
im looking for LARRY NIVEN'S FOOTFALL and THE EXPANSE series in audibook format but im having a hard time finding any kind of torrent for it. I tried pirateproxy and rutracker but all i got is one shitty torrent with no seeders
is there like a good place to illegaly download pirate audiobooks particularly science fiction ones?
one cubic parsec of thanks to everyone
I found them all on WhatCD but I don't have a big enough buffer to download them.
Maybe someone else that does will be kind enough to give then to you.
>>7841008
how do i get an account? is it invite only or is there a special day to log in?
>>7841008
what are tehse secret torrent kind of places called? are there more?
is there anyone else that prefers Proust over than Joyce?
I personally think that La recherche is the best book wrote in the 20th century
Yeh, you woude
gay vs straight
>>7841146
>gay
>Joyce
Have you even read his personal letters?
Hey /lit/ I started reading gravity's Rainbow, got to page 73, but only understand about 40% of it. It is honestly a drag but feels like I am missing alot if I skip it. At this point, should I just give up?
you won't understand most of it but i promise it's worth it. i'm on my second read through and it's one of the most beautiful things i've read.
there's no shortcut to this. you have to struggle through it and someday when you come back to it, it will have been worth it
>>7840943
>wahh thing is hard wahhh me wan quit wahhhhh
fucking millennials
>>7840959
Man its not that, its just I have other hard shit to read like finances and this is supposed to be my fiction free read so I don't want to spend so much time on it. Guess its not for me.
Histories, worth reading? y/n - and why
Yes; if you need a justification to read a classic Greek book you need to lurk more.
>>7840942
Yes. Get the annotated version, it's cheap as fuck on Amazon.
>>7841039
The question; why?
What is the difference between Stirner's spooks and Marx's ideology?
>Stirner
Literally the greatest thinker of all time. Destroys all spooks, will turn you into a 200 IQ 6'3" alpha male with an 8" penis.
>Marx
Some German faggot who thought you could predict the future with economics and a love of unsubstantiated speculation.
Stirner was autistic and Marx was a fatass.
That's about it.
th-th-th-th-th-thats all folks!
Thoughts on this masterpiece?
Heavy-handed and it will always be high school-core but it's not a bad read. It's definitely memorable.
A little heavy handed with the symbolism.
I don't like how it demonized the survival instinct, and the desire to seek out and destroy things you're afraid of. Parables like this always feel really flimsy and unsatisfying to me; you can 'prove' anything in a fiction where you're pulling all the strings.
island of doctor moreau 1000 times better
>It's a poem about how your accomplishments won't matter when you're dead
>>7840886
>It's a "my love will never die as long as my words survive" poem
>it's a poem about nature
WE'VE ALL BEEN OUTSIDE
STOP
>>7840924
nature poem authors btfo
Reading all the poetry critique threads is hurting my head, not that none of you have talent. But I want delicious, beautiful language. Post poems you really love, poems you read over and over again.
Pied Beauty, Hopkins:
Glory be to God for dappled things ā
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finchesā wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced ā fold, fallow, and plough;
And Ɣll trƔdes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
link for original formatting:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173664
THIS FRIDAY I WOKE UP AT 2PM
started drinking alcohol at 3pm
at 11pm i went to a party wearing the same clothes i wore on thursday
at 12:30am the guy i lost my virginity to told me he is having a baby
at 1:30am i ate drugs in the bathroom without telling anyone
i don't know how to maintain relationships
most of the people i've had sex with have negative feelings about me now
starving to death during sex is something i would like to do this week
every time i look at my computer
i fight the urge to open a word document and list everything i ate that day
here is what i ate today:
coffee, curry vegetable thing from whole foods, plum
i am most comfortable around people who criticize me because
i feel like anyone who isn't constantly criticizing me is lying
or expecting me to be something different
seems insane that you need money to do things like
develop a drug addiction, or move across the country
i don't identify as 'depressed' even though i feel depressed
seems unfair that i only get to feel a finite amount of things in my life
lately i have been assuming that dried fruit has more calories than regular fruit
i feel like 400 dead jellyfish in the middle of a freeway
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
I know /lit/ hates these Barnes & Noble editions, but this is the only king james bible I've found available with the Gustave Dore illustrations, so isn't it worth it?
Also pretty cheap for what it is.
Buy it if you want it. Who gives a shit.
>>7840839
>the only one
>http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Bible-Version-Leather-bound-Classics/dp/1607109301
5 seconds on amazon, you stupid fuck
>>7840839
Are you really so insecure that you can't buy a book if it isn't approved by a bunch of pseudo intellectuals on a Kurdish meat curing forum?
Completely fricken awesome. This book pleased every geeky bond in my geeky body. I felt like it was written just for me.
ok
>>7840791
>I felt like it was written just for me.
If you are the kind of person who molds their personality around things reddit likes, you would be completely right.
But you are not, because this is nothing but bait.
I don't think there was anything wrong with the IDEA of this book. A reference-heavy fetishistic love letter to 80s pop culture could still be fun. But it would need:
>a believable fleshed-out world
>a good puzzle and series of challenges driving the plot
>a non-explanatory style that incorporates references fluidly instead of pausing ever minute to say "now, I should explain the significance of this show--which is one of my favorites..."
Never before have I felt such a strong sense of "The author wasn't smart enough to write this." His idea of a subtle clue is a blatant reference to the single most notorious D&D module of all time, but somehow our hero was the only one to notice that in years of playing.
Fahnestock & McAfee, Norman Denny, or someone else? Which translator do you guys prefer for this book?
>>7840768
F/M is good, Denny is abridged. Take 5 minutes out of your worthless life to look things up.
>>7840768
Christine Donougher!
>less miserable
>most of the characters end up more miserable
hugo you hack
>go to bookstore
>ask for any books by William H. Gass
>bookman takes me to the "Ga" section which I had just came from
>"Doesn't look like we have anything by him. What's he write?"
>"Essays, short-stories. Long, dense fiction, from what I've read about him. His style's supposed to be really interesting, and the way he tells his stories is unfamiliar-sounding."
>"Have you heard of Infinite JestĀ®"
>MFW
>go to bookstore
>ask for any books by Yukio Mishima
>"Oh, is that an anime?"
I really wish I was kidding
>go to Barnsen Noble
>hang around outside of the kid's sections
>Kid comes out holding A book about fish
>"Get some taste, kid"
>repeat several times until asked to leave
i hope you're all doing your part to make young patricians
>>7840766
The book is a meme it's terrible don't read it
I started reading Inferno a short while ago
The translation has lengthy explanations about every single line (not even kidding). At first I ignored them, but I'm starting to fear I'll be missing a lot if I keep doing that.
What translation did you read? How important are the references in your opinion?
>>7840738
The Hollander translation was my first experience with the Divine Comedy and for the first half of Inferno I read every annotation for any lines that had them. This made the poem a real slog. It was only after I started ignoring them that I was able to enjoy what I was reading. The Divine Comedy is something that really should be read multiple times to fully appreciate it and those annotations will still be there for future reads where you'll likely find them more valuable. If it turns out that The Divine Comedy isn't something you want to read again then you'll probably be thankful you skipped those annotations anyway.
>>7841302
>If it turns out that The Divine Comedy isn't something you want to read again
>there are people on /lit/ who only read the commedia once
lmao fucking plebs
>>7840738
You can read Dante and understand him at his most important level without getting the references.
Don't worry about the foot notes for now. You can come back to Dante again and again as you go on studying and reading through life, and get more and more each time.